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Re: THE Judas Priest thread - new album and tour in 2018!!
« Reply #1085 on: October 04, 2018, 06:28:24 AM »
My personal favorite Priest album is Stained Class. With Defenders of the Faith being a close second.
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« Reply #1086 on: October 04, 2018, 06:49:37 AM »
If we're bringing up underrated deep cuts, Here Comes the Tears.  Could be a top 10 Priest song for me.

Also, Traitor's Gate fast becoming one of my fav Priest songs.  Could sneak into a top 20 at the moment, perhaps higher.

I LOVE "Here Come The Tears".   Sin After Sin is a great album.  I think Dissident Agressor is the only song that doesn't really move the needle for me. 

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« Reply #1087 on: October 04, 2018, 04:28:24 PM »
If we're bringing up underrated deep cuts, Here Comes the Tears.  Could be a top 10 Priest song for me.

Also, Traitor's Gate fast becoming one of my fav Priest songs.  Could sneak into a top 20 at the moment, perhaps higher.

I LOVE "Here Come The Tears".   Sin After Sin is a great album.  I think Dissident Agressor is the only song that doesn't really move the needle for me.

The album has great variety and a few different things for the band which worked well.  Not your standard Priest album.

Also, Traitor's Gate fast becoming one of my fav Priest songs.  Could sneak into a top 20 at the moment, perhaps higher.

 :metal :metal

I dont know how it slipped by me when the album first came out.  The riff, the lyrics, Rob sounds brutal and in great character, that melody after the solo, everything about this song is close to perfect.
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Re: THE Judas Priest thread - new album and tour in 2018!!
« Reply #1088 on: October 04, 2018, 04:34:24 PM »
My personal favorite Priest album is Stained Class. With Defenders of the Faith being a close second.

Even though I have never loved The Sentinel as much as most seem to, I do love me some Defenders of the Faith.  Those chords at the beginning of Night Comes Down are heavenly.



I LOVE "Here Come The Tears".   Sin After Sin is a great album.  I think Dissident Agressor is the only song that doesn't really move the needle for me.

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Dissident Aggressor is awesome!  :metal :metal

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« Reply #1089 on: October 04, 2018, 04:44:52 PM »
Dissident Aggressor has to be one of the coolest and heaviest songs of the 70's.  That might be my favorite song on the SAS album.

Priest has always been underrated when it comes to their ballads.  I think they excelled in that category, and I would personally put Night Comes Down at or near the top.

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« Reply #1090 on: October 04, 2018, 05:40:45 PM »
Yep, Night Comes Down and Before the Dawn are both amazing tunes.  Dreamer Deceiver is incredible as well (although that is more of a slow burner than a ballad).

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« Reply #1091 on: October 04, 2018, 06:56:37 PM »
I love Dreamer Deceiver too.  I think I posted a link to a version from the Old Grey Whistle Test here a while ago; if you can't find it it's worth seeking out that clip.  Rob sings like an angel.

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« Reply #1092 on: October 04, 2018, 07:01:13 PM »
I can't get into it. I really don't see what is special about it.
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« Reply #1093 on: October 04, 2018, 07:30:30 PM »
Yes, Dreamer Deceiver really stands out to me whenever I come back to SWoD.
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« Reply #1094 on: October 04, 2018, 07:50:27 PM »
I love Dreamer Deceiver too.  I think I posted a link to a version from the Old Grey Whistle Test here a while ago; if you can't find it it's worth seeking out that clip.  Rob sings like an angel.

I think thats on the Electric Eye DVD?  Its amazing.
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« Reply #1095 on: October 05, 2018, 04:22:16 AM »
Priest has some tremendous ballads. Before the dawn has always been a huge favorite of mine, but I also love Last rose of the summer.

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« Reply #1096 on: October 05, 2018, 05:00:21 AM »
A Touch of Evil is where it's at for me. It's got just the right amount of bite to it to sit comfortably as a sole ballad among such hard-hitting metal tracks.
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« Reply #1097 on: October 05, 2018, 05:51:37 AM »
A Touch of Evil is where it's at for me. It's got just the right amount of bite to it to sit comfortably as a sole ballad among such hard-hitting metal tracks.

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« Reply #1098 on: October 05, 2018, 07:37:05 AM »
Im on the fence; I listened to Screaming... again yesterday and it was just so good, I'm on the cusp of a big Priest kick.   I don't know whether to go to SaS and keep it going, or risk it all and hit Painkiller to see if it's any better than I remember...

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« Reply #1099 on: October 05, 2018, 02:56:20 PM »
Im on the fence; I listened to Screaming... again yesterday and it was just so good, I'm on the cusp of a big Priest kick.   I don't know whether to go to SaS and keep it going, or risk it all and hit Painkiller to see if it's any better than I remember...

This is tempting me also.
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« Reply #1100 on: October 05, 2018, 05:26:19 PM »
I've been listening to a lot of Priest this week.  :metal :metal

I think I am still the only Priest fan who doesn't genuflect to the song Painkiller.  It's good, but I can name dozens and dozens of better songs.

A Touch of Evil is where it's at for me. It's got just the right amount of bite to it to sit comfortably as a sole ballad among such hard-hitting metal tracks.

I don't really think of A Touch of Evil as a ballad, but semantics aside, it is a killer song and one of the best Priest ever did.  :metal

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« Reply #1101 on: October 06, 2018, 04:47:31 AM »
The ballad of the album should have been "Living Bad Dreams", which was shelved for pacing reasons and then released as bonus tracks.

If you never heard it I guess it's easy to track, check it out 'cause it's quite good!
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« Reply #1102 on: October 06, 2018, 10:03:58 AM »
The ballad of the album should have been "Living Bad Dreams", which was shelved for pacing reasons and then released as bonus tracks.

If you never heard it I guess it's easy to track, check it out 'cause it's quite good!

It's okay. Not sure I like how Halford's voice sounds when singing the chorus.  Had it been included on Painkiller, it definitely would have been the weak link.

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« Reply #1103 on: October 07, 2018, 04:06:31 AM »
The ballad of the album should have been "Living Bad Dreams", which was shelved for pacing reasons and then released as bonus tracks.

If you never heard it I guess it's easy to track, check it out 'cause it's quite good!

One of the best bonus tracks ever for sure.  I love Halford on this one and the solo is classic Tipton.  It's quality but I guess I can see why it was left off, would be hard to place.
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« Reply #1104 on: October 07, 2018, 06:28:12 AM »
Living Bad Dreams and Thunder Road were my favorites of the Priest reissue bonus tracks.

Prisoner of Your Eyes is a good track too, but I actually liked the Halford version on Live Insurrection better.

Heart of a Lion is another great tune that the band should have finished.  I think the version on Metalogy is still a demo.

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« Reply #1105 on: October 07, 2018, 07:23:56 AM »
Prisoner of Your Eyes is a good track too, but I actually liked the Halford version on Live Insurrection better.

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« Reply #1106 on: October 07, 2018, 08:03:16 AM »
I do like Prisoner of Your Eyes quite a bit.

Does anyone else not consider Painkiller a top 5 track from its own album?

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« Reply #1107 on: October 07, 2018, 02:36:42 PM »
Im on the fence; I listened to Screaming... again yesterday and it was just so good, I'm on the cusp of a big Priest kick.   I don't know whether to go to SaS and keep it going, or risk it all and hit Painkiller to see if it's any better than I remember...

This is tempting me also.

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« Reply #1108 on: October 07, 2018, 05:42:06 PM »
I do like Prisoner of Your Eyes quite a bit.

Does anyone else not consider Painkiller a top 5 track from its own album?
I think the whole album is weak. One Shot at Glory is a great song, but the rest I can do without. Painkiller is one of the better songs of the remainders, but that's not saying a lot.

What PK does have going for it is that since the chorus can be screamed it's still a song Rob can belt out live and still sound like a boss.
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« Reply #1109 on: October 07, 2018, 06:33:22 PM »
The whole album is weak? ??? ???

I am guessing you are going to get some push back on that one. :P  :lol

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« Reply #1110 on: October 07, 2018, 07:00:49 PM »
I think Painkiller is one of the defining heavy metal albums in the entire genre, so obviously I disagree with that  :lol

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« Reply #1111 on: October 07, 2018, 07:14:05 PM »
I think Painkiller is one of the defining heavy metal albums in the entire genre, so obviously I disagree with that  :lol

Right, especially after they went through the motions from the mid to late 80's. They came back an ass kicking classic.
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« Reply #1112 on: October 08, 2018, 01:14:23 AM »
I think Painkiller is one of the defining heavy metal albums in the entire genre, so obviously I disagree with that  :lol

Exactly.

Does anyone else not consider Painkiller a top 5 track from its own album?

I consider Painkiller a top 5 track from the entire history of heavy metal.

(Well, maybe not so literally, but it is a genre defining song)
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« Reply #1113 on: October 08, 2018, 05:22:27 AM »
Painkiller is the definition of heavy metal for me.  If I were abducted by aliens and they asked me to take them to my leader, I'd just play them Painkiller.
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« Reply #1114 on: October 08, 2018, 10:11:17 AM »
I think I'm going to play Painkiller today  :metal

Pretty good chance it will be played loud too.

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« Reply #1115 on: October 08, 2018, 10:16:11 AM »
The whole album is weak? ??? ???

I am guessing you are going to get some push back on that one. :P  :lol
Yeah, I was definitely expecting it. An overrated album in my book, but then my interest in the guys pretty much dried up when Turbo came out. You're hard pressed to find a more stark dropoff than the one from Defenders to Turbo.
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« Reply #1116 on: October 08, 2018, 10:27:52 AM »
The whole album is weak? ??? ???

I am guessing you are going to get some push back on that one. :P  :lol
Yeah, I was definitely expecting it. An overrated album in my book, but then my interest in the guys pretty much dried up when Turbo came out. You're hard pressed to find a more stark dropoff than the one from Defenders to Turbo.

You’d be hard pressed to find a more stark step up ftomTurbo/RiD to Painkiller.
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« Reply #1117 on: October 08, 2018, 10:51:08 AM »
The whole album is weak? ??? ???

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Yeah, I was definitely expecting it. An overrated album in my book, but then my interest in the guys pretty much dried up when Turbo came out. You're hard pressed to find a more stark dropoff than the one from Defenders to Turbo.

I'm with Bart on this.  Painkiller just doesn't connect with me.  I get it's place in the sequence, and I'm not a huge fan of Turbo by any stretch, but that run is sort of what convinced me that Priest was a notch below Maiden.  I thought Priest fell into the same trap as Iommi when Dio was on board: the music was written more to expectation than any real inspiration.   Harsh, I know, but you listen to Screaming... now, or Killing Machine, or Stained Class and it wasn't "metal, metal, metal, obligatory ballad, metal...." and that's what seemed like Painkiller was.  They DID try something different with Turbo, it got shit on, and so back to formula. 

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« Reply #1118 on: October 08, 2018, 10:58:49 AM »
Priest was always trying to follow the popular sound. From PoE all the way to the Ripper albums they seemed to follow the trends. SfV and DotF are excellent albums, but they're also exemplary of the era they were made. Turbo tried to follow the popular trends and it's just not what people wanted from them. RiD was a buildup to PK where they were chasing the thrash bands. Admittedly they did better at that, but it's not really what I want from Priest, or what I think Priest does well.
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« Reply #1119 on: October 08, 2018, 11:51:29 AM »
There was a definite drop off in quality from DofF to Turbo, but as a fan of the genre they were chasing with a Turbo I still enjoy it. RiD was poor by comparison, though it has grown on me and would be better with Scott Travis on drums rather than a machine.

Painkiller isn’t a go to Priest album for me but there are several great tracks on it. The title track was a statement of intent and I enjoy it, but prefer probably half the album.