[guidogodoy] Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:47:28 PM
To add to the confusion (and anyone who knows "The Best of JP" already knows the problem in that it is both a classic yet released early in JP's career), Heavy Metal Painkillers (Popoff) lists only five "official Judas Priest compilations":
The Best of Judas Priest, Gull (Feb, '78)
Hero, Hero (Gull, '81)
Priest, Live and Rare (Epic, March '98)
Metal Works '73-'93 (Columbia, April '93)
Metalogy (Sony, May '04)
ALL endorsed by the band down to the artwork. Contractual fallout with Gull and Epic locked up some of their earlier work and led to the animosity between JP and Gull / Epic. Anything outside these five (save for foreign releases of the same album) were subcontracted out to lesser labels and had absolutely no band involvement save contractual agreements vis a vis the residual $.
