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For me is The Hellion/Electric Eye, it just cant get any better than this. The majestic Hellion instrumental intro that leads into Electric Eye which have one of the best riffs i have ever heard of and the whole song is amazing oh and i must not forget about that face melting solo ! Glenn Tipton is the master🤘🤘

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree. :) If I put this list together another time, Electric Eye might easily be Number One. :)

Victim of changes Hellion / Electric eye Painkiller Exciter Sinner Judas Rising Freewheel burning Ram it down Firepower Delivering the goods Will hold off my opinion of Panic attack until I hear it in the context of the new album. Great vid by the way…

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hey there Mark! Thanks so much for the kind words, and for going for the full Top 10 list. And I see that our Number 2s and 3s are the same! 😊👊

@markwilliams8829

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 the top 3 are untouchable IMO…

It’s all about timing and when you became a fan of a band, that being said, TURBO is my favorite Judas Priest album. Great list.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hi David! You're absolutely right. We're all like baby birds, imprinting on the first heavy metal record that we happen to love. 🐦 Thanks - glad you enjoyed the list! Hopefully you were pleased to see Turbo Lover make the Top 6. 😆👊

1. Victim of Changes 2. Hellion/Electric Eye 3. Painkiller 4. Freewheel Burning 5. Exciter 6. Sinner 7. Delivering the Goods 8. Judas Rising 9. Breaking the law 10. Dawn of Creation/Prophecy

I don't mind slow songs being openers so long as it's a good tune. Out in the Cold has always been my personal favourite from Turbo and to make it qualify for this list I'm going to include live albums and therefore Priest... Live. 1. Painkiller 2. Ram It Down 3. Freewheel Burning 4. The Hellion 5. Delivering the Goods 6. Victim of Changes 7. Out in the Cold 8. Judas Rising 9. Heading out to the Highway 10. Sinner

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hooray, thanks Ceiron - great to see a Top 10 list! Even if you have bent the rules somewhat. 😆😆😊😊👊👊

@CeironBounds-zz6cc

9 ай бұрын

Well I guess I'm just Breaking the law, breaking the law. Don't be too rough on me because after all...... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE!!! 🤘😂😂😂🤘

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

😆😆👊

Nice choice of top spot. I agree with you about Victim of Changes - never been a big fan of it. Delivering the Goods I would have near the top and also Heading out to the Highway would be up there too.

@PossessedByMetal666

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. I do think some songs like Heading can become over familiar. This time next year I might indeed have ranked it higher! 😊🤘

Great stuff! I've always thought Prelude was the natural opening track for Sad Wings and Victim/Deceiver etc as side 2. Also Call For The Priest as opener for SAS with Sinner starting side 2. My mix up but that's how I like/need to play them. Anyway always loved Hellion until I heard a very similar track by Y & T produced by Max Norman - sorry Tom!!

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Interesting, thanks - will have to investigate this Y&T business! :) And I like those mix-ups you've made there. 🎃👊

The Hellion/Electric Eye Exciter Rapid Fire

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Great top 3, thank you! 👊🎃

Rapid fire. Top 3 priest songs for me. The song thst got me into priest as my dad picked me up from primary school one day and he'd just put British steel in the car so the first thing i heard was that opening riff and i was hooked. Loved it ever since and seeing priest for the first time last night at leeds arena and seeing them play it was an absolute treat

@PossessedByMetal666

5 ай бұрын

Yeah! I love how Priest constantly change up their set and throw in cool surprises like that. 😊👊🤘

Even with the recording i think most Priest fans would consider Hellion into Electric Eye to be the Greatest opener. As for the Turbo lp, for me Reckless is by far the Greatest track (my favourite J.P track) and has still never been played live, apparently it was considered for the last tour but didn't sit well in the setlist. Maybe KK'S Priest will do it.. I've only been waiting 37yrs 😂 🤘

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

I love Reckless too! Great melody line on the vocal and very catchy. 😊👊

Happy to see a great list. Even though there are a couple of songs I would change (I hate all of Point of Entry and Turbo with passion and British Steel is IMO overrated) I must admit your list would make an excellent introduction of all the different sides of Priest for a new listener.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hey there! Cheers! That's a good point I hadn't considered - the sheer variety of it. :) What would be your own Number 1?

Great List!

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hey thank you! Would love to see yours. :)

Judas Priest I am only very limited in my experience with, but Painkiller has got to be it for me. Their song Exciter probably spawned Canadian speed metal band, Exciter! Megadeth "Holy Wars" has got to be the absolute best thrash opener though.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hey there EA! In fairness, if I did this list another month I might easily put Painkiller at Number 1. 😆 And almost did this time! I love Holy Wars, but don't consider it to be a thrash song. 🤔🤔🤔😊👊

@ExplosiveAction

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 oh wow I'd love to know the reasoning for excluding Megadeth's greatest song as thrash! It's a technical thrash masterpiece to me. It's got the speed, it's got the aggression, it's got the chops!

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

​@ExplosiveAction hehe, there's probably a whole video in this subject! I don't see Megadeth as a thrash band at all, as much as ive always loved em! For me thrash is defined by speed - the use of that very specific thrash beat. Megadeth said it right, I think, when they described themselves as a state of the art SPEED metal band. 😊

@ExplosiveAction

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 I think we could have a few pints and bags of pork crackle over this conversation!

I grew up with Breaking The Law being the opening track from British Steel in Canada (got the other Point of Entry cover too). It's weird to hear it as an opening track now. Sad Wings has Prelude as the opening track here too. Strange.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hi there! That's a great point. Breaking The Law is one of my Priest faves, but yes, that would be so weird now, to hear it opening the record! What would be your own favourite album-opening track? 👊🎃

@Macrosac

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 I think I would have to go with The Hellion/Electric Eye. Difficult choice though!

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

It certainly is, @@Macrosac ! 😆

Delivering the Goods

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

A fine song, no question! :) Your KZread avatar made me wonder if you might suggest One For The Road. 😄👊

@RockaRolla6969

9 ай бұрын

One For The Road my least favorite. Delivering The Goods is the first Priest song I ever heard. Victim Of Changes is my favorite Priest song. I'm all over the place...

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

​@RockaRolla6969 Hehe, aren't we all! Yes, when I was initially planning to rank all the album openers, One For The Road was at Number 18. Not a bad song at all, though!

@RockaRolla6969

9 ай бұрын

I would have it at 16. A full ranking is a splendid idea. I shall put pen to paper right now as I am bored. Of course it would probably change tomorrow.

Painkiller all the way. Best Priest song ever. One of the greatest metal songs ever.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Love Painkiller. :) What an amazing song. I still remember the impact it had when I first spun the Painkiller CD.

@robcarrier1969

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 Especially coming after the lame duck that was Ram It Down... honestly as much as I love those other songs, they all fall short in my opinion. Freewheel Burning always sounded a bit throwaway compared to the rest of Defenders, and while Electric Eye is cool it is a bit 'polite'. Tipton is on fire on Painkiller as well, incredible solos, super memorable and they've just never captured that deranged metalness again, even the rest of the Painkiller album seems 'restrained' in comparison. I used to always say that 'Hallowed be they Name' was the greatest metal song, but I find it hard to argue against Painkiller.

As a statement of intent, I really like Delivering the Goods and am sad it didn't make it to your list. :( Same with Judas Rising. I guess it's slow lead-in doesn't have the smashing attack of a lot of the opening tracks in your list but it really builds to a monolithic track. So... which way do you like your Sad Wings? Opening with Victim of Changes or... Prelude/Tyrant? ;) I'm about to say something completely sacrilegious... I'm not a big fan of the British Steel album. I like Rapid Fire, it's a great, fun song and one of the better ones on the album... but I'm just not a fan of Dave Holland's robotic drumming and their combined dumbed-down approach to the writing on the album in general. Compared to most of the other opening tracks, it's a bit... forgettable? The riff doesn't spring to mind immediately for me like the others. But that's probably just me... As for Painkiller, I love it's deliberate OTT excesses. I love the ending and the punishing length of it! It's an amazing song that pushed their limits as a band to smash through them, sadly never to soar to those heights of combined energy/passion/writing/playing/production/cohesive focus again. (Kind of like Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album, Manowar's The Triumph of Steel album, arguably Ozzy's No More Tears album, and even more arguably Dio's Strange Highways. Everything after had a feeling of "we wore ourselves out on that last one". Don't get me wrong, there were good songs put out by all those bands after, but never the same intensity for an entire album as those.)

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

HERETIC! 😆😆👊 Thanks for the awesomely detailed comment, Jay! I'd forgotten about the alternative track listing! I would definitely prefer Tyrant. 🤔 I do like Delivering The Goods, if it's any consolation! I reckon that might have been at Number 11. 🤔🤔🤔

You are a fool! Also Out in the Cold is the album opener for Turbo. Breaking the Law is the opener for British Steel. At least in the States and Wiki.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hehe! Well, I did ask you to say that. 😆 I actually did not know that about Out In The Cold! 🫨 I thank you. What is your own #1?

@TUTruth

9 ай бұрын

@@PossessedByMetal666 There's several good one's, but it has to be Electric Eye.

I mildly disagree I think you would be right with Painkiller or Hellion with Electric Eye could swap out as #1 anytime ! Rapid Fire is also a solid second on any list . I think Panic Attack is a great JP song but wanna hear more before judging the record any further . FirePower was solid but not what I wanted which is a proper follow up to Painkiller which we never got but it's never to late . Robs Vocals at 72 have just shattered expectations he's actual taking the spot of RJD as the Greatest Metal Vocalist of all time sorry my opinion don't shoot , love me some RJD but Rob is defying time which has to be recognized !! Very disappointed in the 1st Mick Mars solo record song it wasn't what most Metal fans I know wanted ! We wanted Shout at the Devil Tone and Heavy feel this wasn't even close , see what follows ??

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Hey there, thanks so much for your thoughts! And I do agree that, if I did this list again next month, I might well swap either of those two songs into Number One! Rob and Ronnie are my two favourite trad metal singers, for sure. 👊👊 I haven't heard the new Mick Mars stuff - interesting! Although it sounds like a letdown. :(

Not arguing with that mate. Tbh I could put these songs in any order.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

I know what you mean! Any of the Top Four could be Number One, for sure! 👊🎃

There is a reaction channel here in the UK who thinks Priests best albums were the ones without Rob Halford apparently over rated bad tone and all Priest albums except the ones without Halford are very badly produced wtf 😂😂😂😂. Mind you Alter Bridge is his favourite band erm what lol.

@PossessedByMetal666

9 ай бұрын

Blimey, is this person Tim Owens in disguise? 😆 Just kidding - Tim's a cool guy. :) But that's a crazy opinion, isn't it.

@747jono

9 ай бұрын

@PossessedByMetal666 Yes on his channel he can't resist laying into Rob Halford, yet reviewing singles, god I hate that word these days, they are not singles, remember we you use to go to HMV etc or record shop and physical buy 7" single and the sales of said single affected the position in charts etc? They are preview songs from forthcoming album yes? I don't want to hear 4 songs from a forthcoming album 3 months before release on a 10 song album!!! Where is the element of suprise and anticipation for the album if you have heard half the album stupid isn't it. I am a physical product guy, I don't do streaming Spotify etc playlist etc. I take cd/vinyl and play it from start to finish. Would you play a Beethoven symphony or a Mozart opera etc and stop after the first movement or act doesn't make sense. This subject really riles me. Have a fantastic day mate. Rant over lol