Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Tracklist
01. Trust02. Almost Honest
03. Use The Man
04. Mastermind
05. The Disintegrators
06. I'll Get Even
07. Sin
08. A Secret Place
09. Have Cool, Will Travel
10. She-Wolf
11. Vortex
12. FFF
13. One Thing [Japanese bonus]
[2004 re-release bonus tracks]
14. Trust [spanish version]
15. Evil That's Within
16. Vortex [alternate version]
17. Bullpick
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This album seems to separate the two sounds of Megadeth in the 90's, with the radio rock and thrash sounds being confined to their own songs rather than Megadeth trying to mix (or abandon one of) the two. This makes for an album that shifts gears every once in a while, with thrash tracks punctuating the more radio-oriented efforts. It also ends up with an album of two halves being merged together, rather than creating one strong whole. Read more ›› |
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Gorey
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1997 was the year of the renewal for Megadeth. Dave Mustaine and his three mates came back after three fabulous albums. Yet it must be said that since 1994 and Youthanasia, there had been a period of scarcity. So Megadeth hired a new producer [you hear it!], Dan Huff, a strange choice, for he was mainly known for his work in country-music. At the first listening, the word renewal seems wrong, while summary sounds righter. Cryptic Writings is actually the album of maturity. Read more ›› |
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This butt is crazy. Isn't it true that guy's initial days in MS starts with blind fanboyism? I remember I did for Suicide Silence but wasn't a fan boy of that band.
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Posts: 133 Written by Angelic Storm on 14.11.2013 at 19:20 That's funny because for me Trust is the best song to "open" the album. As someone said this album have some jazz elemnts (in "I'll Get Even" wich is interesting). A good album with some awesome songs but as you said some songs drag the album a bit down
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Trust is the only reason I played this album when I was younger. I eventually just got bored of having it take so much space on my hard drive, and deleted everything but Trust. Thus breaching one of my imaginary rules: never have single songs lying around just like that. Proves how much I just love that song.
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Posts: 133 Written by Ilham on 22.10.2014 at 02:07 it's not their best album but there some really good songs
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Posts: 3650 Written by Ilham on 22.10.2014 at 02:07 I used to love that song too, until I heard the Spanish version. (I also used to have that rule btw. In fact, I kind of still do.)
---- I hate bonus tracks
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Posts: 5161 Written by Zap on 08.02.2015 at 19:10 I'm not letting you ruin the only Megadeath song I still listen to regularly. Not opening that link nuh huh.
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Posts: 3650 Written by Ilham on 08.02.2015 at 20:33 Oh, I assumed you knew it already. Yeah, don't click that link. Then again... I know you want it.
---- I hate bonus tracks
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Oh my god I can't remember this album being this bad, Megadeth trying to write mainstream radio friendly rock and sadly it's not even catchy as many of the tracks on Risk are, this is just downright boring, dragging and lacks any kind of decent song ideas. It's really shows how desperate Mustaine was to follow Metallica in trying to get as much radio play as possible. It opens up decent with Trust (which however sounds 10 times better live) but after that it takes until track 8 (that's 6 tracks of pure garbage inbetween!!) when we get something thats listenable again. Have Will Cool Will Travel is again worthless but weird enough all three last songs aren't actually that bad, they are all pretty good, especially She-Wolf and Vortex.
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If you go chronologically its worst band album, but that time super stars in 90's put even worst rubbish albums out as this one. Some songs are good, whit deep meaning. Not good to remember, but going trough disco and judging, you can give a try. I hated it then, now I dont hate, but dont like it so much.
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Pretty underwhelming one, although I really like Trust and She Wolf, the rest doesn't really stand up to it
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This album is amazing ..... you just need to listen more and more ! Everybody talk about Trust and She wolf ...but c'mon .... FFF , The Disintegrators, Secret Place !!!! This album is Awesome!!!
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An okay album, some good songs like Trust, A Secret Place, She-Wolf and a few more but the rest is average and only contain few interesting parts.
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