GMD Poll: Judas Priest’s Discography Ranked

[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

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

is the rest of their discography so bad that a piece of shit record like Rocka Rolla is making people lists? Run of the Mill is a 5 star track, Caviar and Meths is okay, and the rest of the album is just garbage.

 

[rms]

You meant Rocka Rolla right?

holy shit Ozz has a legitimate in crowd metal opinion

 

[EspaDa]

Sin After Sin isn't just good enough. It's far worse than Sad Wings of Destiny, Killing Machine or Stained Class. Yeah, maybe I've exaggerated a bit, Rocka Rolla may be inferior to SAF.

 

[The Ozzman]

holy shit Ozz has a legitimate in crowd metal opinion

I do have them but only occasionally. It's hip to be square.

 

[no country for old wainds]

holy shit Ozz has a legitimate in crowd metal opinion

i thought rocka rolla was pretty popular with in crowd types actually, i think most would say killing machine

 

[rms]

yeeeee i actually forgot that album existed

 

[The Ozzman]

Killing Machine is awesome you dindus

 

[HamburgerBoy]

is the rest of their discography so bad that a piece of shit record like Rocka Rolla is making people lists? Run of the Mill is a 5 star track, Caviar and Meths is okay, and the rest of the album is just garbage.

Never Satisfied and Dying to Meet You are great songs m8

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Obviously "Run of the Mill" is masterful but I also love "Cheater." The title track is solid too. The Winter trio are a little messy and the other tracks are decent, but nothing special. Overall, a good, not great album. It's certainly not bad.

 

[The Ozzman]

That album runs into every other song. Messy as fuck dudes. Anyone who rates that higher than any other 70s album wants HBB to give them a rimjob.

@EspaDa better find a wedding to crash

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why wouldn't they? I have great oral hygiene.