Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

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艺人: Megadeth
语种: 英语
厂牌: Capitol Records
发行时间: 2000年10月24日
专辑类别: 精选集

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Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years is a greatest hits album by heavy metal band Megadeth, released in 2000, through Capitol Records. The album featured the Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson/Jimmy DeGrasso/Al Pitrelli line-up on the new tracks &Kill the King& and &Dread and the Fugitive Mind&. The album features a hidden track, &Capitol Punishment&, which is a medley of numerous previous Megadeth songs.

The title of the album is an allusion to the band's persistent difficulties with their record label, Capitol Records. Megadeth ultimately left Capitol and signed with Sanctuary Records, but were contractually obliged to release one further album with Capitol, hence the greatest hits compilation. With the exception of material from the band's debut album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!, which was released on Combat Records rather than Capitol, the compilation contains songs from all Megadeth's previously released albums at the time. In addition to the new track &Kill the King&, Capitol insisted on the inclusion of &Dread and the Fugitive Mind&, a track recorded for the The World Needs a Hero album, then in the production stage. The band agreed simply to release themselves from their obligations to Capitol, but the enmity between band and label was memorialized in the title of the album, intended to demonstrate that working with Capitol was a form of punishment. It is out of print. As of December 2005, Capitol Punishment had sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S. (wiki)

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by Steve Huey

A 14-track career retrospective featuring two new songs, Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years attempts to distill the output of a primarily album-oriented band into a set of their best-known (among audiences in 2000) work. Most immediately obvious to fans of old-school Megadeth is that there's hardly anything from the thrash years: one track apiece from Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? and So Far, So Good...So What! and two from Rust in Peace. Instead, Capitol Punishment concentrates on their more recent, radio-oriented sound -- about two-thirds of its tracks date from Countdown to Extinction on. And it doesn't even cover that territory very well; two of the four singles from Countdown (&Skin O' My Teeth& and &Foreclosure of a Dream&) are missing, as are the movie-soundtrack contributions collected on Hidden Treasures (&Go to Hell,& &99 Ways to Die,& &Angry Again&) that helped build their popular audience in between albums. It's hard to fault what was chosen, because the tracks here do represent some of Megadeth's most memorable recordings. It's also arranged in reverse chronological order, which, to the collection's credit, allows listeners only familiar with the band's recent albums to trace their development back to its roots. That's only to a certain extent, though, since those roots are portrayed so sketchily here. A best-of compilation for any group with as large a discography as Megadeth's is bound to omit at least a couple fan favorites, but Capitol Punishment is far too incomplete to qualify as an essential retrospective and too scattershot to make for a cohesive listen; instead, it's more of a sampler for casual fans who simply want one disc with some of the group's most popular songs.

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

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