Judas Priest
 

Does anyone have the Live In London CD of Judas Priest? I just noticed that, on my CD, two tracks are switched. Track number 12 is called "Hell Bent For Leather", but is really the song "Livin' After Midnight" and number 11 is called "Livin' After Midnight" but is actually the song "Hell Bent For Leather".

I got a bit confused over the two. Some moron must have screwed up the CD. Anyone else have this problem.

Judas Priest rules the world... and Ohio. not that Ohio has anything to do with anything, but.... get over it.

hahahhaa thats great MIP..

Yeha judas priest do rule.

i dont even have that cd...but painkiller is great...

Judas Priest are f u c k ing awesome :) :)

Another band I've been thinking about getting some stuff from. I want to get Hell Bent For Leather, but do you guys think If I get Priest, I should get the 2001 remasters w/ extra tracks instead of the 1990 versions?

There is a lot worth buying for Judas Priest and they have a much richer discography imo than the other bands you`ve been looking at AC/DC, Motorhead and Kiss. The albums to get are "Sad Wings of Destiny" a 70`s classic, "Stained Class" "British Steel" where they start to get more radio friendly, "Screaming for Vengeance" "Defenders of the Faith" "Painkiller" their thrashy release and "Age of Retribution" Again if you want to hear them live "Unleashed in the East" is a great live album.

In vocalist Rob Halford, you are probably talking about one of the most revered vocalists in metal along with Bruce D**ckinson and Ozzy.

my torrent of "Screaming for Vengeance" got all the tracks mislabelled

That`s why you should buy the CD, its a album worth having.

their discography is too big for me to handle

Thanks US, but do you have any opinion regarding if the remasters sound is good, or if it really matters? I'll probably end up with their whole discography eventually, and I don't want to get bad sounding albums.

My dad used to play JP all the time when I was little, British Steel was his favorite.

Can't stand British Steel, but I like a few of their songs here and there. Really really like a few songs like Electric Eye:

How can you not love British Steel?

About 50% of my JP collection are remasters and all of them I bought second hand several years ago and cheaply. They all sound great whether they are the remasters or not.

Alright cool, it sounds like it doesn't matter then. And since the remasters have extra tracks...:p:

I paid around 3 pounds for each JP album, which I suppose is around $3.50 and it was the same price whether they were remasters or not.

i don even have an inkling whether my mp3s are remastered or not

the "hits" don't sound much different from my cassette comp

I freaking love JP. I have 80% of their albums I think. Best album is Sin After Sin. Best song is:

Am I the only one who thinks that Painkiller is overrated. Don't get me wrong, it kicks ass, but I far prefer the old school 70s and 80s Priest. It seems like some people want to says it's the best Priest album cause it's the most extreme. After a while it gets kind of dull to me though.

I agree with you, 70s and 80s Priest is better.

Totally agree.

I only like 3 songs off it. The title track, Touch Of Evil & Night Crawler.
Everything else on it is Judas Priest by numbers.

There's a Judas Priest bootleg kicking around of a radio show they did at the New York Palladium in 1977 on the Sin After Sin tour. I'd sell my mother to own that thing, they even open the gig with Let Us Prey/Call For The Priest. I've ALWAYS wanted to hear that played live.
It's also the only Priest tour I have nothing from, which is annoying because Sin After Sin might be my favourite Priest album. :(

Not according to the Urban 100 its not. :p:

I think i'm entitled to change my mind ONCE every 6 FUCKING YEARS.

So it IS your favorite. Before you said it "MIGHT be". Which is it?

Who said either of them were

What is it then, mate? Sad Wings? Stained Class? Surely not any of the Ripper Owens albums?

Judas Priest split up in 1991 as far as I'm concerned.

I'm right there with you. Not Priest w/out Halford. Saw them live with Halford on the British Steel 30th anniversary tour. They can still kick ass live, even though they can't really do it in studio anymore. At least not from what I've heard. I actually haven't given Nostradamus a full listen, but to put out a double album this late in your career just seems like a stupid move.

Apart from a couple of tracks here and there I am not much of a Priest fan. Much preferred Dio. I know they sound different from each other but as archetypal Metal bands I just prefer Dio's music.

However Sad Wings Of Destiny is a phenomenal album and one of the best Metal albums out there.

poorly recorded, terribly outdated, overly cheesy. The live versions of some of the songs 'Metal Gods' sound amazing, but the album itself sounds terrible. Plus, most of the songs on it really aren't that good.

It's just the first album where they started really really producing viable hit songs.

qft. Dio was amazing when he wasn't being too silly or too repetitive (well, sometimes when he was being too silly).

Dio is great but when it comes to Sabbath, Dio can't touch Ozzy.

True, but I'd never really consider that Black Sabbath. The band was well dead before he came along, they just became his backing band.

In the same sense, Ozzy wasn't quite Black Sabbath, either. Blizzard of Oz was a good album, and the rest is just those good old 'one good hit song with amazing Randy Rhodes solos to sell the album then a ton of crap' albums.

Although this thread has derailed somewhat I always found Diary Of A Madman far superior to Blizzard Of Oz.

Two totally different artists.

Ozzy was a much better fit w/Sabbath, but Dio was a much better singer. Just give the "Dio at Donington UK: Live 1983" disk a listen and you'll hear there's no comparing the two. I might add a completely ass-whooping live cd.

Priest's, best most consistent albums were "Sad Wings" and "Stained Class". After that, could get cheesy, ie "United". Still very powerful and multi-dimensional band which new how to change it up, as evident on "Screaming with a Vengeance" where the band went from dark speed metal to light glam metal at the flick of a switch. I don't think there was another band that could craft a heavy metal single as well as Judas Priest...well accept for maybe Ozzy.

I've never listened to a whole lot of the Ripper stuff, but "Jugulator" was a cheese ball classic.

When it comes to Priest, what do you guyst think are their 3 or 4 essential albums that every metal fan should own?

1. Sad Wings of Destiny
2. British Steel
3. Screaming for Vengeance
4. Defenders of the Faith

my picks :-

Sad Wings of Destiny
Sin After Sin
British Steel
Screaming for Vengeance
Angel of Retribution
Painkiller

He only wants 3 or 4 and not the whole discography!!!

in his PMs to me, he wants more, more, more

JP's entire discography is at least 12 albums?