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Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance (1982)
Originally Released 1982\nCD Edition Released \nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released May 29, 2001\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Following the underwritten, erratic Point of Entry, Screaming for Vengeance returned Judas Priest to the top of the metal heap, boasting a much more consistent set of songs, highlighted by the monumental "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." Some of the bluesier elements of Point of Entry are still here, but the heavier moments tend to dominate the album's flavor (particularly the title track); plus, there are arena-ready headbanging anthems like "Electric Eye," "Bloodstone," and, of course, "You've Got Another Thing Comin'," the latter two proof that the band really knew how to work a mid-tempo rock groove. Although the sound is commercial, Screaming for Vengeance doesn't feel like it's pandering as Point of Entry sometimes did; it's a catchy, accessible metal record in the best sense of the description, and it rivals British Steel as Priest's best album of the '80s. [The 2001 Columbia/Legacy reissue adds two bonus tracks: "Prisoner of Your Eyes" and a live version of "Devil's Child."] ~ Steve Huey\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nAfter releasing Screaming for Vengeance in 1982, Judas Priest began a creative slide from which they've never recovered. However, if you're going to be remembered for something, it might as well be a record as heavy, incisive, and melodic as Screaming. The disc features the band's biggest hit, "You've Got Another Thing Coming," a sonic inferno that is as hook-laden as it is heavy. But the album also contains uncompromising turbo-blasts such as the title track and the steely "Electric Eye." Throughout, Rob Halford growls and sings in a voice that could at high volumes kill rodents and small dogs, and guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton unleash their arsenal of inspired and engaging riffs. Classic. The 2001 remastered reissue includes two bonus tracks--a previously unavailable studio extra called "Prisoner of Your Eyes" and a live take on "Devil's Child." --Jon Wiederhorn \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nBest Priest Album, May 30, 2004\nReviewer: Terry Lindsay (Locust Valley, NY USA)\nWell, this, in my opinion, must be JP's greatest LP. The awesome intro to the album with Hellion leading right into Electric Eye is dominating at first, but then you drive right into some equally massive tunes. After riding on the wind, a mediocre song, you are blown away by Bloodstone, with a super intro riff and a great chorus, thanks to rob, but that is just the beginning. (Take These)Chains is a great song, as is Pain and Pleasure (awesome guitar), but then the cd climaxes with such great tunes as the MTV favorite You've Got Another Thing Comin, the title song Screaming for Vengeance, and then my favorite song on the album, the AC/DC reminiscent Devil's Child. Album version is simple but insanely awesome, and the live version lives up to the studio in every aspect.\nAll in all, Screaming for Vengeance is the best non-compilation album... such great songs as were mentioned cannot be compared. \n\n(Most people disagree with my opinion, but I do not think that Priest went downhill from here. They did experience a time of synthisizers and all that stuff (turbo), but they were just victims of changes. I think Ripper did a great job while he was here, and their later albums were better than some of their earlier LPs.)\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nCommercial success at last!... but not nearly the best, March 4, 2003\nReviewer: "electricphase" (Mexico City)\nI became a huge fan of Judas Priest since I first heard Unleashed in the East in 1979. The Priest was building enormeous momentum in the late '70s, especially by opening to Kiss and more often than not, stealing the show with their raw power and energetic brand of heavy metal. Judas Priest's music was fresh and their attitude made them the new underdog favorites of the new heavy metal scene. Rob Halford's voice and presence ruled the stage. \nBy 1980, the Priest finally made it relatively big with British Steel. Released in 1982, Screaming for Vengeance emerged with fury after a lukewarm release (Point of Entry). Screaming for Vengenace has plenty of catchy metal riffs, which blended perfectly with Rob Halford's thunderous voice. \n\nHowever, Screaming for Vengeance's purpose was solely to gain commercial success, and they achieved it. This is one of the better liked productions of the band (as other reviewers have attested). But to me, the majority of the songs in Screaming for Vengeance lack creativity, musicality and power. Also, Rob's lyrical mystique was gone here. Glenn and KK's guitars are very good as usual, although a bit constrained compared to earlier releases. Ian Hill's bass is almost unnoticeable. It also didn't help that the drums are so boring and tepid here. Ex-Trapeze drummer Dave Holland only uses the hi-hat closed in every single song... After the third song I get tired of the same sound over and over. He never bothered to open the hi-hat or to use the ride cymbal at all. Although he had double bass drums, he rarely played them. Sorry, but Judas Priest's music should be played with a fiery drummer. I don't think Holland was even able to play older gems like Exciter or Here Comes The Priest. It was simply impossible for him technically, and this translated to the "just decent" quality of Judas Priest's music circa 1982. If you have never heard the Priest, just listen to any album they released prior to 1980 (with Les Binks and/or Simon Phillips on drums), or to Painkiller in 1990, with Scott Travis bashing the skins. Not a bad album, but not nearly the best from the mighty Priest!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nScreaming for PRIEST, October 30, 2002\nReviewer: A.J. Taylor (Sparta, NJ United States)\nIn 1982 Judas Priest came out with what is widely considered theris finest album, Screaming for Vengeance. Sporting dueling guitar solos from Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing and high-pitched screams from the mighty Rob Halford, Screaming ushered in a new Priest, even heavier and faster than before. However, the music began to sound almost formulated to a point, and this formula produces a few excess tracks. The album kicks off with "the Hellion/Electric Eye" which is easioy one of the best songs the band has ever recorded with its unique vocal styles and killer guitars. Next comes "Riding on the Wind" which kicks off with a cool drum solo and doesn't let you go til the end some 3 minutes later. At this point, however, the heavy formula starts to go off treack, with average treacks like Bloodstone and Take These Chains. The slower Pain and Pleasure is just plain weird. Howevewr, the album gets back on track with the driving title track, which moves right along into You've Got Another Thing Coming", the album's big hit. "Fever" is a slower number, though its certainly worth a listen. The fast/heavy formula seen on this most of the album returns for "Devil's Child" the awesome album closer.\nScreaming delivers instrumentally and vocally(thanks to Mr. Halford's godly pipes), but continues on the general decline of Halford's ability as a lyricist. Also, Ian Hill's bass becomes less and less noticeable and his lines simpler and simpler, and this album is not exception to this. Judas Priest would use the formula seen on Screaming with sluightly better results on their next album, Defenders of the Faith. Still, Screaming stands as one of the most recognizable Priest releases and therefore is well suiter for any newcomer to the band.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nA Bit Much at Times, July 25, 2002\nReviewer: Brett Champion (Alexandria, Virginia) \nIn retrospect, the music of bands like Judas Priest seems to be a bit over the top. "Screaming for Vengeance" was released in 1982 so it preceded my interest in music by about four years. Because of that I don't know how reasonable the music seemed at the time. Judging by Judas Priest's popularity it was very much so.\nArguments can be made as to what is the best post-Black Sabbath British metal album. "Screaming for Vengeance" can certainly be considered. By the fact that I only give the album a three-star rating you can tell that I'm not a huge fan of the genre but like it enough to have bought this album and a few others from it.\n\n"Screaming for Vengeance" is to speed metal what Poison was to pop metal. I don't like to use the word 'outrageous' in reviews but it almost fits this album. It's not 'outrageous' in the shocking way but in the 'we have to play our instruments and sing our songs louder than anybody else' way. The loudness of "Screaming for Vengenace" keeps it from getting more than an occasional listen by me. This is too bad because, toned down a bit, it could have been a very good album.\n\nThe best song from "Screaming for Vengenace", and the one even people who have never heard of Judas Priest know, is "You've Got Another Thing Comin'". This is the song that I bought the album for and may be one the ten best songs of the 80s.\n\n"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is not the only good song on "Screaming for Vengeance". I would also include "Electric Eye", a song that foresaw the use of cameras as ubiquitous observers, and "Bloodstone". A couple songs that are harmed by Judas Priest's excessive volume are "Riding on the Wind" and the title track. Toned down a bit they could have been good songs.\n\nThe bottom line on "Screaming for Vengeance" is that if you are a fan of the genre, you'll probably like this album better than I. For those of you like me who preferred bands like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, you'll like it but won't love it.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nPriest, Pain And Pleasure!, May 9, 2002\nReviewer: Stony Ace Klimpel (Minot, ND)\n1982...what a year! The two best (by far) albums to come out then: KISS - "Creatures Of The Night" and Judas Priest - "Screaming For Vengeance." This was my first buy of anything from the Priest back in '82 and I would recommend with all the new remasters that are coming out today that this be your first taste of the Priest. This disc opens up with one of the best guitar intros from the best guitar combo of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing. "The Hellion" is a thrust into the the groove-laden, vocal piercing concert favorite "Electric Eye." Rob Halford's vocals throughout this disc sound just like the title! Also, Ian Hill on Bass and Dave Holland on drums keep the backbone of the band pounding. Other hits worth checking out are "Riding On The Wind"...which might I add has one of the coolest rollercoaster-like guitar solos, "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"...this song has heavy guitar groove written all over it and is still today a popular metal song, "Devil's Child"...a dark devilish closer! This is one of those discs that I can listen from beginning to end without skipping a song. You won't be disappointed with "Vengeance!"\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nLouis Austin, Engineer\nTom Allom, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nJudas Priest: Rob Halford (vocals); Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing (guitar); Ian Hill (bass); Dave Holland (drums).\n\nRecorded at Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain.\n\nDigitally remastered by Jon Astley.\n\nIn the early '80s, a new musical movement, dubbed "The New Wave of British Metal," swept across England. The conspirators include such heavy bands as Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, and Def Leppard, but Judas Priest is often credited as the originator and leader of the pack. Rob Halford's vocal histrionics and the dual guitar attack of K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton mesmerized metal-heads everywhere. While Priest had been together since the early-'70s, the band's big U.S. breakthrough came with 1982's SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE.Like most other metal bands that broke through in the early '80s (Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, etc.), Judas Priest took advantage of the then-developing video medium. MTV put the clip for "You Got Another Thing Coming" in heavy rotation, and the song became one of heavy metal's all-time classic anthems. Other album tracks, such as "The Hellion," "Electric Eye," "(Take These) Chains," "Devil's Child," and the title composition, were all prime metal cuts. With its perfect balance of heavy riffing and melodicism, SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE is considered by many to be among the finest heavy metal albums ever made.
This rock cd contains 10 tracks and runs 38min 55sec.
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