| The Essential Judas Priest | ||||
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| Released | 11 April 2006 26 August 2008 (3.0 Limited Edition) | |||
| Recorded | 1976–2005 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 154:22 | |||
| Label | Columbia / Sony Music | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
The Essential Judas Priest is a 2006 two-disc compilation album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest. It contains 34 songs from throughout their career right up to their then-most recent album Angel of Retribution, but excludes the Tim "Ripper" Owens era and material from their debut album Rocka Rolla. It was re-released in 2008 as a limited-edition 3-disc package.[2] It was re-released again in 2010 as a Blu-spec CD. This version has a slightly different track list on the first disc; "Nostradamus" from the 2008 album of that name replaces "Victim of Changes" as the fifth track.[3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Judas Rising" | Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton | Angel of Retribution (2005) | 3:52 |
| 2. | "Breaking the Law" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | British Steel (1980) | 2:35 |
| 3. | "Hell Bent for Leather" | Tipton | Killing Machine (1978) | 2:40 |
| 4. | "Diamonds & Rust" (Joan Baez cover) | Joan Baez | Sin After Sin (1977) | 3:26 |
| 5. | "Victim of Changes" | Al Atkins, Halford, Downing, Tipton | Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) | 7:47 |
| 6. | "Love Bites" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Defenders of the Faith (1984) | 4:47 |
| 7. | "Heading Out to the Highway" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Point of Entry (1981) | 3:45 |
| 8. | "Ram It Down" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Ram It Down (1988) | 4:48 |
| 9. | "Beyond the Realms of Death" | Halford, Les Binks | Stained Class (1978) | 6:51 |
| 10. | "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Screaming for Vengeance (1982) | 5:09 |
| 11. | "Jawbreaker" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Defenders of the Faith | 3:25 |
| 12. | "A Touch of Evil" | Halford, Downing, Tipton, Chris Tsangarides | Painkiller (1990) | 5:54 |
| 13. | "Delivering the Goods" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Killing Machine | 4:16 |
| 14. | "United" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | British Steel | 3:35 |
| 15. | "Turbo Lover" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Turbo (1986) | 5:33 |
| 16. | "Painkiller" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Painkiller | 6:06 |
| 17. | "Metal Gods" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | British Steel | 4:04 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "The Hellion" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Screaming for Vengeance | 0:41 |
| 2. | "Electric Eye" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Screaming for Vengeance | 3:39 |
| 3. | "Living After Midnight" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | British Steel | 3:30 |
| 4. | "Freewheel Burning" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Defenders of the Faith | 4:42 |
| 5. | "Exciter" | Halford, Tipton | Stained Class | 5:33 |
| 6. | "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac cover) | Peter Green | Killing Machine | 4:42 |
| 7. | "Blood Red Skies" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Ram It Down | 7:05 |
| 8. | "Night Crawler" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Painkiller | 5:44 |
| 9. | "Sinner" | Halford, Tipton | Sin After Sin | 6:43 |
| 10. | "Hot Rockin'" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Point of Entry | 3:17 |
| 11. | "The Sentinel" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Defenders of the Faith | 5:04 |
| 12. | "Before the Dawn" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Killing Machine | 3:23 |
| 13. | "Hell Patrol" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Painkiller | 3:37 |
| 14. | "The Ripper" | Tipton | Sad Wings of Destiny | 2:50 |
| 15. | "Screaming for Vengeance" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Screaming for Vengeance | 4:43 |
| 16. | "Out in the Cold" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Turbo | 6:27 |
| 17. | "Revolution" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Angel of Retribution | 4:42 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Dissident Aggressor" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Sin After Sin | 3:07 |
| 2. | "Better by You, Better than Me" (Spooky Tooth cover) | Gary Wright | Stained Class | 3:24 |
| 3. | "Grinder" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | British Steel | 3:58 |
| 4. | "Desert Plains" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Point of Entry | 4:36 |
| 5. | "Riding on the Wind" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Screaming for Vengeance | 3:07 |
| 6. | "Rock Hard Ride Free" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Defenders of the Faith | 5:34 |
| 7. | "All Guns Blazing" | Halford, Downing, Tipton | Painkiller | 3:56 |
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| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] | 21 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[5] | 138 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] | 23 |
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