Track list plus personal rating out of five.

Disc 1
1. The Hellion (82) 5/5 - An intro for Electric Eye, this short instrumental fits the mood of the next track without sounding like it at all.
2. Electric Eye (82) 5/5 - A great track especially considering the era it came out in.
3. Victim of Changes (79) 5/5 - A live performance of a track originally recorded in the early 70s. This is a tight-trousered belter!
4. Painkiller (90) 5/5 - I've tried to sing this, and failed miserably! Testicle snapping, guitar string stretching, speedy metal fun!
5. Eat Me Alive (84) 4/5 - Dubious lyrics but a good track.
6. Devil's Child (82) 3/5 - OK, but there are better on this album.
7. Dissident Aggressor (77) 5/5 - I Like this classic which was covered excellently by Slayer of all people!
8. Delivering The Goods (78) 4/5 - Another feelgood metal track. Fine though.
9. Exciter (78) 4/5 - losing a point for sounding dated and a cheesy twin-guitar break section, this is still great.
10. Breaking The Law (80) 5/5 - Great riff and despite a dubious message, a great track.
11. Hell Bent For Leather (78) 5/5 - Rock and Roll metal at its best
12. Blood Red Skies (88) 4/5 - Synth! What! A good enough track though but I do like them a bit faster
13. Metal Gods (80) 4/5 - One of their plodding metal anthemic tracks. This one works a treat!
14. Before The Dawn (78) 5/5 - Get wrecked and you'll know exactly what I mean!
15. Turbo Lover (86) 1/5 - Played well but far, far too commercial and cheesy
16. Ram It Down (88) 4/5 - A classic, but loses a point for a cheesy bit just before one of their best guitar solo sections ever.
17. Metal Meltdown (90) 4/5 - Great verses, plodding chorus. Should be a good crowd participation track live though.

Disc 2
1. Screaming For Vengeance (82) - A great track with good guitars and loud brash nut-wrenching vocals
2. You've Got Another Thing Coming (82) 2/5 - I dislike the cheesiness but this is another crowd rouser live.
3. Beyond The Realms Of Death (78) 5/5 - Way before, and after, its time! A slow then loud but wonderful track.
4. Solar Angels (81) 3/5 - Average, for Priest which isn't a bad thing really
5. Bloodstone (82) 3/5 - Even though I've heard it a million times and left it on, I still can't remember how it goes!
6. Desert Plains (81) 3/5 - ...or this one!!!
7. WIld Nights, Hot & Crazy Days (86) 1/5 - sorry, but this sounds more like KISS than Priest.
8. Heading Out on the Highway (87) 2/5 - Sounding much older than it is. If it was release in '75 I'd have rated it higher.
9. Living After Midnight (80) 4/5 - Due to my feelings on commercial tracks, I should hate this. Strangely though, I like it!
10. A Touch of Evil (90) 3/5 - Good enough track but never really gets going in the Priest tradition. OK though.
11. The Rage (80)
12 Night Comes Down (84)
13. Sinner (77) 4/5 - Dated badly but a good track nonetheless
14. Freewheel Burning (84) 5/5 - One of my favourites, great vocals and great musicianship. And a memorable chorus as it should be.
15. Night Crawler (90) 5/5 - A lot don't, but I do. Like this track that is.

Released by Columbia Records in 1993

Yes, I know, this is a compilation album but this really is a classic. Containing thirty-two great (for the most part) Priest classics, this has to be a classic Album for the new to Priest as well as the old. Tracks from the Rob Halford era are present here and, although the title is a little misleading as the earliest track is from 1977 and the latest is from 1990 (13 as opposed to 20 years!), you certainly get your money's worth.

Some of the tracks like Exciter (1978) and Sinner (1977) may sound dated but are still good. These are offset by old classics such as Victim of Changes, a live version from 1979 which was actually from the early seventies and Dissident Aggressor (1977)which is still great now. Modern classics such as the testicle ripping Painkiller (1990), Ram It Down (1988) and Metal Meltdown (1990) are here along with moody, slower numbers like the excellent Before The Dawn and Beyond The Realms Of Death (both 1978).

Basically, it's the sheer variety of musical styes on show here, along with the always great vocals and musicianship, which makes this album a classic. It is one of those rare albums which you can leave on without skipping tracks. True I am a bit let down by the commerciality of Turbo Lover and You've Got Another Thing Comin' and the ommision from the album of other classics like The Sentinal, Grinder and Rapid Fire which were all included on the Tim Owens fronted Metal Meltdown Live. You can't please everyone all the time though and 32 tracks isn't bad is it. If you like Priest or would like to hear why Metal is Metal, take a look at this one and feel the steel!

Coagulus / Rob