Priest Live '86

I really dig this live record it's got that great 80's atmosphere and good selection of their late 70's and 80's material.

I saw Priest on the TURBO tour (it was my first concert!) so this live album brings back memories for me.

I never liked the cover art much though. First time I saw the album in a store I thought it was a bootleg of some sort. It's so cheap looking!



Yuck!

most of thier covers sucked though. with a few exceptions.

I've always thought Painkiller was their best album art ever.

mc666 wrote:

most of thier covers sucked though. with a few exceptions.

Really, Sad Wings.., Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent...British Steel?

A family favorite here, everyone in the household enjoys it. I have several vinyl copies of it and my gf has the CD.

candlemass wrote:

mc666 wrote:

most of thier covers sucked though. with a few exceptions.

Really, Sad Wings.., Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent...British Steel?

aside from Sad Wings.. the rest of those covers were really lame. stayed lame until Painkiller. thankfully their music more than made up for it.

screaming for vengeance has an awesome cover

back on subject, live 86 is a great album. not as good as unleashed obviously but still awesome

Not a great live album,but still okay nonetheless. And never,ever judge a book by it's cover

mc666 wrote:

most of thier covers sucked though. with a few exceptions.

i agree, stained class is probably one of the lamest, that or point of entry

Yes, great live album. Also the vhs tape of PRIEST LIVE is great. It came out sometime ago with all their video clips on dvd. Realy great.

I like this live album, but I prefer "Unleashed in the East" or "'98 Live Meltdown".

I thought Priest had some cool covers. "British Steel" is a classic.
"Screaming for Vengeance" is awesome. "Jugulator" is cool, but they
should have used the full image that is on the inside rather than the
close-up that ended up on the cover.

"Saturday night and the Priest is back." -Halford

I've always liked the Ram It Down & Sad Wings Album cover.

This is a good album, but it always kinda sounded like there were quite a few touchups.

I agree this is not their best cover. I like Hero, Hero, Painkiller, Ram it Down, and Screaming for Vengence.

The only covers i like by them are British Steel, Ram it Down and Painkiller.

the cover looks really lame which puts me off

TheGooch wrote:

the cover looks really lame which puts me off

I wouldn't go on that or else you wouldn't be listening to most of their other records as well.

na i actually dig the artwork for british steel. less so for painkiller. turbo, ram it down and point of enty have weak work but screaming and defenders are cool

best Priest cover = Unleashed in the East

I think this album has the only lame Priest cover.

As for the music, I think this is an awesome live album. It surprisingly does have an awesome live atmosphere. The Turbo material sounds way better live; it's actually tolerable, if not cool. Of course, the classic material sounds great. The remastered version with the three bonus tracks is a must-have.

One thing I don't like about this album is that it reminds me of the video footage from this tour that I've seen. I enjoy the music just as much, but it still reminds me of the band's then-hilarious image and Halford's change in performance style (what with trying to act out the songs and all that).

I think "The Sentinel" is the best tune on this album.

get_the_firehouse wrote:

I think this album has the only lame Priest cover.

As for the music, I think this is an awesome live album. It surprisingly does have an awesome live atmosphere. The Turbo material sounds way better live; it's actually tolerable, if not cool. Of course, the classic material sounds great. The remastered version with the three bonus tracks is a must-have.

One thing I don't like about this album is that it reminds me of the video footage from this tour that I've seen. I enjoy the music just as much, but it still reminds me of the band's then-hilarious image and Halford's change in performance style (what with trying to act out the songs and all that).

I think "The Sentinel" is the best tune on this album.

I agree, I love "The Sentinel", and funny enough I think second to that might be "Out in the Cold"? I don't like the studio version of it as much, but I really like it live.

Yes, I agree the album cover was lame. I remember when I got the casette way back in the day. I think I might have said something like, what's this?

metalinmyveins wrote:

get_the_firehouse wrote:

I think this album has the only lame Priest cover.

As for the music, I think this is an awesome live album. It surprisingly does have an awesome live atmosphere. The Turbo material sounds way better live; it's actually tolerable, if not cool. Of course, the classic material sounds great. The remastered version with the three bonus tracks is a must-have.

One thing I don't like about this album is that it reminds me of the video footage from this tour that I've seen. I enjoy the music just as much, but it still reminds me of the band's then-hilarious image and Halford's change in performance style (what with trying to act out the songs and all that).

I think "The Sentinel" is the best tune on this album.

I agree, I love "The Sentinel", and funny enough I think second to that might be "Out in the Cold"? I don't like the studio version of it as much, but I really like it live.

Yes, I agree the album cover was lame. I remember when I got the casette way back in the day. I think I might have said something like, what's this?

Yeah, Out In The Cold is very well done on this album. It's actually an awesome album opener. It has that certain mood to it.

troublezone wrote:

I've always thought Painkiller was their best album art ever.

I think Ram It Down is their best album cover. It used to be my avatar here.

I just end up replacing my original Judas Priest "Live" with the remastered version. It sounds freaking great. This was probably my most played live album growing up. I'm so glad that I finally got it. Now I just have to pick up "Unleashed In The East", and "Painkiller" to finish off the remastered series.