Here’s the thing with Megadeth; since they gave up drugs and became all christian they’ve kinda gone a bit shit. I understand the reasons for coming off drugs, that makes loads of sense, I’m not sure I understand the christian part because doesn’t that mean that god made them an addict in the first place and he’s a fucking asshole? I do know that twelve step programmes might not work that well and one of the steps is to surrender yourself to a higher power. Fuck that shit. In Scandinavia they have a programme that doesn’t depend on abstinence and that works better I suspect. Anyway, it’s a complicated picture and not one that I’m going to do justice to in this here little blog.
This album is not on my iPhone. I think that says it all really. While it’s in my collection and on the NAS drive in the house I won’t listen to it anywhere else. To be perfectly honest if I want some Megadeth in the house I wouldn’t even put this album on. I think there’s only so much twiddly thrash metal you can have in your head at one time before all the songs start to sound the same [I will admit that typing that just made me sick]. The Megadeth albums on my phone are:
- Killing is my business . . . And business is good.
- Peace sells . . . But Who’s Buying.
- So Far So Good . . . So What.
- Rust In Peace.
- That One Night – Live In Buenos Aires.
So, there. You now know what I think of this album.
This is communication number 1989 and as has become a recent tradition these are some things, curated by me, that happened in that year.
- 47 died in the Kegworth air disaster.
- Union Carbide agree to pay the Indian government 470million for causing the deaths of 3,700 in the Bhopal disaster of 1984. [$127,000 per human life in case you wondered].
- 97 people die in the Hillsborough disaster.
- 51 people die in the Marchioness disaster.
- 11 die in bomb attack at Deal Barracks, Kent.