Megadeth - Peace Sells (pianist reacts to metalhead friend’s suggestion)

[@LegendaryGauntlet]

I think "My Last Words" is the most amazing thrash metal piece of this album. Incredible speed, riffs, bass line.

[@keithgillum3414]

Absolutely. My favorite track off this one.

[@jima6545]

My fave as well

[@11DNA11]

My all time favorite song.

[@maVIRUS8981]

The intro gets me every time

[@jamesmustaine2482]

The bass is incredible. Best bass lines ever

[@NOLA_Voodoo]

Rust In Peace was great. But for me, an old school thrash fan, Peace Sells is Megadeth's best album. Should do Good Mourning/Black Friday or The Conjuring soon. 🤘😤🤘

[@zzasboa]

I totally agree.

[@johnisouth6636]

Agreed. Peace Sells and One were the 2 that turned me on to my 2 favorite bands.

[@tomspring213]

PS was awesome. I remember getting those vibes from that harmony part of She-Wolf. Countdown was my introduction to them. Then my older cousin showed me Hook In Mouth. I’ve loved them ever since.

[@felipemillani8468]

Agreed

[@innosanto]

Their new album is also very good.

[@nickchucky3173]

Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson were in a Jazz / Fusion band called The New Yorkers before joining Megadeth. Don't disqualify them, they were absolutely amazing musicians. Friedman himself said Poland's solos were intimidating.

[@Nissardpertugiu]

New yorkers were incredible

[@Nissardpertugiu]

For Gar he did Fatal Opera after, its nasty

[@nickchucky3173]

@@Nissardpertugiu I like Fatal Opera.

[@gumbo1973]

That intro piano was beautiful

[@schumerlucian]

Yes, especially those fast notes (e.g 1:10 to 1:13) got me goose bumps.

[@joelspaulding5964]

Agree on the playing! I would consider a proper tuning, though.

[@james5553]

WOuld be nice to get some downloadable stuff when judson is ready :)

[@11DNA11]

About Megadeth. You can intrepet the lyrics in SO many ways and all of them make sense. Dave's a really smart guy and one of the greatest lyricists in the genre.

[@RussInCanada]

Chris Poland was the greatest lead guitar player in this band, and went on to make phenomenal music with Damn The Machine, and his jazz metal band, Ohm. Definitely recommend reacting to some Ohm.

[@Jaggedknife11]

Hell yes. Chris Poland is a way underrated guitar god.

[@jima6545]

Gar as well. There's a bassist channel where he isolates the bass and drums and all I can say is jeezus. Gar was an absolute beast

[@Dimchek970]

We all love Marty but no one can play Polands solos right, even 40 years later

[@michaelgates4962]

That Bill Hicks quote is literally in the beginning of Tools Third Eye.

[@jarkkokyntaja4073]

Yes, yes, yes. I bought Peace Sells on c-cassette when it was released. The whole album for me is THE thrash metal album, along with same era Kreator, Exodus and Testament albums. That riff and the bass line, forever encarver in my spine. This is a song, that even after decades of listening, has exactly the same powerful effect, every time you hear it. Mas-ter-pea-ce.

[@NPC-fl3gq]

Extreme Aggression was the shit, man!! \m/

[@jarkkokyntaja4073]

@@NPC-fl3gq Indeed, "extreme aggression, from an extremely insane mind" and so on, class !

[@NPC-fl3gq]

@@jarkkokyntaja4073 If you are looking for something along the lines of that album, there's an album called *times up* by a band called *Havok* - it's worth listening to if you haven't heard it. Really thrashy in a very kreator kinda way.

[@grapeape325]

This is the song that got me into thrash metal. Went and bought this album and picked up ride the lightning because I liked the cover. I was 15 at the time.

[@jima6545]

Those were the days brother. Never been duplicated

[@matthews4949]

Great Dave Mustaine songs on both.

[@Chamomileable]

My Last Words and Good Mourning/Black Friday are probably the most technically complicated tracks on this album and honestly are two of my favorite Megadeth tracks of all time. Either worth checking out.

[@tobyhubler9902]

Justin says abot NEWS. Ironically the intro bass line to this song was the theme song to MTV News back in .......

[@anti7928]

Bought Peace Sells the day it was released and got to see the tour.. Those were the best days ever the 80s were awesome...

[@fatsuperfly]

Good stuff! Love when you play a piano piece to show how different a song can sound in a different context. Very talented, please keep going, you guys have become a favorite of mine.

[@stuartmacg]

I need more of this...the way you grooved that was amazing.

[@muhsinyemeni1015]

in my darkest hour by megadeth must be the next

[@tobyhubler9902]

I think they did that already?

[@SeniorCharry]

Train of Consciousness is my favorite Megadeth song, probably my favorite metal song period. Peace Sells is just timeless and I’m glad it’s still being reviewed and listened to.

[@Canine77]

I have always loved “Peace Sells”, the lyrics and the driving beat.🤘🏻

[@erikcarter4436]

I gave the vid a thumbs up within the first 30 seconds just on the merits of the piano performance. :)

[@paulmckenna5938]

Big fan here from Newcastle, England. Massive thrash fan and metal in general, and love your rection videos, keep the good work and happy holidays

[@jeffmaltby6185]

Just some 411 , Jeff Young replaced Poland for a brief period who I saw with Megadeth ( Gar Samuelson still on drums ) in Portland like 86 or 87 . Was like Between end of Peace sells and beginning of of So Far , so good , Sanctuary opened up . Great show

[@thelightshineth8848]

When he started talking about Bill Hicks I thought for sure he must be familiar with that Tool album. Can't wait for that vid! Now you realize you HAVE to do Third Eye right?

[@boranbalkan9069]

good mourning black friday!!!!!

[@ChicagoTRS]

Yes! Best song on album

[@peterworth9403]

Absolutely LOVE the bass line for this song.

[@travismiles5885]

My Army buddy used to own the bass that David Ellefson used to record this album. You can see it in the video for this song. It's at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now.

[@PINI73]

Super great that Woman dont cry!! Thanks Gracias!!

[@ericbart9363]

Chris Poland solo album Return to Metalopolis is one of my favorite albums, you should check it out.

[@hiroakiureshino5938]

Good reaction! When i was young, listen to this bass intro, so cool then.

[@tomwhittaker9461]

It's still cool, even after David "the Jack" Ellefson's handycraft. :)

[@SergejusOrlovasTrismegistos]

I like reactions to Megadeth. They are funny and interesting. Keep on going!

[@Aquila81]

I would like to hear his reaction of "Last rites/Loved to deth" from their very 1st album, maybe the remastered version, that got a better sound. Here we go 🤟🏻

[@alecjasper]

Damn, you're really going to great measures with your content.

[@Kate22178]

I grew up with Megadeth, I owe them my love for thrash metal. Still, since I first listened to Kreator, they have become my absolute favorite band.

[@RusShpion]

I love, "How do you figure....", and totally agree with Judsong on the use of the word mean and how Dave accentuates it as well. Looking forward to Aenema. Keep up the good work.

[@jotley73]

Jeff Young was the guitarist on the next album So far so good so what! with Chuck Behler on drums

[@stevilstyle3829]

Check out Conquer or Die from Megadeth. Instrumental with a great classical acoustic intro. It's absolutely awesome and would love to see the reaction.

[@ItsyaboiDillon]

Bad Omen is a really good one off this album!

[@wickedPrints3256]

Great song! Wake up dead is my favorite!

[@mp1335]

9:00 HOLY!!! He has GOT to react to "Third Eye" by Tool. Won't he be in for a surprise...

[@dismal-26]

Rust in Peace is my favorite Megadeth album, but Peace Sells is very close. All of Megadeth's 80's and most of their 90's albums are amazing. Some more Megadeth songs you need to check out are; In My Darkest Hour, Sweating Bullets, Last Rites/ Loved To Deth, Trust, and the original A Tout Le Monde. \ Can't wait for more reactions!

[@dismal-26]

Also, as it has become tradition among reaction channels, you eventually have to listen to The Four Horsemen and Mechanix back to back. Both are great versions of the same song, one by Metallica and the other by Megadeth. This song is one of the biggest parts of the Metallica vs Megadeth rivalry (which imo is pretty stupid)

[@MiNiMeMiniatureDrumCovers]

I just realized after played the piano that the notes are almost exactly same as (Michael Myers theme),and I have known this song forever and never realized it, and what is even funnier is that the M.M theme is also one of only like 3 songs I knew already how to play on a piano lol, just never realized they were the same. Possibly on purpose I am now wondering.

[@edelcorrallira]

I like what he said, how your lyrical architecture can help avoid requiring rhyming schemes. Ayreon's (fantastic) The Theory of Everything, Arjen mentioned that in order to give himself more flexibility and nuanced story telling he wanted to avoid rhyme scheme and that came with challenges of its own. Now the layered meaning of mean makes the repeating element much more powerful. So I guess this is really a good way of thinking about song form. Would have been nice to point out how Poland quoted the Star Spangled Banner in the short solo after the section where he says that he couldn't be a president (with the implication that he's basically a non-person). Also Garrs cymbal work deserves praise. Nick was a beast but Garr had finesse. Both were amazing musicians ... Oh and Nick plays with Chris on his band Ohm, worth checking out. Just like the jazz recordings of Garr and Poland, which are equally tasteful. Yeah, Megadeth has a very rich catalog and I love most of it (some albums jave a dud or two, like SuperColliders Fire which feels like a very early demo with placeholder lyrics put there to help with the riffs which themselves arent really polished yet), but all in all has a ton of excellent tracks on pretty much every album with many flawless albums of which this has to be my absolute favorite.

[@darrenmetal3338]

Saw them after the album came out. Few other bands were playing after them. We all felt sorry for them......

[@diegoborgir24]

You can play some septicflesh or dimmu borgir with a symphonic background. I imagine that they will be very attracted to that material because of the musical style of mixing metal with symphonic. These bands have already played live concerts with symphonic music, so a reaction on this material is very attractive. examples : dimmu borgir progenies of the great apocalypse or septicflesh the enemy of truth. greetings from chile

[@rickyshaw4759]

My daughter Luna plays this song on her guitar all the time..

[@carlmarceau9913]

Thank for your Peace sells reaction. When some of Countdown, like Ashes in your mouth or Captive honor?

[@MrGmonkeywillruleyou]

The thing he said about bill hicks is on Third eye by Tool

[@Taunt61]

Would be great to hear something from Youthanasia. To me it's one of their best albums, it's certainly the most melodic. Addicted to Chaos, Youthanasia, I thought I knew it all... A lot of great tracks. Imo also Dave's best singing. Too underrated.

[@davidbentley6399]

Jeff Young and Chuck Behler came after Gar and Chris for the "So Far, So Good... So What!" album , then came Marty and Nick for RIP

[@MrShortStuff]

Hey buddy, I randomly found your channel and its my type of humour. As a Aussie Digger, keep up yhe good work as I know nothing about music but I love the slipknot and korn videos. Keep up the good work guys, and can you check out the video for Looking at you through the glass by Stone Sour.

[@LoriCollis]

Wake Up Dead is my fav song from them.

[@kipsullivan1096]

The next album after Peace Sells is So Far So Good So What! That album had Chuck Behler and Jeff Young,NOT Marty Freidman! Marty Freidman came in on Rust in Peace...The album AFTER So Far So Good So What

[@SteveCoronado2]

I’m commenting before the start of the video. Of the big 4 Megadeth was my favorite. More so after learning about Dave being kicked out of Metallica. This was the first album I heard from them and the entire album is great. 🤘🏻💥🔥🙏🏻💯❤️‍🔥

[@shawnmcg1729]

How do you figure? So many real laughs.

[@ripulisipulit]

Chevelle is a great example of a band that doesn't force rhymes in favor of structure. Criminally underrated. I would love to hear his reaction to the song Pinata.

[@mattigator600]

I wanna hear your cover "how do you figure" version

[@jacobkubacki2719]

The 2nd song, I learned on the bass. Took me a bit longer to perfect it though. That was back in 92. Jeff Young & Chuck Behler(bad spelling) took over for Poland & Gar. Marty & Nick took over after So Far..So Good…So What?

[@maneatingpie2338]

You guys should check out Shadows Fall - Dead and Gone

[@MrPsaunders]

8:40 Swingadeth should be a thing (if it isn't already!)

[@augustomoriames1492]

I love Megadeth and Bill Hicks

[@edgecrusherhalo]

Sensationalism sells. The opening to the music video for Sugar by System of a Down covers this.

[@slidey1788]

It looks to me like high praise to a song when the reaction guy is grooving along and listens right through the track uninterrupted.

[@casteliero]

First 3sec of this video sounded like Finlandia by Jean Sibelius

[@smokerman81]

Good Mourning/Black Friday is right up his ally.

[@Lolquake]

The funny thing is Dave Mustaine was on just as much drugs as the other guys, but it was his band. He had his own drug problems well into the rust in peace era and beyond.

[@alyssahudson1743]

One of the greatest metal albums ever Megadeth is definitely one of the big four may i add testament as a another big five and to throw in my favorite band savatage

[@Leckie91]

Hey guys, I think you are understanding the lyrics here a but. In my opinion.. Dave is trying to get to a point here. If peace sells who's buying, right? How is peace going to make money? A lot of companies & countries make money off war. Supplying weapons to aid wars. For me, that's the point that he was getting at. That's the money maker.

[@tomwhittaker9461]

It still is. Look at the US warmongering appartus - can you put a price on the Ukraine "peace"? Apparently, the US thought peace was too expensive for them in March 2022 so they sent Boris Johnston to stop peace. The result: 500 000 Ukrainian dead and the number keeps growing.

[@EpicGamingEct]

I would like them too listen too Chris De Burg - Spanish Train !!

[@robertcr]

What do you MEAN Judson?🤣 Hey Richard I think Judson should react to Farewell by Gamma Ray🤟 Keep up guys👊👊

[@ArindraMeidyPratama]

My favourite Jazz Band is always Megadeth 🤘

[@100Asphixiate]

I always interpreted the lyrics as there is no profit in peace but there is profit in war. Your interpretation with the media selling peace vs tragedy rings very true though. If you love early megadeth definitely check out their album endgame. Not a single bad track on that album.

[@-LOST-eb5xz]

Puss smells I’m not lyin’. 😂

[@rahbeat9785]

'Wake Up Dead' next !

[@smith8281]

Good mourning/Black Friday

[@totalrepawns]

" what do mean i aint kind"

[@ShockMUYA]

🤘

[@daymay-o2g]

When Mastodon

[@foresthalterman3458]

Agreed!!!!!!! More Than I Could Chew or Teardrinker!!!!!

[@rickyshaw4759]

He's a beast on piano.. play My Future by Billie..

[@seanwechsler6783]

Great video. Keep Megadeth in the mix. Wake Up Dead next please🤘🏻

[@jmkorcal]

You guys need to review Washington is next for the united abomination album

[@bumblefluff79]

Always wished Weird Al did a cover called Peas Sells, about the trials of owning a grocery store. RIP Bill Hicks and yes to Aenema!

[@judsong]

Coming up dawg. Soon come

[@MrLcowles]

I think you mean peas shells.

[@TheBFN]

Its all a dream within a dream judson... U know that one fellas ?... Check out allen parsons project.. Edgar Allan Poe CD

[@TheBFN]

I think linus will deff dig Parsons project.. I lov the poe cd

[@JoseEchoes378]

I support this. APP is essential

[@mrk.dilkington]

Jeff Young replaced Chris Poland for the next album So Far, So Good, So What, then he went and Marty Friedman joined for Rust in Peace.

[@gerryj8839]

BAD ASS FELLAS! The video is also an excellent way to see what Mustaine intended as the message for this one. But that being said... Richard and Judson really need to find a local band to produce and album. Between the two of you, Richard understands the roots and melodies, Judson understands the capability of the technicality and creativity. Lots of fights, but y'all should give it a go!

[@raistlin_dourden]

You definitely should check out Earthborn Evolution by Beyond Creation. It's some beautiful metal.

[@Vektordeformacio]

What do you mean I hurt your feelings? I didn't know you had any feelings! What do you mean I "ain't kind?" I'm just not your kind

[@sebaperalta2001]

May I suggest Sonata Arctica? - 8th Commandment - FullMoon - The Power Of One - Wolf & Raven - Picturing The Past - Paid In Full Any of those songs are great, and there are even more, but that's enough. Some Epica I think would please too.

[@alexandremaireno-ni4ec]

May I add Deathaura to the list?

[@sebaperalta2001]

@@alexandremaireno-ni4ec Yes of course!

[@Nunca-te-rindas-humano]

React to Bad Omen, The Conjuring, My last words, Lucretia, Five Magics all great songs

[@judsong]

5 magics coming soon

[@IROCZSPEED]

Judson's cover was great!

[@metal80sguy]

To me the classic Megadeth lineup will always be Dave, Dave, Marty and Nick but this is probably still my favorite album

[@Mutabor1981]

please react to DEATH "without judgement"

[@jaimegomez8450]

You all need to react to Exodus. If you react to Megadeth, Metallica etc... you should react to Exodus.

[@TheFenzakosu]

Wonder will there be any Judas Priest reaction soon ?

[@thefinaldispatch]

You guys should do a listen to DNR by Testament. It’s fuckin awesome

[@fabiolignelli7372]

Great reaction! For me, the album "Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?" (1986) by Megadeth is superior in every aspect to the album that most consider the band's best, "Rust in Peace" (1990). In reality, both are masterpieces, but I consider "Peace Sells" superior in every way. And the 1988 album "So Far, So Good... So What!" is also excellent! They are Megadeth's 3 best albums...

[@Parka_Niel]

No killing is my business? :((

[@fabiolignelli7372]

@@Parka_Niel You are right. The first album is also a classic!!!

[@ingokallweit7564]

this song was over 20 years old and told us what is now... so what is wrong with that song? no one is selling weapons to attack, we all want peace and there is so much money...

[@mikelois5297]

Never too much megadeth just so you guess know (edit) some mercyful fate would be sweet

[@pescadordeilusoez]

please react to silverchair-emotion sickness!!

[@Greatmeasures]

Judson recently mentioned that he wants to do a Silverchair piano cover. 🤔

[@bumblefluff79]

I second this motion.

[@Clark628]

Gotta show some Meshuggah at some point. Bleed of course.

[@tobyhubler9902]

Steve Young was in between Chris & Marty.

[@tobyhubler9902]

Jeff not Steve

[@Kim-J312]

Yessss Judas Priest 🤟 next

[@toomuchkool-aid7975]

Should have done good mourning Black Friday or last words