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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 13203
Released: March 19, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.61 |
| Used Price: $4.51 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Ram It Down Track Listing:
1. Ram It Down
2. Heavy Metal
3. Love Zone
4. Come and Get It
5. Hard as Iron
6. Blood Red Skies
7. I'm a Rocker
8. Johnny B. Goode
9. Love You to Death
10. Monsters of Rock
11. Night Comes Down [Live][*]
12. Bloodstone [Live][*]
Ram It Down Reviews:
Ewwww. 
2009-07-09 - OK, I love Priest, but this album is horrible. I am willing to forgive Rocka Rolla because it was their starting point, and the Ripper era if you can listen to cheesy lyrics. But this is simply Priest's worst album ever.
The first song is AWESOME! Cheesy, but a good and fast paced starter. Then Heavy Metal comes along with an awesome intro... and the the song falls on its butt soon afterword. The other good track is Blood Red Skies, despite being a tad too "techno" for my tastes. Other than that this album sucks.
I'm a Rocker? Ewww.
Love You To Death? No Thanks.
Hard as Iron? Uh, I was planning to KEEP DOWN the meal I just ate, not vomit it back up.
Love Zone? Nope.
Monsters of Rock? Monstorously bad.
Lovezone? WAY EWWWWWW.
Johnny B Goode? Way to rape a good song.
This is the worst excuse for a Priest album than this. In the mid 80s they went downhill and released 3 bad albums, each worse than the other (Defenders of the Faith, Turbo, and now this). Thank God for painkiller.
Just avioid this.
Thank god Halford waited one more album...
2009-01-30 - If Rob had left after this album instead of going out with a bang on Painkiller? Horrifying thought. History has not been kind to Ram It Down, and is it any surprise? The title track is fantastic. My one star rating goes ENTIRELY to that song. It's good enough to almost overlook the "production". But the rest of it is....come on, "whoa, oh, Love Zone..."? ick. Love You To Death? Nope. Come and Get It? No thanks, I already ate. The lyrics are worse than Painkiller, the guitars sound like toys, and I won't even talk about the drum machines. Has Dave Holland ever played on a Priest album? MAYBE Screaming For Vengeance. Not since then, surely. But Defenders and Turbo were passable. And all those albums were redeemed with great songs (Ok ,Turbo is questionable). Ram It Down will always be the worst Priest album ever.
This is the last Priest album I bought... 
2008-12-27 - It was the last of them I could tolerate, as the cover-to-cover quality of their music continued to degrade with every release (admit it!).
"Ram It Down" has a few memorable songs, and I enjoyed the album when it was first released back in '88, but my God the synths and electric drumming make it almost a project album.
"Blood Red Skies, the rippin' cover of "Johnny B. Goode" and the title track are the only songs that really stand out to me. And of course they sound completely over-produced. The rest are a bit cheesey, simply put.
One thing about this Priest album, either Halford took some form of steroids while recording this, he blew his voice box out as a result, or more likely, his voice is heavily synth'd. No human being can sing like that, and as impressive as Halford's voice was, there's something "not right" about how different and suddenly other-wordly his range is on this. The entire album is like this, relying very heavily on electronics, effects and sounding over-produced. As mentioned the electric drums used are a questionable decision, but give the album it's machine gun back beat throughout, and having a very distinct sound.
For all I know most of Priest's music sounds like this from here on out, and maybe that's why I bailed. I just can't imagine having such fond memories of their 70's and early 80's music, only to have it warped by the turn Priest and others like Metallica took after 1988 (when I also stopped listened to Metallica).
Furthermore while I support Halford and whatever lifestyle he chooses to live, like Mercury his orientation doesn't affect my ability to like and respect their music, but his increasingly homoerotic biker leanings starting with "Turbo Lover," really started to find themselves in his lyrics and song/album titles, are something I would rather not have in my mind anywhere.
I just think "Defenders" was their last, truly great album front to back, "Ram It Down" is by far the worst of their 80's offerings, but it has it's moments...just not my kind of Priest.
one of their heavist 
2008-08-01 - This is a great cd one of their heavist thats for sure ram it down great song and the guitar solo on the second song is awesome this is in my top five great albums by priest along with defenders of the faith screaming for vengence and my all time favorite sad wings of destiny these are essential priest albums oh and staind class better than you better than me great tune and thats the song the two kids committed suicide over one anyway the other one is terribly disfigured anyway great album
I wish i could give it 3.5 stars 
2008-04-21 - Its a pretty good CD. The drum machine sounds retarded, but true gems like "Ram it Down" "Heavy Metal" "Love Zone", and "Bloodstone (Live)" save this CD. Robs voice sounds pretty good, but not as good as it does in Painkiller. He is still the best vocalist of all time. Glenn, KK and Ian are still great, as they always have been, and alays will be. Still a good CD. I would reccomend it to all Priest fans
