Maidenslave: Judas Priest Ram It Down Review

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[@Caleb-yn9ko]

9:10 the moment everyone wants.

[@DownFallNetWork]

ok CNN

[@heelstevenmaggle5615]

You don't like Blood Red Skies!?

[@gazelliott2414]

ram it down is a fucking great record

[@kevinbrown5650]

Some people are a bit hung up on the drum machine effect on this record. Granted, RID isn't one of their better albums, but i still enjoy the title track, Hard as Iron, Blood Red Skies, I'm A Rocker and even Johnny B Goode. Perhaps if you had been even ten years old by '88 you might feel otherwise. I've noticed that among today's youth there is an exaggerated proclivity and over-emphasis towards "production value" and not enough towards lyrical content and the zeitgeist of the day. A lot of bands "sold out" to the "glam" element then. It was a different era.

[@Walamonga1313]

Yeah, I couldn't give less of a shit about the drum machine and I really enjoy this album. Ram It Down, Heavy Metal, Come And Get It, Hard As Iron, Blood Red Skies, I'm A Rocker, Monsters Of Rock...all of them killer tracks. Love Zone, the cover of Johnny B Goode and Love You To Death have their moments too.

[@markwiygul6356]

Which track is bad? None of them. Johnny B Goode took me the longest to like, but even now its pretty good. I bet if they picked a track at random and sandwiched in the middle of another Judas Priest album, then some of the folks who lambaste RAM IT DOWN would say, "hey, this is good! i wonder which album it's from?"

[@7777jimbob]

whens coroner bud

[@brownsauce0921]

Do you guys not have Maidenslaves Turbo review?

[@TMPOUZI]

Ram It Down has some great moments. The prologue to painkiller sound. This guy is ignorant

[@markwiygul6356]

I think RAM IT DOWN is a lot better, their most underrated album. They made a huge mistake releasing Johnny B. Goode as the first single, and promoting the album based on that track. The entire album is utterly different. Back in the 80s, the people who bought it, thinking it must be Pop-Metal because of the remake, were sorely disappointed to hear that the entire album was Pure Metal. Also, in the late 80s, the backlash against drum-machine and synth sounds had started. RAM IT DOWN suffered a left-jab due to Johnny B. Goode, then a right-jab due to the synth-drums, and then the folks that expected Bon-Jovi-Priest on the album gave them double sucker-punches below the belt. RAM IT DOWN never recovered and the radio stations mocked them for being out-of-their-time and unfashionable. HOWEVER, the album, in retrospect, stands the test of time and holds its own very well. All the tunes are fantastic. And, it's a better album than their earlier material, especially TURBO. To me, the older material from BRITISH STEEL sounds dated, like bubble-gum la-la-la anthems compared to RAM IT DOWN. If you can listen to this album without being synth-drum phobic, or phobic over the self-pride of being "I'm a Rocker" then glory along with this fantastic metal album and feel the pride of being cool and metal (like they wanted to portray to the 80s cool metal aka "pop-metal" crowd, lyric wise, but with real, honest to goodness, metal masterpieces. This is RAM IT DOWN, and I think it's Judas Priests second best album, leading up to the best metal album of all time PAINKILLER.

[@WarPigs413]

Ram it down is not a bad listen at all. Not worth getting all emotional over. Title track, hard as iron, come and get it, heavy metal, blood red skies, and maybe Johnny b Goode are all good.

[@Paul07791]

I think it has 3.5 good songs.

[@heelstevenmaggle5615]

Turbo is better, although Ram It Down has a few really good songs.

[@Walamonga1313]

I feel the opposite, Turbo had some great songs but Ram It Down was more consistent.

[@ericrivera9415]

It is a pretty shitty album. They claim it to be heavier when it’s exactly the same generic glam sound the previous shit album had. At least, the previous had a couple hits. This one’s all misses. Thanks for the rant/review, man!

[@demonizer69420]

This one's all misses? Lmao the title track, Hard as Iron and Blood Red Skies are incredible songs, even the lighter stuff like Heavy Metal and Come and Get It are great. Calling it all misses and another glam album is just false lmao

[@markwiygul6356]

I think RAM IT DOWN is a lot better, their most underrated album. They made a huge mistake releasing Johnny B. Goode as the first single, and promoting the album based on that track. The entire album is utterly different. Back in the 80s, the people who bought it, thinking it must be Pop-Metal because of the remake, were sorely disappointed to hear that the entire album was Pure Metal. Also, in the late 80s, the backlash against drum-machine and synth sounds had started. RAM IT DOWN suffered a left-jab due to Johnny B. Goode, then a right-jab due to the synth-drums, and then the folks that expected Bon-Jovi-Priest on the album gave them double sucker-punches below the belt. RAM IT DOWN never recovered and the radio stations mocked them for being out-of-their-time and unfashionable. HOWEVER, the album, in retrospect, stands the test of time and holds its own very well. All the tunes are fantastic. And, it's a better album than their earlier material, especially TURBO. To me, the older material from BRITISH STEEL sounds dated, like bubble-gum la-la-la anthems compared to RAM IT DOWN. If you can listen to this album without being synth-drum phobic, or phobic over the self-pride of being "I'm a Rocker" then glory along with this fantastic metal album and feel the pride of being cool and metal (like they wanted to portray to the 80s cool metal aka "pop-metal" crowd, lyric wise, but with real, honest to goodness, metal masterpieces. This is RAM IT DOWN, and I think it's Judas Priests second best album, leading up to the best metal album of all time PAINKILLER.