From: aesbl1sf@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica
Subject: ex
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:50:43 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Nov6.020239.11546@bsu-ucs>, 00ajlakas@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
> In article <1992Nov3.193826.13437@odin.corp.sgi.com>, gferg@hoop.csd.sgi.com (Greg Ferguson) writes:
>> In article <1992Oct18.195039.2872@cs.ucla.edu>, messick@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Ugliest) writes:
>> |> In article <1992Oc[Bt18.125723.22668@csus.edu> vcsc458@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Roy) writes:
>> |> >                   [B
>> |> >Actually, Hyok H. Lee, it seems to me that Megadeth is the band that's
>> |> >going downhill.  Let's face it, Dave Mustaine suddenly got soft.  Starting
>> |> >with Killing is My Business, each album got progressively better than the last
>> |> >and peaked with Rust in Peace.  After that, Dave sobered up, got married & had
>> |> >a kid, and lost his creativity & aggressiveness, as evident in the wimpy,
>> |> >disappointing "Countdown To Extinction"  What kind of TRUE Megadeth fan could
>> |> >like shit songs like "High speed dirt" & "Psychotron?"
>> |> > 
>> |> 
>> |> .....*ME*!   The new album may be a bit slower, but at least it's not BORING.
>> |> It sure as FUCK beats the shit out of MetalliBOB!!
>> |>new megadeth is their best but they still do not even deserve to live in
metallica's toilet. 
>> |> -- 
>> |> Tim Messick                                "In our lIFe.........there's IF,  
>> |> messick@cs.ucla.edu                         In our beLIEfs......there's LIE,
>> |> 					    In our buSINess.....there's SIN,
>> |> 					    In our boDIEs.......there's DIE."
>> 
>> I agree. "Countdown..." is the best thing Megadeth's ever done. The
>> production is amazing (probably the finest production ever done 
>> for *any* metal album), the songs are socially-conscience, the
>> riffs are intense, the vocals are angry.
>> 
>> In fact the whole album has an intensity and feel that does not
>> make it pop-ish, a la the black album. Take a good listen to
>> Mustiane's voice. Check out even the slower tunes, like "Foreclosure
>> of a Dream". It's head and shoulders above "The Unforgiven" or
>> (I hate to even write the name of this one...) "Nothing Else
>> Matters". It's got an angry feel to it. The black album (to me)
>> just feels like it's lost intensity. Live, the tunes do sound
>> good, but that live feel was lost in the production (thanks, Bob Rock).
>> Play Master of Puppets and then play the black album...you'll see
>> what I mean.
>> 
>> Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of both of 'em, but I think the
>> Megadeth album shreds the black album...
>> 
>> -- 
>> MOSH!
>> Ferg      "Don't hold me back...this is my own hell..."
>>                                                 - Godflesh
>> Greg Ferguson - SGI CSD R&D - gferg@csd.sgi.com
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> I have to agree that the new Megadeath is better than the garage sounding
> bad of about 4 or 5 years ago... they have progressed nicely...
> Unlike Metallica who hasn't grown old gracfully...
> Yes my girlfriend likes symphony of destruction...but hey I like it to
> Unlike my dissapointment with the new metallica... but I guess the 
> and justice for all is a hard act to follow....
> 
> I guess Metallica has gotten a touch of Thrilleritis!!!!!!
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