The intro was used as the MTV News jingle for years.

Favorite line from this song is "What do ya mean I'm not kind. Just not _your_ kind."

this album deserve a full listening. it's truly a metal masterpiece

Did I just see Doug headbang through a double kick section?! 6:18 lmao I can die happy

Ellefson's bass has never sounded better than this album. Dave's voice is perfect for this, his snarl, the venom and contempt, the rage barely contained rage. I love the part with the 2 intertwined solos. This album is a pure monster!

Megadeath really is like: "I hate the government" *15 minute guitar solo*

Happiness was cycling Peace sells, Among the Living,, Master of Puppets and Regn in Blood after school.

Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson were Jazz players before joining Megadeth, their influences helped create Megadeth's signature sound. This song even though its great, don't showcase the lineup musical abilities at all. Try Good Mourning/Black Friday or Bad Omen next.

My life is simple. I see a fresh Daily Doug reacts to metal video, I watch it.

Wake up dead was killing it on Headbangers ball, when the M in MTV stood for music.

My favorite tune of Megadeth is on this same album "Wake up Dead" a must listen. The epitome of a metal song. So good in all respects.

Best song from this album to react: good morning black friday

It's cool. I actually know Chris Poland. He has a fusion power trio that regularly plays at this little place near me called the Baked Potato. The place is so small it's like a living room and everyone, guests and performers hang out in the back between sets as there's no back stage. I have a CD of stuff I wrote when I was studying music theory and he actually really likes it. Every few months he tells me he was cleaning his house and he came across it and listened to it again and he still likes it. Very flattering

My first Megadeth album and one of my favorites. Frontman Dave Mustaine recalled the writing of this song to Rolling Stone: "I was homeless at the time, and I was living in a rehearsal place in Vernon, California. I was seeing a girl, Diana - there were a lot of songs I wrote about her. I actually wrote the lyrics to that song on the wall, in that building. I didn't have any paper in the studio, but I had a Sharpie, so I just wrote on the wall. Whoever inherited our rehearsal room after I moved out, saw the original lyrics to 'Peace Sells' on the wall. They probably painted right over it and didn't even know it." According to former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, Dave Mustaine originally conceived this as an 8-minute piece before drummer and close friend Gar Samuelson talked him out of it. Poland told Xtreme Metal Radio: "I think originally it was eight minutes long, and Gar said, 'You know what? This is too good a song to drag it out like this. Let's shorten the arrangement, cut it down to size and make it a single.' Dave said, 'Yeah, let's do that.' I honestly think Dave respected Gar's opinion on stuff - he was the only guy in the band Dave wouldn't mess with. He totally respected Gar, and thank God he did, If Gar hadn't talked Dave into shortening the song." Mustaine also penned the opening bassline, which became famous for being used as the theme for MTV News.

Chris Poland, the guitarist of the band at this time, was just a straight-up jazz-fusion guitarist in a metal band. Some really jazz-influenced licks in his solos for sure. And he'd come back for Megadeth's "The System Has Failed" album. Vocally, Dave's snarl really works on this one. It fits the mood for sure.

Listen to Good Mourning/Black Friday.

Is there anything better than watching classically trained musicians turn into full pledge Metal Heads? Maybe the rap and hip hop dudes turning into Metal Heads. But in either case, it's just such a joy to witness people click with the genre and start to get the whole attitude; when they start headbanging naturally because they are so into the music, that's just cool to see -- it's like YES! YOU GOT IT! The Metal community is so in love with their music and just want to share the experience they have with everyone they can. Doug, you're a blessing. I love learning the details of all of my favorite songs, and you've hit so many that I adore. Appreciate ya! I remember in high school 1999 I had just become a metal head via Metallica, and a friend of mine showed me the Peace Sells album cover, and I thought it was so cool I was like "one of these days I know that's going to be one of my favorite albums." When I had finally listened through the entire Metallica catalogue, I bought Rust in Peace and was like '....oh.....my......God!' It remains one of my fav albums some 20+ years later. Same with Peace Sells. The FIRST concert I saw was Megadeth and they closed on Peace Sells as the encore. It was freaking AWESOME! Peace!

Good vid as always. Joe Walsh once said at a concert . . "If I'd known I'd be playing this song for 30 years, I'd a written a different song" 😊

this is one of my favorite albums of all time. I'm a 56 year little "old" lady and I still listen to it regularly (though usually in the car, as I don't want to disturb my neighbors - I did grow up a little bit ;) I remember seeing Megadeth on several occasions at both L'Amour and the Ritz in NY. Quality of the performance was always iffy as no joke, those guys were hell bent on self destruction with booze and heroin among other things, but when they were good....omg it was just beautiful blazing raw thrashing power. So glad you reviewed this one, and enjoyed it!

Now react to hangar 18. There is so many solos.

Great reaction, Doug! You should react, analyze the entire 1986 Megadeth album, a true masterpiece...For me, it's Megadeth's best album, with the best line-up, despite the overwhelming fame of the phase that began with another masterpiece, the album "Rust in Peace" (1990)...Greetings from Brazil!!!

FANTASTIC REACTION and appreciation and understanding the depth of the song. Love watching your channel.

I love your enthusiasm, Doug! It’s great to hear these classic metal tunes in a new way through your videos. 🤘

The first two Megadeth albums were really special because Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson came from a Jazz/Fusion background (They previously played together in a Fusion band) and their musical influence combined with Dave's riffs really set Megadeth apart. "Good Mourning/Black Friday" is another song from this album worth checking out (the whole album is a masterpiece), Chris Poland's guitar solos are incredible and the lyrics are really dark and gruesome.

Great reaction and video. Thank you for adding the interview and commentary at the end. It really rounded out the video and brought back a lot of memories!

You got that classical composer hair and I love it! Yes, this was the second song I ever heard from Megadeth and I still love it to this day. Great riffs!

Doug, this was one of the first songs by them that I had ever heard. It was the Summer of my 16th year and I had been listening to ragae when this cassette crossed my path and opened up a new world for me. I am glad you enjoyed it!

Glad to see you react to one of my most favorite albums of all time Doug 🙏 . I’ve been listening to this album religiously from vinyl to tape to CD and now digitally. It’s a blessing to see the reaction from a true musician and your eloquent way with words of your vast musical vocabulary 🥰🤘🏽. A very great day to witness this magical crossroads of one of my favorite reactors and albums cross paths .

It was the PMRC, parents music resource center which was lead by Tipper Gore. It’s main focus started out as flat out sensor ship, but had a great deal, pushback and ended up coming up with the explicit advisory sticker for all albums

Gar Samuelson was a Jazz drummer, the whole album is magnificent!!!

They've played it for 40 years, but the message is as true now as any other time in the last 4 decades. If that angst is from a place of truth, I doubt it's hard to muster the energy to perform, for this track at least.

FUUUUUUUCK, Black Friday is such an amazing song on this album.

Never seen you headbang before, and I'm here for it!

that return to forever album right behind doug is marvelous!

Absolute Classic metal song

Glad you reacted to this song, it's one of my favorite ones too. Hope you put "A Tout Le Monde" later down the line, great song too.

Doug Ive been in many bands playing drums and bass. I can honestly say that you've helped me learn my notes 😅.. because I can't read music , learned only by ear..Thanks

Good mourning black Friday from this album is probably my favourite metal song ever

Doug automatically headbanging to thrash with enjoyment.. I especially enjoyed when Doug said, " need to back up," Doug, love all your Metal reactions. Would like to see more Queensryche reaction videos...

now THIS was a welcome addition to my day, Doug!!!

Hell yeah! Dude, this was awesome!

The video is sooooooooo worth watching, especially for the father-son "I want to watch the news!" scene they added into the song

Doug! This was my favorite of your reviews! I Really connected with the energy of hearing this song for the first time. Mine of course was when the album came out. Great insight and commentary. Keep headbanging! By the end your hair was very Wolverine looking. Peace. What a concept. 🤓

Pretty cool! I didn't dig to deep into their catalog but I did get their 1990 album "Rust In Peace" back in the day and was really impressed! A couple favorite cuts are "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" and "Take No Prisoners"!

I remember when this came out, and I've been hooked since.

bought this album when it was released and still one of my favorite albums of all time. fav track good mourning / black friday which i play every friday 13th to this day

As much as I enjoyed your reaction to the music, your lyrically analysis and appreciation of the song is what really stood out to me. Great video!

Best metal anthem. At a live concert this is a 10 minute epic performance to see! ❤

You rule men. Thank you for making composer analisis avaylable for everyone. Cheers from Raleigh

You were banging your head just as hard as I was the first time I heard it. You have to react to this whole album.

I don’t get tired of this song or album.🤘🏻

This came out for me in 9th grade. It blew us away ❤

This song hits you like a tidal wave of energy and aggression.

So good. Thx for the reaction

This is my teen years lol. I dunno if they came out the same year, but I bought this and Anthrax persistance of time, and the same time, and loved them both as much!

What do you mean I hurt your feelings?? I didn’t know you had any feelings.😂😂👍

The song isn't long, or overly complex. It just drives forward and sends its message... but that drive is impressive and engaging, and the message is universally true and deserves saying. Great song. I've loved since I heard it. The song came out when I was in grade 5 or 6, with the video on MuchMusic.

You should do Holy Wars next. It's mind-blowing.

Excellent video : - ) They got a lot of other bangers and a lot to say, enjoy

Sup Doug! Other than changing the scene of Thrash Metal, Megadeth has also brought you a new subscriber! Yea me! lol. When this song first came out, I bought the cassette because it had a really cool album cover. Little did I know the effect it would have on me and many teens I knew at the time. Being a rebellious kid, I had no real direction on where those feelings would lead to. Music like this and Metallica could channel our anger at society and whoever we felt was holding us back. We were looked down upon for our long hair, the way we dressed and the music we banged our heads to. lol. This music was so intense that listening to it would calm the anger and help us chill. Could have been the joints also. Haha. I can remember being so pissed off and feeling the rage. I'd put on some thrash metal and crank it as loud as it could go and let the intensity burn it out. Even to this day I find Megadeth, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer and others so very calming. Given I have matured and my musical taste have broadened, it is still a blast to head bang to this, even if I can't grow the hair long anymore....WooHooo old age... Peace my friend, keep up the reactions

What a great album. I'm hoping he listens to Good Morning Black Friday next!!!

Dude I'm a Megadeth die hard fan. Seeing you headbang really made my day! thanks!

I can't begin to say how much I love this song!

Still one of my favorite metal albums. Just incredible.

RTF album in the background!🤟

This was the album that connected me with Megadeth. Has changed, evolved but this will always be my reference point on this band. Not just the song, the whole album.

Supposedly this was going to be a lot more progressive and approaching 6-8 minutes in length. Then Chris Poland (IIRC) suggested cutting back to being a driving anthem song.

I can´t wait until next 28 april here on México... Ill see Megadeth for the 9th time!!! :)

your reacts and reviews are the best!

The entire album is a banger. I had the album cover poster in my room. Drove my mother insane. Mission accomplished.

Hey man, love your videos. I really enjoyed this one. If you're looking to do more Megadeth songs my suggestions are: Set The World Afire The Skull Beneath The Skin Bad Omen Rust in Peace Polaris Hangar 18 Symphony of Destruction Foreclosure of a Dream Wake Up Dead

Love this song

Yeah, this was a great one!!

I heard them live for the first time last summer. And of all their raging songs, Peace Sells was by far the best for me, even though I've listened to it 100 times. The progression in this song is incredible.

My favorite album. I love your reaction.

Don't forget about the soundbite from this song that WAS the intro to MTV!!

Love your analysis and positive charisma and like when you are listening to the 3 bands of the big four. Couldn't find Anthrax in your vids😢.

This song is a HYMN... The músic and the lyrics are great

Essential Megadeth. Dave's writing on this track is so good, that bassline is one of the most iconic in metal history and of course the solos are on point It's still We The People, Right?! 🔥🤘🔥

Loved covering this song back in the day.

Awesome

That song is badass!

Just had this album cover put on my targa top on my 04 vette.Although had them put in black and white.looks totally bada$$.No words though just the image.

watchin this vid when the line "can you put a price of peace" came through all that came to mind was the court scene in Ironman 2 where tony says ".....I have successfully privatized world peace!" lmao i dont know why

One of my Favs from Megadeth!!! Sweating bullets is #1

Black Friday!!!!!!!!!! A monsterous song!

Great song, and I'm glad you liked it. I was worried you wouldn't because I remember you didn't like "holy wars." I remember that your complaint was that most of that song centers around one a couple of chords and stays in one hey, and I think you like songs with modulations and generally dynamic music. And this one also structure a bit like holy wars in that way. But whatever, you got this one and glad to see it. Great content, fun to see what such a musically educated person thinks about stuff like this!

Without a doubt my favorite Megadeath album by far still to this day, every single song is different from the next.

I humbly nominate "this was my life" for your next megadeath listen

One of the most fun megadeth songs. Full of humor, and excellent lyrics.

One of the all-time great songs!

Good show. I think you might enjoy trying Liar/hook in mouth from the So far, so good so what ep. I think that album is what elevated this band back in the 80s. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

I’m so glad you’re doing megadeth…. The B side of that album is just insane! check out “MY LAST WORDS” what a track!

I was 16 when Peace Sells came out and it was in the middle of the "hair/glam metal" era. It was interesting to watch MTV at the time and you would see Crue, Poison, Ratt, Bon Jovi videos and then this video was thrown in the mix and most people were like "WTF is this?". Definitely a great time to be alive and I still think the album Peace Sells is Megadeth's finest work

beautiful bluesy speed metal (for the day) album, luv the bluesy lead guitarist(Chris Poland?) and drummer(RIP) on this album

Listen to the whole album!!! Start to finish, it will blow your face off!!!

This entire album is a Classic and Must Hear!!!

You should do Lucretia from Rust In Peace, it's an underrated Masterpiece. (Just make sure that it's the original version and not the terrible 2004 remix)

I love seeing Doug get overexcited and go into a giant drum solo. :)

Check out Good Mourning/Black Friday from this album. A song about a serial killer. One of my favorites.