DAVE MUSTAINE Responds To Article Challenging His 'United Abominations' Lyrics (#1782)

Anonymous · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:53 pm

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Band News - DAVE MUSTAINE Responds To Article Challenging His 'United Abominations' Lyrics

Published on Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:47 am
Source: Blabbermouth

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Anonymous · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:55 pm

I posted this just to remind people why politics and Metal should be completely seperate

Eternal Idol · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:57 pm

*sigh*

Why won't he ever just shut up and play some Thrash?

Kathaarian · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:23 am

I am not against politics in music but you need to do it in a more tongue in cheek way than this. Its just stupid.

Anonymous · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:41 am

Kathaarian wrote:

I am not against politics in music but you need to do it in a more tongue in cheek way than this. Its just stupid.

I don't know. Mustaine response was fair and serious. I don't think you've got a lot of patience left for closet critics when you've been making music for a quarter of a decade.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

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"I would rather feel right and be wrong with the semantics or facts in the song and have expressed my right to free speech, than to feel wrong and be right and sit back, like the rest of the cowards of the world, not saying anything.

Translation: I would rather shout like an idiot about nothing so I get attention than stop being an asshole.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:39 am

Fuck politics.

noodles · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:38 am

YEAH I MEAN AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR OPINION AND SHOUT IT AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU'RE RIGHT OR WRONG!!!!!!!!!

Dylan@Metalreviews · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:49 am

Brahm_K wrote:

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"I would rather feel right and be wrong with the semantics or facts in the song and have expressed my right to free speech, than to feel wrong and be right and sit back, like the rest of the cowards of the world, not saying anything.

Translation: I would rather shout like an idiot about nothing so I get attention than stop being an asshole.

Yeah that part was a bit...disheartening. He's pretty much saying he would rather be in denial and feel smug, than admit he was wrong and learn from it.

At least I don't think he takes that approach to his guitar playing...

Mintrude · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:49 pm

He said a whole lot of nothing with his er... retort?

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:12 pm

Dave Mustaine wrote:

"An example of spin would be 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' — or something similar by our ex-president Bill Clinton.

Or 'these weapons can be launched in 45 minutes', right? I love how right wingers think lying about sex is worse than lying about WMDs. Still, give Dave credit, he's at least partially right about the UN. It needs reform desperately. Having said that, it's preferable to a god-bothering government like the one he supports. If it was really 'we, the people' then all forms of government would be abolished and the world would be a much better place.

I really want to get UA, though. If I can take NSBM then I'll probably love this.

Eternal Idol · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:24 pm

Zad wrote:

Dave Mustaine wrote:

"An example of spin would be 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' — or something similar by our ex-president Bill Clinton.

Or 'these weapons can be launched in 45 minutes', right? I love how right wingers think lying about sex is worse than lying about WMDs. Still, give Dave credit, he's at least partially right about the UN. It needs reform desperately. Having said that, it's preferable to a god-bothering government like the one he supports. If it was really 'we, the people' then all forms of government would be abolished and the world would be a much better place.

I really want to get UA, though. If I can take NSBM then I'll probably love this.

Get it. It's the best album musically they've done in a long time. He and Drover have really good chemistry together. He also contradicts himself on a lot of the lyrics anyways.

Goat · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:20 am

Eternal Idol wrote:

Zad wrote:

Dave Mustaine wrote:

"An example of spin would be 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman' — or something similar by our ex-president Bill Clinton.

Or 'these weapons can be launched in 45 minutes', right? I love how right wingers think lying about sex is worse than lying about WMDs. Still, give Dave credit, he's at least partially right about the UN. It needs reform desperately. Having said that, it's preferable to a god-bothering government like the one he supports. If it was really 'we, the people' then all forms of government would be abolished and the world would be a much better place.

I really want to get UA, though. If I can take NSBM then I'll probably love this.

Get it. It's the best album musically they've done in a long time. He and Drover have really good chemistry together. He also contradicts himself on a lot of the lyrics anyways.

Now why does that not surprise me? Bless.

rio · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:59 am

I think this is hilarious that more than one guy from the UN would take the time to analyze Megadeth lyrics. It actually increases my faith in that organization, slightly.

Anyway, what did he expect? He wrote some asshole-ish lyrics and gets called upon it.

Agnostic Heathen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:43 pm

Dave Mustaine's mind has been poisoned by years of drug abuse, religious doctrine and Neo-con propaganda. A very bad combination with dire consequences. So the UN is the reason the world is so much more dangerous today? yeah right. It's sad so many Megadeth fans actually swallow all his diatribes rather than do their own research. And much of what he says in that song is not based on any facts whatsoever. Perfect example - "Iran supplies weapons to any terrorist group out there". Actually they only support Hezzbolah. They have never supported Al-Qaeda at all. Nor did Saddam. One of the strongest US allies in the mid east Saudia Arabia is the country with the strongest link to Al Qaeda. And they're also funding the Sunni extremists in Iraq right now. You know, the ones in league with Al-Qaeda.

rio · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:56 pm

Yes and Saudi Arabia has a non-demographic political system that is in many ways more oppressive than Saddams was, but they got all the oil so we cool.

*Shakes fist at superpower hypocrisy*

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