Turbo

Artist: Judas Priest
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074644015829
EAN: 0074644015829
ASIN: B000002657

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Turbo Lover
Locked In
Private Property
Parental Guidance
Rock You All Around The World
Out In The Cold
Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days
Hot For Love
Reckless

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Customer Reviews:

I can't stand the way you moving..........2006-11-18

So now we get 'Turbo', the worst album in the storied catalogue of Judas Priest! In 1986, Priest was at a crossroads, being that the more commercial success of their hard rock brethren made what seemed like their already tired direction ripe for a change. I mean after Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Ratt and even Scorpions scored higher album sales, Priest, a major genre innovator, must have felt they were due for a payday. 'Turbo' is a pretty good mid-80's pop heavy metal record with hooks, melodies and fun, party time lyrics. But it is a lousy Judas Priest album. Is it really a Priest record anyway??? Guys in their mid-thirties complaining about "Parental Guidence"???? Rob Halford singing about "Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days"??? "Private Property"???? The worst has to be "Rock You All Around the World", talk about pandering to young America! I mean it makes me cringe that the same band that made 'Sad Wings of Destiny' ten years previous would turn out such crap. Compare 'Master of Puppets' to 'Turbo' and its not even funny. "Turbo Lover", "Out in the Cold" and "Reckless" are the best of a very bad bunch. Again, I am looking at 'Turbo' in the perspective of a long time Priest fan, to the uninitiated, the songs are about as good as most mainstream metal in the mid-'80s. And this is the best stuff they recorded during the summer of 1985, the rest made it on to 'Ram it Down' and those awful bonus tracks on the reissue albums. I don't blame the band for wanting to get paid but many a real fan was instantly alienated! The concert video release and the live album only added to the cheese factor from this era. It would take one more suckfest then a long over due return to form with 'Painkiller'.

Not very good.......2006-10-18

Ok, so this is Judas Priest's pop-metal album. That's fine, except that most of the tunes sound corny and forced. The best song here is the long lost gem, "Locked In", which is a catchy, fun rocker. The rest is spotty at best. Priest doing "good time rock and roll" teen rebellion anthems, just does not hold up (like the extra cheesy "Rock You All Around The World"), it worked with "Living After Midnight", but that's a classic Hard Rock/riff song, stuff like "Parental Guidance" and "Private Property" sounds like they're trying to compete with Dokken or Motley Crue. Not good. Even 1981's "Point Of Entry" is a lot better than this misfire. The band's performances are all top notch, just too much filler. Maybe 3 good songs total. Overall, not a complete waste, but I wouldn't recommend this to new fans of Judas Priest. Get "British Steel", "Screaming For Veangence", and "Unleashed In The East", or "Sad Wings Of Destiny" first.

This "Turbo" ran out of petrol..........2006-10-17

I won't ever forget when I became aware of this album in the spring of 1986 as a 20-year-old. The Priest I had loved for many years was no longer...Priest.

I remember reading a letter in "Kerrang!" saying that "Turbo" sounded like a cross between Twisted Sister and ZZ Top ('80s disco ZZ Top). That's as good a comparison as any. All the synthesiser squeaks threaten at any second to turn into "she's got legs...she knows how to use 'em..." And middle-age guys singing juvenile trash like "Parental Guidance" and "Private Property"? Please. Paging Dee Snider, Stephen Pearcy, Vince Neil et al.

Even the look was different. No more back-alley Birmingham bikers...now it was designer colour leather duds for Rob and the lads.

I actually saw this tour in Detroit with Dokken opening. Stupid looking stage set, those silly costumes...AND THEY USED THE GUITAR SYNTHESISERS ON THE OLD SONGS! To hear "Victim Of Changes" with the "eeerrrrmmmmbeeepbeep" almost had the effect of syrup of ipecac. I had waited years to see this band, and now this...I bought a Dokken tee shirt that night, and I didn't even own any Dokken albums!

For some reason, "Kerrang!" went gaga over "Turbo". I think at that point they'd changed from championing the NWOBHM sound that Priest helped inspire to any British band that was trying to "do a Def Leppard" and conquer America by showing just how commercial a British band could be...they did the same thing when Iron Maiden started getting into the synthesisers on "Somewhere In Time" (although that's a better album).

Now, don't get me wrong. It is still the same five guys, though I'm not quite sure if Dave Holland actually played drums on the album or if it was a drum machine. If he did, it sounds like one of those bog-awful Simmons drum kits that plagued '80s music (and ruined Neil Peart for me as a drummer). I remember hearing rumours that there was another drummer under the stage on the tour who actually played the drum fills on an electronic kit.

Halford, of course, sings well, but his lyrics plumb the depth of dumbness. This is the guy who wrote "Beyond The Realms Of Death"?

Glenn Tipton and KK Downing sound good when they're playing real guitars...in fact, when they come in with an honest-to-goodness power chord or ripping solo the effect is almost jarring. You can barely hear Ian Hill, but that's nothing new.

For those who don't know, this was originally supposed to be a double album called "Twin Turbos", but CBS wouldn't go for it. Some of the tracks later showed up on "Ram It Down" and as "bonuses" on the remastered re-releases...and sounding very incongruous...

The two stars are for two good songs.

"Turbo Lover", despite being juvenile lyrically, is indeed a good song.

"Out In The Cold", if not for the synth squeaks, sounds like it could have come off an earlier Priest album. Epic and heavy.

Say what you will about the "Ripper" Owens era, but I'll take "Jugulator" and "Demolition" over "Turbo" any day.

For completists only or for those who want to see the album that probably brought about the decline of '80s metal into cartoonishness.

Well Turbo Lover Was A Great Song!.......2005-12-26

Too Bad All The Rest Isn't As Good. Well Rock You All Around was pretty Good! They May Sound All Popish, but They Still have a little Metal inside there hearts!

Not their best work.......2005-08-02

I only have this album to complete the collection. I really don't care much for it at all. I didn't like it when it came out the first time.
I bought the remaster only because I bought the whole damn set.
this is one disc that gets ignored.
If you're a Priest fan you understand...this is commercial crap.

If you wish to 'sample' Priest by Hell Bent for Leather or "Sin Stained Class". Classics.

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