Crash Course in Brain Surgery is the fourth track from 1998's album Garage, Inc. second disc. It was written by Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge and Ray Phillips, with a length of 3:08. Originally released by Budgie in 1971 on the Budgie album, Metallica have already released their version in their 1987's Garage Days Re-Revisited single. Metallica just played this song live once, on August 20, 1987, in London (England). It doesn't appear in any other single released by the band.