JUDAS PRIEST — Turbo (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Turbo album cover Album · 1986 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Time Signature
Rock you all around the world...

Genre: heavy metal

I know a lot of fans were disappointed by this album, so I know that my 5-star rating will strike some as being unnecessarily generous. fortunately, taste in music is a very personal and subjective affair; so love me or hate me, Here's five stars for an album that I like very much and which is very important to me personally.

I was never disappointed with this album. I think it's very much a product of its time in terms of production, and there are lots of uplifting energetic hard rock tunes on this one. Especially "Turbo Lover" is great and the way it is built up reflects the contents of the lyrics very well - I think that is effing genious (and, on a side note, I once sent K.K. Downing an e-mail with a question about this song, to which he responded!!!). And that's what I like about Priest. They're always spot on in terms of the musical trends of their time without ever losing their originality - you can always hear it's Priest. Albums like "Turbo", "Painkiller", "British Steel", and "Jugulator" - all of which are very different - show this. So, actually "Turbo" fits very well into the whole Priest discography.

Recommended to any open minded fan of traditional metal and hard rock.
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Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I listen to it every now and then, and it gives me a lot of memories of driving on the highway from Odense to Aalborg or to somewhere on Langeland or somewhere else with my father and brother, because that's one of the albums that we would listen to on the cassette tape player in my parents' old Lada back in the 80s when we went on family excursions.

And, I do like the music on this album for what it is: uplifting hard rock 'n' roll.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Me too. I think it´s at least 10 years ( maybe even 15) since I listened to Turbo the last time. Seems like I should make an effort to refresh my memory of how the album sounds. Good review :-)
Stooge wrote:
more than 2 years ago
It's been a long time since I've heard most of the songs on this album, but I do love "Turbo Lover".

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