Greatest Judas Priest Song

[suckerleaf]

What , no Turbo Lover?

 

[EspaDa]

More like top 50. It's a nice catchy song but that's all. It's incomparably inferior to earlier mentioned songs.

 

[suckerleaf]

....

 

[EspaDa]

It was on Breaking the Law subject buddy. Turbo Lover is ok.

 

[The Ozzman]

Your in crowd is showing.

BTL is in the top 20 priest songs, easy.

20 songs that are better:

All of SWOD (9 songs)
All of SFV (10 songs)
The Sentinel

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'd probably take Breaking the Law over The Ripper tbh. Invader might be a toss-up too; I used to love that song, but it's slightly cornier and weaker than most of Stained Class. It's something like a top ~50-70 song for me I guess, but from a band like Priest that still means it's awesome.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'd probably take Breaking the Law over The Ripper tbh. Invader might be a toss-up too; I used to love that song, but it's slightly cornier and weaker than most of Stained Class. It's something like a top ~50-70 song for me I guess, but from a band like Priest that still means it's awesome.

I changed my list

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Wait, SWOD is like 9 tracks anyways right, where are you getting 13 from?

And I don't know about the two S&M songs on Screaming for Vengeance beating British Steel. SFV is basically a perfect pop-metal album, but Breaking the Law is a perfect pop-metal song as well.

 

[The Ozzman]

Wait, SWOD is like 9 tracks anyways right, where are you getting 13 from?

I'm a dumbass and counted incorrectly. Either way that's 19 so throw The Sentinel in there

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So you're really going to put the intro to Tyrant over Breaking the Law?

 

[Phylactery]

Can't believe you're arguing over such an uneventful track like "Breaking the Law". It's not bad, but it being a top 20 Priest track seems ridiculous to me.

Also why isn't "Blood Red Skies" in this discussion since a few of you rated it 10/10 in the mixtape it was in and said it was on of Priest's best.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

un·e·vent·ful
ˌəniˈventfəl/
adjective
adjective: uneventful

not marked by interesting or exciting events.

Yeah, totally the word that comes to mind when thinking of the song that broke them into the mainstream and remains a heavy metal anthem to this day.

 

[infrablack]

Victim - Of - Changes

period

 

[The Butt]

Nostradamus isn't that bad. It's just long.

It is that bad. Absolutely ghastly album.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The list fails for not having Victim of Changes.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

From your list, Painkiller or The Sentinal. Overall, the list is crap.

 

[Phylactery]

un·e·vent·ful
ˌəniˈventfəl/
adjective
adjective: uneventful

not marked by interesting or exciting events.

Yeah, totally the word that comes to mind when thinking of the song that broke them into the mainstream and remains a heavy metal anthem to this day.

It's uneventful as in not much is happening in it. It lacks the dynamics of what I consider to be better Priest songs, but obviously since it's short that's bound to the be the case. Would you prefer I used average instead? I don't give a shit if it broke them into the mainstream, that's not what I'm basing my opinion of the song on. I've never considered it a highlight in their discography.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yeah, Turbo Lover is like their 3rd best song of all time.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Turbo Lover is objectively a great song.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Breaking the Law is fucking amazing you fools. It's a perfect 80s pop metal song with an iconic-as-fuck opening riff and not that it has any bearing on the song's quality but it's also got metal's greatest music video.