The Contrarians "Reliving Old Reviews..." JUDAS PRIEST - British Steel w/Martin Popoff

[@67heavyduty]

New Martin Popoff book is amazing-wow- really enjoyable read, one of the best!

[@thecontrarians2438]

thank you!!

[@RockaRolla6969]

Excellent

[@frankies9465]

The most important album in my life. It turned me on to heavy metal when it came out. Still my fav genre of music. It started with this one

[@gamleskalle1]

Minus United its a great classic.

[@Matias-music-71]

nice , fun watch , one of my fave albums of all time .., takes me back to when I was a pimpled face teen ;)

[@jimekberg]

Their best studio album.

[@KowankoMusic]

He makes a couple odd comments on vocals - the "Metal Gods" chorus sung 'flat', as if Rob's bored - I always thought the point of that chorus was to sound cold and robotic (complete with a metallic modulation effect added). And the "you don't know what it's like" line in "Breakin the Law" is definitely not sung in falsetto. Anyway these are always interesting!

[@SuprJoinT]

Other than Rapid Fire, Metal Gods, and just barely Grinder it's not even close to one of my favorites. Much rather Point of Entry from that time frame.

[@Metla666]

My introduction to Priest was with Turbo, So I worked backwards and what I discovered was mind-blowing, But looking back now I don't think I would have liked this album as much as I do if I experienced in in Real time.Although I do sort of pair it with Killing Machine, it is definitely a different beast then what came before it, reminds me of the stylistic change that Metallica went through with the Black album and I didn't stomach that.That said, British Steel is still infinitely better then Turbo or Ram it down and I still crank it to this day.

[@Strimbles]

The main riffs on Living after Midnight and Breaking the Law were both 100% plagiarised!!

[@channelsurfer3710]

Priest has a huge but subtle Who influence....Steeler is a metal Baba O Reily without the breakdown

[@MartinPopoff]

Ha ha, I've never had that thought. And now that I think of it, I don't ever hear a Who influence. Nor do I hear your specific one!

[@channelsurfer3710]

@@MartinPopoff it's in the architecture Martin...the song's structure..the way Steeler ends, for example..that build up that takes a while to come to a conclusion

[@channelsurfer3710]

@@MartinPopoff Townsend is one of Tipton's all time favorites...The Hellion to Electric Eye is a Whoish idea...

[@integrity101]

This album inspired the title Reinventing the STEEL by Pantera

[@gamleskalle1]

Bad album

[@integrity101]

@gamleskalle1 No. it's literally voted an all time classic album by metal fans all the time.

[@gamleskalle1]

@integrity101 meant the Pantera one. 90-94 Pantera was awesome.

[@integrity101]

@@gamleskalle1 So did I. Reinventing the Steel is consistently voted an all time metal classic and all four guys in the band considered it the best, or 2nd best album of their career. Fans voted it album of the year in 2000. Fans voted it well into Martin Popoffs top 500 albums of all time book. As recently as 2020 fans voted it the *fourth greatest final album of all time.* Lots of misinformation about RTS.

[@jimmycampbell78]

British Steel and Reinventing the Steel are both great albums. I am a bit puzzled and dismayed by the amount of sh----t Pantera get these days but sometimes bands go in and out of fashion.

[@nickbratis3326]

This is the first Priest album I owned but quickly bought Hell Bent to expand my collection and to me that is by far a better album than this. This is really dumbed down Priest especially after the 2 prior studio albums. It has a few great tracks but not an album I revist often, and just slightly better than Point of Entry imo

[@Strimbles]

Oh also I have a GREAT CONTRARIANS TOPIC!!!....... PLAGIARISED SONGS!!!

[@nickbratis3326]

That would be like a 2 week long episode.

[@MartinPopoff]

@@nickbratis3326 What two songs are you thinking?

[@UncleMeat93]

;)

[@PittsburghRocks]

I have a rather contrarian opinion on "British Steel"... I only like 4 songs and consider it a real downgrade compared to their 70s material. "Living After Midnight" sounds like AC/DC ot KISS while "United" is another feeble attempt at scoring a football anthem akin to "We Will Rock You". Even "Metal Gods" is rather limp and turgid.

[@Matias-music-71]

Killing Machine and the debut , I dunno ,