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What is art? And why should we care what it is?
An old debate with new relevance. At a time when the value of an idea is paramount, creative programs are being marginalized or eliminated in our education system. Is this a paradox or a symptom of our disassociation from independent thinking because we have reached the saturation point of knowledge?
If our base level of knowledge has out stripped our ability to assimilate it, does creative thinking decrease in the general population (like a glass that has been filled to the brim)?
Joseph MoukarzelJan 24 2014: The problem with art is that it's being taught to us only under the image and form of masterpieces. Our educational system shows us what the greats have done such as Beethoven in music, Da vinci in painting, and Marlon brando in acting, etc...and values and assesses our artistic side compared to them... Art cannot be taught or compared, it's a constant evolution and the honest expression of the soul and the mind, unfortunately, our schools have failed to understand this, thus they killed creativity.
Yuting LiuJan 26 2014: Don't we need more than just expression for something to be called art? The intent is surely important, but the delivery of the soul makes it presentable to the audience. Can an emotional singer, but tone-death to be called a musician? (Unfortunately, I think there are many of them today in the mainstream media and being quite successful ).
School does not teach art, it teaches the delivery of it. How to present the expression as an artiest, and how to understand it as an audience. A great story needs words to help it spread, that's why we teach grammar, vocabulary and literary devices at school.
Jan 26 2014: I really like what you said that schools does not teach art, they teach the delivery of it. You are absolutely right, however, don't you think that following this way of teaching might have a negative effect, resulting in having an homogenous generation of students, where the majority are doing everything the same way?
From a personal experience: I would like to add that I'm a guitar player, I used to pick up my guitar and try to compose little pieces of music, if it sounds good to me I play it if not I drop it, whats fascinating is that I created some really nice songs! back then I didn't know any music theory, what I was composing really came from the heart, but since I decided to learn some theory, my creativity dropped, I now use defined scales to make music such as the pentatonic scale, the music still sounds good, but its music that everyone can do, unlike the personal music I first composed.
Jan 26 2014: Your observation is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. You seem to be arguing that formal instruction in technique is emphasized in the schools with which you are familiar and that that stifles creativity. Others typically argue that encouraging creativity across the curriculum but not pursuing formal instruction in artistic technique stifles creativity.
Jan 26 2014: In visual arts, I believe almost all artists who have done path breaking work have started by learning the techniques of the masters but then departed from those techniques to be in dialogue with them. There is, of course, creative "outsider" work as well, though it is difficult to know whether that work would still have arisen if these artists had been exposed to more ideas originally.
I know many people believe that exposure to a wide array of ideas and techniques in any field is stifling, but I think that research on creativity and interviews with highly creativity people mostly dispels that assumption.
It is fruitful in any case not to dissuade people of any age from pursuing their artistic directions just because they have no training. Why shouldn't anyone experiment as they choose with materials? In fact, kids in schools with which I am familiar typically have frequent opportunities to work experimentally with an array of materials. This was true even in my youth.
Creative endeavors are not only about contributing to the discipline with which they are associated or doing great work but also about improving an individual's quality of life. Hobby art, hobby science, and hobby research of all kinds can improve the quality of life for those who pursue them. For this reason, an increasing number of people do pursue them.
People should probably not use power tools or toxic materials without some guidance as to their use.
Jan 30 2014: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Although he says it is standardized testing, not art instruction that kills creativity. In fact, in order to inspire more creativity Sir Ken Robinson recommends more arts, not less.
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This is very interesting and onto something. My friend Jane McCloskey ( daughter of Robert McCloskey..make way for ducklings etc.) started out exploring what informed her fathers private work, never seen by any of us,(still )t lead her into an exploration of sacred geometry in art that she has had an enduring attraction to. I hope her book on this will be published, its been fascinating to see that in finding the sacred geometry in the art she also finds keys to the meaning , the message in it that has engaged her with the work over time She seems to find the keys that unlock messages that speak to all of us for all time.
Sacred geometry of course is the heart of all mathematics and all of creation. So there is, Jane has discovered, a connection between art and nature and the very structure of the universe through scared geometry.
Also recently I found a quoe that said a longing for beauty is a longing for connection with the universe.
Feb 3 2014: Yes, Lindsay, I agree. Maths are the soul of creation, of Universe. And I agree with your friend's concept about art. I have a friend who is a dentist, and he, when designs a prosthesis,- tooth-, he ends his work adding, to the measures of the gap to be covered in patient's jaw, the Art of the mathematical rule of the 'golden ratio' to finish this tooth's design. Besides, in his clinic you always listen to Beethoven or Mozart. Nice, isn't?
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Jan 30 2014: It is not as if our choice at this moment is comment on art or feed the hungry... the two are not mutually exclusive. If any subject could be free of the politicized accusation of frivolity in the face of human need I would think it is this one.
In my opinion the best answer to poverty is not the devaluation of art, it is the emancipation of women, but that is another topic.
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Feb 5 2014: lilly lily:
Art is food for soul.
If all we care about is just to exist then we are no good than other animals.
Talking about poverty it is artificial ,we created boundaries, divided the world so that half of the world would be left to suffer while privileged one's enjoy.
And the role of art is to express this contradictions in life which we fail to see.
Have a good day..
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Feb 7 2014: lilly lily:
Isn't it a hypothetical world you are talking about ,if survival of the fittest is the rule of the game then weak have to suffer.
Looking back at the history of art, the best pieces of art was produced in utter despair and agony .May be art is an alchemy of turning this pain into something beautiful.
So you don't necessarily have to separate poverty and art.The art may be best described as a process of crystallizing your pain .
The art chooses the artist, artist is choice less.
Take care...
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Feb 15 2014: Lilly x 2. Art isn't a privileged activity of the well fed aristocracy. I think that's a distorted view propagated in the affluent West and sustained by a disconnection with the root of expression.
Art is accessible and practiced by anyone who imagines the possibilities beyond the limitations of their circumstances. It resonates with the poor, the exploited, and the marginalized.
It is the one activity that allows a human being to feel alive… regardless of their influence or physical hardship. It embodies the nature of our being and trumpets the tenacity of our existence.
Look past bourgeoisie objects of status and appreciate the value of an oppressed individuals display of the quality of their being. There is endless examples of oppressed and ravished groups that have taken refuge in the simple act of expression,
Artistic expression is an integral part of cultural life.
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Don Anderson 50+Jan 24 2014: Earlier this month they had a TED talk on how a guy learn to love useless art, it made me laugh because just like a typical art snob what made it useless was that is also had function. So we will all never agree what is art and that it is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Some think blending mediums or if more than one person work on it then it is no longer art, I think video games are art. The blending of graphics, storytelling, and making it interactive only enhances the viewer's experience.
Back in my school days I was into creating art, and feared taking art history for it would influence me and take my originality. But instead it added to my creativity, hmm that painting was done on brass interesting, maybe I could try painting on glass, stone, ceramics or or or ? To me knowledge increases creativity.
Feb 19 2014: Art is emotion made solid. If you can turn your joy into beauty; your love into an outpouring of your soul; your mortality into something that will live forever; your fear into something comforting; your anger into a stand against outrage - Then, you are an artist regardless of what materials you use and regardless of what technical skill you may or may not possess.
Donald Okudu 500+Feb 4 2014: Art brings attention to functionality be it aesthetic or figurative. It brings to view how much science exist around us. Art like beauty is in the eye of the beholder making it a great subject for debate. What are the standards, what is the criteria for what art should be or shouldn't?
Art is context based, never always means what it presents, sometimes direct other times abstract, it could be worth a million words or interpretations. Art is living , our every day activities make up myriad of artistic expressions which in itself is art ( walking , talking, cooking, culinary gestures, dancing etc ).
The world as we see it and experience is a work of art. Art makes science beautiful , art gives science form , art makes tomorrow exciting .
Feb 4 2014: Art is natural, art is in nature. Art is form and beauty, art could seem formless, art is a mystery.
Art is about imagination, it is deeper than human thought could express; but it has to be expressed in order to fufill its purpose.
Purpose? To make money? To reveal talent? To communicate a feeling? Even purpose could be a vast field.
As long as humanity is on God's earth, art is in the heart; and it would always speak.
Ang Perrier 10+Feb 3 2014: Art causes the brain to step away from conventional thought and develop areas of the brain not regularly tapped into during day to day scenarios. Developing different areas of the brain allows the artist to think from different angles about the same topic/issue.
When others observe art they are using empathetic skills to interpret the meaning and the thoughts processes involved to make the art. Feelings can be pulled off canvas and felt by the viewer in a way completely intended by the artist or in a way the artist never even imagined possible.
Art is meant to be felt and people need a way to expand their emotional intelligence especially since we are losing it. Emotional intelligence is a huge and far too often overlooked part of development.
Art is feeling and artists care about feeling and making others feel.
Feb 2 2014: New knowledge owes its existence to art and creativity. What can be imagined is the precursor of what will eventually be enshrined in knowledge.
I don't think there will ever be a saturation point of knowledge. It would only ever seem that way because of the apparent devaluing of the imagination that feeds it, from education upwards. I think that's happening right now, and will only lead to a stagnation of knowledge, rooted in the past.
I say this because of my observations of what seems to be of value, and what gets rewarded. We reward The Enlightenment values of logic, knowledge, memory and mechanism. All else gets dubbed as "romanticism", "superstition", "pseudoscience", "fairy stories", "mythology", "metaphysics"... These cheap, conversation-stopping terms only serve to disable a vital thought process that could substantially hasten our quest for knowledge, if only given free-rein. Such thought processes begin in art.
Feb 3 2014: The end results - the point at which knowledge is established - are rewarded, though I truly believe that the creative processes leading up to that end result, are very much devalued. And the further away from science it gets, the lesser the value.
Reductive research programmes are regarded in our secular culture as sacrosanct, on the grounds that anything else would not be science. Reductionist science gets rewarded, even though it deals primarily with the parts rather than the whole.
My view is that the whole needs to be understood first before analysing the parts. The arts are good at revealing 'the whole' to us by stimulating imagination, yet appears to be marginalised and unrewarded - increasingly so in our education systems.
Feb 3 2014: That's interesting, as my observation has been that creative thinkers across fields and those who break through normal ways of doing things are both sought after in the professional workplace and quite often held in awe by the general public.
I am not well informed about the atmosphere in schools in the UK where you are. Arts specifically are a big, visible part of education in the States, with drama productions and music ensembles being very central in the life of the school, whether public or private. But also outside of the arts per se, creative work is highly valued, encouraged, and acknowledged both at school and as a factor in college admissions.
Feb 3 2014: I think that must be where the US and the UK differ Fritzie.
The arts seem to be the poor relation to the sciences in terms of vocational eligibility and as acceptable ways of thinking generally. The mantra from successive UK government education agendas is "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" (no mention of art), all wrapped up in a "top down" style of governance where teachers are very much undervalued and even demonised - especially by our current Education Secretary.
I guess if the education system was run "bottom up" with teachers having a lot more say in what is taught, and to whom, the arts might then have remained safe within the curricula. I'd value your thoughts on that.
Education sounds a lot more enlightened in the States from how you describe it.
Feb 4 2014: The quality of education varies across the country, as curriculum and funding are both decentralized. Literacy is, of course, an objective everywhere, but problem-solving is as well.
In terms of career, only certain artistic avenues tend to connect to "jobs" in the United States as elsewhere. But creativity, flexibility, and the skills to draw ones own conclusions rather than believing what one happens to be told are understood to be dispositions that need to be cultivated to prepare young people for a future full of change.
Bog CreatureJan 31 2014: What is art?
Awakening reflections of a transient encounter in which everything interacting with our senses and mind is as unique to the common chamber of life as it is to the meaning. The mind like a sponge is absorbing content between its first and last breath, hence, to me the memory chamber of the human condition is the real art in art, since, storage capacity is a lifespan.
Is the intrinsic value of art produced, in the beholder of a product (ion) or, in the creator of a product (ion)?
I would say art produced is a form of amplified communication between an originator and the sentient capacity to resonate with a medium of art, given all communication is free, the intrinsic value of art is an important part of freedom.
Jan 31 2014: Wow do we really need to debate this? ART is in everything, everywhere in our lives. You can see art in your children, are they not beautifully and wonderfully made? ART is everywhere you look, the trees the sunset. The world around us is made up of people who are different colors, and I think that is beauty to see our differences and how we are alike. The places we live have ART everywhere in buildings and landscapes. Life is ART , we can draw and paint a portrait of our lives everyday we live.
Jan 28 2014: Allow me to quote a poet:
THREE FOR THE MONA LISA by John Stone
1. It is not what she did at 10 o'clock last evening that accounts for the smile,
It is that she plans to do it again ...tonight.
2. Only the mouth all those years ...ever letting on.
3. It's not the mouth exactly, it's not the eyes exactly either, it's not even exactly a smile
But, whatever, I second the motion.
So many writers ... artists ... art critics ... and lay people have tried to explain the Mona Lisa. Mr. Stone's short poem captures it best, in my opinion.
That's ART! And we should care about art. It's the language of the soul.
Ian YoungJan 30 2014: What I find funny is that the Mona Lisa of today is so dissimilar to the original painting. It seems new studies reveal the incredible differences in it's appearance as it has aged. So does that mean it is not a work of genius at all? Was the original anywhere near as good, and how could we know?Do we just cal it a masterpiece because all of the preceding generations have?
Jan 30 2014: Hello Ian,
Thank you for your response and question. Do we just call an art work, like the Mona Lisa, a masterpiece because all of the prededing generations have called it so? Not necessarily.
As we experience life ... and art, we change, we evolve. We change at how we look at or interpret things, including art. As we mature, as we experience life, and as we get more education, we become more confident in our own judgement.
At a certain point, we will have your own list of favorite poems, novels, songs, movies, plays, paintings, and so on. We will build a library and gallery of our mind. Our favorite art works are our own unique collections. They inspire us, they move us, and in many ways, define us.
When I was in my early twenties, a wise person recommended that I spend as much time and effort as possible in visiting museums and galleries, attending concerts and plays, reading literary works, and having a hobbly that involves creativity. I'm glad I followed his advice.
The Arts enrich our lives and, in many ways, make us unique from the rest of the living creatures on Earth.
Tatiana BJan 25 2014: One of my favorite articles/discussions on art is from a couple years ago: I'm Sick Of Pretending: I Don't "Get" Art
link: http://hubski.com/pub?id=48247
From that discussion: "One of the things I discovered as a screenwriter is that it's far more useful to watch a bad movie and figure out how you would make it good than to watch a good movie and figure out what was bad about it. More importantly, if there's a movie or genre or director that everybody else loves that you hate, don't sit there going "I'm so original" figure out what the audience is getting out of it that you aren't."
I love this. This is what art is all about. Enjoyment. Taking something away from it. Seeing the world a little differently, from a slightly different perspective. Learning and enjoying and interacting and thinking.
Jan 24 2014: Unfortunately, our current society in the west is consumed (no pun intended) by capitalism as the be all and end all of modern civilisation. Even the well known socialist countries of Europe are gradually succumbing to this disease. Why is it happening? Why is there such a great disparity between the rich and poor which continues to grow thereby giving rise to the appearance of a modern day feudal system. This is a by product of the ability of corporations to avoid major tax contributions in their country of origin and continue to make enormous profits and give nothing back to the society which allowed them to thrive. This means something like 45% of the tax income of western countries is missing, this means billions of Euros, end result: medical care no longer free, education no longer free etc. The major governments cannot do much about and in fact are reluctant to. And so a concentration of effort in technology and thus no money for much else including art. Art and the humanities are degraded, their value diminished.
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Feb 18 2014: Art is more than one thing, art is freedom, art is beauty, art is the past and the future and everything in between. Art could be found in anything as long as you look at it right.
Art has shaped the world to be how it is today, and without it we surly would not be as civilized as we currently are. Yes there is the pretty art but that's not the only kind of art. Did you know that language started as an art. Without are there would be no letters, and communication has been proven to be an essential part of life. without art we wouldn't be as free as we are. The Renaissance was a period of time when a lot of artists put their thoughts onto their canvas, and shared it with the world. Art is something that relieves stress, Without it the world would be depressed, and boring. Also without art there would not be architecture so we would be sleeping in the weather and in fear of being captured by a predator every night. Another thing that art helps is engineering so it has shaped technology as well.
Without art there would be no culture, no language, no technology, and no freedom. aren't you glad we live in a world with art?
Alan EkeindeFeb 15 2014: Art to me is absolutely anything a person can come up with that may contribute to society or ones character. I am a big fan of tattoos, I think that this is art at its best. Drawing pictures and symbols and certain characters that express ones personality or journey is really liberating to me. Art can be anything from painting a canvas to an assimilation of rocks. Art is all around us, and each and every form should be taken seriously because it is an expression of time or ones self.
Feb 15 2014: I'm impressed with the diversity of thought.
I debated using the word "art" because there's a multitude of ingrained biases that stretch back beyond recorded history. Art means many things to many people… from an elaborate fourteenth century fresco to a quick scribble posted on a Twitter account…. or a complex concerto to a simple heartfelt ditty.
I think core expression is creativity. The act of creating. The drive to find better solutions. The undeniable need to find a better way to live in the world.
I feel we search the nature of human response to connect with something beyond ourselves and then reflect it back in hopes that we are not alone. It's an odd paradox.
Creative yearning is the essence of our being. The unrelenting sense that we can master our environment… our emotional well being… our destiny.
I suppose what I was asking is…
How can we deny the one inclination that has fostered a world of innovation. Creative thought needs to be nurtured with the same serious intend as rationalism.
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Feb 3 2014: A definition of art, like art itself, is in the eye of the beholder. As for myself, art is the tangible evidence of imagination, a processing of experience originating in a place where something can come from nothing giving a fleeting glimpse to the potential of the infinite. At its inspirational best, art is the light that gives me hope of a renaissance following the dark ages of world wars. At its violent worse, art leads me down the dark tunnel of death seeking the light at the end.
Feb 3 2014: it's simply, to learn and and to express one's feeling !!
Sean Brother 20+Feb 3 2014: Yes, Lindsay, I agree. Maths are the soul of creation, of Universe. And I agree with your friend's concept about art. I have a friend who is a dentist, and he, when designs a prosthesis,- tooth-, he ends his work adding, to the measures of the gap to be covered in patient's jaw, the Art of the mathematical rule of the 'golden ratio' to finish this tooth's design. Besides, in his clinic you always listen to Beethoven or Mozart. Nice, isn't?
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AT&T, one of the wireless service providers leading the no-texting-while-driving push, partnered with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, to bring a hands-on driving simulator to Merrillville High School to demonstrate the dangers of being distracted by texting behind the wheel.
The event held Thursday, the Drive 4 Pledges Day, focused on getting individuals involved in taking the pledge to never text and drive, and encouraging others in the community to do the same.
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Merrillville Superintendent Mark Sperling said it's important to educate young drivers to practice safe driving habits from the time they first get behind the wheel so they can avoid putting themselves and others at risk.
"I've learned from recent studies that drivers who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash; that's the reason it's so important to be proactive in this area," he said.
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Steven Tyler will use his summer away from "American Idol" to return to his rightful place – the stage.
Aerosmith will hit the road for "The Global Warming Tour," an 18-city run that parks at Philips Arena July 26, the band's first Atlanta appearance since 2009. Fellow classic rock hitmakers Cheap Trick will open.
In 2010 the band celebrated its 40th anniversary, but Tyler's choice to join the judging panel of "Idol" last season led to a fractured Aerosmith, particularly with guitarist Joe Perry. Tyler addressed the issues in a recent "60 Minutes" piece and seemingly fanned the flames with his comments that the rest of the band "rides my coattail because they know I care" and "I tell the truth, that's why they don't like me."
But Aerosmith will apparently compartmentalize their personal issues – Perry just popped up on "Idol" last week to serenade Tyler with a musical birthday wish, so it appears it's possible to play nice for the cameras – for a tour that will also stop in northern Virginia, Philadelphia, East Rutherford, N.J., Dallas, Los Angeles and their hometown, Boston. A second leg of dates will be announced soon.
Tickets for the Atlanta show are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for $49.50-$149.50. through all Ticketmaster outlets, the arena box office and www.ticketmaster.com. Eager ticket buyers can visit www.livenation.com/aerosmith beginning Thursday to RSVP for pre-sale access. Other credit card pre-sales begin Tuesday.
March 26th, 2012
1:00 pm
Shouldn't Aerosmith be opening for Cheap Trick??
March 26th, 2012
1:22 pm
March 26th, 2012
1:35 pm
Dude looks like a lady! He really does!
March 26th, 2012
1:44 pm
Would rather watch Cheap Trick. At least opening, I can see their show and leave whenever I get please during Aerosmith.
March 26th, 2012
1:46 pm
You know, it's not that important for us 70 and 80's rock fans to see some of these bands.
If it is not important enough to the band to keep it together, and appreciate the fans that made them so wealthy and popular, I'm not sure I will eagerley plunk down $149 bucks on Thursday to reserve a chance to see them.
And make no mistake, most tickets wil lbe closer to $150 per seat, than $50.
i.e. Van Halen at Phillips pricing.
I think they are pushing the finiancial tolerance limits even with the with the boomer fan base.
Look at Petty ticket availability at Verizon coming shortly in April.
NOT sold out.
Tickets still available online.
They have cancelled so many concerts in the past, and squandered alot of good will with the fan base.
One last thing – very poor date selection.
Crue & KISS are only 2 days prior.
Tough sell even to a die hard rock fan.
200, 300, 400 bucks in one week to see (two) concerts?
March 26th, 2012
2:02 pm
Did you see the price of Eagles tix?
March 26th, 2012
2:23 pm
Can I get a ticket to replace the one for the lousy and short show they put on at Lakewood a few years ago?
March 26th, 2012
2:25 pm
Marc: I agree with you 100%. The show at Lakewood in 2009 was terrible. The only thing good about the show was the opening act: ZZ Top.
March 26th, 2012
2:33 pm
who keeps paying to see these old washed up geezers play 30+ year old songs you have heard 1000 times,damn sure aint me
March 26th, 2012
3:10 pm
Saw them at Lakewood Amp in 2010; they played for about 1 hr and sounded HORRIBLE.
As much as I love them one has to know when its time to call it quits. Save your $$$$$ and don't buy this tic.
March 26th, 2012
3:25 pm
I may be mistaken, but isn't there more then just Steven Tyler and Joe Perry in Aerosmith? They always get the snapshot PR for the band. Dont tell me "THEY ARE Aerosmith" – Cause they are not. There are 3 others. Brad W, Joey K and and Tom H. Come on people…
March 26th, 2012
3:27 pm
I would rather see Cheap Trick touring in a smaller venue as the headline act. I cannot spend that much $$$ to see an opening act. I like Aerosmith, but I'd rather see the boys from Rockford play.
March 26th, 2012
3:38 pm
good opp for a tattoo booth, just say'n.
March 26th, 2012
4:09 pm
Been a long time since Aerosmith put on a performance worth remembering. Cheap Trick still knows how to rock hard and always delivers the goods in concert.
But at those prices, would rather wait until Cheap Trick returns to Atlanta as a headliner. And when they do, it will be for a price less expensive than the cheapest seat at Philips.
Triple-digit ticket prices just ain't rock n roll, sorry.
March 26th, 2012
4:31 pm
Last time I saw them was 1976 if I remember correctly. They were great then, but I am 52 now and I don't have the energy to stand up for an hour and a half to see 65+ rich guys stumble around the stage. They probably don't have the energy to do 3+ hour shows like they did back in the day. It just isn't a good value to pay $150 a pop to see them. Plus, Tyler doing AI is like blasphemy anyways!
March 26th, 2012
4:36 pm
While I enjoy seeing bands like Aerosmith and KISS for old times sake, I won't pay be paying the insane ticket prices and extortion fees. If more people vote with their wallet then prices will come down – or an email will be sent from Live Nation a few days prior to the concert offering $20 tickets, which is how I saw Guns n Roses at Philips late last year.
March 26th, 2012
5:14 pm
In '78 I was standing on my chair on row 7 in the Omni screaming along with S.Tyler and company. Been there done that, sooner or later they'll be on HD Net and I can watch them in the comfort of my home. And save a couple of hundred bucks (Tix, gas, concessions). And I can watch them on YouTube, or I can plunk down a few dollars for a DVD. No crowd, no drunk fools to put up with, no earplugs necessary.
March 26th, 2012
5:42 pm
They should give all the fans free tickets that went to their last bs concert a few years ago at the amphitheater. They did around 5 songs and then Stevie could not go on. No more wheel chair rock for me.
March 26th, 2012
8:53 pm
Go see Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!! He'll never disappoint.
March 26th, 2012
8:59 pm
I can't imagine why anyone would want to see these guys. I liked them in 1978. There is nothing less appealing than 65+ year old men in tight lycra. Plus, they put on crappy shows.
March 26th, 2012
9:00 pm
I saw them at the Omni in either '79 or 80 and they were more FU'ed than I was, and that's pretty FU'ed. I sure am glad I have found better things to do with my money. Shoot, I am now "splurging" taking me sister to see the Moody Blues this Wednesday night.
I must be getting old but the Moody Blues put out some great music!!! As a matter of fact, the Moody Blues are a piece of the puzzle that proves the Rock and Roll "hall of fame" is a joke!
March 27th, 2012
8:46 pm
I've never seen them so to me 5 minutes will be worth it!
March 28th, 2012
10:07 am
I saw A'smith at Lakewood some years ago. I think it was KISS as the opener. A'smith was excellent. One of the tightest bands I've seen. They are old but they will go down as one of America's best rock n roll bands.
With Cheap Trick, that's a great bill at $75. For $150, I don't think so.
Maybe some cheap seats closer to show time.
As far as Bruce, no way. I can nap at home for free.
March 28th, 2012
11:51 am
Like, professional sports and movies, concerts have priced themselves out of my interest. Unless you've paid the big bucks to sit up front, you usually watch the show on the big screen. I've already chosen with my wallet to stay home and watch it on my own HD screen. The millionaires don't need any of my hard earned money beyond what I indirectly pay through viewing fees as part of my Uverse monthly bill.


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-->-- "Peace Sells" music video
->''"Muh-uh-Ladies and gentlemen, meh-muh-meh-muh-meh-muh-MEGADETH!!!"''
-->-- '''The Eager Young Space Cadet''', ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'', "In Space, No One Can Hear You Rock"
One of the "Big Four" ThrashMetal bands, Megadeth was formed by guitarist Dave Mustaine after he was kicked out of Music/{{Metallica}} for drinking and violent behaviour. After two years of lineup instability, the band settled down and were signed to Combat Records, where they released their debut album ''Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good''. Despite a poor production and a thrash metal cover of a Nancy Sinatra song that later got them in legal trouble, the album was well received.
When the time came to record their second album, Mustaine got fed up with the small label's shortcomings and signed the band with Capitol Records instead. Their second album, ''Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?'' was released in 1986, again receiving critical acclaim and commercial success. However, the tour became plagued by substance abuse problems, which spilled over during the recording of ''So Far, So Good...So What!''. Released in 1988, the album reached number 30 on the Billboard 200 despite having no commercial radio play.
After some time off in rehab for Megadeth and another line-up change, Megadeth returned with ''Rust in Peace'' in 1990, a progressive effort which contained the famous songs "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" and "Hangar 18". They remained silent for two years, after which they pulled a FollowTheLeader and released ''Countdown to Extinction'', an album full of slower, less thrashy, straightforward heavy metal songs modeled after ''Metallica''. It was their greatest commercial success, reaching #2 on the US charts and selling in excess of 2 million copies, propelled by the singles "Symphony of Destruction", "Foreclosure of a Dream" and "Sweating Bullets". The simplification continued on 1994's ''Youthanasia'', attracting [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks some condemnation from older fans]] but overall being received just as well as its predecessor, going to #4 on the charts and spawning the hits "A Tout le Monde", with a video banned by {{MTV}} for supposedly being "pro-suicide", and "Train of Consequences".
Troubles started in 1995 after Megadeth changed their management, hiring Bud Prager. His influence would ultimately prove counterproductive, as he steered the band towards more blatantly commercial tracks, convinced them to work with Nashville pop producer Dann Huff, and [[ExecutiveMeddling closely supervised the writing process, also contributing musical ideas and lyrics to the songs]]. ''Cryptic Writings'' was released in 1997, to a mixed critical reception and less sales than ''Youthanasia'', despite four Mainstream Rock hits. Mustaine then made the critical mistake of giving ''more'' influence to Prager and Huff, which resulted in the ''Risk'' which was disliked the majority of the fanbase. Largely eschewing metal in favour of newfound dance and electronic influences, it was a failure that triggered a backlash among fans and critics.
After the debacle, Megadeth left Capitol Records for Sanctuary Records instead. Mustaine fired Bud Prager, and decided to self-produce their next album, which would be a return to metal. ''The World Needs a Hero'' did mark a return to form, but had a mixed reception critically and commercially.
In 2002, Dave Mustaine suffered an outbreak of radial neuropathy in his left arm, and temporarily disbanded Megadeth. After physical therapy and occupying himself with remastering the band's catalogue, he gathered a new lineup (the first to include Chris Poland since 1988), and released ''The System Has Failed'' in 2004, to critical acclaim. Since, they've released ''United Abominations'' on Roadrunner Records in 2007, and ''Endgame'' in 2009, both to further acclaim from fans and critics. (Especially ''Endgame''.) Megadeth's next album, simply titled ''[[Letters2Numbers Th1rt3en]],'' was released in 2011. ''Super Collider'', was released in 2013.
The band are famous for their musical skills, [[EpicRocking extended songs]], and sociopolitical sensibilities expressed in the lyrics, especially during their "classic" period (1985-1994). And, while not to the extent of Music/{{Anthrax}}, the band's lyrics tend to be more humorous (in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek manner) than those of Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/{{Slayer}}. Despite the late-career follies that have also plagued Metallica (sans DigitalPiracyIsEvil), their place in the thrash metal pantheon is assured, arguably more so after their second wind in 2004.
'''Current lineup'''
* Dave Mustaine - guitar, vocals, 1983-present ([[IAmTheBand classic lineup]])
* Chris Broderick - guitar, backing vocals, 2008-present
* David Ellefson - bass, backing vocals, 1984-2002, 2010-present (classic lineup)
* Shawn Drover - drums, 2004-present
'''Past members'''
* Gar Samuelson - drums, backing vocals, 1984-1988
* Chris Poland - guitar, backing vocals, 1985-1988, 1989 (''Rust In Peace'' demo session only), 2004 (''The System Has Failed'' session only)
* Jeff Young - guitar, backing vocals, 1987-1989
* Chuck Behler - drums, backing vocals 1987-1989
* Marty Friedman - guitar, backing vocals, 1989-2000 (classic lineup)
* Nick Menza - drums, backing vocals, 1989-1998 (classic lineup)
* Jimmy [=DeGrasso=] - drums, 1998-2000
* Al Pitrelli - guitar, backing vocals, 2000-2002
* Jimmy Sloas - bass, 2004 (''The System Has Failed'' session only)
* Vinnie Colaiuta - drums, 2004 (''The System Has Failed'' session only)
* Glen Drover - guitar, backing vocals, 2004-2008
* James [=LoMenzo=] - bass guitar, backing vocals, 2006-2010
* 1985: ''Killing Is My Business...and Business Is Good!''
* 1986: ''Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?''
* 1988: ''So Far, So Good...So What!''
* 1990: ''Rust in Peace''
* 1992: ''Countdown to Extinction''
* 1994: ''Youthanasia''
* 1995: ''Hidden Treasures'' EP
* 1997: ''Cryptic Writings''
* 1999: ''Risk''
* 2001: ''The World Needs a Hero''
Following ''The World Needs a Hero'', Mustaine suffered the now-notorious arm injury, causing the band to disband for two years. When it was reformed, only Mustaine remained from the pre-split line-up. In that time, the first eight albums were remastered and re-released.
* 2004: ''The System Has Failed''
* 2007: ''United Abominations''
* 2009: ''Endgame''
* 2013: ''Super Collider''
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Dave has the honor of being one of the few people who to have had an article on {{Wikipedia}} about people he hates.
** He "dedicated" the song ''Liar'' to former guitarist Chris Poland. The song as the name suggests is a very scathing attack.
* TheAlcoholic: Everyone in Metallica drank heavily at the time Dave Mustaine was kicked out, to the point that the band was nicknamed "Alcoholica." However, Mustaine was the only one who was a violent drunk, and his behavior was what led to his firing.
* TheAtoner: Dave has been resolving past feuds after regrouping his band.
** He's friends with Slayer and Metallica now. The Metallica feud dying out on its own as the two parties became less and less bitter. [[WordOfGod Apparently,]] Dave and James Hetfield are on friendly terms again and exchange Christmas cards and there is a rumor continuing to float around that Dave wants Metallica to play Gigantour. As of 2010, both bands have shared the stage several times without a problem.
** Mustaine's feud with Ellefson was over Ellefson suing him in 2002 over allegedly unpaid royalties and not turning Megadeth over to him. This feud ending is obvious with the suit and Mustaine's countersuit being resolved out of court and Ellefson being back in the band.
** Chris Poland's feud was because he was selling the band's gear for drugs, which was eventually resolved, first with his hiring as a session musician for ''The System Has Failed'', and then by starting to post on the Megadeth message board in 2006.
* BerserkButton: For decades, mentioning Metallica to Dave Mustaine was a surefire way to make him launch into a rant. In recent years, however, he has come to peace with his former bandmates and Megadeth even opened for Metallica during the "Big 4" series of concerts.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dave has always been this but has gotten worse in recent years. Lampshaded in the song Lucretia with the line "Dave, you're mental anyway".
* ConspiracyTheorist: Dave, as early as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine#Politics his 1988 interview ranting about building a wall across the border to keep "fucking Mexicans" out of the USA]] and his [[http://megadeth.rockmetal.art.pl/lyrics_countdown.html#Psychotron incoherent explanation for "Psychotron"]] (he claimed it was something related to Russian experiments, something called a "Lida machine" and JimmyCarter; the linked fansite shot back that "Dave has been watching too many episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles''."), and a bit more pronounced lately with his ranting about the United Nations on ''United Abominations'' (to the point that a UN worker made a post calling bullshit on the lyrics' accusations), naming ''Endgame'' after an AlexJones movie, being [[http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/mustaine_obama_was_not_born_in_america.html a birther]], and so on.
* FieryRedhead: Dave Mustaine fits this trope perfectly - he is always angry about something (as can be heard in his songs) and his hair has remained long and red since the 80s.
* FlatWhat:
** Erupted among the metal world when Dave announced he endorsed Rick Santorum for the presidency in 2012. This one got so bad Dave had to backtrack and claim that it wasn't an endorsement, but just a statement of support.
** Another, earlier, smaller one was when Megadeth refused to play in a festival with Greek extreme metal band Rotting Christ (and later in Israel with Dissection) due to Mustaine's Christian beliefs.
** Around the time of the Santorum endorsement, Mustaine was also asked about his beliefs on gay marriage. Most of the time, he tried to avoid conflict by saying he was against it due to his christianity. But on one occasion he said "The last thing I need is a bunch of homos picketing us", barely disguising his hatred.
*** He once suggestion that Obama's government staged shootings (such as the one in Aurora, Colorado) in order to provide reasons for laws against gun use. Mustaine had previously questioned Obama's place of birth. Though he later retracted his statement after one of the Aurora victims called him out on it, saying that his comments were made "in the heat of the moment"
* GreenEyedMonster: Dave Mustaine's driving force for a large portion of his career was his jealously towards Metallica. He eventually mellowed out and forgives them.
** It's even the entire reason why ''Killing Is My Business'' is so bone-crunching: Dave wanted to one-up Metallica by making faster and more brutal metal than them. In doing so, he accidentally (or not) ended up setting a new preceddent for thrash metal.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Dave wrote the lyrics to "Peace Sells" as an attack against the people who claim that heavy metal fans are stupid and antisocial. Then in 2014 Dave was asked by VH1 why heavy metal music typically doesn't get any respect. Dave's answer: "Because the typical Metalhead is too stupid".
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Dave is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine#Christianity on record in a 1988 interview]] supporting the UK's Section 28 policy, saying that the last thing he needs is "a bunch of homos picketing us" in response to a question about Music/JudasPriest, and in 2012 declared he was against gay marriage because of his christianity.
** Mustaine is a more mild example because he tends only to approach the subject when asked about it and doesn't go ranting against it. He probably would change his views if the pressure was high enough.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mustaine and Ellefson... at least when they didn't want to kill each other. Ellefson rejoined the band in 2010.
* HypocriticalHumor: Dave Mustaine dismissing the political ranting of [[Music/{{Ministry}} Al Jourgensen]] due to having a "legendary drug problem." He would know.
* IAmTheBand: Until ''The World Needs A Hero''. Dave Mustaine later took offense to [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] saying that Dave was Megadeth, and several band members have been given more influence in song writing and line-up decisions. Pretty much every line-up change since 2004 has come from recommendation from everyone else in the band, including David Ellefson's return.
* IWasQuiteALooker: [[http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u149/iwanarockyou/896856368_l.jpg This]] is Dave in his young years.
* JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dave. He´s been worse than he is now but he has made friends with Slayer and Metallica again.
* ManlyTears: Dave did this after playing "I'll Be There" on ''That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires''. The bootleg of that show also has more moments like this.
* NeverMyFault: Dave loves to attack Metallica for his being kicked out. Mentions of his serious drug and alcohol problems or his violent behavior should not be expected from him.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Dave Mustaine and Dave Ellefson are now Christians.
* [[RedHeadedHero Red Headed]] [[EvilRedHead Something]]: Dave.
** RedHeadedBully: Dave Mustaine noted in Megadeth's VH1 Behind The Music that he was one of these as a kid. It was a way of taking out his frustration after his father left the family. Mustaine still had a reputation for this by the time he was in Metallica, he used to pick on Ron [=McGovney=] and punched James Hetfield at least once. Mustaine became a nicer person after expressing much of his anger through his music, but still is known to be difficult to work with sometimes.
* RevolvingDoorBand: The members listed at the top of the page are only the members who have appeared on some recording. At least two more drummers and three more guitarists could be added to that list, including [[Music/{{Slayer}} Kerry King]] during the band's early years.
* SesameStreetCred: Dave Mustaine guest starred in DuckDodgers
* StartMyOwn: Mustaine's reason about why he started Megadeth. It was after he was fired from Music/{{Metallica}} due to his alcohol problems.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: After receiving the injury that would break up Megadeth, Dave was told that his arm would never fully recover and he would never be able to properly play guitar again. Yeah, we know how well that claim went.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Chris Poland (twice, actually), Nick Menza and David Ellefson. In that order. Subverted with the two former; Menza just didn't mesh with the reincarnation of Megadeth, and Chris Poland chose to be only a session musician for the ''Rust In Peace'' demos and later ''The System Has Failed''.
[[folder:Song tropes]]
* AgeProgressionSong: "Of Mice and Men", from ''The System Has Failed''.
* AlbumTitleDrop: Every album except ''So Far...'' and ''Risk'' has had one song that does this. The ones that have no title track, though, are ''Cryptic Writings'' (which is namedropped in "Use the Man") and ''The System Has Failed'' (mentioned in "Kick the Chair").
* AntiLoveSong: Megadeth mostly focused on politics and storytelling as opposed to personal stuff until around ''Countdown''. Some examples:
** "Last Rites/Loved To Deth", from ''Killing...''.
** "Wake Up Dead" from ''Peace Sells...''.
** "In My Darkest Hour" from ''So Far, So Good... So What!''
** "Tornado Of Souls" from ''Rust In Peace''
** "This Was My Life" from ''Countdown To Extinction''
** "Reckoning Day" from ''Youthanasia''
** A lot of songs from ''Cryptic Writings'', such as "Trust":
---> ''We lied to each other so much''\\
''that in nothing we trust...''
** "The Hardest Part Of Letting Go...Sealed With A Kiss", from ''Endgame''.
* ArcNumber: Thirteen for... well, ''[=TH1RT3EN=].''
* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Shadow of Deth" is basically Psalm 23 as a Megadeth song.
* AudienceParticipationSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6UjWMffaY MEGADETH!!! MEGADETH!!! AGUANTE MEGADETH!!]]
** Also, the instrumental part of "Hangar 18" has its main riff seem just ''made'' to yell "ME-GA-DETH!" to it. They have many more songs for this, just check the DVD "That One Night" for more examples.
* AxCrazy: "Black Friday"
* BadassBoast: Basically the first 2 minutes of vocals in "Prince of Darkness".
** From "Peace Sells":
-->"What do you mean I couldn't be President of the United States of America\\
Tell me something, it's still 'We The People', right?"
* BawdySong: The original "The Mechanix". Metallica slowed it down a little, changed the lyrics and a bridge, and made it into "The Four Horsemen".
* BitingTheHandHumor: Their last release on Capitol Records was a GreatestHitsAlbum titled ''Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years.''
* BungledSuicide: "Skin o' My Teeth", from ''Countdown To Extinction.''
-->'''Dave''': ''This is a song about how many times I tried to kill myself and just couldn't get the fucking job done.''
* CensoredForComedy: The original writer of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," Lee Hazlewood, objected to Megadeth's parody cover and its changed lyrics after its release. So when all of ''Killing Is My Business'' got remixed and remastered in 2002, ''every'' lyric change got bleeped out, but the worst the song really got was "Now someone else can kiss your ass" and "Whaddya know bitch, you got a lot to learn." And what would you make of the line "One of these days, these boots are gonna [[spoiler:stomp]] all over you"?
* ConceptAlbum: ''Peace Sells...'', ''Rust in Peace'', ''Countdown to Extinction'', and ''Youthanasia'', all of them sort of.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Some of Dave's lyrics deal with conspiracy; such as "New World Order", "Washington is Next" and "Endgame." He was also a friendly guest on the Alex Jones Show.
* CountryMatters: In the "Anarchy" cover below ("Or just another country/And other cunt-like tendencies"). The original was actually much cleaner ("Another council tenancy").
** This was because Dave couldn't understand what Johnny Rotten was singing in many parts (which is why he sings the wrong lyrics in the record), so he sang what he thought it was the lyrics as he went (including this example).
* CoverDrop: Three straight examples, with the earliest being ''[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fYakqapTzo8/Tb8_c0eRLFI/AAAAAAAAA7s/Hq9DiOkFHwU/s1600/Megadeth-Youthanasia.jpg Youthanasia]]'':
--> ''" 'We've been hung out to dry.' That line is probably the strongest representation of how we feel about the young people who listen to our music and what their future holds for them. You have a choice - you can be pro-active, or you can choose youthanasia."''\\
-- Dave Mustaine, explaining the song "[[TitleDrop Youthanasia]]" in an interview
** The cover to ''[[http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/600px-Megadeth_-_The_System_Has_Failed.jpg The System Has Failed]]'' makes a bit more sense with the lyrics to "Kick The Chair," which also [[TitleDrop contains the album title]]:
---> ''Justice means nothing today''\\
''Now that the courts are for sale''\\
''Pick a crime from the menu; pick a sentence and defend you''\\
''And pay the down payment called bail''\\
''The system's for sale''
** And finally, ''[[http://www.culturebully.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/megadeth-endgame.jpg Endgame]]'' is explained in its title track, like ''Youthanasia'' above:
---> ''A system of controlled movement, like a giant ant farm''\\
''Any time is a long time, now you're not in charge of your time anymore''
** Surprisingly, this was subverted with ''[[http://images1.buymusichere.net/images/w/302/60302.jpg Countdown To Extinction]]'' even before Megadeth started to play the trope straight. The title track actually speaks out against [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_hunt canned hunting]] in this case, rather than being a WarIsHell song like several of the '80s tracks.
* CoverVersion and RearrangeTheSong: Any song they cover, they make it thrash metal, and it's awesome.
** [[Music/NancySinatra "These Boots"]] (''Killing is My Business...'')
** [[Music/HowlinWolf "I Ain't Superstitious"]] (''Peace Sells...'')
** [[Music/TheSexPistols "Anarchy in the U.K."]] (''So Far, So Good... So What?'') and "Problems" (B-side to ''A Tout Le Monde'')
** [[Music/AliceCooper "No More Mr. Nice Guy"]] (soundtrack to ''Film/{{Shocker}}'')
** [[Music/BlackSabbath "Paranoid"]] (''Nativity in Black'' volume 1) and "Never Say Die" (''Nativity in Black'' volume 2)
** [[Music/LedZeppelin "Out On The Tiles"]] (bonus track in ''United Abominations'')
** [[Music/ThinLizzy "Cold Sweat"]] (''Super Collider'')
** "Grabbag", a.k.a. the ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' theme. (bonus track in ''Risk'' and ''Duke Nukem: Music To Score By'')
** "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" for an all-metal Christmas album. It's as epic as you think.
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: The lyrics of "When" express this.
* DrugsAreBad: "Burnt Ice", from ''United Abominations'' is about drug addiction, most likely meth. "Poison Was the Cure", "Addicted to Chaos", "Use the Man", and "Kingmaker" are other examples.
* EpicRocking: "When", from ''The World Needs A Hero'' lasts 9:13.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The chimpanzees in the video for "Public Enemy No. 1."
* EvilLaugh: This was used to {{Narm}}ful levels in "Loved To Deth", but only once at the start of "Lucretia" (the latter can also be heard in "Victory" when the song is referenced).
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** "Head Crusher", from ''Endgame''. Its starting solo WILL crush your head. It makes sense, since it's about an ancient torture device that crushes your skull. Not pretty. Just look at the album art for the [[http://tanakamusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Megadeth-Head-Crusher.jpg single.]]
** The band's thirteenth album is entitled "''[[Letters2Numbers Th1rt3en]].''"
* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Album Title!]]: ''Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good!'' and ''So Far, So Good So What!''
** [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Song Title!]]: "Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good!", "Washington Is Next!" (from ''United Abominations''), "This Day We Fight!" (from ''Endgame''), and "Burn!" (from ''Super Collider'').
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Dialectic Chaos" into "This Day We Fight!" and "Bodies" into "Endgame", both from ''Endgame''.
* FamousLastWords: "À Tout Le Monde" is a hypothetical version, as clarified by Dave in an interview.
* FunetikAksent (or Heavy Metal Spelling).
* {{Gorn}}: "Black Friday", about a SerialKiller who...really gets into his work.
* GratuitousFrench: The chorus of "A Tout le Monde". Surprisingly well-pronounced though. Also, the demo for said song had significantly less refined French than the final version, but Mustaine got the help of an unnamed French journalist to tidy things up.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Dave has some degree of Spanish competence, as he shows in ''That One Night''.
** There are versions of "Trust" and "Promises" with the choruses translated literally; the Spanish chorus was used once when they performed "Trust" on ''That One Night'' (the other three iterations of the chorus were all still in English).
* HappyPlace: More like "A Secret Place", from ''Cryptic Writings''.
* HoldingOutForAHero: The trope was originally named "The World Needs A Hero," after all.
* {{Homage}}: According to Dave, "When", from ''The World Needs A Hero'', to Music/DiamondHead's "Am I Evil?".
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: "Blessed Are the Dead" seems to suggest they might be a lesser evil than [[HumansAreBastards mankind itself.]]
* {{Instrumentals}}: "VideoGame/DukeNukem Theme", "Dialectic Chaos" (from ''Endgame'') and "Into The Lungs Of Hell". (From ''So Far, So Good So What!'')
* JustBeforeTheEnd:
** "Set the World Afire", from ''So Far...''.
** "Countdown To Extinction" and "Symphony of Destruction", from ''Countdown To Extinction''.
*** "Countdown to Extinction" is actually about canned hunting, so the "extinction" here is of endangered animal species, not the world as a whole.
** "How the Story Ends", from ''Endgame''.
* LastChorusSlowDown: "Trust" and "A Tout le Monde".
* LastNoteNightmare: "High Speed Dirt", a song about skydiving, ends with an "[=shii=]''iiiiiIIIIIIT''"-- (loud thud/splat sound). That's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]].
* MetalBandMascot: Vic Rattlehead.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The eighties albums were 7-8. ''Rust in Peace'' was too, except for "Dawn Patrol," which was a 6. However, ''Countdown to Extinction'' was a bit softer than earlier albums, though ''Youthanasia'' was pretty heavy. Both albums are a pretty solid 7 for the most part. ''Cryptic Writings'' dropped things down a bit (being mostly at about a 6 or 7 with "Use The Man" being a 4), then ''Risk'' was more of a softer direction, which was about 4-6 on the scale. The next three albums were 7 with an occasional step up to 8. ''Endgame,'' however, returns to the mostly 8 songs. While ''Th1rt3en'' returns to mostly 7 songs. Strangely, the band never quite made it into 9 territory (except maybe with ''Black Friday'', which teeters somewhere between an 8 and a 9).
* MoodWhiplash: "The Hardest Part of Letting Go... Sealed With a Kiss" begins as a ballad, but then turns into an aggressive metal song without warning partway through. It then changes back to a ballad at the end. In ''Endgame'', it is followed by "Head Crusher", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin possibly the heaviest song on the album]].
** "Last Rites/Loved to Deth" starts with a soft piano piece, then descends into brutal thrashery.
* MovieBonusSong: "[[Film/LastActionHero Angry Again]]", "[[Music/AliceCooper No More]] [[Film/{{Shocker}} Mr. Nice Guy]]," "[[DemonKnight Diadems]]" and "[[Film/SuperMarioBros Breakpoint]]." All collected in the ''Hidden Treasures'' EP.
** "Diadems" is a different version on the soundtrack, however.
** They also rerecorded "These Boots" in 1988 for a movie soundtrack. This version of the song has not been rereleased.
** "[[UniversalSoldier Crush 'Em]]",
* NameTron: "Psychotron"
* NewSoundAlbum: Most notably is ''Risk'' and perhaps ''Countdown to Extinction'' (though their 90's stuff is generally different than the 80's recordings, which were rougher).
** Also ''Youthanasia'', which featured downtuned instruments (to E-flat; most Megadeth albums are done in E-tuning) and a dramatic shift to mostly slow-paced songs.
* NonAppearingTitle: "Bad Omen," "Poison Was The Cure" and "My Kingdom" (although the word "king" appears twice in the last one). Only part of the title appears in "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due," "Tornado Of Souls," "Return To Hangar" (sequel to "Hangar 18" with the same exact chorus lyric) and "Never Walk Alone... A Call To Arms."
* NotChristianRock: Four songs from ''The System Has Failed'' (the four last ones: "Truth Be Told", "Of Mice and Men", "Shadow of Deth" and "My Kingdom Come") and two songs from ''United Abominations'' ("Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms" and "Blessed Are the Dead").
* NowILayMeDownToSleep: Used at the beginning of "Go to Hell", and then parodied at the end:
-->Now I lay me down to sleep,\\
BlahBlahBlah, my soul to keep.\\
If I die before I wake,\\
I'll go to hell, for heaven's sake!
* OlderThanTheyThink: Many people think "A Tout Le Monde" (from ''Youthanasia'') was the band's first ballad. It's actually "Foreclosure Of A Dream" (from ''Countdown To Extinction'').
* OpeningChorus: You'll know that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is coming when you hear the Angel's Choir at the beginning of "Symphony of Destruction"...
* ParentalIncest: "Family Tree".
* PrisonRape: "Captive Honour".
* ProtestSong: "Symphony of Destruction", "Countdown To Extinction", "Washington Is Next!", "Amerikhastan", "Gears of War", etc.
* ProfessionalKiller[=/=]PsychoForHire: The song "Killing is my Business...and Business is Good!" is about an assassin who promises to come after his employer once he's made his assigned hit.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "Elysian Fields"
* RatedMForManly: They did a version of VideoGame/DukeNukem's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUCbflBkIgo theme]], for Duke's sake!'
* RereleaseTheSong:
** "À Tout Le Monde" from ''Youthanasia'' was remade as a SopranoAndGravel duet for ''United Abominations''.
** Several on ''[=TH1RT3EN=]'': "Sudden Death" (originally recorded for ''VideoGame/GuitarHero: Warriors of Rock'' in 2010), "Black Swan" (bonus track on ''United Abominations'') as well as "New World Order" and "Millennium Of The Blind" (bonus tracks on the 2004 remaster of ''Youthanasia'' a demo of "New World Order" also appeared on some editions of the ''[[MovieSongBonus Hidden Treasures]]'' EP).
* RockStarSong: "Rattlehead", "The Killing Road", "Bodies".
* RussianRoulette: "My Last Words" is about this from the perspective of someone playing it.
* SanitySlippage: The subject of "Sweating Bullets"
* {{Sampling}}:
** "Use the Man" begins with an excerpt from The Searchers' "Needles and Pins" (this only appeared on the original CD and not the remaster).
** The band's cover of the ''Duke Nukem'' theme features samples of catchphrases from ''Duke Nukem.''
** Samples of actual AK-47 shots and news reports were used in "44 Minutes".
* SongOfSongTitles: "Victory", from ''Youthanasia'', is a basic example of this. A funny thing to notice is how the songs are, for the most part, well-divided amongst themselves: ''Killing'' and ''Peace Sells'' songs on the first verse, and ''So Far...'', ''Rust'' and ''Countdown'' songs on the second (though "Peace Sells" gets dropped in the second verse).
* SopranoAndGravel: Their remake of "A Tout le Monde" on ''United Abominations'' with [[Music/LacunaCoil Cristina Scabbia]].
* SpellingSong: The chorus of "Hook in Mouth":
--> F is for fighting, R is for red\\
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed\\
E we elect them, E we eject them\\
In the land of the free, and the home of the brave\\
D for dying, O your overture\\
M they will cover your grave with manure\\
This spells out "freedom", it means nothing to me\\
[[TakeThat As long as there's a PMRC]]
* SpokenWordInMusic: The famous "Read my lips" quote by UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush was sampled in 1992's "Foreclosure Of A Dream," and 2004's "The Scorpion" ends with a chain of news reports by the same anchorman while the music fades out.
** The band has actually used this quite frequently since ''Countdown to Extinction''.
* StopAndGo: Heard in "Bad Omen" and "Sleepwalker".
* StudioChatter:
** Nick yells [[GratuitousGerman "Eins, zwei, drei, vier!"]] for the count-in to "Train of Consequences".
** At the end of their cover of "[[Music/BlackSabbath Paranoid]]":
--> ''(song ends, but drums continue)''
--> '''Dave:''' Nick. Nick! NICK!!!
--> '''Nick:''' ''(almost inaudibly, due to him not having his own mic)'' [[spoiler:Fuck... Me... Running!]]
* TakeThat:
** Metallica can be seen as the first bullseye of Mustaine's declarations, for obvious reasons.
*** The "Don't wear no leather to fit in / Don't wear no spikes to be cool" in "Rattlehead" from ''Killing...'' is very easy to interpret as a shot at the lyrics "No life 'til leather" and "[...] with your leathers and your spikes" from "Hit the Lights" and "Whiplash", respectively, from ''Kill 'em All''.
*** "Captive Honor"'s line "Kill them all and you're a god" seems to partially be about how Metallica profited from Mustaine's songwriting on their album ''Kill 'em All".
** "Hook In Mouth", while being a song against censorship in general, takes a very direct hit at the PMRC.
** "Liar" was written about Chris Poland, who ended up [[WelcomeBackTraitor recording as a session member for the ''Rust In Peace'' demos]] only ''one year'' later (and eventually for ''The System Has Failed'' in 2004).
** "Something That I'm Not", from ''The System Has Failed'', could either be a shot at Lars Ulrich or Bud Prager, their infamous ExecutiveMeddling producer:
---> Unlike you I'm no vision to myself, lest you forget\\
You didn't ever make metal, buddy; metal made you
** "Back In The Day" is a TakeThat at Bud Prager and is mentioned as such in the booklet for ''The System Has Failed''.
* TalkingToThemself: The lyrics of "Sweating Bullets" are written to resemble this.
* TalkyBookends: The title track to ''United Abominations'' begins and ends with Dave narrating like an anchorman.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth... or rather ''Truth And The EpicRocking''
* VerySpecialEpisode: The music video for "99 Ways to Die" is about gun violence against children.
* WarIsHell: Several songs, including "Holy Wars"[[note]]not "The Punishment Due", which is based on ComicBook/ThePunisher[[/note]] and "Take No Prisoners."
* TheXOfY: Without the ''The'', although is implied: "Symphony of Destruction", "Architecture Of Aggression", "Foreclosure Of A Dream", "Blood of Heroes", ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''...
* XtremeKoolLetterz: The song "Mechanix," the album ''[[Letters2Numbers Th1rt3en]]'' and hell, even [[FunetikAksent the band name itself]].
* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist of "Last Rites/Loved to Deth", who kills a girl so no one else will date her.
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* TheArtifact: Mustaine says in the liner notes to the 2004 remix/remaster of "Risk" that he knew it was the beginning of the end for the band. Only a few months after those liner notes were written, the band reformed and released their comeback album "The System Has Failed". and are still going strong to this day. The 2004 remaster of Risk is still the in-print version of it, and the liner notes haven't been changed, so can confuse people who don't know Mustaine really thought the band were finished when he wrote those liner notes.
* FollowTheLeader: ''Many'' parallels with Music/{{Metallica}}'s career. Most of the bands' albums had similarities in the execution, with Megadeth usually following Metallica's lead. (''...And Justice For All'' and ''Rust In Peace''; ''Metallica'' (The Black Album) and ''Countdown to Extinction''; even ''Load''/''Re Load'' and ''Cryptic Writings'', to an extent.) Inverted after ''St. Anger''; Metallica's ''Death Magnetic'' is a comeback in the vein of ''The System Has Failed'' (though some will say that said comeback also happened around the same time with ''Endgame'').
* MyspeldRokband: "Megadeath" was a term coined in 1953 by RAND military strategist Herman Kahn to describe one million deaths in the event of thermonuclear war.
* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: ''[=TH1RT3EN=]''.
* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: A 1998 re-release of their catalog has mascot Vic Rattlehead [[http://tshirtslayer.com/files-tshirt/styles/shirtview/public/user-5800/e63db484451d63de3e12cecc661d724b.jpg?itok=bykCE9xO on the albums' spines]].
* {{Mascot}}: The [[DemBones skeletal]] Vic Rattlehead. He's a VisualPun for "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil", although in "Skull Beneath the Skin", the song that apparently describes his creation, he's the victim of a black magic ritual:
-->Prepare the patient's scalp\\
To peel away\\
Metal caps his ears\\
He'll hear not what we say\\
Solid steel visor\\
Riveted across his eyes\\
Iron staples close his jaws\\
So no one hears his cries
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The music video for "Head Crusher" is based around a wrestling tournament in which skilled fighters beat up prisoners.
* {{Remaster}}: Mustaine remixed and remastered all of the albums from ''Killing Is My Business...'' through ''Risk'' while he was recovering from his arm injury.
* ThePowerOfRock: In a episode of ''DuckDodgers'', Megadeth appears to fight off a Martian invasion with their loud metal music. Mustaine had a modified electric guitar that shot laser beams at space ships.
* PutOnABus: Literally the way Dave was expelled from Metallica.
* TakeThat:
** After Dave unintentionally caused a riot at a concert in Ireland, he wrote the line "Fools like me who cross the sea / And come to foreign lands" in "Holy Wars" as a jab at himself.
** He also slips in the line 'All my friends say: Dave you're mental anyway' into the song Lucretia.
** The line 'Kill 'em all', and you're a god' in "Captive Honor" is likely to be a response to Metallica's success with songs that he wrote on the album ''Kill 'Em All''.
** Some ex-members like David Ellefson, Al Pitrelli and Nick Menza are/were among the receptors of Dave's word shots on interviews. Ironically, Ellefson would return to the band and they're back to being friends again.
** Another interview had him taking a jab at Music/{{Pantera}} for aping their sound. Ironically again, he wanted Dimebag Darrell in the past for the band, and he aped ''their'' sound for "Train of Consequences".


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Google has also blamed China for attacks against its own network and the email accounts of some of its Gmail users. The Chinese government has repeatedly denied all allegations of sponsoring or conducting attacks.
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Also yesterday, SecureWorks released signatures that companies and organizations can use to detect similar traffic to see if they, too, were infiltrated. "These fingerprints have a limited shelf life," said Stewart, implying that the attackers would quickly correct their HTran error. "We hope that every institution potentially impacted by APT activity will make haste to search out signs of this activity for themselves before the window of opportunity closes."
Stewart's analysis is available on the SecureWorks' website.
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Your Last Shot
'Your Last Shot' is your very last portrait. A serene and fearless portrait that will be taken of you now and that one day will be used to remember you by on your grave. Why would you have someone else choose a picture for you that you would have untagged yourself from?
brb untagging myself from life