1st off, I thought Black SUCKED...
Load and Reload were defnitely much better...
A radio station decides what to play based on what their listeners want to hear, the band has no say so in that what-so-ever... I remember listening to Megadeth on the radio back when 'Symphony of Destruction' came out, that was the 1st time they ever got any radio airplay, but I don't recall anyone calling them sellouts... The music was more friendly for the average listener, people liked it, so the radio stations played it... Thats the way the music game works..
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What a sellout means to me is a bands decision to move from the essence that made them to a format that will entice more of the populus.
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Thats a bit shortsighted... Thats like saying Bill Gates shouldnt try to improve on the GUI of windows because thats getting away from the essence of DOS, which made him in the 1st place... The aim of a musician, whether you know it or not (and I do, I spent a year on the road as a musician) is to be good and successful at what you do. So, to NOT be a sellout, what you are saying is that you pick a select group of people. then you only make music that THEY like, you never try to draw in new people, you never try to improve your music so that other people will like it.. Theres alot of 1 hit wonder bands that fill that requirement. I remember alot of my friends running around yelling 'I'll play what I want, the way I want it ! ' , most of them are digging ditches for a living these days...
I personally think their music is better now than it was (with the exception of Master), but I also don't expect every album to sound like a carbon copy of a song from their last album...
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