Megadeth Re-issues

A few years back Dave Mustaine re-issued all of Megadeth's catalog as you all know, but what did/do you guys think about it? I like the bonus tracks, but the music on some tracks are different, like the entire intro to Sweating Bullets for instance. I like the fact that they are remastered, but don't change the music IMO. And don't even get me started on Killing is My Business... but I know that Dave didn't remaster that one himself.

Never had the originals, so I can't tell.

i never had the reissues, so i can't tell. generally speaking, i agree with you though. it's cool to add extra stuff, but don't f*ck with the original material. including the artwork.

The re-issues are cool, Some nice bonus tracks and cool booklets wit new photos and info.

So of the re-mastering wasn't called for, like resinging take No Prisoners and readding backing vocals on holy Wars.

But they're all still pretty good

i have both the originals and remasters

I actually only have the remasters and my first Megadeth experiences were with them (except on some occasions) so I'm probably going to be quite biased towards them. I generally think most of the changes are negligible and whilst arguably don't add anything to the songs, they don't really take anything away either. Plus the actual remastering is pretty decent. A lot of the extra tracks are very cool as well, so really I'm pretty pro-remaster.

I never bothered with the reissues cuz I had all the original CDs already...

I didn't like the idea that Dave re-recorded certain guitar parts and vocal bits for the "remasters", either.

Some stuff bugs me. The keyboards added to the opening of "So Far So
Good, So What" reallly bug me and make the song less heavy. I wish he
would have just remastered, rather than remixing and in some cases,
rerecording. I own the originals and probably won't buy the re-issues.



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As far as I'm aware, the only vocal additions/edits were on Rust In Peace because Dave lost the vocal tracks for a few songs and had to redo them. Unless you count MD.45, in which Dave rerecorded everything Lee Ving did from vocals to harmonica resulting in a poor version of the original CD.

mc666 wrote:

i never had the reissues, so i can't tell. generally speaking, i agree with you though. it's cool to add extra stuff, but don't f*ck with the original material. including the artwork.

Same here. I'll stick with my originals.

Smindas wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the only vocal additions/edits were on Rust In Peace because Dave lost the vocal tracks for a few songs and had to redo them. Unless you count MD.45, in which Dave rerecorded everything Lee Ving did from vocals to harmonica resulting in a poor version of the original CD.

I never much liked the original CD aside from one or two songs. This thread has actually made me want to buy the reissues! Haha. Most of the bonus material I already own on singles and such, so the reissues didn't much appeal to me. But knowing that they're different actually makes them seem worth picking up.

Eyesore wrote:

Smindas wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the only vocal additions/edits were on Rust In Peace because Dave lost the vocal tracks for a few songs and had to redo them. Unless you count MD.45, in which Dave rerecorded everything Lee Ving did from vocals to harmonica resulting in a poor version of the original CD.

I never much liked the original CD aside from one or two songs. This thread has actually made me want to buy the reissues! Haha. Most of the bonus material I already own on singles and such, so the reissues didn't much appeal to me. But knowing that they're different actually makes them seem worth picking up.

you never liked Rust In Peace, or never liked MD.45?

Smindas wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the only vocal additions/edits
were on Rust In Peace because Dave lost the vocal tracks for a few
songs and had to redo them. Unless you count MD.45, in which Dave
rerecorded everything Lee Ving did from vocals to harmonica resulting
in a poor version of the original CD.

If you listen to Into the Lungs of Hell, something has been added that
wasn't there before. Some sort of keyboardy, orchestral crap that makes
the song less heavy. Trog and I listened to both trying to figure out
if it was in the original and just buried in the mix and we couldn't
hear it at all.

The thing that sucks is that the only place you can buy the originals, with the exception of maybe Amazon.com, are in used cd stores and all the used stores in my town suck soooooooooooooooooooooooo... bad that it is not even funny. When you go to any Best Buy or Wal-Mart all you find is the re-masters and that sucks. When the re-masters were just starting to come out they still had the originals too in stores, but I fell for the extra tracks and re-mixing crap and bought the re-masters, now I wish I would've picked up the originals instead.

mc666 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Smindas wrote:

As far as I'm aware, the only vocal additions/edits were on Rust In Peace because Dave lost the vocal tracks for a few songs and had to redo them. Unless you count MD.45, in which Dave rerecorded everything Lee Ving did from vocals to harmonica resulting in a poor version of the original CD.

I never much liked the original CD aside from one or two songs. This thread has actually made me want to buy the reissues! Haha. Most of the bonus material I already own on singles and such, so the reissues didn't much appeal to me. But knowing that they're different actually makes them seem worth picking up.

you never liked Rust In Peace, or never liked MD.45?

MD 45. Sorry. Should have separated those thoughts.

spiritoradio wrote:

The thing that sucks is that the only place you can buy the originals, with the exception of maybe Amazon.com, are in used cd stores and all the used stores in my town suck soooooooooooooooooooooooo... bad that it is not even funny. When you go to any Best Buy or Wal-Mart all you find is the re-masters and that sucks. When the re-masters were just starting to come out they still had the originals too in stores, but I fell for the extra tracks and re-mixing crap and bought the re-masters, now I wish I would've picked up the originals instead.

The originals are cheap as hell now though on Amazon.

Dave should keep the originals of the albums in print as well.

Chairman_Smith wrote:

The originals are cheap as hell now though on Amazon.

I'm swearing off the re-masters and re-buying all the originals. Thanks for the info.

mc666 wrote:

i never had the reissues, so i can't tell. generally speaking, i agree with you though. it's cool to add extra stuff, but don't f*ck with the original material. including the artwork.

i think Risk was the only one that had new artwork oh yes and killing as well but i have the original cover on my copy. apart from killing i have all the remasters and the bonus studio tracks are good but they are mostly demos and are boring. i aint so bothered if he chnged stuff cos i dont know wht the oroignials were like

I don't have any of the re-issues, but I've considered picking up Risk. I've heard the new mix was made to make it less "alt-pop" sounding. Any real difference?

Metal Misfit wrote:

I don't have any of the re-issues, but I've considered picking up Risk. I've heard the new mix was made to make it less "alt-pop" sounding. Any real difference?

You can't polish a turd, as they say. In other words, don't get it.

Required Fields wrote:

Metal Misfit wrote:

I don't have any of the re-issues, but I've considered picking up Risk. I've heard the new mix was made to make it less "alt-pop" sounding. Any real difference?

You can't polish a turd, as they say. In other words, don't get it.

I was gonna say something similar. Haha. But Risk isn't as bad as some say. It's not great by any means, not even all that good, but definitely not bad. There are a few really good tunes, though.

TheGooch wrote:

mc666 wrote:

i never had the reissues, so i can't tell. generally speaking, i agree with you though. it's cool to add extra stuff, but don't f*ck with the original material. including the artwork.

i think Risk was the only one that had new artwork oh yes and killing as well but i have the original cover on my copy. apart from killing i have all the remasters and the bonus studio tracks are good but they are mostly demos and are boring. i aint so bothered if he chnged stuff cos i dont know wht the oroignials were like

I like the new cover on "Killing is My Business..." It was actually the cover that Dave wanted for the first album. Trog had a photograph of almost that exact same image from a Megadeth show at Ruthie's Inn, Berkeley, CA 11-3-1984.

The intro to Into the Lungs of Hell is the same. He just brought the Synthesizer horns out louder on the re-issue.

Eyesore wrote:

Required Fields wrote:

Metal Misfit wrote:

I don't have any of the re-issues, but I've considered picking up Risk. I've heard the new mix was made to make it less "alt-pop" sounding. Any real difference?

You can't polish a turd, as they say. In other words, don't get it.

I was gonna say something similar. Haha. But Risk isn't as bad as some say. It's not great by any means, not even all that good, but definitely not bad. There are a few really good tunes, though.

Thanks for the tip, RF!

But I do agree with Eyesore. Risk has a bad rap, but I enjoyed 'Breadline', 'Crush 'Em', 'Insomnia', 'Prince of Darkness', 'Wanderlust', and 'I'll Be There'. Definitely gets a thumbs up from me based on those songs. But it's just not how I *prefer* my Megadeth albums though.

Risk is good so long as you just completely ignore the fact it's Megadeth. The same applies to Cryptic Writings, although less explicitly.