(VA) White Hot: An All Out Metal Assault

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I remember buying this collection on cassette round about 1985 when it first came out, about a year after I first got into Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. Most of the songs and artists I had already been familiar with from the previous year, whether it's yer Kiss, your Rush, Scorpions, Lee Aaron or Slade (or even Krokus, whom I had only been familiar with by virtue of Hit Parader magazine and Midnite Maniac's brief appearance on Toronto radio station Q107's Top Ten At Ten in the Summer of 1984). But the others, were pleasant discoveries. And note the requisite inclusion of Canadian Content here: Rush, Lee Aaaron, Kick Axe, Fist.

All tracks on this collection are winners. And that's a rare thing to happen, even on Various Artist compilations.

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I recently got back into the whole HR/HM thing and thought I'd post this album. Leave it to K-Tel/PolyTel to come out with cheesy, yet delighful collections.

And to think they went out of business.

(VA) White Hot: An All Out Metal Assault (1985):

1	Scorpions	Rock You Like A Hurricane	4:11
2	Rush	Distant Early Warning	4:58
3	Autograph	Turn Up The Radio	4:42
4	Krokus	Midnite Maniac	4:01
5	Y & T	Don't Stop Runnin'	4:21
6	Bon Jovi	In and Out Of Love	4:23
7	Slade	Run Runaway	3:46
8	Kick Axe	Heavy Metal Shuffle	3:14
9	Lee Aaron	Metal Queen	5:00
10	Fastway	Say What You Will	3:20
11	Fist	Thunder In Rock.MP3	1:41
12	Kiss	Heaven's On Fire	3:17

(VA) Metallica: Old Garage Inc.

Ten years ago, Metallica released Garage Inc., a compilation album of covers they had recorded since their inception until 1998. It includes all their b-side covers, and the entire $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisted
which has been out of print since its original release in 1987.
Then some joker on Soulseek thought it would be a good idea to put together Old Garage Inc., featuring all the original artists of the songs Hetfield, Hammett, Newsted, Ulrich and Burton covered.
(S)he didn't design an album cover: just a listing of the tracks. Click on the album "art", to download.

(VA) Old Garage Inc.:

1	Diamond Head	Helpless	6:48
2	Holocaust	The Small Hours	7:08
3	Killing Joke	The Wait	3:45
4	Budgie	Crash Course In Brain Surgery	2:39
5	Misfits	Die, Die My Darling	3:09
6	Misfits	Green Hell	1:53
7	Diamond Head	Am I Evil	7:45
8	Blitzkrieg	Blitzkrieg	3:49
9	Budgie	Breadfan	6:07
10	Diamond Head	The Prince	6:14
11	Queen	Stone Cold Crazy	2:16
12	Anti-Nowhere League	So What	3:10
13	Sweet Savage	Killing Time	2:39
14	Motörhead	Overkill	5:12
15	Motörhead	Damage Case	3:02
16	Motörhead	Stone Dead Forever	4:35
17	Motörhead	Too Late, Too Late	3:27
18	Bob Seger	Turn The Page	5:03
19	Thin Lizzy	Whiskey In The Jar	5:45

This is the cover of the original album. But you can't download anything: