British Steel

I came in, at least in the East, was out.

But I know British Steel and Point of Adventure were out.

But this is the first album that I had.

I mean, I think I may have gotten Unleashing the East maybe a couple months before Screaming came out.

And

let me tell you, it hits the turntable and playlists all the time.

Yeah, I mean, for me, I came in on Screaming for Vengeance and that and British Steel kind of simultaneously, almost at the same time.

It was very similar with me on ACDC because it was Back in Black and Highway to Hell almost at the same time because both records were out.

Yeah.

Three from British Steel, two from Screaming for Vengeance, one from Point O Entry, which was their Irish album.

So no tracks from their 70s album.

unless you count the bonus track Hellbent for Leather.

If this is their eighties live album, they need more, uh, screaming for vengeance more.

Yeah.

Um, more British steel and less turbo or different turbo for that matter.

You only have four LP sides to fit it on.

I think they might have become more bombastic and rock opera and less metal if it had been a hit.

And the glory of British Steel, Ram It Down and Painkiller wouldn't have followed.

Ram It Down was the first preset album I heard.

I had heard Living After Midnight in a compilation album, but prior to the release of Ramadan, good old Tommy Vance and Priest on the Friday Rock Show and played, oh, had Priest, I should say, on the Friday Rock Show and played the title track and it blew my tiny mind.

My number four Hard Rock album or metal album.

should be Judas Priest, British Steel.

Because I think that really defined metal at its best and they were the first one calling themselves the metal gods.

Album cover is perfect.

... i.e. Parental Guidance, uh, which is a song by Judas Priest, to get to the good stuff.

British Steel is probably the most classic album that they've got.

Side one of Screaming for Vengeance is epic.

Side two is a bit of a meh, in my opinion.

It's late

When we did the debut special, oh, many, many months ago, Bad Company's debut album was one of the albums that we featured heavily.

And an artist that we featured heavily over 100 shows as well, too, is Paul Rogers.

Paul Rogers, the velvet voice of Free and Bad Company.

Yeah, I'm a bit croaky tonight, actually.

My Brian Johnson impersonation is not the best.

Yeah, Shoot to Thrill from Back in Black, the greatest studio album ever, in mine and Brian's opinion.

I'm not sure what yours is, listener, because I can't hear you, but I'm sure you would say, yeah, it's up there.

Sure.

But yeah, I mean, my point about Priest that you were talking about, either Stay in Class or British Steel.

I think it

was British Steel.

Neither of those have these kind of bluesy scales in them anymore.

It's like this is its own thing now.

Solid.

Going into Hellbent for Leather, British Steel, and Point of Entry, there's some great songs on this album, but in comparison to the three before them, golly, it was like three turds.

What was the album where they changed their sound?

I think it was Hellbent for Leather.

just going for a, you know, trying to, you know, shorter songs, get to the radio, get a bigger, you know, fan base is what I'm sure they were going for.

It wasn't driven by a lineup change or anything like that?

I mean, okay, you had... trying to remember right now because one of these albums had simon phillips playing drums on it and then like two or three of them had less binks i think he played on the three later ones i think uh what it was is i might mess this up piss somebody off that's a big priest fan but uh because because dave holland joined on british steel i believe and then i think the three albums before that which would have been think hell bent staying class and sin after sin would have been shoot maybe sin after sin is what the one that has uh let me see it says it on here i can't remember but i know one of the guys uh plays on one album and then les binks plays on three of them les binks is double bass and he's awesome so but um no les binks might have even played on um shoot uh maybe played on british so i can't remember i can't remember now i uh well maybe maybe the hopeless romantic will fill in and uh the blanks for us on a queech vote or something

i was trying to think was rob on the first album