My favorite album, ALL-TIME, period. Wore out 4 albums (after I played the album once, I went back to the record shop and bought the other 3) and I had a really good stereo, even in 1970 (Marantz receiver, w/ Gerrard zero100 turntable) The 4th album I taped on cassette and wore out the cassette, so I taped it again, till the mid-80's when the Compact Disc, was invented. In 1970 I was 22yo. budding "Rocker". I also went to the pawn shop and bought a Gibson SG, and tried to emulate Tommy Iommi guitar tone. When I saw them for the first time later in '70 (I've seen them 7 times in concert), I saw he used Laney Amps and he had special pick-up's installed in his SG. I still have that guitar set-up today (54 years later). Anyway, I admired them to this day. Great reaction to a great song !!
Check out their studio versions, they put a lot into them to express a musical experience. Each song is like a little musical excursion. It's cool getting to see you enjoying it. I first heard Paranoid in 1974, I was 14. I still can't get enough, Thanks again for the great reaction.
I was 14 when this came out this was the opening track the whole album was a vibe, first the spooky album cover picture then the poem inside the gate fold followed that by the thunder and rain and heavy metal was born. Poem below. "Still falls the rain,the veils of darkness shroud the blackened trees, which, contorted by some unseen violence,shed their tired leaves, and bend their boughs toward a gray earth of severed bird wings. Among the grasses, poppies bleed before a gesticulating death, and young rabbits, born dead in traps,stand motionless, as though guarding the silence that surrounds and threatens to engulf all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of repeating yesterdays terrors,huddle together in the recesses of dark corners, heads turned from the dead, black swan that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow. There emerges from this pool a faint,sensual mist,that traces its way upwards to caress the feet of the headless martyr's statuewhose only achievement was to die too soon,and who couldn't wait to loose. The cataract of darkness forms fully,the long black night begins, yet still by the lake a young girlwaits. Unseeing she believes herself unseen, she smiles faintly at the distant tolling bell, and the still falling rain."
What a debut album this is,this title track was like nothing else at the time,this was one of the first albums I bought as a kid,it also happened to be released on my ,4 th birthday in,1970.
@@bjwnashe5589 I would say that the first 6 are excellent, as they are a true manual of everything that heavy metal would become from then on, in all its aspects.
@@marcospman9396 Met too. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are excellent! I like Technical Ecstasy, but it's not in the same league. And Never Say Day is not a bad album, but it's definitely the weaker link in Ozzy's era.
@@freddyfleal I see Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die as good hard/heavy albums from the seventies. Of course, because they stray far from the style that made the band famous, I don't put them on the same level as the first 6 albums.
This is where it all started. When Heavy Blues Rock/R&B, turned in Heavy Rock/Metal. Only shortly before that they were Polka Tulk & then Earth and played Blues & Jazz influenced material. Some of that sound carried over onto the 1st album, but this number was inspired by the occult novels of Dennis Wheatley. The band & song name came from the 1963 Horror movie of the same name by Mario Bava, which included Boris Karloff. The movie was playing in a cinema across the road from where they rehearsed.
Not sure if you know this, but the band was FIRST a Blues/Rock band in 1968 called "The Polka Tulk Blues Band" later changed to just "Earth". Ozzy recalls one day the boys went to a theater and they saw Boris Karloff's movie "Black Sabbath" and either Ozzy or bassist Geezer Butler said "Isn't it weird that people pay money to get the sh*t scared out of them?". Later Geezer wrote the song Black Sabbath and the boys also changed the name of the band to Black Sabbath and debuted their first album entitled Black Sabbath. UNKNOWN to the band the record company put an upside down cross in the album sleeve or jacket and this of course is what made the public label them as devil worshippers and it took YEARS for them to shake that off of them. However, bad publicity is publicity and they themselves sometimes used it as Ozzy would later do also in his solo career! Keep in mind how they were originally a BLUES rock band because there are a LOT of bluesy stuff going on in their first 3 albums in particular.
@@SaeedReacts. if you want a bluesy song check out their cover song of “the Warning” from their first album, it’s like a 20 minute song so go pee first LOL 😂
Way back then the band tried this new track out on a live audience , people had not heard this combination of Horror Rock which we call metal now . iommi said the crowd went wild and they had to play the track a couple more times , he thought to himself " we're on to something here"
I you look at Tony's fretting hand you can see the tips f his fingers are a slightly different colour. This is because the tips were cut off in an industrial accident and he moulded plastic replacements so he could still play (from old washing up liquid bottles}..
I can flip a coin on any day as to my favorite band between Black Sabbath and AC/DC , back in the day alot of people thought they were devil worshipers but if you really listen to the lyrics it's more of a warning that he's out there so becareful and when they started horror movies was kind of big at the theaters and they wanted to make scary music in the same way as the scary movies
Geezer used to dabble in the occult until one night he had a nightmare, this is it. He told Ozzy about it and Ozzy came up with the song. Needless to say, after the nightmare, Geezer got rid of all his occult paraphernalia and put up Crosses everywhere.
@@SaeedReacts. Actually, it's often stated that the tritone was banned by the Catholic Church, usually by musicians & music culture posters. However, it is a myth. The real reason it was not used was that it was classed as dissonance and not suitable for medieval ecclesiastical singing. With the rise of Baroque music (early 1700s) it started to be accepted to create a tension release. The riff of Black Sabbath is an inverted tritone.
As much as I love the grunge/prog era. Black Sabbath 70s, and most music from that time, really tore down the foundation. Or shook it. My favorite rendition, but great reaction all the same.
First track of your first and maybe only album? Break all the rules. Atonal, ultra slow and with a madman on vocals and another on drums. This is not high art, this is great art.
@@SaeedReacts. Imagine when people were listening to the Beatles and then THIS comes out (which btw the Beatles is STILL Ozzy's favorite band of all time)
The band, the album, the song that started it all! This should be in the Smithsonian or something. 🤘🤘 BTW, there is also "Bad Company" by Bad Company, from the album, "Bad Company." 😏
Bro,Thanks for all your hard work uploading today too. I'm becoming more and more interested in how you manage your time rather than the artists. How many videos do you shoot per day?
You are listening to a live version which is really more for those that have previously heard the studio version. Try the studio version first as that is THE version to hear as a first try of Black Sabbath.
I had no idea before i started this was a live version. Usually i go studio first. This was so high up on youtube i assumed it was the studio. Went against my own advice "Never assume" 😅
Check out the album tracks in the chronological fashion I do recommend but maybe that can be difficult if you have to go with recommendations . Their 70s albums are great
Triple BS 😂😂😂 Had never thought of it that way 😂😂 Fairies Wear Boots is an interesting one from the Paranoid album Check out some documentaries about Tony Iommi is talking about how the band started and how he lost a couple of fingers just before his previous band was to start a European tour 😮
OKAY SAEED, SO I GET THE WHOLE WANTING TO SEE THE CONCERT CLIPS BUT STUDIO VERSIONS WITH LYRICS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST WAY TO GO, ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN GET AN ORIGINAL STUDIO JAM RECORDING VIDEO!!! 💯😊 NOW I'VE SAID THIS FOREVER AND A DAY SAEED, EVERYYYYBODYYYYY IN ROCK MUSIC HAS COPIED OR RIPPED OFFFF SABBATH'S GUITARIST ( TONY IOMMI ) PRETTY MUCH FROM ( 80- ON ) SAEED, IMAGINE THAT, HOW PATHETIC AND SAD IS THAT! ☹SO WHAT A WAYYYYY TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF HUH? LMAO, SO REMEMBER ORIGINAL SABBATH WAS ( 70-78 ) AND THAT'S IT!👍OZZY GOT KICKED OUT OF THE BAND😮 AND THEN OF COURSE STARTED HIS OWN EMPIRE WHEN THAT HAPPENED! ANYWAY MAN I'LL STOP RIGHT THERE!
My favorite album, ALL-TIME, period. Wore out 4 albums (after I played the album once, I went back to the record shop and bought the other 3) and I had a really good stereo, even in 1970 (Marantz receiver, w/ Gerrard zero100 turntable) The 4th album I taped on cassette and wore out the cassette, so I taped it again, till the mid-80's when the Compact Disc, was invented.
In 1970 I was 22yo. budding "Rocker". I also went to the pawn shop and bought a Gibson SG, and tried to emulate Tommy Iommi guitar tone. When I saw them for the first time later in '70 (I've seen them 7 times in concert), I saw he used Laney Amps and he had special pick-up's installed in his SG. I still have that guitar set-up today (54 years later). Anyway, I admired them to this day. Great reaction to a great song !!
The riff that gave birth to heavy metal!
The Wizard from this album is fire!!!!!
My mother made me throw away their album in 74, when she heard me listening to this, and told me to go to confession!
The Devil's Tri Tone, the 3 notes used in this song , were banned in England during the medieval, fears of conjuring the devil
You should check out -- Adam Neely's video talking about the persistently popular musical myth: The Devil in music (an untold history of the Tritone)
You're Killin' it lately with your selections. 🙏🎶🎵🔥💯✌️
Thanks!
And there you have the birth of Heavy Metal😈🔥
Vintage Sabbath lets go!
Black Sabbath's N.I.B is also a fantastic track too
Thanks for the recommendation.
SABBATH and SKYNYRD are my favorite bands and you are killing it with great reactions. Thank you
Will check out more of both bands! Thanks for watching!
Check out their studio versions, they put a lot into them to express a musical experience. Each song is like a little musical excursion. It's cool getting to see you enjoying it. I first heard Paranoid in 1974, I was 14. I still can't get enough, Thanks again for the great reaction.
Will do!
I was 14 when this came out this was the opening track the whole album was a vibe, first the spooky album cover picture then the poem inside the gate fold followed that by the thunder and rain and heavy metal was born. Poem below.
"Still falls the rain,the veils of darkness shroud
the blackened trees,
which, contorted by some unseen violence,shed
their tired leaves,
and bend their boughs toward a gray earth of
severed bird wings.
Among the grasses, poppies bleed before a
gesticulating death,
and young rabbits, born dead in traps,stand
motionless,
as though guarding the silence that surrounds and
threatens to engulf
all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of
repeating yesterdays
terrors,huddle together in the recesses of dark corners,
heads turned from the dead, black swan
that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow.
There emerges from this pool a faint,sensual mist,that traces
its way upwards to caress the feet of the
headless martyr's statuewhose only achievement was to die
too soon,and who couldn't wait to loose.
The cataract of darkness forms fully,the long black night begins,
yet still by the lake a young girlwaits.
Unseeing she believes herself unseen,
she smiles faintly at the distant tolling bell,
and the still falling rain."
Thanks for sharing this one. That's good!
I’m 56, didn’t hear this til I was 12 or13 in early 80 s. Scared the shit outta me! Made mea Metalhead! Love yer reactions!
I can imagine!
Thanks for watching.
This is the birth of doom rock and doom metal.
wicked world on this record is my favorite n the live version of it on live at last they mix a couple other songs in it..
Not the first time someone stopped the video thinking it was the end. Something happens in those 3 seconds you ignored. Something special.
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The birth of metal….
What a debut album this is,this title track was like nothing else at the time,this was one of the first albums I bought as a kid,it also happened to be released on my ,4 th birthday in,1970.
Ah man... Stay on Sabbath first four albums i tell you... They are so much more than one could expect. You'll be blown away. Props for the react
Looking forward to more! Thanks for watching.
@@SaeedReacts. First 6!!!
The first four Sabbath albums are all excellent.
@@bjwnashe5589 I would say that the first 6 are excellent, as they are a true manual of everything that heavy metal would become from then on, in all its aspects.
@@marcospman9396 Met too. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are excellent! I like Technical Ecstasy, but it's not in the same league. And Never Say Day is not a bad album, but it's definitely the weaker link in Ozzy's era.
@@freddyfleal I see Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die as good hard/heavy albums from the seventies. Of course, because they stray far from the style that made the band famous, I don't put them on the same level as the first 6 albums.
@@marcospman9396 yes, I agree
@@marcospman9396 YEP, first 6!!!!!!
This is where it all started. When Heavy Blues Rock/R&B, turned in Heavy Rock/Metal. Only shortly before that they were Polka Tulk & then Earth and played Blues & Jazz influenced material. Some of that sound carried over onto the 1st album, but this number was inspired by the occult novels of Dennis Wheatley. The band & song name came from the 1963 Horror movie of the same name by Mario Bava, which included Boris Karloff. The movie was playing in a cinema across the road from where they rehearsed.
Not sure if you know this, but the band was FIRST a Blues/Rock band in 1968 called "The Polka Tulk Blues Band" later changed to just "Earth". Ozzy recalls one day the boys went to a theater and they saw Boris Karloff's movie "Black Sabbath" and either Ozzy or bassist Geezer Butler said "Isn't it weird that people pay money to get the sh*t scared out of them?". Later Geezer wrote the song Black Sabbath and the boys also changed the name of the band to Black Sabbath and debuted their first album entitled Black Sabbath. UNKNOWN to the band the record company put an upside down cross in the album sleeve or jacket and this of course is what made the public label them as devil worshippers and it took YEARS for them to shake that off of them. However, bad publicity is publicity and they themselves sometimes used it as Ozzy would later do also in his solo career! Keep in mind how they were originally a BLUES rock band because there are a LOT of bluesy stuff going on in their first 3 albums in particular.
I did not! Thanks for taking the time to share this
@@SaeedReacts. if you want a bluesy song check out their cover song of “the Warning” from their first album, it’s like a 20 minute song so go pee first LOL 😂
Fairies wear boots. Sweetleaf is iconic
This was 1969/1970 and nobody ever heard anything like this before.
Thanks for letting me know ! Pioneers!
Story is, when Sabbath first started out, people would literally run out of the clubs terrified.
Way back then the band tried this new track out on a live audience , people had not heard this combination of Horror Rock which we call metal now . iommi said the crowd went wild and they had to play the track a couple more times , he thought to himself " we're on to something here"
I you look at Tony's fretting hand you can see the tips f his fingers are a slightly different colour. This is because the tips were cut off in an industrial accident and he moulded plastic replacements so he could still play (from old washing up liquid bottles}..
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Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
The debut album is epic. Gotta do The Wizard and N.I.B. both fantastic tracks
Definitely want to check out more. Thanks for watching and the recommendations!
I can flip a coin on any day as to my favorite band between Black Sabbath and AC/DC , back in the day alot of people thought they were devil worshipers but if you really listen to the lyrics it's more of a warning that he's out there so becareful and when they started horror movies was kind of big at the theaters and they wanted to make scary music in the same way as the scary movies
I love that they wanted to do horror stories in musical form. Awesome!
Must check out AC/DC at some point as well.
Geezer used to dabble in the occult until one night he had a nightmare, this is it. He told Ozzy about it and Ozzy came up with the song. Needless to say, after the nightmare, Geezer got rid of all his occult paraphernalia and put up Crosses everywhere.
Aww you should have done the studio version
Oh so this wasnt the studio version? See how much i know 😃
Why? This version is awesome!
Those three notes in that sequence were banned by the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago because they thought it would summon Satan.
Oh really? Interesting!
@@SaeedReacts. Actually, it's often stated that the tritone was banned by the Catholic Church, usually by musicians & music culture posters. However, it is a myth. The real reason it was not used was that it was classed as dissonance and not suitable for medieval ecclesiastical singing. With the rise of Baroque music (early 1700s) it started to be accepted to create a tension release. The riff of Black Sabbath is an inverted tritone.
As much as I love the grunge/prog era. Black Sabbath 70s, and most music from that time, really tore down the foundation. Or shook it. My favorite rendition, but great reaction all the same.
Now try some SBS!!! Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.... one of the best bangers ever!!
Must do “Sweet Leaf”. Amazing
Thanks for the recommendation.
Great For Halloween 😮
First track of your first and maybe only album? Break all the rules. Atonal, ultra slow and with a madman on vocals and another on drums. This is not high art, this is great art.
You got me at "Break all the rules" 😄
I like your reactions. ✌️😉
Thank you! Appreciate that.
Have a great weekend!
@@SaeedReacts. Thank you, you too. 😉
Story is, when Sabbath first started out people would literally run out of the clubs terrified. 😂
Wow! If i had a time machine 😅😄
@@SaeedReacts. Imagine when people were listening to the Beatles and then THIS comes out (which btw the Beatles is STILL Ozzy's favorite band of all time)
The band, the album, the song that started it all! This should be in the Smithsonian or something. 🤘🤘
BTW, there is also "Bad Company" by Bad Company, from the album, "Bad Company." 😏
Must check out triple BC at some point 😄
Bro,Thanks for all your hard work uploading today too.
I'm becoming more and more interested in how you manage your time rather than the artists. How many videos do you shoot per day?
Thanks, appreciate that. Today i recorded 8, but usually its over 10 a day. I have had a day with 17 video's recorded in 1 day.
Give the Wizard, Paranoid, and Children of the Grave a listen if you haven't yet. Early Sabbath was like nothing heard to that point in music.
Will do! Thanks for watching and the recommendations.
You are listening to a live version which is really more for those that have previously heard the studio version. Try the studio version first as that is THE version to hear as a first try of Black Sabbath.
I had no idea before i started this was a live version.
Usually i go studio first. This was so high up on youtube i assumed it was the studio.
Went against my own advice "Never assume" 😅
Check out the album tracks in the chronological fashion I do recommend but maybe that can be difficult if you have to go with recommendations . Their 70s albums are great
🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
Morbid Angel Existo Vulgore
Triple BS 😂😂😂 Had never thought of it that way 😂😂
Fairies Wear Boots is an interesting one from the Paranoid album
Check out some documentaries about Tony Iommi is talking about how the band started and how he lost a couple of fingers just before his previous band was to start a European tour 😮
Will check out that song.
Definitely interested in hearing him tell that story.
@@SaeedReacts. 😂😂Oh yes
Carolina Drama by the Raconteurs. You can thank me later.
That one is on my list!
a mate gave me my first spliff then played this..........
Good memories 😄
I ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee when you referenced musical edging. Funny shit, but very descriptive.🤣
Apologies 😅🤣
I always ask, who knows another 3some- song, album, band all 3 the same name? All I got is Bad Company, by Bad Co, on their 1st album...
@@andychisarick6879 Iron Maiden.
@@donharding7702 You're the first person to come up w/ an answer. I'm not an Iron Maiden fan but I'll take your word for it, thanks!
OKAY SAEED, SO I GET THE WHOLE WANTING TO SEE THE CONCERT CLIPS BUT STUDIO VERSIONS WITH LYRICS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST WAY TO GO, ESPECIALLY IF YOU CAN GET AN ORIGINAL STUDIO JAM RECORDING VIDEO!!! 💯😊 NOW I'VE SAID THIS FOREVER AND A DAY SAEED, EVERYYYYBODYYYYY IN ROCK MUSIC HAS COPIED OR RIPPED OFFFF SABBATH'S GUITARIST ( TONY IOMMI ) PRETTY MUCH FROM ( 80- ON ) SAEED, IMAGINE THAT, HOW PATHETIC AND SAD IS THAT! ☹SO WHAT A WAYYYYY TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF HUH? LMAO, SO REMEMBER ORIGINAL SABBATH WAS ( 70-78 ) AND THAT'S IT!👍OZZY GOT KICKED OUT OF THE BAND😮 AND THEN OF COURSE STARTED HIS OWN EMPIRE WHEN THAT HAPPENED! ANYWAY MAN I'LL STOP RIGHT THERE!
I thought it was the studio version at first. Will have a listen to it.
Early Black is awesome.
Thanks for the recommendation.