What's Your favourite Judas Priest Album?

Painkiller comes first. Then in random order Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith, Sin after Sin and Sad Wings of Destiny.
 
Jeffmetal said:
2 songs on SFV that kicks serious ass - (Take These) Chains and Pain & Pleasure. :edmetal:
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Personally I prefer several songs on SFV to these two. Namely The Hellion/Electric Eye, Riding On The Wind, Fever and the title track.

@Foro: I know you'll cringe upon the mention of The Hellion/Electric Eye. For someone who has followed Priest for a long time (you), I can understand that as it is probably just as overplayed as The Trooper. Still, there is something about it that just grabs me. So, cringe all you want, I don't care  :P
 
Well, I have seen Priest only a few times, so for me it's not that overplayed (and I love the Trooper!  :D ), but yeah, the band keeps playing it, along with other "classics", hehe.

I like The Hellion a lot, on the studio album too. And Electric Eye is surely a captivating track, getting everyone in the right mood for the things to come.
 
What I feel is that most metal fans are 'compilation' fans (polls in forums atest that almost every year). Once I talked about Weekend Warrior to a guy who said was a big Maiden fan, he said ":Which song?" I only laughed and explained to him.

The Hellion/Electric Eye are instant classics, so once you get the classic into your system is time to jump onto the rest of the album.
 
Jeffmetal said:
Once I talked about Weekend Warrior to a guy who said was a big Maiden fan, he said ":Which song?" I only laughed and explained to him.
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I don't think one can be a big Maiden fan if he doesn't know all Maiden songs.
But, you said he said he was a big Maiden fan, so then I'll accept it.

:D
 
Forostar said:
I don't think one can be a big Maiden fan if he doesn't know all Maiden songs.
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Personally, I think he can. It took me four years to get together all albums, but I would have called myself a big Maiden fan by the fourth album I got, because Maiden was all I listened to. I simply didn't have the money to get all albums at once. I'm also a big Rush fan, even though I only know five studio albums (and two live albums, so I know all the big hits) so far- mostly because I decided to get into each album individually, and only then move on to the next album.
Nobody gets born finished. Give people time and a chance to develop themselves.
 
I was under the impression that this guy had heard all the songs. I thought the guy made compilations so I thought he could have heard all albums, and then preferred to only listen to the compilations / his own selection.

I'll correct my statement, then:

I don't think one can be a big Maiden fan if he doesn't know all Maiden songs, after he's heard them.
 
Forostar said:
I was under the impression that this guy had heard all the songs. I though the guy made compilations so I thought he could have heard all albums, and then preferred to only listen to the compilations / his own selection.
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No, I think Jeffmetal meant that he was a guy who listened to compilations, not made them.
 
In this case I wouldn't call someone a big fan either, if he prefers to listen to compilation albums and doesn't / didn't really have the intention to listen to all the albums.
 
Yeah, Perun is correct. No one has the obligation to know everything and like everything a band one is a fan and one can be a big fan without knowing every single stuff (people mostly don't have the time 'cos they work, they practice sports, they have relantionships), but this guy claimed he knew everything, had rare stuff and such and made almost clear he really knew his Maiden, but he quite didn't. He even gave me The Clairvoyant/Infinite Dreams single from First 10 Years box set and I finished my collection with that. He was a very nice chap, anyway and that's what counts the most.
 
Jeffmetal said:
Yeah, Perun is correct. No one has the obligation to know everything and like everything a band one is a fan and one can be a big fan without knowing every single stuff (people mostly don't have the time 'cos they work, they practice sports, they have relantionships), but this guy claimed he knew everything, had rare stuff and such and made almost clear he really knew his Maiden, but he quite didn't. He even gave me The Clairvoyant/Infinite Dreams single from First 10 Years box set and I finished my collection with that. He was a very nice chap, anyway and that's what counts the most.
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He may be a nice chap and all, but look: you say he claimed he knew everything. He had rare stuff and all that, so he must have known the band for quite a while right? This is a different situation than the one Perun was describing. It didn't look like this fan was still searching like Perun did.

We're not talking about an obscure cover, an out of print video release, or something like that.

I sincerely have difficulties with finding such a person a big fan if he doesn't know a standard album track.
I think that a big Maiden fan should find out as much as he can about the music of the band, and knowing the standard album tracks is a small criterium.

If he was big Maiden fan then he was the rarest example I've ever heard of.
 
He said he was a big fan himself, not me. It happened 12 years ago and it's a fun story. Nothing more, nothing less.

People are the best in something only until they meet someone better than they. After that, he'd came and ask things about Maiden to me.
 
My favorite JP album is Nostradamus, followed by Painkiller, Jugulator and Angel Of Retribution. I'm not really a big fan of pre-Painkiller albums, but almost every album has 2-3 really good songs on it...
 
Hard to choose between Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, and Stained Class... Stained Class gets the nod...
 
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