Track Listing

1. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
2. Smoke On The Water
3. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
4. Panama
5. No More Mr. Nice Guy
6. Love Hurts
7. Enter Sandman
8. Holy Diver
9. Paradise City
10. Wind Cries Mary
11. Crazy Train
12. Stairway To Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97744 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.com
Monty Python have got nothing on Pat Boone. You want absurd, this is the pinnacle. No comedy writer in his/her dreams could have dreamt up anything even half as stupid. The mere idea of Pat Boone, Mr. Squeaky Clean himself, (ahem) crooning heavy metal tunes is bad enough, but it gets so much worse. Big name arrangers were brought in to take crunchy power chords and squealing guitar solos and turn them into jazzy riffs and big band horn blasts. Even a few of the artists whose material is covered make guest appearances. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore plugs in on "Smoke on the Water," while vocalist Ronnie James Dio gives a shout out on his band's "Holy Diver." This musical "idiodyssey" actually works a few times. I'm not immune to the kitsch value that the swingin' versions of AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)," Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary," or Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" provide. These songs almost sound like they were written for this kind of overblown, slick swing. Very scary. As for the rest, well, let's just say that aside from the fact that they don't really work too well in this format, Boone just ends up sort of speaking the lyrics and sounding completely goofy. If that's not comedy enough for you, surely the extensive liner notes explaining (rationalizing?) why Boone felt the need to make this record are the topper. I liked this guy a lot better when he was pals with the Parents' Music Resource Center. Can't wait for In a Grunge Mood--sometime in the 21st century. --Adem Tepedelen

CD Description
From the man who sanitised Fats Domino and Little Richard for your listening pleasure, here's a little not-so-heavy metal. Really. On IN A METAL MOOD, Pat Boone covers devil's-rock hits by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Judas Priest and more. More Barney Bigard and Benny Goodman than Beavis & Butthead, Boone gives this material the big-band treatment.
Some ofthe cover-ees even drop in to help reconstruct their pasts.Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple plays guitar on a bossa nova version of "Smoke On The Water"--really--while Ronnie James Dio can be heard singing backup on a rendition of his own"Holy Diver" that wouldn't be out of place on a '60s Sinatra album. After "fastening his seatbelt" on a salsa-like "Panama" (originally by Van Halen), Boone ends things with a swinging "Stairway To Heaven". Really.

Customer Reviews

Fascinatingly unusual
It's hard to judge Pat Boone's motives in creating this album, but I'm inclined to take the liner notes at face value. So - this is an album of Pat Boone cover versions of well-known heavy metal tracks, which has been done partly with tongue in cheek, and partly in order to show that, behind the popular face of heavy metal lies a lot of very good music that can survive being transplanted into another genre, and thereby made accessible to a different audience.

A one-of-a-kind project such as this is automatically also the best of its kind, which can yield complacency. However, there is no doubting that a lot of very talented people put considerable effort into making this album good - which is a very pleasant surprise.

There are a few tracks that don't quite work, but fundamentally this is good music, performed well. Regardless of the motivation, isn't that what really matters?

Tongue in Cheek, but very good fun
For sheer novelty value this is a great CD. Just don't take it too seriously. The big band arrangements are really good, and Pat Boon sings all the tracks well. Our soul band use it for the interval music and it always goes down well. Lighthearted and easy listening, with some very funny moments too. Listen before you buy, but I can thoroughly recommend it!

God Gave Rock & Roll To You...Gave Rock & Roll To You...
Pat Boone, The Man, The Myth, The Legend In His Own Lunchtime...

This walking, talking hunka - chunka burning love has released possibly the *greatest ever album* in the world, bar Sir David of Duisburg Hassleme's 'Auf Stum Meine Deustchland'.

It takes you on a love rollercoaster ride of such thrash metal songs as Enter Sandman & Paradise City, I am gutted that Hot Shot City and Night Rocker are not on it as these are perfect examples of how metal should be played, in front of 30,000 sweating, leather clad, moustachieod Germans, such as Klausie & Big Hans.

This album is life changing, and I mean as a man to Ms Isreal, Eurovision song contest stylee.

Buy this album as your ears, close family and stray dogs depend on it.