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Rating:  -
If this album was in school, it would get straight C+'s. This is because alot of the songs are poppy! I don't understand how Living after midnight a good song! The first 4 tracks are the bomb! Litterally! If they kept going on that track i would give it a 4 definetly. But you can hear some parts that are starting to get mainstream in the song "United". ITs not bad, but its trying to be an anthem! "You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise" is an okay song but nothing more than average. It always goes past me and i can't focus on the song. "Living After Midnight" is a pretty poppy song to me. Not horrible though. At least it uses some guitar. "The Rage " and "Steeler" are both horrible tracks that no one should ever listen to. If these 2 tracks weren't on here i would give this a 4.5. But too late! Red white and blue is such an anthem its not even funny. its worse than "United"! I always thought wow! after listening to the entire album because there are 6 bad songs in a row. It sucks! But the rest is okay. Thats why i gave this album 3 stars becuz, Metal Gods, Breaking The Law, Grinder, and Rapid fire are all fast, Heavy, and most importantly.....LETHAL!! But If you ask me, the horribleness of Point of entry is somehow shown here too. Luckily Screaming for Vengeance wasn't affected......
Rating: -
Judas Priest's 1980 offering 'British Steel' is easily Priest most overrated album. This is still a solid release though. I've stopped reviewing on Amazon for a while since there was insanity going on and I was running out of money. Now after I made some cash Priest's latest release 'Angel of Retribution' inspired me to complete my Priest collection and this was the first album on my list and I tried to but I just don't like it.
This is Priest's 2nd most popular album next to 'Screaming for Vengeance' (which is a step up from this but still overrated and below average for Priest). It's not so much that there are too many lame songs here it's just that (to me) the only 3 songs that worth listening are 'Rapid Fire', 'United' and 'Grinder', all the other are okay but they are not hooking or making me wanna listen to them over and over. The 2 hits off the album 'Breaking the Law' & 'Living After Midnight' infact do rock the house when you're in mood for them but relativly they are bland and in fact are not really metal, more like pop/rock anthems. 'Metal Gods' is goofy despite a good solo.
I think if Glenn and KK worked harder this could have been much better. Now they are excellent guitarists but their work here simply doesn't compare to the work they did on their earlier efforts or on 'Painkiller'. There's too much repetition in riffs and none of the solos here made me think "wow that's amazing!". Sorry for Rob Halford and Ian Hill who really made here great job and that I can't deny. But another downside is drummer Dave Holland which isn't half-bad but compared to their prevousw drummer Les Binks or to the next Scott Travis he can't really keep up. However the production on this album is one of the best I've ever heard on a metal album, this was the first album produced by Tom Allon and he really deliverd here, unlike on the band's next efforts were the production there is pretty weak.
All in all, this isn't terrible, but it could have been much better. While this is not as dull as Rocka Rolla, Point of Entry, Turbo, Ram it Down or Demolition this is no Sad Wings and it's not as good as other releases in 1980 like Maiden's debut or Sabbath's 'Heaven & Hell' (although I'll rank it above Back In Black). I'll rank this somewhere in the middle in Priest's catalogue.
Rating:  -
British Steel is an appropriate title for this one. This album is filled to the brim with true heavy metal. The band was beginning to get mainstream recognition with this one. Most people remember this as the album that has Breaking the Law and Living after Midnight, and while they are good, catchy pop metal tracks, they only represent a small piece to this great album. Rapid Fire is an awesome opener, very fast-paced and headbangable! Metal Gods is slower, but very lethal. Grinder is slow but CRUSHING, tell me that song isn't heavy!! United is a nice anthem-like song that you HAVE to sing along to.
You Don't Have to be Old to be Wise is more mainstream sounding, but it is still awesome and catchy. I like the lyrics, they have a very good message. The Rage opens with a good bass solo, a lot of people say it is epic-sounding, and I kind of agree with them, you have to hear it to understand. Very creepy song, in my opinion. Steeler is another fast tune, I love when they rock out at the end.
The bonus tracks include a good live performance of Grinder, and a very emotional anthem-like song, Red White and Blue. Nice keyboard playing, great tune, too bad it wasn't released until now. Awesome metal album that YOU MUST BUY!!!!!
Rating: -
I found this album very different from Screaming for vengeance. Where? British Steel has a more "soft" metal side of Judas Priest. Examples : Steeler, Living after midnight, Etc. But people usually say "that's the pop metal album". But boy, are they dead wrong! This album is filled with metal classics. Including the hits; Breaking the law, Grinder, and metal gods. If you are dead serious about hating pop metal, then you shouldn't buy this. But if you don't care, than you should definetly buy this album!!
Best Songs(imo)
Metal Gods, Breaking the law, Grinder, Grinder live, United, red white and blue
Okay songs: Rapid Fire, You don't have to be old to be wise, living after midnight
Bad songs: The Rage, and the Steeler
JUDAS PRIEST RULES!!!!!
Rating: -
I've got to weigh in on this one. Someone mentioned (2 people, actually) Rob's more "tough guy" vocals, do you mean, um... "rough guy" vocals, perhaps? First Freddie, then Rob... ugh. Not to be a spoiler or anything to all you who've jumped the fence, watch out that you actually clear the thing and don't get your family jewels smashed. (I hope you don't understand what that's all about, but if you do, and didn't know, what a shame, eh?) But it's REALLY all about the music, right? So, let's get to...
I was a giant fan of "Hell Bent For Leather" and "Unleashed..." (To wit: "...never turn your back on the ripper!" Indeed. Further, I could name a dozen JP songs with similar sentiments, but I digress. However, I must say, I am not an "unabashed" Priest fan any longer, it just don't seem right somehow, nor am I a big Pete Townshend fan, either, or William S. Burroughs, who was the first to use the "rough boys" terminology, as far as I know, he ruined a lot of great prose with some sick twisted stuff, but I digress further...) Anyway, remember the days when good, clean (dirty, in reality) rock and roll meant "wine, WOMEN, and song"? Those days are long gone... I just can't express how much Rob ruined it for me.
Anyway, the CD is dated, yes, but DOES contain some great songs and has a great overall vibe to it. Some of Priest's earlier stuff suffered from poor recording and/or mixing and/or production, "Sin After Sin" comes to mind, and although "Stained Class" was better, "Hell Bent" is where they really started to shine overall production wise. Given all that, if I had to grab 3 Priest CDs off the top of my head (I don't usually keep them there, but anyway...) I'd probably choose "Hell Bent For Leather", "Unleashed In The East" and "British Steel" because I think these are the 3 most instantly memorable CDs and the first two are probably Priest's best, and "British Steel" does have a lot of catchy "heavy metal" (I don't like '80s "heavy metal" at all by the way, at least until you get to G 'N' R, don't know if they're considered heavy metal or good ol' rock and roll, and I thought Metallica's [Lars has sure ruined a good thing, selfish, 'e is] "And Justice For All" is pretty decent) tunes on it, some good, upbeat stuff, some more "serious" rocking stuff and I kinda get a kick out of "United", but I wonder (nowadays) what that meant to Rob at the time he wrote it! I'd give it a 3.5, but I'm going to round down, since I think overall that there were many other hard rock bands who were more succesful at about the same time period (mid-to-late '70s UFO and Scorpions, and early-to-mid '70s Black Sabbath, to name three), mostly because they had the rock AND roll (as Keith Richards would say), instead of just the heavy grind (though "Hell Bent" had a good spirit to it). What did Rob mean by "Delivering The Goods"? Eeuuwww, nevermind, just listen to the music... three stars. "Unleashed In The East" was their pinnacle, as "Strangers In The Night" was for UFO and "Tokyo Tapes" for Scorpions. As Ozzie would say, "Halford wears boots, you gotta believe me...!" "Stained Class", a good name for the band's bio. I gotta give it to Rob, though (What? Did I just say that? Outrageous!), he had a great set of vocal cords. Wonder what he gargled with before going onstage? The abuse, the punishment, that throat must have endured... So not only has the Roman Catholic clergy redifined the meaning of "priest" (as in "Watch out for the priest!"), so has Rob Halford! I knew there was a religious tie-in there somewhere, and you thought it was all about "the Devil". Are you sure? (Better be...) 'Nuf said (more, then [sic] enough).
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