POP-A-LOOZA: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! Judas Priest, "Heading Out To The Highway"

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is another saga torn from the legend of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, turning up the volume on behalf of "Heading Out To The Highway" by Judas Priest.

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. There has been a little bit of behind-the-scenes movement in the long crawl to find a publisher for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume1). It hasn't been a lot of movement, but it is potential forward movement. I have another book coming out first, so that's the immediate priority. When that particular accumulation o' dust settles, I hope to finally be able to turn GREM! into an actual book. 

This Judas Priest chapter will probably not be in GREM! Volume 1; I'm holding it in reserve for a hypothetical Volume 2. Although Volume 1 will include plenty of rock 'n' roll, soul, power pop, punk, R & B, and more, I'm aware that there's a shortage of hard rock and metal. There's a KISS chapter (which is at least on metal's periphery), and a chapter about Headgirl (the combined forces of Motörhead and Girlschool). I also completed chapters about hard rock and hard rock-adjacent acts Deep Purple, Blue Öyster Cult, Grand Funk, and Heart, and those all join my Judas Priest chapter (and a chapter about one of my very favorite tracks, the Kinks' "You Really Got Me") as potential building blocks for this fantasy of an eventual The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 2). 

Nonetheless, I do believe The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) manages to rock just fine on its own terms. Meanwhile, a glimpse of Judas Priest's entry in a second GREM! book serves as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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