Songs
Three singles were released in support of the album: "Insomnia", "Crush 'Em"and "Breadline". All three received music videos, as well. In addition, "Crush 'Em" was featured in Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1999 movie Universal Soldier: The Return. Mustaine has described "Crush 'em" as Megadeth's arena sports anthem. Professional wrestler Bill Goldberg of World Championship Wrestling fame, who also starred in Universal Soldier: The Return, also used "Crush 'Em" as an entrance song. "Crush 'Em" also can be frequently heard in ice hockey arenas, and the Tom Leykis radio show regularly uses snippets of "Crush 'em" in between segments. Former Megadeth drummer Jimmy DeGrasso, who played on Risk, has claimed to vehemently hate the song. In addition to the single, "Breadline" was released as its own EP in Japan, featuring several versions of the song, and remixes other songs from Risk and Megadeth's back catalog. After leaving Megadeth, Marty Friedman would later cover this song on his solo album Future Addict.
Dave Mustaine has stated that "I'll Be There" was inspired by the devotion of Argentine fans. During the October 9, 2005 show in Buenos Aires, Mustaine said, "'I'll Be There' is a gift for you, because we will not play this song ever again." This is featured on the live CD/DVD That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires.
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“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
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“And our sov’reign sole Creator
Lives eternal in the sky,
While we mortals yield to nature,
Bloom awhile, then fade and die.”
—Unknown. “Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow,” l. 13-16, Social and Campmeeting Songs (1828)
“On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me,
“Pipe a song about a Lamb”;
So I piped with merry chear.
“Piper pipe that song again”—
So I piped, he wept to hear.
“Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe
Sing thy songs of happy chear”;
So I sung the same again
While he wept with joy to hear.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)