Best Judas Priest Album

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.

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.

was he a smoker?

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.

Painkiller is such a great album. I was positively obsessed with it for a while earlier this year. Endless riffs and hooks

xpost yeah just thinking of one of the only ways that an older person's singing voice might improve over time

one day I went to karaoke at a local haunt. this place used to be great, but new Trump/gun-loving owners came in, and fired my friend the KJ who had worked there for like 20+ years. so needless to say I didn't wanna go back, but I got invited by two friends one night and I said 'hey why not'.

so I look through the songs and I am surprised to see "Nightcrawler" by Judas Priest, from Painkiller, on the karaoke list. so I put in to sing it.

this is a very countrified audience and I get up already thinking they'll hate me, but maybe if I do my best Halford, I'll win them over. then the karaoke track starts and I find out it's a fucking MIDI file. the guitars sound like farts.

I suddenly felt like I was singing over Nintendo music, sweat profusely the entire time, and sang like garbage cos I wanted it to be over.

I blame Painkiller for this.

xpost yeah that would make sense. i'll have to look it up.

I have a theory that he might have gone to a vocal coach/lessons to teach him new ways to produce the same sounds. because it does seem like he's altered his technique a little bit on the falsetto to make it work without sounding like he swallowed barbed wire.

I'd like to hear a MIDI version of "Nightcrawler". However, I would not like to sing over one in public