Classical Composer Reacts to MEGADETH: PEACE SELLS | The Daily Doug (Episode 752)
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2024
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In this #metalmonday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm returning to the music of Megadeth and their break-out hit Peace Sells. Of the four songs by Megadeth I've heard on the channel so far, this is my favorite. The great bass line and social commentary put it over the edge for me! I hope you enjoy!
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Favorite line from this song is "What do ya mean I'm not kind. Just not _your_ kind."
My favorite line "What do you mean I don't believe in God, I talk to him everyday"
"tell me something...it's still WE, the People, right?"
One of my favorite Megadeth lines, together with "The military intelligence. Two words combined that can't make sense".
"Waddayah mean I don't pay my bills? Why do you think I'm broke, huh?" 🤘
What do you mean i hurt your feelings?
Didnt know you had any feelings
The intro was used as the MTV News jingle for years.
I'm Kurt Loder!
I wish there was a place we could just stream classic MTV starting from their first ever music video (Video Killed the Radio Star, according to my old man) and just watch from there til like end of 90s and then it just starts over
MTV stole the bass line and never credited, paid royalties or even asked permission to use it. There's an interview with Mustaine talking about it.
@@karwashblark7499 I’ve had that exact idea. Let’s shop it to MTV.
@@MrBruinman86 I read it was because they cut the riff one note short so they wouldn't have to pay royalties. How scummy.
this album deserve a full listening. it's truly a metal masterpiece
A MonsterPeace!
@@AL13NMfacts!
Especially Good mourning black friday, and Bad omen
Agree completely!
This was megadeth at its musicianship peak, gar samuelson was the best drummer they had no doubt
Did I just see Doug headbang through a double kick section?! 6:18 lmao I can die happy
Not only that, peep the TOOL t-shirt, he's one of us.
@@octopus189 'One of us', a special needs.
Yes. One of you for sure.
Yup! Might have been the first time he didn’t comment on how he tends to not prefer double kick.
Ellefson's bass has never sounded better than this album.
Dave's voice is perfect for this, his snarl, the venom and contempt, the rage barely contained rage. I love the part with the 2 intertwined solos. This album is a pure monster!
Love the bass sound, but rust in peace has a fantastic bass sound also. Just listen to Lucretia.... just perfection.
He knows how to slap the bass
I always loved Rust in Peace's clang of bass, but it's still quite similar to this. Two killer albums even if they have quite a different touch in composition and sounds. The drums on these albums were also very enjoyable. Not very much like modern tight metal drums, more like old school rock with a lot of reverb and mushiness, but it still works well for the songs.
Megadeth piss all over metallica. The fact dave was sacked by them cause they couldn't handle him. Most punk rock thrasher ever. Hats off mr dave mustaine
Give Countdown to Extinction (the whole album) another listen. The bass is absolutely monstrous on those tracks.
Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson were Jazz players before joining Megadeth, their influences helped create Megadeth's signature sound. This song even though its great, don't showcase the lineup musical abilities at all. Try Good Mourning/Black Friday or Bad Omen next.
Bad omen is definitely a weird thing, I love it
Too bad they chose drugs over Megadeth
I know they used different equipment but you can always tell Poland’s licks and solos apart from Mustaines
Good Mourning has the most hauntingly beautiful lead guitar I've ever heard.
The B side is such a great place to be if you’re wanting to hear that Jazz influence.
Wake up dead was killing it on Headbangers ball, when the M in MTV stood for music.
It still does, no? Did they change it??
@@Zseventyone nope, the change was how bad mtv is. Megadeth is killing it!
@@johnkriete2152 yeah, of course, but the M still does technically stand for music. Just makin sure.
God I miss the ball lol. Those were truly classic days for metal. Even if we had to put up with rachtman.
It did tickle me how over him a lot of the bands seemed when they did interviews.
Happiness was cycling Peace sells, Among the Living,, Master of Puppets and Regn in Blood after school.
The big 5: Rust in peace, Vulgar display of power, Arise, And justice for all, South of heaven
Mine was - Peace Sells, Spreading the Disease, Ride The Lightning & The Dark (Metal Church)
@@richardg8542 Gods of Wraith
My favorite tune of Megadeth is on this same album "Wake up Dead" a must listen. The epitome of a metal song. So good in all respects.
My life is simple. I see a fresh Daily Doug reacts to metal video, I watch it.
It was good to see him headbang!
Chris Poland, the guitarist of the band at this time, was just a straight-up jazz-fusion guitarist in a metal band. Some really jazz-influenced licks in his solos for sure. And he'd come back for Megadeth's "The System Has Failed" album.
Vocally, Dave's snarl really works on this one. It fits the mood for sure.
That man's legato is so smooth he sounds like a fucking synth. Full respect to Marty, but Chris Poland is my favorite Megadeth guitarist. He legitimately set the rules for what "Megadeth" is supposed to sound like.
Listen to Good Mourning/Black Friday.
Yeah, The intro would be great for a musical analysis
It's cool. I actually know Chris Poland. He has a fusion power trio that regularly plays at this little place near me called the Baked Potato. The place is so small it's like a living room and everyone, guests and performers hang out in the back between sets as there's no back stage. I have a CD of stuff I wrote when I was studying music theory and he actually really likes it. Every few months he tells me he was cleaning his house and he came across it and listened to it again and he still likes it. Very flattering
I saw Chris open with Damn The Machine for Voivod in a small club. I love Ohm. He's one of my favourite guitarists.
I've met Chris at NAMM a couple of times. Had some great conversations about gear. Totally cool guy.
@@guitarzen5999 Very cool guy. I actually also know Tony MacAlpine from the same place - band called Cab. He invited me one time to eat with him at a Thai restaurant down the street but I turned him down because I had already ordered my potato. I guess I could have taken the potato to go and ate it later. Oh well. You can reheat them days later and they're as good as off the grill. They don't fuck around with quality.
@user-jp6in7fx9c The Baked Potato is legendary, been there a few times, some of the best live music I've ever heard came out of there.
@@guitarzen5999 Danny Carey plays there like every month
Best song from this album to react: good morning black friday
I agree
Absolute monstrosity, my favorite!
It's mourning, not morning.
Are you always correct? You for sure are here.
If he does it I hope he reacts to the original version and not to the awful 2004 remaster
Good vid as always.
Joe Walsh once said at a concert . .
"If I'd known I'd be playing this song for 30 years, I'd a written a different song" 😊
I saw him once and he announced "I don't know what a rockstar be, but I guess I are one!"😂
My first Megadeth album and one of my favorites. 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."
According to former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, Dave Mustaine originally conceived this as an 8-minute piece before drummer and close friend Gar Samuelson talked him out of it. Poland told Xtreme Metal Radio: "I think originally it was eight minutes long, and Gar said, 'You know what? This is too good a song to drag it out like this. Let's shorten the arrangement, cut it down to size and make it a single.' Dave said, 'Yeah, let's do that.' I honestly think Dave respected Gar's opinion on stuff - he was the only guy in the band Dave wouldn't mess with. He totally respected Gar, and thank God he did, If Gar hadn't talked Dave into shortening the song."
Mustaine also penned the opening bassline, which became famous for being used as the theme for MTV News.
this is one of my favorite albums of all time. I'm a 56 year little "old" lady and I still listen to it regularly (though usually in the car, as I don't want to disturb my neighbors - I did grow up a little bit ;) I remember seeing Megadeth on several occasions at both L'Amour and the Ritz in NY. Quality of the performance was always iffy as no joke, those guys were hell bent on self destruction with booze and heroin among other things, but when they were good....omg it was just beautiful blazing raw thrashing power.
So glad you reviewed this one, and enjoyed it!
Inspiring!
Is there anything better than watching classically trained musicians turn into full pledge Metal Heads? Maybe the rap and hip hop dudes turning into Metal Heads. But in either case, it's just such a joy to witness people click with the genre and start to get the whole attitude; when they start headbanging naturally because they are so into the music, that's just cool to see -- it's like YES! YOU GOT IT! The Metal community is so in love with their music and just want to share the experience they have with everyone they can.
Doug, you're a blessing. I love learning the details of all of my favorite songs, and you've hit so many that I adore. Appreciate ya!
I remember in high school 1999 I had just become a metal head via Metallica, and a friend of mine showed me the Peace Sells album cover, and I thought it was so cool I was like "one of these days I know that's going to be one of my favorite albums." When I had finally listened through the entire Metallica catalogue, I bought Rust in Peace and was like '....oh.....my......God!' It remains one of my fav albums some 20+ years later. Same with Peace Sells. The FIRST concert I saw was Megadeth and they closed on Peace Sells as the encore. It was freaking AWESOME! Peace!
😎🤘
Megadeath really is like:
"I hate the government" *15 minute guitar solo*
PLEASE do Sweating Bullets next! It has one of my all time favorite breakdowns in a song.
The first two Megadeth albums were really special because Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson came from a Jazz/Fusion background (They previously played together in a Fusion band) and their musical influence combined with Dave's riffs really set Megadeth apart. "Good Mourning/Black Friday" is another song from this album worth checking out (the whole album is a masterpiece), Chris Poland's guitar solos are incredible and the lyrics are really dark and gruesome.
Gar Samuelson was a Jazz drummer, the whole album is magnificent!!!
FANTASTIC REACTION and appreciation and understanding the depth of the song. Love watching your channel.
Absolute Classic metal song
They've played it for 40 years, but the message is as true now as any other time in the last 4 decades. If that angst is from a place of truth, I doubt it's hard to muster the energy to perform, for this track at least.
It was the PMRC, parents music resource center which was lead by Tipper Gore. It’s main focus started out as flat out sensor ship, but had a great deal, pushback and ended up coming up with the explicit advisory sticker for all albums
The sticker that made us want the album more! Thanks, Tipper, you sold a lot of metal albums!😂🤘🏻
@@revwillyg6450 Yep.. if it didn't have the sticker I would pass on the album. Their whole effort just wound up helping us find better music for the time.
@@uoabigaillevey I'm not republican at all, but I wouldn't vote for Gore or anyone associated with him back in the day, just because I couldn't stand the thought of his wife being near the white house lol🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I love your enthusiasm, Doug! It’s great to hear these classic metal tunes in a new way through your videos. 🤘
FUUUUUUUCK, Black Friday is such an amazing song on this album.
It's THE SONG of the album
That intro with between Dave and Chris is one of my favorite moments off of ANY album metal or not.
Glad you reacted to this song, it's one of my favorite ones too. Hope you put "A Tout Le Monde" later down the line, great song too.
Great reaction and video. Thank you for adding the interview and commentary at the end. It really rounded out the video and brought back a lot of memories!
Great reaction, Doug! You should react, analyze the entire 1986 Megadeth album, a true masterpiece...For me, it's Megadeth's best album, with the best line-up, despite the overwhelming fame of the phase that began with another masterpiece, the album "Rust in Peace" (1990)...Greetings from Brazil!!!
Glad to see you react to one of my most favorite albums of all time Doug 🙏 . I’ve been listening to this album religiously from vinyl to tape to CD and now digitally. It’s a blessing to see the reaction from a true musician and your eloquent way with words of your vast musical vocabulary 🥰🤘🏽. A very great day to witness this magical crossroads of one of my favorite reactors and albums cross paths .
The song isn't long, or overly complex. It just drives forward and sends its message... but that drive is impressive and engaging, and the message is universally true and deserves saying. Great song. I've loved since I heard it. The song came out when I was in grade 5 or 6, with the video on MuchMusic.
Bills werent the reason Dave was broke haha
LOL
Facts
He just liked baking soda a bit too much
Those are the bills you pay first if you don't want your kneecaps broken.
@@pedrofelipefreitas2666more like the heroin!
Pretty cool! I didn't dig to deep into their catalog but I did get their 1990 album "Rust In Peace" back in the day and was really impressed! A couple favorite cuts are "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" and "Take No Prisoners"!
Doug! This was my favorite of your reviews! I Really connected with the energy of hearing this song for the first time. Mine of course was when the album came out. Great insight and commentary. Keep headbanging! By the end your hair was very Wolverine looking. Peace. What a concept. 🤓
You got that classical composer hair and I love it! Yes, this was the second song I ever heard from Megadeth and I still love it to this day. Great riffs!
What a great album. I'm hoping he listens to Good Morning Black Friday next!!!
RTF album in the background!🤟
You should do Holy Wars next. It's mind-blowing.
Hell yeah! Dude, this was awesome!
Essential Megadeth. Dave's writing on this track is so good, that bassline is one of the most iconic in metal history and of course the solos are on point
It's still We The People, Right?!
🔥🤘🔥
Never seen you headbang before, and I'm here for it!
Doug, this was one of the first songs by them that I had ever heard. It was the Summer of my 16th year and I had been listening to ragae when this cassette crossed my path and opened up a new world for me. I am glad you enjoyed it!
This is my teen years lol. I dunno if they came out the same year, but I bought this and Anthrax persistance of time, and the same time, and loved them both as much!
that return to forever album right behind doug is marvelous!
This was the album that connected me with Megadeth. Has changed, evolved but this will always be my reference point on this band. Not just the song, the whole album.
What do you mean I hurt your feelings?? I didn’t know you had any feelings.😂😂👍
Doug Ive been in many bands playing drums and bass. I can honestly say that you've helped me learn my notes 😅.. because I can't read music , learned only by ear..Thanks
now THIS was a welcome addition to my day, Doug!!!
Dude I'm a Megadeth die hard fan. Seeing you headbang really made my day! thanks!
One of my Favs from Megadeth!!! Sweating bullets is #1
your reacts and reviews are the best!
You should do Lucretia from Rust In Peace, it's an underrated Masterpiece. (Just make sure that it's the original version and not the terrible 2004 remix)
Nobody:
13 yr old me listening to 2004 Lucretia at max volume on my ipod: 🤘🏻
One of my favorite Megadeth tracks.
I’m so glad you’re doing megadeth…. The B side of that album is just insane!
check out “MY LAST WORDS” what a track!
That song is badass!
So good. Thx for the reaction
The entire album is a banger. I had the album cover poster in my room. Drove my mother insane. Mission accomplished.
Good mourning black Friday from this album is probably my favourite metal song ever
bought this album when it was released and still one of my favorite albums of all time. fav track good mourning / black friday which i play every friday 13th to this day
You rule men. Thank you for making composer analisis avaylable for everyone. Cheers from Raleigh
You were banging your head just as hard as I was the first time I heard it. You have to react to this whole album.
I was 16 when Peace Sells came out and it was in the middle of the "hair/glam metal" era. It was interesting to watch MTV at the time and you would see Crue, Poison, Ratt, Bon Jovi videos and then this video was thrown in the mix and most people were like "WTF is this?". Definitely a great time to be alive and I still think the album Peace Sells is Megadeth's finest work
beautiful bluesy speed metal (for the day) album, luv the bluesy lead guitarist(Chris Poland?) and drummer(RIP) on this album
Great song, and I'm glad you liked it. I was worried you wouldn't because I remember you didn't like "holy wars." I remember that your complaint was that most of that song centers around one a couple of chords and stays in one hey, and I think you like songs with modulations and generally dynamic music. And this one also structure a bit like holy wars in that way. But whatever, you got this one and glad to see it. Great content, fun to see what such a musically educated person thinks about stuff like this!
Doug, I recommend two most underrated but really brilliant metal bands. I know You'll be delighted!:)
Flotsam & Jetsam:
Songs:
Hammerhead
Iron Tears
or Doomsday for The Deceiver
Metal Church:
Songs:
Beyond The Black
Method to You Madness
or Burial at Sea
Hell yeah!
Metal Church! 👊🏼
Flotsam & Jetsam
Metalshock
Doomsday for the Deceiver
I Live You D**
This song hits you like a tidal wave of energy and aggression.
Supposedly this was going to be a lot more progressive and approaching 6-8 minutes in length. Then Chris Poland (IIRC) suggested cutting back to being a driving anthem song.
It was Gar that suggested shortening it and Dave listened.
Sup Doug! Other than changing the scene of Thrash Metal, Megadeth has also brought you a new subscriber! Yea me! lol. When this song first came out, I bought the cassette because it had a really cool album cover. Little did I know the effect it would have on me and many teens I knew at the time. Being a rebellious kid, I had no real direction on where those feelings would lead to. Music like this and Metallica could channel our anger at society and whoever we felt was holding us back. We were looked down upon for our long hair, the way we dressed and the music we banged our heads to. lol. This music was so intense that listening to it would calm the anger and help us chill. Could have been the joints also. Haha. I can remember being so pissed off and feeling the rage. I'd put on some thrash metal and crank it as loud as it could go and let the intensity burn it out. Even to this day I find Megadeth, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer and others so very calming. Given I have matured and my musical taste have broadened, it is still a blast to head bang to this, even if I can't grow the hair long anymore....WooHooo old age... Peace my friend, keep up the reactions
Doug automatically headbanging to thrash with enjoyment.. I especially enjoyed when Doug said, " need to back up," Doug, love all your Metal reactions. Would like to see more Queensryche reaction videos...
The best basline in metal?
Dave Ellefson nails it here, killer tone, punching rhythm.
I don’t get tired of this song or album.🤘🏻
Great to see you banging out to it.
My favorite album. I love your reaction.
Peace sells… is one of my favourites, I have many. Wake up dead is probably the song that defines Megadeth for me.
Good show. I think you might enjoy trying Liar/hook in mouth from the So far, so good so what ep. I think that album is what elevated this band back in the 80s. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Listen to the whole album!!! Start to finish, it will blow your face off!!!
Love your analysis and positive charisma and like when you are listening to the 3 bands of the big four. Couldn't find Anthrax in your vids😢.
Still one of my favorite metal albums. Just incredible.
watchin this vid when the line "can you put a price of peace" came through all that came to mind was the court scene in Ironman 2 where tony says ".....I have successfully privatized world peace!" lmao i dont know why
Post American World, would be a great song of theirs for you to listen to. Dave has always written thought provoking lyrics
I got to see In Flames, Lamb of God and Megadeth in the Cajun Dome. What a good show that was. I hope that Dave and crew make it to Louisiana again.
The video is sooooooooo worth watching, especially for the father-son "I want to watch the news!" scene they added into the song
My favorite part is when Chris Poland (Lead Guitar) plays the Star Spangled Banner but as a Dominant 7 chord in the second verse. Brilliant.....
Love the video. Definetly should react to Good Mourning / Black Friday too.
You should do a reaction to looking down the cross, Megadeth's first album.
Hey Dough, two words:
THE CONJURING! 🤟🏻
VERY IMPORTANT BAND FOR SURE
You definitely must do "She Wolf" (live version from "Rude Awakening).
Great song, one of the few Megadeths I like!
Also Doug, since you are in a revisiting mode, maybe revisit Orphaned Land? You've done only one so far and definitely the one I would consider is "representative"
Also, they have some live shows with orchestra and fun stuff!
I heard them live for the first time last summer. And of all their raging songs, Peace Sells was by far the best for me, even though I've listened to it 100 times. The progression in this song is incredible.
After you hear this for the first time, it will never leave you alone and haunts you forever. In a good way, you know ! Happened to me in 1986 and it´s still going on. Not that I´m complaining. One of THE riffs of all time and maybe Mustaine´s best vocal acting ever. Clever lyrics performed perfectly in your face.
I absolutely love Chris Poland’s playing. His solos share a lot of the feelings of danger that Dave’s playing gives me but a more whimsical take musically when compared to Mustaine’s snarling use of the pentatonic scale. The two together make their first two albums my favorites especially the songs “Killing is my Business” and “Good Mourning/Black Friday”. The latter has these very ominous melodic solos that take up much less f the song’s first half.
I don’t know if other people agree but you listen to enough Megadeth and you can pick out a Dave solo without any assistance. He makes the fairly standard pentatonic scale his own and makes it sound as angry as his vocals from this time period. He will briefly play around with Phrygian in “Wake up Dead” or more chromatic lines in “Sweating Bullets”.
The band’s other guitarists are typically more adventurous when choosing their approach. Chris and Gar being Jazz musicians before joining Megadeth is sort of mind blowing even now but serves them and the band well. Chris though is my favorite because honestly he’s the only guy who will write equally ‘evil’ sounding guitar solos and I really dig that about the first two Megadeth records.
There are also demo versions of songs from ‘Rust in Peace’ with Chris playing leads before Marty joins Megadeth. Then Chris returns one more time on ‘The System Has Failed’ which happens to be my favorite “modern” Megadeth release.
Glad to see you enjoying Megadeth. This song has a very punk feel to it. Great commentary and grooovy.
I’m still flabbergasted by how you shat on Holy Wars, which is amazing. The riffage is amazing, and the fact that Dave plays those rhythm riffs during the verses and the speed and constant switching of timing it is badass
This came out for me in 9th grade. It blew us away ❤
While this song has been one of my all-time favorites (the album is my favorite of theirs)since its release, I feel that Darkest Hour is more advanced in terms of composition and emotional range. Darkest Hour is the probably his best tantrum, too, lol. It's also fun to play, though I find one of the intro chords a bit difficult to fret cleanly.
I remember when this came out, and I've been hooked since.
Got to do Hanger 18
I always listen to this song for its highlights: the guitar solos. The driving riff and the verse lyrics are awesome too. Not much of a fan of the last quarter though but it is good.
This rocks🤘🤘