I knew that someday I would end up reviewing a Megadeth best-of. It was something I always expected would happen to me sooner or later, like being stuck at a bus stop or winning a tenner on the lottery. Well, the day has come, and now I am to pass judgement on Dave, Dave and co’s greatest work for your edification and (hopefully) mild amusement.
The collection is arranged over two discs and ordered roughly chronologically; as such the majority of fans will be most interested in the contents of disc one, that being what we Rattleheads generally agree covers the classic-era of Megadeth. Duly it does, featuring all the tunes you’d expect – ‘Peace Sells’, ‘In My Darkest Hour’, ‘Holy Wars’ etc – though also their version of ‘Anarchy In The UK’, a cover only matched in it’s lack of judgement by DM’s contemporaries in Metallica’s decision to record The Anti-Nowhere League’s ‘So What’. Leave the English punk rock to the English punk rockers chaps – the results sound worthy of ridicule when delivered in such sundrenched, dare-I-say Californian tones as yours.
Disc two contains the later work of Mustaine and co, and while it is generally enjoyable and always immaculately played and produced, it never quite hits you in the same place as his earlier work; though of course as examples of excellent technical metal delivered by a true innovator it has very few peers. Overall, a cracking good collection from a worthy giant of the genre.
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