Which Judas Priest song rules the most?

Actually, "Hell Bent for Leather" is a damn fine choice as well. As would be "Breakin' the Law," but I'm standing by my selection.

Electric Eye
Killing Machine (the song)
Hell Bent for Leather (the song)
Painkiller (nutty solos from both guitarists!!)
Deceiver (silly but great)
Take on the World (football scarves aloft!)
Delivering the Goods
Breakin' the Law

So many of these tracks are from 'Hellbent for Leather' (aka 'Killing Machine'), where they had such a great sound that was not a million miles from a heavier, glammier AC/DC, and I'm bummed because I recently broke my copy of that CD taking it out of its case. Must buy a new one, like the music nerd I am.

Let me add the following to the venerable selections above:
- The Rage
- Victim of Changes

Anyways, my favorites are Victim Of Changes and Painkiller.
Funny how the band's had their best albums near the start and near the end of their career (well, ok, the career might still go for a long time)

but also
Dreamer deceiver (Perhaps I should point out that Sad wings of destiny
is the greatest album of all times)
Killing machine
The complete B-side of Sin after sin
Run of the mill
Heading out to the highway
...

Runners-up:

Better by You Better than Me
Hell Bent for Leather
Breaking the Law

Hell Bent for Leather

http://www.judaspriest.com/

Hmmm I also love "Dissident Aggressor" as well... *sigh*

Let's remember this next time someone posts one of those "bands all of ILM agree on" threads

but lets face it, it's all good (apart from United)

Wrapped tight around me
Like a second flesh hot skin
Cling to my body
As the ecstasy begins

Your wild vibrations
Got me shooting from the hip
Crazed and insatiable let rip

Eat me alive

Sounds like an animal
Panting to the beat
Groan in the pleasure zone
Gasping from the heat

Gut-wrenching frenzy
That deranges every joint
I'm gonna force you at gun point

To eat me alive

Bound to deliver as
You give and I collect
Squealing impassioned as
The rod of steel injects

Lunge to the maximum
Spread-eagled to the wall
You're well equipped to take it all

So eat me alive

I think, really, it has to be "The Helion/Electric Eye', if only because, as well as being a perfectly constructed song, it presages the future of music, which is techno-metal.

....as one does.

Altogether now....
There're Many Who Tried to Prove that They're Faster But They Didn't Last and the Died as They Triiiiied!

xpost: And the thing is, it screams so many things at once that the interpretive part of your brain just shuts down, and you're just left quietly giggling .

-- VegemiteGrrl

NO. You're PULLING MY LEG.

Today, the Judas Priest song that rules the most is: Metal Gods.

It's hilarious, of course (laser noizes! funny vocal processing! mechagodzilla!), but you can't laugh because you're too busy ROCKING.

Bonus points for borrowing from Wall-era Floyd while pointing toward Metallica.

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Judas Priest as a boogie band! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-BQxkHJw-r4

Judas Priest as Queen-influenced punk rockers! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKFqb6uiK8o

Judas Priest as the world's best cover band! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=37B4NYDgPow

Judas Priest get homoerotic years before Rob came out! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=utYNQnvl9MU

(I want Electric Six to cover this song and remake this video so bad it hurts...)

Judas Priest as stars in the world's worst conceptual video ever! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1YuIwX8SCm4

Judas Priest as pre-ironic post-disco band! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4KHx1Ymw0

Judas Priest as Pantera! ---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=58y9LZnsNI8

The best Judas Priest song of all time is Grinder.

HELL PATROL

At long last I've found the Judas Priest 'suicides' documentary! Never thought I'd finally track this one down: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B7C426CFC5DF2990&search_query=dream+deceivers+judas+priest

Reading this thread inspired me to put on Metal Works '73-'93. This band is so great that a 2CD 32 track collection (really '77 to '90) of their most famous years can still miss several important moments. (like "Green Manalishi" or "United")

Still "Hellion/Electric Eye", "Victim of Changes (live)", and "Painkiller" is a nice way to start.

My favorite stuff is still the British Steel, Point of Entry, era that still sounds closer to what I thought punk was then than other metal of the time.

"Exciter" was THE song that changed the course of heavy metal history forever. Shocked that it wasn't mentioned on this thread. Obviously the commenters made a distinction between "JP track they love" and "JP track which CHANGED THE COURSE OF HEAVY METAL".

Because obv 'Exciter' did the latter. Nobody had sounded so fast & nimble before. Les Binks helped. the whole "Stained Class" lp is just a marvel

TURNING CIRCLES

DREAMER DECEIVER

I made the intro arpeggio of Beyond the Realms of Death into my ringtone. Every time my phone rings, it plays a song that made someone shoot their face off. I love that.

For me, the first 4 albums are head and shoulders above the rest. But British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance, and Defenders of the Faith are also very very strong albums, albeit from a different era and mindset.

If you haven't seen the Old Grey Whistle Test footage on Youtube, you should right away.

That footage is all about eye contact. Plus maybe also KK's cool hat.

wasn't "Better By You, Better Than Me" the song that "inspired" those kids to kill themselves?

wasn't "Better By You, Better Than Me" the song that "inspired" those kids to kill themselves?

Yeah -- a song Priest didn't even write (it's a Spooky Tooth cover, if memory serves).

anybody ever try to play the Spooky Tooth version backwards?

Yes, it turns into a song where a girl is trying to persuade her worst enemy that she is not the appropriate person to explain to her ex-boyfriend her reasons for leaving the navy.

No one would commit suicide over a Spooky Tooth song. That's just silly.

The Hellion/Electric Eye

Right now 'Heroes End' imo

nice to see this thread revived - I never could remember exactly where I read that amazing motorcycle-whipping anecdote.

Dunno why I didn't reply to the thread the first time. I say "Victim of Changes", tho Stormy makes a good case for "Exciter" ("Unleashed..." version, since the studio take was pretty anemic, guitarwise)

the ripper
THE RIPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

you're in for a surPRISE
you're in for a sho-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWCK!

O hear my warning
Never turn your back on the Ripper

Exceptionally sound advice. Don't run, don't yell, just avoid turning your back on him. He is no threat as long as you hold his gaze.

if you hold his gaze he can't bugger you

I'm sorry but I don't think that song is really about jack the ripper

Agreed on Ripper. I mean, Island of Domination is on the same album. And we don't even want to get into later era stuff like Jawbreaker, Eat Me Alive, Love Bites, or Take These Chains.

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I'm always repping for the song Sinner, especially because of Simon Phillip's amazing drum breakdown in the middle. There are more soulful solos out there (particularly Dreamer Deceiver), but the drumming on Sinner has the best "feel" they ever got.

I saw em at Hammersmith when they were touring Screaming for Vengeance. They brought over the US arena show, which obviousl.y didn't fit into the Odeon. The opening of the arena show had the Marshall stacks underneath the drums opening up for Halford to ride out on his Harley to the lip of the stage. At Hammersmith the distance from stacks to lip of the stage was only a few yards, so instead of riding out, Halford was pushed out by a couple of roadies. It rather diminished the impact. Even so - and I was at the end of the back row in the circle, literally the worst seat in the house - Priest were terrific.

the drumming on Sinner has the best "feel" they ever got.

― Nate Carson

I totally agree. You know sometimes the first time you hear a track, the groove is so good you just freeze in the middle of whatever you're doing until the song finishes?

"sinner" was a big fave of mine but haven't heard it in years, gonna have to give that a listen

wiki lol

On the Sin After Sin U.S. tour, they supported REO Speedwagon.

Hey I wonder if "Ripper" Owens took his name from that track? Or if the band hired him because of his name?

Um, yeah. I think that he definitely took his name from that track.

However, I think he was hired for his voice, not his name.

Surprised they passed on Ralf Scheepers

Not that anyone can really Halfie

I mean, not that anyone can really replace Halfie

their best van der graaf generator impression?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy0wAUrYIIs

I go with Victim of Changes. Priest at their most Sabbathian.

Heading Out To the Highway may not be their hardest rocker but I adore it.
Makes for a good mission statement.

not their absolute best song, but LOVE BITES is fucking class.