Mixerr Album Reviews #55

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will do a review on the self-titled Beatallica album.



The gray color of the album cover is a crossover reference to both The Beatles and Metallica's self-titled albums (The Beatles [self-titled album] being white and the Metallica [self-titled album] being black). The self-titled Beatallica contains 8 tracks made from combinations of Beatles and Metallica songs as well as giving tributes to other well known rock musicians such as Lemmy from the band Motörhead, Dokken, Glenn Danzig, The Misfits, Bananarama, Diamond Head, and Warrant. As well as others! This album was released on Oglio Records in 2004.


Pardody titled songs are Blackend In The USSR (reference to Back In The USSR by The Beatles), Sandman (reference to Enter Sandman by Metallica), And I'm Evil (reference to 20 Eyes by the Misfits), Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice (references to Got to Get You In My Life by The Beatles and Trapped Under Ice by Metallica), Leper (reference to Leper Messiah by Metallica), Hey Dude (reference to Hey Jude by The Beatles of course) I Want To Choke Your Band (reference to I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles), and the last track We Can Hit The Lightz (reference to We Can Work It Out by The Beatles).


The band had faced legal problems as well unfortunately. One fateful day on February 17, 2005, a cease-and-desist notice was sent to David Dixon and the band's web host by Sony, Capitol Reocrds, EMI, and ATV Music Publishing, the companies which holds rights to most of The Beatles' catalog. The notice stated that certain sections of the official Beatallica website had constituted a copyright violation and therefore should be taken down. A response to this was a petition requesting Sony, Capitol Reocrds, EMI, and ATV Music Publishing, to cease their threats of legal actions that were created.

Luckily for Beatallica, Lars Ulrich saved from further legal action. Luckily, Lars Ulrich had a sense of humor by not being a dick about it and taking Beatallica to court as Steven Speilburg was with Snoop Dogg when he did the music parody of Charlie's Angels called Doggy's Angels on TVT. The debut was released in 2000. I don't think Steven Speilburg has a sense of humor. (Yeah Steven Speil, Columbia Pictures, District Attorney Chan Gaines, and Coniyac [Kim Proby] sued TVT for $100 million in copyright infringement and royalties in 2000. Which resulted them disbanding in 2002. The suit was finally settled in 2006. Although I never did like TVT very much because of the way their artist were treated from their unpaid royalties and such. They suck!)


Anyway, Lars Ulrich was aware that the band was just parodying famous rock songs. The band members of Metallica, of course, have been very strict about piracy, file sharing, digital downloads, and DRM. (They pretty much against digital downloads.) Enough of that! Lars Ulrich even offered to provide legal assistance with negotiations and also asked Metallica's attorney to try to defuse the situation with the four. The four companies apparently had reached an agreement with Beatallica and their new indie label Oglio Records.