076: Megadeth Peace Sells...But Who's Buying Album Dive

Metal Nerdery Podcast

There’s a saying that “the best revenge is living well”.

Well, someone forgot to give Dave Mustaine that memo. Because as far as we can tell, Dave’s “best revenge” was to form Megadeth, a band assembled with a very specific mission: to be faster, darker, snarlier, and MORE technically proficient than his previous band from which he’d been unceremoniously sacked (that means “fired from Metallica without warning” in Americanese).

Megadeth’s sophomore slam PEACE SELLS…BUT WHO’S BUYING? is a razor-sharp refinement of the “revenge” originally presented on “KILLING IS MY BUSINESS…” only with greater vitriolic commentary and exponentially greater virtuosity and musicianship (that means “Dave Mustaine needs a cape!”)

Block out your afternoon (just tell the boss you’ve got a “client meeting”), roll another bowl of your favoritest relaxer and JOIN US as we dive into Megadeth’s PEACE SELLS…BUT WHO’S BUYING? and try to better understand what Dave was trying to convey with his specific rhetorical questioning (which translates to “Whaddya mean ‘Whaddya mean?’” in Mustainese).

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Show Notes:

(00:00) – #whosnorted ? / Megadeth, their sound & their place in Thrash and among The Big 4 / Kudos, Kommendments and Kondiments (and also Kroutons) for improved production quality and the refinement of the Megadeth sound / Future episode idea #CBFE / ***Laryngitis wants you to BUY METAL NERDERY GEAR!!! (which you can do, HERE) and Geezahh wants you to LEAVE US SOME FEEDBACK AND RATINGS!!!***

(07:26) – Going back to our first exposure to Megadeth (see also MTV News theme) and extreme Viking lore (see also #scrotumgoblets) / Turtle’s Records & Tapes flashback / Smart Metal? High Brow Thrash? The Rush of Thrash? (Alex gives his interdimensional #ooooooh of approval) / Megadeth’s riff complexity and overall technical proficiency relative to other thrash bands.

(15:30) – 09/19/1986…capturing the “perfect sound” at different locations / THE TRACKS: Wake Up Dead (Listen to all of those frickin’ layers… #whaddyamean?) ONLY Dave Mustaine could be the voice of Megadeth / The Conjuring (someone Czech the #drugtracker), complete with flangey, snakey sounding vocals / #OBEY (hahahaha, #NO!) and the “Creepiness” of the riffs.

(23:17) – “Time for the News” …PEACE SELLS (#whaddyamean?) / chock full of #crunchyballriffs (and apparently our first #blackalbumreference for 2021) / #fakken is coming to Amerika in 2021 / Devil’s Island (thinking back to #rocknpod, looking forward to #RockNPod2021) / #sharks and #shittake

(30:40) – Good Mourning/Black Friday (Clean intro, track 1, side 2 if you’re following along on vinyl or cassette) / WTF is this? (It’s called ‘fasterness’…or ‘jazz’…or “megajazz”?) / Feel that swing in the rhythm section… / Bad Omens (#creepyintro but not a #softintro) / Sacrificing Froot Loops? (#readthoselyrics) / Ummmm….headphone mics?

(38:00) – Blind Dawg Mustaine (I Ain’t Superstitious) and Dave’s interesting cover tune choices / My Last Words (and Metal Nerdery’s latest installment of #waterbottleASMR) and Russell’s “brief rant” regarding Rolling Stone (“a great piece of paper to have”?) and the lack of tangentionally applicable guitarists (Super Dave specifically) that should have been on that list / GOOD NEWS on the Megadeth front (***NEW SHIT SOON!!!***) and Lars’ gum endorsements for the next Metallica album (that, for the record, will definitely NOT be anything remotely like the Black Album)

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