Metallica - Enter Sandman

Thanks Aaron. Yeah must be the YouTube conversion. Then again
my ears are not as talented as yours.

I am sure many fans were picking up the singles for the exclusive
live tracks that were included. I believe only imports (non U.S.)
versions were released. I have never heard one edited version
from any of the promos on the air. I do own the promo's for
"Nothing Else Matters" and "The Unforgiven" and the edits
sound jarring. I cringe every time I hear the edit points. Same
goes for the official edit of "Enter Sandman" that I just
discovered. It may be only because I am so accustomed to the
full length album versions. Normally when I hear an edited
version of any song it does not bother me. In fact I tend to favor
them.

At the release of this album I was in high school. I do remember
there was a bunch of hype associated with this release. All of
my metalhead friends were already into them from the old days
and all of a sudden all of us preppy kids were getting into heavy
metal even though were were not into the genre in the late 80s.
This album almost crossed over to a non-metal rock sound and
when "The Unforgiven" was release all the girls fell in love with
James Hetfield's voice. This following continued into the release
of Load in 1996. The big thing then was "OMG they cut their
hair!"

Thanks for the tip on locating those radio edits. The Box
Set is also available for purchase on Qobuz.