Megadeth

Released: January 19, 1988

Songwriter: Steve Jones John Lydon Paul Cook Glen Matlock

Producer: Paul Lani Dave Mustaine

[Intro]
Right now!

[Verse 1]
I am an antichrist
And I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want, but I know how get it
I want to destroy, possibly?

[Chorus 1]
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
No dog's body

[Verse 2]
Anarchy for the USA
It's coming sometime, and maybe
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic light
Your future dream is a shopping spree

[Chorus 2]
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
In the city

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Of many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use the rest
I use the NME
I use anarchy

[Chorus 3]
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
It's the only way to be

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Is this the MPLA?
Is this the UDA?
Is this the IRA?
I thought it was the USA
Or just another country
And other cunt-like tendencies

[Outro]
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
You know what I mean?
'Cause I want to be an anarchist
Again, I'm pissed
Destroy!

After being kicked out of Metallica, Dave Mustaine decided to form a Thrash Metal band that not only rivaled his former band, but played faster, more technical Metal. Along with bassist David ‘Junior’ Ellefson and a revolving door of guitarists and drummers, Mustaine set the world afire as Megadeth became known as the world’s state-of-the-art Speed Metal band throughout the 80s and the early 90s. One of the Big Four of Thrash Metal, Megadeth remains one of Metal’s most popular acts today.

However, Dave Mustaine’s fledgling band got off to a shaky start. Initially unable to find like-minded individuals, it was not until an altercation with his (underage) downstairs neighbours Dave Ellefson and Greg Handevidt, that led to him buying them beer and forming the first incarnation of the band with drummer Dijon Carruthers in 1983.

The band was named after a political pamphlet that referred to a “megadeath” (one million deaths by nuclear explosion):

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