GOOD QUESTION 🎵 Megadeth Peace Sells Reaction
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- Thanks for checking out our Megadeth reaction. Peace Sells is a good song, but the lyrics are a little confusing lol. If you have a good read on these lyrics let us know in the comments!
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"Metallica lost a good one, but lucky for us!" Truer words have never been spoken.
Yup. Hate me if you want. But, I'm a bigger fan of Megadeth than I'm a Metallica fan.
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too much fighting for him to stay glad he went off and did his own mad about Jason though James talks about band loyalty wtf dude? and hey let your bassist do his thing he's very good ya know
Yeah, we got two bands out of it! But honestly after Cliff’s tragic demise, Megadeth has been the more interesting band, in my opinion.
My opinion of the meaning is this: everyone wants peace, but no one is taking the steps to achieve it.
Basically the whole song is one side accusing the other of all these things, while the other side is saying it's not true, which is causing conflict. And there is no compromise so no one is buying.
Hey, thats not bad Pickell...Pretty good assessment IMO. Sort of prophetic considering the world as it now is
I like your interpretation of the song bkpickell. I’ve been listening to Megadeth since they first formed and met them on several occasions but I hadn’t thought of this song that way, well put!
It is about War Profiteering. I see it as Peace is a great idea - but it doesn't make anyone any money. There is no profit there. War creates opportunities and generates massive profits and boosts economies.
as a song says "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die"
You are correct. That was my take as well.
Megadeth has aged well.
Neither Daves have tho lmao
And not aged in the physical meaning
@@metetural9140 considering the metal plate in his neck and the throat cancer.... I'd day he's doing alright. Oh and he's like 60...?
@@megadeth8592 literally lmao, like it takes balls to do what Lord Mustaine has done 💀
@@megadeth8592 yeah it affected his voice so I don’t think he’ll ever sound like he used to sadly
Lex nailed it when she said, "Metallica lost a good one... but good for us." That is a 100% correct response girl. :)
Kirk :)
As some others have said, you'd probably like "Sweating Bullets" and I think you would like "Hook in Mouth", an awesome song about censorship.
Hook in Mouth is one of their best
Hook in Mouth is probably one of the most relevant songs…we’re living it!
I've requested hook in mouth a few times let's run the likes up for one of their best
Countdown to extinction.... even more relevant
Almost every Megadeth reaction I mention "Sweating Bullets".
Maybe he's asking, "Peace sells, but who's benefitting from it, and do they have ulterior motives?"
The cover art was Vic rattlehead leaning on a for sale sign, in front of the UN building!
There is no doubt Lex truly gets into metal. I'm waiting for the reaction for the hat to come off, and see the headbanging and hair flying. Thx for all of these old Rock/Metal reactions, takes me back to my younger years.
Hatless Brad reveal at 100k??
I keep waiting for the heads to fly across the room.
Paused at 6:26 'cause...
The whole time in this song, Dave's talking to someone that is antagonistic, if not actively hostile, towards him, and he's throwing this person's prejudice, platitudes, propaganda, and hypocrisy _right_ back in their face.
I think 'Peace sells, but who's buying?' is a rhetorical device saying everybody talks that good shit in public about wanting to get along and looking forward to a quiet future, but out of the public's view, they never let an opportunity pass to harrass, insult, and obstruct other people just trying to live their lives. They push your buttons, they step on your toes, _they fuck with you all the time,_ and when you've finally had enough and confront them, they make like _you're_ the asshole.
Modern american culture, where _everyone's_ fine with nice things happening, as long as it doesn't cost _them_ anything, but they'll gladly throw _all_ the resources at awful things on the agenda, as long as those awful things are happening to specific people.
In other words:
"Everybody* should be nice to each other!"
_*else (not me)_
The Gen X metal anthem. We were the Latch Key Losers of the Future. 😎 they were wrong 😂
I agree with your synopsis. I've always felt like another interpretation of this song is "us vs them". Back in the 80's, if a person liked heavy metal, they were looked down upon by society as degenerates and scum. So I think the back and forth questions are accusations and a person replying "You say these things about me, but they aren't true".
Society wants peace but yet we keep fighting against each other, the government and the system....has nothing to do with war. This song is fitting for today's chaos 🙏✌🤟🤘😎🤘
You guys should probably just go through the entire peace sells album, it's all gold.
Definitely. Songs like The Conjuring that start out a little slow for the first minute, then a huge earful of riffs and Chris Poland going nuts on a sick guitar solo, change of riffs again, only to have the song punch you in the face with brand new riffs 3 minutes into the song. Incredible stuff.
@@ookookook They already did The Conjuring
@@relinquishh oops, they sure did. Nice.
The full name of the song is " peace sells... But who's buying?" Lil known fact, MTV news used the bass at the beginning as their intro music!
Yes! I remember that! They had two versions. One was a rap DJ scratching a record and the other was a sample of the opening bass line on “Peace Sells.” It was in between the announcer saying “MTV News. You hear it” and “first.”
I have that bass guitar intro as my ringtone. ;-)
Nope. The song is called 'Peace Sells'.
The album it appears on is called 'Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?'
That’s the name of the album
It's a well known fact. What's a little known fact, is that symphony of destruction was used as the theme tune to RAW! at one point.
There's nothing on the internet more entertaining than Lex's reaction to ripping guitar!
My favorite Megadeth song and album. 🤘This song in particular is very punk in spirit. The phrase “Peace sells” is rhetorical meaning that people do want peace and it would sell if it were actually marketed to them.
The verses are sarcastic and ironic responses to criticisms thrown at people who are struggling in the current political/economic system.
Back when music was made for a cause and not some random bulls**t...
Long live MEGADETH 🤘🤘
Hey Lex you have got to check out Testament "Return to Serinity" studio version. The guitar work and solos are completely beautiful, would love a reaction but either way you should check it out. By the way he is one of the guitarists that formed Trans Siberian Orchestra, I think you have mentioned them before in a past video.
Yessss!
The riffs n Melodies n solos in that song and the legacy really hit the heart n soul its brought tears to my eyes in rough times great songs by Testament
YES!!!Testament Return to Serenity and Sail of Charion cover by them PLEASE!!!!🤘
I agree!
And "The legacy", "Electric Crown" and "Musical Death (instrumental)" have a guitars work and solos beautiful, too.
@@armandoaraujo6128 yes electric crown would be my 2nd choice
Y'all know Megadeth and Lamb of God are on tour right now!
Bass line. Was the background for the MTV news.
Many people recognize it. But not from where.
One of the first heavy metal songs I actually fell in love with
I like that you guys really look into the lyrics. Check out Megadeth's "Killing is My Business, and Business is Good"! It's very expressive 😄
So weird to see people experience these great bands and songs after so many years.
This was my 20s, with big hair, endless touring live metal and rock shows, live bands laying it down in the bars - it was so fun!
Lex, never stop bouncing around. If you could see inside my soul while I’m listening to music, it would look like you lol. Please do Deliverance from Opeth 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
OMG yes
Beatle-juicy!!!!!!!!Lol! I was dying 😭 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Make sure you guys do the original versions for this album!
Go back a couple decades on MTV news and the opening bass line was what was used when the MTV news would go off...this is my favorite megadeth album
"Kurt Loder, MTV News..." (That bass riff)
Dave got screwed over by them for not paying royalties
@@animeman84 somehow I'm not surprised. Viacom sucks.
@@The_Kiosk Dave talks about it in the book I Want My MTV
Mstallica- Eye of the Beholder is relevant now in society with cancel culture. Written long ago, yet scary relevant.
And Hook in Mouth is another censorship song that's relevant more today than when it was written
@@burtknighten1873 Oh yeah, such a good angry song.
Architecture of Destruction!!!
Forclosure of a Dream!!!
You won't be disappointed!!!
This tune is a timeless classic. It always gets me fired up.. 🤟
Crazy!! Probably 20years easy since i heard this song and reliving it with you 2 was nostalgic AF😚
One of the greatest songs ever made.
GTA Vice City fans will remember it from V-Rock too.
Tommy Vercetti. Remember the name!
Ah, more Megadeth...Love this song, but I love Sweating Bullets even more.
Hello me.
@@peeramidwithin3823
Meet the real me. 👹
@@MikeHanson And my misfit's way of life
@@WBoneBA dark, black past is my…
Want lyrics from megadeth. Hook in mouth. Really resonates with the times even though it was about censorship back in the eighties. PMRC and Tipper Gore. Funny how that gore name still relevant and the idea of censoring extremely relevant. I promise lyrics are so appropriate for today.
I really appreciate your reactions to Megadeth guys. Great job as usual. Love your insight
“It’s Beetlejuicy” is a great quote. Never thought of this song that way but love the movie and Megadeth and will always remember it. Keep exploring and appreciating or criticizing one of the best metal bands!
Great reaction❤️ This brings me back to my youth, and I still listen to this haha
I love how mesmerized you both were…as we were back in High School..class of 1988 here
When this album came out I was instantly hooked, this being my favorite. It's a progressive metal epic, from start to finish. The lyrics are about how yes, peace 'sells' to the masses, but meanwhile the politicians keep the war industry in business with kickbacks, lobbying, etc., so in the end...who's really 'buying' peace? I'm betting it can be interpreted in many ways, as good art can be. This song, and their "High Speed Dirt" are my 2 favs. Thanks!
Not sure if anyone has recommended anything from Motorhead except "Ace of Spades" but I would love to see a reaction to Motorhead's "God was never on your side". It's a great tune and it was used in the TV show "Supernatural" in the last episode of season 14 if you ever watched that show. It's a great tune and not many people review it because maybe it is somewhat controversial, but whatever.
No Voices in the sky.
Keep in mind, many of these early metal songs were written by guys in their teens or early twenties. The lyrics aren’t always that profound lol.
Good point lol
Five magic, in my darkest hour, rattlehead
I adore Lex. Who else listens to the first minute of this song and gets Beetlejuice? So amazing! 🤣
Love you guys !!!!
Love watching you two. Brad looks a lot like a very good friend of mine that left us about 10 years ago.
My favorite line...What'd Ya Mean I Ain't Kind...Just Not Your Kind
There wasn't even any internet when we were blasting this back in high school. Crazy to see people hearing it for the first time. Love you guys.
Glad to see MegaD is making you question everything!
I feel y’all about the remaster thing, just with certain records and songs. It’s really just like the first 3, JUST NEVER LISTEN TO REMASTERED RUST IN PEACE.
I brought that on accident... the listing never said "remastered"
Is there a place to get rust in peace before remaster?
Rolling Stone Magazine: Frontman Dave Mustaine recalled the writing of this song to Rolling Stone: "I WAS HOMELESS at the time, and I was living in a rehearsal place in Vernon, California. I was seeing a girl, Diana - there were a lot of songs I wrote about her. I actually wrote the lyrics to that song on the wall, in that building. I didn't have any paper in the studio, but I had a Sharpie, so I just wrote on the wall. Whoever inherited our rehearsal room after I moved out, saw the original lyrics to 'Peace Sells' on the wall. They probably painted right over it and didn't even know it." Mustaine also penned the opening bassline, which became famous for being used as the theme for MTV News. He told Rolling Stone that he never received any royalties for their usage of it. Said Mustaine: "They didn't give me a penny. They cut it off right before they'd have to pay me, which was very clever. I don't think anybody with a conscience at MTV did that - it was probably somebody in their legal department." RollingStone
With a kick ass nickname of "Lex", one should not be surprised she's alllllll in for metal. 🤘
Ashes in your mouth - Megadeth! You'll love the change ups. So good
Dude....it just started🤘🤘🤘🤘
Wish there was a heart button.. 🤘 This song came out in 1986, thanks for sharing.
This entire album is fantastic
I have always interpreted it as "People want peace but thrive on conflict... so nobody works toward peace."
Good Mourning Black Friday... game over!
Wow! Great interpretation! I think she had a really good one about the corporate side and even war too! But both of you are very stimulating and entertaining!!!
LMAO 🤣 @ "BEETLE JUICY"!!!
So many bangers today damn
Lucky for US!!!
exactly
This bass riff was the intro for MTV news
I've been listening to this song for 35 years and to me it's always seemed the message is that it starts off with that those of us who live in the Western world at least are slaves to the system. We work hard and pay our taxes but we get little in return. Then it asks the question about warmongering. War makes money, big money for weapons manufacturers. Peace makes little money.
This is one of the songs that having the cover art helps you understand its meaning.
There are two things I really enjoy about these reaction videos: The first is seeing people light up hearing these songs for the first time. I've listened to this song for over 30 years and it's neat to see other people disovering it. The second is the marvelling at the musicianship and creativity. of these songs. New listeners can't believe the writing and how people play instruments to make those sounds. A lot of the members of these bands were in the their early/ mid 20's when they wrote these songs. Dave Mustaine was probably 24 at the oldest when he wrote and recorded this.
Thank you for reacting to the original version🤘
I think I'll call you two, Champagne and Bourbon. Brad, you're Bourbon because you go down smooth and warm. Lex you're a good Champagne because you are bubbly and a glass full of party and fun, popping all over the place making us smile, yet still complex after the first sip. And you both make us feel good.
Saw them live in '89 for the first time ( my first concert ).
When they get to the point that Dave sings " You mean you put a price on Peace!"
The whole place went into nitrous fed berserker overdrive. It was fucking great 🤟🤟🤟
I'm stoked you checked this song out finally. This is the song that sold me on Megadeth YEARS ago. The band name came from a pamphlet by California senator Alan Cranston that Mustaine found on the floor of a bus after being fired from Metallica. It read: "The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to." Dave always felt pushed aside and not wanted in life dealing with a bad family life. I always felt this song was about his disdain for the negativity that surrounded his life and the judgement people had on him.
Great tune
. we all want peace but no one / no nations have truly signed up to follow threw
The bass line was the intro to MTV news.
Got ya thinkin. Great tune. Yer
Had the vinyl when it came out. This is most popular song from the album
I'll leave you something that Dave said about the name of the song/album in a recent interview with Gibson.
“‘Peace Sells’ lyrics were actually written with a very fat felt pen on the wall in the rehearsal studios in Vernon, California. I had been living there because we were all homeless, and I was living at the rehearsal building, which was dreadful. There was no fridge, no food, no nothing, no showers, and one day there was a magazine on the coffee table in the front room, and it was Reader’s Digest, and it had a story from Patti Smith - Patti Smith’s cool, right? So, she was talking about how ‘peace sells, but nobody’s buying it,’ and I went, ‘Wow, that’s a really cool statement. Peace Sells, but nobody’s buying…’ and then I changed it to ‘Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?'”
In my opinion the meaning of the lyrics has nothing to do with the name of it, i see the lines like a way of dispelling many of the stereotypes about the band and metal fans in general. More specifically, that they are lazy, anti-government, and anti-religion.
I'm glad I found someone in these comments that has the same thought about this song that I do. The first verses definitely give that impression.
Back at it again.
"I like to draw straight lines" was actually a brilliant statement when you think about it.
All megadeth songs have a journey
Killing is my business- Mechanix, Killing is my business
Peace sells- Devil's island, conjuring
So far, so good, so what- Set a world afire, hook in mouth
Rust in peace- Five magics, take no prisoners
CTE- Architecture of aggression, Sweating bullets
Youthanasia- The Killing Road, Youthanasia
Cryptic writings- Trust, She wolf
Risk- nothing lol
WNAH- Return to hangar, Dread and the fugitive mind
The system has failed- Back in the day, Tears in a Vial
United abominations- Never walk alone, Washington is next
Thirteen- Sudden Death, Deadly Nightshade
Super Collider- Dance in the rain, Kingmaker
Dystopia- Poisonous Shadows, Conquer or die
There are videos out there, but Dave Mustaine explains that he got the title idea from a Patti Smith article in Reader's Digest.
The gist of it is that he is not out there in the pulpits screaming for revolution, but if a movement should happen to come along....
YEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
The intro of this song was the intro for MTV News
Its not meant to specify one certain idea , but it does lean toward the can man live in peace within the reality of surrendering his weapons . The song also uses focal scenarios to build up the questions of peace and personal sacrifices .
Love this song!
Classic Megadeth!
Fun fact, Megadeth is back on tour with a new album, I believe. In case you two are interested in knowing lol 😎
Yea, but are they playing anything from the new album?
@@kronok5591 I think so
funny to see lots of people discovering Megadeth while I've almost lived my complete life with Megadeth as soundtrack :D
The way I always understood it was that it was a condemnation of the military industrial complex. That the idea of "Peace" is very marketable, but the only ones who can do something to achieve it are not interested because it would upset the system and cut their profits. This was also on Guitar Hero at some point. Another Megadeth song Brad can sink his teeth into is "A Tout le Monde". One of the more misunderstood songs of 80s metal. I recommend the original by Megadeth and then I also recommend the one featuring Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil.
Play Washington is next... off of Untied Abominations.. I will be seeing Megadeth and Lamb of God next weekend yay! Loved Megadeth since 14 and now I'm 44 yo... I've been tuning into y'alls reactions for several months... I have lots of fun.
the original version of the song was written on the wall of their rehearsal studio in sharpie because they were dirt poor and had no paper
The funniest thing about Peace Sells is that Dave Mustaine saw it as a head line in a Readers Digest. That's literally where the idea for the song came from.
those solos are in my humble opinion a classics of thrash metal
having lived through the 80's lol yes i am old.....there was a lot of talk of arms dealers, military trade conventions, illegal arms trades etc. in the media during this time...movies, songs ya name it. also artistic censorship was at it height during the 80's so an artist's character was put under the microscope; so in short, the title actual means what it means peace sells but no one is buying it. second, yeah everyone speculates what would have happen if Dave never left Metallica along with Cliff not getting killed in that bus wreck makes people wonder what would have happened.
Always been my favorite from them...great message with great guitar riffs. Full name is peace sells but who's buying?
Nope. The song is just Peace Sells. The album is Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?"
Sone new bands for y’all.
Alternative Grunge: Toadies - Possum Kingdom and Days of the New - Touch Peel and Stand.
Damn straight it's different! Why Megadeth is Megadeth!
That’s intro is golden, straight to the point how we like it!
She is so metalhead, she got it
I can’t hear that opening bass riff without expecting an MTv News segment
This was the beginning of MTV mid 80's we listened to the message but we still partied!
Old heads remember the intro being used for MTV News.
🤘🏻🤘🏻 Megadeth 🤘🏻🤘🏻