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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 43932
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $26.71 |
| Used Price: $2.15 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Turbo Track Listing:
1. Turbo Lover
2. Locked In
3. Private Property
4. Parental Guidance
5. Rock You All Around the World
6. Out in the Cold
7. Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days
8. Hot for Love
9. Reckless
Turbo Reviews:
Judas Priest 
2009-06-09 - I love this album . Always have . Use to have it on cassette.
This album kicks *** !
Not Thier Best But Still Good 
2009-02-09 - This was the album where Tipton and Downing started using guitar synthesizers. I think they pulled it off pretty good, but for the metal purist, they may come off as a bit "disco-y."
This is by no means their heaviest, or their most brilliant, but it is still good rock and has some decent songs on it. I think Turbo is by far the most prominent here, with Parental Guidance coming in a close second.
This is good metal, with a flair for electronics and they did a decent job. I'll continue to play the album when the mood strikes and I recommend it.
Better than you think
2007-03-24 - Turbo has to be one of the most unjustly maligned metal albums of all time. Listening to everyone complain, you'd think the band suddenly became Bon Jovi overnight. No, Turbo is not the same kind of metal album that British Steel was, but when you look at it objectively, it's not that far removed either.
The fact is; Turbo flat-out rocks! Yes, they added synthesizers, but I'd argue that they definitely didn't abuse them. Yes, there are a couple of goofier songs obviously meant to be "hits", but can you honestly tell me a song like "Parental Guidance" is that much different than "Breaking the Law"? This is an album with plenty of songs I would call "essential" Priest tracks, including "Turbo Lover", "Locked In", "Out in the Cold", hell, pretty much the whole second half of the album! Turbo doesn't have any more filler tracks than any other Priest album from that era.
Call it a sellout attempt if you will, but I find it amusing that Painkiller, the band's transparent attempt to "un-sellout" by giving people exactly what they wanted, is so highly regarded while their attempt to try something a bit different is so hated. Truth be told, I find myself playing Turbo a hell of a lot more often than any other Judas Priest album released after 1985.
Bottom Line: If you ignore the conventional wisdom about Turbo and listen to it on its own merits, I think you'll find it to be a perfectly worthy entry in the Judas Priest saga.
I can't stand the way you moving... 
2006-11-19 - So now we get 'Turbo', the worst album in the storied catalogue of Judas Priest! In 1986, Priest was at a crossroads, being that the more commercial success of their hard rock brethren made what seemed like their already tired direction ripe for a change. I mean after Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Ratt and even Scorpions scored higher album sales, Priest, a major genre innovator, must have felt they were due for a payday. 'Turbo' is a pretty good mid-80's pop heavy metal record with hooks, melodies and fun, party time lyrics. But it is a lousy Judas Priest album. Is it really a Priest record anyway??? Guys in their mid-thirties complaining about "Parental Guidence"???? Rob Halford singing about "Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days"??? "Private Property"???? The worst has to be "Rock You All Around the World", talk about pandering to young America! I mean it makes me cringe that the same band that made 'Sad Wings of Destiny' ten years previous would turn out such crap. Compare 'Master of Puppets' to 'Turbo' and its not even funny. "Turbo Lover", "Out in the Cold" and "Reckless" are the best of a very bad bunch. Again, I am looking at 'Turbo' in the perspective of a long time Priest fan, to the uninitiated, the songs are about as good as most mainstream metal in the mid-'80s. And this is the best stuff they recorded during the summer of 1985, the rest made it on to 'Ram it Down' and those awful bonus tracks on the reissue albums. I don't blame the band for wanting to get paid but many a real fan was instantly alienated! The concert video release and the live album only added to the cheese factor from this era. It would take one more suckfest then a long over due return to form with 'Painkiller'.
Not bad, but not a Judas Priest classic- still, pretty good!
2006-10-18 - Ok, so this is Judas Priest's pop-metal album. That's fine, except that most of the tunes sound corny and a little forced. The best song for me is the long lost gem, "Locked In", which is an up tempo, concise metal-rock tune. The rest, mostly Priest doing good time party anthems just does not hold up (like the extra cheesy "Rock You All Around The World"), it worked with "Living After Midnight", but that's a classic Hard Rock/riff song, stuff like "Parental Guidance" and "Private Property" are too polished, and don't rock hard enough. Only "Reckless" can be called a classic Priest sounding track. The title track is overrated, and boring. Even 1981's "Point Of Entry" is a lot better than this misfire. The band's performances are all top notch, just too many bland songs. Maybe 3 good or great songs total.
Overall, not a complete waste, but I wouldn't recommend this to new fans of Judas Priest. Get "British Steel", "Screaming For Veangence", "Unleashed In The East", or "Sad Wings Of Destiny" first. I'm a big fan of Judas Priest, but "Turbo" is my least favorite.
UPDATE March 2009:
Actually..."Turbo" isn't as bad as I remember, it's pretty good actually. The bonus track "All Fired Up" is a fantastic Priest gem. Worth getting the remaster version for that studio track, and it should have been on the album, replacing "Hot For Love" which was kinda lame. Anyway- I now give Turbo 3 stars.
