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Two drummers you should check out, Ron Lipniski and Jason Bittner. They fly under the radar playing for Overkill but they are awesome. Definitely recommend Bring me The Night, Electric Rattlesnake, and Mean Green Killing Machine. Warning this is one of the premier thrash bands, predating Metallica by 6 months and still putting music out. Cheers
Before being the bass player for Sabbath, Geezer was a rythm guitarist and, for me, it explains his kind of bass playing. He plays what can be called rhythm bass and it gives Sabbath this huge big fat sound.
Wicked World was NOT recorded during the 12-hour album recording session. Those 12 hours were in October. Wicked World was recorded on November 17, 1969 to be used as a B-side to Evil Woman (which was recorded on Nov 10). The album Sabbath wanted to make was recorded in one day, but the record company wanted a single, so that got recorded later.
I’m pretty sure Tony mentions in his autobiography that he used his Fender Stratocaster in this and it stopped working due to the pickups of it, and that’s why this song sounds different compared to the rest in term of his guitar sound due to it being the first song recorded in that session and not using his Gibson SG.
I was enterning into the world of sab after getting their earliest albums EXCEPT their first one. Then one day, on a vacation road trip, we stopped in this tiny town where I saw a record shop. There I found that album AND Live At Last, the first I ever heard of Sab well before I knew the band's name even, I just loved their sound. Borrowned money from me parentd and watched over those albums till we got home, FINALLY. Put them on th3e turn tablle and I was never the same again.
@Andrew Rooney Sabbath took the original which was composed by Ansley Dunbar and made it their own. That's why you don't see them play that live. An absolute masterpiece. It's not an original Black Sabbath song but you would never know
Love this song so much. Hearkens me right back to 1980, this LP, headphones and bong hits. Ward is a huge influence on my drumming style to this day...
Warning shows you how metal evolved from the blues, just in the guitar solo. Geezer's counter-melodic bass with theblown speaker fuzz is outstanding and the most unique bass sound in the biz.
Wicked World is first song they recorded, this how they sounded before Toni's Strats pickup broke he had to switch to his back up guitar the 64 P90 SG Thats how the "Sabbath" sound was born. Very different feel.
Yeah, I was 15 years old growing up in the family farm in South Texas, the open fields of Cotten and grain sorghum when Black sabbath came out with warning-Sleeping Village-Wicked World and more. Maaan what a series of songs to listen to! Later in life when I turned 21 I was listening to these songs with my older brothers that had not heard these songs and they were blown away! Imagine, the Hippie years just behind us and Vietnam just over and we were into Drag Racing, sitting in a dark room with loudspeakers, black lights and black light posters and drinking beer with Mary Jane in the air! We could feel the vibrations, the easiness of how it would make us! We fell into this feeling of love and joyful bliss! We could immerse ourselves in a different world of peace and serenity, a calmness without having a want-except-give me another drink! We eventually became normal citizens, a Texas State Trooper, Ret. Army General, a president of his own long-distance provider and I became a technical Technician on heavy equipment and an Official at the Dragstrip and an author. Not bad for a band of Native American Apache Indians! Precious Memories! Amaizing, we survived those years! Far Out! Grovey!
That was the most DOPE album of all time. It changed the life and musical trajectory of me and everyone I hung out with, they became a north star that guided you through the many changes in heavy music, the were it then and still it for me 53 years later. My friend bought it and we listened to it a week or so after it being released and having no idea what it would sound like, he bought it for the album cover. The 'Witch' on the cover said their was mystery and something sinister within, could not have imagined how much. Great album, more Sabbath, please! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
Interesting little fact for you. The picture on the front of this album was taken at a place called Mapledurham Mill near Reading, Berkshire. The Mill looks almost identical today as it did then.
I kinda think itd be better to follow them chronologically. So Paranoid next, and my personal fave, Masters Of Reality after. But yes, I cant wait to hear him do Vol 4 as well! The last perfect Sabbath album.
Lmao exactly … Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are both still phenomenal albums but not on par with the first 4, and the last two 1st gen Ozzy are just ok.
I absolutely love to hear/see the younger generation discover Black Sabbath. I discovered them in 78. I stumbled across this album and when I heard it my life changed. Everything you are saying I tried to tell my friends and they looked at me like I had three heads ….while they were listening to their hair bands. I just watched a bunch of your Sabbath reactions and you made my day.
I've watched all of your Black Sabbath videos. You and your analysis have raised my appreciation of the band to a whole new level. Especially when I'm just a curious rhytm and tone deaf bassist :D Master of reality was my first vinyl back in the 80's when I was 14-15 and I've loved the band ever since. Now even more and thanks to your reactions I kind of go back in time and get to remember those feelings I had when listening to them the first time myself. Thank you!
just a quick note if no one has mentioned it. Black Sabbath was a pure blues band touring the clubs around Europe before they started putting the heavy rock feel in to break out main stream. there are a few versions of warning you can find that vary artistically while staying the same song. by the time they decided they were heavy rock they had many hours of playing together and were not just tight but in my opinion perfect together.
Thanks for getting to these. Warning is a standout favorite listen kinda of track because it was so different and it is technically a cover with a long jammed out section in the middle to ending portion of the show. The guitar solo in Warning is pretty much a condensed version of a solo that was in their live sets before the 1st album was even recorded. For us here in USA our version didn't have Evil Woman on it and instead had Wicked World and I always thought and felt that Evil Woman was the out of place track on that album. Mainly because it was a cover that they didn't really want to record because they didn't think the vibe was right but it was a record company choice to have them record Evil Woman and release it as a single in the UK. Wicked World by the way is the 1st song (according to Geezer and or Tony I think) that Sabbath ever wrote. The trashy sound you guys here is probably if I had to guess more a mastering issue than a clear choice to have the song sound a certain way and different from the rest of the album. I don't think this track was properly finished because it was a track for the American version only.I could be wrong though. Evil Woman was a single and if you listen to that track it sounds much louder and much more clear than Wicked World. I believe this track was inspired by the very early days of Sabbath when they were a blues band and still called Earth. It was pretty much what their sound was at the very beginning when they had just started in '68 I think. The sound of this 1st album didn't last too long. Paranoid is a great 2nd album choice I think. I think they kind of compliment each other well song wise anyway. You should really get into Black Sabbath Vol 4 next. There's is some KILLER Bill Ward drumming on Vol 4 like on songs Supernaut and Underthe Sun. You will dig those Andrew I'm sure of it.
Even as a kid listening to it a long time ago, I always liked the raw feeling and bleed from the Drums. Made it feel authentic and real… Nice reaction Andrew!😊
Hi Andrew, I’ve been enjoying watching you discover my favorite band. Purchased my first Sabbath album in 1974. To get a real idea, about their reach on metal music. You should check out the 2 Nativity in Black albums. You will get a scope of Sabbath’s influence. All performed by modern metal bands. You can hear the love those bands have for Sabbath.
A 5 year old me walked into my sisters bedroom when the Wizard was playing and my world changed forever. As a 46 year old man i have probably been in more discussions with people about this band more than any other. Sabbath are so misunderstood and honestly many people have a preconceived notion of what they were. Most people are floored when i play them this amazingly rich blues/jazz music that is just cranked up a little louder. Sabbath were amazing. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, volume 4 And sabotage should be full album listens… i mean the whole first 8 albums should be… then the Dio stuff… dude you’re in for a treat!
This was the first song (Wicked World) they recorded for the album; I think Iommi played a Strat on it. It definitely sounds different from the rest of the album.
I've been listening to this for over 40 years,and never tire of it and to watch you review it is refreshing like hearing it for the first time.........Wicked world wasn't originally on the British release.
Yay finally getting to these two songs. I know everybody requested them but I kind of bothered you about them. You promised you would do them and sure enough. 😎
Whole album was recorded in single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Iommi said: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. There were minimal overdubs. It cost £200 to record I think..
Damn.. I get goosebumps every time I hear the song Warning. And when you say it's all Blues, and I think, wait until the Shufle part comes, then damn.... Then even the hair on the big toes rises. 🤘😄👍🇫🇮
You were so right. This is one to listen to start to finish. Love your reactions. Not a drummer but a bass player here and this album has taught me bunches.
If there was such thing as a perfect band it would have to be black sabbath. I can still remember the first time I heard these guys they were completely on another level that I’ve never heard before
Andrew don't apologise for having ears that work and a brain that comprehends .Make the most of it, believe me it doesn't last forever! What you hear and what you make of it is your honest perception. I happen to agree with your analysis and I've been listening to it for over 40 years. I feel that this album has all the Ingredients of what's to come. And with songs like Black Sabbath and NIB clears the way for future bands. Nothing like it before. Much like it since! ✌️❤️ Peace and love brother 🤗
yes, 4 of my 10 first records where black sabath back 40 years ago. but i admit in the last 25 years i probably didnt listen once to this album ...today i will go and search the vinyl and have nice listening experience ...like back in the days
@@Pausenton All my early records I experienced in mono. I had a hand me down record player. I managed to find a pair of small speakers and wired them up aged about 8 . Of course it still wasn't stereo just 2 ×mono. With the power amp section struggling but sounded fine to me. At about 11 years old I got a potable cassette radio boom box type thing . It had auxiliary speaker outlets . In stereo of course. I bought a pair of giant wharfedale speakers at a local village auction for £7. Hooked them up to the boom box with no idea of impedance or power output .. They sounded great . The boom box survived this ordeal until I left home at about 18 . I took the speakers and left the boombox for my parents to use. They still have it today. It must be around 45 years old . Still working fine. 👍❤️🤗
The main thing that makes watching song reaction/analysis videos enjoyable and worth our time is the reactor's honesty, Andrew. Don't ever apologise for having an opinion: that's _exactly_ why we come here, to hear your (expert) opinion on the songs we love. Otherwise, we'd would just listen to the song on our own. I really hate it when reactors react with "ooohs" and "ahhhs" they don't mean, just because they think that's what we want to hear. What would be the point? _We_ already love those songs, we don't need to be "convinced" the songs are good. Keep up the good work and the honest, unfiltered opinions coming, bud! 👍
I love how you explain how Bill reacts to Tony and Geezer. I remember on The Last Supper DVD when they interview Bill in the late 90s and he talks about reacting to them but young me didn’t understand what he meant at the time. Thanks for closing the loop for me after all these years!
I knew you'd love this. I urge you to take a look at Brown Sabbath, an 8 - 9 piece band who do Black Sabbath covers complete with horns and congo drums especially ' fairies wear boots ' not neccesarily to analyze but for your own interest
Andrew! I’m so glad you discovered Sabbath! I am 54 and have been listening to them since I was 9. I’ve enjoyed your videos and would love if you reacted weekly to every Sabbath album!🤘🏼🤘🏼👍
Eat it raw and smile! Thief first album was just about as organic as it gets! You summed it up perfectly, birth of a new era replete with all the pains of labor and growing up.
The first Sabbath album is a masterpiece that most people could never understand. The pocket Bill and Geezer make is Awesome. Toni actually used a fender strat recording wicked world.
This album was a favourite of my late brother in law,it was a hell of a surprise to him when I dragged it out and flopped it on the turntable,it took him right back to being a young fella
I first bought this album when I was in high school in 1976. At that time the U.S. release that I bought had the following track listing: 1) Black Sabbath 2) The Wizard 3) Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B. 4) Wicked World 5) A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning This is the version and song listing I'm familiar with, which closes the album with Warning, which I think works great as a closing. At any rate, one of my favorite albums of all time. I still listen to it regularly. Evil Woman wasn't on the version I got. I never even heard that one until years later. (I don't really care for that song.) Anyway, I really enjoy your channel. Cheers!
I love these, I've listened to these songs for decades but your ear notices things for the first time that I didn't notice or at least understand this whole time. This is what reaction channels should be, entertaining and informative. Don't hold back on your opinions, I think the band agreed with you because wicked world wasn't included in the european version of the album untill the 90s.
My friend saw an early show and he was so high he passed out. But at what is equivalent to 20:19 on your video he woke up on the floor of the Portland Memorial Coliseum and experienced the rest of it.
Glad to see somebody that enjoys volume one as much as I do the story alone of how it was recorded is enough to make it my favorite let alone the music
Being a Brummie myself and used to rehearse at Rich Bitch Studios in Selly Oak, Sabbath also used this venue and had the pleasure of meeting them all. Top guys and had the time to help our band massively with production and sound.
The warning is really interesting. It is a 10: 33 remake of the original made by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliatio in 1967 which was "only" 3:27 long. It is like Black Sabbath has totally re-written the song. It sounds completly different and much more exciting. Geezer bass here is stunning, a true beauty
As others have pointed out Warning was recorded previously along with Evil Women. What is also different is Tony is playing a Fender Stratocaster on these tracks. It’s pickups died literally as they started recording Black Sabbath Black Sabbath. He had a Gibson SG as a backup guitar and the rest is metal history.
you need to play the whole thing A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning, the part at 3:00 is probably my favourite part of any black sabbath song
I love the ambiance of this album…like a fly on the wall during a band’s rehearsal. I swear the bass is louder than the guitar. I could be wrong, but it’s definitely on par with the guitar, volume wise. And the wicked world intro sounds like Davis and Coltrane jamming
Reason for the guitar sounding different in Wicked World, it's the only Sabbath song recorded with a Fender Stratocaster. WW, was the first track recorded and immediately afterwards the electrics packed up on the Strat and Tony had to use his back up guitar for the rest of the session and as it turned out the rest of his life. The Gibson SG.
Geezer's sound on the first few albums was amazing, in 74 while touring in the US if I remember correctly, he opened his case and someone had taken a hammer to his Precision, he said he never found that sound again.
Hi Andrew, Wicked World was added later, pretty much for the American market, the UK version ended with Warning! I think Wicked World was just plucked ‘off the floor’ so to speak, from other recordings that were lying around, then added for the sake of padding the album out?!
Andrew so glad you got to hit Warning, it is so good, the improv section shows how good all 3 musicians are, if you get chance I recommend you take a listen to the live version from a concert in Lausanne in 1970, maybe not for the channel but your personal listening, it is 30 minutes long and pure joy especially Bill Ward he is exceptional for 30 minutes.
![Debut Album, Side 2 [Black Sabbath Reaction] - Sleeping Village, Warning, Wicked World, Evil Woman](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zTHOMXP6YsE/mqdefault.jpg)
Finally I got a chance to finish this album. What can this band NOT do!?
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You’ve gotta do the live version of wicked world… the 17 minute version.
Then check out Under the Sun from Vol. 4
Two drummers you should check out, Ron Lipniski and Jason Bittner. They fly under the radar playing for Overkill but they are awesome. Definitely recommend Bring me The Night, Electric Rattlesnake, and Mean Green Killing Machine. Warning this is one of the premier thrash bands, predating Metallica by 6 months and still putting music out. Cheers
I must say, Sabbath was the first band where I noticed drums, bass, guitar and vocals equally
Geezer and Bill are one of the, if not the, best rock/blues rhythm sections of all time. Has been my favorite band since birth. Thank you Momma!
They outclass most if not all other bands I've ever heard in a very full way. It's a bit insane.
Warning is a Masterpiece .....Jazzy, Bluesy, Heavy, Groovy!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah. That's a banger!
Before being the bass player for Sabbath, Geezer was a rythm guitarist and, for me, it explains his kind of bass playing. He plays what can be called rhythm bass and it gives Sabbath this huge big fat sound.
Well said Dominique!
What also helped was that when he got his first guitar it only had two strings😂
Wicked World was NOT recorded during the 12-hour album recording session. Those 12 hours were in October. Wicked World was recorded on November 17, 1969 to be used as a B-side to Evil Woman (which was recorded on Nov 10).
The album Sabbath wanted to make was recorded in one day, but the record company wanted a single, so that got recorded later.
Oh right. Thanks for the info!
Wicked World was on the US Warner Bros edition instead of Evil Woman
I’m pretty sure Tony mentions in his autobiography that he used his Fender Stratocaster in this and it stopped working due to the pickups of it, and that’s why this song sounds different compared to the rest in term of his guitar sound due to it being the first song recorded in that session and not using his Gibson SG.
I probably didn't have to shout there. Sorry about that.
@@SylviusTheMad LOL...
no one should question this album. It means so much to so many people
I was enterning into the world of sab after getting their earliest albums EXCEPT their first one. Then one day, on a vacation road trip, we stopped in this tiny town where I saw a record shop. There I found that album AND Live At Last, the first I ever heard of Sab well before I knew the band's name even, I just loved their sound. Borrowned money from me parentd and watched over those albums till we got home, FINALLY. Put them on th3e turn tablle and I was never the same again.
Warning is just sooooooooooo freaking good! The first album is a work of audio and artistic perfection. It's literally eye watering.
Agree. Absolute work of art
The entire first album makes me feel very happy. It’s just true and real. It’s my favorite Sabbath album. And I don’t think it gets its do.
@Andrew Rooney Sabbath took the original which was composed by Ansley Dunbar and made it their own. That's why you don't see them play that live. An absolute masterpiece. It's not an original Black Sabbath song but you would never know
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Yeah cause isn't the original about 3min30s so they certainly made it their own
I must go back and give it a listen
@@matthewmcalley392 it's one of my favorites
It took me a coupla years to be able to listen to this alone, in the dark...when I was an impressionable youth 😏
The intensity was overwhelming!
Love this song so much. Hearkens me right back to 1980, this LP, headphones and bong hits. Ward is a huge influence on my drumming style to this day...
Andrew, non of your comments would ever offend true Sabbath fans. Your assessment of these 2 songs are spot on. 20 somethings writing blues...
The warning Is fkn brilliant. The absolute overlooked gem. Geezer is that galloping bottomend thats just relentless.
Warning shows you how metal evolved from the blues, just in the guitar solo. Geezer's counter-melodic bass with theblown speaker fuzz is outstanding and the most unique bass sound in the biz.
Wicked World is first song they recorded, this how they sounded before Toni's Strats pickup broke he had to switch to his back up guitar the 64 P90 SG Thats how the "Sabbath" sound was born. Very different feel.
Then they wrote the absolute masterpiece Black Sabbath and they skyrocketed to fame
Very cool historical nugget.
Yeah, I was 15 years old growing up in the family farm in South Texas, the open fields of Cotten and grain sorghum when Black sabbath came out with warning-Sleeping Village-Wicked World and more. Maaan what a series of songs to listen to! Later in life when I turned 21 I was listening to these songs with my older brothers that had not heard these songs and they were blown away! Imagine, the Hippie years just behind us and Vietnam just over and we were into Drag Racing, sitting in a dark room with loudspeakers, black lights and black light posters and drinking beer with Mary Jane in the air! We could feel the vibrations, the easiness of how it would make us! We fell into this feeling of love and joyful bliss! We could immerse ourselves in a different world of peace and serenity, a calmness without having a want-except-give me another drink! We eventually became normal citizens, a Texas State Trooper, Ret. Army General, a president of his own long-distance provider and I became a technical Technician on heavy equipment and an Official at the Dragstrip and an author. Not bad for a band of Native American Apache Indians! Precious Memories! Amaizing, we survived those years! Far Out! Grovey!
That was the most DOPE album of all time. It changed the life and musical trajectory of me and everyone I hung out with, they became a north star that guided you through the many changes in heavy music, the were it then and still it for me 53 years later. My friend bought it and we listened to it a week or so after it being released and having no idea what it would sound like, he bought it for the album cover. The 'Witch' on the cover said their was mystery and something sinister within, could not have imagined how much. Great album, more Sabbath, please! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶
The recording quality of the first album is incredibly good. Blows my mind.
It’s amazing how self-assured they sound…they improvise off each other like they had been playing together for 25 years. Just fantastic.
Interesting little fact for you. The picture on the front of this album was taken at a place called Mapledurham Mill near Reading, Berkshire. The Mill looks almost identical today as it did then.
Time to check out Volume 4. Sabbath furthering mastering their craft. Enjoy the journey!
Vol 4 is my favorite. So incredible
I kinda think itd be better to follow them chronologically. So Paranoid next, and my personal fave, Masters Of Reality after. But yes, I cant wait to hear him do Vol 4 as well! The last perfect Sabbath album.
Yes.
It was goodbye blues, hello cocaine and heavy metal.
Lmao exactly … Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are both still phenomenal albums but not on par with the first 4, and the last two 1st gen Ozzy are just ok.
oh hell yea, Supernaut!!!
13:30-13:54 is one of the best all-time "Bring it all back down to earth, get back in the groove, bang your head" moments in heavy metal history.
Yep absolutely mind blowing
Incredible Cliff
I absolutely love to hear/see the younger generation discover Black Sabbath. I discovered them in 78. I stumbled across this album and when I heard it my life changed. Everything you are saying I tried to tell my friends and they looked at me like I had three heads ….while they were listening to their hair bands. I just watched a bunch of your Sabbath reactions and you made my day.
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I've watched all of your Black Sabbath videos. You and your analysis have raised my appreciation of the band to a whole new level. Especially when I'm just a curious rhytm and tone deaf bassist :D
Master of reality was my first vinyl back in the 80's when I was 14-15 and I've loved the band ever since. Now even more and thanks to your reactions I kind of go back in time and get to remember those feelings I had when listening to them the first time myself. Thank you!
just a quick note if no one has mentioned it. Black Sabbath was a pure blues band touring the clubs around Europe before they started putting the heavy rock feel in to break out main stream. there are a few versions of warning you can find that vary artistically while staying the same song. by the time they decided they were heavy rock they had many hours of playing together and were not just tight but in my opinion perfect together.
Thanks for getting to these. Warning is a standout favorite listen kinda of track because it was so different and it is technically a cover with a long jammed out section in the middle to ending portion of the show. The guitar solo in Warning is pretty much a condensed version of a solo that was in their live sets before the 1st album was even recorded. For us here in USA our version didn't have Evil Woman on it and instead had Wicked World and I always thought and felt that Evil Woman was the out of place track on that album. Mainly because it was a cover that they didn't really want to record because they didn't think the vibe was right but it was a record company choice to have them record Evil Woman and release it as a single in the UK. Wicked World by the way is the 1st song (according to Geezer and or Tony I think) that Sabbath ever wrote. The trashy sound you guys here is probably if I had to guess more a mastering issue than a clear choice to have the song sound a certain way and different from the rest of the album. I don't think this track was properly finished because it was a track for the American version only.I could be wrong though. Evil Woman was a single and if you listen to that track it sounds much louder and much more clear than Wicked World. I believe this track was inspired by the very early days of Sabbath when they were a blues band and still called Earth. It was pretty much what their sound was at the very beginning when they had just started in '68 I think. The sound of this 1st album didn't last too long. Paranoid is a great 2nd album choice I think. I think they kind of compliment each other well song wise anyway.
You should really get into Black Sabbath Vol 4 next. There's is some KILLER Bill Ward drumming on Vol 4 like on songs Supernaut and Underthe Sun. You will dig those Andrew I'm sure of it.
Even as a kid listening to it a long time ago, I always liked the raw
feeling and bleed from the Drums.
Made it feel authentic and real…
Nice reaction Andrew!😊
Hi Andrew, I’ve been enjoying watching you discover my favorite band. Purchased my first Sabbath album in 1974. To get a real idea, about their reach on metal music. You should check out the 2 Nativity in Black albums. You will get a scope of Sabbath’s influence. All performed by modern metal bands. You can hear the love those bands have for Sabbath.
A 5 year old me walked into my sisters bedroom when the Wizard was playing and my world changed forever. As a 46 year old man i have probably been in more discussions with people about this band more than any other.
Sabbath are so misunderstood and honestly many people have a preconceived notion of what they were. Most people are floored when i play them this amazingly rich blues/jazz music that is just cranked up a little louder.
Sabbath were amazing. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, volume 4 And sabotage should be full album listens… i mean the whole first 8 albums should be… then the Dio stuff… dude you’re in for a treat!
Finally!! Best songs on the album!!! Imagine creating this music back in -69, what were they thinking??
Thank you for the good music and this album is the best album from Black Sabbath from 1970. Over 50 Years old...
This was the first song (Wicked World) they recorded for the album; I think Iommi played a Strat on it. It definitely sounds different from the rest of the album.
This is a cover! Check out the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation's first version.
I've been listening to this for over 40 years,and never tire of it and to watch you review it is refreshing like hearing it for the first time.........Wicked world wasn't originally on the British release.
Thank you Rich 🙏
First album is a masterpiece, period.
Agree Matt
Yay finally getting to these two songs. I know everybody requested them but I kind of bothered you about them. You promised you would do them and sure enough. 😎
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im so glad yo are able to understand BLACK SABBATH! What a fuckin great band!!!!!
Whole album was recorded in single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Iommi said: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it.
There were minimal overdubs. It cost £200 to record I think..
This must have been mind blowing when it came out… dark, heavy, blues and swing.
Damn.. I get goosebumps every time I hear the song Warning. And when you say it's all Blues, and I think, wait until the Shufle part comes, then damn....
Then even the hair on the big toes rises. 🤘😄👍🇫🇮
Thank you Black Sabbath.
From the first time hearing this in about 1974 it has been and always will be my favourite track ever, just brilliant.
Finally. Can't wait. Too excited. It really was a work in progress this first album you did not cover entirely.
It's so great that the newer generation is learning about Black Sabbath.
I was 8 years old when I bought this album. 1974.
You were so right. This is one to listen to start to finish. Love your reactions. Not a drummer but a bass player here and this album has taught me bunches.
If there was such thing as a perfect band it would have to be black sabbath. I can still remember the first time I heard these guys they were completely on another level that I’ve never heard before
"How dirty can these guys get?" - Well we have 'Fairies Wear Boots' just sat here waiting for you.
I'm on it!
Wicked World was on the US edition and Evil Woman on the British version of the album
Andrew don't apologise for having ears that work and a brain that comprehends .Make the most of it, believe me it doesn't last forever!
What you hear and what you make of it is your honest perception. I happen to agree with your analysis and I've been listening to it for over 40 years. I feel that this album has all the Ingredients of what's to come. And with songs like Black Sabbath and NIB clears the way for future bands. Nothing like it before. Much like it since!
✌️❤️ Peace and love brother 🤗
yes, 4 of my 10 first records where black sabath back 40 years ago. but i admit in the last 25 years i probably didnt listen once to this album ...today i will go and search the vinyl and have nice listening experience ...like back in the days
@@Pausenton All my early records I experienced in mono. I had a hand me down record player. I managed to find a pair of small speakers and wired them up aged about 8 . Of course it still wasn't stereo just 2 ×mono. With the power amp section struggling but sounded fine to me. At about 11 years old I got a potable cassette radio boom box type thing . It had auxiliary speaker outlets . In stereo of course. I bought a pair of giant wharfedale speakers at a local village auction for £7. Hooked them up to the boom box with no idea of impedance or power output .. They sounded great . The boom box survived this ordeal until I left home at about 18 . I took the speakers and left the boombox for my parents to use. They still have it today. It must be around 45 years old . Still working fine.
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Glad you finally got to these two. I used your term, "comping" the other day when discussing music. Great songs. Great reaction.
More SABBATH baby! Perfect way to start off a Sunday
They just did live video of Wicked World here a couple years ago, it's on you tube, and it is spot on.
Oh wow
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation 1967
Did the original version of Warning
Finally Wicked World 🌎🌎 Love Jazz hi-hat intro Bill's performance is magical Heavy riffs by Tony and Jazz Heavy Metal was born
The main thing that makes watching song reaction/analysis videos enjoyable and worth our time is the reactor's honesty, Andrew. Don't ever apologise for having an opinion: that's _exactly_ why we come here, to hear your (expert) opinion on the songs we love. Otherwise, we'd would just listen to the song on our own.
I really hate it when reactors react with "ooohs" and "ahhhs" they don't mean, just because they think that's what we want to hear. What would be the point? _We_ already love those songs, we don't need to be "convinced" the songs are good.
Keep up the good work and the honest, unfiltered opinions coming, bud! 👍
I love how you explain how Bill reacts to Tony and Geezer. I remember on The Last Supper DVD when they interview Bill in the late 90s and he talks about reacting to them but young me didn’t understand what he meant at the time. Thanks for closing the loop for me after all these years!
On my vinyl Sabbath album from the 70s Warning is the final track on side 2. It opens w Wicked World on side 2
Oh right. Thanks Billy
If you think about it, playing the way they did in the studio, made it much easier to replicate their sound live. Genius.
11:52 Tony's rake slide into a neck bend for the change-up .. Eddie VH definitely practiced to that one.
Nice catch!
My favorite Black Sabbath song, probably. There are a lot to choose from, but this is an underrated classic.
I knew you'd love this. I urge you to take a look at Brown Sabbath, an 8 - 9 piece band who do Black Sabbath covers complete with horns and congo drums especially ' fairies wear boots ' not neccesarily to analyze but for your own interest
Still amazed at the sound quality of this album, given how and when this was recorded. Stunning
Andrew! I’m so glad you discovered Sabbath! I am 54 and have been listening to them since I was 9. I’ve enjoyed your videos and would love if you reacted weekly to every Sabbath album!🤘🏼🤘🏼👍
Eat it raw and smile! Thief first album was just about as organic as it gets! You summed it up perfectly, birth of a new era replete with all the pains of labor and growing up.
The first Sabbath album is a masterpiece that most people could never understand. The pocket Bill and Geezer make is Awesome. Toni actually used a fender strat recording wicked world.
This album was a favourite of my late brother in law,it was a hell of a surprise to him when I dragged it out and flopped it on the turntable,it took him right back to being a young fella
Bill considers himself an orchestral drummer. Explains his different approach to things.
Yes indeed. He comps. He doesn't play 'beats'
I first bought this album when I was in high school in 1976. At that time the U.S. release that I bought had the following track listing:
1) Black Sabbath
2) The Wizard
3) Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B.
4) Wicked World
5) A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning
This is the version and song listing I'm familiar with, which closes the album with Warning, which I think works great as a closing. At any rate, one of my favorite albums of all time. I still listen to it regularly.
Evil Woman wasn't on the version I got. I never even heard that one until years later. (I don't really care for that song.) Anyway, I really enjoy your channel. Cheers!
I love these, I've listened to these songs for decades but your ear notices things for the first time that I didn't notice or at least understand this whole time. This is what reaction channels should be, entertaining and informative.
Don't hold back on your opinions, I think the band agreed with you because wicked world wasn't included in the european version of the album untill the 90s.
My friend saw an early show and he was so high he passed out. But at what is equivalent to 20:19 on your video he woke up on the floor of the Portland Memorial Coliseum and experienced the rest of it.
AMAZING
truly a mind and string bending ending to the album
That's for real.
Of all the surprises so far with Black Sabbath....
Glad to see somebody that enjoys volume one as much as I do the story alone of how it was recorded is enough to make it my favorite let alone the music
My favorite Sabbath song of ALL time.
Wicked world wasn’t the ending track on the album. The warning was plus the sleeping village along with it in the beginning
Thank you!
When I first bought this album I was an immediate fan and to this day I still am after purchasing it in 1972
Warning is my favorite Black Sabbath song, a masterpiece for a "new" band in 1969-1970.
Being a Brummie myself and used to rehearse at Rich Bitch Studios in Selly Oak, Sabbath also used this venue and had the pleasure of meeting them all. Top guys and had the time to help our band massively with production and sound.
The warning is really interesting. It is a 10: 33 remake of the original made by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliatio in 1967 which was "only" 3:27 long. It is like Black Sabbath has totally re-written the song. It sounds completly different and much more exciting. Geezer bass here is stunning, a true beauty
As others have pointed out Warning was recorded previously along with Evil Women. What is also different is Tony is playing a Fender Stratocaster on these tracks. It’s pickups died literally as they started recording Black Sabbath Black Sabbath. He had a Gibson SG as a backup guitar and the rest is metal history.
WOW!
Amazing! Been so great watching u discover and share!
you need to play the whole thing A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning, the part at 3:00 is probably my favourite part of any black sabbath song
I just realized that part of The Warning sounds just like UFO's live version of Boogie for George - or rather, vice versa, since Sab were first.
I always say, Black Sabbath don’t just play you a song, they take you on a fucking journey man
I love the ambiance of this album…like a fly on the wall during a band’s rehearsal.
I swear the bass is louder than the guitar. I could be wrong, but it’s definitely on par with the guitar, volume wise.
And the wicked world intro sounds like Davis and Coltrane jamming
THE DRUMS ARE IN THE BACK GROUND TAKING UP SPACE IS SO COOL
Love it!. Wish I had seen the premiere but this is fun to catch up on a couple days later. Thank you!
Reason for the guitar sounding different in Wicked World, it's the only Sabbath song recorded with a Fender Stratocaster. WW, was the first track recorded and immediately afterwards the electrics packed up on the Strat and Tony had to use his back up guitar for the rest of the session and as it turned out the rest of his life. The Gibson SG.
Awesome Info!
Geezer's sound on the first few albums was amazing, in 74 while touring in the US if I remember correctly, he opened his case and someone had taken a hammer to his Precision, he said he never found that sound again.
NEVER SAY DIE!
You will love that Sabbath album
You don't get any more ominous than singing about a World as Wicked as this one.
Live this band!
3:34 Couldn't agree more Andrew -- Geezer is badass
Warning a true classic Mind blowing Debut album Tony Bill Geezer Ozzy they define the genre
not forgetting that this album was put down live in 12 hours on 8 track ( couple of overdubs is all ) Wicked World was not on our UK album
Hi Andrew, Wicked World was added later, pretty much for the American market, the UK version ended with Warning! I think Wicked World was just plucked ‘off the floor’ so to speak, from other recordings that were lying around, then added for the sake of padding the album out?!
I dont uderstand how in your early 20's you cant acheive this kind of musicality.they are all so good and created a brand new sound.
Originals
greatest recording ever !!!
Live, Sabbath did an extended jazz break during Wicked World. The live compilation Past Lives features it.
This song got me playing the guitar now for 45 years now.
Thank you for finishing the album! Such a masterpiece. I love Black Sabbath!
Also the best bass line ever
Andrew so glad you got to hit Warning, it is so good, the improv section shows how good all 3 musicians are, if you get chance I recommend you take a listen to the live version from a concert in Lausanne in 1970, maybe not for the channel but your personal listening, it is 30 minutes long and pure joy especially Bill Ward he is exceptional for 30 minutes.