The beginning of the song has the crunching guitars, with a basic riff - but the riff and the song keeps morphing, and we are dealing with a song that has clear progressive elements to it here. The progressive element is something they didn't always maintain in their music, but here, on Sad Wings of Destiny, they are clearly a progressive proto-metal band. And if you keep with it until the quiet part... "once she was wonderful, once she was fine, once she was beautiful, once was mine..." The power is in this late build up. And then the lyrics... A broken relationship, most definitely... And a heavily alcohol fuelled one at that. This, to me, is still one of the absolutely finest moments of Judas Priest. I mean, how do you top this?
Monday, November 13, 2017
2017 - November 13 - Victim of Changes
Today I am going back in time. The year this song was recorded was 1976, but I didn't discover it until about 1985 or so. It was pretty early on in the friendship with Jan Are - his brother, Leif Ove, was pretty sizable fan of Judas Priest, introducing me to the Rocka Rolla album with the bottle cap and Coke lettering on the cover. But I believe he also had the album Sad Wings of Destiny, which is where the song Victim of Changes is found. Rocka Rolla was their debut, but they really started finding their sound and their form on Sad Wings of Destiny.
The beginning of the song has the crunching guitars, with a basic riff - but the riff and the song keeps morphing, and we are dealing with a song that has clear progressive elements to it here. The progressive element is something they didn't always maintain in their music, but here, on Sad Wings of Destiny, they are clearly a progressive proto-metal band. And if you keep with it until the quiet part... "once she was wonderful, once she was fine, once she was beautiful, once was mine..." The power is in this late build up. And then the lyrics... A broken relationship, most definitely... And a heavily alcohol fuelled one at that. This, to me, is still one of the absolutely finest moments of Judas Priest. I mean, how do you top this?
The beginning of the song has the crunching guitars, with a basic riff - but the riff and the song keeps morphing, and we are dealing with a song that has clear progressive elements to it here. The progressive element is something they didn't always maintain in their music, but here, on Sad Wings of Destiny, they are clearly a progressive proto-metal band. And if you keep with it until the quiet part... "once she was wonderful, once she was fine, once she was beautiful, once was mine..." The power is in this late build up. And then the lyrics... A broken relationship, most definitely... And a heavily alcohol fuelled one at that. This, to me, is still one of the absolutely finest moments of Judas Priest. I mean, how do you top this?
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