So... Turbo. First few spins I couldn't really be arsed with it but it's a lot better than I was expecting and even some of the extremely cliched songs are pretty good.
"Turbo Lover" is the only track I like completely.
The early verses in "Locked In" that end with "you got the key, the key to my heart, go ahead and use it" are some of my favorite Priest moments ever but the chorus and much of the rest of the song feel like they just weren't up to delivering what should have been one of their best songs.
"Private Property" is pretty good, could have been an anti-sexual harassment anthem if it didn't have a few lines of incredible bragging! Not that I think he should have changed it.
"Parental Guidance" and "Rock You All Around The World" are two that seemed the most cringey and cliched but they're actually quite fun and I like it how Halford is acting like an ambassador for heavy music.
"Out In The Cold" is pretty good but after that I kind of lose interest. Until... bonus track "All Fired Up" is better than anything on the album! Just awesome. Turns out that "All Fired Up" and "Red, White & Blue" are both from the Turbo sessions. Why didn't these get used earlier? What on earth were they thinking?
I didn't realise that Judas Priest started in the 60s but all the original members were gone within a short number of years.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 15 June 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
Sin After Sin is good fun. "Diamonds & Rust", "Let Us Prey/Call For The Priest", "Here Come the Tears" moving into "Dissident Aggressor" are all great.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 August 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
Stained Class is the best and got screwed here
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 1 September 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link
Stab! BAAAAAAWWWWLLL, punch! CRAAAAWWWWWWLLLL
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 September 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
yeah stained class is the one
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 September 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
I maintain 7 votes for Rocka Rolla as best Priest album is still the single worst ILM poll result
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 September 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
"Dissident Aggressor" is the shit!
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
Stained Class, Screaming For Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith are prob my top 3. I mean, Sad Wings of Destiny & Rocka Rolla are cool & all but I don’t really think of them when i’m looking for a ~PRIEST~ fix.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
I’d be less upset if Turbo got top spot. I mean jfc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
maintain 7 votes for Rocka Rolla as best Priest album is still the single worst ILM poll result
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, September 1, 2018 11:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was some Sanjaya shit
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
I like metal but never liked a single thing by Judas Priest - 2 votes
I wish at the time we explored what motivated these two sad creatures...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
Sad Wings is one of my favs for sure. "Tyrant", "The Ripper", "Victim of Changes", "Dreamer Deceiver" are 4 of my fav tunes.
Rocka Rolla tho....I can like, hum one tune ("One for the Road")
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
I'm glad to see some of the best stuff is yet ahead of me. Never knew Stained Class was supposed to be special.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
Rocka Rolla is fine but it doesn't even feel like they've found themselves yet, it's like the voting Book of Talyesin as the best Deep Purple album....Sad Wings is very 70s but still feels like a metal record and Priest
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Rocka Rolla is the indie pick
― omar little, Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
ums otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
I am now going to finally listen to Ram It Down cos why the fuck not, it's about time
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
I still love the title track and "Blood Red Skies", Johnny B Goode is awful. everything else, I haven't heard!
"Heavy Metal" - the fuck is this pseudo-Def Leppard shit
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
"Love Zone" - this was p much written for strip clubs wasn't it
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
"Come and Get It" - this at least SOUNDS like Priest, at least until the bridge when it goes to hair metal town. and these lyrics, fuuuuck
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
"Hard as Iron" - jesus christ
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
"Blood Red Skies" - always loved this one, a fav. shame about the album it's on
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
"I'm a Rocker" - this song is wearing zebra pants with a shit-stain on the back
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
"Johnny B Goode" - god, what they did to the chorus is just criminal
"Love You to Death" - this could p much be a late 80s Motley song
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link
"Monsters of Rock" - this is fucking 'Stonehenge'
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 September 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
Not too keen on Angel Of Retribution but "Hellrider" is really fun and "Loch Ness" is the most nwobhm thing, I'm impressed how straight faced it is, it's pretty cool.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
we should really repoll this
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
results more baffling every time
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
I like metal but never liked a single thing by Judas Priest
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
True true trollish response would be 'I like metal hence I never liked a single thing by Judas Priest'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
started reading Confess.
in the foreword, he uses his favorite recent phrase: "I am the stately homo of heavy metal".
the story of how he first sang in class and his teacher took him to several other classrooms to have him sing was pretty awesome. can't wait to finish this.
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
Martin Popoff's book on Judas Priest is quite good.
I would have voted Stained Class. Rocka Rolla is not an embarrassment but none of it works either, partly due to a completely leaden drummer, who then has to try to start a groove in 5/4 time in the opening track.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 9 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Confess is really good.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 January 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Huh...I wouldn’t be thrown if someone told me Sad Wings was there favorite because it’s pretty interesting and transitional but still..
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Saturday, 9 January 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
Not exactly an uncommon opinion
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 January 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
I never got the detraction from Painkiller being too much pandering to more 'extreme' metal like thrash, et al. the album is earwormy as fuck. like, it's more 'extreme' Priest, but the vocal and guitar melodies are all over the place awesome.
little 18 year old me probably gravitated to it for that reason. it melts faces, but it still has their songcraft at the center.
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
When Pantera supported Priest it seemed to be a revelation for Priest... I still remember the pix from that tour.
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/46440539_1858849597540264_7416699773278748672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=EC6Wt1v-s8kAX_nEJyf&tn=0A0EJtp07Dhgs60j&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=9fdc3f5da608ea411b86587e3fdf94c8&oe=615E445F
The album was definitely a case where Priest saw the future and wanted to be a part of it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
I'm so old, I can remember when Phil Anselmo had an upper register.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
probably the only vocalist in history that degraded not because he smoked, stopped practicing, got old, but because he felt his old singing style was "too wussy" and deliberately never went back to it and proceeded to destroy any ability to sing like that anymore, probably intentionally
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
ffs the high notes in Cemetary Gates are insane.
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link
for whatever reason I spent half the post above mis-remembering Phil Anselmo being dead and remembered he's not.
oh well
I always liked Painkiller
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link
Painkiller has aged beautifully over the last 30 years.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
speaking of, I caught a vid from the Bloodstock set, and they did "Hell Patrol". the only previous time they played it, he took the chorus down an octave.
not this time.
and he hit the high notes during the bridge too.
idk what he did but his voice sounds way better than in, like, 2009.
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
was he a smoker?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
feel like I should know that after I read Confess....ugh.
I know he abstains from drinking after some crazy living in the 80s. can't recall on the cigs.
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
Painkiller is such a great album. I was positively obsessed with it for a while earlier this year. Endless riffs and hooks
― JRN, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
xpost yeah just thinking of one of the only ways that an older person's singing voice might improve over time
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link