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Old 09-11-2018, 09:27 AM   #6191 (permalink)
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Just take this track from The System Has Failed. An album of mostly bland thrash with moments of goodness but only one absolute belter of a pop metal song that could have come from Cryptic Writings and is probably Megadeth's best song of the entire new millenium. Dave Mustaine can be a stellar pop songwriter when he wants to be.

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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 09-11-2018, 11:39 AM   #6192 (permalink)
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The System Has Failed has some great stuff on it, especially "Back in the Day":


I think having the expectations of them never being able to reach the quality of their first three albums helps with my enjoyment. I thought Dystopia was an excellent album.
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Old 09-11-2018, 11:42 AM   #6193 (permalink)
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That is a good track, even if it's super self-important. Like Dave saw that a bunch of kids were discovering thrash and felt the need to promote his legacy.

Also I'm checking out United Abominations for the first time in a while and "Blessed Are the Dead" is a song I forgot as being really solid.

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Old 09-11-2018, 01:15 PM   #6194 (permalink)
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I agree on Die Dead Enough.

Tears in a Vial and Of Mice and Men are two other favourites of mine from that album. I basically prefer Mustaine in pop song writer mode these days. The thrash lacks a bit of bite.

Honestly, I always preferred that side of Megadeth. It's not without reason that Cryptic Writings is my favourite Megadeth album.
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Old 09-11-2018, 01:22 PM   #6195 (permalink)
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The thrash doesn't just lack bite. It doesn't even sound like a lesser version of their better days. It sounds like a ghost of any generic thrash band's forgettable, tepid music that is all interchangeable. If it didn't have the Megadeth name and Mustaine's vocals nobody would bother talking about it.
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Also while "Last Rites/Loved to Deth" is absolutely the better song it's debatable whether that or this song is the more hilarious Metallica diss. The former was still fresh so it's kinda sorta understandable even if it's still butthurt as all hell. But this song is two decades later when Mustaine was supposedly an adult and should have been well over it while also being far more direct and obvious. How the **** did Mustaine ever think James and Lars would agree to a supergroup? There's no way Dave doesn't have a dartboard with an old Metallica band pic up in his studio.

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I kinda feel like Megadeth is better because Mustaine is bitter and a bit crazy in the InfoWars kinda way, not in spite of it.
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I feel like Dave Mustaine is better because he's bitter and a bit crazy in the InfoWars kinda way but not Megadeth.
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But what is Megadeth other than Mustaine with a guitar?
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Old 09-11-2018, 02:13 PM   #6200 (permalink)
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He's better as a personality than an artist.
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