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Another specimen of The Big 4 of Thrash, started by Dave Mustaine who went RAGERAGERAGE after being kicked out of Metallica.
It's absolutely and definitely one of my favorite bands.
But what do you think of it?

I prefer the Killing/Peace Sells era personally. And thats because Dave was still furious at his previous band. That drive he had to trample Metallica sure made some great angry music. As poor of a production as KIMB has, the songs are incredible. Also Chris and Gar really brought a unique element to the band. And the masterpiece known as Peace Sells with Good Mourning/Black Friday being their most intense, and most creative moment ever, still stirs me up 20 years later.

I was surprised how good the Remix of So Far So Good turned out after hating that album for a really pussy watered down mix. I like how raw it sounds now by comparison. Still has some filler song wise, but there's some strong material there too.

I like moments of R.I.P., that one hasn't lasted with me nearly as long as the first two. Although I really like Marty Friedman with them. When I heard Symphony of Destruction I was bummed out at how tame Megadeth had become. Thats where I stopped, until I heard Kick the Chair, which is a great song, on a very mediocre album. But Dave seems to be regaining some of that spirit little by little. I like a couple cuts on their last album. So I am hopeful the next one will bring even more of that fire he used to have.

Well, I definitely share your enthusiasm regarding KIMB and Peace Sells but Who's Buying.
I think Gar is at this moment my favorite drummer and it's a shame he was only with the band for 2 albums, also, rest in peace.
One of the things I loved about the second album was the intros on the songs Bad Omen, My Last Words and Good Mourning/Black Friday. I assume it was Chris Poland playing those melodic un/low-distorted pieces in there and I fucking loved those. But yeah, the latter of the songs I listed up there is most definitely my favorite Megadeth song, to me it's one of the best rage outlet songs I have stumbled upon.
So Far, So Good.. So What also had some pretty nice stuff in it such as Into The Lungs of Hell, Set The World Afire, 502 and In My Darkest Hour But I didn't think that much of Chuck Behler's drumming...
My problem with RIP is that I got the remastered version which sounds a bit too shiny for me but still really good.
The thing with Countdown to Extinction is that pretty much everyone told me that they think that Symphony of Destruction is the best song the band's ever made but it's not even my favorite from the album (fuck yeah, High Speed Dirt )
Took me a bit of time to get into Youthanasia but I really started liking the title track, Reckoning Day, Addicted to Chaos, A Tout Le Monde (THIS I swear is one of the songs I want to be played at my funeral), Killing Road, Elysian Fields and Victory.
Cryptic Writings was a bit less interesting for me but it still gave me stuff like Almost Honest; Have Cool, Will Travel; Use The Man and The Disintegrators.
Risk is said to be their weakest album but to me, stuff like Crush Em, Wanderlust and Breadline pretty much balance off all the filler in that album.

Still need to get deeper into the new millenium stuff, I've listened to it far too little to have a solid opinion on those releases.
But yeah, I definitely got high hopes for Megadeth.

Megadeth is great. Their first four albums, when they played thrash, are all excellent, with Peace Sells being my favorite. I also really like Youthanasia. Their work from that point on, though, was pretty mediocre, IMO.

Nolifer Wrote:The thing with Countdown to Extinction is that pretty much everyone told me that they think that Symphony of Destruction is the best song the band's ever made but it's not even my favorite from the album (fuck yeah, High Speed Dirt )

The one song on that album I do like is Ashes in Your Mouth. That song reminds me a lot of Peace Sells era. I don't remember High Speed Dirt, I'll have to listen to that one again.

As for Behler, I think he did a decent job. I'm not a fan of the drum sound on the album. But thats more the engineers bland mic technique. But the playing is alright. But It does lack the personality Gar added to their music. I wish that Dave would have focused more on just hiring Jazz/ fusion players, like Gar. These are the guys that will put an interesting take on a pretty straighforward part and really give it some interesting character. Menza seemed ok and everything.. solid. But still lacked some character. Although the guys with character I think are few and far between sometimes.

I dunno, I guess he was alright for just a metal drummer but Gar was definitely leagues higher.
As for Menza, I could definitely feel the charisma in his playing. Not as good as Gar but definitely a step in the right direction. One thing I really like is that part just after the intro in Poison Was The Cure where he at first sounds like stumbling and then picks up momentum.

They're fucking awesome. Need I say more? I made a thread dedicated to them on another forum. All Megadeth, all the time (although not recently, but I'm getting back into my Megadeth fix). How many times can I type Megadeth? They're that great I typed the name more than twice.

Gar was definitely the best drummer.

I love Megadeth; Killing is my business is my favorite album.

I have RIP and Countdown to Extinction. Both are excellent-I absolutely love the title tracks on both (RIP Polaris>Hangar 18 IMO), Sweating Bullets, Skin of my Teeth, Symphony of Destruction... Great albums. I need to get more of them...

Cadi, I told you to get KIMB and Peace Sells!
And Butt needs to get So Far, So Good.. So What since he claims to like user-unfriendly music and that album is definitely the most like that from them.

Nolifer Wrote:Cadi, I told you to get KIMB and Peace Sells!
And Butt needs to get So Far, So Good.. So What since he claims to like user-unfriendly music and that album is definitely the most like that from them.

So Far, So Good... So What! is really underrated, IMO. Not quite as good as KIMB, Peace Sells, and RIP, of course, but still very good.

I never said that I thought it was a bad album.

Nolifer Wrote:I never said that I thought it was a bad album.

I know; I was stating my agreement that Butt should get it. It's just that, at least from what I've seen/heard, most people, even Megadeth fans, don't like it.

I've been manic about Megadeth since a long time ago and felt that way for a long time, too. My forever favourites remain KIMB, Peace Sells.....(my #1), and SFSGSW. Those three classic discs and that line-up having Chris and Gar (RIP) and what those two sensational players routinely pulled off, on lead guitar and drums, respectively, both in the studio and out live, still gives me the chills and sweetest thrills. :cool: .....Chris is my favourite Megadeth member, to this day. RiP is a fantastic record, no question..It's just that I was never nearly that completely sold on or won over by the classical-laden, melodic soloing showboating on guitar that Marty was mainly all about---something (apart from Dave's rudely brilliant rhythm-playing) that has many fans still rating it as Megadeth's flagship album. Btw, RiP, like Slayer's RiB, has even been dubbed by some fans and pro critics as being over-hyped and musically way over-rated. Heck, those morons must take their opinions and themselves too seriously. That said, RiP is a swell record that sure belted a lot of its class of '90 peers out of the park.

Now, post-RiP Megadeth of the '90s is a very hit-n-miss performer on my score-card. I just can't connect too happily with a blatantly stripped-down, Megadeth-Lite fare in the albums that followed. I like half of Countdown quite a lot, but just don't dig the remaining half of that much-praised album. It didn't get any better with the overly poppy, very mainstream-wooing series of let-downs like Youthanasia, Cryptic Writings and Risk (though CW was the 'best' of this mediocre trio if that was any consolation to me). Then, I thought The World Needs A Hero was a stride up in quality, overall, though again, as with CtE, this album was a 50/50 affair for me, mixing the great and the very ordinary, in equal measure. The System Has Failed, with a returning Chris Poland had me a bit giddy with delight to have my hero back, and Dave talked of this album being the point where the Megadeth supership was making a sharp turnaround in its course. Decent, rocking record with some dynamic moments, but alas, the whole failed to impress me as much I expected it would. And it certainly wasn't the definitive turnaround that Dave had promised. United Abominations was an altogether average album. After a long wait and having a commited fan's hunger, I actually quite liked the album on initial listens, but somehow I got bored with it, pretty fast. I haven't given up on the band yet, not at all. So, I'd still hope and expect a sufficiently cool upcoming album with the new line-up.

If it's any comfort to the Metallica vs Megadeth debaters where Megadeth always wins, personally I always thought that Megadeth always had cooler dudes on lead guitar, definitely had a far superior drummer in Gar, by light years actually, had a consistently better singer/rhythm player in Dave, and gave me MORE better songs and shows, overall, than Metallica ever did. And oh, even at their worst, Megadeth seemed to me to still have more ability and attitude to them than Metallica. Chris, at his peak, had more metal in one of his guitar knobs, than Metallica combined, had in their music.

The two most metal members of Metallica are no longer there, and they both played bass.

Megadeth were always more consistent and overall, more enjoyable for me too. Only problem is, "...And Justice For All" is probably the best thrash album ever made. So the argument begins and ends there; Metallica made an album that appeals to me more than any from Megadeth and, if I had to pick just one band to listen to forever between the two, it would have to be the former.

Figured of sharing these. This is my appreciation for the band:

Dave Mustaine has issued the following studio update at TheLIVELine.com: "I'm at the studio right now, Vic's Garage, and we are done! We're just right now finishing the last couple of notes on the new record, and Andy's getting ready to pack his bags and head up to Los Angeles tomorrow to get ready to fly back home on Thursday. Man, this has been a long, grueling, enduring process but it's been so worth it, and I'm so excited. I'm more excited about this record then I've been in any record since back in the 1980's. I would say, probably since, well definitely since "Rust In Peace" there's nothing that's excited me this much - maybe "Countdown", but this is just absolutely insane."

SCWING

Can't wait

I hope his hype actually matches the content; if it resembles RIP at all, I'll love it.