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Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years is a greatest hits compilation album by heavy metal band Megadeth, released in 2000, through Capitol Records. The album featured the Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson/Jimmy DeGrasso/Al Pitrelli line-up on the new tracks "Kill the King" and "Dread and the Fugitive Mind". The album features a hidden track, "Capitol Punishment", which is a medley of numerous previous Megadeth songs.

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years
Greatest hits album by Megadeth
Released	October 24, 2000
Recorded	1986–2000
Genre	Heavy metal, hard rock, thrash metal, speed metal
Length	65:53
Label	Capitol
Producer	Various
Megadeth chronology
Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000) Still, Alive... and Well? (2002)

Background

The title of the album is an allusion to the band's persistent difficulties with their record label, Capitol Records. Megadeth ultimately left Capitol and signed with Sanctuary Records, but were contractually obliged to release one further album with Capitol, hence the greatest hits compilation. With the exception of material from the band's debut album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!, which was released on Combat Records rather than Capitol, the compilation contains songs from all Megadeth's previously released albums at the time, in reverse-chronological order. In addition to the new track "Kill the King", Capitol insisted on the inclusion of "Dread and the Fugitive Mind", a track recorded for the album The World Needs a Hero, then in the production stage. The band agreed simply to release themselves from their obligations to Capitol,^{[citation needed]} but the enmity between band and label was memorialized in the title of the album, intended to demonstrate that working with Capitol was a form of punishment.^{[citation needed]} It is out of print.^{[citation needed]} As of December 2005, Capitol Punishment had sold 200,000 copies in the U.S.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Drowned in Sound	(8/10)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Nick Lancaster of Drowned in Sound criticized the compilation for including too many tracks from albums like Cryptic Writings and Risk instead of earlier, heavier material. Lancaster took particular aim at the inclusion of the "ludicrously moronic" "Crush 'Em". Despite that, he did give praise to the two then-new songs "Dread and the Fugitive Mind" and "Kill the King", citing them as a "return to form".[3]

Similarly, Steve Huey of AllMusic also criticized the album for focusing more on commercial material at the expense of the band's earlier thrash material, as well as the exclusion of soundtrack songs like "Go to Hell", "Angry Again" and "99 Ways to Die". Huey summed up the compilation as "more of a sampler for casual fans", finding the release "too incomplete" and "too scattershot" otherwise.[2]

Track listing

Hidden track (US version)

Bonus track (Japanese version)

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[5]	41
UK Albums (OCC)[6]	185
US Billboard 200[7]	66

Single	Chart (2001)	Peak position
"Kill the King"	US Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard)[8]	21

References

На других языках

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- [en] Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

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[es] Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (Pena capital: Los años de Megadeth) es un álbum de grandes éxitos de la banda de thrash metal Megadeth, lanzado en el 2000, bajo el sello de Capitol Records. El álbum contó con la participación de Dave Mustaine/David Ellefson/Jimmy DeGrasso/Al Pitrelli en las nuevas canciones "Kill The King" y "Dread and the Fugitive Mind". Posee además una pista oculta que es un medley de varias canciones antiguas de Megadeth.

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[ru] Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years

Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years — сборник композиций американской хэви-метал-группы Megadeth, выпущенный лейблом Capitol Records в 2000 году. Альбом содержит скрытый трек «Capitol Punishment», являющийся попурри из многочисленных песен Megadeth.

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