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James B. wrote:

I'd dig seeing Nick back behind the kit.

Me too. Great Drummer!

S.D. wrote:

Of course, Dave's songwriting was also stronger during that era so it was just a magical combination of ingredients on those first couple albums.

Mountains of cocaine and an obsessive-compulsive need to beat your former band mates at their own game is an unbeatable combination.

Fat Freddy wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Of course, Dave's songwriting was also stronger during that era so it was just a magical combination of ingredients on those first couple albums.

Mountains of cocaine and an obsessive-compulsive need to beat your former band mates at their own game is an unbeatable combination.

metallica presents no challenge today. That is for sure.

exact33 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Of course, Dave's songwriting was also stronger during that era so it was just a magical combination of ingredients on those first couple albums.

Mountains of cocaine and an obsessive-compulsive need to beat your former band mates at their own game is an unbeatable combination.

metallica presents no challenge today. That is for sure.

Sadly, you are correct.

I don't understand the hate for "Youthanasia."

"Reckoning Day", "Train of Consequences", the title track, "Addicted to Chaos", and "Victory." What's not to like?

Also, I have no problems with the curren lineup, but I wouldn't mind seeing a change at the drummer position.

Psychotron wrote:

I don't understand the hate for "Youthanasia."

"Reckoning Day", "Train of Consequences", the title track, "Addicted to Chaos", and "Victory." What's not to like?

Also, I have no problems with the curren lineup, but I wouldn't mind seeing a change at the drummer position.

I agree, I think Youthanasia is actually one of their best. Of course it was the second Megadeth album I bought so that's probably a factor.

Psychotron wrote:

I don't understand the hate for "Youthanasia."

"Reckoning Day", "Train of Consequences", the title track, "Addicted to Chaos", and "Victory." What's not to like?

Also, I have no problems with the curren lineup, but I wouldn't mind seeing a change at the drummer position.

I think Thirteen is a very good release. I love that they have gone back to having melody instead of the just being heavy for heavy sake.

Megadeth is getting ready to release the "Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Edition", remastered and expanded.

They will then be touring behind the release and performing the entire album.

Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction (20th Anniversary Edition) [2CD, digital]

CD 1
1. Skin O’ My Teeth
2. Symphony Of Destruction
3. Architecture Of Aggression
4. Foreclosure Of A Dream
5. Sweating Bullets
6. This Was My Life
7. Countdown To Extinction
8. High Speed Dirt
9. Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
11. Ashes In Your Mouth

CD 2 – Live At Cow Palace, 1992
1. Intro
2. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
3. Skin O’ My Teeth
4. Wake Up Dead
5. Hangar 18
6. Countdown To Extinction
7. Foreclosure Of A Dream
8. This Was My Life
9. Lucretia
10. Sweating Bullets
11. In My Darkest Hour
12. The Conjuring
13. Tornado
14. Ashes In Your Mouth
15. Symphony Of Destruction16. Peace Sells
17. Anarchy In the UK


Megadeth: “Countdown To Extinction 20th
Anniversary Tour”
Megadeth Fan Club Pre-sale starts Wednesday, September 12
Local pre-sales start Thursday, September 13
On sale Friday, September 14

NOVEMBER
9 Providence, RI Lupo's at the Strand
10 Huntington, NY Paramount Theatre
11 Worcester, MA The Palladium
13 Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre
14 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
16 Atlantic City, NJ House Of Blues
17 Niagara Falls, NY Rapids Theatre
19 Stroudsburg, PA Sherman Theater
20 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
24 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
25 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
26 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
28 Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre

DECEMBER
1 Salt Lake City, UT Great Saltair
2 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
4 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Theatre
6 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues
7 Pomona, CA Fox Theatre

S.D. wrote:

Megadeth is getting ready to release the "Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Edition", remastered and expanded.

They will then be touring behind the release and performing the entire album.

I was wondering if they were going to do this, since they just got done playing the whole Countdown to Extinction album in Santiago, Chile. I'm wondering also if Dave has decided whether to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "So Far, So Good, So What" in 2013 with a new release, since it desperately needs to be remastered properly. I know it's sandwiched in between two stellar efforst like "Peace Sells" and "Rust", but I still really dig that album.

S.D. wrote:

Megadeth is getting ready to release the "Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Edition", remastered and expanded.

They will then be touring behind the release and performing the entire album.

Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction (20th Anniversary Edition) [2CD, digital]

CD 1
1. Skin O’ My Teeth
2. Symphony Of Destruction
3. Architecture Of Aggression
4. Foreclosure Of A Dream
5. Sweating Bullets
6. This Was My Life
7. Countdown To Extinction
8. High Speed Dirt
9. Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
11. Ashes In Your Mouth

CD 2 – Live At Cow Palace, 1992
1. Intro
2. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
3. Skin O’ My Teeth
4. Wake Up Dead
5. Hangar 18
6. Countdown To Extinction
7. Foreclosure Of A Dream
8. This Was My Life
9. Lucretia
10. Sweating Bullets
11. In My Darkest Hour
12. The Conjuring
13. Tornado
14. Ashes In Your Mouth
15. Symphony Of Destruction16. Peace Sells
17. Anarchy In the UK

I hope this is just remastered and not that crap remix/hackjob Dave did. Ugh. Thankfully, I held on to my original cds and didn't sell them for those remixes.

Witchfinder wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Megadeth is getting ready to release the "Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Edition", remastered and expanded.

They will then be touring behind the release and performing the entire album.

Megadeth: Countdown To Extinction (20th Anniversary Edition) [2CD, digital]

CD 1
1. Skin O’ My Teeth
2. Symphony Of Destruction
3. Architecture Of Aggression
4. Foreclosure Of A Dream
5. Sweating Bullets
6. This Was My Life
7. Countdown To Extinction
8. High Speed Dirt
9. Psychotron
10. Captive Honour
11. Ashes In Your Mouth

CD 2 – Live At Cow Palace, 1992
1. Intro
2. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
3. Skin O’ My Teeth
4. Wake Up Dead
5. Hangar 18
6. Countdown To Extinction
7. Foreclosure Of A Dream
8. This Was My Life
9. Lucretia
10. Sweating Bullets
11. In My Darkest Hour
12. The Conjuring
13. Tornado
14. Ashes In Your Mouth
15. Symphony Of Destruction16. Peace Sells
17. Anarchy In the UK

I hope this is just remastered and not that crap remix/hackjob Dave did. Ugh. Thankfully, I held on to my original cds and didn't sell them for those remixes.

Supposedly only the concert will be remixed. That doesn't bother me, but yes, I concur, don't mess with the original sound like Dave did with those 2004 remasters!

Eh I'll probably pass on this. I got the original, I got the remix. I don't need the live stuff. Just get rid of that Drover guy already

I'd be more interested to hear the Live bonus disc than the studio album.

S.D. wrote:

I'd be more interested to hear the Live bonus disc than the studio album.

yeah. I am with you on that.

How much 'deth do I need? I'll probably still pick it up if I find it for the right price.

Too bad they skipped over the 20th anniversary of the SFSGSW album.

Troublezone wrote:

Too bad they skipped over the 20th anniversary of the SFSGSW album.

Since they did a 25th anniversary edition for Peace Sells, I'm hoping they do the same thing next year for that album.

Me likey, this is a must pick-up. It's the first 'Deth album I ever bought. The live show is really enticing too.

Too bad the extras from the 04' remixed/remastered release are not on here though. I wouldn't mind hearing some more demos.

reminds me of a buzzard feeding their young

This is similar to what Priest did with British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance. Both of those albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in the early 00s (was it 2002? i can't remember). More recently Priest repackaged those same albums with added live material for the albums' anniversaries. I don't find much incentive to buy essentially the same album with slightly altered artwork and a bonus live disc. Would be more worthwhile releasing a live box set similar to how Iron Maiden released the limited edition of Eddie's Casket.

That would be something worthwhile for the long time fans. In that regard, I think a mile stone anniversary of an album should be celebrated with live material and not necessarily with reissuing the studio album. Afterall the staying power of an album decades after its release is in a live setting, where people still want to hear the songs on the said album.

It would be more interesting for Megadeth to release some iconic concerts on cd or dvd from that period in the band's history. I think more people would be interested in hearing a slice of Megadeth's live history than just listening to essentially the same studio album they already own.

I may try to catch the tour. I don't have any plans to pick up the re-issued cd.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

This is similar to what Priest did with British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance. Both of those albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in the early 00s (was it 2002? i can't remember). More recently Priest repackaged those same albums with added live material for the albums' anniversaries. I don't find much incentive to buy essentially the same album with slightly altered artwork and a bonus live disc. Would be more worthwhile releasing a live box set similar to how Iron Maiden released the limited edition of Eddie's Casket.

That would be something worthwhile for the long time fans. In that regard, I think a mile stone anniversary of an album should be celebrated with live material and not necessarily with reissuing the studio album. Afterall the staying power of an album decades after its release is in a live setting, where people still want to hear the songs on the said album.

It would be more interesting for Megadeth to release some iconic concerts on cd or dvd from that period in the band's history. I think more people would be interested in hearing a slice of Megadeth's live history than just listening to essentially the same studio album they already own.

I completely agree with this, I want the US Festival performance but I am not willing to rebuy the album just to obtain it.

I certainly interested in the Megadeth live discs that are part of the bonus discs but do not wish to rebuy the album just to get the bonus discs unless it is ultra cheap

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

This is similar to what Priest did with British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance. Both of those albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in the early 00s (was it 2002?

Those 2004 albums were re-mixed, and sounded like garbage. This 20th Anniversary edition is not re-mixed...

metalinmyveins wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

This is similar to what Priest did with British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance. Both of those albums were remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in the early 00s (was it 2002?

Those 2004 albums were re-mixed, and sounded like garbage. This 20th Anniversary edition is not re-mixed...

If not remixed, does it then sound just like the original? I mean i thought the original of Countdown sounded great, and even for the production values of 1992 it still sounds fresh.

The remixed versions are hit and miss for me. I don't see them as replacing the original pressings, they are more like companions to the original pressings. A proper reissue of Megadeth's albums at the time should have included both the original pressing and a remixed version of the album. The way they did it though, imo sucked because they took off the market the original albums.

Id try to go to the Wallingford CT show if i could A) afford it and B) had someone to go with I Love Megadeth!!!!