at the gaytes wrote:
MRmehman wrote:
I'd say pretty much everything from Megadeth holds up for me. I still listen to Peace Sells pretty regularly although I personally think So Far... is way weaker than the albums before and after it - at least till Risk. I feel like Cryptic Writings has probably aged the best, just because my expectations were so low the first time I listened to it. Hearing Megadeth play Risk live was amazing.
The other three bands I listen to very rarely these days. Metallica's Kill 'Em All is amazingly overrated in my humble opinion and hasn't aged at all well since '83. The song structures is really simple and repetitive on those songs and when you consider the whole album is 51 fucking minuets it wears me down pretty quickly. I usually end up skipping Hit the Lights, Phantom Lord and Metal Militia just to sweeten the deal a little for myself. RTL and MOP are both solid for me though - great through and through.
Slayer's early stuff is really good still and Anthrax's 3rd-5th albums have only gotten better with age.
I think it's funny how Megadeth debut was ultra technical furious speed / thrash metal and they really toned down the intensity on the following albums (the most flagrant example is Peace Sells, with that lame verse riffs and obvious attempt at a sing-a-long hymn). Yet, Metallica obtained much more success starting as a slight aggressive speed metal band and becoming much more thrashy and technical with each album.
I wouldn't say Megadeth started to tone down the intensity of their music till Countdown. Rust in Peace is defiantly not laid back. While I don't really like it, So What... is still pretty fast and technical - I'd say it hits a lot harder than RTL or MOP. The part where my sides split is that Megadeth was supposed to be "heavier" than Metallica but 16 years later they were writing gems like Breadline. BREADLINE TRVE BRUTAL CHRISTIAN ROCK \m/
idunnosomename wrote:
MRmehman wrote:
I'd say pretty much everything from Megadeth holds up for me. I still listen to Peace Sells pretty regularly although I personally think So Far... is way weaker than the albums before and after it - at least till Risk. I feel like Cryptic Writings has probably aged the best, just because my expectations were so low the first time I listened to it. Hearing Megadeth play Risk live was amazing.
In what way?
Kill 'em All is so fun. I think it's the only album where I ended up learning every song on guitar start to finish (obvs a break in Anaesthesia). I can't imagine Metallica playing it all now and it not just seeming horribly embarrassing though.
Yeah, I should have expanded on that.
For me, So Far... So Good... So What... is just really poorly written for the most part. It didn't grab me like Peace Sells did and it has this blending effect for me where songs slowly start to sound alike. I don't remember why but the first time I listened to it, I hated Mary Jane. I can't at all remember why though, something about the chorus I think rubbed me the wrong way. That Sex Pistols cover is shite too, what it's doing half way through the A-side is beyond me. In My Darkest Hour is still one of my favorite Megadeth songs but the rest of the album doesn't do it for me sadly.
As for Cryptic Writings and Risk, almost everything I'd ever heard about them for years when I was first getting into Megadeth was that they're bad, especially Risk. When I got around to listening to them after the rest of Megadeth's discography, Cryptic Writings was a nice surprise. It's one of Megadeth's more diverse offerings, I liked songs like Trust and She-Wolf a lot, overall it's a good contrast to Megadeth's heavier work. That being said, it's still full of filler and weak riffs but it's far better than anything Metallica ended up putting out in the 90's and I don't feel like the £3 I payed for my CD was a waste.
Risk sucks. There's not really any way to defend it as being good but at the same time, I think the heat Megadeth got after it was way too harsh. It's bad but it's not on the level of Danzig 5 or Illud Divinum Insanus. Overall, it's still listenable for me and bits of it are so bad they're good. Like, Breadline is fucking ridiculous, it'd only be better for me if Dave tossed in some references to the almighty light of Christ and how his love is the only addiction you need or something of the sort. The rest of it is kinda catchy in places and I didn't really find anything outside of Crush 'Em that made me genuinely reach for the skip button. Again, I'd say it was more enjoyable for me to listen to than anything Metallica or Anthrax put out in the 90's, just because I couldn't stop laughing at it.
I relate to that last bit hard dude. I learnt the Four Horsemen, Whiplash and Anesthesia on bass and I can honestly say my finger technique only got better thanks to simple, fast tracks like that. It's good fun but I can's sit through the whole album anymore.