Peace Sells...But Who's Buying

I am about to turn 20.. This is my first offical FULL Music Amazon Review. One more thing I will not go into super detail even though I could as alot of people usually don't care for that... anyway. I have bought alot of music and things.. but not reveiwed...this deserves it since I LOVE Megadeth..and Dave's guitar playing. I am going to state the obvious that if you don't want alot of heavy guitar and a little less singing then DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME LISTENING TO MEGADETH. They have been one of my favorite bands in metal. Dave is one of the best guitarists EVER... In MY Opinion. One of the few guitarists who are as good and better in metal music is the late Randy Rhoads (From Ozzy for those that don't somehow know already) But Whether you agree with me on this or not is you're opinion so it's you're decision to make not mine. This Album from start to finish is a kick ass thrash metal album. Personally the original Disc sounds as good to me as the newer versions of it.Favorite tracks are all of them cause they all are great songs by a great band. Now the full review Wake Up Dead- a great way to start this wonderful album, has a good rhythm and a good fast solo. This song will do what it's titled wake you up and possibly the dead to as it takes no time to get started. The Conjuring- Great fast paced rhythm and good soloing in this track. This would be a good song to play live which sadly Dave refrains from playing this track live... Peace Sells- I won't say it.. oh hell I will... Peace Sells and I'm Buying! Now if you want a good song that has rhythm and great soloing in it this track will not disapoint as it never lets up on the guitar or anything for that matter and is my Favorite Track. Devils Island- This has to be my second favorite song of the album as it has a good opening to it. The first minute of this song and it already has played more solo then alot of bands now days even have in them. I mean the opening solos for 40 secs and then has a bass lead into the song that stays in the song the whole way through. This song is a nonstop monster of a track. Good Mourning/Black Friday- Speaking a monster of a track. This song is my third Favorite song and is 6:40 of pure metal. Ontop of the great thrash beat down on this track. This song has yet another great intro that goes on forever at 1:50 a nice long intro to this terrific song. Then Dave's voice hits and the tone lowers till 2:24 then just when you think its over....it's not done yet! till about 3:11 then in comes another solo at 5 mins to about 5:24 that's a grand total of 2 minutes worth of solo in this song! Bad Omen- I hate to sound like a damn broken record... but... this has yet another good intro in this song to! This intro comes in at about 1:40 Have I mentioned how great Dave's songwriting ability is? Also his playing and his singing is pretty good considering he is playing this heavy stuff. I Ain't Superstitious- This song has a somewhat Bluesy feel to it as it is suppost to since it's a remake. It is like taking Thrash and Blues style and mixing them together...to create this great take on a song that. Dave does a great job of mixing his own style to this track. My Last Words- Great ending track. I know I have said this already but I have to say it again as it is true... Another good intro to this track, great solo work showing you as he still continues to why he is such a good guitarist. The lyrics are just right and rhythm to this song is good and help this song to cap off this thrashing metal masterpiece. Megadeth to this day continues to still bring it all these years later and I commend them for that. I sadly just have had issues finding this original disc anywhere.. but I got a good deal on it and got this album in GOOD condition for under seven bucks with shipping... So being a Megadeth fan that has wanted this for years... I could not be any more happy! VERY GLAD I GOT THIS!! I have Rust In Peace, plan to get Countdown to Extinction and also have the Megadeth Album Endgame. Going to get the newest album soon as it sounds kinda like Rust In Peace.

First I want to start off by saying that, before I knew about thrash metal, I really didn't now much about it, but I know what kind of music thrash metal was! Peace Sells was definitly my first Megadeth album, and when I first heard it a couple times, I wondered if I could ever get use to this kind of music! For starters, I never ever listen to this kind of music before, but after a while I fell in love with the album and Megadeth's metal riffs and elabrate guitar solos! This has to be the most classic "speed metal" albums of all-time, Technically! With guitars like Chirs Poland, a jazz fusion guitarist, and drummer Gar Samuelsson. Dave Mustaine was able to put his crazy guitar work to the test, by changing his arrangments around from the previous album Killing Is My Business...And Business is Good. With less crazy guitar solos and tight pulled down rythems, Mustaine looked towards making the solos and riffs, more straight foreward and meaningful! From right off the bat, with songs like "wake up dead," Dave made sure that his music was orchestrate to rythem changes and high tempo beats! In the introduction Dave sings for a few minutes and then breaks into orchestrate hard inner changing rythems. With the song "The conjuring," it starts out very calm and easy, with the idea of the crazy aspects of the Occult and the other [stuff] that we tend to get our selves caught up into! A great song for picking up rhythm! With the anti-hu-main govermental politica song "Peace sells!" It starts out with a great bass line that makes you want to play it over and over again! Dave Mustaine gives us an insight of a person's view on politics and the ieda of the corruption of war! In the song Dave says: "If there's a new way...I'll be the first this time, but it better work this time... Then it breaks into a really cool slow solo with Dave hummering slowly down the neck of the guitar one note at a time! -Definitely the monument song on this album!- with song four Devil's Island, is definitely a ferocious song right from the beginnging with a crazy in your face pull-off hammering intense soloing! with Dave hammering down the notes on around the 19th fret with his index finger rampagely. The words are ferocious as well as Dave Mustaines famous snear! You can definitely tell by listing to this song, that Dave Mustaine and Co. is one of the most menising band out there, but one that note, this song kicks (...)! With Good Morning/ Black Friday! It starts out cold and depressing, with some signs of redemption! BUT THEN, is goes into a complex style of soloing and softin' up while Dave talks about unknown demons, AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE the song brakes lose, and it goes all over the place, Talking about killer, demons, muders, and crazy things that can mix up your head!Truely Ferocious, rude, and Intensively insane! Bad Omen- Great song, starts out slow, and then it goes in to down stroke phases, with some cool bass lines, AND THEN, it blows up into a alsome rhythm with Dave talking about the evil in the world that comes and tend to haunt us! Good Song with some crazy all over the place soloing! With the rest of the songs, you can rate them your self! BUT!!!!! One thing that makes Megadeth important to me! Is that Dave Mustaine doesn't take crap from no one! Also, he really writes about things that mean something! And I look up to him for that! Every time I listen to this album, I say, "It definitely has to be one of the best Thrash Metal album ever! Every song is great, especially the first fourf from this album! This album definitely Tops my Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal albums of all-time! What do you think!!!!

This Disc comes equipped with DVD-A mix in surround sound, A DTS-HD mix (compressed version of DVD-A), and a stereo mix...all mixes were done at 24/96k....There is also a bonus section with both of the videos from this album, as well as interviews with the members of Megadeth, where they articulate some of the splendor of having 5.1, as well as what they may have done differently this time around. There is also a bonus track where you can solo out one of the guitars and play along with the backing tracks, it will let you select all the combinations available. The lyrics are available in the bonus section as well. I've been listening to Megadeth since 1986 and have owned this album on many different formats(tape, cd and wax). This is the best release so far, but I wonder why they didn't just release this on SACD?, as it is several times the resolution. They easily could have dumbed it down to the DVD-a and had a better mix. As far as the album goes everything sounds much cleaner than all the previous formats. The placement of instruments spread over 5 speakers is really nice, pretty much everything is where you'd imagine it to be. The mixes translated extremely well from the old stereo mixes i remember, with very few exceptions. Much like all high res CD's, you can actually hear the drums now. You can really feel the rhythm in most songs and pretty much hear what Gar was trying to do with his unique Jazz induced Metal Thrashing style. There's some spots where you can barely hear the snare but i think that's a function of the recording. Overall my biggest complaint is that the vocals aren't loud enough for my tastes. I think that the Vocals should ride in line with or just above the lead guitar, there are several spots in a few songs where the vocals get lost in the barrage of sound that comes from Dave and Chris's guitars. There's only a few songs where they nailed the vocals, like "Devil's Island" it sits in at the right level. The guitars are perfect in almost every respect and will shred you the whole way through the album. The begining of "Good Morning Black Friday" sounds a little different, you can really hear the effects on the guitar. Another minor complaint is that both the CD mix and DTS mixes of My Last Words have and audio interuption to show a picture of Gar right in the last measure of the song.....this is one of my favorite songs on the album and until i listened to the DVD-A mix it always upset me. All in All this gets a major two thumbs up....

When it comes to landmark metal albums, few records hit as hard, fast, and intelligently as Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying?—Megadeth’s second studio album and a defining statement of thrash metal’s golden age. Released in 1986, this album isn’t just a cornerstone of Megadeth’s legacy; it’s a testament to the genre’s potential for raw aggression fused with technical brilliance and biting social commentary. From the very first snarling riff of “Wake Up Dead,” Dave Mustaine and company announce they’re not here to play nice. The album feels urgent, dangerous, and relentless in its mission to challenge the status quo—not just musically, but politically. Mustaine’s razor-sharp lyrics and snarling delivery expose hypocrisy, question authority, and paint vivid portraits of Cold War paranoia and societal decay. It's rebellion with brains. The title track “Peace Sells” remains one of the most recognizable and enduring anthems in heavy metal history. With that iconic bassline—thank you, David Ellefson—and its defiant chorus (“Peace sells, but who's buying?”), the song became a generational voice of disillusionment, still relevant decades later. But this album is far from a one-hit showcase. Tracks like “Devils Island,” “The Conjuring,” and “My Last Words” demonstrate the band’s technical precision and songwriting prowess. Chris Poland’s wild, jazz-inflected solos, Gar Samuelson’s intricate drumming, and Mustaine’s furious riffing make for an intense, unpredictable ride. What sets Peace Sells... apart is its perfect balance between unfiltered thrash chaos and tight, calculated musicianship. It’s aggressive, but not sloppy. It’s complex, but never self-indulgent. It’s angry, but with purpose. Nearly four decades later, Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying? still stands as a masterclass in metal. It's not just a classic—it's essential listening. Whether you're a diehard thrasher or a casual metal fan, this is one of those rare albums that earns its place in the pantheon not through nostalgia, but through sheer, unrelenting excellence. Final Verdict: A ferocious, intelligent, and genre-defining juggernaut. Peace sells—and this album is worth every cent.

To me "Peace Sells" is one of the three classic Megadeth albums including: "Rust In Peace", and "Countdown". I've always had a fondness for this album but, until recently I never really appreciated "Peace Sells" until I heard this remixed and remastered version. I do own the other two albums remixed and original "Rust In Peace" and "Countdown". I did not like the "Countdown" remixes, the sampled snare drum killed it, in my opinion the original mixes were fine. I was hesitant to give this remixed album a chance. But after hearing previews of "Peace Sells" on amazon I was hooked. It's nice to be able to hear some of the subtleties that were lost in the original mix due to inferior technology and older mixing methods. However great it is to hear the extra bits here and there that were previously buried in the original mix, there are a few times that Dave embellished the original tracks too much. For example on "The Conjuring" the last vocal line last a few beats to long, on "Wake Up Dead" the guitar solo holds the last note too long. During "Peace Sells" I could hear some heavy gating on the guitar tracks. At the same time, these are very trivial discrepancies and I must say that the drums and the bass have a much fuller, present, and punchier sound, while the guitars got an upgrade as well with a much more dynamic sound. All in all each instrument owns a specific stake in the frequency spectrum producing a much tighter, brighter, and bigger sound. The tracks that stick out to me as sounding better are "Peace Sells", "Good Morning/Black Friday", "Bad Omen", "I Ain't Superstitious", and "My Last Words". I think it's cool that Dave went back not to just remaster the original albums, like many lazy artists and cheap labels often do to generate new profit, but also tediously remixed them too. Though I may disagree with a small percentage of his decisions at the mixing console overall I am very impressed and pleased with how much better He made this album sound. I know some of you may disagree and that's fine but for me it's nice to re-experience this classic album mixed through today's superior studio technology.

Peace Sells might be recognized in history as Megadeth's coming-out party. The band's debut album did well for an independent label, but upon graduating to Capitol Records, Megadeth had become a force to be reckoned with in the thrash metal genre. Peace Sells is the first album of that saga. In 2004, Peace Sells got a well-deserved makeover. Some welcome additions are the fattening of Gar Samuelson's drums and David Ellefson's bass. Together, the rhythm section as a whole sounds beefier, thicker. Nuances of Samuelson's tasteful, jazz-inspired playing are heard just as they were recorded in the studio. Ellefson's bass lines are also given a boost in the lower frequencies, but perhaps are unnecessarily loud in the intro to "My Last Words". Luckily, about a minute and a half into the song, the bass makes more room for the other instruments as the volumes are changed. Dave Mustaine was the grandmaster behind the album, and his vocals are for the most part well-preserved. They never seem to overtake the mix, and never seem to be drowned out by the busy instruments in the background. If prompted, I could name an instance or two where I noticed some differences, but nothing changed the music experience for me, which is a good thing. The guitars are at times too loud, at times too soft. For instance, the beginning of "Black Friday" is crowded with many different melodies and pattern, and volume levels become a bit of an issue here. Anyone who is Megadeth fan shouldn't need to ask about the songwriting. Peace Sells was one of Megadeth's more nihilistic experiments; certain songs may make Dave Mustaine feel uncomfortable nowadays. "Black Friday" is about an serial killer, and there are a lot of evil, Satanic themes in this song. "Wake Up Dead" is a song that is distinctly Megadeth and features a chunky and progressive rhythm guitar style that is uniquely Dave Mustaine. "Bad Omen" and "The Conjuring" are inspired by witchcraft and, again, Satanic themes. The former includes some of Ellefson's trademark nimble, impressive bass playing; the latter is a rocking tune with a pace that picks up towards the end of the song. The album's title track "Peace Sells" is a tongue-in-cheek (but, at the same time, sneering) response to the mainstream world's perception of the band. As if the name of the band weren't a dead (pun intended) giveaway, a major theme of this album is death; the music and lyrics (Dave Mustaine, ladies and gentlemen) are dark and heavy to reflect that theme, yet is contrasted by the jazz-inspired licks of Chris Poland (lead guitar). Poland's guitars sing when they need to; this remastered version doesn't seem to fail, in that regard. It's a great album for a fan of the band. For all newcomers, Peace Sells is a great way to start your Megadeth collection. It was a truly pivotal point in the band's career. The album contains three mixes, the "Randy Burns mixes," of songs on Peace Sells that never saw the light of day. This is mostly filler material, but it's an added incentive to buy the album if you're an obsessive Megadeth fan like myself, but the remastered music was the main draw for me as I already own the original version. Interesting to note: Peace Sells was the first Megadeth tagged with the "Parental Advisory" notice. On the original, this notice was written in red, across the back of the album. This inspired the song "Hook in Mouth," a song about the P.M.R.C. and censorship, which appeared on the next Megadeth LP.

Bought this for my boyfriend for Christmas! He loved it

El CD llegó bien. Muchas Gracias!

Bem embalado disco e capa em perfeito estado

リマスターされて音がクリアーになっています。特にマーティンのギター はより鮮明に聞こえます。アルバムは名盤なのでここで改めて評価する ことはないと思いますがボーナストラックが4曲追加されているので 大変お買い得な1枚だと思います。

Need, I say more. This is the best album megadeth recorded obv not including rest in peace

Gran disco una delicia pará el oído como siempre MEGADETH N.1

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