You've Got Another Thing Comin'

This article is about the song. For a definition of the term "have another thing coming", see the Wiktionary entry have another thing coming.

"You've Got Another Thing Comin'"
Single by Judas Priest
from the album Screaming for Vengeance
B-side"Exciter (live)"
Released6 August 1982 (UK)[1]
Recorded1982
GenreHeavy metal[2]
Length
  • 5:05 (album version)
  • 4:10 (single version)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tom Allom
Judas Priest singles chronology
"Hot Rockin'"
(1981) 		"You've Got Another Thing Comin'"
(1982) 		"(Take These) Chains"
(1982)
Music video
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" on YouTube

"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by English 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.[3] 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 chart, making it Judas Priest's only song to make that chart.[4]

  1. ^ "Judas Priest singles".
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference AllMusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "VH1 40 Greatest Metal Songs", 1–4 May 2006, VH1 Channel, reported by VH1.com Archived 18 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine; last accessed 10 September 2006.
  4. ^ White, Emily (18 July 2014). "Judas Priest Debut at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.