That makes sense about the PMRC and the lyrics. Still, that's no excuse. Megadeth gave us Hook In Mouth, and Judas Priest gave us...Parental Guidance?
Yeah...that it was an attack on the PMRC is no excuse. Rob has never been Neil Peart, but there are 1000s of more clever ways to do that.
This is cool shit diving back into all these old albums too.
An unofficial Judas Priest Listening Party!
The PMRC were particularly irate with Eat Me Alive. Particularly the line “I’m gonna force you at gunpoint....to eat me alive.”
Is that an actual line in the song? Yikes!
Oh yes. I remember one of my sisters expressing concern to me about Judas Priest and, in particular, a song about a guy forcing a woman to perform oral sex. I think I responded with a "huh?" and was naive enough at the time for it to have been genuine. You read stories about record companies having kept certain songs off albums, and one like Eat Me Alive gets through.
I need to go back and revisit Stained Glass and Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather. Looking at the track lists, there's not a lot I recognize beyond Exciter, White Heat and BTROD. Hell Bent, on the other hand, has a bunch of really good to great songs. Delivering the Goods, Hell Bent, Take on the Word (i.e., United before United was written), Burnin' Up, Green Manalishi and Running Wild.