GMD Poll: Judas Priest’s Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Judas Priest’s 17 studio albums. Order and number each album 1-17. Ties are not allowed. Your first place album earns 17 points, your second place album earns 16 points, etc.

You may rank a minimum of 9 albums. If you list less than 17 albums, the first placed album will get 17 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. Albums you don't rank will not be impacted by your vote.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until May 26th to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in a while, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

And please, no pseudo-Machiavelli shit. Just rank them as you see them.

List of albums:
Rocka Rolla (1974)
Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
Sin After Sin (1977)
Stained Class (1978)
Killing Machine/Hellbent for Leather (1978)
British Steel (1980)
Point of Entry (1981)
Screaming for Vengeance (1982)
Defenders of Faith (1984)
Turbo (1986)
Ram it Down (1988)
Painkiller (1990)
Jugulator (1997)
Demolition (2001)
Angel of Retribution (2005)
Nostradamus (2008)
Redeemer of Souls (2014)

 

[The Ozzman]

Subject to change by 5/26 obviously, but probably not by much for the Top 10 at least. Asterisked ones I need to revisit

edit: finalized list

1) Sad Wings of Destiny
2) Screaming for Vengeance
3) Sin After Sin
4) Killing Machine/Hellbent for Leather
5) Stained Class
6) Defenders of Faith
7) British Steel
8) Demolition
9) Redeemer of Souls
10) Angel of Retribution
11) Turbo
12) Point of Entry
13) Ram it Down
14) Jugulator
15) Painkiller
16) Rocka Rolla
17) Nostradamus

 

[EspaDa]

1. Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Defenders of Faith
3. Painkiller
4. Stained Class
5. Screaming for Vengeance
6. Hell Bent for Leather
7. Sin After Sin
8. Rocka Rolla
9. Ram it Down
10. British Steel
11. Redeemer of Souls
12. Angel of Retribution
13. Turbo
14. Point of Entry
15. Nostradamus
16. Jugulator
17. Demolition

 

[Baroque]

1) British Steel

Ehhh I'll think about the rest

 

[crimsonfloyd]

17) Painkiller

Holy fucking shit...

 

[The Ozzman]

Holy fucking shit...

Would you rather I just not rate it?

Edit: hmmm, this isn't as bad as I remember. This will move up my list but not to the Top 8.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Would you rather I just not rate it?

Edit: hmmm, this isn't as bad as I remember. This will move up my list but not to the Top 8.

Nah you're entitled to your opinion, and I get why some people don't love it, but to put it below some of Priest's true clunkers is hard to process.

 

[no country for old wainds]

k this one i will take part in

 

[rms]

all of you have listened to all 17 Priest albums? jesus

 

[The Ozzman]

all of you have listened to all 17 Priest albums? jesus

Lol what a pleb.

I own all of them and one of the live albums with Ripper.

 

[rms]

I haven't even listened to all Manilla Road albums and they are in my top3. and they didn't even become terrible

you guys are weird

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't think i've heard redeemer of souls and i'm not looking forward to doing so

 

[crimsonfloyd]

i don't think i've heard redeemer of souls and i'm not looking forward to doing so

It's adequate. Better than that Nostradamus nonsense but not as strong as Angel of Retribution (which I think is actually a really good "remember us?" Album).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Sin After Sin
2. Stained Class
3. Painkiller
4. Sad Wings of Destiny
5. Screaming for Vengeance
6. Point of Entry
7. British Steel
8. Rocka Rolla
9. Turbo
10. Demolition
11. Killing Machine/Hellbent for Leather
12. Defenders of Faith
13. Ram it Down
14. Angel of Retribution
15. Jugulator
16. Nostradamus

Redeemer of Souls (2014)

Usually I'd put Rocka Rolla in the top 5-6 but feeling hesitant for some reason. I'm going to give that one and the two new ones relistens soon. Everything down to Hell Bent for Leather is really strong, and even Jugulator is a 4-5/10 album. Amazing discography and band.

 

[The Ozzman]

1. Sin After Sin
2. Stained Class
3. Painkiller
4. Sad Wings of Destiny
5. Screaming for Vengeance
6. Point of Entry
7. British Steel
8. Rocka Rolla
9. Turbo
10. Demolition
11. Killing Machine/Hellbent for Leather
12. Defenders of Faith
13. Ram it Down
14. Angel of Retribution
15. Jugulator

Nostradamus (2008)
Redeemer of Souls (2014)

Usually I'd put Rocka Rolla in the top 5-6 but feeling hesitant for some reason. I'm going to give that one and the two new ones relistens soon. Everything down to Hell Bent for Leather is really strong, and even Jugulator is a 4-5/10 album. Amazing discography and band.

Agreed. This band never released a bad album.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Redeemer of Souls is totally fine and better than the previous two albums but I'm definitely going to have to revisit them. Jugulator is definitely last on my list though.

 

[The Ozzman]

revious two albums that came before

As opposed to the previous two albums that came after?

 

[Master_Yoda77]

No, I meant the immediate two but I see the redundancy.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

1) Sad Wings of Destiny
2) Stained Class
3) Sin After Sin
4) Hell Bent for Leather
5) Screaming for Vengeance
6) Point of Entry
7) Defenders of the Faith
8) British Steel
9) Rocka Rolla
10) Turbo
11) Painkiller
12) Ram it Down
13) Redeemer of Souls
14) Nostradamus
15) Angel of Retribution
16) Demolition
17) Jugulator

This is not a finalized list. I will edit this later. I just wanted to type it out to get a record. I'm pretty confident on this list but I definitely need to relisten to the last 7 albums before I make my final list.

 

[CiG]

I haven't even listened to all Manilla Road albums and they are in my top3. and they didn't even become terrible

you guys are weird

You're in the minority here buddy.