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Megadeth - Youthanasia



8.2 | 1564 votes |
Release date: 24 October 1994
Style: Heavy metal

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01. Reckoning Day
02. Train Of Consequences
03. Addicted To Chaos
04. A Tout Le Monde
05. Elysian Fields
06. The Killing Road
07. Blood Of Heroes
08. Family Tree
09. Youthanasia
10. I Thought I Knew It All
11. Black Curtains
12. Victory

[2004 re-release bonus tracks]
13. Millenium Of The Blind
14. New World Order [demo]
15. Absolution (Instrumental)
16. A Tout Le Monde [demo]

Additional info
Youthanasia has been banned in Malaysia and Singapore, as officials there have deemed the cover artwork 'defamatory'. Problems have also occurred in Canada and Germany with major retailers not wanting to stock the record, citing the cover as 'offensive' and 'not in good taste.'

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has refused to change the cover art. He says: 'Keeping our records off the shelves does not make the problem of our children being hung out to dry disappear.

Guest review by
Gorey
Rating:
9.0
Four years after the epic Rust in Peace, Megadeth, under the command of the creative Dave Mustaine, made it again. For the greatest pleasure of our impatient ears, Youthanasia has been released in 1994. After the phenomenal success of the previous disc, the very metallic Countdown to Extinction, Megadeth's fans owed to be surprised, or could have been bored in a genre in which competition was tough (Metallica, Anthrax...).

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published 22.10.2003 | Comments (43)

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26.12.2009 - 21:42
Reza
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I believe it's the best Megadeth album. All songs are quite good. I like Megadeth in Heavy Metal more than Thrash and I like this album more than the others!
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26.12.2009 - 21:54
Rating: 8
Warman
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Written by Guest on 26.12.2009 at 21:42

All songs are quite good.

So an album full of "quite good" songs deserves a 10?
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26.12.2009 - 22:07
Reza
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Yeah, I never use the word "PERFECT" for an album. just quite good man
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27.12.2009 - 01:08
Rating: 6
I_Die_Often

After this release, I just didn't care for Megadeth anymore, IMO they had lost the energy that attracted me to them in the first place with So Far, So good... I've heard that some of the newest stuff is quite good, but I can't get myself to check it out!
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27.12.2009 - 17:35
Rating: 8
Warman
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Written by Guest on 26.12.2009 at 22:07

Yeah, I never use the word "PERFECT" for an album. just quite good man

But a 10 on MS is perfect. Just read it yourself.
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27.12.2009 - 23:22
Kratos

This album is ok, but just some songs just seem to drag on and on.
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28.12.2009 - 04:17
Kap'N Korrupt
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This album was always way too slick and poppy for my tastes...
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28.12.2009 - 19:43
Reza
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My "quite good" = 10 on MS It's my rule man.
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28.12.2009 - 19:47
Reza
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Anyway I like this album. Warman, do you have any problem with it or with "quite good" ?
I don't like to use the word "PERFECT" for anything.
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28.12.2009 - 20:12
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Guest on 28.12.2009 at 19:47

Anyway I like this album. Warman, do you have any problem with it or with "quite good" ?
I don't like to use the word "PERFECT" for anything.



Then DON'T rate it with a 10. A 10 means it is perfect.
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28.12.2009 - 20:17
Rating: 9
ja-vi

Youthanasia is a perfect 10. Just as the first two albums and Rust in Peace.
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28.12.2009 - 20:50
Reza
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I know Marcel.
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29.12.2009 - 06:03
Rating: 7
Dangerboner
Lactation Cnslt
This whole album just sounds too samey. When I first bought it I liked it a little, but after my third listen it became as boring and forgotten in my collection as Countdown to Extinction did. Dave just sounds too retrospective, like he's looking back on his career and wanting radio hits instead of writing material filled with attitude and inspiration.

I'd give it a 6.5, which rounds out to a 7... I guess. It's been a while, so the next time I play it I'll probably give it a lower rating.
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06.06.2010 - 08:03
Rating: 9
Jay-WalKeR

After the album Rust In Peace Youthanasia is BEST album.
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06.06.2010 - 13:36
Rating: 7
vezzy
Stallmanite
All is known, New World Order, shall be shown.
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09.01.2011 - 08:46
SATANSCHAMBER666
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This is a Brilliant Album
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13.02.2011 - 05:40
Rating: 10
Sonic MrSumo

This could be one of the best sounding albums in my collection. And the solo in "Blood of Heroes" is excellent!
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04.04.2011 - 02:04
Void_Eater
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Inferior to all of the albums preceding it, and superior to all the albums folloiwng it until Endgame. I do enjoy it a lot though, and being worse then the five preceding classics is nothing to be ashamed of-This album is just below Countdown, and still a classic in my eyes. A Tout Le Monde is one of my favorite Megadeth songs. I Thought I Knew It All is also an underrated song that deserves a place in their live shows.
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02.05.2011 - 02:21
Mattybu

Good album. Megadeth showing off some nice melodic riffage here. Countdown to Exctinction was step 1 on the road down Megadeth dousing the thrash flame, so it's no surprise to me they continued that with Youthanasia. It never really got re-ignited, sadly.
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16.05.2011 - 03:28
Lit. Metalhead
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Train of Consequences is a wicked sick song.
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28.08.2011 - 01:55
Rating: 10
ThisIsEndgame

Some great tracks on this one. I would actually give it a 9.5 which rounds to ten, but this album was a great follow up to CtE and although not as thrashy is still great.
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08.02.2012 - 16:34
Likked

This album took months to grow on me. But once it did, I was hooked (still am) and couldn't get enough of it.
This is my favorite post-RIP 'Deth album.
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11.12.2012 - 23:57
Jaeryd
Nihil's Maw
Written by Warman on 26.12.2009 at 21:54

Written by Guest on 26.12.2009 at 21:42

All songs are quite good.

So an album full of "quite good" songs deserves a 10?


You can't really rate with decimals, can you? Maybe he would REALLY have voted it a 9.65? Round that up and you get a 10. A lot of the albums I rate aren't necessarily the 9s or 10s you see on my profile, but that's the closest number I can rate them to my personal rating. Perhaps an album is 9.4? It's better than a 9, but the closest rating I can give it is a 9.

This album is quite good, I'll admit. I'd vote it something more like 8.25, but it still counts as an 8 with these whole number ratings.
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12.12.2012 - 15:37
Rating: 8
Warman
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Written by Jaeryd on 11.12.2012 at 23:57

You can't really rate with decimals, can you? Maybe he would REALLY have voted it a 9.65? Round that up and you get a 10. A lot of the albums I rate aren't necessarily the 9s or 10s you see on my profile, but that's the closest number I can rate them to my personal rating. Perhaps an album is 9.4? It's better than a 9, but the closest rating I can give it is a 9.

This album is quite good, I'll admit. I'd vote it something more like 8.25, but it still counts as an 8 with these whole number ratings.

So an album full of "quite good" songs deserves a 9.65?
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12.12.2012 - 21:55
LICH

Tbh this was an album i most connected with , daves songwriting began to mature , and the overall sound was a lot more powerful class album
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12.12.2012 - 21:55
LICH

Tbh this was an album i most connected with , daves songwriting began to mature , and the overall sound was a lot more powerful class album
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12.12.2012 - 21:55
LICH

Tbh this was an album i most connected with , daves songwriting began to mature , and the overall sound was a lot more powerful class album
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13.12.2012 - 07:30
Jaeryd
Nihil's Maw
Written by LICH on 12.12.2012 at 21:55

Tbh this was an album i most connected with , daves songwriting began to mature , and the overall sound was a lot more powerful class album


You realize that you've posted that three times, right?
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13.12.2012 - 07:33
Jaeryd
Nihil's Maw
Written by Warman on 12.12.2012 at 15:37

So an album full of "quite good" songs deserves a 9.65?


According to this guy, I guess so. I definitely see your point, I'm just saying, maybe by saying "quite good" what he actually means is "Holy shitting godfuck, Batman, this is like group sex with three hookers and an Irish midget!" Sure it's not perfect, but 9.65 isn't perfect, is it? It's "quite good" as he would say.
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13.12.2012 - 15:13
Rating: 8
Warman
Erotic Stains
Written by Jaeryd on 13.12.2012 at 07:33

According to this guy, I guess so. I definitely see your point, I'm just saying, maybe by saying "quite good" what he actually means is "Holy shitting godfuck, Batman, this is like group sex with three hookers and an Irish midget!" Sure it's not perfect, but 9.65 isn't perfect, is it? It's "quite good" as he would say.

Yeah, sure. Just a weird use of words there. Since 8 is "very good" at MS, "quite good" would be under it.
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