Essential Black Sabbath LPs
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The lack of love for Master of Reality is blowing my mind.
If I needed to pick only one Sabbath record I could ever listen to again, it would be that one.
Although, "N.I.B." from the self-titled is probably my jam of jams, just cause I can go "oh yeah!" in perfect synchronization, and it is the headbanginest of all.
If I needed to pick only one Sabbath record I could ever listen to again, it would be that one.
Although, "N.I.B." from the self-titled is probably my jam of jams, just cause I can go "oh yeah!" in perfect synchronization, and it is the headbanginest of all.
Yall seriously know about my Black Sabbath Florida fest. I even had the homie Walter jamming out to some "warning" off of that we sold our soul cassette I paid 45 cents for at a Tampan thrift store. Tooling around the thrifts in 93 degree weather in grampsmobile with nothing to offer me but a cassette player. That cassette was just screaming "buy me buy me fucker." It was the only thing I bought out of a thrift store my whole time down there. Which is quite funny, because literally 10 seconds later some lady comes in and scoops up EVERY cassette in there, and throws em in some box and takes them to the back. I liberated Sabbath, and Sabbath rewarded me. Helped pass the Tampa to Orlando time quite well. Helped pass the dry ass thrift store digging quite well too. 4, maybe 5x on repeat. Cassettes rule. **see below**
But yeah. This was 2 days after listening to the S/T on full blast in the headphones before crashing on grampss's's couch. After Sabbath was over, I couldn't find ANYTHING to follow it with. Blue Cheer was the only thing that came close, but damn. That S/T was just magic like Earth, Wind and Fire's first one. The rest of the albums can be just as consistent, but there's that indescribable element in the S/T that will never be tapped into again.
**when cassettes were rocking, it seemed more music was made for front to back listening burner fest. At least all the cassettes I was buying back in my young days were solid all the way though. There was a real nice element of quality control. We need more front to back mind melters where the fast forward or rewind or skip track button need not exist. chord combination after chord combination that just set it off for you like overhearing some dude say 'random'. "oh snap, 'random'?!?!?! damn, yo!!!"**
I only had one beer.
2 sheets to the wind.
Goodbye now.
Black Sabbath owns your ass.
If anybody can tell me how to record some Warner Brothers sounding drums, PM me.
I wish to always tap into the indescribables. There is no purpose for pursuing the art if you can't tap into the magic.
But yeah. This was 2 days after listening to the S/T on full blast in the headphones before crashing on grampss's's couch. After Sabbath was over, I couldn't find ANYTHING to follow it with. Blue Cheer was the only thing that came close, but damn. That S/T was just magic like Earth, Wind and Fire's first one. The rest of the albums can be just as consistent, but there's that indescribable element in the S/T that will never be tapped into again.
**when cassettes were rocking, it seemed more music was made for front to back listening burner fest. At least all the cassettes I was buying back in my young days were solid all the way though. There was a real nice element of quality control. We need more front to back mind melters where the fast forward or rewind or skip track button need not exist. chord combination after chord combination that just set it off for you like overhearing some dude say 'random'. "oh snap, 'random'?!?!?! damn, yo!!!"**
I only had one beer.
2 sheets to the wind.
Goodbye now.
Black Sabbath owns your ass.
If anybody can tell me how to record some Warner Brothers sounding drums, PM me.
I wish to always tap into the indescribables. There is no purpose for pursuing the art if you can't tap into the magic.
My first exposure to Sabbath, was as a 10 year old on a windy/rainy night in a small weird coastal Cornish town in a caravan that my mates sister lived in with her soon to be husband, who later turned out to be a transsexual. My mates mum was a real bible basher, so it all felt a bit naughty and satanic listening to hand of doom on their shitty system. Needless to say that experience has stayed with me and the bassline from hand of doom still flashes me back there. A dose of Sabbath like that is like a hit that you can never rediscover.
THANK YOU Iron Monkey and Marco, you said it all.
My first concert was Sabbath in '83 on the Born Again tour.
Everyone should check out the Calfornia Jam boot, Geezer's got the wah-wah bass, Iommi guitar is tuned down to A- or something, and they go into these long, heavy, extended stoner jams on a couple of cuts.
My first concert was Sabbath in '83 on the Born Again tour.
Everyone should check out the Calfornia Jam boot, Geezer's got the wah-wah bass, Iommi guitar is tuned down to A- or something, and they go into these long, heavy, extended stoner jams on a couple of cuts.
MASSIVE FUCKING COSIGN... i wouldnt even be making music if it wasnt for black sabbath... they were the first band i ever got into where i was able to actually LEARN all the songs.. and at 15 that is MAD important!!
i have foundness for all eras of sabbath... but this is my master list:
1: Master Of Reality - Into the VOID = greatest / heaviest riff OF ALL FUCKING TIME thus this record is numero uno
2: Vol. 4 - Supernaut is the second heaviest riff OF ALL FUCKING TIME. This record has the greatest guitar sounds ever captured if you ask me
3: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - i love this fucking record, criminally underated
4: Paranoid - nuff said
5: Sabotage - again CRIMINALY SLEPT ON
bonus:
ST - too bluesy for me to qualify it as a total masterpiece.. but like all sabbath records the highlights are HIGH
EXTRA BONUS
Live at the Olympia - Paris 1970
one of the greatest bands of all time caught live in their absolute prime
i have foundness for all eras of sabbath... but this is my master list:
1: Master Of Reality - Into the VOID = greatest / heaviest riff OF ALL FUCKING TIME thus this record is numero uno
2: Vol. 4 - Supernaut is the second heaviest riff OF ALL FUCKING TIME. This record has the greatest guitar sounds ever captured if you ask me
3: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - i love this fucking record, criminally underated
4: Paranoid - nuff said
5: Sabotage - again CRIMINALY SLEPT ON
bonus:
ST - too bluesy for me to qualify it as a total masterpiece.. but like all sabbath records the highlights are HIGH
EXTRA BONUS
Live at the Olympia - Paris 1970
one of the greatest bands of all time caught live in their absolute prime
alright..been buyin sabbath LPs since I was 12 years old...Master of Reality is the best one, hands down, it is the heaviest, has the best songs and the thickest sound..definitely a huge influence on heavy metal. Also, this is a point of contention for a lot of people, but I do not think Sabbath was the first metal band, not by design anyway...true they invented a lot of the ammo that metal bands would use, but first and foremost they were a rock band, that happened to invent much of what metal was...a great fucking rock band, but at the end of the day..a rock band. The first heavy metal band, by design, 100% metal, was Judas Priest..but thats a different thread and nobody will be able to sway my opinion, well, because I am right about that...ok, back to sabbath...the first two and master of reality, and half of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are their best sides, but this one:
is unfuckwitable...kicks the shit out of Sabotage, Vol 4, Technical Ecstacy, & Never Say Die. Ozzy for the most part is a shitty singer, you cant deny that, he is a one trick pony..true he was an essential element to early Sabbath but for the most part, if you ignore his antics, he his pretty disposable. Geezer wrote the best lyrics and the genius of Sabbath was Tony and Geezer.
Also, the first two solo Ozzy LPs are good only because of Randy Rhoads, if Randy wasnt on the first two solo LPs, they would suck donkey balls...as a metal head I know I am speaking blasphemy, but its true. Fuck Ozzy(doesnt help that he became a fucking idiot sell out with his "look at me I am retarded" TV show and Pepsi ads). ok Sabbath LPs:
1. Master of Reality
2. Paranoid
3. s/t
4. Mob Rules
5. half of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Also, the first two solo Ozzy LPs are good only because of Randy Rhoads, if Randy wasnt on the first two solo LPs, they would suck donkey balls...as a metal head I know I am speaking blasphemy, but its true. Fuck Ozzy(doesnt help that he became a fucking idiot sell out with his "look at me I am retarded" TV show and Pepsi ads). ok Sabbath LPs:
1. Master of Reality
2. Paranoid
3. s/t
4. Mob Rules
5. half of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (the song) was my "get really really fucking pumped up to kick some ass" pre-wrestling match headphone ritual back in high school.
Much thanks to my older brother for hipping me to Sabbath years before any of my classmates, oh, and for giving me his front row center ticket to see Ozzy (with Motorhead) at the Brendan Byrne Arena in 1991 when my dad forbade him from going because he would have had to miss his first day of classes at college.
I was also lucky enough to see the orginal Sabbath linup at an Ozzfest a few years later.
Much thanks to my older brother for hipping me to Sabbath years before any of my classmates, oh, and for giving me his front row center ticket to see Ozzy (with Motorhead) at the Brendan Byrne Arena in 1991 when my dad forbade him from going because he would have had to miss his first day of classes at college.
I was also lucky enough to see the orginal Sabbath linup at an Ozzfest a few years later.
Priest "Here Come The Tears"
Sin After Sin?? Just from this album alone, there are "Dissident Aggressor", "Call For The Priest / Raw Deal", "Diamonds & Rust", "Starbreaker", and on and on and on.
But, im sure you knew this because you have to. Make sure you leave the note somewhere your mom will find it, and keep this on repeat.
My introduction to Black Sabbath:
All the wrestling fans in here (and I know you're here) will remember The Road Warriors using "Iron Man" as their ring entrance music. I kept hearing that song before every match and was hooked. A friend IDed it for me and I went out to buy the "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll" cassette. This was probably 1988 or 89.
All the wrestling fans in here (and I know you're here) will remember The Road Warriors using "Iron Man" as their ring entrance music. I kept hearing that song before every match and was hooked. A friend IDed it for me and I went out to buy the "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll" cassette. This was probably 1988 or 89.
thats hilarious,because this was my introdruction as well. Before long I discovered my friends dad had the record. AWA & NWA(no rap group) 4 LIFE!!My introduction to Black Sabbath:
All the wrestling fans in here (and I know you're here) will remember The Road Warriors using "Iron Man" as their ring entrance music. I kept hearing that song before every match and was hooked. A friend IDed it for me and I went out to buy the "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll" cassette. This was probably 1988 or 89.
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