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CD Remastered W/ 2 Bonus Tracks
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
One of priest's best albums,the lyrics are powerful,the riffs and solo's will blow you away.With 2 extra bonus tracks it's a bargain."Exciter" starts fast and the album stays with the pace all the way,"better by you,better than me"is one priest song that will always be one of my favorites" and "beyond the realms of death" builds upto a guitar solo that will have you drawing the curtains so the neighbours can't see you playing air guitar.ORDER IT NOW,YOU CAN'T FAIL WITH THIS ONE.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Hangerhead
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Have to agree almost completely with the above review...Better by you better than me was the first song by Priest I ever heard, and as for favourite JP songs of all time, 4 of them are on this album (Saints in Hell, Beyond the realms, Savage & Better by you...).
I'd never heard such a tight rhythym guitar unit before as Tipton and Downing either...and Rob Halfords vocals amazed me as a youngster in the 70's.
Excellent remaster, good notes in the sleeve and a couple of additional tracks too.
I'd never heard such a tight rhythym guitar unit before as Tipton and Downing either...and Rob Halfords vocals amazed me as a youngster in the 70's.
Excellent remaster, good notes in the sleeve and a couple of additional tracks too.
Look out your denim jacket, turn the hi-fi up to '11' and remember British heavy metal.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By B. Mallinson
Format:Audio CD
One of my fave Priest albums, along with the other 'S' albums (Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin) of the 70's Judas Priest era, these 3 albums rank among the best metal outputs of the time, and still hold up today!
Stained Class is probibly my favourate because it contains one of the best ballads ever, Beyond the Realms of Death, which is simply a beautiful song! the solo is my all-time favourate guitar solo ever! Other highlights include the bludgeoning Exiter (a pre-cursor to speed metal anyone?), Better By You, Better Than Me, Saints in Hell and the overlooked Heroes End (that middle riff, oh so heavy!). As for the remaster and the bonus tracks, the sound is noticibly cleaner and crisper from the original and a bit louder (the original CD was too quiet). The bonus tracks are a nice addition, I do like Fire Burns Below, its a nice slow burner that Priest are oh so good at (along with rip snorters like Exiter), the live version of Better by you... is OK, but not really necessary. Overall I'm happy that I re-bought it in the remastered version as its well worth it for the extra track, liner notes and cleaner production.
5/5
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
When I first bought & listened to this album in 1978 I considered it to be a brilliant & brutal bludgeoning assualt. At that time it undoubtedly included some of the fastest power metal ever recorded. With the added bonus of Rob Halford's ridiculously brilliant high pitched vocals this really was an enjoyable album.
Buying it again 27 years later I've found it to be equally enjoyable but not quite the over the top fast metal it was considered to be when first released. There is more light & shade to found than I'd remembered. However the overall production of the album & effects make for a fantastically sinister sound -in retrospect probably enhanced by the knowledge of the failed US court case of the early 1990s regarding two attempted suicides by teenagers (1 successful) which blamed subliminal "do it, do it" messages in Priest's cover og Better by Me, Better Than You".
If you only buy 2 Judas Priest albums buys this & Painkiller.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Vinyl|Amazon Verified Purchase
Awesome record. Classic. Clear vinyl 2 LP set. Sound quality spot on. But really very very cheap and low quality inner sleeves. Another issues is as follows. The edges of the LP cover were bend during shipping. I don't understand. Amazon claims its a frustration free packaging. Sure its easy to open and looks nice but how does it gets bent. I'm disappointed due to this. Otherwise everything else looks great. If the record would have reached me in great shape I would have given five stars definitely. Now I'm afraid to order from Amazon. This has happened to me many times. But anyways great great album. Highly recommended. But I request Amazon to improve its packaging. Thank you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Gentlegiantprog
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Judas Priest's fourth full length studio album Stained Class was released all the way back in 1978 and was the band's first album to feature Les Binks on drums.
It may not be the bands heaviest, fastest or most famous album, but the record still contains some of the fan's favourite tracks such as the dynamic opener `Exciter' as well as the powerful building semi-ballad `Beyond The Realms Of Death,' which is often praised for its amazing guitar solo.
Listening to Stained Class can sometimes feel almost like studying the early development of the genre, the album contained both a lot of firsts and the perfecting of a lot of key elements for the genre in a concise and effective manner.
The Spooky Tooth cover song `Better By You, Better Than Me,' which Priest absolutely make their own for example, seems to find the missing link between classic rock like Kiss with early Heavy Metal. `White Heat, Red Hot' contains some early examples of double kick drum usage in the modern sense. The whole album is full of guitar solos and riffs which would influence bands for years to come.
Beyond mere historical value, Stained Class is simply a good record that it is enjoyable to listen to from start to finish. Rob Halford would push his vocal style further in the future, the guitars would become faster and more technical and the songwriting direction would take many twists and turns over the years, but Stained Class remains no less of a good album with its early and pioneering Heavy Metal sound.
Highlights include the fantastic Title Track as well as `Saints In Hell,' and the aforementioned `Beyond The Realms Of Death,' all of which are of serious interest to fans of the band.... Read more ›
It may not be the bands heaviest, fastest or most famous album, but the record still contains some of the fan's favourite tracks such as the dynamic opener `Exciter' as well as the powerful building semi-ballad `Beyond The Realms Of Death,' which is often praised for its amazing guitar solo.
Listening to Stained Class can sometimes feel almost like studying the early development of the genre, the album contained both a lot of firsts and the perfecting of a lot of key elements for the genre in a concise and effective manner.
The Spooky Tooth cover song `Better By You, Better Than Me,' which Priest absolutely make their own for example, seems to find the missing link between classic rock like Kiss with early Heavy Metal. `White Heat, Red Hot' contains some early examples of double kick drum usage in the modern sense. The whole album is full of guitar solos and riffs which would influence bands for years to come.
Beyond mere historical value, Stained Class is simply a good record that it is enjoyable to listen to from start to finish. Rob Halford would push his vocal style further in the future, the guitars would become faster and more technical and the songwriting direction would take many twists and turns over the years, but Stained Class remains no less of a good album with its early and pioneering Heavy Metal sound.
Highlights include the fantastic Title Track as well as `Saints In Hell,' and the aforementioned `Beyond The Realms Of Death,' all of which are of serious interest to fans of the band.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars
the best priest album
Great album from the rip roaring opening of Exciter (showing where thrash began) right up to beyond the reals of deaths black melencholy metal. I love this album. Read more
Published 5 months ago by mr g banks
5.0 out of 5 stars
STAINED GLASS JUDAS PRIEST
BRILLIANT - GOOD EARLY HEAVY / PROGRESSIVE. HEAVY METAL AT IT'S BEST. IF YOU ENJOY EARLY 70'S LED ZEPPELIN, SABBATH ETC - THIS IS A MUST FOR YOU!
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. T. A. Burston
5.0 out of 5 stars
First Class !!!
The album which defined the heavy metal future of Judas Priest, featuring the headbanging frenzy of Exciter and the timeless ballad Beyond the Realms of Death, two live show... Read more
Published 20 months ago by mouldy
5.0 out of 5 stars
The 2nd most important album in metal.
It Black Sabbath was tghe spark, Stained Class was the accelerant. Priest take metal away from the blues, increase the tempo, polish the sound and perfect the twin guitar attack. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by Alister King
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Judas Album
Perhaps the top 5 Judas songs are found somewhere else, but never has the band sounded more consistent, varied and tighter throughout as in this record. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Matteo Dei
5.0 out of 5 stars
PURE CLASS!!!
This is a marvellous album. Priest were really hitting their stride by this time and it shows. Stained Class is a slick, polished pearl of a record with the band sounding... Read more
Published on 27 May 2009 by A. Stevenson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bridge from the 70s to the 80s
Stained Class has always confounded me. With the exception of Ram It Down, Priest didn't really put a major foot wrong in their long tenure at CBS, pre Halfords departure in the... Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by I. A. McFarlane
3.0 out of 5 stars
i would say this is overrated
voted in 2004 by metal hammer as the heaviest of all metal albums,one must take a strong sense of belief to believe that literally,however in 1978 when this was released,its... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2007 by sean paul mccann
5.0 out of 5 stars
Metal doesn't get much better than this!
This is one of Priest's best, and one of the best albums money can buy, definetly in my all time top 10. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2005 by J. F. J. Larner
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