Best Judas Priest Album

can we make 90 minute Victim of Changes happen ffs

When I started this poll I remember thinking that the results were in line with ILM at the time. It's interesting that the site has changed that new people here think it was strange. As much as a new poll might be interesting, a better poll would be to pick the band's second best album, because every incarnation of ILM will pick Sad Wings for sure.

rocka rolla at 2 is still mystifying to me

I can't remember a thing about it

Listening to Point of Entry for the first time in quite a few years, the record sounds a whole lot like Judas Priest trying to write AC/DC songs. Some of these tunes would fit fine on something like Flick of the Switch with the reverb.

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.

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.

Stained Class is the best and got screwed here

Stab! BAAAAAAWWWWLLL, punch! CRAAAAWWWWWWLLLL

yeah stained class is the one

I maintain 7 votes for Rocka Rolla as best Priest album is still the single worst ILM poll result

"Dissident Aggressor" is the shit!

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.

I’d be less upset if Turbo got top spot. I mean jfc

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

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...

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")

I'm glad to see some of the best stuff is yet ahead of me. Never knew Stained Class was supposed to be special.

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

Rocka Rolla is the indie pick

ums otm

I am now going to finally listen to Ram It Down cos why the fuck not, it's about time

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

"Love Zone" - this was p much written for strip clubs wasn't it

"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

"Hard as Iron" - jesus christ

"Blood Red Skies" - always loved this one, a fav. shame about the album it's on

"I'm a Rocker" - this song is wearing zebra pants with a shit-stain on the back

"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

"Monsters of Rock" - this is fucking 'Stonehenge'

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.

we should really repoll this

results more baffling every time

I like metal but never liked a single thing by Judas Priest

True true trollish response would be 'I like metal hence I never liked a single thing by Judas Priest'.

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.

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.

Confess is really good.

Huh...I wouldn’t be thrown if someone told me Sad Wings was there favorite because it’s pretty interesting and transitional but still..

Not exactly an uncommon opinion

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.

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.

I'm so old, I can remember when Phil Anselmo had an upper register.

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

ffs the high notes in Cemetary Gates are insane.

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

Painkiller has aged beautifully over the last 30 years.