I have to say I feel the same way. There are great songs on virtually every album Priest has made, and some duds too. I think the weakest offering was Point Of Entry, though I love Heading out to the Highway and Solar Angels. It has a different feel to it. More Arizona, than British steel mill. I personally like that they have the balls to try new things and not get stuck in the AC/DC every album sounds the same rutt. Don't get me wrong, I like AC/DC too, but throw in any album, it doesn't matter. You'll get the same sound. I came on board during Defenders of the Faith, and that is my most listened to album/cassette & CD. Oddly, next most listened to is Nostradamus. I like it. Not every song, but most of them. I also love Sad Wings & Sin after Sin, Screaming, etc etc. Every offering has something awesome on it. As for Winter Songs, I like what I've heard, and Rob can sing about toast and I'd likely love him more, but quite frankly, we need to have some metal over the holidays. It can't all be Bing Crosby, Madonna's Santa Baby, and the church versions. THANKS Rob for filling the void! 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by JT_Small_Deadly_Space from Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:33:53 AM)| |  | JT_Small_Deadly_Space wrote: | | Well maybe not to you no but fans of the album would probably disagree with you. I love every Priest album and they were definately the ones that set the benchmark for metal, i even see the good in Turbo 'Locked In' is one of my favourite all time Priest tracks and so is 'Out in the Cold' in fact i like the whole first half aof the album plus Wreckless. Rather than pick faults with albums which just ruins things, i find the good in all albums and that way i can enjoy whatever i'm listening to and not be disappointed. It's a shame more people here can't think it the same way. Besides sometimes it's the small things that make albums great i bet critics don't go wow, the chorus in 'Future of Mankind' is one of the best that Priest have ever written or wow the guitar playing in 'Nostradamus' (the track) is some of the best they have ever done or wow Halford gives one of the best performances of his entire career on 'Exiled' or wow 'Persecution' is a real heavy mo fo featuring yet again an awesome chorus, or yet wow 'Death' is one of the most evil and atmospheric tracks they have ever written or wow 'Alone' is one of, if not the best ballad they have ever written besides Angel!
Rather than finding the gems in something they just brush it off and go bah what a disapointment and i tell you, i bet Priest feel let down by that too cause they poured their heart and soul into that album even if some of the tracks weren't up to 'heavy metal standards'. It doesn't make it bad music that's all i'm saying.
| | | Skybreaker wrote: | | You can cut and paste Nostradamus all you want but is still doesn't bring it up to the metal standards they set in the past.
| | | JT_Small_Deadly_Space wrote: | | | The reason people don;t like Nostradamus so much is because it has layers, whereas albums such as Painkiller and Jugulator didn't. It was just power power power etc. Nostradamus is a very diverse album which fetures many different tempos and feelings. Some weren't as powerful as i'd hoped but hey they guys tried. I think if you exclude most of the prologues and a couple of songs and a are left with this: Dawn of creation, Prophecy, Revelations, Pestilence and plague, Death, Conquest, Persecution, Alone, Visions, Calm before the Storn, Nostradamus, Future of Mankind. Now that would have been good. I can share some of your disapontment because i too was when i first heard it but for some reason it still syands to this day as my most listened to album. I obviously pick out my favourites but Hell i genuinely enjoy it. Drums/production could have been more creative/better and some of the lyrics but for the most part they rocked hard. I just thought it was well though out, the emotion and feeling that came out through some of the tracks were overwhelming and i salute them for putting this together. It showed a different side to them that only comes out in tracks from their earliest albums. I think possibly the best allround track would have to be Alone that is a true Priest ballad and classic in my opinion. Nostradamus and Persecution are the heavy ass tracks which i love above many of their well known hits. But still i would like to see a return to good old British Steel! Something with relentless double bass, Strumming heavy riffs with harmonics and thunderous Halford screams although i fear they may be few and far between but still. Give us some good old prime British metal! As for winter songs i will not judge further until i hear the whole album. If the music is good it will get my vote despite the topic. |
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