The whole album is weak?
I am guessing you are going to get some push back on that one.
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.