KK's first composition was "Run of The Mill" from Priest's first album, Rocka Rolla. It's quite possibly my favourite song by any band, period. I did a quick survey of Priest album writing credits according to Wikipedia. What I see for the 70s albums is that although quite a few songs are credited to "Halford, Downing, Tipton" (Halford gets writing credits on almost every track, undoubtedly for lyrics and vocal melodies), when any of the three is left out, it's almost always Downing, so Tipton had a lot more writing credits. From the 80s on, whenever those 3 are in the band, they are all credited for all original tracks, and after Downing left, Faulkner simply replaced Downing in the writing credits. During the Ripper years, for Jugulator, Tipton got credit for all lyrics, and Tipton & Downing shared credit for music, for Demolition, Tipton got credit on every song, Downing got credit on 5 of 13 songs, and some songs were co-written by Tipton and someone else. I discovered Judas Priest when I was a teen in the mid-80s, and they were my favourite band for many years. They are probably still my favourite band overall, and Halford is still my favourite vocalist of all time. However, I definitely think that they did their best work before Turbo. Not that Turbo is terrible - it's an excellent album overall - but the use of metal tropes in lyrics became cringey on that album, and that has been a problem ever since. Also, they never regained the creativity of their early period - which is of course entirely natural. Almost by definition, the music became more stereotypically metal, not unlike the lyrics. This song fits those critical remarks perfectly, IMO. My favourite currently active band is Jinjer. I've probably commented on all of your Jinjer reactions to date.
KK's first composition was "Run of The Mill" from Priest's first album, Rocka Rolla. It's quite possibly my favourite song by any band, period.
I did a quick survey of Priest album writing credits according to Wikipedia. What I see for the 70s albums is that although quite a few songs are credited to "Halford, Downing, Tipton" (Halford gets writing credits on almost every track, undoubtedly for lyrics and vocal melodies), when any of the three is left out, it's almost always Downing, so Tipton had a lot more writing credits. From the 80s on, whenever those 3 are in the band, they are all credited for all original tracks, and after Downing left, Faulkner simply replaced Downing in the writing credits. During the Ripper years, for Jugulator, Tipton got credit for all lyrics, and Tipton & Downing shared credit for music, for Demolition, Tipton got credit on every song, Downing got credit on 5 of 13 songs, and some songs were co-written by Tipton and someone else.
I discovered Judas Priest when I was a teen in the mid-80s, and they were my favourite band for many years. They are probably still my favourite band overall, and Halford is still my favourite vocalist of all time. However, I definitely think that they did their best work before Turbo. Not that Turbo is terrible - it's an excellent album overall - but the use of metal tropes in lyrics became cringey on that album, and that has been a problem ever since. Also, they never regained the creativity of their early period - which is of course entirely natural. Almost by definition, the music became more stereotypically metal, not unlike the lyrics. This song fits those critical remarks perfectly, IMO.
My favourite currently active band is Jinjer. I've probably commented on all of your Jinjer reactions to date.