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Rob Halford: "We were over in Ibiza in Spain in a wonderful studio setup – sort of a location deal where it can be very useful if you can but a band under one roof, it’s very stimulating creatively. If you get an idea you can run to the studio right away and capture it and that’s why we went back after the ‘Point of Entry’ sessions which was the first time we went to Ibiza, we went back for ‘Screaming for Venegance.’ We were under a time deadline with our label Sony, to go in it at a date and finish it at a date and we were frantically trying to come in on time and when I say frantic I don’t mean rushing through things but I think it was a sense of excitement and energy and determination that we had to make a really good record. We found ourselves towards the end of the sessions needing one more track.

I believe ‘Another Thing Comin’ was the final piece of music that we got together and you compare the complexity say the title track ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ or the musical attitude of ‘Riding on the Wind’ they’re complete separate entities to ‘Another Thing Comin.’ I don’t think it’s fair to say we’re dismissive of it, we believed in it, we felt that in terms of strength some of the other material should be placed in the running order sequence a little bit earlier on. As it turned out, of course, ‘Another Thing Comin’ was the eighth track in and some people call that burying the song which we would never do but it seems the tracks you feel that maybe won’t get the attention you tend to put them past the half mark on the recording – that’s what we did with ‘Another Thing Comin.’

Who’d guess it that American rock’ n’ roll radio picked up the track and started to play it as I believe without much of a position being taken by the label – so that’s another endearing quality we have about that particular track. ‘Another Thing Comin’ for the band in America – it took off in a big way and launched the rest of that record for Priest in 1982." (2014:Full Metal Jackie’s radio show)

Rob Halford: "even the message in 'You've Got Another Thing Comin'' has got the line, “My life; I'm gonna live it up” - that's a very strong thing to say. " (2012:The Quietus)
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(Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – lead guitar
K. K. Downing – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Dave Holland – drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: Louis Austin
Recorded: Beejay Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA, 1982
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The song speaks to the hedonistic, rebellious spirit of the late 1970s and early 1980s. (Wikipedia)

In June 2007, lead vocalist Rob Halford was one of a number of rock musicians interviewed for a BBC series about heavy metal. He said the song "Living After Midnight" came about when he was trying to get some sleep. The band were using a house once owned by John Lennon, and lead guitarist Glen Tipton's riffing woke him up. Halford looked at his watch and noticed it was after midnight. (Songfacts) **KILL ME**

(Rob Halford, K. K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – lead guitar
K. K. Downing – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Dave Holland – drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: na
Recorded: Startling Studios, Ascot, Berkshire, England, Jan-Feb, 1980

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The song's lyrics deal with demonic possession, black magic, and temptation to commit acts of evil. However, according to Halford himself, as cited in Metal Hammer in January 2004, the lyrics deal with a love-related theme, although metaphorically. (Wikipedia)
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(Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton, Chris Tsangarides)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – lead guitar
K.K. Downing – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Scott Travis – drums
Don Airey – synthesizer

Produced: Chris Tsangarides
Engineered: Attie Bauw, Patrice Rouillon
Recorded: (LP) Miraval Studios, Correns, France
.....and Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands, 1990

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Rob Halford: "I think that the lyrics of that particular song are interesting, just because I think it shows one of the many sides that Priest has delved into. We've never been a socio-political band, we've just been wanting to write songs that have got interesting messages in them. ..... So lyrically we've been into many places, but I just recall, again around the early 80s, in the Reagan years, they were putting all these spy satellites up and I just thought that it might be an interesting topic to put into a song." (2012:The Quietus)
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"Electric Eye" is an allusion to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, in the use of the name of the pseudo-omniscient satellite that watches over the community at all times. In this dystopia, the form of government, Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism), is utterly totalitarian, and if citizens are caught rebelling in any manner, they "disappear". The song has been called "prescient" for its depiction of a modern surveillance state. (Wikipedia)

This song is about a satellite watching over everyone and seeing what they're doing. It explores the lack of privacy in the modern world. (Songfacts)
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(Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford - lead vocals
Glenn Tipton - lead guitar
K. K. Downing - rhythm guitar
Ian Hill - bass
Dave Holland - drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: Louis Austin
Recorded: Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain, early 1982
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Rob Halford: "There was a feeling of the vast population of the British public being united against a government we felt was uncaring. It was also a kind of kickback to the way we were being ignored by various elements of the press in our home country because the punk movement was dominating everything. We wanted to send a rallying call out to the metalheads, not only in the UK but everywhere." (Billboard)
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(Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
K. K. Downing – guitars
Glenn Tipton – guitars
Ian Hill – bass guitar
Dave Holland – drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: Lou Austin
Recorded: Startling Studios, Ascot, Berkshire, England, Jan–Feb 1980
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Robert Halford: "We've never been in a band that writes love songs, in reality. I think that's as close as we got. It's using a vehicle or a motorcycle as a sexual reference, and we'd never [written] anything like that. It was just an appealing experiment musically to work with. … Any kind of relationship songs we wrote were generally a bit gloomy." (2016:Rolling Stone)
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Rob Halford: "All of that's in there, you know (inspired by the winter of discontent and the rise of Margaret Thatcher): 'Completely wasting, out of work and down' – no one cares, I'm going to break the law. We weren't giving people affirmation to break the law, but we could understand their frustration." (2014:The Guardian)

Rob Halford: "'Breaking The Law' for example, which was a reference to what was going on in the UK when we were recording it at the back end of the 70s/early 80s, when there was a lot of crap going on in the UK with so many people being unemployed – talk about history repeating itself! – that was kind of a kneejerk reaction to that.

I don't know whether they're recording phone calls in the UK but I do know that they keep every text, every e-mail, and every website that you've been on for three years at some facility in the UK. And that's not me being a conspiracy theorist, I remember reading about this when I was in the States, the argument being that, 'Oh, well, we're doing that to prevent terrorism – like what happened in London.' So it's a strange world really, isn't it?

I get just as irritated and angry at 61 as when I was 16. And I think most people do – when you live in a democracy, surely that goes alongside with the word 'freedom', but freedom isn't free, is it, you've got to work hard to keep freedom established. So, what's happening in the UK is pretty much what's happening in most so-called 'civilised' and 'democratic' places. It's a very potent song and it still works now. And of course it always brings a roar when we fire up the hellion and then it bangs into that particular song – most importantly it's a good old piece of metal" (2012:The Quietus)
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(Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford – vocals
K. K. Downing – lead guitar
Glenn Tipton – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass guitar
Dave Holland – drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: Lou Austin
Recorded: Startling Studios, Ascot, England, Jan–Feb 1980
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The song is about the evils that humans do. (Wikipedia)
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(Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing)

Tim 'Ripper' Owens – lead vocals
K.K. Downing – guitars
Glenn Tipton – guitars
Ian Hill – bass
Scott Travis – drums

Produced: Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, Sean Lynch
Engineered: ??
Recorded: Silvermere Studios, Surrey, England, 1996-1997

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Rob Halford: "It's another song of empowerment for me in the lyrical message," he told us. "It's got the little bit of the fantasy element, creating a figure, this redeemer of souls. .... What is he? He's not a destructive guy, he's coming to bring that redemption with Metal, and I think that's a very iconic type of representation for Judas Priest." (2014:Songfacts)

Richie Faulkner: "It's instantly Judas Priest as soon as it comes in, ....It's very instant and very direct. It's simple, but it's what you'd expect from a Judas Priest song. It was the first song that got put out to the public just to let you know that Priest is back and this is what it's about, really." (2014:Songfacts)

Glenn Tipton: (inspired by the 2011 movie Cowboys & Aliens) "It's a very natural Judas Priest song. And I love the high noon reference, as well, which to me typifies that god, half-molten metal, half-human walking down some sort of deserted cowboy town with tumbleweeds and dust and dirt. That's the picture it conjures up for me." (2014:Songfacts)


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(Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, Richie Faulkner)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – guitar, synthesizer
Richie Faulkner – guitar
Ian Hill – bass guitar
Scott Travis – drums

Produced: Mike Exeter, Glenn Tipton
Engineered: ??
Recorded: ??
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(Rob Halford, K. K. Downing, Glenn Tipton)

Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – lead guitar
K. K. Downing – rhythm guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Dave Holland – drums

Produced: Tom Allom
Engineered: na
Recorded: 1983
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