I'm52 been listening to priest, maiden, black Sabbath, Ozzy and countless other classic metal bands since I was 13. Still loving the older stuff . It all started here. God bless heavy metal!
I'm 56 and started listening to Black Sabbath/ Judas Priest/ UFO/ Scorpions/ Deep Purple/ Saxon/ AC/ DC/ Motor Head/ Rush/ Early Aerosmith/ Early Van Hallen/ Started Listening at 10 Yrs. Of age!!! Like Ronnie James Dio( RIP) said " Long Live Rock & Roll!!🤘🏻🤘🏻
real means having this album in your van's cd player for 3 years straight and then radio gets stolen and then you play sin after sin for another 3 years straight on another radio also gets stolen, then its sad wings of destiny on 3rd radio.Moved out that area, so far so good
Musicians that have singers like Halford Plant and Ozzy are blessed with vocals that stays out of the way of frequency robbing territories. Clean melodic and almost angelic .For example early quiet riot . Dubrow drowns out Randy's tone now listen to Blizzard and diary.
Agreed. I've been a Judas Priest fan my #1 favorite band since 1981 and this debut album is so underrated far underneath the band members themselves a similar example would be Kiss - Music From The Elder 1981
I really find it silly that many people ignore or underestimate this one. All the elemenets that made Sad Wings a masterpriece are pretty much here already. Maybe it's not as heavy & refined sound-wise and it doesn't have a moody cover artwork, but I always found it equally amazing.
Everyone always mentioned how Priest was influenced by some great band such as Zeppelin and Sabbath ; but make no mistake they where just as much of influencers and innovators at the time. Their early efforts were greatly underrated. They led the way for "heavy metal" with an ever evolving style. That's why I love every album from their 70's rock to Fire Power. Thank you for putting this classic on you tube.🤘
Rob Halford, simply the best vocalist ever. I'm seen him live more then any other artist, his range is truly unbelievable. KK and GT also best tandem guitarists team. Too many good songs to name,. Lifelong fan of true metal Masters ........ Thank you JP never a disappointment.
@@scottbarker9058Mr. DIO( RIP) & Mr. Halford are Truly at the Top of the Heavy Rock Vocalist List. I also Love early Queensryche Vocalist Geoff Tate.👍🤘🏻🤘🏻
"Cheater" has the exact rhythm and melody as the famous "My Sharona" from 1979. Actually, it's the other way around. Maybe "The Knack" plagiarized from JP??
@@sgg6927 I was lucky enough to see them in 1979, one block from my house in Yakima, WA. A life changing event for me and many others. They were really loud in that community college gymnasium and even without knowing the songs we were all just blown away. They had just began the leather look and when Rob rolled the Harley out and they placed a microphone next to the exhaust it was criminally loud! During the solo for Sinner KK threw his flying V about twenty feet into the air with the cord attached. I wish I could revisit that evening every day. There is audio from an impromptu performance that they did at the Roxy in New York on that tour for Andy Warhol. That is probably the closest to being able to hear them like they were that night. They opened for UFO. It was supposed to be a triple bill with a band called Wireless opening. Wireless could not play , something to do with United Airlines being on strike so Judas Priest played even longer than they would have. UFO was also great with Paul Chapman on lead guitar but I was all wrung out after JP!
Particularly for a debut album, this record has a very nice clean and professional sound to it. Very well recorded and engineered. Far better than most debut albums, I'd say.
Sometimes listening to.a bands 1st album Gives you a insight on a shape of things to come. And plus its intresting to hear a band explore different avenues. Its very honest in its approach. So many times when a band finallly gets commerical success they go into autopilot after that and coast. They no longer challenge thenselves. I enjoy Rocka Rolla as much as I do Screaming for Vengence. Priest was a band from the Midlands. This is what you would expect from a band from that region. Very under rated release. It gets better over time
I totally agree. Aerosmith is another example of this (although they've managed to keep challenging themselves). Their first album doesn't really even sound like the same band that came out with Pump. I usually end up liking a band's early material better than their later material.
I totally agree with you guys. Early albums of Aerosmith, Rush, Scorpions, Journey, Styx, Judas Priest of course, Maiden. Etc.... I always enjoy more their early works.🤘🤘🤘
I'd maintain that they have always remained Judas Priest, just later clutched on to a marketable identity. Yes.... the early Priest is best. By far. So pure in intent. So original. Raw. Distinct and irreplaceable. I think a little more of Rob's range came out early, too. They are the Forgotten Gods. Fock!!! NO ONE ever mentions Run of the Mill. Powerful build...
@@glyph68 It baffles me how this album gets panned by so many people, it’s certainly one of my favorites. In fact, I heard Halford talking about it recently and commenting that it has some of their best material. And yes, Run of The Mill is absolutely epic.
Been a Priest fan for decades. When I was a kid in the 80's i heard this album and thought it sucked. "Play some Rapid Fire man!" So tonight i decide to listen to this and it is awesome. Been missing out all these years. Better late then never. Cheater is complete with Harmonica.
F*ck this is so good! Exquisite blend of heavy metal and hard rock with psychedelic and some good ol' blues influences. Psychedelic solos are quite tasty as well as the lower vocals in, "Dying to Meet You" which is my top favorite song from this album.
I was 16 now 56 when I was at a party and saw a hot girl and she seen my spike gauntlets, boots, vest and leather cap then said, "I know who you are. Your Rob Halford"
Admittedly, although I've always liked Priest I didn't give their early stuff enough credit. Never gave this album a chance cause it didn't have the crunchier more aggressive sound they grew into later on. But I've always been good at picking up the hooks and signature sounds the great bands establish, and it's all here. Finally love this album. I'm gonna listen again tomorrow night.
You are so right. Very underrated. This and Sad Wings. Dreamers Deceiver is awesome. KK Downing has ALOT to do with the first 2 albums. Glenn was the last member hired. Truth and is a fact.
When I found JP in '75, it single handedly saved my soul from the sins of disco! This album changed the course of my (musical) life and turned me on to what became heavy metal, which in my late 50's I still listen to. This album will forever have a special place in my musical library and my heart.
WORSHIP THE PRIEST IS THE NAME OF MY 120 MINUTE CASSETTE TAPE I RECORDED ON MY FISHER DUAL CASSETTE PLAYER STILL NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET ALL THEIR GREATEST HITS
With great enthusiasm and little money, Judas Priest recorded his debut album during the last week of June and the first two weeks of July 1974, at the Olympic Studios in London, where they slept during the day in their van to get into the studio at night, since at that time it was cheaper. "Rocka Rolla" would see the light on September 6 under the Gull Records label. The legend began to be written...
I'd have to agree. Early Priest albums are the best. As they became more commercial and glammy, they lost it. Their early songs were all great. They never get old.
So grateful they went for a quality recording studio - the results are sensational on my pro studio converter and monitor speakers. Amazed that this is their first album - never heard this until just now - gobsmacked at the power, finesse, and feel. Produced by Rodger Bain. Engineer Vic Smith.
My favorite album of 1974 from great drumming to awsome guitars to super bass play and Rob's unmistakable vocals this is a classic well put together debut album it started the whole metal music albums that would influence more rock and metal music for future albums to come. This one started it all Super songs every single one is truly awesome with creative sounds..Rock on Judas Priest.
This is a great album, even if they've not reached their true form and sound. It's got a slower blues sound throughout but you can also hear in it some of the great metal guitar riffs and harmonies Priest would later be known for. There is not a weak track on it. I love this album.
@@Midnightmidway In this very first album they are not what could be called heavy metal; it's hard rock, blues. But by the third album it's true heavy metal.
A Different Taste/Flavor of Judas Priest. I quite enjoy it. Priest Blues great playing, strong singing! RockARolla, Never Satisfied, Run of the Mill, etc. 🖤❤🎸💯⭐
I had already smoked a joint to Sabbath's Paranoid when this Import came out at Budget Record's and Tapes. I waited 2 weeks till it came in. Lost memories that diminished within the blue smoke and black light posters all over the walls. Chicago knew about Judas Priest years before the West Coast did!
@@hondotoo We had a Budget Records and tapes on Cicero Ave & 152nd St. Oak Forest, and on 147th in Midlothian was a Music store that in 1974 Paul Butterfield had a no show for Hohner Harmonicas Promotional Event. I was there and pissed off that I wasted a whole Saturday afternoon, even though we got a lot of promotional stuff. The White Sox Will Rise Again, my friend!
This album is awesome! Like most veteran metal greats who started recording in the early 70's, the Hendrix influence is there. But make no mistake about it, this is the beginning of the unique sound of the Priest.
Thats probably why it didn't blow up, it was TOO equal to Zeppelin and Sabbath. Those bands already existed. Rocka Rolla just wasn't quite the Priest sound yet
@@alanheinson5620 its the root of denim n leather tbfrank, no offense but nothing is more than Black Sabbath that could claim is the root of this amazing Genre of music And in that sense, Satan is the root of Metal. So Hail Satan for giving us the best music in the universe
This is definitely one of my favourite 18 Judas Priest studio albums. Seriously, I do love 70s Priest as much as I love the rest of their trajectory and probably even more. They had such a special sound and music.
Outstanding album, which should have been acknowledged as great when it first came out. Cheater reminds me more of late-70s Priest, although it is slower than most later songs. The production is perfect too, for me, including the guitar sound - the notes have room to breathe, unlike a lot of modern metal, and the slow pace helps rather than hinders.
Remember many traipses and tromps started with this álbum in my highschool daze cruising in a 1973 lime green Pontiac Bonneville Catalina with an underdash Pioneer cassette player an 200 watt equalizer/amplifier and some 150 watt Clarion speakers un 1982.
Pretty amazing how they evolved from this into metal Gods down the road. They were already good lead players on this album but not really hearing many hints of metal other than that. It is a really good rock album and cool to hear the origins of their music.
These insanely great bands and albums are so timeless. I'm so glad that these types of albums have never died or slowly faded away. Rock and roll forever! 🎸🎸🎸
An incredible record, with an original sound. Yes, you can pin it on early influences like Sabbath, Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, Deep Purple, et al. But Priest's virtouosity and tightness are already evident here, and those traits were what pushed them into the 80s and beyond!
Believe it or not this is my fav behind Stained Class. Not as hard as their later albums. More rock and roll than heavy metal. I have the original vinyl and cover on the Gull label.
First time listening to a Preist album that came before "Stained Class," because most people told me they just weren't very good. Those people were wrong.
Im glad i grew up to the "Monoliths" of metal....Rob Halford...Bruce Dickenson....ozzy....Lemmy.....Dio....Eric Adams...Jeof Tate.......ect.......ect.....ect.......
100%. Многие группы начаавшие свой путь в начале 70х часто писали в стиле психоделики, и даже ранние Скорпионс , особенно их первый альбом 1972 го Lonesome Crow просто потрясный и очень сильно недооценённый, и также второй Fly to the Rainbow.
The copy that I had, came with a import label embedded on the corner of the cover, which now is rare, I own 1 copy. This album was from '74 and was the first album in the Chicagoland area as far as I know. I was the first in my hood to have it when it came out and starting to drive my dad's 225 '70 Electra which I eventually totaled on 159th & Cicero.
They don't get nearly enough credit for creating a new genre AKA heavy metal with the other great heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin. They were around since the late 60s
Rush was started in 1968, are they also to be credited with the invention of metal even though their first album came out in 74? Tbh I don't think a group needs to have been around to take part in the creation of a genre to be good. I don't think there is an argument to be had regarding this. Black Sabbath definitely was the group to do it, led zeppelin helped but it's mainly black Sabbath, and we don't really need to overreach that and include Judas priest just to say that Judas priest is a great band. Plus this album is more hard rock anyways, and I don't think coming out with sad wings of destiny in 1976 really puts them in the running for creation of metal. I love Judas priest but I don't know I just kind of feel like we really don't need to say all this other stuff to acknowledge their influence on the genre. They definitely helped change a lot though, so not trying to take well deserving cred away from them either.
I never really listened to this album much over the years, for some reason I started with SWoD and moved on from there. I never realized how psychedelic this album was, at least Deep Freeze!
With lyrics like, "There's nowhere else to go, this could be our last show" & " Love is gone along with fun, now we're reaching for the gun," Judas Priest found little reason to play "Never Satisfied" during live concerts. Especially after the suicide lawsuit in the 1980s.
@@marcosrenegarcia3214 I AM THE DEMON ALCOHOL, LETS PARTY!! and hell yeah man for reals. Specially all warm from being in a back, while walking to the destination
Super-clean, loud UL of a penultimate heavy-music band in apex-mode helping to lay the groundwork for the musical genre commonly referred to today as "stoner music". But whatever label one prefers, this early J. Priest is 100 dope AF. Thanks, christ ismet.
Anyone listening 2024?
Bought this album in the 80s still listening love the hevey blues rock sound
Yes, me 🤘
Me 😊
yepppers, listening to winters call right now
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I'm52 been listening to priest, maiden, black Sabbath, Ozzy and countless other classic metal bands since I was 13. Still loving the older stuff . It all started here. God bless heavy metal!
Born in '68...lucky to be alive!
I still feel like a teen listening to this'n. Lol
I'm 48, started listening at 14 n continues
I'm 56 and started listening to Black Sabbath/ Judas Priest/ UFO/ Scorpions/ Deep Purple/ Saxon/ AC/ DC/ Motor Head/ Rush/ Early Aerosmith/ Early Van Hallen/ Started Listening at 10 Yrs. Of age!!! Like Ronnie James Dio( RIP) said " Long Live Rock & Roll!!🤘🏻🤘🏻
10 years😊 old when this album was released
1974 i am new born to world.
The SCREAM of rock and roll
ROB is GOD
Definitely in my top 5 Albums. If you don't own it.......buy it.
It was nice to hear them play the title track from this album in Halifax for the Fifty Years of Metal tour.
That was such a great show 🤘
Black Sabbath made the big push with Judas Priest helping them define the genre!
The honk on those guitars is pure gold
Great album.
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@MARK ANGLE9865 ME PONE EUFORICO
MEU DEUS 1974 TINHA 6 ANOS E JÁ EXISTIA ESSA MARAVILHOSA BANDA. *JUDAS PRIEST, FOREVER* 🇧🇷
Not sure what I was expecting when I hit play, but it wasn't this. Funky 5/4 groove, and Halford already sounding like a god!
World best double Lead Guitars in the world.
74’……WOOOOW! Amazing stuff. Early Priest. Halford just coming into his own and becoming v the legendary metal man he is.
real means having this album in your van's cd player for 3 years straight and then radio gets stolen and then you play sin after sin for another 3 years straight on another radio also gets stolen, then its sad wings of destiny on 3rd radio.Moved out that area, so far so good
I literally had Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell in my phono for like 5 years.
You couldn't be more spot on man!!! I was 12 when this album came out !! Rock On !!
Musicians that have singers like Halford Plant and Ozzy are blessed with vocals that stays out of the way of frequency robbing territories. Clean melodic and almost angelic .For example early quiet riot . Dubrow drowns out Randy's tone now listen to Blizzard and diary.
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Got that right
2024... Only *Real* rockers jam this still.
You know it!
50 years since release
🤘🤘🤘🤘
I love this album!
@@bryanb4141 and still rocking on! Better than 99% of today's music
This album is so underrated it's criminal. People like to put it down because it's not what Priest turned into, but on its own, it's incredible album!
probably my favorite priest album
It’s moody and great.
For real man, this is the first Priest album my dad showed me. Always love 70's priest
Agreed. I've been a Judas Priest fan my #1 favorite band since 1981 and this debut album is so underrated far underneath the band members themselves a similar example would be Kiss - Music From The Elder 1981
Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time!
This is a much better album than its reputation indicates. The band obviously had something.
Favorite era. This and Sad Wings.
I really find it silly that many people ignore or underestimate this one. All the elemenets that made Sad Wings a masterpriece are pretty much here already. Maybe it's not as heavy & refined sound-wise and it doesn't have a moody cover artwork, but I always found it equally amazing.
Only the real ones be listening to this in 2020 🤟
Hello Real .
It’s a sign of intelligence.
PRIEST LIVES IN WITTMANN, AZ.
***** WOULD BE ******
Thank God 🙏 💯 we are still here
God bless you and believe 🙏😇
He will give us another day
Everyone always mentioned how Priest was influenced by some great band such as Zeppelin and Sabbath ; but make no mistake they where just as much of influencers and innovators at the time. Their early efforts were greatly underrated. They led the way for "heavy metal" with an ever evolving style. That's why I love every album from their 70's rock to Fire Power.
Thank you for putting this classic on you tube.🤘
Finally someone talking sense about the influence thing. Never bought into JP being influenced by the other bands.
💯🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 I Could Not have said it any better Sir.
I didn't even think Judas sounded like this in it's beginings. It literally rocks
JP never got the recognition they deserved for this album.
@@chrisedward7575 it´s a soft mixture between hard rock, psychdelic rock and proto-heavy metal.
@@historiamarxistaleninista.2059 You can hear the blues influence also.
Nem eu acredito que esse tipo de rock estrangeiro era proibido na URSS
@@chrisedward7575 Or for many of their early works.
Rob Halford, simply the best vocalist ever. I'm seen him live more then any other artist, his range is truly unbelievable. KK and GT also best tandem guitarists team. Too many good songs to name,. Lifelong fan of true metal Masters ........ Thank you JP never a disappointment.
the late ronni james dio...isnt bad either???
I saw Robbie in 1983 when he was in his prime. It was the CNE grandstand in Toronto. You could hear him for miles.
@@scottbarker9058Mr. DIO( RIP) & Mr. Halford are Truly at the Top of the Heavy Rock Vocalist List. I also Love early Queensryche Vocalist Geoff Tate.👍🤘🏻🤘🏻
Have to include Ronnie James in there, even Halford himself agrees. Both write amazing lyrics as well, best in the biz, by far.
Run of the mill. Great song!
Impresionante!!! Todavía me pone los pelos de punta.
TOTALLY!!
One of their best of all time. Wish they'd played it live.
Lots of great songs on this one,,but def is my favorite as well
"Cheater" has the exact rhythm and melody as the famous "My Sharona" from 1979. Actually, it's the other way around. Maybe "The Knack" plagiarized from JP??
No. It’s just a funky robotic guitar riff that comes alive with the lyrics 😛
Run of the mill, one of the most poignant track priest have ever released. As I get older I often think of these lyrics.
And so young when they wrote it. Captured the sadness.
No shit! Getting old, it’s challenging.
Probably one of the best songs in their early career, and barely mentioned.
Yes sir.
Very Floydish.
The entire album, the vocals, guitars and bass are truly awesome.🎸🎸🎤
But Run of the Mill is spectacular!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I bought this album in 1974 the day before my son was born! I'm 68 and both my son and I still crank out this vintage Priest!
@@sgg6927 - Regrettably I didn't but I truly wish I had
@@sgg6927 I was lucky enough to see them in 1979, one block from my house in Yakima, WA. A life changing event for me and many others. They were really loud in that community college gymnasium and even without knowing the songs we were all just blown away. They had just began the leather look and when Rob rolled the Harley out and they placed a microphone next to the exhaust it was criminally loud! During the solo for Sinner KK threw his flying V about twenty feet into the air with the cord attached. I wish I could revisit that evening every day. There is audio from an impromptu performance that they did at the Roxy in New York on that tour for Andy Warhol. That is probably the closest to being able to hear them like they were that night.
They opened for UFO. It was supposed to be a triple bill with a band called Wireless opening. Wireless could not play , something to do with United Airlines being on strike so Judas Priest played even longer than they would have. UFO was also great with Paul Chapman on lead guitar but I was all wrung out after JP!
Amazing ! I know it’ll be the same with me though. Listening to great music to till the end.
@@sgg6927 I only wish that I had heard some of their music first! Oh and that there were a HD high quality audio and video of that night!
I call BS on your story. I'm 59. I was 2 in '74. You have a kid when you were 12 years old did ya? #Poser
I listen to priest almost every day...2024
I've got all the LP's from this one right through to Turbo, what a body of work they have.
Particularly for a debut album, this record has a very nice clean and professional sound to it. Very well recorded and engineered. Far better than most debut albums, I'd say.
Sometimes listening to.a bands 1st album
Gives you a insight on a shape of things to come. And plus its intresting to hear a band explore different avenues. Its very honest in its approach.
So many times when a band finallly gets commerical success they go into autopilot after that and coast. They no longer challenge thenselves.
I enjoy Rocka Rolla as much as I do Screaming for Vengence.
Priest was a band from the Midlands.
This is what you would expect from a band from that region.
Very under rated release. It gets better over time
Sound like very intelligent person
I totally agree. Aerosmith is another example of this (although they've managed to keep challenging themselves). Their first album doesn't really even sound like the same band that came out with Pump.
I usually end up liking a band's early material better than their later material.
I totally agree with you guys.
Early albums of Aerosmith, Rush, Scorpions, Journey, Styx, Judas Priest of course, Maiden. Etc....
I always enjoy more their early works.🤘🤘🤘
Great comment. To add anything - Priest was always interesting through out the decades !
One of my four favorite Judas Priest albums. The others are Sad Wings of Destiny, Stained Class, and Point of Entry.
Early shits the best, started In 77 ,wore out two lps before CD came out.
I'd put Sin After Sin in there too! Still have my vinyl of that and Sad Wings.
I'd maintain that they have always remained Judas Priest, just later clutched on to a marketable identity. Yes.... the early Priest is best. By far. So pure in intent. So original. Raw. Distinct and irreplaceable. I think a little more of Rob's range came out early, too. They are the Forgotten Gods. Fock!!! NO ONE ever mentions Run of the Mill. Powerful build...
Casual Priest fan until 3 years ago. Listened to Stained Class and was blown away. Now all I listen to is old Priest.
@@glyph68 It baffles me how this album gets panned by so many people, it’s certainly one of my favorites. In fact, I heard Halford talking about it recently and commenting that it has some of their best material. And yes, Run of The Mill is absolutely epic.
Been a Priest fan for decades. When I was a kid in the 80's i heard this album and thought it sucked. "Play some Rapid Fire man!" So tonight i decide to listen to this and it is awesome. Been missing out all these years. Better late then never. Cheater is complete with Harmonica.
Lol, when i was i kid in the 80's we would lock our selves in a room, get high as a kite and listen to this, Rainbow and the first Maiden album
No shit. It is actually very progressive. Glad I took the time to check it out.
RIP John Hinch (1947 - 2021)
Recognition and Acknowledgment, obviously from a true Priest fan!
Another massively underrated, hidden gem; Scorpions, Lonesome Crow
F*ck this is so good! Exquisite blend of heavy metal and hard rock with psychedelic and some good ol' blues influences. Psychedelic solos are quite tasty as well as the lower vocals in, "Dying to Meet You" which is my top favorite song from this album.
fuck yes
I was 16 now 56 when I was at a party and saw a hot girl and she seen my spike gauntlets, boots, vest and leather cap then said, "I know who you are. Your Rob Halford"
Hell to the yeah Yugo hellrider!!
And her boyfriend thought you was cute.
Maybe she just thought you were gay
@@bradchervel5202 And was still interested anyway.
Wanna drive at 2am down pch with the doors and roof off of my jeep while smoking a phat with my dog in the back
Very underrated album. You don't know Judas Preist if you don't know this album.
I hear that - but never underrated by me
Admittedly, although I've always liked Priest I didn't give their early stuff enough credit. Never gave this album a chance cause it didn't have the crunchier more aggressive sound they grew into later on. But I've always been good at picking up the hooks and signature sounds the great bands establish, and it's all here. Finally love this album. I'm gonna listen again tomorrow night.
You are so right. Very underrated. This and Sad Wings. Dreamers Deceiver is awesome. KK Downing has ALOT to do with the first 2 albums. Glenn was the last member hired. Truth and is a fact.
agreed 100%
I'm 29 years old and will make sure this album is deep in the bone marrow of my children.
LOL. That's a new one, LOVE it!
Their debut album is a phenomenal record. Very under rated and filled with priceless treasure's.
When I found JP in '75, it single handedly saved my soul from the sins of disco! This album changed the course of my (musical) life and turned me on to what became heavy metal, which in my late 50's I still listen to. This album will forever have a special place in my musical library and my heart.
Disco still sucks!
WORSHIP THE PRIEST IS THE NAME OF MY 120 MINUTE CASSETTE TAPE I RECORDED ON MY FISHER DUAL CASSETTE PLAYER STILL NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET ALL THEIR GREATEST HITS
Hi from hard core Princess great J p classics coming jp
Hello!!!
They are one of the very few 70s bands that went in a Heavier direction in their development of works. HAIL Thee Eternal Heavy!!!
With great enthusiasm and little money, Judas Priest recorded his debut album during the last week of June and the first two weeks of July 1974, at the Olympic Studios in London, where they slept during the day in their van to get into the studio at night, since at that time it was cheaper.
"Rocka Rolla" would see the light on September 6 under the Gull Records label. The legend began to be written...
I'd have to agree. Early Priest albums are the best. As they became more commercial and glammy, they lost it. Their early songs were all great. They never get old.
So grateful they went for a quality recording studio - the results are sensational on my pro studio converter and monitor speakers. Amazed that this is their first album - never heard this until just now - gobsmacked at the power, finesse, and feel. Produced by Rodger Bain. Engineer Vic Smith.
My favorite album of 1974 from great drumming to awsome guitars to super bass play and Rob's unmistakable vocals this is a classic well put together debut album it started the whole metal music albums that would influence more rock and metal music for future albums to come. This one started it all Super songs every single one is truly awesome with creative sounds..Rock on Judas Priest.
" Rocka Rolla" " Sad Wings of Destiny " & " Stained Class" are The Trifecta of All Judas Priest Albums. 🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻😎
Sin after sin is another one
@@jimsteele2072 💯🤘🏻🤘🏻
Music.
It's incredible to think that went they went round the corner (so to speak) with British Steel they already had 5 albums under their belt.
Hell bent for leather and scream for vengeance are some great albums also.
50 years have gone by, and I still love Judas Priest
This is a great album, even if they've not reached their true form and sound. It's got a slower blues sound throughout but you can also hear in it some of the great metal guitar riffs and harmonies Priest would later be known for. There is not a weak track on it. I love this album.
Agreed. I find myself nowadays more than ever craving the "old school RAW" sound. Music now is too over produce.
@@Midnightmidway In this very first album they are not what could be called heavy metal; it's hard rock, blues. But by the third album it's true heavy metal.
I Love this Priest album! 🖤💯
The Roots of Rock, Heavy Rock, Early Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock and the Revolutionary Priest Style Metal.
One of priest's best albums
A Different Taste/Flavor of Judas Priest. I quite enjoy it. Priest Blues great playing, strong singing! RockARolla, Never Satisfied, Run of the Mill, etc. 🖤❤🎸💯⭐
I had already smoked a joint to Sabbath's Paranoid when this Import came out at Budget Record's and Tapes. I waited 2 weeks till it came in. Lost memories that diminished within the blue smoke and black light posters all over the walls. Chicago knew about Judas Priest years before the West Coast did!
... bought this at Pat's records and tapes, southside of Chicago back in the day
@@hondotoo We had a Budget Records and tapes on Cicero Ave & 152nd St. Oak Forest, and on 147th in Midlothian was a Music store that in 1974 Paul Butterfield had a no show for Hohner Harmonicas Promotional Event. I was there and pissed off that I wasted a whole Saturday afternoon, even though we got a lot of promotional stuff. The White Sox Will Rise Again, my friend!
@@arnienelson6415 man, that's awesome... i also went to Hegewisch records and tapes every payday
@@hondotoo Yes!!! That was the name I couldn't remember!
@@hondotoo I think that the Hegewisch by me was the one that sold pot bongs and stuff and then Lincoln Mall store in the late '70's.
Rest in Peace John Hinch.
Yes, Indeed, I'm listening again in honor of him.
@@cognitivedissonancevictim1103 I am too. Hinch rocked.
They didn't need smoke and mirror stage show's.Thier music and back and forth lead guitar was all they needed to put asses in seats and blow you away
So under appreciated. I really enjoy listening to this album and all the little hints of what they would become. The Metal Gods!!!!
they are metal gods
METAL GODS
This album is awesome! Like most veteran metal greats who started recording in the early 70's, the Hendrix influence is there. But make no mistake about it, this is the beginning of the unique sound of the Priest.
I'm shocked this album flopped when it came out, This album is a masterpiece, could easily equal zeppelin or early Sabbath.
Thats probably why it didn't blow up, it was TOO equal to Zeppelin and Sabbath. Those bands already existed. Rocka Rolla just wasn't quite the Priest sound yet
So, 1973 Houses of the Holy- might be a tough comparison for most people.
It's beautiful.. borderline genius
People didn't know what they were missing.
Better than the KISS debut !
This is the roots of heavy metal.
so true and alot of people haven't heard this album
@@alanheinson5620 its the root of denim n leather tbfrank, no offense but nothing is more than Black Sabbath that could claim is the root of this amazing Genre of music
And in that sense, Satan is the root of Metal. So Hail Satan for giving us the best music in the universe
@@wisewords1520 hail Satan lol. So edgy.
Blues are the root but yes this is transitional and more better than the best.
Wait wat?
@@Scotty.S588 hahaha
This is definitely one of my favourite 18 Judas Priest studio albums.
Seriously, I do love 70s Priest as much as I love the rest of their trajectory and probably even more. They had such a special sound and music.
Very underrated, Rock n Roll at its best
Outstanding album, which should have been acknowledged as great when it first came out. Cheater reminds me more of late-70s Priest, although it is slower than most later songs. The production is perfect too, for me, including the guitar sound - the notes have room to breathe, unlike a lot of modern metal, and the slow pace helps rather than hinders.
Remember many traipses and tromps started with this álbum in my highschool daze cruising in a 1973 lime green Pontiac Bonneville Catalina with an underdash Pioneer cassette player an 200 watt equalizer/amplifier and some 150 watt Clarion speakers un 1982.
I remember getting this record at K-MART, early 80's.
Pretty amazing how they evolved from this into metal Gods down the road. They were already good lead players on this album but not really hearing many hints of metal other than that. It is a really good rock album and cool to hear the origins of their music.
Surprising this album flopped when it was first released, i think this is a solid album. Priest forever! 🤘
These insanely great bands and albums are so timeless. I'm so glad that these types of albums have never died or slowly faded away. Rock and roll forever! 🎸🎸🎸
An incredible record, with an original sound. Yes, you can pin it on early influences like Sabbath, Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, Deep Purple, et al. But Priest's virtouosity and tightness are already evident here, and those traits were what pushed them into the 80s and beyond!
Nice update...had every JP album growing up...still do.
I went to see J P at Wigan Casino 1974/5 absolutely awesome.
So good i missed the bus home..... happy days 😂
Believe it or not this is my fav behind Stained Class. Not as hard as their later albums. More rock and roll than heavy metal. I have the original vinyl and cover on the Gull label.
First time listening to a Preist album that came before "Stained Class," because most people told me they just weren't very good. Those people were wrong.
They were very wrong!
Im glad i grew up to the "Monoliths" of metal....Rob Halford...Bruce Dickenson....ozzy....Lemmy.....Dio....Eric Adams...Jeof Tate.......ect.......ect.....ect.......
You ain't shitting
Ah but Paul Dianno was much better than Bruce Dickinson IMHO
Классный альбомчик! Смесь блюза, психоделики и хард рока! Классно слушается в пасмурную погоду и серые дни
100%. Многие группы начаавшие свой путь в начале 70х часто писали в стиле психоделики, и даже ранние Скорпионс , особенно их первый альбом 1972 го Lonesome Crow просто потрясный и очень сильно недооценённый, и также второй Fly to the Rainbow.
@@riyad8862 верно сказано !
@@НебоизСпичек-я5р 🤘🖤🤘
my first judas album ş had the cassette of reissue cover art listen to this album since i was 10
Don't know if this is priests first album but if it is it's one helluva debut
The copy that I had, came with a import label embedded on the corner of the cover, which now is rare, I own 1 copy. This album was from '74 and was the first album in the Chicagoland area as far as I know. I was the first in my hood to have it when it came out and starting to drive my dad's 225 '70 Electra which I eventually totaled on 159th & Cicero.
...glad mr Halford seems basically healthy and tearin it up still......
He was whiskey and cocaine - in the early 80s - from what I hear.
I keep forgetting Priest is this old. Must be Halford's youthful glow 🌟❤💙❣️
I was at a Priest concert in the late 70's in Phoenix. I was so wasted and had a great time. JP rocks forever!
Rocka Rolla through Screaming for Vengeance.....perfection
I used to have this album
2024 still listening , IH, KK and GT the best ever, and Robs voice still awesome to this very time
They don't get nearly enough credit for creating a new genre AKA heavy metal with the other great heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin. They were around since the late 60s
Rush was started in 1968, are they also to be credited with the invention of metal even though their first album came out in 74? Tbh I don't think a group needs to have been around to take part in the creation of a genre to be good. I don't think there is an argument to be had regarding this. Black Sabbath definitely was the group to do it, led zeppelin helped but it's mainly black Sabbath, and we don't really need to overreach that and include Judas priest just to say that Judas priest is a great band. Plus this album is more hard rock anyways, and I don't think coming out with sad wings of destiny in 1976 really puts them in the running for creation of metal. I love Judas priest but I don't know I just kind of feel like we really don't need to say all this other stuff to acknowledge their influence on the genre. They definitely helped change a lot though, so not trying to take well deserving cred away from them either.
This is actually quite proggy at times. It’s also some of the happiest cowbell I’ve ever heard!
Gotta have more cowbell....!?!?!!?
Wanna hear cowbell motley crue too fast for love album
... legendary long-lasting JUDAS PRIEST 🇬🇧 (formerly FREIGHT 🇬🇧) from the UK, Heavy-Metal/ NWOBHM institution ... 🤘 🇬🇧
This was their first. Pretty damn awesome. Love title track and Run Of The Mill
I never really listened to this album much over the years, for some reason I started with SWoD and moved on from there. I never realized how psychedelic this album was, at least Deep Freeze!
With lyrics like, "There's nowhere else to go, this could be our last show" & " Love is gone along with fun, now we're reaching for the gun," Judas Priest found little reason to play "Never Satisfied" during live concerts. Especially after the suicide lawsuit in the 1980s.
This takes me back, ditching school getting my socks blown off by this little number I had. Steel reserve. One for the road.
211...42oz...demon alcohol
@@marcosrenegarcia3214 I AM THE DEMON ALCOHOL, LETS PARTY!!
and hell yeah man for reals. Specially all warm from being in a back, while walking to the destination
Super-clean, loud UL of a penultimate heavy-music band in apex-mode helping to lay the groundwork for the musical genre commonly referred to today as "stoner music". But whatever label one prefers, this early J. Priest is 100 dope AF. Thanks, christ ismet.
Como nos recuerda a aquellos tienpos
How did I miss this one? Just heard this 2024 February. One of the best from Judas Priest.
I love thia Album. Run of the Mill is a masterpiece
Believe-it-or-else but that's my favorite song off that LP as well...!
No metal guitarist is greater than Glenn Tipton!
He absolutely blazed the 80s !
Have one for the road John Hinch.
Jp always has a unique sound. One of a kind 😍
ROCKA ROLLA SMOKA A BOWLA
always smoke a bowl
@@alanheinson5620 already smoked one today....now I need some jp
These guys invented Heavy Metal and were a huge influence on me musically.
I wouldn't say they invented it, but they definitely defined what it was.
I would say that Black Sabbath invented Heavy Metal and Judas Priest put the edge on it.
Long Live The Metal Gods - For these times will never repeat themselves in History.
I am glad to know them.
Rocka Rolla woman for a Rocka Rolla man , you can take her if you wanna if you think you can....