06-06-2003, 01:50 PM
Countdown to Extinction is a good album actually. Even in my often scathing opinion. I was even given a high quality poster of Vic playing with his abacus. :P
Youthanasia . . . um . . . This was Megadeth's first album-wide foray into the realms of detuning their instruments for that old (has been) Motley Crue sound of the mid-late eighties. I forget if it was a semi tone or a whole tone they took it down on that album, but the results are often pretty ugly for the bands that try it. On top of that, the move away from the very technical, high precision riffing Megadeth used to do, to head into those monotonous 4/4, two notes per beat, bass rythyms kinda smacked them them right off my play list in a great hurry. :P I managed to bite the bullet and pick up Cryptic Writings a while later, but sadly the Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction days appeared to be gone for good. Peace Sells and Killing is my Business are another couple of CDs I'll put on from time to time. :D
Almost forgot. If you want something with vastly more brutal vomit inducing material for imagery than Metallica doing a gangsta boy impersonation, just open up Youthanasia and look at the Megadeth band photo printed on the CD.
And to think the first time I heard that album was in the control room of a 24 track semi-pro recording studio. :( Ah well. I got it purged in my own special way . . . Think Clawfinger's "Do What I Say" played at around threshold shift inducing volume in one of the highest quality recording studio control rooms in the country. :D Followed up Queensryche's "Real World" :blink: (Damn that James Barton knows how to mix a huge sound! ) :blink: and a few other treats. :D
Youthanasia . . . um . . . This was Megadeth's first album-wide foray into the realms of detuning their instruments for that old (has been) Motley Crue sound of the mid-late eighties. I forget if it was a semi tone or a whole tone they took it down on that album, but the results are often pretty ugly for the bands that try it. On top of that, the move away from the very technical, high precision riffing Megadeth used to do, to head into those monotonous 4/4, two notes per beat, bass rythyms kinda smacked them them right off my play list in a great hurry. :P I managed to bite the bullet and pick up Cryptic Writings a while later, but sadly the Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction days appeared to be gone for good. Peace Sells and Killing is my Business are another couple of CDs I'll put on from time to time. :D
Almost forgot. If you want something with vastly more brutal vomit inducing material for imagery than Metallica doing a gangsta boy impersonation, just open up Youthanasia and look at the Megadeth band photo printed on the CD.
And to think the first time I heard that album was in the control room of a 24 track semi-pro recording studio. :( Ah well. I got it purged in my own special way . . . Think Clawfinger's "Do What I Say" played at around threshold shift inducing volume in one of the highest quality recording studio control rooms in the country. :D Followed up Queensryche's "Real World" :blink: (Damn that James Barton knows how to mix a huge sound! ) :blink: and a few other treats. :D
Heed the Song of Battle and Unsheath the Blades of War