In all honesty, I thought Megadeth's 1994 album Youthanasia was a bit of a letdown.  However, there were three tracks I really dug from it.  One of them I've posted already.  "A Tout le Monde" was another.  The other, hey, guess what?  It has the word "train" in it.  So it's going up today.

I'm always struck by the very beginning of this song's chorus, with that arpeggio with the major 3rd in it.  I can't really explain why that sounds so jarring, maybe it's because beginning a phrase by arpeggiating (for the non-musical, an arpeggio is when you break up a chord and play it note by note) a major chord isn't something metal bands do very often.  Way more often that's done on a minor chord as some sort of sad, ballady-type deal, but hearing it this way just sounds, well, different.

And that's not a bad thing at all.  Subtle, yet effective.

Watch the video for "Train of Consequences" on YouTube.

This is part of week-long series on songs about trains.