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Deluxe 2cd edition comes with a bonus disc of unreleased material including alternate versions and mixes of "Black Sabbath", "N.I.B.", "Sleeping Village", "Wizard", "Behind the Wall of Sleep", "Evil Woman", and "Warning". Has new notes by David Wells and a booklet with rare photos and memorabilia. 16 Tracks
Personnel: Tony Iommi (guitar); Geezer Butler (bass guitar); Billy Ward (drums).
Audio Remasterer: Andy Pearce.
Liner Note Author: David Wells .
Author: Billy Ward.
Photographers: Hugh Gilmour; Chris Walter; Chris Walter.
Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here. ~ Steve Huey
The archetypal heavy metal band, Black Sabbath unleashed a debut album marked by ponderous, sludgy rhythms, heavily distorted riffs and chords, and more than a whiff of darkness and Black Magic. Its crushing atmosphere of doom proved intense and relentless; the cumulative effect was dubbed "downer rock," but it proved immediately popular with a disaffected audience. Though no one could have predicted it at the time, Sabbath was laying the groundwork for a genre that would continue to grow in popularity through the '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond.
BLACK SABBATH announces the arrival of both the band and the style in no uncertain terms. Though given more to extended jams and "suites" than later Sabbath recordings, songs like the ominous title cut and the bluesy, harmonica-driven rocker "The Wizard" set the standard the band would follow for years to come. Singer Ozzy Osbourne already possessed one of the most distinctive voices in rock, and his chemistry with guitarist Tony Iommi, whose crushing guitar work descends like a ton of bricks, is undeniable. Still dug out, dusted off, and played, BLACK SABBATH is, in many ways, the true beginning of heavy metal.
Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here. [Universal/Sanctuary's 2009 reissue of the album included a digitally remastered version of the original recordings, as well as a second disc stocked with nine previously unreleased tracks, nearly all of which are just alternate takes]. ~ Steve Huey
Q (8/00, p.126) - Included in Q's "Best Metal Albums Of All Time" - "...[This] was to prove so influential it remains a template for metal bands 3 decades on. The band's signature song remains the scariest of all heavy metal songs..." Black Sabbath Music Review Purchase Black Sabbath CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Very Best Of Billy Vaughn CDs (2000) Import
Black Sabbath
 $15.15 
This collection of tracks by pop singer, Billy Vaughn, features such trademark songs as "La Paloma", "Lili Marleen", and "Blue Hawaii".
Studio orchestra leader Billy Vaughn may have been even more popular in Germany in the 1950s and '60s than he was in the U.S., which helps explain why the most comprehensive compilation of his work originates there. This two-CD, 50-track album of original Dot Records recordings contains 20 of Vaughn's 28 Billboard Hot 100 chart entries, including the major U.S. hits "Melody of Love," "The Shifting Whispering Sands," "Sail Along Silvery Moon" and "Raunchy." Then there are songs that topped the German charts, like "Wheels" and "La Paloma." The set has a definite German tilt, with such titles as "Zwei Gitarren Am Meer and "Unter Dem Doppeladler" on the song list (both of which made the German Top 20), but it also gives a broad sense of Vaughn's arranging and performing skills on pop standards of the era. ~ William Ruhlmann
Special Price 50 Track Double CD, Includes: La Paloma, Michelle, Blueberry Hill, Lili Marleen And More.
| | Sparx 12 Exitos Con Mariachi CD (2006) Reissue
Black Sabbath
$11.25 
Track Listing of songs: Corrido de Juanito, El; Dos Margaritas; Cartas Marcadas; Es Imposible; Que Sacrificio; No Volvere; Que Suerte La Mia; San Juan del Rio; Echale un Quinto al Piano; Mejor Me Voy; Puente Roto, El; Hijo Desobediente;
| | Emerson, Lake, And Palmer Brain Salad CD (2008) SACD Hybrid; Deluxe Edition
Black Sabbath
$27.95
2008 UK digitally remastered and expanded three CD 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of this groundbreaking album includes bonus tracks as well as 5.1 mix of the album. Presented in a deluxe packaging complete with picture booklet containing extensive sleevenotes, rare photos and memorabilia. Originally released in 1973, Brain Salad Surgery was the fourth studio album by the Progressive Rock trio, and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. Sanctuary.
| | Black Sabbath Paranoid CDs (1971) (Import) Bonus CD; Bonus DVD; Advd; Deluxe Edition; United Kingdom
Black Sabbath
$31.89 
2009 digitally remastered and expanded deluxe three CD edition of the classic sophomore album from the Heavy Metal kingpins led by Ozzy Osbourne. Originally released in 1970, Paranoid still stands as an important milestone in the history of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. This ultimate edition features a beautifully remastered version of the album, an alternate version of the album including instrumental mixes, alternate recordings and more plus the SACD 5.1 audio mix of the album
Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the in
| | Who Sell Out CDs (1967) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Deluxe Edition; Digipak
Black Sabbath
$21.25
This 1995 reissue of THE WHO SELL OUT includes songs and jingles not available on the original version.
The Who: Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar, piano); John Entwistle (vocals, bass); Roger Daltrey (vocals); Keith Moon (drums).
Additional personnel: Al Kooper (organ).
Producer: Kit Lambert.
Reissue producer: Jon Astley.
Recorded in 1967 & 1968.
Originally released on Track (612002/613002). Released in the U.S. on Decca (4950/74950) in 1968.
Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh.
One of the Who's classics, THE WHO SELL-OUT found the band following the Beatles' lead into concept territory while slyly commenting on the new direction as overtly commercial via its title, its cover art, and the inclusion of many fake advertisements between its tracks. Ironically, the group were involved with real advertisements--some of which are included in this box--at the time of the SELL-OUT sessions. The album has held up over the years--certainly meriting mention with other behemoths of British concept psych like SGT. PEPPER'S, DISRAELI GEARS, and THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. The record consistently finds footing in the upper reaches of critical all-time best lists.
Geffen reissued the album in 2009 as 55-song box set featuring the complete sequenced album in stereo and mono mixes and two discs worth of album-related odds and sods--many of them previously unreleased. "Odorono" appears with its final chorus intact as do an excellent take on Eddie Cochrane's "Summertime Blues" and many versions of "Rael," Pete Townshend's first stab at full-blown rock opera. The set also features a 28-page booklet with liner notes by Dave Marsh and Andy Neill and a poster first included in the album's original pressing.
The same people who gave us the mono, digipack-style releases of the classic 1960s the Rolling Stones and Beatles albums on CD are responsible for this version of The Who Sell Out. The sound is excellent and the music is priceless, and for anyone who think
| | Black Sabbath Master Of Reality CD (2009) Bonus CD; Remastered; Deluxe Edition
Black Sabbath
$26.79
Deluxe 2cd edition comes with a bonus disc of alternate versions of "Sweet Leaf", "After Forever", "Children of the Grave", "Orchid", "Lord of this World", "Solitude", and "Spanish Sid" (an early version of "Into the Void"). Also includes new notes by David Wells and booklet with rare photos and memorabilia. 17 tracks
| | Original Patershol Ragtimers CD (1999)
Black Sabbath
$13.85
16 tracks from 1995 recored by European group, feat. Bruno Van Acoleyen, Pierre Claessens, Philippe De Smet, Norbert Detaeye, Karel Algoed & J.P. De Smet
| | Masters Of Rock & Metal CD (2009)
Black Sabbath
$12.19
Track Listing of songs: Wheel of Fortune; Burner; Born to Raise Hell; Midnite Hour; Get on Up; Balls to the Wall; Animal House; Shame on You; All Night Long;
| | Son Volt American Central Dust CD (2009)
Black Sabbath
$11.75
Son Volt: Chris Masterson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals); Jay Farrar (acoustic guitar, piano); Mark Spencer (acoustic slide guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Andrew Duplanits (bass guitar, background vocals); Dave Bryson (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Eleanor Whitmore (violin, viola).
Audio Mixers: Joe Henry; Ryan Freeland.
Audio Remasterer: Gavin Lurssen.
Jay Farrar resurrected Son Volt in 2005 after his solo career seemingly ran out of gas, and the two albums that followed--OKEMAH AND THE MELODY OF RIOT and THE SEARCH--were the best and most compelling music he'd made since Son Volt's masterful debut. AMERICAN CENTRAL DUST (2009), the third set from Son Volt 2.0, was released by the venerable independent roots music label Rounder Records. And while there's little telling if that decision was dictated by finance or aesthetics, the album sounds austere in a way its immediate predecessors did not. While their previous two outings found Farrar and his new bandmates edging into new musical territory while embracing a bigger studio sound, by comparison, AMERICAN CENTRAL DUST feels more organic and intimate. Farrar still sounds thoroughly engaged as both a songwriter and performer, and his band--Chris Masterson on guitars, Mark Spencer on keyboards and steel guitars, Andrew DuPlantis on bass, and Dave Bryson on drums--is tight and sympathetic, finding just the right angle to approach this material. While the album doesn't have the feel of a step into new territory the way Son Volt's past two albums did, it does consolidate the group's old strengths and confirms Jay Farrar is still an artist worth caring about 20 years after Uncle Tupelo cut their first album.
Jay Farrar resurrected Son Volt in 2005 after his solo career seemingly ran out of gas, and the two albums that followed -- Okemah and the Melody of Riot and The Search -- were the best and most compelling music he'd made since Son Volt's masterful debut Trace in 1995. However, the new albums didn't connect with an especially large audience, and the band was dropped by Sony/BMG; 2009's American Central Dust, the third set from Son Volt 2.0, has been released by the venerable independent roots music label Rounder Records, and while there's little telling if it was dictated by finance or esthetics, the album sounds austere in a way its immediate predecessors did not. Okemah and The Search found Farrar and his new bandmates edging into new musical territory while embracing a bigger studio sound; by comparison, American Central Dust feels more organic and intimate, recalling the simplicity of Trace without delivering the bracing rock & roll of songs like "Drown" or "Route." However, if American Central Dust takes a few steps back in terms of energy and impact, Farrar still sounds thoroughly engaged as both a songwriter and performer, and his band -- Chris Masterson on guitars, Mark Spencer on keyboards and steel guitars, Andrew DuPlantis on bass, and Dave Bryson on drums -- is tight and sympathetic, finding just the right angle to approach this material. And from the fiery love of "Dynamite," the environmental and economic commentary of "When the Wheels Don't Move," and "Down to the Wire," the tribute to the joys of a good honky tonk in "Jukebox of Steel," and the glimpse into Keith Richards' psyche of "Cocaine and Ashes," Farrar has rarely spoken his mind so clearly in his songs as he does here, and if he still reaches for a spectral feel, his meanings are more clearly felt than ever. American Central Dust doesn't have the feel of a step into new territory the way Son Volt's past two albums did, but it consolidates old strengths and confirms Jay Farrar is still an artist worth caring about to 20 years after Uncle Tupelo cut their first album. ~ Mark Deming
| | Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken CDs (2009) (Import) Import
Black Sabbath
$31.89
Reissue of the band's "Destroys Wacken" dvd (Pal RC-0) along with an exclusive bonus cd with of exclusive live material
| | Dope Stars Inc 21ST Century Slave CD (2009) (Import) Import
Black Sabbath
$30.19
2009 album from these digital warriors combining sequencers, aggressive guitars, distorted vocals and infectious melodies. The Sigue Sigue Sputnik of the new age. 12 tracks
| | Your Demise Ignorance Never Dies CD (2009)
Black Sabbath
$9.59
Already deemed one of the U.K.'s best metallic hardcore bands, Your Demise make a bid for an analogous worldwide billing with their impressive sophomore album, IGNORANCE NEVER DIES. Released in 2009 through their British imprint Visible Noise, and later picked up for American distribution by Earache Records, the album is many things that hardcore, almost by definition, is not -- most notably, unpredictable. And even though Your Demise couch most of their other ideas in the lessons handed down by such idols as Hatebreed and Biohazard, their ability to push the envelope just so, while delivering their performance with the utmost self-belief, makes this one of the 2009's most engaging metallic hardcore releases.
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