Megadeth - Peace Sells....But Who’s Buying - 25th Anniversary reissue
August 11th 2011 09:29
I was fifteen when I first heard this album. A friend copied onto cassette from his copied cassette of the album. As you can imagine, the sound quality was pretty poor. I think I only listened to it a few times but I always remembered the titled track. So to listen to this digital remastering for the 25th anniversary of it’s initial release, I can now understand why many class it as Megadeth’s best album.
One of the best exponents of heavy metal. Dave Mustaine really stepped out of the shadow of being “the ex-Metallica guitarist” and brought his band to the forefront of metal world with this record. Full of face ripping, razor sharp riffs. A million hectic, intricate yet blistering guitar solos. And a punch in the spine rhythm section. The key elements for speed/thrash metal of the mid eighties.
By listening to this you can see why they are considered to be a guitarists metal band. The guitar work throughout this album is near flawless and technically brilliant. Whether it's a hyper speed screeching solo to the acoustic intro to “Good Mourning/Black Friday” it is a musical lesson in guitar playing.
Mustaine spits out the vocals with venom and restrained insanity. Lyrically, Mustaine is a clever songwriter. And probably the lyrics don't get the credit they deserve. “Peace Sells” is a great attack at political leaders and large corporations who control the fate of all. “Devils Island” refers to being an inmate in violent high security prison. The album is capped off with a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s bluesy rock n’ roll classic “I Ain’t Superstitious”.
The bonus with this reissue is the live CD that accompanies it. Even live the performance is tighter than the jeans on a screamo kid. From the tour that followed the release of this album it was cook to hear older tracks such “Killing Is My Business”, “Mechanix” and the Nancy Sinatra cover of “These Boots We're Made For Walking”. I'm pretty sure Mustaine was either drunk and/or off his dial on drugs that night but he never skipped a beat and band sound raw and energetic. A nice add to the album.
It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since this album was released. Listening back to it now then when I first did 15 years ago, I can say it does stand that grand test of time we give to all classic albums in music.
One of the best exponents of heavy metal. Dave Mustaine really stepped out of the shadow of being “the ex-Metallica guitarist” and brought his band to the forefront of metal world with this record. Full of face ripping, razor sharp riffs. A million hectic, intricate yet blistering guitar solos. And a punch in the spine rhythm section. The key elements for speed/thrash metal of the mid eighties.
By listening to this you can see why they are considered to be a guitarists metal band. The guitar work throughout this album is near flawless and technically brilliant. Whether it's a hyper speed screeching solo to the acoustic intro to “Good Mourning/Black Friday” it is a musical lesson in guitar playing.
Mustaine spits out the vocals with venom and restrained insanity. Lyrically, Mustaine is a clever songwriter. And probably the lyrics don't get the credit they deserve. “Peace Sells” is a great attack at political leaders and large corporations who control the fate of all. “Devils Island” refers to being an inmate in violent high security prison. The album is capped off with a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s bluesy rock n’ roll classic “I Ain’t Superstitious”.
The bonus with this reissue is the live CD that accompanies it. Even live the performance is tighter than the jeans on a screamo kid. From the tour that followed the release of this album it was cook to hear older tracks such “Killing Is My Business”, “Mechanix” and the Nancy Sinatra cover of “These Boots We're Made For Walking”. I'm pretty sure Mustaine was either drunk and/or off his dial on drugs that night but he never skipped a beat and band sound raw and energetic. A nice add to the album.
It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since this album was released. Listening back to it now then when I first did 15 years ago, I can say it does stand that grand test of time we give to all classic albums in music.
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