Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

Artist: Megadeth
Label: Digital Sound
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: DVD Audio
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 692860110694
EAN: 0692860110694
ASIN: B00008VB8G

Release Date: 2003-10-14

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Tracks:

Wake Up Dead
Conjuring
Peace Sells
Devils Island
Good Mourning/Black Friday
Bad Omen
I Ain't Superstitious
My Last Words
Wake Up Dead [*]
Peace Sells [*]

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The 2nd best thrash album ever made. Just pure brutal metal!.......2007-01-15

Wow, what an album! This album is the 2nd best thrash album ever made only behind Megadeth's 1990 classic, Rust In Peace. After Megadeth released their 1984 masterpiece Killing is my business...And business is good, they weren't known as well as their crappy, overrated rival band Cockallica, but that changed in 1986 when Megadeth released arguably their best work in "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?". Dave Mustaine's and Chris Poland's solos reach new heights on this album and are truely amazing! This album features many Megadeth and thrash metal staples. Many in the forms of Wake Up Dead, Peace Sells(the best metal song ever), Good Mourning/Black Friday, Bad Omen, and My Last Words. This is Megadeth's darkest album. This record has 9 songs. Here are my reviews and comments for each song:

1. Wake Up Dead: Can you start off an album any better? You may argue that Megadeth's Holy Wars/The Punishment Due is better, but they're both great. Now on to the song. It starts off with a bang as Mustaine is singing as hard as he possibly can while playing guitar riffs as hard and as brutal as he possibly can. After the singing, Mustaine dishes out a scorchin' shredding solo. After that, the middle riffs come in which I love. In the middle part, Mustaine dishes out another shredding solo that's even faster than the first one while Chris Poland does a excellent shredding jazzy solo to give the song some originality. The tempo changes after that as the drums start speeding up more and Chris does some really nice rhythm guitar work. Dave starts singing again. After that, he dishes out yet another shredding solo that sounds very brutal. Almost slayer like! When that's done, a strong chant of "Wake Up Dead, You Die! And buried, Wake Up Dead, You Die! Wake Up Dead!" end the song. You can say that this is one hell of an opener to start off a classic and legendary album. 12/10

2. The Conjuring: This song is again musically stunning! It starts off with a nice creepy guitar piece by Mustaine. He then starts singing in a really unusual creepy voice which I think works really well. When Dave says "Obey!" the drums kick in to a fast beat for a couple of times. Dave then does a dark and shall I say haunting solo. It may not be one of the fastest solo's on the album but that doesn't take anything away from it. You have to love the sound of the solo and it shows that Dave doesn't have to shred to impress. After the solo, the drums and the song kick into high gear again which is accompanied by some great rhythm guitar work. After Dave says "Don't summon the devil, don't call the priest, if you need the strength, the conjuring, obey," another slow part of the song comes in and sets the standard for the next fast part. This slow section is complex and features a bone crunching riff. It's one of my most favorite riffs of all time. After the slow section, the song speeds up again and features the riff from the previous slow section. This part also features some of my most favorite lyrics in "I am the Devil's advocate a salesman if you will!" and "I've got your soul, I've got your soul." The second one mentioned is, in my opinion, one of the most brutal lines of all time. After about four verses of lyrics, the drums really kick into high gear and Dave does a nice little shredding solo. After that, there's a nice drum roll and Dave says "obey!" to finish the song. A great second track and I think that it's one of the most underrated Megadeth songs in their career. 10/10

3. Peace Sells: Honestly, who has not heard of this song? It's the best metal song of all time in my opinion and is a thrash metal ANTHEM! Seriously, if you're a metal head like me and haven't heard of this song, you need help. This song has the best lyrics of all time for a metal song. This song beats the crap out of Mastrobation of Puppets and Reign In Blood! Now on to the song, what great things about this song haven't already been said. It starts out with the most famous bass line of all time(MTV would always play this bass line at the end of their shows) by Dave Ellefson and yeah not by Cliff Burton(RIP) from the dumb band whose name I won't repeat. After the bass line, drums kick in and Dave does an excellent solo that everybody should know(honestly, who doesn't know it?). Dave then starts singing lines like, "What do you mean I don't believe in god, talk to him everyday." He also sings probably one of the most famous lines of all time in "If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line, but it better work this time." After Dave sings this the first time, Chris Poland does a beautiful shredding solo. Chris basically from here on out fills every line that Mustaine says with a solo. All of his solo fills are short but great. After Dave sings that line, "Itanw, Ibtfil, bibwtt," a second time, Poland and Mustaine trade off four solos beautifully. Two are done by Mustaine and two by Poland. The last solo of these four is a nice shredding solo by Mustaine. Then Dave says "Can you put a price on peace?" The song then starts building up even faster as Dave says Peace Sells a couple of times and Peace Sells...but who's buying a couple of times. When Dave says PS...bwb the fourth time, Chris does a really intense shredding solo with the drums pounding away in the backround. Dave says PS...bwb again with a "no, no, no, no , no" line as Chris does another little great shredding solo. Dave then says PS and Chris Poland does yet another great shredding solo. When Dave says PS for the last time the song comes to an end. I don't think that any heavy metal song will ever top this! This song has 13 SOLOS!! Count them. That's two more than Megadeth's Hangar 18. This here folks is what a THRASH METAL ANTHEM is all about!! 13/10

4. Devils Island: I love this track! It starts out with Dave doing a shredding but haunting solo. After the intro and the solo are done, a little slow part with a bass line by Dave Ellefson comes in. Then Dave starts talking about this hellish island that he's trapped on. He really talks in a weird and fast voice which I actually like unlike some other people. This song kind of sounds like a hair metal song with the "Devils Island!" chants. After 5 long verses of vocals, Dave does an excellent shredding solo that really gets me punped up! After about 1 1/2 more verses of vocals a slow part of the song comes in with some good guitar riffs. After that the song builds up again as Chris Poland dishes out a great shredding solo. Chants of "Devils Island!" end the song. I think that this track might be the most underrated track in Megadeth's line up. It has 3 great fast solos and is a fast song. 10/10

5. Good Mourning/Black Friday: Where in the world do I start with this one?! In my opinion, it's one of the best songs Megadeth has ever done! It's brutal, it's fast, and it's in your face! Oddly enough, it doesn't start out that way. It starts out with Chris Poland doing one of the most beautiful solos I have ever heard. It's not really fast but it's just the melody and the feel that make it so special. I almost cried when I first heard it. Chris might just be the only one to pull this kind of a solo off so beautifully besides Marty Friedman. After the "Good Mourning" line, Chris does another beautiful melodic solo. Then Dave Mustaine does a stunning shredding solo that also has great feel. It's arguably the best solo that he's ever done. After one verse of lyrics about a guy who "doesn't feel so good," a heavy as hell riff comes in and out of no where the song starts building up into the "Black Friday" part. In the beginning of the BF part, Dave does a great, lightning fast solo. After some drum beats, the song builds up even more and Dave starts talking about the guy who "doesn't feel so good" and talks about the rampage that he's going on. The lyrics are, without a doubt, some of the most brutal and violent lyrics I have ever heard of. Here's the first verse of lyrics, "Killer, intruder, homicidal man. If you see me coming run as fast as you can. Blood-thirsty demon who's stalking the street. I hack up my victims like pieces of meat." It doesn't get much more brutal than that folks. The tempo changes after that as Chris brings in an excellent and complex riff that goes on to the next four verses of lyrics. After these four verses of violent lyrics and a murderous "I will cut you down" lyric by Mustaine, Chris does a stunning, shredding, brutal, intense, and in your face solo. When that part comes up, my jaw drops to the floor every time. When that part comes up and happens, we should all be hanging by a blood soaked thread and blood should be coming out of us. That solo is what I call a mind-blowing and climactic moment. After two more verses of lyrics, the ending chants of "It's Black Friday, paint the devil on the wall" come in. The ending is probably the heaviest part of the song not that other parts of the song weren't heavy enough. After those chants, the song ends. This is, in my opinion, the heaviest song on the album. If you want an epic, look no further. This song is probably one of the heaviest and most brutal songs of all time. It is another musical stunner! Legendary! 12/10

6. Bad Omen: I absolutely love this song! The beginning is kind of similar to GM/BF except for it's played on different notes and played a little faster. Let me just say that the intro to this song is very haunting and dark which I love. The guitar work isn't the only reason why I love the beginning of this song, though, I also like how the drums are very creative and the riffs that are played while the drumming is going on are as heavy as hell. This song has the best drumming on the album. All of the guitar work in the intro is done by Poland including a excellent shredding solo at the end of the intro. After that, the song starts building up with some heavy as hell guitar riffs. Dave talks about a black magic ritual that goes bad in this song. After 2 verses of lyrics, Dave does a great, haunting solo. It's slayer like. He does another weird solo when he says "Bloody blasphemy." After that the song pauses and then comes right back in as Dave does one of the most unusual solos that I have ever heard of. It's slayer like again and there's one part of the solo that sounds almost like a distorted piano, weird huh? After that, he does yet another crazy solo! Excellent! After 1 fast verse of vocals, a "no one can save" and "no one can save, one can know" chant ends the song. A great track that is severly underrated by many. 10/10

7. I Ain't Superstitious: Okay here we go. The blues cover that everybody seems to hate. Why? I actually like it a lot! I think that doing this song was a great idea for Megadeth. So they wanted to try something different? So. I thought that this song gave Megadeth the chance to do something different other than thrash metal and it gave Chris Poland the chance to show off his blues/jazz talent. He does a great job at doing that in this song. It also gave Mustaine the opportunity to show off a little humor in his vocals other than the violent and mean side(and yes I like that side too). Dave also does a great job at sounding humorous in this song. Now on to the song. You can call this song a blues metal song since it has a bluesy atmosphere but still features metal riffs. At clocking at under 3 minutes, it's the shortest song on the album but has incredible speed at times. It starts off with a nice bluesy part by Chris and then Dave starts talking in a funny way. After each verse of vocals, a solo fill is done by Chris Poland. He does some beautiful and fast solos in this song. After all the verses and the solo fills, the ending comes in and the song really SPEEDS up! The ending features an excellent shredding solo by Poland. A very overlooked track. I think that Megadeth did an excellent job with this song. It's not dumb like a lot of you people think. 10/10

8. My Last Words: This is another stunning track! In fact, these might be the finest minutes in Dave Mustaine's career on this song, no joke! It starts off with a haunting guitar solo done by Poland. While he's doing that, Dave Ellefson is doing a really distorted and heavy bass part. Chris Poland than shows off the excellent riff that will be featured on this song. The song then gets going and Mustaine starts talking about playing a game of Russian roulette. A love the guitar riffs featured on this song. They are shredding riffs that you can really bang your head to. After the first three verses are done, the ending starts coming on. This whole ending is absolutely mind-blowing! The first part of the ending is Dave's solo. He does a great and fast solo. It's slayer like again and I think that it is one of the most creative and fastest solos of all time. After that, jaw dropping chants of "You, you, next victim, you next to die! You, you, next victim, you, your turn to die!" come in. While Dave is saying this, the drums are pounding away. The song and the album end perfectly with a line of "You die!" A stunning way to end a classic metal album! 12/10

And there you have it, the 2nd best metal album of all time! The only album that beats this stunning classic was Megadeth's magical 1990 classic and landmark metal album, "Rust In Peace." This album is more than a must for any metal head. It beats Mastrobation of Puppets and Reign In Blood by miles. In my opinion, THIS IS the album of 1986! Enough said! Buy it now or you aren't a true metal head. This album smokes!!!

DTS Rocks.......2007-01-09

Why there is not more of these DVD's I don't know. They sound so good you feel like your on stage with the band

Megadeth just keep getting better!!!.......2006-11-17

A lot of people believe that Megadeth is some crappy band to get back at Metallica, wrong. This Audio DVD proves that. This is what Metallica can't do. This album alone is a milestone in the thrash genre (Metallica only has good albums that people talk about, and its always their first few) but making this makes a great album better. I have been collecting up a few of these DVD-A discs and also enjoy the odd SACD, but out of the ones snaped up this is by far the best. I say for anyone that enjoys this album anyway, and has a system that supports DVD-A or a DTS enabled dvd player and amp, buy it, you wont be dissapointed.
Isnt it funny that Metallica were never going to make music videos when they started, but now that Dave has Gigantour and Arsenal of Megadeth is out, they have "pulled the shortest straw" to release a Music Video DVD.
Cheers Dave, and long live Rattlehead!

Second ONLY to Rust in Peace..........2006-05-05

alot of people might say otherwise, but this album IS really underrated... and let me just say that if it had just a few more track (the album is relatively short), not only will it be ranked along all time greats like Master of Puppets, Rust in Peace and Reign in Blood, but will be respected with a rank of it's own. The riffs and solos are topnotch, it's basically Thrash at it's finest. every time i listen to it, memories of the thrash era come flowing back...

Standout Tracks:
Peace Sells, Bad Omen, Devil's Island, Wake Up Dead
and Good Mourning (GM depends on your mood, but gives a clear picture of Dave Mustaine talent AND genius)

The best anything in the world ever........2006-04-30

This album, well, it was the one thing that got me into metal, and I have loved it since. If you like metal this is a MUST. You actually NEED this album. Every single song on this album is a masterpiece, pure ectasy to hear it.

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Embracing This

Altered State ~ Altered State

Tragic Serenades ~ Celtic Frost

Saisons (Best of Laurent Voulzy) ~ Laurent Voulzy

Il Mondo Di ~ Paola Turci

Super Live ~ Masayoshi Takanaka

Shangri-La ~ Mark Knopfler

Midnight Express: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ~ David Castle , and Chris Benn

Ilona Arriva Con La Pioggia ~ Luis Bacalov

In the Mix V.4 ~ Various Artists