This album was their normal set when they played live before they got a recording contract. They went into the studio and layed it down in one day!!!!!!
I was eight years old, in 1970, when I got this album from one of my brother in laws. It was the best thing I’d ever heard and today at 61 years old it’s still the best album, start to finish, I’ve ever heard.
Bit if Finger is a nod to Tony losing the tip of a finger in a wirk accident. That had a large influence on his guitar sound. This is their debut, recorded in 12 hours. One of the few bands of their era where all original members on the debut are still alive.
each sabbath song is an album all its own. they coulda had like 10 times the albums they did, but they weren’t stingy with the grooves, they had riffs to spare. this hands down some of the best music to ever be recorded in my opinion. thank you for giving people that maybe never heard them before the chance to experience the power and glory that is black sabbath.
I've been listening to this band and this album for 50 years or so, but it wasn't until remastered versions started coming out a few years ago that I began to appreciate what an awesome bassist Geezer is.
Glad you all are learning about Sabbath. I had this album in 1976; Vinyl. I was 10 years old. Burned so many needles listening to this album. Iommi taught me how to play a guitar.
The first time I heard this was in 82. I was hooked. The blend between Jazz and their own style was freakin awesome. Thanks for your reaction. I enjoy them all.
:)...Happy you just wrote "Warning" instead of what many people write; "the warning"-pet peeve...:)...As a half century Sabbath head, It's my favorite too...The Axe work is sublime...
I can listen to Tony Iommi play guitar all day long and I can’t say that about any other guitar player in any genre. He just has a knack to keep coming up with interesting hooks and leads. Put that together with the rest of the band and it’s pure magic. No one touches them. The first 6 albums and there’s only 1 song I would skip and it’s not even a song (FX). The greatest band hands down. Everyone else is competing for second.
In my opinion Tony Iommi > Randy Rhodes. Especially since I remember an interview with Rhodes back in the day where he talked a lot of sh*t on Iommi, said he "was not impressed".
Mike Bloomfield is another one I can listen to all day long. Especially the East-West album by Butterfield Blues Band (trading licks and solos with Elvin Bishop. Alice Cooper said it’s his all time favorite album.
The album was just mind blowing when it came out. It still is. It’s like a jam session in a dungeon! The riffs are so fat and the baselines are so fat, Bill Ward beach the drums like they owe him money and it is so heavily blues influenced. I love growing up listening to Sabbath. The first time I listen to Iron Man on my dad’s vinyl when I was a kid I was hooked!
im fascinated by your reactions, mainly because you appreciate what they created and their absolute greatness as musicians. i know theres so much out there, i would suggest you do volume 4 and sabotage next, my personal favorites!!...but , believe me you cant go wrong with any of their albums, especially the first 6.....i agree, the darkest, hardest "love song" ever!!
Geezer Butler is the most underrated bassist and probably my favorite and Bill Ward one of the best drummers of all time and also very underrated great reaction and thanks for the hard work I really appreciate and enjoyed it
There is ONE more song! On the English release of the record they swapped out Wicked World for "EVIL WOMAN". A cover by a band named Crow, their manager made them do it, they hated it but it's actually pretty good! You guys should do it!
Great reaction and happy to see it still getting love so many decades later! The whole album recorded in one day Oct 16, 1969...Nobody ever came close to Sab's originality!
The witch on the album cover will haunt humanity forever. Someone, somewhere, is listening to this band, right now, and they will continued to heard forever.
Outstanding record and awesome reaction! Geezer Butler went all the way to the bottom on his bass. Loved this! In one of their documusic videos Ozzy tells the story that they were rehearsing and the phone rang right in the middle. When they answered the phone it was Geezer's mom calling to tell him to turn his bass down it's too loud. Only the band was in New York and mom was in England. Hilarious the way Ozzy tells it with his crazy accent.
This album they were finding their sound, going from a blues band, to creating the genre of heavy metal. The next five albums are all absolute cohesive killers. Hope you keep up the full album reviews. The whole band was just getting started here.
They relased this on 02/13/1970. I was fortunate enogh to hear this album at my friend's big brothers place. To say I was blown away does not do it justice. We had never heard anything like this before. They were the true pioneers of metal. This album is 50 years old and it still sounds fresh.
Same here, we got the album a week or so after release, little did we know the life altering music contained in it. Freaked out all our parents, wherever we went someone was pissed about it, LOL!
Just have to say real quick, to appreciate Sabbath you need big speakers and power, not headphones. I love my headphones but some music just needs big speakers to sound complete. You need to feel this to appreciate it.
I have been thinking the same thing about this needing to be listened to with good speakers, ones that have a heavy low end and a crisp high end. It sounds great on excellent headphones, but part of the joy of Black Sabbath is feeling the music! I always rattle my windows when I play Sabbath! I do love seeing you experience Sabbath; it’s exactly how I experienced it in 1977, except you have more knowledge about making, mixing, and producing music. I felt those things but didn’t yet have the vocabulary to put it into words.
This album so freaked us out back then and Warning is a main reason why. One of the heaviest jams and solos ever by anyone, Iommi just let's loose. Nice debut, eh! Sabbath rules from the very stsrt. Enjoy! 🎶🎸🎤🎹🎶
Once I see the head bobbing and bouncing, I know you are guys are digging the song. I connect with it cause I feel music. Remember this first album gave everyone a taste of what would become one of ard rock/heavy metals most influential bands of all time!!!!
Guys you have to react to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Possibly the heaviest ever riff in that there song. The whole album is epic, but that track is on another level. Get to it soon guys and keep up the good work🥁🎤🎸🎼🎤
The first three Black Sabbath albums are must haves. 53 years later and still incredible. Keep the good ole stuff coming guys. There’s a reason it’s called Classic. A paradigm shift in music from 1970.
Yes, I concur, they both are using Gibson SGs and at that point Iommi and Townsend were as heavy as it gets for that era instrumentaly and those are 2 of the best guitar exhibitions ever!
The track Evil Woman wasn’t on the Canadian album originally. While travelling in Italy I bought the album and was surprised that my album here in Canada didn’t have that great song. Also the album I bought there opened up and had two covers.
If I was stranded on a desert island, and could only have one artist to listen to-it's a tie between Sabbath and Floyd. I really can't think of any other artist that I'd add to that. Some, I might miss, but that's okay. You've still not listened to any tracks from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Can't wait. Thanks guys.
Yes, definitely a top-notch debut album! Eight years later, Sabbath would headline a tour with Van Halen as their opening band. Van Halen's debut album had just dropped and they were kicking ass every night. Legend is that Ozzy and the boys had a hard time following the young, hungry, and talented Van Halen performance every night of that tour. Drugs and infighting were taking their toll on Sabbath and they would soon fire Ozzy. That event led to Black Sabbath recruiting Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy forming a solo band with Randy Rhoads. I look forward to you guys discovering that era of Sabbath & Ozzy and also delving more into the Mighty Van Halen! 🎸
I saw that tour, Van Halen had us standing on our seats for Eruption but as much as I loved Eddie, Tony Iommi was still the boss for me as the first notes of War Pigs echoed in the arena.
I never knew you guys did an album review of this wow I'm late to this one seriously late every single track on this album is kick-ass I got this album I have the original copy to even to this very day🤘🥁🥁
I'd forgotten how much time I spent listening to this album in high school, I know every single note. Ozzy doesn't get down in the dumps, he gets down in the dungeon lmao
Smooth Brothers… I was in Italy when I was 13, bought the album but it came in a fold up I didn’t seen here in Canada so I had to have it.. It also came with a bonus song, Evil Woman.
Hey! Cha & Lee, don't know if you guys ever heard of the group Electric Wizard. Named after Black Sabbath's two songs Electric Funeral and the Wizard. The group formed in Dorset England in 1993. The album Electric Wizard is pretty heavy, bassy, some blues and slow beats just what you guys like. I like the first eight tracks. Black Sabbath is my favorite band and this band was definitely inspired by them. Hope you check them out. Take care. Terry P.
Again, BILL WARD is one of the TOP FOUR ALL TIME rock drummers ! His only pear group is Neal Peart, Keith Moon and you know, John Bonham . - a 67 year old slow burner.
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This album was their normal set when they played live before they got a recording contract. They went into the studio and layed it down in one day!!!!!!
Everything about their music is haunting
I was wondering when you guys would get here. Personally, I think "the Warning" is their masterpiece
I was eight years old, in 1970, when I got this album from one of my brother in laws. It was the best thing I’d ever heard and today at 61 years old it’s still the best album, start to finish, I’ve ever heard.
Bit if Finger is a nod to Tony losing the tip of a finger in a wirk accident. That had a large influence on his guitar sound.
This is their debut, recorded in 12 hours.
One of the few bands of their era where all original members on the debut are still alive.
each sabbath song is an album all its own. they coulda had like 10 times the albums they did, but they weren’t stingy with the grooves, they had riffs to spare. this hands down some of the best music to ever be recorded in my opinion. thank you for giving people that maybe never heard them before the chance to experience the power and glory that is black sabbath.
Warning covers more musical genres, tempos, time changes than any song I can recall. Rock. Blues. Jazz. Classical.
Amazing to think that all genres of metal were born in a 12 hour recording session. Gods.
This is where it all began! 🤘😆
I've been listening to this band and this album for 50 years or so, but it wasn't until remastered versions started coming out a few years ago that I began to appreciate what an awesome bassist Geezer is.
Iwas 12 had a coach in my bedroom.between zep and this album and alot of drugs and alcohol was my introduction into adult hood.still alive.
As Iommi rips a hole in the fabric of the universe...Heavy Metal is born. 🎸
I like when Che closes his eyes and bangs his head, That's when the music is good.
This is one of my sabbath favs. Ozzy is so soulful 😊❤❤it
The warning, it should have a warning with that groove 😂
Glad you all are learning about Sabbath. I had this album in 1976; Vinyl. I was 10 years old. Burned so many needles listening to this album. Iommi taught me how to play a guitar.
The Bass lines in this album are incredible.
They just walked into the studio and recorded this in 2 days basically live. 4 tracks, 4 members.
Proud of you guys keeping Sabbath alive 🤘
That is the best Black Sabbath album. The others are great, but by far, the first one was the best!
The first time I heard this was in 82. I was hooked. The blend between Jazz and their own style was freakin awesome. Thanks for your reaction. I enjoy them all.
Everytime you react to Black Sabbath my ears are ringing afterwards as I can not listen to them on low voulme! Thank you....
Look for Evil Woman. It was left off the U.S.release. Great tune.
Crazy how far back this goes.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES "Ride" and "Going off"
This is what we called "heavy music" back in the days Bros. 😎
jazzy doom 😁
That's exactly what we did. Listened to this on the way to school, on the way back, and every night
💥💥💥 Man I love Sabbath 💥💥💥
Warning has been my fav from them from the moment i heard
:)...Happy you just wrote "Warning" instead of what many people write; "the warning"-pet peeve...:)...As a half century Sabbath head, It's my favorite too...The Axe work is sublime...
Spot the lyrical error in the warning.
It’s a cover song. Look it up
I can listen to Tony Iommi play guitar all day long and I can’t say that about any other guitar player in any genre. He just has a knack to keep coming up with interesting hooks and leads. Put that together with the rest of the band and it’s pure magic. No one touches them.
The first 6 albums and there’s only 1 song I would skip and it’s not even a song (FX).
The greatest band hands down. Everyone else is competing for second.
In my opinion Tony Iommi > Randy Rhodes. Especially since I remember an interview with Rhodes back in the day where he talked a lot of sh*t on Iommi, said he "was not impressed".
Yeah, lol fx is like blehhh
@@kraig7777he was more into melodic and classical stuff in my opinion but Tony was a bluesman from the Occult.
Mike Bloomfield is another one I can listen to all day long. Especially the East-West album by Butterfield Blues Band (trading licks and solos with Elvin Bishop. Alice Cooper said it’s his all time favorite album.
Bill Ward is a drumming God
Tony Iommi, the RIFF master...ALL of their albums with Ozzy are classics. Even Never Say Die, their last one...so awesome
A Black Sabbath Riff is unmistakable...and soooo DAM AWSOME🤟
The album was just mind blowing when it came out. It still is. It’s like a jam session in a dungeon! The riffs are so fat and the baselines are so fat, Bill Ward beach the drums like they owe him money and it is so heavily blues influenced. I love growing up listening to Sabbath. The first time I listen to Iron Man on my dad’s vinyl when I was a kid I was hooked!
from the day I heard it I started growing my hair long, wearing black clothes and learning guitar... they changed my life...
What a song , amazing 👏
Yezzzzz!
- in the order of Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Toni Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne - as in the warning and then coming resurrection Black Sabbath
im fascinated by your reactions, mainly because you appreciate what they created and their absolute greatness as musicians. i know theres so much out there, i would suggest you do volume 4 and sabotage next, my personal favorites!!...but , believe me you cant go wrong with any of their albums, especially the first 6.....i agree, the darkest, hardest "love song" ever!!
Isn't it AWesome?!!!!!
Geezer Butler is the most underrated bassist and probably my favorite and Bill Ward one of the best drummers of all time and also very underrated great reaction and thanks for the hard work I really appreciate and enjoyed it
You have no idea what the word underrated means. Facts. You don’t
I LOVE Black Sabbath!
Good as it gets right there!
great album review fellas. glad you enjoyed
There is ONE more song! On the English release of the record they swapped out Wicked World for "EVIL WOMAN". A cover by a band named Crow, their manager made them do it, they hated it but it's actually pretty good! You guys should do it!
“Jam Session” 🤘🏼🎸🔥❤️
Love you guys!!!!!! 5 more albums next!!!!! ceers from argentina!!!!!!! you only can trust in youself and the first 6 Black Sabbath albums...
Great reaction and happy to see it still getting love so many decades later! The whole album recorded in one day Oct 16, 1969...Nobody ever came close to Sab's originality!
The witch on the album cover will haunt humanity forever. Someone, somewhere, is listening to this band, right now, and they will continued to heard forever.
@@vicprovost2561 Hopefully, they are heard forever...:)...
Outstanding record and awesome reaction! Geezer Butler went all the way to the bottom on his bass. Loved this! In one of their documusic videos Ozzy tells the story that they were rehearsing and the phone rang right in the middle. When they answered the phone it was Geezer's mom calling to tell him to turn his bass down it's too loud. Only the band was in New York and mom was in England. Hilarious the way Ozzy tells it with his crazy accent.
This album they were finding their sound, going from a blues band, to creating the genre of heavy metal. The next five albums are all absolute cohesive killers. Hope you keep up the full album reviews. The whole band was just getting started here.
For me the mood decides which of the first 6 albums is the best that day.
They relased this on 02/13/1970. I was fortunate enogh to hear this album at my friend's big brothers place. To say I was blown away does not do it justice. We had never heard anything like this before. They were the true pioneers of metal. This album is 50 years old and it still sounds fresh.
Same here, we got the album a week or so after release, little did we know the life altering music contained in it. Freaked out all our parents, wherever we went someone was pissed about it, LOL!
Warning is actually a cover song originally recorded by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.
Warning was originally released as a single in 1967 by Aynsley Dunbar's "Retaliation" (Dunbar would later play for Frank Zappa & Jefferson Starship)
Every instrument is heard and they are insync with each other. Masterful
These songs are an experience a musical journey. Rock blues jazz funk, this is how good music can be❤✌️
They released a Side A single called "Evil Woman" at the same time as the debut album, which was a cover song. Wicked World was Side B.
The album that sent me on whole new musical direction
Just have to say real quick, to appreciate Sabbath you need big speakers and power, not headphones. I love my headphones but some music just needs big speakers to sound complete. You need to feel this to appreciate it.
We had a Sansui amp that was 200 Watts per channel. Back in the 70s, when we listened to Sabbath, so did the neighbors... 🎸
I have been thinking the same thing about this needing to be listened to with good speakers, ones that have a heavy low end and a crisp high end. It sounds great on excellent headphones, but part of the joy of Black Sabbath is feeling the music! I always rattle my windows when I play Sabbath!
I do love seeing you experience Sabbath; it’s exactly how I experienced it in 1977, except you have more knowledge about making, mixing, and producing music. I felt those things but didn’t yet have the vocabulary to put it into words.
@@majones501 Yeah I forget that these guys are producers. lol they probably have better speakers to listen to than I do.
Agreed!
Old tube power baby!!!
Can't wait for full Paranoid reaction and Master of Reality. You're going to love both
This album so freaked us out back then and Warning is a main reason why. One of the heaviest jams and solos ever by anyone, Iommi just let's loose. Nice debut, eh! Sabbath rules from the very stsrt. Enjoy! 🎶🎸🎤🎹🎶
To me, this is the most epic Sabbath song.
Once I see the head bobbing and bouncing, I know you are guys are digging the song. I connect with it cause I feel music. Remember this first album gave everyone a taste of what would become one of ard rock/heavy metals most influential bands of all time!!!!
Back in the 70's we'd roll a big fat one, throw this album on and just melt. 50 years later and it's still awesome!
1st time I heard this song I was trippin and thought this was 42 min long 🤣🤣🤣
Ozzy's vocals are hauntingly beautiful and the blues kicks in to shove it in your face😂
I really enjoyed your reaction to the bit of Jazz that Bill Ward snuck into the mix. 🙂
I was 13 when I bought this album and wore it out before I turned 14. Still love these tracks when the mood is right.
A bit of finger
A cup of tea
A drop of blood
Is good for thee
Dude on the left is captain obvious.
Can't wait for you to start the next album guys
Gotta love Hand of doom
This music sounds like it could've come out today, very sweet 😋
@dr.leslieorgelpfeifersyndr5143I think it would still have some following
This is the beginning of Heavy Metal.
I can't wait for you guys to go through and react to what I consider is Black Sabbath's best album, not just for song writing, but production as well.
This entire album was recorded in 12 hours.
- and in the time that the music of Black Sabbath gave me dreams while so listening
There's so MANY transitions in this song that I warped my brain-in a good way-the first time I heard it.
This is the FIRST album!!! What a way to show the world what they were made of!!!!
There is no better music to clean your house to, this stuff slaps!
Hey guys just a little info....They recorded this whole album in 12hrs!!!!!!!!!
I am really enjoying hearing you guys go through the Black Sabbath discography! You guys are the best!
Man, Tony's phrasing is amazing. It's like his guitar is singing the lyrics...
Guys you have to react to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Possibly the heaviest ever riff in that there song. The whole album is epic, but that track is on another level. Get to it soon guys and keep up the good work🥁🎤🎸🎼🎤
Gotta do the rest of paranoid u didn’t do, then so on with their album’s (ozzy era)
The first three Black Sabbath albums are must haves. 53 years later and still incredible. Keep the good ole stuff coming guys. There’s a reason it’s called Classic. A paradigm shift in music from 1970.
Just wait till you guys get to the third album!
I don't know why,but Warning reminds me so much of the My Generation medley off of The Who Live at Leeds. Basically the same guitar tone
Yes, I concur, they both are using Gibson SGs and at that point Iommi and Townsend were as heavy as it gets for that era instrumentaly and those are 2 of the best guitar exhibitions ever!
No words, I love it.
The track Evil Woman wasn’t on the Canadian album originally. While travelling in Italy I bought the album and was surprised that my album here in Canada didn’t have that great song. Also the album I bought there opened up and had two covers.
If I was stranded on a desert island, and could only have one artist to listen to-it's a tie between Sabbath and Floyd. I really can't think of any other artist that I'd add to that. Some, I might miss, but that's okay.
You've still not listened to any tracks from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Can't wait. Thanks guys.
Yes, definitely a top-notch debut album! Eight years later, Sabbath would headline a tour with Van Halen as their opening band. Van Halen's debut album had just dropped and they were kicking ass every night. Legend is that Ozzy and the boys had a hard time following the young, hungry, and talented Van Halen performance every night of that tour. Drugs and infighting were taking their toll on Sabbath and they would soon fire Ozzy. That event led to Black Sabbath recruiting Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy forming a solo band with Randy Rhoads.
I look forward to you guys discovering that era of Sabbath & Ozzy and also delving more into the Mighty Van Halen! 🎸
I saw that tour, Van Halen had us standing on our seats for Eruption but as much as I loved Eddie, Tony Iommi was still the boss for me as the first notes of War Pigs echoed in the arena.
Fun fact the next album Paranoid was going to be named War Pigs but label though it was to political so BS went with Paranoid!!!
5 more! Keep going…
AND THE 2ND ALBUM WAS ( PARANOID ) FOLLOWED UP BY ( MASTER OF REALITY ) 👍😊 FYYYYYRRRRR!
I never knew you guys did an album review of this wow I'm late to this one seriously late every single track on this album is kick-ass I got this album I have the original copy to even to this very day🤘🥁🥁
I'd forgotten how much time I spent listening to this album in high school, I know every single note.
Ozzy doesn't get down in the dumps, he gets down in the dungeon lmao
Check out The Writ from their Sabotage album.❤❤❤
Smooth Brothers… I was in Italy when I was 13, bought the album but it came in a fold up I didn’t seen here in Canada so I had to have it.. It also came with a bonus song, Evil Woman.
I hope you brought snacks.
This was a great debut, but IMO the next 5 albums are much better.
Che, La loves when you catch beats or a fill from a drummer, especially from Bill Ward in songs!!!!
Hey! Cha & Lee, don't know if you guys ever heard of the group Electric Wizard. Named after Black Sabbath's two songs Electric Funeral and the Wizard. The group formed in Dorset England in 1993. The album Electric Wizard is pretty heavy, bassy, some blues and slow beats just what you guys like. I like the first eight tracks. Black Sabbath is my favorite band and this band was definitely inspired by them. Hope you check them out. Take care. Terry P.
Again, BILL WARD is one of the TOP FOUR ALL TIME rock drummers ! His only pear group is Neal Peart, Keith Moon and you know, John Bonham . - a 67 year old slow burner.
Spot On, for me, add Cozy Powell and its a fantastic 5!