"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" | ||||
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Single by Judas Priest | ||||
from the album Screaming for Vengeance | ||||
B-side | "Exciter (live)" | |||
Released | August 1982 | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
Studio | Beejay Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 5:07 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Rob Halford K. K. Downing Glenn Tipton |
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Producer(s) | Tom Allom | |||
Judas Priest singles chronology | ||||
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Screaming for Vengeance track listing | ||||
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"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance and released as a single later that year. In May 2006, VH1 ranked it fifth on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs. It became one of Judas Priest's signature songs along with "Electric Eye" and "Breaking the Law", and a staple of the band's live performances. "You've Got Another Thing Comin" was first performed on the opening concert of the Vengeance World Tour at the Stabler Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 26 August 1982 and had been played a total of 673 times through the 2012 Epitaph Tour.
The song reached No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it Judas Priest's only charting song in the United States. The song is written in the key of F-sharp minor.
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" has charted in two countries in United Kingdom and in United States. In the United Kingdom it peaked at No. 66 in the UK Singles Chart and in the US, it reached No. 4 on the Billboard rock chart.
Wayne Parry of the Associated Press called it, along with "Hell Bent for Leather" and "Living After Midnight", one of the "standards against which other metal tracks are measured". Greg Prato of AllMusic wrote that the song was what finally broke Judas Priest into the mainstream in the United States.