In retrospect, surprisingly good

In retrospect, I can well imagine how much this album many metal fans must have frightened then. If we had just the year 1986, I would certainly be a little shaken: The production is pop-ironed, most songs are taped with guitar synthesizers, Dave Holland's drumming sounds artificial and uninspired than ever before and the normal guitars were castrated. Especially with the two strong, much harder predecessors Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith in the ear I would get very much afraid for my priests. But with nearly 30 years distance and knowing that Turbo should not set the agenda for future Priest releases, the drive makes is not so bad.

The album opens directly on a high note. Turbo Lover gives equal the full synthesizer charge, has a drumming, which as such is barely visible and increases under ever more noticeable presence of the guitar more and more to the catchy, delightfully beknackten refrain. While I m your Turbo Lover / Tell me theres no other The piece invites to Fremdschämen, still not you get it so quickly out of my head. Rightly so the song has become a classic, even if he has not a lot to do with Heavy Metal. Locked In, Private Property and Parental Guidance then sound more like the typical Judas Priest, but just with synthesizers and less hard. (Catchy were the previous albums as well.) The said pieces can all convince, but can miss something of variety. Rock You All Around The World sounds similar, but is somewhat weaker, and this impression perhaps arises because it is the fourth of six fairly uniform songs. Before the moderately inspiring coming last two of which (Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days and Hot for Love) out of the speakers, is the sixth in the best song for me of Turbo. Out in the cold is similar to Turbo Lover, but acts adult, little ballad, varied and simply intoxicating. This means that just the two songs that most stand out from the other Judas Priest-standard eighties, the most convincing for me. Add to this the bouncer Reckless, who although his style contrasts with her little from most other turbo songs, but at me with his melody significantly more responsive than about Locked In or Hot for Love. With this opinion, but I stand apparently quite alone there, because Reckless rarely found elsewhere special mention. As a bonus, on the remastered edition still there, the slightly harder All Fired Up, I'm not too entraining.

What especially bothers me when something Turbo, is the lack of variety. Except Turbo Lover and Out in the cold all the songs sound quite uniformly. However, since they are precisely and fairly well for themselves and the two unusual songs and Reckless disc pull quite a bit for me, there are four stars. If you do not expect from the start to hear a classic Judas Priest heavy metal album, then you can have fun with Turbo.