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ARTIST: Judas Priest
TITLE: Rocka Rolla
LABEL: Repetoire Records
GENRE: Heavy Metal
TYPE: Remastered
SOURCE: Vinyl
ENCODER: FLAC 1.3.1
BITRATE: 294kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 38min total
RELEASE DATE: 2015-00-00
RIP DATE: 2017-06-29
CATALOG: V 129 / REP 2234
Tracks: 10
Track List:
01 One For The Road 4:35
02 Rocka-Rolla 3:03
03 Winter 1:40
04 Deep Freeze 1:19
05 Winter Retreat 3:29
06 Cheater 2:53
07 Never Satisfied 4:46
08 Run Of The Mill 8:29
09 Dying To Meet You 6:15
10 Caviar And Meths 2:00
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Originally released on Gull Records in 1974. Here is the newest remastered
Version!
Rocka Rolla is the debut album by Judas Priest, released in 1974. It was
produced by Rodger Bain, who had made a name for himself as the producer of
Black Sabbath's first three albums.
This album was played entirely "live" (i.e. all musicians playing simultaneously
as in a concert, vs. the more popular method of each musician's parts being
recorded separately and then mixing them).
According to the band there were technical problems in the studio, resulting in
poor sound quality and a hiss through the album. The band further claims that
the producer had too much control over track selection, and omitted their more
popular stage classics. These songs were eventually included on their next
album. Many of the songs were written before Rob Halford joined the band. The
track "Caviar and Meths" was originally a 14-minute epic penned by Halford's
predecessor, Al Atkins, but due to time constraints, only the intro is recorded
for the album. A longer version of the song appears on original vocalist Al
Atkins's 1998 album Victim of Changes. Though not the full-length version, it is
notably longer at seven minutes. The album also contains covers of the songs
"Winter" and "Never Satisfied".
At this point of the band's career, they had not yet developed their signature
look of leather and studs. They had appeared on a British television programme
called The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975, performing "Rocka Rolla" and "Dreamer
Deceiver", and their wardrobe was very "hippified" as journalist Malcolm Dome
put it. This footage was included on the "Electric Eye" DVD. In addition, the
album has some slight progressive rock influences that would continue through to
Stained Class, but to a lesser extent, and would be abandoned in later releases.
Drummer John Hinch would be dismissed in 1975, before the next record was to
begin being recorded, for what Glenn Tipton would later call him being
"musically inadequate".
The album was reissued in 1987 with a different cover. Reportedly the band was
unhappy with the original cover art and logo, as it didn't fit with their image
as a heavy metal band. There are also rumours that the Coca Cola Company brought
legal pressure because the original album art too closely resembled their most
famous brand. The re-issue cover art (By artist Mel Grant, and originally used
as the cover for the novel The Steel Tsar) was also used for the US cover of
Ballistix for the Turbo Grafx 16 and Commodore Amiga.
Since the album was released during the period when K.K. Downing was the band's
frontman, this remains the only album on which he is the primary songwriter.
Judas Priest have rarely performed any of the songs from Rocka Rolla live since
the mid-late 1970's. However, Never Satisfied was brought back into the band's
setlist for the 2011 Epitaph tour.