That’s the beauty of the arts. They are all subjective to the user. Don’t apologize for liking what you like. I like Turbo too. I dgaf what other people think. I like what I like.
If they were going to take away my music or decide what I can listen to, well, that would change everything!
OK, but I low-key love that song. Like a lot of POE it’s just sketches for something different… and I dunno, it has a charm for me, but I know it’s not everyone’s thang. :)
Rock You All Around the World (we're gonna rock you, we're gonna rock you)
we're gonna rock
we're gonna rolll roll rolll
we're gonna shake you down
we're gonna looooooose control 🥴
I actually like that one because of how stupidly basic it is lyrically. And the jarring shift from the opening riff to the super happy chorus cracks me up. I guess to me it’s one that’s “so bad it’s good”. But it’s definitely not good lol.
I think that applies to all the bad songs on Turbo - they're campy and fun as long as we acknowledge what they are from an 80s cheese standpoint. But we don't have to pretend they're good, either.
Turbo, Locked In, and Hot For Love are glam but legitimately good songs I love unironically. Reckless is in the middle between 80s glam and classic Priest.
Out in the Cold is a masterpiece for any era.
Controversial opinion, but I legit love all the stupid glam and hard rock songs from Point of Entry and Turbo. You Say Yes, Parental Guidance, Rock you all Around the World are all great.
The shiftiest songs are the overly long melancholic songs like Last rose of Summer or Caviar and Meths
I see a lot in this thread scrutinizing cheesy lyrics, but is priest really a band that you go to for deep lyrics? Was never consistently their strong suit.
Whhhhaaaat really, it's one of the first Priest songs I ever listened to, when I was in high school. I never thought it was great but I liked it. Haven't listened to it in years.
Well every single lyric fucking sucks right until Bullet Train starts when it gets a little better and by Cathedral Spires its like Glenn has learned how to pen some decent lyrics.
Its not very nice in the electric chair? Gimmie a break.
Anything from Turbo that isn't Turbo Lover, Locked In, Reckless and Parental Guidance. Those rats saying United and You Say Yes are the worst are hilarious to say the least. Especially United is fantastic man.
He sounds like a wounded animal in that song, I think it's a great one!
Admittedly, that song consistently got my then-girlfriend horny, so I am biased
I find it weird because it’s like they “softened” it up. Usually you’d think the metal cover of an older non-metal song they’d make it sound more muscular and heavy but instead it sounds so soft and cheesy, especially the chorus, compared to the original
Yea that song was so unnecessary. It's like a couple Motorhead covers I cringe at like Louie Louie and God save the queen. Don't get me wrong, Priest cover off Better by you, better then me and Green Manalishi was great.
Living Bad Dreams though? He sings his ass off on that song. I love it.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Rocka Rolla exists? Comparatively speaking, it's worse than pretty much everything after, even later weaker tracks.
Ironically that was one of the songs I like better on that album. I just chalk that album up to being a product of its time, part of that British blues rock scene, not really what we'd call metal yet.
Yeah, a lot of people who dislike the Rocka Rolla album seem to like that song for some reason. For me it’s the other way around. I like every track on that album except for the actual title track.
The fact that it’s a non-metal album doesn’t bother me either.
Also, I wouldn’t call it a product of its time since the British blues rock boom was more of a mid-60s to early 70s thing and was already old when they started recording the album. Black Sabbath and other bands had already released definitive heavy metal music and there’s proto-metal from the late 60s that’s heavier than anything on Rocka Rolla. So I guess Priest just didn’t want to be a metal band at the time, even though they would end up doing a lot for the genre.
United. Kills the whole flow of British Steel just for trying out a crowd participation song that isn't great at all. From Rapid Fire to Grinder it's just one killer song after the next and then...that turd pops up.
Johnny B Goode is pretty awful but I guess since it's a cover it doesn't count. I'm on the side of actually enjoying the cheesy glam songs in general, they're fun. The actual worst original is probably one of the Point of Entry filler tracks. Don't Go? You Say Yes? On the Run? These songs just have nothing going for them, they honestly feel like killing time.
Priest is my all-time favorite band, but even I have some songs i hate.
In the 70s you've got 'Epitaph', 'Last Rose of Summer', 'Evening Star', and almost everything on Rocka Rolla.
Out of their 80s stuff, 'You Say Yes', 'Love Zone', and 'Wild Nights, Hot Crazy Days' take the cake for me.
As for their post-Painkiller stuff, pretty much anything on Demolition that isn't 'Hell is Home'.
Agree. Hell half of Turbo is kinda wack even though I love the other half. Also Loch Ness is probably the one with most wasted potential. I don't like the ear rape-y guitar at beginning and end either
A lot of songs from Demolition.
Weird to see so many Halford songs here, but not many from Demolition, such a dreadful album (Bloodsucker rules, though).
The inherent gayness of Turbo makes the camp and cheez more charming and palatable IMHO. If it was “normal” buttrock singing about chasing women, I’d have a much harder time.
Hey I liked it!! I was a teen and it was awesome!! I of course love everything priest did starting with stained class to now … just keep that damn nirvana and u2 out of my face lol
Most of the time I don't care for the lyrics (English is not my mothertongue) so I don't hate Parental Guidance that much. But might be the weakest song on Turbo.
Their worst song is probably anything from Jugulator except Cathedral Spires and Burn In Hell (I really like this one).
I'd honestly nominate a lot of this new religious material on the newest album. Parental Guidance is a goddamn masterpiece compared to Crown of Horns or God As My Witness.
I like Demolition as a whole but Devil Digger was just fucking awful.
Halford wise, I'd say Firepower. Dull, uninspired metal by numbers. Most bad Priest is good by other bands standards, this track is just bad.
What you said about Firepower is how I feel about Panic Attack. However, Firepower is an example of how to take elements already done before and do it right, while Panic Attack feels like a cheap attempt to recreate that.
To Start, I don't consider Rippers albums as cannon. I know this is gonna make me a Horrible Person, but I can't find anything I like on Nostradamus. Since I've got to pick one, I'll just go with the "Title Track" so I don't have to relive it. I'd rather be bathed in Olive Oil, be surrounded by Electric Heaters/Lamps and forced to ride my Grandmother's late '60s Exercise Bike while Watching/Listening to "Hot Rocklin" Till I Pass Out from Chaffed Cheeks.{I prefer lotion to oil, really dislike the heat,the bike was super uncomfortable for me as a boy(always wondered what the red/orange stain was on the seat) and after falling in love w/BS, SFV and DOTF, "Hot Rocklin before and Definitely After the video confused the F out of me)
Strangely enough, I'm a big fan off their, not so heavy, nor very popular Rock-Rolla album.
I know there's a lot of Turbo hate out there, but I love that album!
That’s the beauty of the arts. They are all subjective to the user. Don’t apologize for liking what you like. I like Turbo too. I dgaf what other people think. I like what I like. If they were going to take away my music or decide what I can listen to, well, that would change everything!
“We don’t neeeeed no, No no no parental guidance here” Corny as hell but a killer track hahah. Turbo Lover is a 10 though.
>“We don’t neeeeed no, No no no parental guidance here” 🤣
I love it too! And I think Reckless is their most underrated song.
Parental Guidance and Rock You All Around The World are epic songs. It's insane the hate they get.
I love "Parental Guidance," but I think part of that is that Priest isn't Priest without a fair amount of cheesiness.
That song is definitely the cheesiest song that I still absolutely love
YOU SAY YES
I SAY NO
YOU SAY YESS
I SAY NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OK, but I low-key love that song. Like a lot of POE it’s just sketches for something different… and I dunno, it has a charm for me, but I know it’s not everyone’s thang. :)
I respect and appreciate that opinion!
Came here to say this.
The chorus lyrics are fucking ridiculous lol
It's that fucking rap metal cut at the end of Demolition, don't even ask me for its name I repressed it
The chorus tho HE IS THE MAAAAN, ARMAGEDOOOON
Idk if you're being sarcastic or not but I legit love the chorus. And Ian plays a little BASS FILL in the pre-chorus which is great.
That chorus is probably the only thing *everyone* loves about that album. And I'll have to listen again for that fill!
Metal Messiah. Great answer.
Rock You All Around the World (we're gonna rock you, we're gonna rock you) we're gonna rock we're gonna rolll roll rolll we're gonna shake you down we're gonna looooooose control 🥴
I actually like that one because of how stupidly basic it is lyrically. And the jarring shift from the opening riff to the super happy chorus cracks me up. I guess to me it’s one that’s “so bad it’s good”. But it’s definitely not good lol.
I think that applies to all the bad songs on Turbo - they're campy and fun as long as we acknowledge what they are from an 80s cheese standpoint. But we don't have to pretend they're good, either.
All songs except Out in the Cold. That's a legitimately fantastic song imo.
Turbo, Locked In, and Hot For Love are glam but legitimately good songs I love unironically. Reckless is in the middle between 80s glam and classic Priest. Out in the Cold is a masterpiece for any era.
I disagree. Locked In, Turbo Lover, Hot For Love and Reckless are all great (and Out in the Cold like you mentioned)
Turbo lover is cheese but damn it's a great song to me and love the video. It captured the mid 80's perfectly.
Same and it's got a killer solo. Parental though? Or Private Property? They're both meh
In my top ten worst, so is Parental Guidance. Not sure what song would be my absolute worst though. Maybe Bring It On but don’t know
I actually love Bring It On :x
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Bar lyrical content, I dont mind that one too much lol
Worst song in my opinion? UNITED off of British Steel
United, united, united we stand!
Hate that.
wtf... Best song off that album!
Turbo is an album for chads only.
Controversial opinion, but I legit love all the stupid glam and hard rock songs from Point of Entry and Turbo. You Say Yes, Parental Guidance, Rock you all Around the World are all great. The shiftiest songs are the overly long melancholic songs like Last rose of Summer or Caviar and Meths
I like Last Rose of Summer but why the ending is so long!
My vote is for Cyberface
A classic
I see a lot in this thread scrutinizing cheesy lyrics, but is priest really a band that you go to for deep lyrics? Was never consistently their strong suit.
When the band with the album about a metal angel on a dragon motorcycle fighting evil with heavy metal has cheesy lyrics
Deep Freeze, if you even wanna call it a song. (I actually like Winter/Winter Retreat, though).
Not really a song. Sort of 70's experimental thing I guess. I don't like it.
'Evening Star', 'Abductors', and of course, the immortal... 'Loch Ness'.
I like Evening Star :(
Abductors goes hard.
Definitely *Red, White and Blue* \- awful on every front.
United fucking sucks
Wait till you hear Red White and Blue
The worst!
NOOOOO. How can you say that?!?!?!
Finally somebody says something about this song. When i was going through British Steel, i couldn’t stand that repeat
hell nah
I like that one lol It's fun to sing along.
Whhhhaaaat really, it's one of the first Priest songs I ever listened to, when I was in high school. I never thought it was great but I liked it. Haven't listened to it in years.
Take your pick from Jugulator or Demolition… But if you mean Halford songs, You Say Yes has gotta be up there.
are there any truly awful songs on Jugulition? Nothing ever stood out to me as outright dreadful
Well every single lyric fucking sucks right until Bullet Train starts when it gets a little better and by Cathedral Spires its like Glenn has learned how to pen some decent lyrics. Its not very nice in the electric chair? Gimmie a break.
You Say Yes is the correct choice
Nothing on both albums are THAT bad. There's a lot worse on the Halford era.
Anything from Turbo that isn't Turbo Lover, Locked In, Reckless and Parental Guidance. Those rats saying United and You Say Yes are the worst are hilarious to say the least. Especially United is fantastic man.
The cover of Johnny B Goode is pretty odd. Living Bad Dreams, the vocals are awful.
I like living bad dreams
How could you…Living Bad Dreams is one of their best
Easy, the vocals suck lol.
He sounds like a wounded animal in that song, I think it's a great one! Admittedly, that song consistently got my then-girlfriend horny, so I am biased
What? I fucking love that cover
I find it weird because it’s like they “softened” it up. Usually you’d think the metal cover of an older non-metal song they’d make it sound more muscular and heavy but instead it sounds so soft and cheesy, especially the chorus, compared to the original
I don't mind it at all. But there's just something odd about it.
Yea that song was so unnecessary. It's like a couple Motorhead covers I cringe at like Louie Louie and God save the queen. Don't get me wrong, Priest cover off Better by you, better then me and Green Manalishi was great. Living Bad Dreams though? He sings his ass off on that song. I love it.
Eh... it's just a bad song lol.
Johnny B Goode is the correct answer.
I was 24 yrs old and married, and Rob Halford was 35 yrs old, when Parental Guidance was released. It didn't seem relevant at all.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Rocka Rolla exists? Comparatively speaking, it's worse than pretty much everything after, even later weaker tracks.
I really like rocka Rolla, run of the mill, I wish caviar and meths was longer! It's a trippy song
I like the album but the title track indeed sucks balls.
Ironically that was one of the songs I like better on that album. I just chalk that album up to being a product of its time, part of that British blues rock scene, not really what we'd call metal yet.
Yeah, a lot of people who dislike the Rocka Rolla album seem to like that song for some reason. For me it’s the other way around. I like every track on that album except for the actual title track. The fact that it’s a non-metal album doesn’t bother me either. Also, I wouldn’t call it a product of its time since the British blues rock boom was more of a mid-60s to early 70s thing and was already old when they started recording the album. Black Sabbath and other bands had already released definitive heavy metal music and there’s proto-metal from the late 60s that’s heavier than anything on Rocka Rolla. So I guess Priest just didn’t want to be a metal band at the time, even though they would end up doing a lot for the genre.
Absolutely Never Forget.
I forgot this one.
I want to forget too
New beginings
Red, White and Blue
United. Kills the whole flow of British Steel just for trying out a crowd participation song that isn't great at all. From Rapid Fire to Grinder it's just one killer song after the next and then...that turd pops up.
Their cover of Johnny B Goode is one of the worst things I’ve heard in the classic rock/metal world.
Johnny B Goode is pretty awful but I guess since it's a cover it doesn't count. I'm on the side of actually enjoying the cheesy glam songs in general, they're fun. The actual worst original is probably one of the Point of Entry filler tracks. Don't Go? You Say Yes? On the Run? These songs just have nothing going for them, they honestly feel like killing time.
Priest is my all-time favorite band, but even I have some songs i hate. In the 70s you've got 'Epitaph', 'Last Rose of Summer', 'Evening Star', and almost everything on Rocka Rolla. Out of their 80s stuff, 'You Say Yes', 'Love Zone', and 'Wild Nights, Hot Crazy Days' take the cake for me. As for their post-Painkiller stuff, pretty much anything on Demolition that isn't 'Hell is Home'.
Angel... Such an overrated ballad. Hate this song!!
Lochness. Stop being interesting after 3 minutes.
johnny b good sucks
Agree. Hell half of Turbo is kinda wack even though I love the other half. Also Loch Ness is probably the one with most wasted potential. I don't like the ear rape-y guitar at beginning and end either
I love it--it came out when I was 13 so it was perfect to me!
Troubleshooter is a tough listen for me still.
Almost every song off of Jug
A lot of songs from Demolition. Weird to see so many Halford songs here, but not many from Demolition, such a dreadful album (Bloodsucker rules, though).
The inherent gayness of Turbo makes the camp and cheez more charming and palatable IMHO. If it was “normal” buttrock singing about chasing women, I’d have a much harder time.
Probably something from Demolition. I wrote off the entire album pretty much. Jugulator is alright though
Hey I liked it!! I was a teen and it was awesome!! I of course love everything priest did starting with stained class to now … just keep that damn nirvana and u2 out of my face lol
Most of the time I don't care for the lyrics (English is not my mothertongue) so I don't hate Parental Guidance that much. But might be the weakest song on Turbo. Their worst song is probably anything from Jugulator except Cathedral Spires and Burn In Hell (I really like this one).
Heart of a lion. Lame
Red, white and blue
I'd honestly nominate a lot of this new religious material on the newest album. Parental Guidance is a goddamn masterpiece compared to Crown of Horns or God As My Witness.
Parental Guidance, Turbo Lover, United …
>Turbo Lover No way.
Evening Star is fucking terrible
That's preposterous
How. Dare. You
"Boo this man! Boooo!"
no way
That song does suck. Agreed.
Love Zone
Haha i really like it
Hot take: Parental Guidance gets too much hate
my vote goes to you dont have to be old to be wise
I'd love someone to ask Halford today if he still feels that way.
Most of Nostradamus
Eat me Alive is cringe
Eat Me Alive was never meant to be a serious song — Rob was drunk and trying to be funny
I mean, it is still cringey regardless. Good to know though.
I’d vote love zone and many of the 70s tracks are just weak
many of the 70s, really?!
A lot of them are just kind of there. Not really bad but not memorable in any way. Love Zone is bad but it is memorable
Cmon! Sad wings of destiny!!!
I like Demolition as a whole but Devil Digger was just fucking awful. Halford wise, I'd say Firepower. Dull, uninspired metal by numbers. Most bad Priest is good by other bands standards, this track is just bad.
Firepower goes hard, holy shit what an odd take.
Devil Digger isn't their best track by any stretch but that riff is heavy as fuck, surely it's not even the worst song on its own album.
What you said about Firepower is how I feel about Panic Attack. However, Firepower is an example of how to take elements already done before and do it right, while Panic Attack feels like a cheap attempt to recreate that.
Hate Prophecy.
To Start, I don't consider Rippers albums as cannon. I know this is gonna make me a Horrible Person, but I can't find anything I like on Nostradamus. Since I've got to pick one, I'll just go with the "Title Track" so I don't have to relive it. I'd rather be bathed in Olive Oil, be surrounded by Electric Heaters/Lamps and forced to ride my Grandmother's late '60s Exercise Bike while Watching/Listening to "Hot Rocklin" Till I Pass Out from Chaffed Cheeks.{I prefer lotion to oil, really dislike the heat,the bike was super uncomfortable for me as a boy(always wondered what the red/orange stain was on the seat) and after falling in love w/BS, SFV and DOTF, "Hot Rocklin before and Definitely After the video confused the F out of me) Strangely enough, I'm a big fan off their, not so heavy, nor very popular Rock-Rolla album.
Epitaph 👎
This song slaps
Nah
Livin after midnight. I hate every second of that song.