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"Ram it Down" by Judas Priest; album review
Topic Started: Oct 31 2010, 09:21 AM (76 Views)
Pez201
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Reviewed just for the hell of it.

This album can't be considered a guilty pleasure, it goes beyond that into some territory so rarely visited it hasn't yet been named. Like a dodgy Chinese takeaway loaded with MSG this album is ultimately no good, but addiction is guarenteed.

To truly enjoy this album in all its horiffic glory, bear in mind the song titles are some of the worst ever thought of. Priest really DID name a song "HEAVY METAL" and put "ROCK" into two of the song titles, just to remind you that they really ROCK!! "Ram it Down", to open, has "thousands of cars / and a million guitars / Screaming with power in the air" and the song doesn't get any better from there. Halford's high-pitched shrieks get so annoying so early you wonder why he didn't just ask his band members early on during recording: "okay guys, can I take them out of the vice now?"

Nevertheless, that song stands as a fine piece of music when compared to what comes after: the aforementioned "Heavy Metal", two atrocious love songs (one with the most cringeworthy title in existance: "Love Zone" where Halford sings "you know what I mean" which yes, we do, funny enough) and Priest bare their plastic fangs on "Blood Red Skies": scary, if only because Priest decide to get "atmospheric" on the intro. Priest give a halfway decent rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", maybe halfway decent but wholly offensive, considering they've taken one of the great rock n' roll songs and covered it for God-knows-what reason.

"Love you to Death" comes off as so stilted and passionless, in both vocals and instruments, he may as well be reading from a tax form. "Monsters of Rock" tries to recreate the feelings supposidly conjured up by "Blood Red Skies" and it certainly does, but not the ones the band are hoping for.

Trashy and laughable: it all comes off like a glossy magazine at the supermarket, and no matter how bad as it is, it can't be ignored.

Rating: 1.5 / 5
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