My two favorites are "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight" -- usually the former, not latter.

For 20 years I thought Priesat only had 2 good songs ("Breaking the Law" and "You've Got Another Thing Coming"), but a few years I finally wised up to how many good songs they had in their hey day. For some reason lately I've taken to a Priest song that doesn't really rock and is pretty damn hokey.

Well, a lot of people have done their re-evaluation of much of metal and hard rock and discovered there was more there than they thought. Hopefully, you re-evaluated Iron Maiden as well.

Buyin' crap from China
Forgot, who we are;
Now we've, got recession,
Brilliant, one and all...

Off to, go shoppin'
Wal-mart, all day long.
China, we all love ya,
got not, slightest clue.

Human rights, NIMBY,
But ok, in yours;
China, we all love ya,
Got my, crappy clothes.

China.
China.
Foreclosed, after midnight;
my job, went away

To where; you don't care,
but it, went away.


Yeah! British Steel, 2009 Livin' After Midnight China remix.

No, never went back to Maiden. If you could pick one record to give another shot, what would it be?

Albumwise? Number Of The beast. But they have great songs throughout: Running Free, 2 Minutes To Midnight, Flight Of Icarus, The Trooper...

I had a buddy in highschool who was a huge Judas Priest fan and also a huge homophobe (he mocked my love of the Stones because Mick was a "fag"). I often wonder how he took the Rob Halford self-outing.

The metal audience in general still considers Priest royalty, which I think speaks well of it.