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The lyrics are pretty corny (hello me, meet the real me) and the tone is very tinny, can't argue with that. it is very much an attempt at a shiny "black album" style record. Mustaine has never given a shit about the fans though, his early career was him pretty much doing heroin and trying to out-Metallica Metallica (whether or not he achieved it will be debated forever) when they hit the (super) big time he wanted some of that pie, then came "let's make some money" phase that's my theory at least lol. I guess he won in the end though, megadeth have way more credibility than Metallica do these days. Even though supercollider was a piece of shit lol

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eh Never Dead was an alright song. The rest of Th1rt3eN sucked though. United Abominations and Endgame were a decent return to form but I'd say Megadeth and Metallica are equally lacking in any credibility. Any dignity they once had has long been lost in the pursuit of pop idol status.

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Endgame was also pretty wicked. N 13 was good, was similar In tone and style to countdown so I'm not surprised your not fond of it. I think it's probably better than countdown honestly. But no doubt rust was an awesome record, peace sells was also awesome, endgame was wicked, so far was ok. As for the rest, I weren't overly keen on united abominations, didn't like the world needs a hero, the system has failed was so bad, I thought a tout le monde was the only decent track on youth, rest of the 90's sucked. Oh and supercollider blew chunks, was massively disappointed.

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Even if you get past the awful vocals of Dave Mustaine the riffs on Countdown are dull, the solos are tired and predictable, the lyrics are just awful, the drumming is lazy, even the basslines fail to capture one's attention and Ellefson is one of the few bass players I think actually adds something special to the music.

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