Black Sabbath - Paranoid (CD)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971)

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 10, 2006

Pros: Some of the Sabs most noteable work....

Cons: Nothing really....

The Sab's 2nd release...was to be titled "Warpigs" but because of the Vietnam war going on, the record company refused and was titled "Paranoid" instead. In any case, a hell of a Sabbath album and probaly the most celebrated o...f their career. Containing 3 of their biggest hits "Paranoid" "Iron Man" and "Warpigs"...its a metal classic. "Warpigs" kicks it right off...there is a subtitle however titled "Lukes Wall" which I believe is the last part of the song, the instrumentaling that closes it off..awesome top notch lyrics with Ozzy's singing...makes this a decent track and a long one at that clocking in at like 8 minutes, the speeding up at the end was always my favorite. The next one up....the title track "Paranoid" I hear was actually knocked off really fast as a short 3 minute song for time constraints of the record...needing something short and sweet, but they came up with it...and its one of the most known Sab songs in their history. (Of note: Type O Negative does a cover of this that is like 7 minutes long and is the best cover I've heard of it ever.) "Planet Caravan" is nothing like i've ever heard of Sabbath before or since...very slow and purtruding, Pantera covered it though, it's a pretty decent track. "Iron Man" is up next with Ozzy's robotic sounding vocal trick with "I-i-i-i- A-m-m-m- I-r-o-n M-a-n" and Bill Ward's foot pedal beating irritatingly away...into one of the most known guitar riffs this side of 'Smoke on the water'. Excellent song nonetheless. "Electric Funeral" is really wild with wahh wahh sounding slow hypnotic Iommi riffs and singing by Ozzy...decent track and the 'Lectric Funeral! in the middle section with the deeper voice makes it work. The complex "Hand of Doom" is next with Geezer Butlers thudding bass line and lyrics which sound to be about a drug addict shooting up...then the excellent soloing by Iommi when the songs speeds up into overdrive. "Rat Salad" is essentially a drum solo song for Bill Ward along the lines of Zep's Moby Dick and is cool...the closer "Faries wear Boots" is another more well known song and works really good with another subtitle "Jack the Stripper" but not one of my favorites. Summing it up...Sab's best work and worth owning for any metal or Ozzy fan....get it, nuff said:-) RR Read more Less