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Stained Class |  | Artist: Judas Priest
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 5955
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 85434
UPC: 696998543423
EAN: 0696998543423
ASIN: B00005R62K
Release Date: November 6, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Exciter | | • | White Heat, Red Hot | | • | Better by You, Better Than Me | | • | Stained Class | | • | Invader | | • | Saints in Hell | | • | Savage | | • | Beyond the Realms of Death | | • | Heroes End | | • | Fire Burns Below [*] | | • | Better by You, Better Than Me [Live][*] |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 92
 A Heaping Helping of Heavy Metal! March 4, 2010
Daniel Walimaa (Detroit Rock City, Michigan)
Judas Priest's 4th album, Stained Class, is another incredible release by one of my most favorite bands ever. This album was voted the Heaviest Metal Album of All Time in 2004 by Metal Hammer, a music magazine in the UK. Stained Class is also considered by many to be the first real Heavy Metal album ever made. Is it? Who knows and who cares?! I'm no Metal Music expert by any means, and I personally have to give the nod to Black Sabbath because in my opinion they beat Judas Priest to the punch, but regardless, I do know this much, this album flat out rocks, and rocks heavy, and that is all that really matters when you get right down to it.
Stained Class is track after track of awesome sounds that right from the very beginning grabs you by the ears and doesn't let go until the very end. If the amazing guitar work and drums don't hold your interest, surely Rob Halford's incredible vocals will. And if not, you might just want to check your pulse.
A notable fact concerning this album is that it features a song that caused quite a bit of trouble for Judas Priest who were brought into court over it. The song was claimed to contain subliminal messages that caused two youths to go into a suicide pact. One died, the other lived but was horribly disfigured. The songs title is Better By You, Better Than Me, and was originally written by Gary Wright of Dream Weaver fame.
A lot of fans agree that Beyond The Realms of Death is the best song on the album, and it's definitely a masterpiece song for sure. All the songs on here are excellent really, but, if I had to pick my most favorite one out of them all, I'd have to go with Saints in Hell. The song is truly epic in every sense of the word. Halford's haunting vocals and wailing screeches match perfectly the eerie and heavy guitar riffs that transport you to the depths of Hell itself on a Holy mission with the Saints to recover a sacred relic. It's truly one of Judas Priest's best songs ever, and Stained Class is definitely one of Judas Priest's all-time best albums.
Standout Tracks are: Exciter, White Heat Red Hot, Stained Class, Invader, Saints in Hell, and Beyond The Realms of Death.
Priest's Masterpiece? February 21, 2010
Bloodbath_and_Beyond (usa)
By 1978, Priest had continued to evolve throughout their first 3 albums. This, their fourth sees the band fully embracing their identity as a metal band. Cutting out the fat from their sound (the more experimental sections depending upon taste were masterful or just boring). This is probably where most modern metalheads will want to start, as it would be the most acceptable fully realized album of the famous Priest sound. The thrash opener Exciter (one of the few tracks from this era still done live) is everything you love about bands like Slayer and Megadeth years before they did it. The entire speed genre owes its existance to Priest who although never considered a speed metal band, they without a doubt created it, mainly so with the riffs of Tipton and Downing, but new drummer Les Binks was the most technically accomplished they had worked with and his double bass skills are impressive.
White Heat Red Hot is a great often underlooked song as is the menacing title track. This album is filled with some of the best unplayed Priest songs that radio and the best ofs miss on. Saint's Hell (which featuers a great drumbreak and while Les Binks isnt doing anything spectacular, it still mananges to draw you in), Savage, and Heroes End are packed with one brutal riff and Halford vocal scream after another. He really hits some of his career watermark notes on this album. The track Invader features some great effects that start the song off, so good it's worth mentioning along with the song itself which is another highlight. There isn't a bad song to be found here, every note and every drum hit performed on this historical plate of heavy music is flawless. Of course the song not mentioned yet, Beyond The Realms Of Death is the other more well known song here (though not quite in with Another Thing Comin' or Deliverin' The Goods), it is another epic ballad that evolves into a jaw dropping classic.
This of course is the album that also features the bands cover of Spooky Tooth's Better By You, Better Than Me, a pretty good cover although it does dip it slight "basic-rock" territory, that would also foreshadow the bands more simplistic arena rock sound on future efforts. This song supposedly contained a subliminal message that read "Do It" which was involved in some kids who were drinking one of which shot the other which brought the group to a 4 week trial. This is just stirred up controversey and really doesnt play into how this milestone metal album plays on you as a fan. Stained Class closed the first chapter of the bands legacy, as it's follow up Killing Machine aka Hell Bent For Leather contained shorter songs with a mass audiance appeal to them, although Priest were never sell outs, one cant criticise for the direction taken. Whether you love one side of the band or everything they did, this album should be no exception to the collection. Stained Class also help solidify the NWOBHM subgenre that crept up in England, where every kid with long hair began forming their own band, and the likes of many other British hard rocking legends that never quite made it but nonetheless lent a hand in the genres history (Venom, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Jaguar, Raven, Saxon, Savage, Angel Witch, Girlschool, Fist, Tank, Blitzkreig) existed soley after this album, it really predicated metal as a serious contender for the next musical phenomenon. Without doubt it ranks as one of the most important heavy rock albums ever created.
second best priest album! November 30, 2009
Judas777
only slightly behind the classic "sad wings of destiny" I always loved the sound of this album, and it's filled with classics like "beyond the relms of death" and "exciter." Good stuff from the priest.
 Stained Class November 29, 2009
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
Stained Class being Judas Priest's 4th studio album and their 1978 release is the first album with Les Binks playing the drums. The booklet contains well-written liner-notes by the band and all the lyrics including three photographs of the band from the time of the recording of the album. We also get two extra tracks one which was during the early years of the band and one recorded during one of their many world tours. The sound is very raw and the lyrics are well-written. Allmusic gives the album 4.5/5 and this is right but since 5 is a little to high and I can not give half points it gets 4/5. 4/5.
Better by Priest September 21, 2009
Reijo Piippula (Turku, Finland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this album in the list "The ten all-time best metal albums". I was surprised because I hadn't heard of this album ever. I decided to listen to the songs. The only songs I had heard before were "Better by You, Better than Me" and "Exciter" (a live version actually in "Unleashed in the East"). I was amazed when I listened top this album. It seemed like every track was great, well-produced - and even better than "British Steel" or "Painkiller". The songs such as "Beyond the Realms of Death" and "Saints in Hell" are true Priest classics. Even the title track and the songs such as "White Heat, Red Hot" (The colours of flag of England?). and "Savage" can be listened to time and time again. Rob Halford's voice is great and he really can sing low and high. If I had to leave off one track - that would be "Invader" - but it is also a great track.
Stars: Better by You, Better Than Me, Saints in Hell, Beyond the Realms of Death
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