GMD Poll: Judas Priest’s Discography Ranked

[Bloopy]

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

I hadn't heard 7 of the bottom 8 before so wasn't missing much. Had to relisten to them all anyway. Rocka Rolla is my kinda thing in a big way. Knew Nostradamus quite well and never had a problem with it - nothing on it makes me cringe.

 

[Baroque]

1. British Steel

2. Sad Wings of Destiny
3. Screaming for Vengeance
4. Painkiller

5. Defenders of the Faith
6. Stained Class
7. Hell Bent for Leather
8. Sin After Sin



9. Rocka Rolla

 

[zerostatic]

1) Sad Wings of Destiny
2) Stained Class
3) Screaming for Vengeance
4) British Steel
5) Painkiller
6) Sin after Sin
7) Hell Bent for Leather
8) Defenders of the Faith
9) Redeemer of Souls
10) Turbo
11) Ram it Down
12) Point of Entry

 

[crimsonfloyd]

A
1. Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Painkiller

A-
3. Defenders of Faith
4. Sin After Sin (would be an A and in 3rd place if Last Rose of Summer didn't exist)

B+
5. Stained Class
6. Screaming for Vengeance
7. British Steel

B:
8. Angel of Retribution
9. Redeemer of Souls

B-:
10. Hellbent for Leather
11. Rocka Rolla

C-:
12. Turbo (There's an A- EP embedded in an F album)

D:
13. Nostradamus
14. Ram it Down
15. Point of Entry

F:
16. Jugulator
17. Demolition

 

[zabu of nΩd]

4. Sin After Sin (would be an A and in 3rd place if Last Rose of Summer didn't exist)

WTF NON-METAL ON A PRIEST ALBUM FUCK THIS PUSSY SHIT

 

[no country for old wainds]

speaking as a great lover of ballads, that song is fucking awful and the worst on that album by a thousand miles.

 

[CiG]

What the fuck is wrong with you...

 

[EspaDa]

Sin After Sin is a strange album. I'm literally fond of like 1/2 of the album. Sinner, Starbreaker, Diamonds & Rust and Dissident Aggressor. The rest does nothing for me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I still love Starbreaker and all, but I never understand why the happy handclap song gets respect but not pure fuckin speed metal like Call for the Priest or grooving 70s perfection like Raw Deal.

 

[no country for old wainds]

What the fuck is wrong with you...

consensus agrees with me on this one brah. i'd understand if people were defending 'here come the tears' as it rules

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Consensus is full of people that dismiss Sin After Sin entirely, you belong with the rest of them fag

 

[EspaDa]

The fact is that Sin After Sin is their worst 70's release.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Last Rose of Summer > nearly every song on Killing Machine

 

[no country for old wainds]

The fact is that Sin After Sin is their worst 70's release.

more like one of the top 5 metal/hardrawk albums of the '70s.

 

[The Ozzman]

The fact is that Sin After Sin is their worst 70's release.

You meant Rocka Rolla right?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

WTF NON-METAL ON A PRIEST ALBUM FUCK THIS PUSSY SHIT

Most of Priest's non-metal songs (Epitaph, Dreamer Deciever, Before the Dawn, Eulogy) are good to great. However, Last Rose of Summer has tacky melodies, lyrics, and vocals and drags on. It's simply a bad song.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

How are Last Rose of Summer's lyrics tacky? They're probably among the least tasteless in their entire discography. The vocal delivery is perfect too, that last lyric gets the sappiest but then he ups the intensity and throws in a bit of wordplay with the "So that when winter's mettle steals the earth / And all around seems dead and cold" which is heavy as fuck for a brief climax before the song retires into a pleasant bliss. I agree that the sort of country folk(? or something) melodies are initially very off-putting, but once you get over your prejudices it's a really moving song.

And lmao, Before the Dawn is its inferior in every respect other than repetition.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

OK reread the lyrics without the music and take that part back. In isolation, they're not bad. It's the delivery that makes them feel tacky. The melodies reek of psychedelia taken to the AM and the vocals are cloy and saccharine. It's just a bad song

Before the Dawn is cheesy too, but in an way that effectively gets its melodramatic mood across.

 

[CiG]

The fact is that Sin After Sin is their worst 70's release.

 

[SwarmOvRats]

1) Sad Wings of Destiny
2) Stained Class
3) Sin After Sin