Black Sabbath - Paranoid
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Track List: Paranoid
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- War Pigs/Luke's WallDownload & Buy
- Paranoid
- Planet Caravan
- Iron Man
- Electric Funeral
- Hand Of Doom
- Rat Salad
- Jack The Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots
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Album Details: Paranoid
- Release Date:
- 12/23/2003
- Label:
- Warner Bros / Wea
- UPC:
- 075992732727
User Reviews: Paranoid
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971)
, February 10, 2006 -
Evil as hell
, November 1, 2005Reviewer:
john oberle - See all john oberle's reviews Pros: great album
Cons: none
This album has never been toped. The feel, sound, clean production outstanding musicianship Ozzy`s voice. As a whole this album is perfection. Its like watching an old fashon horror movie through music. This type of music is not something you want to listen to all the time but there is none better of its kind.
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Pro Reviews: Paranoid
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews 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 infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history. - Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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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 of their career. Containing 3 of their biggest hits "Paranoid" "Iron Man" and "Warpigs"...its a metal classic.
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"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 ...