Live Shit: Binge & Purge

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{{Infobox album

| name = Live Shit: Binge & Purge

| type = live

| longtype = box set

| artist = Metallica

| cover = Metallica - Live Shit-Binge & Purge cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1993|11|23}}

| recorded = August 29, 1989 – March 2, 1993

| venue = {{ubl|

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| genre =

| length = 2:20:35 (Seattle performance)
3:19:09 (San Diego performance)
2:57:06 (Mexico City performance)
8:34:39 (full box set)

| label = Elektra

| producer =

| chronology = Metallica live albums

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = S&M

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Metallica

| type = video

| prev_title = A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

| prev_year = 1992

| title = Live Shit: Binge & Purge

| year = 1993

| next_title = Cunning Stunts

| next_year = 1998

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-shit-binge-purge-mw0000107579 |title=Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge review |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |access-date=January 25, 2017 }}

| rev2 =Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2Score = 8/10{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = August 1, 2007 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | page=277 |isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3Score = B{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308823,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523190048/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308823,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 23, 2007|title=BOXING DAY (Metallica: Live Shit: Binge & Purge)|last=Browne|first=David|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=December 3, 1993|access-date=June 3, 2012}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev5Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/metallica/albumguide |title=Metallica: Album Guide |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=June 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210231407/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/metallica/albumguide |archive-date=February 10, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

| noprose = yes

}}

Live Shit: Binge & Purge is the first live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in a box set format on November 23, 1993. The initial pressings contained three CDs or cassette tapes, featuring songs from concerts in Mexico City during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour, as well as three VHS tapes. A newer version includes two DVDs from concerts in San Diego on the Wherever We May Roam Tour and Seattle on the Damaged Justice Tour. It was originally packaged as a cardboard box designed to resemble a typical tour equipment transport box. In addition to the audio and video media, the box featured extra bonus material, including a booklet with photos, typical tour correspondence exchanged by the band and their management, internal documents, and handwritten notes; a recreated copy of an access pass to the "Snakepit" section of the tour stage; and a cardboard drawing/airbrush stencil of the "Scary Guy" logo. Live Shit: Binge & Purge has been certified 15× platinum by the RIAA as a long-form video format.

When the set was reissued in a 3-CD / 2-DVD format, the box was replaced with a jewel case format. The booklet that was included in the initial set was made available as DVD-ROM content.

Track listing

=Audio CDs=

Recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico, on February 25, 26, 27, and March 1 and 2, 1993.

{{tracklist

| headline = Disc one

| total_length = 76:34

| title1 = The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman

| writer1 = Ennio Morricone/James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett

| length1 = 7:28

| title2 = Creeping Death

| writer2 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Cliff Burton, Hammett

| length2 = 7:28

| title3 = Harvester of Sorrow

| writer3 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length3 = 7:19

| title4 = Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

| writer4 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett

| length4 = 6:39

| title5 = Sad but True

| writer5 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length5 = 6:07

| title6 = Of Wolf and Man

| writer6 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett

| length6 = 6:22

| title7 = The Unforgiven

| writer7 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett

| length7 = 6:48

| title8 = Justice Medley"

| writer8 =

  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted

| length8 = 9:38

| title9 = Solos (bass/guitar) (My Friend of Misery/Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin))

| length9 = 18:49

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Disc two

| total_length = 45:04

| title1 = Through the Never

| writer1 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett

| length1 = 3:47

| title2 = For Whom the Bell Tolls

| writer2 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton

| length2 = 5:48

| title3 = Fade to Black

| writer3 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett

| length3 = 7:12

| title4 = Master of Puppets

| writer4 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett

| length4 = 4:35

| title5 = Seek & Destroy

| writer5 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length5 = 18:08

| title6 = Whiplash

| writer6 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length6 = 5:34

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Disc three

| total_length = 55:28

| title1 = Nothing Else Matters

| writer1 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length1 = 6:22

| title2 = Wherever I May Roam

| writer2 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length2 = 6:33

| title3 = Am I Evil?

| note3 = originally performed by Diamond Head

| writer3 = Sean Harris, Brian Tatler

| length3 = 5:42

| title4 = Last Caress

| note4 = originally performed by the Misfits

| writer4 = Glenn Danzig

| length4 = 1:25

| title5 = One

| writer5 = Hetfield, Ulrich

| length5 = 10:27

| title6 = So What?/Battery

| note6 = "So What?" originally performed by Anti-Nowhere League

| writer6 = Nick Kulmer, Chris Exall, Clive Blake / Hetfield, Ulrich

| length6 = 10:05

| title7 = The Four Horsemen

| writer7 = Hetfield, Ulrich, Dave Mustaine

| length7 = 6:08

| title8 = Motorbreath

| writer8 = Hetfield

| length8 = 3:14

| title9 = Stone Cold Crazy

| note9 = originally performed by Queen

| writer9 = Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon

| length9 = 5:32

}}

=VHS/DVD=

==San Diego==

Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, on January 13 and 14, 1992.

===VHS one/DVD one===

{{tracklist

| title1 = 20 Min. MetalliMovie

| length1 = 19:56

| title2 = The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman

| length2 = 7:23

| title3 = Creeping Death

| length3 = 7:45

| title4 = Harvester of Sorrow

| length4 = 6:55

| title5 = Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

| length5 = 6:59

| title6 = Sad But True

| length6 = 6:35

| title7 = Wherever I May Roam

| length7 = 6:57

| title8 = Bass solo (My Friend of Misery)/Orion Jam

| length8 = 10:48

| title9 = Through the Never

| length9 = 4:29

| title10 = The Unforgiven

| length10 = 7:54

| title11 = Justice Medley" ("Eye of the Beholder"/"Blackened"/"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"/"...And Justice for All"/"Blackened")

| length11 = 10:16

| title12 = Drum solo and drum battle (with James Hetfield on drum kit) (Moby Dick (by Led Zeppelin)/One/Hit The Lights/Walk This Way (by Aerosmith)

| length12 = 9:43

| title13 = Guitar solo (Mistreated (by Deep Purple))

| length13 = 8:49

| all_writing =

| total_length = 1:54:29

}}

===VHS two/DVD one===

{{tracklist

| title14 = The Four Horsemen

| length14 = 5:30

| title15 = For Whom the Bell Tolls

| length15 = 5:50

| title16 = Fade to Black

| length16 = 7:19

| title17 = Whiplash

| length17 = 7:41

| title18 = Master of Puppets

| length18 = 5:28

| title19 = Seek & Destroy sung by Newsted

| length19 = 15:44

| title20 = One

| length20 = 9:46

| title21 = Last Caress

| length21 = 3:54

| title22 = Am I Evil?

| length22 = 2:55

| title23 = Battery

| length23 = 7:27

| title24 = Stone Cold Crazy/End credits

| length24 = 13:06

| all_writing =

| title1 =

| length1 =

| total_length = 1:24:40

}}

==Seattle==

Recorded at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, Washington on August 29 and 30, 1989.

===VHS three/DVD two===

{{tracklist

| title1 = The Ecstasy of Gold/Blackened

| length1 = 11:43

| title2 = For Whom the Bell Tolls

| length2 = 5:30

| title3 = Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

| length3 = 6:27

| title4 = Harvester of Sorrow

| length4 = 6:28

| title5 = The Four Horsemen

| length5 = 5:35

| title6 = The Thing That Should Not Be

| length6 = 7:14

| title7 = Bass solo/To Live Is to Die Jam

| length7 = 7:46

| title8 = Master of Puppets

| length8 = 8:46

| title9 = Fade to Black

| length9 = 8:10

| title10 = Seek & Destroy

| length10 = 8:05

| title11 = ...And Justice for All

| length11 = 13:33

| title12 = One

| length12 = 7:48

| title13 = Creeping Death

| length13 = 7:48

| title14 = Guitar solo (Little Wing (by Jimi Hendrix))

| length14 = 6:34

| title15 = Battery

| length15 = 9:11

| title16 = The Frayed Ends of Sanity Jam/Last Caress

| length16 = 1:54

| title17 = Am I Evil?

| length17 = 4:06

| title18 = Whiplash

| length18 = 5:37

| title19 = Breadfan/End credits

| length19 = 8:20

| all_writing =

| total_length = 2:20:35

}}

Personnel

;Metallica

;Production

  • James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich – producers
  • Guy Charbonneau; Mick Hughes – engineers
  • James "Jimbo" Barton; Kent Matcke; Mike Fraser – mixing
  • Scott Humphrey – digital editing

Chart positions

class="wikitable"

! Year!!Chart!!Position

1993

|Billboard 200

|align="center"|26{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/310639/metallica/chart?page=1&f=305|title=Metallica – Chart history – Billboard}}

Video certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|title=Live Shit (Bing & Purge)|artist=Metallica|type=video|award=Gold|relyear=1993|certyear=2019|access-date=May 25, 2019}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=Binge|artist=Metallica|type=video|award=Platinum|number=15|relyear=1993|certyear=2003|access-date=May 16, 2023}}

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References