Tale of the tape....The Priest Polls

Began Tuesday 11-3-15 with "Rocka Rolla" & ended (let's call it today) 3-4-16 with "Redeemer Of Souls".

We looked at 17 studio albums and 1 "live" album, "Unleashed".
Going from September of 1974 to the present, almost 42 years.

Total views-7547
Total replies-507
Total votes- 516

The album with the least views- "Redeemer of Souls" (114)
The album with the most views- "Turbo" (795)
The album with the least replies- "Redeemer of Souls" (9)
The album with the most replies- "Turbo" (57)
The album with the least votes- "Redeemer of Souls" (10)
The album with the most votes- "Sin after Sin" (41)

The winning song getting the most individual votes was "Out In The Cold" (20) from "Turbo". Then "Painkiller" (19) from "Painkiller". The live version of "Victim of Changes" (19) from "Unleashed In The East". "Desert Plains" (16) from "Point of Entry". "Blood Red Skies" (14) from "Ram It Down". The studio version of "Victim of Changes" (14) from "Sad Wings of Destiny". "The Sentinel" (14) from "Defenders of the Faith", "Cathedral Spires" (13) from "Jugulator", "Dissident Aggressor" (12) from "Sin After Sin". "Beyond The Realms Of Death" (12) from "Stained Glass". "Hell Bent For Leather" (10) from "Hell Bent For Leather/Killing Machine", "Screaming For Vengeance" & "Electric Eye" (08) from "Screaming For Vengeance", "Judas Rising" (08) from "Angel of Retribution", "Rapid Fire" & "The Rage" (08) from "British Steel", "Never Satisfied" (08) from "Rocka Rolla", "Nostradamus" (05) from "Nostradamus", "March of the Damned" (04) from  "Redeemer of Souls" and "One on One", "Hell is Home" & "Bloodsuckers" from "Demolition" all got (03) votes.

There you go...useless info

I wouldn't call it useless. I think it was rather interesting info and cool to see how my votes factored in.

Thanks for the stats. Got Point of Entry listed instead of British Steel (for "Rapid Fire" & "The Rage").

I was definitely in the majority for a lot of those votes.

I really like your polls. It's nice to cover one band at a time. With so many polls going on now, it's tough for me to keep up when I'm not familiar with all the albums (i.e. Twisted Sister, Fates Warning, Queensryche).

Yeah it was cool for me cause I finally got to listen to about 6 or 7 Priest albums either for the first time altogether or completely for the first time.

I am down for any polls about Priest; and especially when they come from one of my fave people on the board.

80s Metal Lady wrote:

I really like your polls.

Tee-hee!!

Nice job with the stats, James. Thanks for taking the time.

I like the stat summary concept. 

Instead of a bunch of standalone polls it's cool to see them all wrapped up with a tidy bow.

Great work and I had a fun time choosing the Priest material that I was familiar with.

James B. wrote:

Yeah it was cool for me cause I finally got to listen to about 6 or 7 Priest albums either for the first time altogether or completely for the first time.

Me too

I can't believe that these have been going for over a year!

Boris2008 wrote:

James B. wrote:

Yeah it was cool for me cause I finally got to listen to about 6 or 7 Priest albums either for the first time altogether or completely for the first time.

Me too

I can't believe that these have been going for over a year!

They've only been going since November. Here in the states we do month first then day - just to make everything more confusing.

Witchfinder wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

James B. wrote:

Yeah it was cool for me cause I finally got to listen to about 6 or 7 Priest albums either for the first time altogether or completely for the first time.

Me too

I can't believe that these have been going for over a year!

They've only been going since November.  Here in the states we do month first then day - just to make everything more confusing.

I find it cool that the album and song that got the most attention is generally regarded as their weakest effort. Great work, James.

007 wrote:

I wouldn't call it useless. I think it was rather interesting info and cool to see how my votes factored in.

the sentinel wrote:

I find it cool that the album and song that got the most attention is generally regarded as their weakest effort. Great work, James.

I find that odd...

My hats off to you, J-man. Trying to figure out if I want to tally results similarly after the Maiden polls run up. Seems like a good amount of work...

Nice job James! As I told you before I didn't get involved in the priest polls cause I don't have much of their material but it's awesome you went through all this trouble tallying it all up.

Where do u find the time to do all this! Good job. Poles are interesting.

corplhicks wrote:

My hats off to you, J-man. Trying to figure out if I want to tally results similarly after the Maiden polls run up. Seems like a good amount of work...

I spent more time typing up the results than compiling the data.

The stats for the Priest polls were not as cohesive as my stats from the Saxon polls that ended about a year ago.
http://www.heartofmetal.net/t22376-the-story-of-20-polls-on-the-hom-saxon-studio-albums-101?highlight=saxon

It was cool that Detuned began the Maiden polls.(you continuing) "Somewhere In Time" was the last Maiden album I ever heard in it's entirety. So now there is a reason to listen to the rest Even checking out the FW stuff I ignored due to whatever reason.

Yeah, the polls have certainly increased the activity around here. That's definitely a good thing.