Polls Sell... But Who's Voting? The Megadeth Albums Poll

Nearly impossible to beat Rust here. For second place I'll go with the debut, even though Mustaine himself certainly wouldnt.

for me it's still Peace Sells, mostly on the strength of "Wake Up Dead" and "Good Mourning/Black Friday", which I can't describe in any way other than they both make me go ape.

Really though, I love Killing is my Business almost as much ("Loved You to Death" was a hell of a way to announce their arrival), and Rust in Peace...you can't beat those.

I really loved Endgame too...I think taht was the first "oh we've gone back to our roots" album that I actually loved all the way through.

Rust, clearly.

Out of curiousity, this is how they rank based on RateYourMusic ratings:

Rust in Peace [4.13]
Peace Sells... [3.94]
Countdown to Extinction [3.81]
Youthanasia [3.57]
Endgame [3.56]
Killing is My Business... [3.54]
So Far, So Good... [3.53]
The System Has Failed [3.41]
United Abominations [3.25]
Th1rt3en [3.23]
Cryptic Weritings [3.22]
The World Needs A Hero [2.89]
Risk [2.34]

That's probably about right. I think Cryptic Writings tends to be underrated because it isn't really a thrash record.

I never liked Megadeth as much as the others in "the big four", but "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" is still one of my favorite songs from that era. I voted for "Peace Sells...", though. It was my intro to Megadeth, and the only one I ever liked more than half of.

The debut does it for me. Maybe I am alone?

RIP for me too, the one I was big into as a teenager. Listening again now, it still holds up very well.

The live version of RIP from last year is pretty great as well.

I suspect they overdubbed that live version pretty heavily, I was at that concert and something was wrong with the sound.

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If I was 11, I'd have voted SFSGSW. But Rust In Peace is clearly their best.

"Liar" is about Chris Poland?

Whatever happened to Jeff Young, I wonder?

Yeah, Poland sold Mustaine's gear to but heroin before he was sacked.

Buy, I mean.

Hidden Treasures, the collection of non-album soundtrack and compilation tracks is my favorite. Every fucking song on there is awesome! "Breakpoint" from the Super Mario Bros. movie, "Go To Hell" from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, "Angry Again" from Last Action Hero, "99 ways to die" from Beavis & Butthead--all so, so good. It's weird, none of the full-fledged official Megadeth albums really did anything for me, but I've listened to Hidden Treasures many, many times.

man I waffle between Rust and Peace Sells and then I hear Dave wail "I'm out to destroy you and I will cut you down" and the decision is clear.

honestly though if we're talking post-Rust in Peace, I think Endgame might be my fav. I dunno what it was, but they managed to rekindle something on that album, which they then fumbled away on the two that followed it.

I'm back to Rust now. Peace SElls hasn't really moved re: my love for it, cos it's ferocious, but RIP just gets richer every time I listen to it.

fucking "5 Magics" man.

Youthanasia is enjoyable in a "ok Megadeth isn't interested in scorching the earth but these are some catchy songs" way, even though it def does tend to plod at times.

was my first Megadeth album weirdly enough.

the Chris Poland rant "Liar" is kind of silly

Never heard this bit of trivia! Makes sense in retrospect

BTW I've recently decided that Dave Mustaine's singing voice often sounds like Kim Gordon's (and vice versa)

a fun byproduct of streaming is i can listen to the 2004 remix and the 2011 remaster of peace sells side by side. the reverb completely evaporated from the remix, it's kind of wild (and i feel like the reverb is necessary for the sound of the album, i dislike how the remix feels so cleanly extracted from the production values of '80s thrash)

killing is my business and so far so good underrated here and everywhere. gar samuelson's drumming on the former is incredible

"Killing Is My Business" remaster completely transformed the recording. I always loved the album, but the remaster gave it so much more bite.

I just put it on again last night and it fuckin shreds.