The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight

The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight
Greatest hits album by Judas Priest
Released	1997
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	64:36
Label	Columbia
Producer	Sony
Judas Priest chronology
Jugulator (1997) The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight (1997) '98 Live Meltdown (1998)

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The Best Of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight is a compilation album of Judas Priest's hits, dating from their 1979 album Killing Machine (Hell Bent for Leather in the United States) through 1990's Painkiller. This album was released in 1997.

In the booklet, the band lists its entire Sony/Columbia discography. As a result, tracks from Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny are not featured, having been recorded for Gull Records and for which the band no longer owned the copyright.

In 2002 Sony made a reissue with 18 songs and a different tracklist.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac cover)	Peter Green	Hell Bent For Leather (1978)	3:22
2.	"Living After Midnight"	Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton	British Steel (1980)	3:30
3.	"Breaking the Law" (live)	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Priest...Live! (1987)	2:21
4.	"Hot Rockin'"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Point of Entry (1981)	3:14
5.	"Heading Out to the Highway" (live)	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Priest...Live! (1987)	4:33
6.	"The Hellion"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Screaming for Vengeance (1982)	0:42
7.	"Electric Eye"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Screaming for Vengeance (1982)	3:39
8.	"You've Got Another Thing Comin'"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Screaming for Vengeance (1982)	5:04
9.	"Turbo Lover"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Turbo (1986)	4:32
10.	"Freewheel Burning"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Defenders of the Faith (1984)	4:23
11.	"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"	Bob Halligan, Jr.	Defenders of the Faith (1984)	4:07
12.	"Metal Meltdown"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Painkiller (1990)	4:48
13.	"Ram It Down"	Halford, Downing, Tipton	Ram It Down (1988)	4:49
14.	"Diamonds & Rust" (live Joan Baez cover)	Joan Baez	Unleashed in the East (1979)	3:39
15.	"Victim of Changes" (live)	Al Atkins, Halford, Downing, Tipton	Unleashed in the East (1979)	7:11
16.	"Tyrant" (live)	Halford, Tipton	Unleashed in the East (1979)	4:42

2002 reissue

1. Better by You Better Than Me - 3.22
2. Take on the World - 3.02
3. The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) - 3.24
4. Living After Midnight - 3.31
5. Breaking the Law - 2.35
6. United - 3.30
7. Hot Rockin' - 3.16
8. You've Got Another Thing Comin' - 5.09
9. The Hellion / Electric Eye - 4.22
10. Freewheel Burning - 4.24
11. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll - 4.07
12. Turbo Lover - 5.31
13. Locked In - 4.20
14. Johnny B. Goode - 4.39
15. Ram It Down - 4.50
16. Painkiller - 6.06
17. A Touch of Evil - 5.44
18. Night Crawler - 5.43

Personnel

• Rob Halford: Vocals
• K.K. Downing: Guitar
• Glenn Tipton: Guitar
• Ian Hill: Bass Guitar
• Scott Travis - Drums on track 12
• Dave Holland - Drums on tracks 2-11, 13
• Les Binks - Drums on track 1, 14-16