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[[caption-width-right:300:''Can you put a price on peace?'']]
''Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?'' is the second album by ThrashMetal band Music/{{Megadeth}}, released on September 19, 1986, by Creator/CapitolRecords.
The band's major-label debut was initially recorded while they were on Combat Records, but Capitol records bought the rights to it and hired a new producer to redo the mixing. The band members were having drug problems throughout the recording, resulting in guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson being fired from the band shortly after the tour for this album, though Poland was brought back as a session musician on 2004's ''The System Has Failed''. This resulted in Megadeth becoming a RevolvingDoorBand.
BreakthroughHit "Peace Sells" was the band's first music video. Its bassline was used as the opening to ''MTV News'', though frontman Dave Mustaine claimed the band received no royalties because the song was dropped before MTV would have to pay the band.
!! Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Wake Up Dead" (3:40)
# "The Conjuring" (5:04)
# "Peace Sells" (4:04)
# "Devils Island" (5:05)
[[AC: Side Two]]
# "Good Mourning/Black Friday" (6:41)
# "Bad Omen" (4:05)
# "I Ain't Superstitious" (2:46)
# "My Last Words" (4:57)
!! Principal Members:
* Dave Mustaine - Lead vocals, guitar
* David Ellefson - Bass, backing vocals
* Chris Poland - Guitar
* Gar Samuelson - Drums
!! What do you mean, "there are no tropes here?" Just take a look below:
* AlbumTitleDrop: The climax of "Peace Sells" repeats the full title of the album.
* AntiLoveSong: "Wake Up Dead" is about a man trying to sneak back into his home without waking up his wife after cheating on her.
* ContentWarnings: An [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early version]] of the Parental Advisory warning, a simple text reading "Explicit Lyrics / Parental Advisory", appeared on the back cover of the original version of the album due to the violent lyrics throughout and some swearing on side two. This upset Mustaine enough for him to bash the Parents' Music Resource Center on "Hook in Mouth" from the next Megadeth album, ''So Far, So Good... So What!''
* CoverVersion: "I Ain't Superstitious" was originally performed by Music/HowlinWolf.
* CruelMercy: God spares the protagonist of "Devils Island" from being executed, but now the protagonist has to spend the rest of his life within the HellholePrison.
* DeathByWomanScorned: The protagonist of "Wake Up Dead" fears this will happen to him if his wife catches him coming home at 4 AM and/or finds out he's been cheating on her.
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: Three of the four songs on side two have lengthy melodic intros before the songs proper start.
* EpicRocking: "Good Mourning/Black Friday" (6:41)
* HellholePrison: The titular "Devils Island" is in a [[ThreateningShark shark-infested]] sea and is surrounded by rocks that are dangerous when the tide is rough.
* HollywoodSatanism: "The Conjuring" is about a Satanic ritual.
* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Devils Island" is named after a French penal colony that operated from 1852-1952.
* LimitedLyricsSong: "Wake Up Dead" has just a verse at the beginning, a short passage in the middle, and a repeated TitleDrop at the end.
* {{Medley}}: The mostly instrumental "Good Mourning" is the intro to "Black Friday", and its few lyrics cover a different subject.
* PrecisionFStrike: The narrator of "Good Mourning" is having some unspecified problems.
--> "Something’s coming over me\\
What the fuck is this? Oh!"
* RussianRoulette: The subject of "My Last Words".
--> "Place the pistol down, now give the gun a spin, soon as the spinning stops, oh no, the game starts in"
* SerialKiller: The VillainProtagonist of "Black Friday".
--> "Blood-thirsty demon who’s stalking the street\\
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat"
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: "Bad Omen" is about a Satanic orgy.
* SuicideDare: "My Last Words", which is about Russian Roulette.
--> "You, you, next victim, you next to die"
* TakeThatCritics: "Peace Sells" is a refutation of the media's criticisms of metal culture.
* TitleTrack: "Peace Sells" has partial credit as it omits the subtitle.
[[caption-width-right:300:''Can you put a price on peace?'']]
''Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?'' is the second album by ThrashMetal band Music/{{Megadeth}}, released on September 19, 1986, by Creator/CapitolRecords.
The band's major-label debut was initially recorded while they were on Combat Records, but Capitol records bought the rights to it and hired a new producer to redo the mixing. The band members were having drug problems throughout the recording, resulting in guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson being fired from the band shortly after the tour for this album, though Poland was brought back as a session musician on 2004's ''The System Has Failed''. This resulted in Megadeth becoming a RevolvingDoorBand.
BreakthroughHit "Peace Sells" was the band's first music video. Its bassline was used as the opening to ''MTV News'', though frontman Dave Mustaine claimed the band received no royalties because the song was dropped before MTV would have to pay the band.
!! Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Wake Up Dead" (3:40)
# "The Conjuring" (5:04)
# "Peace Sells" (4:04)
# "Devils Island" (5:05)
[[AC: Side Two]]
# "Good Mourning/Black Friday" (6:41)
# "Bad Omen" (4:05)
# "I Ain't Superstitious" (2:46)
# "My Last Words" (4:57)
!! Principal Members:
* Dave Mustaine - Lead vocals, guitar
* David Ellefson - Bass, backing vocals
* Chris Poland - Guitar
* Gar Samuelson - Drums
!! What do you mean, "there are no tropes here?" Just take a look below:
* AlbumTitleDrop: The climax of "Peace Sells" repeats the full title of the album.
* AntiLoveSong: "Wake Up Dead" is about a man trying to sneak back into his home without waking up his wife after cheating on her.
* ContentWarnings: An [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early version]] of the Parental Advisory warning, a simple text reading "Explicit Lyrics / Parental Advisory", appeared on the back cover of the original version of the album due to the violent lyrics throughout and some swearing on side two. This upset Mustaine enough for him to bash the Parents' Music Resource Center on "Hook in Mouth" from the next Megadeth album, ''So Far, So Good... So What!''
* CoverVersion: "I Ain't Superstitious" was originally performed by Music/HowlinWolf.
* CruelMercy: God spares the protagonist of "Devils Island" from being executed, but now the protagonist has to spend the rest of his life within the HellholePrison.
* DeathByWomanScorned: The protagonist of "Wake Up Dead" fears this will happen to him if his wife catches him coming home at 4 AM and/or finds out he's been cheating on her.
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: Three of the four songs on side two have lengthy melodic intros before the songs proper start.
* EpicRocking: "Good Mourning/Black Friday" (6:41)
* HellholePrison: The titular "Devils Island" is in a [[ThreateningShark shark-infested]] sea and is surrounded by rocks that are dangerous when the tide is rough.
* HollywoodSatanism: "The Conjuring" is about a Satanic ritual.
* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Devils Island" is named after a French penal colony that operated from 1852-1952.
* LimitedLyricsSong: "Wake Up Dead" has just a verse at the beginning, a short passage in the middle, and a repeated TitleDrop at the end.
* {{Medley}}: The mostly instrumental "Good Mourning" is the intro to "Black Friday", and its few lyrics cover a different subject.
* PrecisionFStrike: The narrator of "Good Mourning" is having some unspecified problems.
--> "Something’s coming over me\\
What the fuck is this? Oh!"
* RussianRoulette: The subject of "My Last Words".
--> "Place the pistol down, now give the gun a spin, soon as the spinning stops, oh no, the game starts in"
* SerialKiller: The VillainProtagonist of "Black Friday".
--> "Blood-thirsty demon who’s stalking the street\\
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat"
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: "Bad Omen" is about a Satanic orgy.
* SuicideDare: "My Last Words", which is about Russian Roulette.
--> "You, you, next victim, you next to die"
* TakeThatCritics: "Peace Sells" is a refutation of the media's criticisms of metal culture.
* TitleTrack: "Peace Sells" has partial credit as it omits the subtitle.
