Best Judas Priest Album
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Topic: Best Judas Priest Album
Posted By: NJCat_11
Subject: Best Judas Priest Album
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:09
My personal favorite: Ram It Down ------------- "We are Defenders of the Faith" - Rob Halford |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:14
| Voted for Sad Wings of Destiny, though it's really a tie between it and Sin After Sin. Anyway, I love all JP albums up to Defenders of the Faith. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:15
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hmmmm... 5 years on the forum.. and it still amazes me best - of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: favorite - a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: then again these kinds of polls are easy... when it is both... now THIS is prog-metal. But don't count on the site to let anyone know that...  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:19
Best is often the same as favorite but I'm looking for the favorite ------------- "We are Defenders of the Faith" - Rob Halford |
micky wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:30
best is not the same as favorite... hence the dictionary  but I've given up trying to get people to think beyond simply what they like.. that is why most reviews here suck. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:37
I agree with you about the definitions being quite different. What I meant to say is the best is often the favorite. I'd say that the "best" JP album would have to be Painkiller.  ------------- "We are Defenders of the Faith" - Rob Halford |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:44
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I've always been a huge fan of their early stuff.. then again... I am of most groups. All the best material that has for years been reheased.. thought of... and when you get a chance to put albums out... you have that certain creativity and energy that for me is simply missing when you are making albums.. to put a another Bentley in the garage... not trying to avoid going back to the factory or the street... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 19:49
 RAM IT DOWN! Got it on tape years ago. Still love it 'cause that album could easily kick a million arses... 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:06
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What a tough poll....I'll vote for Sad Wings as well. It's a fantastic album.
By the way, it's "Stained Class", not "Strained Glass"  ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: February 17 2010 at 21:11
"Strained" was a typing error but "glass" is what I honestly, mistakenly assumed. Riveting  ------------- "We are Defenders of the Faith" - Rob Halford |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 03:43
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Sad Wings rules ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 05:01
| Sad Wings... for me. I 'm pleasantly surprised how popular this album is on this poll ! |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 07:53
| No votes for British Steel? That's surprising... It has great reviews in all the rock mags over here. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:05
Always had a soft spot for...... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:15
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^ One of the coolest album covers ever!
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 08:33
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How on earth has Painkiller not got any votes yet? It gets mine. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 15:57
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I've got to give it to Sad Wings of Destiny. Killing Machine is a close second as it is a nice bridge between their somewhat proggy early days to their straight forward hard rock/metal of the 80s. Still hard to beat Victim of Changes, The Ripper, and Dreamer Deceiver/Deceiver. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:02
 I thought I was the only one, good to know I'm not alone with that |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:39
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JP have 3 good albums :
- sad wings of destiny
- british steel
- painkiller
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:41
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British Steel was the first record that I ever bought with my own money so it probably has that special meaning to me, but at any rate it is my favorite Priest album. I do like them from Rocka Rolla through Nostradamus, although I'm not all that keen on the Ripper Owens albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 18 2010 at 16:45
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Tuonela
Date Posted: February 21 2010 at 10:37
| 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... |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 21 2010 at 10:49
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Massive Priest fan, so this is a tough one. Sad Wings, Sin After Sin and Stained Class are absolutely killer albums. Hell Bent For Leather is great, but not as consistent as the previous three, a trend that continues for a couple of albums - fantastic songs mixed with mediocre ones. Painkiller kicks some serious ass, but that's New Priest, so we're talking a different band then ;) . Jugulator and Demolition falls under the Blaze Bayley-phenomenom and thus they are blissfully ignored by me. Hihi. Nostradamus was nice. Pompous, overblown, cheesy - but hey, we're prog fans around here, aren't we? Seeing some of those songs live made them truly great. Couldn't beat an ear-shattering Dissident Aggressor though. I quite like the two oddities Point of Entry and Rocka Rolla as well, but they are far from favourites. So...giving it to Sin After Sin this time.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 21 2010 at 11:20
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Stained Class is my favorite. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 19:44
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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 06:41
Me too! I love that album.
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Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 21:36
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Painkiller is my favourite. Followed by Screaming for Vengeance and British Steel. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 21:39
Odd.. I have always thought early Sabbath was far more proggy than anything by Purple. What's an example of a proto-prog song by Deep Purple? With Sabbath, albums like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage scream proto prog metal (Rick Wakeman's even on the former one) ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 04:26
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Sad Wings of Destiny ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 10:00
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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...
Great performance...great band!! -------------   
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 10:13
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Posted By: benb
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 23:30
| Screaming For Vengeance |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 12:05
| To me it has to be Painkiller. Every single track on the album is awesome. Side B of Sad Wings Of Destiny is stunning as well. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 12:56
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'Screaming for Vengeance' but I have never heard 'Painkiller' - must check it out! ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 13:00
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.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 13:07
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. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 13:12
Raff, I thought people here, specially you, didn't like using "well how is X more Prog than Y"
If it comes to that, then yes, Deep Purple are as progressive as Uriah Heep, Atomic Rooster and such.
By the way, I doubt we would get into a fight, I mean both of us. Just a constructive discussion, I hope.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 13:31
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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. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 13:35
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That, my friend, is one Judas Priest release that I do not have. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 18:00
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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: March 06 2010 at 18:59
| It was a toss-up between Sin After Sin, Stained Class, and Painkiller... Stained Class gets spun the most in my world, so that's vote. |
Posted By: poslednijat_colobar
Date Posted: March 19 2010 at 09:26
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Nostradamus is groundbreaking album!!!
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Posted By: TheCrimsonIdol
Date Posted: March 21 2010 at 10:27
Looks like i am the only person that chose Turbo  It's a great album! especially the song "Out in the cold"
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 01:24
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Sin After Sin, they have many many references to rpog and prog metal. Also i like almost all of his material (including turbo). The Nostradamus cd is really awesome, they deserve to be in PA. -------------  |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 01:32
| I'm very atached to Point of entry, my fav JP album, even is not so well seen by many. The vocal arrangements are brilliant and the most diverse they ever done so far. I like a lot JP, everything they done from the beggining 'till Paikillers is excellent, even Turbo has many great parts. |
Posted By: Rolf Bos
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 12:04
| Defenders of the faith is the best album of Priest. After their attempts to conquer the American market with Point of entry & Screaming for vengeance, it was time to keep their European fans satisfied. There are no weak songs on Defenders, in fact it was the best record since Sad wings of destiny. Even Turbo is progressive with its guitarsynths,within'a year Maiden did the same. Defenders belongs to the records i heard the most in my youth. |
Posted By: TheLastBaron
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 20:06
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Only five votes for Painkiller, what the fudge? Scott Travis from Racer X joins and pounds the hell out the drum and blast some crazy double bass, Rob Helford sings gloriously, tippon and downing shred so hard and fast, it melts your face. Painkiller is the greatest album they've ever done and one of the best metal albums of the 90's, way better than that metallica black album garbage.
------------- " Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." - FDR |
Posted By: TheLastBaron
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 20:11
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not to be annoying by posting twice in a row but, British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance are tied for second. Those and painkiller to me are the greatest achievements of Judas Priest. Now to get back to shredding on electric eye on guitar hero 80's edition : )
------------- " Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." - FDR |
Posted By: Pilkenton
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 15:59
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Nobody voted for Hell Bent For Leather. That's my favorite. I saw them when they were promoting this album. They were the warm-up group for UFO.
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Posted By: elder08
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 13:32
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British steel only has three vote COME ON NOW!! ------------- "There are people who say we [Pink Floyd] should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room."- David Gilmour |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: April 07 2010 at 10:47
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Defenders of The Faith have one of the best opener for a all time album, Freewheel Burning. ------------- |
Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: April 09 2010 at 10:38
| Sad Wings. Pretty much anything up to Unleashed in the East-great live album. |
Posted By: The Anderson Council
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 01:45
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Wow, brutal deciding between "Sad Wings" and "Stained Class." But ultimately I chose "Sad Wings." Those two albums are among the top half-dozen metal albums of all-time. "Sin After Sin" and "Hell Bent For Leather" are great albums, as well. But, starting with 1980's "British Steel," the Priest lost their mystique. All that "United" "Take on the World" crap made me want to commit suicide, not anything off "Stained Class." And "Painkiller" sucks, too. What an overrated album. Sorry, just because they returned to their roots, doesn't mean they wrote many great songs for that album. It's criminal at the time of my writing that there are as many people here who choose "Painkiller" as their fave as there are those who list "Sin After Sin," "Stained Class" and "Hell Bent For Leather" combined. Are you kidding me? |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 15:27
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How does Stained Class have so few votes?? ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 16:09
If Priest never released Sad Wings, my vote would have been Stained Class or Killing Machine (which has even fewer votes). |
Posted By: Deleuze
Date Posted: October 09 2010 at 18:17
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Sad wings...well, that's what she said
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Posted By: Pelata
Date Posted: October 11 2010 at 09:52
| I went with Screaming For Vengeance, since it's my favorite. I can see why a Prog board would lean toward Sad Wings Of Destiny. My second choice would probably be British Steel. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 15:43
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Sin After Sin, JP's "almost prog" album.
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Posted By: cyclysm748
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 20:34
| I would have to vote for Sin after Sin just for The Last Rose of Summer. Definately one of my favorites. It also has the heaviest song ever, Dissident Agressor. |
Posted By: peart_lee_lifeson
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 21:22
| Went with Sin after Sin. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 13 2010 at 23:04
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Unleashed in the East....Sinner and Genocide never sounded better! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |