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From '' Greece ''
Label: Count Orlok Music – C.O.C.K. XXV
Format: CD, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1995
Tracklist
01. Ring Ring
02. Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee
Written-By – Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
03. Son Of A Gun
04. King Of The Road
05. God Can't Save You
06. Pocket Pussy
07. Forever Together
08. Black Leather Girl
09. Breakin' The Law
Written-By – Judas Priest
10. Rich Babe In Chains
11. Vem Vet
Written-By – Lisa Ekdahl
12. Love The Pain
13. Why?
14. Just A Gigolo (I Ain't Got Nobody)
Written-By – Leonello Casucci, Roger Graham, Spencer Williams
15. Orgasm
16. Gonna Make My Baby Blow
17. I Love You To The Death
18. 15 Dollar Whore
19. Stabbed In The Back
20. You're The One That I Want
Written-By – John Farrar
Double Bass, Lead Vocals – Thomas Schuldt
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Kenneth Edh
Drums, Backing Vocals – Michael Halonen
Lead Vocals – Kenneth Edh (track: 8), Michael Halonen (track: 2)
Vocals – Cecilia Ringqvist (track: 20)
Backing Vocals – Bobby Ewing (track: 11)
Drums – Johnny Zuidhof (track: 20)
Other – Eddie Alderden (track: 20)
Photography – Tom Holmlund
Design – Slapping Suspenders
Engineer – Eddie Alderden
Notes
Recorded March 1995 at Skyline Studios, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
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"Breaking the Law" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, originally released on their 1980 album British Steel.
The song is one of the band's better known singles, and is recognized by its opening guitar riff.
Composition
Prior to releasing 1980's British Steel, Judas Priest had been making moves toward streamlining their music into a simpler, less processed sound.
That approach came to full fruition on British Steel.
"Breaking the Law" combines a recognisable minor-key opening riff and a rhythmic chorus as its main hooks.
There is a change-up on the mostly instrumental bridge, a new chord progression with Halford shouting "You don't know what it's like!" before the sound effect of a police car's siren leads back into the main riff (made using a Stratocaster by Downing).
More recent live performances of the song have featured a short solo by KK over the bridge.
The outro of the song is the main riff played repeatedly with Halford singing the chorus and Downing playing power chords.
The lyrics tell of someone who gets tired of everything that comes with an ordinary life-that life has become boring.
This leads the person to take a chance and start breaking the law.
The song featured some sound effects, including the sound of breaking glass and police siren.
The band were recording British Steel at Tittenhurst Park, which was the home of The Beatles's drummer Ringo Starr.
For the breaking glass effect, the band used milk bottles that a milkman brought them in the morning, and the police siren was actually guitarist K.K. Downing using the tremolo arm on his Stratocaster.
Critical reaction
The song made VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs making the list at 40.
In 2009 it was named the 12th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
Covers
Hammerfall
Stryper
Motörhead
Doro
Therapy?
Pansy Division
Hayseed Dixie
Fightstar
The Cooters
The Meteors
Berri Txarrak
Ensiferum
Manolo Kabezabolo
Interpuesto
Medical Murder
Hellpacho
Iron Hell
Blasphemia
Felonious Sexual Penetration with Obvious Disfigurement
Volbeat (Live Rock Am Ring 2013)
Hellsongs
References in popular culture
In the 1990s, the song was both used and parodied in an episode of the MTV show, Beavis and Butt-head, when the title duo are washing a neighbor's dog in a washing machine and repeatedly chanting a parody of "Washing the dog, washing the dog" to the tune of the song and sing the actual song later on in the same episode.
The song is featured in the soundtrack to the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
The comedian Noel Fielding pretended to sing this song into a baby's face as a lullaby, on the British musical comedy TV show Never Mind the Buzzcocks in November 2013.
The song was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons. Homer has gained asylum in a Danish apartment building, as the FBI is after him for pirating movies, and the FBI attempts to get him out by bringing in Judas Priest (egregiously referred to as a death metal band) to sing an piracy-minded version of the song, which included the lyrics "Respecting the law, copyright law."
#psychobillycover
From '' Greece ''
Label: Count Orlok Music – C.O.C.K. XXV
Format: CD, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1995
Tracklist
01. Ring Ring
02. Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee
Written-By – Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
03. Son Of A Gun
04. King Of The Road
05. God Can't Save You
06. Pocket Pussy
07. Forever Together
08. Black Leather Girl
09. Breakin' The Law
Written-By – Judas Priest
10. Rich Babe In Chains
11. Vem Vet
Written-By – Lisa Ekdahl
12. Love The Pain
13. Why?
14. Just A Gigolo (I Ain't Got Nobody)
Written-By – Leonello Casucci, Roger Graham, Spencer Williams
15. Orgasm
16. Gonna Make My Baby Blow
17. I Love You To The Death
18. 15 Dollar Whore
19. Stabbed In The Back
20. You're The One That I Want
Written-By – John Farrar
Double Bass, Lead Vocals – Thomas Schuldt
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Kenneth Edh
Drums, Backing Vocals – Michael Halonen
Lead Vocals – Kenneth Edh (track: 8), Michael Halonen (track: 2)
Vocals – Cecilia Ringqvist (track: 20)
Backing Vocals – Bobby Ewing (track: 11)
Drums – Johnny Zuidhof (track: 20)
Other – Eddie Alderden (track: 20)
Photography – Tom Holmlund
Design – Slapping Suspenders
Engineer – Eddie Alderden
Notes
Recorded March 1995 at Skyline Studios, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
------------------------
"Breaking the Law" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, originally released on their 1980 album British Steel.
The song is one of the band's better known singles, and is recognized by its opening guitar riff.
Composition
Prior to releasing 1980's British Steel, Judas Priest had been making moves toward streamlining their music into a simpler, less processed sound.
That approach came to full fruition on British Steel.
"Breaking the Law" combines a recognisable minor-key opening riff and a rhythmic chorus as its main hooks.
There is a change-up on the mostly instrumental bridge, a new chord progression with Halford shouting "You don't know what it's like!" before the sound effect of a police car's siren leads back into the main riff (made using a Stratocaster by Downing).
More recent live performances of the song have featured a short solo by KK over the bridge.
The outro of the song is the main riff played repeatedly with Halford singing the chorus and Downing playing power chords.
The lyrics tell of someone who gets tired of everything that comes with an ordinary life-that life has become boring.
This leads the person to take a chance and start breaking the law.
The song featured some sound effects, including the sound of breaking glass and police siren.
The band were recording British Steel at Tittenhurst Park, which was the home of The Beatles's drummer Ringo Starr.
For the breaking glass effect, the band used milk bottles that a milkman brought them in the morning, and the police siren was actually guitarist K.K. Downing using the tremolo arm on his Stratocaster.
Critical reaction
The song made VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs making the list at 40.
In 2009 it was named the 12th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
Covers
Hammerfall
Stryper
Motörhead
Doro
Therapy?
Pansy Division
Hayseed Dixie
Fightstar
The Cooters
The Meteors
Berri Txarrak
Ensiferum
Manolo Kabezabolo
Interpuesto
Medical Murder
Hellpacho
Iron Hell
Blasphemia
Felonious Sexual Penetration with Obvious Disfigurement
Volbeat (Live Rock Am Ring 2013)
Hellsongs
References in popular culture
In the 1990s, the song was both used and parodied in an episode of the MTV show, Beavis and Butt-head, when the title duo are washing a neighbor's dog in a washing machine and repeatedly chanting a parody of "Washing the dog, washing the dog" to the tune of the song and sing the actual song later on in the same episode.
The song is featured in the soundtrack to the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
The comedian Noel Fielding pretended to sing this song into a baby's face as a lullaby, on the British musical comedy TV show Never Mind the Buzzcocks in November 2013.
The song was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons. Homer has gained asylum in a Danish apartment building, as the FBI is after him for pirating movies, and the FBI attempts to get him out by bringing in Judas Priest (egregiously referred to as a death metal band) to sing an piracy-minded version of the song, which included the lyrics "Respecting the law, copyright law."
#psychobillycover
