Turbo (Judas Priest album)
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April 15, 1986 |
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CD, LP |
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9 |
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41:02 |
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Tom Allom |
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Compass Point Studios, Nassau (Bahamas) , Bahamas |
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Turbo is the tenth studio album by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest , which was released on April 15, 1986. It is the first album on which the group used guitar synthesizers to add tonal accents.
background
After the release of the album Defenders of the Faith (1984) and the subsequent tour, Judas Priest began work on the follow-up album in June 1985 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau (Bahamas). The original plan was to release a double album ( Twin Turbos ), but instead the idea was discarded and the material that had already been recorded was shared. During the recordings, the musicians first used guitar synthesizers in order to get closer to the commercially successful Glam Metal ( Poison , Bon Jovi ). The band decided to use the material that was produced more for radio for the new album.
The title Reckless was originally intended for the soundtrack to Top Gun used. However, the group declined because they believed the film would not be successful and because its release on the soundtrack album would have meant they should not have released the title on their own album.
Parental Guidance was born in response to Tipper Gore's attack on the band. Her organization, the Parents Music Resource Center , put Eat Me Alive from the album Defenders of the Faith at number 3 on its list of "15 Most Offensive Songs" because it allegedly described oral sex at gunpoint.
As part of the Judas Priest - The Remasters series , Turbo was re-released on CD in 2001 and, in addition to the previously unreleased song All Fired Up, also contained a live version of Locked In , which was released on May 23, 1986 in the "Kiel Auditorium" in St. Louis ( Missouri ) was born.
The main song Turbo Lover was used on all of the band's major best-of albums released by Sony / Columbia . The 2-CD compilation Metal Works '73 -'93 , published in 1993, contained this song and Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days . The compilation The Essential from 2006, also on two CDs, contains Turbo Lover and Out in the Cold . The 4-CD box set Metalogy , which was released in 2004, includes these two songs as well as Private Property , Parental Guidance and the previously unreleased demo recording Heart of a Lion . The compilation of Single Cuts , published in 2011 on just one CD, contains Turbo Lover and Locked In, according to the title .
Track list
All tracks written and arranged by Glenn Tipton , Rob Halford and KK Downing .
- Turbo Lover - 5:32
- Locked In - 4:18
- Private Property - 4:29
- Parental Guidance - 3:24
- Rock You All Around the World - 3:35
- Out in the Cold - 6:26
- Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days - 4:39
- Hot for Love - 4:11
- Reckless - 4:18
Bonus tracks (re-release 2001)
- All Fired Up - 4:43
- Locked In (Live) - 4:22
reception
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Turbo was a successful album commercially , which was expressed by chart placements in the USA and Great Britain. In the US, the album was also awarded a gold record on June 10, 1986 ; three years later (July 24, 1989) even with platinum. With the critics and fans, however, the album mostly failed.
The reviewer Michael Rensen ( Rock Hard ) wrote of Turbo that it was "pure pop rock, a collection of radio-compatible fabric softener numbers that were additionally watered down by synthesizer guitars that were not used very cleverly" . It could “not even begin to stink” against his two predecessors ( Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith ) .
The magazine Metal Hammer took a different line in its review: It was "even foreseeable that Judas Priest would open up completely new target groups for heavy metal with 'Turbo'". Already Turbo Lover interpret "already the musical baseline on this album:" The guitarists Downing and Tipton have "worked for the entire album production with new guitar synthesizers, some of keyboards such as" sounded. In part, this goes "at the expense of Priest's usual powerful guitar attacks;" everything works on Turbo "more melodic and polished." Nevertheless, Judas Priest "succeeded in creating a small masterpiece with this tenth LP on the way to commercialization."
Music Express stated, with Turbo gave off Judas Priest "the calculated, biting cold that their glacier cold hard rock for years," typically. The band is allowed to “calmly look forward to comparisons with great role models from primeval Metal:“ Turbo is “devoid of any attack surfaces. Armor plates made of stoically brutal drum work and steadfastly pumping bass lines "are" offensive sources of strength against any attacks. "
Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey wrote that Judas Priest attempted to "renew their sound and accentuate their melodic side" by "using synthesizers and stylistic excursions into 1980s pop metal , " and noted that The song Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days sounds "more like poison, but with synthesizers" . Turbo Lover is "clearly the best song on the record and a successful attempt to make the 'Priest formula' recognizable" . However, the band often sounds "directionless" , seems "unsure which way to go" and through the use of the guitar synthesizer and the "overpolished production" the listener feels as if the record has been "put together and revised" . Huey regrets this as "unfortunate" because the best moments on the album made it clear that "with a clearer focus it could have been a creative success" . So it is "Judas Priest's weakest publication since Rocka Rolla " .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ TURBO ( Memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Supplement to the CD.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US
- ^ RIAA gold and platinum database
- ↑ Michael Rensen for amazon.de ; Retrieved October 14, 2011
- ↑ Metal Hammer, Issue 5/1986, page 80.
- ↑ Musikexpress, issue 5/1986, page 98
- ↑ Steve Huey on allmusic.com ; Retrieved October 14, 2011