Rude Awakening is the first live album by American heavy metal band Megadeth.

Two previously unreleased tracks from the concert, "The Conjuring" and "Time: The Beginning"/"Use the Man" were released on Still Alive... and Well?

For the bonus features of the DVD they used recordings from the show in Tucson, Arizona, This is the only Megadeth album which does not include the band logo or title on the immediate cover.

Brian O'Neill of AllMusic rated Rude Awakening a 3 out of 5, opining that, while he believes the album is "fraught with" limitations, it is "a far better encapsulation of the band's career to date than the spotty Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years compilation.

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