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“Victim of Changes” by Judas Priest
From the album Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
“Victim of Changes” by Judas Priest appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1976 on the album Sad Wings of Destiny. Its best result is #470 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,494 hard rock song of all time.
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Judas Priest built "Victim of Changes", the heavy heart of 1976's Sad Wings of Destiny, by welding together two songs from two different singers: "Whiskey Woman", which Priest founder Al Atkins wrote with guitarist K.K. Downing, and Rob Halford's "Red Light Lady". The writing credit lands on Atkins, Downing, Halford and Glenn Tipton.
Downing and Tipton play the electric guitars, Ian Hill the bass and Alan Moore the drums, and Halford turns in a vocal that gets ranked among his best. Jeffrey Calvert and Max West produced it with the band. Critics have since praised its landslide riffs and argued it changed the course of metal, Martin Popoff put it at 17 on his list of the top heavy metal songs, and it has stayed a band classic, turning up on live albums from Unleashed in the East to Live in London.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 470 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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