Best Judas Priest Album

Defenders Of The Faith is my personal fave, although Sad Wings is close behind... But because of Freewheel Burning, Rock Hard Ride Free and The Sentinel I have to give my vote to the Defenders... album. Damn good stuff! And I agree that Priest is more prog (especially Sad Wings) than people give credit for...

Stained Class is my favorite.

Snow Dog wrote: Always had a soft spot for......

micky wrote: lucas wrote: micky wrote: now THIS is prog-metal.  [sad wings of destiny] yes, indeed, but you know it seems that the one who included Black Sabbath and Deep Purple (not prog at all) is very selective in his/her choices... ehh... I didn't agree with including Black Sabbath.. but definitely saw the rationale behind it. As far as Deep Purple...  the less said the better.  Anyone who doesn't see the rationale for them being here simply ..well..  has a very short-sighted view of prog.   There is a entire branch of prog on this site based ON Deep Purple.  The crime isn't that they are here.. it is where they are placed. When clone bands are listed in heavy prog.. yet the band they sprung from...  isn't there.   It isn't being selective...  it is simply not thinking and being stubborn.

I have to go with Screaming For Vengence.....Give props to my 80's heavy metal years....I love all that music (not the big hair metal...not a fan) I saw JP at the US Festival '83.....I think I still suffer heat stroke from that day...

Screaming For Vengeance

'Screaming for Vengeance' but I have never heard 'Painkiller' - must check it out!

The Quiet One wrote: I agree with you that Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are very prog-related, so much that I would place them in Heavy Prog. When it comes to Deep Purple's progressiveness, I don't think they ever were a Prog/Related band with the classic MK 2. However, the MK 1 line-up definitely justifies their entry to Proto-Prog, just listen to The Book of Taliesyn and the s/t.

I beg to disagree on MK 2, Pablo. The double whammy of "The Mule" and "Fools" is definitely more than prog-related, and then we have "Space Truckin'" - as well as the frequent nods to prog on "In Rock". Oddly enough, the DP album that my 'boss' at ProgressoR, Vitaly Menshikov, rates most highly is Perfect Strangers. Anyway, I just would like to know in which way Uriah Heep are more progressive than DP, because I sure can't hear it in their music... But I'd rather avoid getting into a debate about that, since lately it has become difficult to discuss anything here without getting into a fight.

Raff, let's pick sides and fight.  I'm on your side of the line.  Uriah Heep, good as they sometimes were, are just not in the same league as Deep Purple.  In baseball terms, Deep Purple is the majors.  Uriah Heep is double-, maybe triple-A. 

jammun wrote: Raff, let's pick sides and fight.  I'm on your side of the line.  Uriah Heep, good as they sometimes were, are just not in the same league as Deep Purple.  In baseball terms, Deep Purple is the majors.  Uriah Heep is double-, maybe triple-A.    Now as for Judas Priest.  I think I've told this one before.  One of my ex-girlfriends, many years ago, was a huge Dylan/Baez/Lightfoot folk-rock fan.  I played Priest's version of Diamonds and Rust for her.  For a few minutes there, I thought she was going to go cataleptic on me.  Now that's the sign of a good band, or the sign of an ex-girlfriend.   Screaming's a great album.  Is it Defender's that has the stunning Freewheel Burning?  That'll wake you up when played at high volume.  Painkiller is just that, played at sufficient volume.   I've got the beautiful Priest box set, Metalogy.  Metal-studded box.  Four CD's + 1 DVD of pure Priest.          If you dare not to like it, it will surely kick your ass.

oh man.. that is sweet!!!!


as far as Uriah Heep and DP... there have been some threads in the past on that subject.  Leaving quality aside...  there are very few musical difference between them... at least for the for the first 5 or 6 DP albums while Jon Lord led the group .. which includes what.. more than half of what Mk II did.  DP and their first 6 albums easily compares to anything Uriah Heep did sylistically.. and might be argued they surpassed it.  What is the difference... Uriah Heep made little imprint on the rock world at large.. Deep Purple later became one of the biggest groups in the world.  So for that piddling detail... one is prog.. and the other isn't.   Never realized that obscurity and lack of importance was one of the defiining characteristics of prog.  Duh.. I thought it was about the music.  Deep Purple just didn't have one.. or two prog albums..  but 6. The 3 from Mk 1.. and the first 3 from Mk 2.  The site will never allow the group to be moved.. and don't think anyone wants to attempt to try to have them moved since elements of the admin team have made it clear it isn't going to happen. However from a general standpoint.. to not consider Deep Purple prog is to deny heavy prog exists. .since they not created it.. they defined it...  then again it wouldn't surprise me to have someone deny it...  we still have people that deny prog metal exists.   What can you do with people like that..  when reason fails... just let them wear their cute tin foil hats and go on thinking that prog is so easy... and so narrow a branch of music. 


Edited by micky - March 06 2010 at 18:04