TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE BY LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT
With a name like Judas Priest, a good Christian lad like me shouldn`t be listening to a band bearing such a moniker. I wouldn`t exactly blame anyone if they chucked telepathic eggs at me for being such a bad egg by saying that one of their songs is half decent LOL.
I am not a big fan of metal period, I am more a fan of blues based hard rock than the clanging and cumbersome variety that come out of Britain post Led Zeppelin.
Judas Priest was one of the new breed of heavy metal bands in Britain that got branded with the NWOBHM tag, or New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
The name of the band might be dodgy and devilish, I wouldn`t deny that, but I`m not here to make evaluations of music based on anything other than musical output.
But having said that, I dont listen to music that promotes violence or Satanic worship. I make distinctions between songs even if that means that I admit I like a particular song of a band like Judas Priest, of which I am not a big fan.
I wont go into all the deeper stuff about band members and who plays what in the band right now, I might do that when I do some cross-section of heavy metal post, but Judas Priest has got about a dozen good hard pumping metal tunes to speak of, mainly from their late 70`s and early 80`s heyday.
I think the band members came from Birmingham in England originally, they might still do, but honestly i haven`t looked because i just starting typing here off the cuff and i`m just making up shit as I go haha.
Seriously, the song which I want to put a plug in for from Priest is called `Living After Midnight`, off the album British Steel.
It is the most hard pumping and no bullshit three chord piece of boogie heavy metal that any band ever put pen to. AC/DC might have done a pretty good job of making some good boogie metal as well, with songs like`TNT` and `You Shook Me All Night Long`, but Judas Priest beat AC/DC with this one heavy metal classic from 1980.
Every time i listen to the song i can only picture a swarm of mean looking bikies with studded jackets and chains lined up at the front of the stage at a rowdy english pub. Just not the kind of bikies who get British steel mixed up with any bat out of hell.
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