Released: 1988
Tracks: Into the Lungs of Hell; Set the World Afire; Anarchy in the UK; Mary Jane; 502; In My Darkest Hour; Liar; Hook in Mouth
Best tracks: Set the World Afire & In My Darkest Hour
Tracks to skip: 502, Anarchy in the UK, Liar
That is such a horrible album cover. As we’ve learned since 1988, this album basically came out to fund Dave Mustaine’s drug habit. Did the other guys use drugs too? Who knows. Mustaine is the important one here. So Far, So Good features two new members of the band and they wouldn’t last to the next album: guitarist Jeff Young & drummer Chuck Behler. Anybody heard of these guys since this album? I haven’t. Into the Lungs of Hell is a nice instrumental to start the album off. Hm, Anarchy in the UK is playing and it’s OK, but Megadeth are just WAY too precise for this song. It’s probably one of the better cover versions of this song I’ve heard, but it still is just kinda lame. That’s a big problem with this album: there are some great songs but then there are the lame ones. It’s really obvious that Dave and Dave didn’t take the songwriting extremely seriously. All the playing is precise, but the songwriting sounds lazy to me.
Of course, there are a ton of cool riffs and some good lyrics on here, and some of these songs (Set the World Afire, In My Darkest Hour) are excellent. Mustaine of course gets some nice solos and he’s singing a little better than on Peace Sells. However, all that good stuff doesn’t really make this anywhere near as exciting of an album as Peace Sells. Ha, that solo in 502 sounds like Neal Schon! 502 still isn’t that great of a song though, it’s pretty lame. Liar’s not good for much more than a laugh. Another thing that’s really bugging me about this album is the production. There’s some sort of weird reverb or maybe it’s the drums. I can’t place it. “It” is annoying though.
I’m all weirded out by this album. It’s one of those that I know every single lyric, riff and solo to and I want to slap on some mid-high 90 grade on here and order all you to get it. I can’t though. I’ve tried reviewing this for a few months now and I want it to be a good grade, but it’s not gonna ever be that. So it gets a ‘less than good’ grade. If you’re serious about Megadeth then you should already own this, but if you’re just getting into the band then head to Peace Sells and Rust in Peace first.
Rating: 83
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