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PARANOID proved to be Black Sabbath's most focused, consistent, and successful record. Leaving behind the amorphous, extended jams of their debut for focused songs and a more structured sound, Black Sabbath virtually wrote the book on heavy metal with the ominous, unforgettable riffs, thunderous rhythms, and dark themes on this release. There are some up-tempo rockers, the famous title track for one, but for the most part PARANOID oozes along like a bad dream, as on the slinky, creepy opener, "War Pigs," or the lumbering thud of "Iron Man" (which boasts one of the most indelible electric guitar riffs in rock history).
The album's title is apt: PARANOID is filled with an edgy aggression and lyrics about war, insanity, death, and destruction. Ozzy Osbourne's flat, affectless voice merges perfectly with Tony Iommi's fuzzed-out, sledgehammer power chords and the bruising bass and drum lines to create an intense, freaky, horror-show universe. There are elements of blues-rock and psychedelia (the floating "Planet Caravan," in particular), but Black Sabbath basically invents here what would become one of the most popular genres of music in the latter 20th century and beyond. Even after the millions of heavy metal albums that have followed in its wake, PARANOID stands as an all-time classic.
Black Sabbath: Ozzy Osbourne (vocals); Tony Iommi (guitar); Geezer Butler (bass instrument); Bill Ward (drums).
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.126) - Ranked #130 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time"
Spin (p.89) - "Ozzy saw heavy rock as a way to emulate the horrors of a fallen world..."
Q (12/99, p.170) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - "...[They] stamped their bombastic and doom-laden imprint on British rock forever..."
Vibe (12/99, p.162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.52) - "[With] classic after classic, the strange, lost, almost sobbing vocals of a young Ozzy Osbourne floating over a skulking rhythm section and grim, lurching riffs."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.93) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "With sharper edges and nastier riffs than Sabbath's much bigger contemporaries Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, the album made it clear to any doubters that heavy metal didn't just have to be about hobbits and sports cars." Paranoid Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews WHAT THE HELL!?
Everyone who has written a review for this should have gave it five stars, even the Fleetwood Mac guy! This is the greatest metal album ever, and Sabbath is one of the greatest bands ever(second actually, next to Zeppelin), and it is worth every penny. You say that it isn't worth the price because it only has eight songs?...They're eight of the greatest songs ever recorded!!! What is wrong with you?! "Paranoid" is pure brilliance! Rock On!...if it's worth the price.
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 Tunes from the past
I'm rebuilding my collection of the past. 'Paranoid' was one of the many albums that was played again and again. I recommend playing this with iTunes. Be sure to turn on the Visualizer.
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A revolutionary album
In 1970 this album was a sensation. The
sound was new, tough, different and
exciting. And this music has stood the
test of time. In my opinion this is
their best album.
Submitted by bocarlzon77 (Ronneby,Sweden)
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The first six Sabbath albums are the blueprint for metal I don't care what anybody says. I still don't understand how people can listen to these classic albums and prefer Dio over Ozzy, I went twice to see the Heaven and Hell shows because I love Tony but The second time I went Dio sounded horrible and everybody booed at the end of the show that has never happend at a Ozzy show.
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The album's opening track, "Sweet Leaf," a salute to one of the band's favorite smokeable substances, contains one of metal's heaviest guitar riffs, courtesy of Tony Iommi. Another eternal band favorite is the grim, post-nuclear war tale "Children of the Grave." Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne is in fine voice on "After Forever" and "Lord of this World," while the more tranquil "Solitude" and the instrumental Iommi compositions "Embryo" and "Orchid" offer a bit of variety. Though not quite as influential as PARANOID, MASTER OF REALITY remains one of heavy metal's founding gems.
While other frontrunners of hard rock/metal like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple began dabbling ...
| | Black Sabbath Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath CD (1973)
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While the title track is the album's best-known song, SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH proved to be another in a long line of 100% filler-free records from Ozzy and co. Highlights included the creepy "Who Are You?," plus the Tony Iommi riff-mongers "A National Acrobat," "Killing Yourself to Live," and "Sabra Cadabra," a song that Metallica would cover on its 1998 release GARAGE INC. You'll also find one of Sabbath's most haunting yet serene instrumentals, "Fluff," as well as the melodic album-closing rocker, "Spiral Architect." SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH is quintessential heavy metal.
1974's SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH is widely considered to be Black ...
| | Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy CD (1976)
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By the mid-'70s, a number of problems were threatening to break up the original line-up of Black Sabbath. The stress brought on by lengthy touring, drug use, and alcoholism had begun to dilute the band's original, influential heavy metal. Sabbath began to drift away from the straight-ahead power rock of such classic albums as PARANOID and SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH, as evidenced by its final two albums to feature singer Ozzy Osbourne, 1976's TECHNICAL ECSTASY and 1978's NEVER SAY DIE. However, TECHNICAL ECSTASY does contain some intriguing, overlooked tracks.
The best known song of the bunch is the album-closing rocker "Dirty Women," which explores the topic of prostitution, and was later featured on the original line-up's 1998 live album, REUNION. Drummer Bill Ward sings his one and only song with the band, "It's Alright," which is amongst Sabbath's ...
| | Black Sabbath Sabotage CD (1975)
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While many hard-core Black Sabbath fans consider 1975's SABOTAGE to be the band's most underrated album, it can also be pointed to as the beginning of the end for the original Osbourne-Iommi-Butler-Ward line-up. Osbourne was starting to feel disillusioned with the group, and the seeds for his highly successful solo career in the '80s were being planted. That said, SABOTAGE was the last Sabbath album to truly contain all of the components that made the quartet one the most popular heavy metal bands of all-time, before it pursued less focused musical detours.
The album's most surprising cut is undoubtedly the tripped-out psychedelic rocker "Am I Going Insane (Radio)," which would be included a year later on Sabbath's greatest-hits collection, WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR ROCK N' ROLL. Other standouts include the crushing album opener, "Hole in the Sky," as well as the ultra-stimulated ...
| | Black Sabbath (1st LP) CD (1970)
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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.
The archetypal heavy metal band, Black Sabbath unleashed a debut album marked by ponderous, sludgy ...
| | Black Sabbath Volume 4 CD (1972)
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A pair of long and winding epics open and close VOL. 4.: "Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener" and "Under the Sun/Everything Comes and Goes," each consisting of two separate sections. The reflective, love-lost ballad "Changes" remains one of Sabbath's best, while Tony Iommi's gorgeous acoustic instrumental "Laguna Sunrise" is another low-key standout. But plodding, mega-decibel heavy metal is what Sabbath is known for, and VOL. 4 delivers with such dark rockers as "Tomorrow's Dream," "Supernaut," and "Snowblind," a track warning against the dangers of cocaine. VOL. 4 is one of Black Sabbath's most underrated albums, despite its exceptional quality.
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| | Satyricon Shadowthrone CD (1995) Import
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Shadowthrone picks up right where Dark Medieval Times left off, as Norway's Satyricon completed the foundation of their extreme metal reputation with the release of this sophomore Moonfog effort. After the success of their debut, more resources were devoted to this 1994 follow-up, and the resulting sonic and conceptual improvements are quite noticeable. The tracks are dense and sprawling, the performances drip with black metal conviction, ...
| | Moonspell Darkness And Hope CD (2001)
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Moonspell's sixth full-length release (and fifth effort for Century Media) again finds the long-running Portuguese quintet producing heavily atmospheric metal that owes as much to Sisters of Mercy as to Black Sabbath. The songs on Darkness and Hope generally emphasize the overall mood over songwriting ...
| | Wrathchild Biz Suxx CD (2002)
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| | Helloween Keeper Of Seven Keys Part II CD (1988) Bonus Tracks
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Released in 1988, Helloween's third full-length studio album firmly established the band as a force on the international scene. KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS PART II expanded beyond their neo-progressive and Iron Maiden influences, and allowed Helloween to lay the blueprint for the entire power metal movement. Rich with equal amounts of emotive drama, theatrical pomp, and musical humor, KEEPERS invokes the triumphs of the human spirit through grandiose songwriting and Michael Kiske's anthemic vocal style. The album also features perennial favorites "Dr. Stein" and "I Want Out", which are spotlighted in Helloween's live performances to this day.
Having established an immensely influential blueprint with Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1, Helloween released the obviously titled follow-up, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2, a year later. But it seemed that Helloween's heretofore leader, guitarist Kai Hansen, had lost interest in his own band, and the result was a terribly inconsistent album. Except for the excellent "I Want Out," his few song contributions reek of indifference, leaving vocalist Michael Kiske and second guitarist Michael Weikath to try and pick up the slack -- with mixed results. Weikath gets it right on the catchy and humorous "Dr. Stein," but his attempt to replicate Hansen's epic songwriting on the 13-plus-minute title track collapses from early promise into a complete mess of embarrassing proportions. Still, the album sold well, delaying the problems looming on the horizon. Hansen would confirm his apathy by quitting soon after to form Gamma Ray, and though Helloween continue to record, they have never recovered from his departure. [Keeper was reissued by Sanctuary in 2008 as a two-disc Expanded Edition that included five bonus tracks and remixes.] ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Can you get a more bombastic opening than "Invitation" on Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2 (in which victorious horns and marching drums signal Helloween's triumphant return)? Probably not, but that's exactly how the German metalists start off the follow-up to their cult hit predecessor, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1. Having caught the ears of prog metalists worldwide with Pt. 1 (which was praised in such metal publications as Kerrang! at the time), Helloween wasted little time issuing a follow-up. And once more, the same exact brand of material is offered -- ...
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Since the early 1950s, Horace Silver has been one of jazz's most distinctive pianists and composers. Several of his songs have become jazz standards. While Silver ...
| | Deep Purple Very Best Of CD (2008) (Import) Remastered; Remix
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