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Other random thoughts : It’s too close in title to Ozzy’s No Rest for the Wicked from a couple of years prior. The lead guitar intro melody in the title track is the melody of the vocal in Stairway To Heaven - dear lady can you hear the wind blow … Is that a skull motif above the letter i...

Nah, there’s three guitars or more on most of the 80s albums. Other producers don’t have a problem with it.

Yes, the issue was Steve was shoehorning them into being a thrash sounding band to try to keep up with what was hip at the time. And Bruce trying to sound tough on those raspy vocals just kills it, it sounds horrible. That FOTD era b-side where Dickinson calls a horse race and Metallica is...

You guys are totally offtopic but I will correct this thing about Helter Skelter - Paul read that press quote from Townshend about having a new raucous dirty sounding song and wrote Helter Skelter in response. He didn’t write it after hearing the song itself. He says on Anthology he still...

He absolutely cowrote the album, he just didn’t get credited. Inkeeping with the weird way new band members didn’t use to get any songwriting credit on their first album.

SFV. Painkiller and most of modern Priest just sounds like Spinal Tap to me. Everything cranked to 11 and that horrible clicky clacky drumming from Travis. He fucked the sound of the band up. Not sure why they keep trying to rewrite Painkiller all the time, SFV sold four times as many copies...

The fact that they’ve used Kevin Shirley for 25 years suggests they are deaf. Or at least Steve is.

Maybe they can do some Phil Collins covers.

Bands in massive shows use triggers (prerecorded samples that fire when you hit each drum) or in some instances a combination of trigger and live sound. So the size of the drums and the kit is largely irrelevant.

The first three that spring to mind are Navigator, Rainmaker and Silent Planet. Hard to say three.

How bad the rest of the album is.

It’s a remaster not a remix.

Which is my point. Historically it was no where near as big as Beast or Hills but now it is. Now it’s a massive song, due in part to the beer, the flag waving during the show etc. It’s also way more popular now than songs like Madness and Daughter that were bigger on release than Trooper was -...

Ok, TIL that The Trooper is as famous as Run to the Hills and The Number of the Beast I guess. I hear both of those on the radio every second day, I don’t think I’ve ever heard The Trooper on the radio once in my life.

Yes that’s precisely what it means. Trooper was historically one of their well known songs, but not one of the absolute top most famous ones like Run to the Hills and The Number of the Beast. Pretty simple.

Hell On Earth Drifter Journeyman Moonchild Blood Brothers They often do a (by comparison) lesser known song in the encore.

Not even close. RTTH and TNOTB were always their iconic songs. Trooper was an also-ran up until probably 15 years ago. I’m not sure why. The theatricality with the flag waving maybe?

They don’t need to re re re re re-release the albums again. Especially with bonus tracks just to make the completionists pay for the same fucking albums they’ve already probably bought four or five times already in different formats. That’s Gene Simmons level hucksterism and I hope they have...

Maybe they could have done some Crash Test Dummies covers with Blaze.

Seems like most of the songs on BNW, DOD and FF have endless chorus repetitions, wish he had nixed them.