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Artist: BLACK SABBATH
Title: BLACK SABBATH
Street Release Date: 04/26/1988
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| October 25, 1990 | | Studio:
| Warner Bros / Wea | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 279 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Black Sabbath | | 2. | The Wizard | | 3. | Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. | | 4. | Wicked World | | 5. | A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning | |
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 First "BLACK SABBATH", record, on CD.Jul 30, 2010
Before Ozzy joined Black Sabbath, singing lead vocals in a rock band wasn't a real possibilty for him. He was arrested for theft and went to jail, worked a few dead end jobs, and while growing up in England, he was into The Beatles, but only dreamed of becoming a rock star, at that point. It wasn't until he placed an ad for a singer, that he was eventually asked to sing in the band, which was originally called Earth. In any case, the first Black Sabbath record, really was an achievement, for it's members, who were working class kids, with basically nothing. Although, even on the first record, you can hear the potential in the band's music, and Ozzy's voice as well. In the early days, they didn't make much money, but that didn't really matter.
THE 1ST METAL ALBUMMay 24, 2010
This masterpiece laid the foundation for Heavy Metal. It's dark, doomy, creepy and brilliant. A must have for any Metal head. Highly recommended.
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I lived by the cover pictureMar 07, 2010
Great album,perhaps Paranoid shaves it.The cover picture is the mill at Mapledurham village in Oxfordshire in England.Its a backwater of the Thames and its now been restored as a working mill.Spent a lot of my childhood playing round that area.
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Real musicians, most terrifying album cover of all timeFeb 27, 2010
I won't add much to the reviews here except to say that this is an absolutely great album - as well as being historically significant in the extreme. BS was creating a new musical archetype, and they pull it off with flying colors. Every single track on this album is strong, and it is best to listen to the entire album to appreciate their achievement.
A word about the cover: don't stare at it before bed. It looks like it was literally taken in someone's nightmare.
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FirstDec 23, 2009
Its really hard to review this album when so much has already has already been said. This was the first recording controact that the band was able to get after "touring" in the most liberal since of the word for over a year, getting marginal attention. You can claim that the accident that caused Tony Iomi to lose his fingertips causing him to lower his guitar, or the hard lives that the members lead, the sarcastic apporach that lead them to believe that they needed a gimmick that just happened to coincide with their tallents, but this is the birth of heavy metal. It wasn't until their next album that the more consitant metal album would really be forged, so a lot of new age metal fans have complained that this album doesn't seem hard enough, as there is still a lot of rythem and blues left over from their previous act, but it is still very well done. The two stand out tracks are the title Black Sabbath, which is legitimately creepy, that begins with the devils triangle and was inspired by a real life seeing of a spirit. You can say that with all the hippie stuff that was going around in the late sixties and early seventies that they were a call back to reality of the harder things in life as well as a darker spiritual side to confront the moral conseravatives that came before. I know that a lot of people found the original cover art of the girl in the woods to be really kreepy. It does conjure up some Manson images that does really say what it needs to. Not sure if metal would have existed without later efforts, but the ground work is all here. I suggest getting a new remaster. Because of their lack of experience in a studio some of the older versions of this album suffer in sound quality, but the remaster brings a lot back.
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