Shame... shame... shame

>>73411919
best track?

>>73411932
the one that's more badass than most of the songs on Painkiller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_fJ5SSV_Vo

>>73411932
Title or Heavy Metal.

The mixing is shit and the songs are lazy. They'd made all their money by this point and stopped trying.

The Chuck Berry cover was stupid, even Rob Halford said so.

>>73412452
Bullshit. Painkiller came next, easily one of their best albums.

>>73412983
Painkiller is overrated and it was more of a desperation move because the thrash bands were making them look outdated.

The Johnny B Goode was unnecessary, but I'm A Rocker was underrated

>>73413052
>overrated

Opinions, and bad ones at that. Painkiller has Battle Hymn on it you fucking heretic.

>>73413052
>doesn't think Tipton's sweeping was just as good/better than the contemporaries at its release

>>73413119
Glenn's playing is top-notch but Rob's vocals are not so great and the lyrics reached a new level of horrible cheese. Scott Travis is also a good drummer technically but too mechanical.

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This is judaskino.

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Judas Priest:

Meltdown [1970s]

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]

>>73413132
True, but at least in the long run Travis wasn't a child-diddler

>>73413243
Would it kill this guy to actually bother explaining what he doesn't like about a band?

>>73413327
Read his reviews of Motorhead, he criticizes Priest without directly mentioning them by name.

>No Remorse [Bronze, 1984]
>The critics who used to call Motorhead the worst band in the world had a point, which may be why Lemmy's high-speed metal has now turned into the thinking person's headbang. The stuff is so pure it's almost rarefied: no operatic declamations, no schlocky guitaristics, no satanism or medievalism or sci-fi or sexist s&m. Just aggression, violence, noise. Lemmy doesn't even bellow--his voice is more a hoarse, loud, one-note roar. This tasteful two-disc best-of-plus-four (new and definitive: "Killed By Death") is the first Motorhead product praised by Headheads since No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, eight of whose eleven songs it includes (the eight best, too). Unless you've got an extra Y chromosone or beat your meat till it bleeds, you likely don't need it on a regular basis. But it'll sure come in handy at those precious moments when you want nothing so much as to smash somebody's face. A-

>>73413132
Finally, someone else who agrees Painkiller is overrated. Best JP is Defenders of the Faith.

>>73413385
Nah Defenders isn't all that Earth shattering, actually as a studio band their peak were Sad Wings through Stained Class, as a live act their peak came in the 80s.

>>73413376
>Night in the Ruts [Columbia, 1979]
>This opens with a promising song about their career called "No Surprize." Then they edge ever closer to the flash guitar, dull tempos, and stupid cover versions of heavy-metal orthodoxy. No surprise. C+

This can also be taken as a critique of Judas Priest, in fact it very probably was since I'm guessing Christgau was running through CBS's releases at the time. It can just as easily be talking about Van Halen.

Christgau literally rates artists based on how much pussy he thinks they get. Once you notice it, you can't unsee it.

>>73413397
I love their 70s albums but they were clearly still developing their skills as musicians and songwriters. Defenders is perfectly executed.

>>73413385
Sad Wings of Destiny is the best JP

S-Tetralogy (Sad Wings, Sin after Sin, Stained Class, Screaming for vengeance)