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Master of Reality (Remastered)
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4.8 out of 5.0 stars 28 Ratings (29 Reviews)

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    Sab's Greatest Effort

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 22, 2007

    Pros: Every track.

    Cons: None.

    Great album. It takes me back to 1971, when I was an impressionable 4 year old boy. While my dad was on his second tour of duty in Vietnam, and my mother was working, my brothers and my sister were smoking pot and listening to Deep Purple, Alice Coop...er, Led Zeppelin, and especially Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality. I must say, as a small child, those gothic tones really had a strange effect on me, and it profoundly influenced me later in life, when I learned to play guitar as a teenager. I disagree that they used the same formula on this one, because Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler tuned their instruments down (I do not read music, but I am thinking they are tuned down to C#, which you will hear on newer metal CD's like Korn, Sepultura, and a host of dark metal bands), giving the overall ambiance a deeper, darker, maybe even more sinister tone. As always, their lyrics (a good majority written by Butler) were strong and fit well within context of the music. Made me a Sabbath fan to the core. Read more Less

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    Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 15, 2006

    Pros: Some of sabs best work.....

    Cons: Not really anything....

    The 3rd Sab release...."Master of Reality" find the sabs using the same formula as the first 2 albums...gloomy doomy slow hypontic guitar riffs and Ozzy's usual over the top singing voice with darker themes in the songwriting department.... Couple of the best songs in the sabbath cannon are here... Starting off with Tony Iommi coughing and being played in a manipulative echoey kinda way...into "Sweetleaf"..ki
    nda thumps along with a lil mid song jam that picks up the song and puts it into overdrive...a definate sab classic, but not my favorite on here...That would have to be the next one "After Forever"...The lyrics to this are pretty awesome and Ozzy sings it like he was put here on earth to do it...the song never gets dull or repetitive and has some awesome soloing in it by Iommi as well. The next is another well known classic "Children of the Grave"...the little instrumental piece that preludes it..."Embyro" always fasicnated me too...it's top of the line sab on these cuts..."Orchid" is another tiny instrumental and they seem to kinda balance out the entire album. "Lord of this world" is a song that's pretty hypnotic...the riffing just kinda keeps you in entranced in it...doesnt get dull, also has more awesome lyrics..."Solitude&q
    uot; is a more differnt kinda song, not usual sabbath stuff...kinda like on the previous album 'Paranoid'...&quo
    t;Planet Caravan"..is what this song reminds me of...just slow and ballady but interesting enough to keep your attention (is this Ozzy or Bill Ward though?...I think Ozzy)...another favorite here "Into the Void"...closes off the album with some excellent soloing and music changes within the song...perfect way to close it. Summing it up...Pretty decent album from the sabs...by the 5th album they'd shot their load basically with Sab Bloody Sab...Sabotage is another bona fide classic too however...review coming on that. Pick this up...actually pick em all up with Ozzy at least. RR     Read more Less

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    Sweet Leaf you don't know

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 5, 2003

    Black Sabbath was at their prime again with their third album and nearly every song is a classic, Sweet Leaf is one of Black Sabbath's signature songs and it became a blueprint for the grunge era, After Forever is another Sabbath classic and it i...s one of the most underrated songs, Children of the Grave is also the signature song, Lord of the World and Into the Void are also classics, this album needs to be in the shoes of every metal head. Read more Less

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    Sweet leaf Rules

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 30, 2002

    Black Sabbath's 3rd album Master of Reality is my 4th favorite album but it has some of my favorite songs like Sweet Leaf (a ditty about marijuana), After Forever, Children of the Grave, Lord of this World and Into the Void. It seems to me that this ...is when Sabbath was starting to get into drugs, alcohol and fortune 'n' fame and the album is a little too short.My favorite Black Sabbath albums in order are(1) Paranoid (2) Volume 4 (3) Black Sabbath (4) Master of Reality (5) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (6) Sabotage (7) Never Say Die (8) Techincal Ecstasy. Read more Less

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    This album rocks !!!!!

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 11, 2002

    There is'nt a single dull moment on this cd. ozzy & tony iommi are at their best on this album. my personal fav is 'children of the grave' but trust me all the songs rock !!!!

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    metal fury

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 22, 2002

    It has heavy riffs, gloomy lyrics, evil songs, satanic imagery. The total Sabbath experience on one CD.

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    Black Sabbath Master of Reality

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 1, 2002

    The invention of Heavy Metal. The first time that Tony and Geezer tuned guitar and bass down three half notes which gives them the real low sound.

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    Some tracks are good

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 29, 2002

    Gets this rating mainly because of its somewhat muffled sound quality compaired to all of their other albums.

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    Solitude!!

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 2, 2001

    I must admit I don't really like the first 4 albums of Sabbath. This one, I'll give 3 stars, only because of Solitude, which may be thier best song ever.

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    Sabbath is bettter than the beatles

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 3, 2001

    but I wouldn't call them crap, 5 star album here!

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