Stone Cold Crazy

Song infobox
Name = Stone Cold Crazy


Artist = Queen
Album = Sheer Heart Attack
Released = November 8, 1974
track_no = 8
Recorded = July - September 1974
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 2:12
Writer = Freddie Mercury
Brian May
John Deacon
Roger Taylor
Label = EMI / Hollywood Records
Producer = Roy Thomas Baker
Queen
prev = "In the Lap of the Gods"
prev_no = 7
next = "Dear Friends"
next_no = 9Infobox Single
Name = Stone Cold Crazy


Artist = Metallica
from Album = Garage Inc.
A-side = Enter Sandman
B-side = Enter Sandman (Demo)
Released = 1991
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Thrash metal
Speed metal
Length = 2:17
Label = Elektra Records
Writer = Freddie Mercury
Brian May
John Deacon
Roger Taylor
Producer = Bob Rock
Chart position = * #5 (U.K. Singles)
* #10 (U.S. Mainstream Rock)
* #16 (U.S. Hot 100)
* #28 (U.S. Modern Rock)
Last single = "One"
(1989)
This single = "Enter Sandman"
(1991)
Next single = "Don't Tread on Me"
(1991)"Stone Cold Crazy" is a song by English rock band Queen from their successful 1974 album "Sheer Heart Attack". The song is the eighth track on the album. Although the song was never released as a single, it has been featured on Queen compilation albums and was played live on almost every show in their first ten years.

The song credit is shared between all the members of the band, although Mercury played it with his band Wreckage before Queen was created in the late 1960s. It was the first song Queen performed live in 1972, but the song underwent many changes musically and lyrically before getting recorded, resulting in credit going to the entire band. Early versions of the song were much slower, according to the band, although no bootlegs exist.

The lyrics feature a gangster theme, even mentioning Al Capone. A person is daydreaming about committing various crimes, although the lyrics are very tongue-in-cheek and have humorous lines such as "walking down the street/shooting people that I meet/with my rubber tommy water gun".

Metallica version

Metallica covered this song as their contribution to the compilation album "Rubáiyát – Elektra's 40th Anniversary" and was later used as a B-side of their "Enter Sandman" single and subsequently won a Grammy Award for their version, which also appeared in their covers' album "Garage Inc.". The Metallica version of the song is more aggressive than the original; they also slightly altered the lyrics, adding profanity and changing the more humorous lines for more violent lyrics, such as "walking down the street/shooting people that I meet/with my fully loaded tommy gun".

James Hetfield once sang it together with Queen & Tony Iommi (singing Metallica's altered lyrics) at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

Hellyeah played Metallica's version of Stone Cold Crazy on the 2007 Family Values Tour. Sometimes referring to it under the title "Stone Cold Wasted".

See also

* Grammy Awards of 1991