Top 5 Obscure Metallica Tracks

If you love Metallica, you know all about how great Master of Puppets, Creeping Death, Seek & Destroy and all of the classic tracks are. Metallica's entire pre-radio play catalogue contains a litany of definitive songs that fans pretty much agree are great. But there are also lots of Metallica tracks that aren't as appreciated on such a large scale as the band's more popular and acclaimed songs. With Metallica playing more and more varied setlists these days, digging into lesser explored corners of their back catalogue, we look at five of the best obscure Metallica tracks. If you don't see your favourite obscure track listed here, share it with us in the comments! What are your favourites?

5. Tuesday's Gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PlKbYGGVPQ

This Lynyrd Skynyrd cover was originally recorded in 1997 for a KSJO Radio acoustic session, to promote Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit gigs, which Metallica were to perform at for the first time.

They are joined on this track by an All Star backup band, featuring Les Claypool of Primus, Pepper Keenan of Corrosion & Conformity, Jerry Cantrell & Sean Kinney of Alice in Chains, Jim Martin of Faith No More and the Blues Traveler John Popper. The song was a radical departure from any cover song the band had ever put to tape before, utilising a variety of folk and blues instrumentation to enhance the Southern-fried flavour of the original track.

The esoteric choice of cover and presentation became a prevalent theme of the 1998 cover song recordings for Garage Inc, on which this track was released.