Artist: MEGADETH
Album: GREATEST HITS - BACK TO THE START (CD)

Release date: 2005
EAN/UPS: 00724387392922
Media type: CD

Greatest Hits: Back to the Start is the second greatest hits album by Megadeth. It was released in 2005 by Capitol Records. The tracklist for Back to the Start was largely the result of a poll on their official website, in which tens of thousands of fans voted for their favorite tracks from the band's albums and rarities compilation. All songs are digitally remastered (including all the songs also from Capitol Punishment which were the original recordings and excluding a few songs from that compilation). The face of Megadeth's mascot Vic Rattlehead can be seen in the mushroom cloud on the album cover. The mushroom cloud itself is likely from one of the tests in Operation Castle, most likely Castle Romeo. If the Special Edition was purchased at Best Buy it included a free Napster download of the track "One Thing," which was originally the Japanese bonus track on the original release of Cryptic Writings and would later be released on the box set Warchest. It also features "Angry Again" from Hidden Treasures and the movie soundtrack Last Action Hero.

The title "Back to the Start" is a reference to lyrics in the title track, "Rust in Peace...Polaris" from Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace: "The day of final conflict/All pay the price/The third World War rapes peace/Takes life back to the start"

TRACKLIST:
No. Title Lyrics Music Original album Length 

1. "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"   Dave Mustaine Mustaine Rust in Peace (1990) 6:32
2. "In My Darkest Hour"   Mustaine, David Ellefson Mustaine So Far, So Good... So What! (1988) 6:26
3. "Peace Sells"   Mustaine Mustaine Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (1986) 4:02
4. "Sweating Bullets"   Mustaine Mustaine Countdown to Extinction (1992) 5:26
5. "Angry Again"   Mustaine Mustaine Hidden Treasures (1993) 3:47
6. "А Tout le Monde"   Mustaine Mustaine Youthanasia (1994) 4:25
7. "Trust"   Mustaine Mustaine, Marty Friedman Cryptic Writings (1997) 5:12
8. "Kill the King"   Mustaine Mustaine Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000) 3:42
9. "Symphony of Destruction"   Mustaine Mustaine Countdown to Extinction (1992) 4:06
10. "Mechanix" (2002 Remix) Mustaine Mustaine Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985) 4:21
11. "Train of Consequences"   Mustaine Mustaine Youthanasia (1994) 3:30
12. "Wake Up Dead"   Mustaine Mustaine Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (1986) 3:38
13. "Hangar 18"   Mustaine Mustaine Rust in Peace (1990) 5:12
14. "Dread and the Fugitive Mind"   Mustaine Mustaine Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years (2000) / The World Needs a Hero (2001) 4:23
15. "Skin o' My Teeth"   Mustaine Mustaine Countdown to Extinction (1992) 3:15
16. "She-Wolf"   Mustaine Mustaine Cryptic Writings (1997) 3:39
17. "Prince of Darkness"   Mustaine Mustaine, Friedman Risk (1999) 6:28

Total length: 78:04