Song · Judas Priest
“Better By You, Better Than Me” by Judas Priest
From the album Stained Class (1978)
“Better By You, Better Than Me” by Judas Priest appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1978 on the album Stained Class. Its best result is #998 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,439 hard rock song of all time.
Spooky Tooth's Gary Wright wrote "Better by You, Better than Me", and his band cut it for Spooky Two back in 1969. Judas Priest's version, on Stained Class in 1978, was a last-second graft: CBS Records wanted something more commercial to brighten up an album whose songs mostly ran dark and sinister, and with Dennis MacKay gone to other projects, the band recorded it in a separate session, co-producing with James Guthrie.
They play it quicker than Spooky Tooth did and slip in a short vocal bridge of their own, with Rob Halford out front, Kenneth Downing and Glenn Tipton on electric guitars, Ian Hill on bass, Les Binks on drums and Tipton adding background vocals.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 998 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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