Though the film tanked at the box office, the song was deemed acceptable for single release and made it into the Top 100 on the U.K. Goode,” released in early 1988 as the lead-off song for the soundtrack to the Anthony Michael Hall vehicle Johnny Be Good.

The first taste of the music on Ram It Down came in the unlikely form of a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. “With that attitude in mind, that’s what we went about to proceed to do and I think, to a degree, yes, it’s certainly the heaviest thing we’ve done in recent years and we’re very, very happy with it.” “We all agreed that we just wanted to make a down and out heavy metal, hardcore record,” Halford added. “This is basically what all the people, all the fans that come and see us say, ‘Yeah, why don’t you do a song like 'Exciter' or like this that or the other thing?” “We decided to take the guidelines our fans give us, not the guidelines that we sometimes musically, desire, want to do – you know – let’s try this, let’s try that,” guitarist K.K. When it came time to finish work on Ram It Down, the decision was made for a concentrated straight-ahead metal effort. We were there in the winter and we were talking at the time with the label about the idea of all of these extra songs kind of coalescing into a double CD.”Ĭolumbia Records nixed the idea, insisting the material be relegated to a single album, resulting in the polarizing Turbo. We started initially writing the material out in Marbella in Spain. Porsche Twin Turbo, and we were kind of playing around with that idea. It was intended at the time to be a Twin Turbo release. “We had a tremendous amount of songs that we wanted to try and put out together. “We were at a place where a lot of bands get when there’s suddenly an incredible outpouring of creativity and material,” frontman Rob Halford recalled years later. Some of the music was leftover from sessions for Turbo, which originally was a planned double-LP project called Twin Turbos, envisioned to be an even mix of pop and metal. Fans of Judas Priest who were stunned over the direction the band went with their synthesizer-heavy 1986 album Turbo felt much relief two years later when the back-to-basics record Ram It Down was released on May 17, 1988.

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