MJK Tuesday will continue on next week. This Tuesday we will be in the live chat as we continue with the 7 days of Halloween and check out some Black Sabbath
Hey Trash Talkers,Love you guys! (Forgive link, not sure where to forward to you, but use this one ) BTW the Sabbath title track and this Alice track, exact same time period, equally as influential. This even more bone chilling. 😨!!! Alice & Ozzy great friends and both still killing it. Alice currently on tour! What city are you guys in. Guarantee best shoe you,'ll ever see!!! Alice Cooper - "Second Coming / Ballad of Dwight Fry" (meant to be played together) ua-cam.com/video/zgQE68JEU_I/v-deo.html
You know folks keep asking me if Babymetal is back. Yeah, I'd say they're back. John Wick style. Babymetal released a new song called Divine Attack with video. The first from their new album that will drop in March. They're doing two shows in January 2023. And join Sabaton on their EU tour in April and May. I'm sure the rest of Babymetals appearances will be announced later. Come on guys you did just about everything related to them. It's time. Because FINALLY BABYMETAL has come BACK to Earth. And millions And millions are around the world are smiling.
The greatest debut album of all time, changed music forever. Imagine hearing that as an opening song when you've been used to The Beetles, Elvis, etc!!! Must have been mind blowing in every sense. :) SO many genres have come from this band, especially from their first few. They were only young when they wrote this debut album too. :) :)
Hendrix, the Doors, Zeppelin came out in the 60s . It wasn,'t exactly the Beatles straight to Sabbath. Sabbath tuned doen minor chords definitely se5 them apart and created something unique for sure.. Would also say Alice Cooper put this out at the same time. Equally as influential If anyone deserves more props on here. It's Alice. So him last month and still a mind-blowing show! ua-cam.com/video/zgQE68JEU_I/v-deo.html
Just to let you know it was mind blowing! I remember when it came out my friends and I listened to it in my basement and we were stunned... and slightly frightened. I've been hooked ever since.
This song was inspired by an experience that bassist Geezer Butler had with an old book of black magic hat Ozzy had stolen and gave to him. In the middle of the night, he saw the "figure in black" at the foot of his bed. He said he went to throw the book out, but it had disappeared.
@@BillyBong Or just his imagination because he was conditioned by reading the book before and that's it. I was used to listen to a radio show on saturday night while I was trying to get sleep and I was always scared of random sounds and shadows around my room, and it was just because I was in that 'mood'.
Imagine being there in 1970, and everyone is singing about flowers, love and peace. Then this drops and melts everyone’s face. Wish I was alive to see everyone’s reaction. This whole album was a masterpiece!
At the age of 15 went to Moody Auditorium in Dallas to see Black Sabbath who was the opening act for Mountain. This song started in darkness and when Ozzy dressed in a black robe started to sing a green flood light on him only made his face and hair look green. They had not released the Paranoid album in the states yet but played a few songs from it. I'm a 66 year old man now and can still remember that concert like yesterday.
As always your reaction is priceless!! Imagine the effect this song and Album had a whole generation. It changed the music world and to some extent the world itself. I was born and bred in Birmingham,England...NOT Alabama!! and the older generation at that time really thought we were demons if we listened to this stuff. Long hair,playing guitar, basically rocking out almost made you an out cast.......I'm not joking. Ozzy has almost a comical aura around him nowadays but he and Back Sabbath paved the way for so many bands and musicians. Best thing is they are still down to earth humble dudes.
There's so much more to explore with Sabbath. I hope the two of you continue the journey. They are my favorite band. You can compare any type of metal band to them, but you can't compare them to any other band. The inventors of metal. There almost isn't a metal riff out there that Iommi didn't create. He truly is the Godfather of Metal.
Love the reaction. The bit at the beginning when you were about to ask where he got his inspiration from and the guitar just drops in, straight to quiet and head banging was awesome! 😂
This album, and this song in particular, are credited with the Birth of Heavy Metal. One of the greatest albums ever recorded. Changed Rock and Roll forever.
Yes, the heaviest, doomiest, damn song you will ever hear. We bought that album the first week it was out, we took a chance because of rumours on college radio and the witch on the cover. I can still hear my friend's sister screaming 'Turn It Up!' As this track got a couple lines in. This album freaked out the arts and culture and they were lucky to get on the radio in those days except at night. My friends father a couple months later, after hearing it come blasting from my friends room, burst in, grabbed the LP and broke it over his knee, screaming you'll all rot in Hell for listening to the devil's music. There was no wider generation gap culturally than the baby boomers and my father's generation and it often showed in those day, arguing over music, dress, hair, drugs, you name it. Black Sabbath gave us an oasis in an rapidly changing but still pretty unjust and violent world that has only got worse over time. Screw it all, Rock On, try the suite from side 2 of the debut album, if you like what you just heard, you will be obliterated by the musical masterpiece: A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning. Some of the heaviest Blues/Metal you will ever hear after an ominously calm intro. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
You could not have described the era or the reactions to that album at THAT time more perfectly. I'm a 60 something from Birmingham England NOT Alabama!! and it really did change society. It still has an effect on people. My wife and I married 32 years ago and chose this song as our wedding song!!! Some guests walked out and have not spoken to us since!!! Not that we ever cared!!!!
Great reaction guys - can never go wrong with Black Sabbath (group, song, album, whatever!) Ozzy has been on 9 studio albums. This one, Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy, Never Say Die & finally 13. After Never Say Die, he was ousted from the band and Ronnie James Dio took the helm. And they've only had 19 studio albums total. I still distinctly remember first hearing this song...as a die-hard lover of Halloween and all things macabre, this fit in perfectly to my dark sensibilities! ALL of Sabbath did. Godfathers of metal indeed...
@@dariiofernando It’s so hard to pick a favorite Sabbath album. It really depends on my mood at the time. The first 6 are all so good. Depending on my mood and which one I’m listening to my favorite Sabbath album changes. Master of Reality and SBS are always high on the list for me though
Yes. Ozzy does write lyrics. Interesting story, Ozzy stated that they were all poor kids from the factory town of Birmingham. At the time it was all about Flower power peace and love, something they knew they could not relate to. Ozzy and Gizzer were both big horror fans so in Ozzy's words "we decided just to scare the hell out of everybody".
One of my favorite albums to fall asleep to during my HS senior year! This whole album is great, somewhere near the top of my all killer, no filler stack. Part of what makes this album so great to me is because they didn't have much money at the time, they recorded most of the album in one take. They had to make sure they were on point, nailing everything in the first run, save for guitarist Tony Iommi who went back over a few tracks with lead overdubs. Still gotta check out the next track The Wizard, Bassically/N.I.B., and Hand of Doom from the second album.
It's cool that u spotted "this sounds like" multiple times...Sabbath influenced so many bands and genres, often without the later bands recognizing where the original trope came from
Geezer Butler wrote most of the lyrics for Black Sabbath while Ozzy was onboard. Geezer said that Ozzy sometimes threw out a word or sentence that inspired him to flesh out the lyrics into a whole song. Oz was on 8 Black Sabbath albums until the 3 made the 13 CD which came out within the last 5 or 7 years.
It’s definitely my favorite Black Sabbath song. That used to terrify me when I was a kid. The three notes are known in music as “The Devils Tritone” It sounds so creepy.
Greatest opening song EVER!!!! The bells, the haunting riff, Ozzy at his usual best and that solo though!!!! Bill ward is and has always been an underrated drummer and geezer is kinda like a bass god. What else is there to say- HEAVY METAL WAS BORN ON THIS DAY!!!!🤘
Hand of Doom is an absolute Must. The picture of the downward spiral of heroin addiction brought on by the horrors of Vietnam is painted masterfully with the time and tempo changes, with killer guitar and drums….And that bass…you Must do it….
This was the song that birthed metal. That tri-tone. The devil's notes. Yeah there was heavy guitar before, but this was the first song combining heavy guitar with the dark atmosphere that defined metal.
You my friends just unlocked GOD mode. Take every successful metal band out there and I guarantee you will hear most influence. From the bells to the gallop and everything in between. THANKS GUYS!
Geezer did the lyrics in Ozzy era Sabbath. But you haven't been in to hell unless you've listened the Type O Negative's cover version of this. (BANGER) and the spin off cover version sung from the "satanic perspective".
According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone. Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience. Cheers & Stay Brutal!!!
john peel was a radio DJ in england that broke many bands to the masses, he was a pioneer for many rock and alternative bands giving them vital airplay on his radio show on the BBC!
Imagine the people in the 60s the parents Have a kid come home and they start playing Beatles in 68 and they kinda get in the groove with that. But then the next day he brings home black sabbath
the opening sound effects (rain storm, bell) are the sounds of a funeral - presumably the funeral of the character in the song, as he is on his way to hell
Have yall done N.I.B. BY BLACK SABBATH? for a change with sabbath you should check out BLACK SABBATH- Planet Caravan... then you could do the Pantera cover of Planet Caravan
I was 7 years old in 1969 when my pops played this song, I didn't come out of my room for three days because it scared the crap out of me. I learned to love it when I hit my teens.
I made a similar comment, although it wasn't my dad, it was my best friend's older cousin - he was kinda a biker dude who already intimidated me, and he blasted this for us and the entire neighborhood to hear (he lived in their garage, my friend's parents couldn't get rid of him).
I can still remember the first time I heard this song 51years ago changed my life and many others I just stood there in amazement could not believe what I was hearing
It's crazy to think that Black Sabbaths entire debut album was recorded in a single day from beginning to end. That day created 50 years of heavy metal and counting and inspired millions of people to make music.
WELCOME TO METAL MAN.. FIRST SONG, FIRST ALBUM, FIRST METAL BAND. BLACK SABBATH, ON BLACK SABBATH, BY BLACK SABBATH OZZY HAS A SLEW OF ALBUMS AS WELL WITH ANOTHER BAND ROCK ON GUYS.. 👊🖖
It's about making a statement that this is the very first Metal Song !!! The lyrics is just that and the music is just that as well !!! It's just the very beginning of Metal Music as simple as that !!! The feeling, the creepiness, the lyrics, the music make this song the greatest success in Metal History 🤘🤘🤘
Geezer Butler, the bass player, wrote all of the lyrics. Ozzy would come up with a melody to whatever the band was playing, and Geezer would fit his lyrics into Ozzy's melody
Those 3 guitar notes got them banned by the BBC. They said it was satanic. One DJ called Allen Freeman gave the BBC the proverbial finger and played their music anyway, but the BBC couldn't fire him because he was far to popular. His nick name was Fluff and sabbath wrote an instrumental called Fluff to honour him. It's a beautiful, gentle acoustic piece which is so far away from their usual music.
For a very different kind of feel over the Halloween period you could do something very different. There's Ogre Battle by Queen, it's super heavy, their greatest maddest song, ogre, kind of fantasy beast thing (tenuous I know). Or there's Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, based on an ancient book of the same name, where she's a ghost, she'd starved herself and died just after giving birth, trying to contact the man she loved yet she married another!! :) These are very different songs and you've not heard their like before (especially Kate Bush), I think.. :) Nothing like Stranger things BTW
they started off wil this song in1968 or 70, nobody was as talented or nuts then they were- they release 13- a few years back, n people abaut shit- rock on guys- there is not gonna be a b.s. anymore. but man , if u think back, hippies were singing happy shit, black sabbath went boom lol, nobody could pull off the shit they did, n the amazing thing is oz, geezeer butler, tony iomi, n bill ward are all still alive-GOD BLESS THE BLACK SABBATH-greatest band ever
You have 2 more Sabbath classics untouched. Symptom of the Universe & Supernaught. Outrageously good. The drummer Bill Ward wrote a lot of the lyrics along with Ozzy. Ozzy appeared on their first 6 albums (but others much later when they reformed, but 6 of the classic Sabbath albums. . John Peel (RIP) is the most influencial British radio DJ ever. He championed new, alternative and non commercial music for decades on BBC radio 1(the rest of their output was mostly commercial crap). Metal, punk, grunge, indie, experimental, dub, reggae, funk, soul, hip-hop, techno, world, jazz, the list goes on and on. He played what no other DJs would play. He's a British institution.
It's so crazy how Sabbath evolved as a band....they started out so occult and by album 8 Never Say Die with Ozzy they were getting very experimental but still metal and even improved
Black Sabbath does not have 60 albums. lol. Or did it say 16? That's wrong, also, even if that is what it said. Ozzy is on 9 BS albums. Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970), Master of Reality (1971), Vol. 4 (1972), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973), Sabotage (1975), Technical Ecstasy (1976), Never Say Die! (1978) and 13 (2013). Geezer Butler (bass) wrote most of the lyrics in the Ozzy era of BS I believe. Dio is on 4 BS albums (if you count The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, which you should). Heaven and Hell (1980), Mob Rules (1981), Dehumanizer (1992) and The Devil You Know (2009). Dio wrote most of the lyrics while he was with BS.
MJK Tuesday will continue on next week. This Tuesday we will be in the live chat as we continue with the 7 days of Halloween and check out some Black Sabbath
Hey Trash Talkers,Love you guys!
(Forgive link, not sure where to forward to you, but use this one ) BTW the Sabbath title track and this Alice track, exact same time period, equally as influential. This even more bone chilling. 😨!!! Alice & Ozzy great friends and both still killing it. Alice currently on tour! What city are you guys in. Guarantee best shoe you,'ll ever see!!!
Alice Cooper - "Second Coming / Ballad of Dwight Fry" (meant to be played together)
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You know folks keep asking me if Babymetal is back. Yeah, I'd say they're back. John Wick style. Babymetal released a new song called Divine Attack with video. The first from their new album that will drop in March. They're doing two shows in January 2023. And join Sabaton on their EU tour in April and May. I'm sure the rest of Babymetals appearances will be announced later. Come on guys you did just about everything related to them. It's time. Because FINALLY BABYMETAL has come BACK to Earth. And millions And millions are around the world are smiling.
Great Album and Great song !
Ok here is my answer Awh ..ok.... fine
The greatest debut album of all time, changed music forever. Imagine hearing that as an opening song when you've been used to The Beetles, Elvis, etc!!! Must have been mind blowing in every sense. :) SO many genres have come from this band, especially from their first few. They were only young when they wrote this debut album too. :) :)
Are you experienced or Boston's debute might be better..MIGHT lol.
Hendrix, the Doors, Zeppelin came out in the 60s . It wasn,'t exactly the Beatles straight to Sabbath. Sabbath tuned doen minor chords definitely se5 them apart and created something unique for sure.. Would also say Alice Cooper put this out at the same time. Equally as influential
If anyone deserves more props on here. It's Alice. So him last month and still a mind-blowing show!
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@@andrewcastillo9558 lol indeed. :)
What were all the moms thinking in 1970 hearing this coming out of their kids room? Probably sent them church
Just to let you know it was mind blowing! I remember when it came out my friends and I listened to it in my basement and we were stunned... and slightly frightened. I've been hooked ever since.
This song was inspired by an experience that bassist Geezer Butler had with an old book of black magic hat Ozzy had stolen and gave to him. In the middle of the night, he saw the "figure in black" at the foot of his bed. He said he went to throw the book out, but it had disappeared.
Probably sleep paralysis.
Damn you beat me to it lol
I totally believe that !!
@@BillyBong Or just his imagination because he was conditioned by reading the book before and that's it. I was used to listen to a radio show on saturday night while I was trying to get sleep and I was always scared of random sounds and shadows around my room, and it was just because I was in that 'mood'.
Geezer was on alot of acid that night.
Imagine being there in 1970, and everyone is singing about flowers, love and peace. Then this drops and melts everyone’s face. Wish I was alive to see everyone’s reaction. This whole album was a masterpiece!
This is exactly what i would've experienced at the time seeing people in disbelief 🙌🙌🙌
Hahahah imagije the faces in that olds time wacthing a music about a guy escaping from satan?😂😂
At the age of 15 went to Moody Auditorium in Dallas to see Black Sabbath who was the opening act for Mountain. This song started in darkness and when Ozzy dressed in a black robe started to sing a green flood light on him only made his face and hair look green. They had not released the Paranoid album in the states yet but played a few songs from it. I'm a 66 year old man now and can still remember that concert like yesterday.
I'm so jealous!! What a great memory!
Respect!
Oh sir you had been a great life!
Geezer Butler, the Bassist, wrote most of Black Sabbath's songs.
Lyrics
@@Hull9 True that.
Yes, the lyrics. Tony Iommi wrote most of the music, but I think Bill Ward was responsible for creating his own amazing drumming.
Funny that Bob Daisley wrote most of the lyrics for Ozzys early solo albums
As always your reaction is priceless!!
Imagine the effect this song and Album had a whole generation. It changed the music world and to some extent the world itself. I was born and bred in Birmingham,England...NOT Alabama!! and the older generation at that time really thought we were demons if we listened to this stuff. Long hair,playing guitar, basically rocking out almost made you an out cast.......I'm not joking. Ozzy has almost a comical aura around him nowadays but he and Back Sabbath paved the way for so many bands and musicians. Best thing is they are still down to earth humble dudes.
You can't have Halloween without Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper!
*and Type O Negative
I love how yall respect the music.
This was also the first track on the album. This was the world's introduction to Black Sabbath.
There's so much more to explore with Sabbath. I hope the two of you continue the journey. They are my favorite band. You can compare any type of metal band to them, but you can't compare them to any other band. The inventors of metal. There almost isn't a metal riff out there that Iommi didn't create. He truly is the Godfather of Metal.
The ultimate Halloween song. Happy season, Trash Talkers.
The song that changed everything,nobody had heard anything like it before.
This is the reason why Black Sabbath is the godfathers of metal! I had goosebumps while listening through my headphones! Keep up the great work guys!
Love the reaction. The bit at the beginning when you were about to ask where he got his inspiration from and the guitar just drops in, straight to quiet and head banging was awesome! 😂
This album, and this song in particular, are credited with the Birth of Heavy Metal. One of the greatest albums ever recorded. Changed Rock and Roll forever.
Just one of many Black Sabbath masterpieces.
Yes, the heaviest, doomiest, damn song you will ever hear. We bought that album the first week it was out, we took a chance because of rumours on college radio and the witch on the cover. I can still hear my friend's sister screaming 'Turn It Up!' As this track got a couple lines in. This album freaked out the arts and culture and they were lucky to get on the radio in those days except at night. My friends father a couple months later, after hearing it come blasting from my friends room, burst in, grabbed the LP and broke it over his knee, screaming you'll all rot in Hell for listening to the devil's music. There was no wider generation gap culturally than the baby boomers and my father's generation and it often showed in those day, arguing over music, dress, hair, drugs, you name it. Black Sabbath gave us an oasis in an rapidly changing but still pretty unjust and violent world that has only got worse over time. Screw it all, Rock On, try the suite from side 2 of the debut album, if you like what you just heard, you will be obliterated by the musical masterpiece: A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning. Some of the heaviest Blues/Metal you will ever hear after an ominously calm intro. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
You could not have described the era or the reactions to that album at THAT time more perfectly. I'm a 60 something from Birmingham England NOT Alabama!! and it really did change society. It still has an effect on people. My wife and I married 32 years ago and chose this song as our wedding song!!! Some guests walked out and have not spoken to us since!!!
Not that we ever cared!!!!
@@markferrett700 that is absolutely hilarious that you had it as your wedding song! These guys must be hometown heroes for you!
@@markferrett700 Cool story. Great way to find out who your "Friends" really are. I can't believe people just walked out! Crazy!
Great reaction guys - can never go wrong with Black Sabbath (group, song, album, whatever!) Ozzy has been on 9 studio albums. This one, Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Technical Ecstasy, Never Say Die & finally 13. After Never Say Die, he was ousted from the band and Ronnie James Dio took the helm.
And they've only had 19 studio albums total.
I still distinctly remember first hearing this song...as a die-hard lover of Halloween and all things macabre, this fit in perfectly to my dark sensibilities! ALL of Sabbath did.
Godfathers of metal indeed...
Ozzy appeared on the first 8 albums before being fired and came back to record the last album 13
You guys have to do NIB. Fairies Wear Boots Live version also. THE DRUMS ARE INCREDIBLE. Bill Ward is the most underrated drummer in history
First Black Sabbath album... and it was the best in my opinion! It's also a top of the line for Maynard as well.
this one and SBS my favs
next Vol4
@@dariiofernando It’s so hard to pick a favorite Sabbath album. It really depends on my mood at the time. The first 6 are all so good. Depending on my mood and which one I’m listening to my favorite Sabbath album changes. Master of Reality and SBS are always high on the list for me though
I like Paranoid the most
Smokey Ramirez, he’s so knowledgeable, wish Hollywood would believe him and go with it when he asks questions!!!😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Actually Ozzy wrote very few Sabbath songs. Bass player extraordinaire Geezer Butler wrote most of them.
Yes. Ozzy does write lyrics. Interesting story, Ozzy stated that they were all poor kids from the factory town of Birmingham. At the time it was all about Flower power peace and love, something they knew they could not relate to. Ozzy and Gizzer were both big horror fans so in Ozzy's words "we decided just to scare the hell out of everybody".
What a badass song. So simple but so damn haunting and just pure 🤘
I am check out "electric funeral " next
One of my favorite albums to fall asleep to during my HS senior year! This whole album is great, somewhere near the top of my all killer, no filler stack. Part of what makes this album so great to me is because they didn't have much money at the time, they recorded most of the album in one take. They had to make sure they were on point, nailing everything in the first run, save for guitarist Tony Iommi who went back over a few tracks with lead overdubs. Still gotta check out the next track The Wizard, Bassically/N.I.B., and Hand of Doom from the second album.
Warning also is smoking
@@bigred3966 the whole album is gold
Same for the second album Paranoid
black wearing rappers enjoy black sabbath...😎stay as you are...cool dudes....greets from germany👋
a few groups have had artist, album and song with the same title. Bad Company, Iron Maiden to name two
You just witnessed the birth of Doom metal
You gotta watch The Last Supper, when Geezer tells the story of how this song was written, his delivery makes it even more eerie.
A good candidate for seven days of Halloween…Don’t Tal to Strangers by Dio
Iron Maiden also has a song Iron Maiden from their first album Iron Maiden
Before Bruce joined.
The bass player writes the lyrics Geezer Butler
1970 boys! 19-Freakin-70! Let that sink in. Saw them in '78 with a young Van Halen and Sabbath slayed it!
wow
This song changed everything. Imagine all the moms in 1970 hearing this coming from little Timmy’s room
It's cool that u spotted "this sounds like" multiple times...Sabbath influenced so many bands and genres, often without the later bands recognizing where the original trope came from
Hi bro's, i love Black Sabbat and this song is amazing great ! Greatings and love from germany ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Geezer Butler wrote most of the lyrics for Black Sabbath while Ozzy was onboard. Geezer said that Ozzy sometimes threw out a word or sentence that inspired him to flesh out the lyrics into a whole song. Oz was on 8 Black Sabbath albums until the 3 made the 13 CD which came out within the last 5 or 7 years.
It’s definitely my favorite Black Sabbath song. That used to terrify me when I was a kid. The three notes are known in music as “The Devils Tritone” It sounds so creepy.
I love Black Sabbath NIB one of my favorites.
Greatest opening song EVER!!!! The bells, the haunting riff, Ozzy at his usual best and that solo though!!!! Bill ward is and has always been an underrated drummer and geezer is kinda like a bass god. What else is there to say- HEAVY METAL WAS BORN ON THIS DAY!!!!🤘
I was looking the other day for a reaction of Black Sabbath not many people if anybody has done Black Sabbath it'll make you see things
I love Sleeping Village/Warning off that album!
Hand of Doom is an absolute Must. The picture of the downward spiral of heroin addiction brought on by the horrors of Vietnam
is painted masterfully with the time and tempo changes, with killer guitar and drums….And that bass…you Must do it….
Probably their best song... 👌
I wasn't around in the 70's but this song must of scared the hippies to death.
Quintessential Black Sabbath…… Nothing else like it.
This was the song that birthed metal. That tri-tone. The devil's notes. Yeah there was heavy guitar before, but this was the first song combining heavy guitar with the dark atmosphere that defined metal.
Y'all need to check out "Children of the Sun - Billy Thorpe"
Sure, ya may as well do Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Great reaction.
Check out "Children of the Grave" and focus on the drumming.
You my friends just unlocked GOD mode. Take every successful metal band out there and I guarantee you will hear most influence. From the bells to the gallop and everything in between. THANKS GUYS!
And so metal music was born...
Geezer did the lyrics in Ozzy era Sabbath. But you haven't been in to hell unless you've listened the Type O Negative's cover version of this. (BANGER) and the spin off cover version sung from the "satanic perspective".
Great job guys!!!
According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone. Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience.
Cheers & Stay Brutal!!!
john peel was a radio DJ in england that broke many bands to the masses, he was a pioneer for many rock and alternative bands giving them vital airplay on his radio show on the BBC!
Imagine the people in the 60s the parents Have a kid come home and they start playing Beatles in 68 and they kinda get in the groove with that. But then the next day he brings home black sabbath
The fathers of Heavy Metal. Great choice.
I was 9 in 1970, and a neighbor returned from Vietnam and let ne borrow Black Sabbath
Changed my life musically then, still a headbanger
the opening sound effects (rain storm, bell) are the sounds of a funeral - presumably the funeral of the character in the song, as he is on his way to hell
I saw the Sabbath farewell tour in Omaha and they opened with this. Frickin sick. They all still had it.
The song is about a dream that Geezer Butler had
This is the song that changed my life. I first heard this in 1976 when I was 6 years old and I've been a metal head ever since.
Have yall done N.I.B. BY BLACK SABBATH? for a change with sabbath you should check out BLACK SABBATH- Planet Caravan... then you could do the Pantera cover of Planet Caravan
This is the music I play when I enter a room!🤘🤘🤘
Thank you gustav holst
I was 7 years old in 1969 when my pops played this song, I didn't come out of my room for three days
because it scared the crap out of me. I learned to love it when I hit my teens.
I made a similar comment, although it wasn't my dad, it was my best friend's older cousin - he was kinda a biker dude who already intimidated me, and he blasted this for us and the entire neighborhood to hear (he lived in their garage, my friend's parents couldn't get rid of him).
I felt the same way about it being my favorite Black Sabbath song until I heard N.I.B same album
agree...NIB is my vfavorite Sabbath song
I was born the day before this came out👿
How many Garbage Pail Kids t-shirts does Smokey own?? Ive seen him in a few.........i probably still have my collection of cards somewhere 😂😂
I was listening to this in high school and I'm 60. I love watching people hearing it for the first time
Black Sabbath.... Hand of Doom
I can still remember the first time I heard this song 51years ago changed my life and many others I just stood there in amazement could not believe what I was hearing
That album and song were the birth of heavy metal
It's crazy to think that Black Sabbaths entire debut album was recorded in a single day from beginning to end. That day created 50 years of heavy metal and counting and inspired millions of people to make music.
I must admit, this is not the kind of music I usually listen to,but this was incredible. Ozzy's vocals gave me goosebumps.
WELCOME TO METAL MAN.. FIRST SONG, FIRST ALBUM, FIRST METAL BAND. BLACK SABBATH, ON BLACK SABBATH, BY BLACK SABBATH
OZZY HAS A SLEW OF ALBUMS AS WELL WITH ANOTHER BAND
ROCK ON GUYS.. 👊🖖
The world was not ready for this when it dropped...was expecting it to go straight into the Wizard
Geezer Butler was the lyricist as far as I remember
It's about making a statement that this is the very first Metal Song !!! The lyrics is just that and the music is just that as well !!! It's just the very beginning of Metal Music as simple as that !!! The feeling, the creepiness, the lyrics, the music make this song the greatest success in Metal History 🤘🤘🤘
...if one has the skills and plays this with his band like it should be, one will tap in to the power of the Metal Gods!
Geezer Butler, the bass player, wrote all of the lyrics. Ozzy would come up with a melody to whatever the band was playing, and Geezer would fit his lyrics into Ozzy's melody
You must listen to the type o negative version in the tribute album.
Thanks "Trash Talkers" for all the good songs from Germany and Black Sabbath is one of the best albums from 70ies ever!
Fun fact the riff of this song would get you killed in the middle ages due too the fact it was believed to summon Satan
The birth of Heavy Metal 🤘
Black Sabbath are forever the Godfathers of Metal 🤘
Those 3 guitar notes got them banned by the BBC. They said it was satanic. One DJ called Allen Freeman gave the BBC the proverbial finger and played their music anyway, but the BBC couldn't fire him because he was far to popular. His nick name was Fluff and sabbath wrote an instrumental called Fluff to honour him. It's a beautiful, gentle acoustic piece which is so far away from their usual music.
Since it's Halloween you should react to Kind Diamond Halloween.
Even better Mercyful Fate THE BELL WITCH, one of the best songs by Mercyful Fate!
Ozzy said this was the very first song he wrote in his life. Cool stuff.
For a very different kind of feel over the Halloween period you could do something very different. There's Ogre Battle by Queen, it's super heavy, their greatest maddest song, ogre, kind of fantasy beast thing (tenuous I know). Or there's Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, based on an ancient book of the same name, where she's a ghost, she'd starved herself and died just after giving birth, trying to contact the man she loved yet she married another!! :) These are very different songs and you've not heard their like before (especially Kate Bush), I think.. :) Nothing like Stranger things BTW
All heavy metal flows out of Black Sabbath, they are the beginning, period!!
Man, expecting it to spill over into The Wizard. The next track. Killer song as well!
they started off wil this song in1968 or 70, nobody was as talented or nuts then they were- they release 13- a few years back, n people abaut shit- rock on guys- there is not gonna be a b.s. anymore. but man , if u think back, hippies were singing happy shit, black sabbath went boom lol, nobody could pull off the shit they did, n the amazing thing is oz, geezeer butler, tony iomi, n bill ward are all still alive-GOD BLESS THE BLACK SABBATH-greatest band ever
I got turned on to Sabbath by watching The Road Warriors come out to Iron Man! Never been a more badass wrestling intro!!
Electric funeral is my request. Geezer butler wrote most of the lyrics, and this whole album was recorded in 1 day. Sabbath is the real deal!
You have 2 more Sabbath classics untouched. Symptom of the Universe & Supernaught. Outrageously good. The drummer Bill Ward wrote a lot of the lyrics along with Ozzy. Ozzy appeared on their first 6 albums (but others much later when they reformed, but 6 of the classic Sabbath albums. .
John Peel (RIP) is the most influencial British radio DJ ever. He championed new, alternative and non commercial music for decades on BBC radio 1(the rest of their output was mostly commercial crap). Metal, punk, grunge, indie, experimental, dub, reggae, funk, soul, hip-hop, techno, world, jazz, the list goes on and on. He played what no other DJs would play. He's a British institution.
You guys have THE FUNNIEST videos before your intros. I'm rolling!!!
It's so crazy how Sabbath evolved as a band....they started out so occult and by album 8 Never Say Die with Ozzy they were getting very experimental but still metal and even improved
Nothing will top the optional, but you should check out Type o Negative's version of this song. Followed by Type o's version of Paranoid!
Black Sabbath does not have 60 albums. lol. Or did it say 16? That's wrong, also, even if that is what it said.
Ozzy is on 9 BS albums. Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970), Master of Reality (1971), Vol. 4 (1972), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973), Sabotage (1975), Technical Ecstasy (1976), Never Say Die! (1978) and 13 (2013).
Geezer Butler (bass) wrote most of the lyrics in the Ozzy era of BS I believe.
Dio is on 4 BS albums (if you count The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, which you should). Heaven and Hell (1980), Mob Rules (1981), Dehumanizer (1992) and The Devil You Know (2009).
Dio wrote most of the lyrics while he was with BS.