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Music CD - Judas Priest: Sin After Sin
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Music CD: Sin After Sin
Artist: Judas Priest
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Sinner
2. Diamonds And Rust
3. Starbreaker
4. Last Rose Of Summer
5. Let Us Prey/Call For The Priest
6. Raw Deal
7. Here Come The Tears
8. Dissident Aggressor
9. Race With The Devil
10. Jawbreaker (live)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 6969986183296
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Sin After Sin
Comment: Judas Priest-Sin After Sin ****1/2
The only way to describe Sin After Sin from Judas Priest is to call it epic. Every aspect of the record is epic. From Rob Halfords bombastic vocals to Glenn and K.K.'s superfluous guitar orchestrations.
While not as instantly classic as say British Steel, or Defenders of the Faith it is still one hell of an album. The opener 'Sinner' is an epic unto itself. Nearly ten minutes in length and full of power it starts the album with a bang. 'Diamonds And Dust' a Joan Baez cover shows Priest has depth. Ironically they band took their name from a Bob Dylan track off the John Wesley Hardingand 'Diamonds And Dust' was written about Dylan. 'Dissident Aggressor' is not only among the best Priest tracks but is also one of the greatest songs in metal history. 'Here Comes The Tears' proves that this is lyrically the strongest Priest album of all time.
Aside from the production which can at times get annoying and overbearing Sin After Sin is a flawless Metal album. Not a place to start however as this is truly in a league of it's own among other Judas albums, it would still make a worth addition to a collection.
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Summary: Beginning of a more METAL era
Comment: Sin After Sin is eternal. One of my favorite albums ever.
Contemporary and far beyond its time. Maybe because they had just left Gull Records and may have acknowledged the fact that they were starting to write history as they were engulfed by history itself, helping invent this thing that gave shape to our world as we know it, this thing called Heavy Metal.
Am I exaggerating? Nope.
Roger Glover of Deep Purple fame produces this artwork, but the Universe conspired with the making of this album in many ways.
A young 19 year-old guy is responsible for the drums and percussion of Sin After Sin. You know his name? Yep, I'm talking about Simon Phillips, my friends. He was freaking 19. I, myself a brazilian percussionist and drummer, can't say how awesome the drumming in this album is. Call For The Priest/Raw Deal simply gives you such an impressive beat: hammering but classy, heavy but stylish, constrained and yet explosive. Pure genius, along with virtuose.
70's virtuose. And the energy of a 19 year-old.
Enough said?
I don't think so. But I don't want to leave a song by song description of this album. This IS a MASTERPIECE that has to be on your shelf, period! From the cover, designed by Bob Carlos-Clark, nowadays one of the world's best known photographers of women (look for Shooting Sex, his book on the subject) to the last song, it's all pure classic.
One of my favorites album ever.
The band actually started to make some money after this one, so this is the point where you can call them pros. This is the band that helped these Birmingham guys to become one of the greatest Heavy Metal bands ever.
Oh yes, legend has it that Sin After Sin was recorded in a week...
Pure Classic!
Enough?
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Summary: Hugely Under-Heralded Metal Great
Comment: Sin After Sin is perenially one of the least heralded Judas Priest albums, seeming to have gotten lost in the shuffle between acknowledged masterpieces Sad Wings of Destiny and Stained Class, which is unfortunate because this is a start-to-finish great, with excellent, vintage metal style tracks like 'Sinner' and 'Starbreaker' and great, highly unusual songs like 'Last Rose Of Summer' and 'Dissident Aggressor', which are totally different from anything presented on any other Priest album. With the exception of its winning ballad 'Last Rose Of Summer' (which is the softest thing the band has ever done and probably won't be as appealing to some fans, although I love it) Sin After Sin is heavier than Sad Wings Of Destiny but retains that good otherworldly feel throughout; those albums along with Stained Class form a distinctive period in the band's output. Many would say Rocka Rolla started that period but I think of Rocka as having been a one-album phase of its own. The music in Sin After Sin goes all over the speed scale, from fast and very fluid on something like 'Let Us Prey' to an unprecedentedly relaxed flow on 'Last Rose'. There are lots of very eclectic, quirky sounds popping up briefly, as in the opening notes of 'Diamonds And Rust'. The vocals are impeccable, with some of the weirdest (and in metal, that's a good thing) deliveries Rob Halford has ever made, as in the end of 'Raw Deal'. The lyrics cover a lot of good ground, from science fiction-y 'Starbreaker' to dark emotional 'Here Come The Tears' to ant-bigotry 'Let Us Prey' (whose title seems to have nothing to do with its content).
Probably the single best track on the album is 'Starbreaker', which should be hailed as an alltime classic. As for the bonus tracks, 'Race With The Devil' is an excellent addition to the Priest pantheon, a perfect fit for the album and a track that it's hard to see why it didn't get released for fifteen years. The other bonus, a live version of 'Jawbreaker' is a bit more controversial. Sin After Sin is one of a couple of albums from the remastered series where the live track didn't hail from the album's original selection; 'Jawbreaker' is originally from Defenders of the Faith. It's actually a great version of a great song that I'm glad was released, but like most people I would have loved to have seen something from this album represented live on the bonus, but perhaps there just wasn't anything usable in the vaults that wasn't already out there (for those interested, there's a phenomenal live take on Starbreaker, different from the Unleashed in the East version, on Priest Live & Rare (Japan)). The bottom line though is that the live Jawbreaker is still a fine track, and even though it doesn't fit in with the rest of the disc you can just look at it as adding a very different dimension.
Overall a great and distinctive album, one of the very best releases of the 1970s and essential for fans of metal and hard rock.
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Summary: sins of the father
Comment: this is priest before they became the metal gods,mid-late 70`s,sin after sin is another of priests solid releases that would lead them to the top.if your new to this epic band here`s my advice,start with 1984`s defender`s of the faith and work your way back.
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Summary: A Stellar Major-Label Debut!
Comment: A solid example of a major label debut, 1977's Sin After Sin, while unnoticed at the time, stands as a foundation to the mighty heights that Judas Priest would soon exceed. Not as dark and morbid as what Sad Wings Of Destiny was or what Stained Class would become, this release occupies a still-powerful middle ground between those two landmarks. Highlights include "Sinner" (easily one of the best driving songs ever), "Let Us Prey/ Call For The Priest", "Starbreaker", "Raw Deal" & (on the 2001 remaster only) "Race With The Devil".
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