Imagine being an average Pop music listener in 1970 and hearing this track coming at you like a monster from a horror movie. This was the birth of Heavy Metal.
Pop music wasn't much different than metal back then. Late 60s pop was psychedelia, which is not just acoustic sing alongs. Psychedelia can be hard and hit you with no mercy sometimes. Blue Cheer proved it. Same as Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly.
In the early 1970s Glam Rock was the pop music of the day in the UK. You might be surprised how heavy a lot of that music could be. In hindsight it's surprising how that sound became the pop music of its time. Black Sabbath wasn't the shock to the system as you might imagine they were. Though they were an evolution and pioneers of a sound which would influence others who came after them.
From Wikipedia: "'Iron Man' is a song written and performed by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on their 1970 album Paranoid. The lyrics tell the story of a man who time travels into the future and sees the apocalypse. In the process of returning to the present he is turned into steel by a magnetic field, and his attempts to warn the public are ignored and mocked. Feeling shunned and alone, Iron Man plans his revenge on mankind, causing the apocalypse seen in his vision. Upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne remarked that it sounded "like a big iron bloke walking about". The title became "Iron Man", with Geezer Butler writing the lyrics around the title. Osbourne sang behind a metal fan to get the sound effect in its first line, 'I am Iron Man!'. Despite the title, the song has no connection to the Marvel Comics character of the same name."
You can try and warn about the future consequences of the ignorance of the present, but said ignorance will not heed your warning. Such is Human Life on this planet. And we only see it furthering more and more as days pass.
I think geezer had also read a bit of the iron man by ted hughes myself in the book the iron giant is rejected by the world that he ultimately saves, geezer him self states he was reading "a lot of sc fi" at the time
'They're pretty good man!' Understatement of the year my friend! 😂😂👍 They were and are still the godfathers of this style of music. 🙌 All the best from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪👍 (Which is also the ancestral home of Black Sabbath bass player and songwriter Geezer Butler 😁)
Smoke on the water is so annoying. I not only like rock, i love it. But this riff is so annoying that if my group made it and i had to play it in every concert because it would be a signature hit for us, i would eat my guitar.
@@On_Dust I agree somewhat. I liked it as a teenager when I newly discovered it. Thou I'm quite sick of hearing it nowadays. But it's still iconic. Personally I'm more of a sabbath fan. Purples first singer Rod Evans went to the group Captain Beyond. Their self titled debut album is packed with astonishing spacey hard rock. I prefer it over most, if not all Purples albums. Highly recommended.
@@VelinCali Yeah, I guess it stinks he came off that way, but that is how how was acting at the time, and it made for another crazy chapter in the story that is Ozzy!
I spent a whole weekend programming my calculator memory the number sequence to play the Paranoid riff in Casio beeps 😂 in hindsight I realise I was an annoying child
In his younger days the guitarist chopped off the tips of some of his fingers in an accident and to be able to play the guitar for years he would make his own tips to put over the fingers that he had remaining, in the later years he had them professionally made for him but still impressive that he still went on to become a guitar god and didn't let the accident stop him.
Great reaction. Sheer power. This came out in 1970. What sounded like this in 1970? Heavy heavy. The bass drum hits in the beginning is Iron Man walking. He then introduces himself in that deep voice. Sometimes Iommi will record another guitar at a slightly different tune over top his original tone. All guitars are only Tony Iommi. Geezer Butler ( bass ) and Bill Ward ( drums) add the incredible platform everything is built on. This song is over 50 yrs old and will stand strong with anything done after it. What a testimony of greatness. Please keep the Sabbath coming. Thanks
What sounded like this is 1970? 21st century schizoid man is definitely something that Sabbath would play. The riff is nothing like iron man's riff. But it definitely is something that is seriously heavy before them.
Who knew a little old group from England, would be the start of Heavy metal... and that "riff" just goes to the heart of every metaler out there... it runs though your blood, can you tell I love this track yet? 🤘Black Sabbath 🤘
Such good memories, being a teenager in the 70s. Black Sabbath was the shizzle - and watching my stoned friends listen to this was pretty awesome, too. 🤣♥️ My little brother started playing guitar because of this song and other classics like this - he’s still one of the best guitarists I’ve heard, too. Good times.
Bill Ward is a killer on drums. He attack the Hell out of those things, but with great skill, and very clean precision . He's one of the best drummers in historty. A lot of fun to watch.
This band in their early years were the bomb, with album after album of heavy metal riffs, that never disappointed the ears of their fans, and still hold up to anything out there nowadays. And they weren't content with formulaic tunes of rock and roll, but instead would take you on journeys of wonder and exhilaration, never knowing if you'd get back or just be launched out to points of no return! Just great unvarnished heavy metal acid rock that never grows old, played by a quartet of head banging brothers that unfortunatelyy couldn't help but grow old. Like the rest of us.
Please react to Rainbow - Stargazer, I think you would enjoy it too. Also, the singer from Rainbow, Ronnie James Dio, was part of Black Sabbath for a while, specifically during their "Heaven And Hell" album.
So now when you see oldies getting into rock you'll have some respect for their experience. We had the heaviest rock and the trippiest psychedelic rock ever created. Listen to the full 3 part "The Real Thing" by Russell Morris. First recorded in 1969. He still sings it now and we still love it.
The song title doesn't have anything to do with the character in the Marvel comic books, but Iron Man the character was around in 1963, this song came out in 1970. But the first time Ozzy heard it, he said it hits so hard it was like a guy in a Iron suit destroying things. Tony Iommi is on guitars, Bill Ward on drums.
From Chicago Illinois, weighing in a combined weight of 595 pounds, Hawk and Animal, the Legion of Doom, the ROAD WARRIORS! If you were a wrestling fan in the 80s like me, when you heard those drums and then the guitar, you knew business was about to pick up. Best wrestling theme song ever in my opinion.
Oh man, wrestling in the 80s was the best. Remember the AWA match against Baron von Rashke and Curt Henning? Curt got his head caught in the ropes. Fans got involved. That was a crazy one.
God Bless you for this, i was hoping somebody posted it, otherwise i was gonna have to. Was anything better than this music starting, them sprinting to the ring and the competitors running out of the ring?
Yes Jay...... Ironman.... Black Sabbath ... now that's a tune that will get stuck in your head all weekend.... that guitar riff is classic and I remember my Son learning guitar and playing that for the1st time , I was so proud of him...🤘🙏
Agreed! I love Jay's channel because doesn't just listen to the songs, he "gets" them. From his first time hearing songs, I'm always impressed by how deep he goes without research. So intuitive.
Wait until you hear the Black Sabbath song “Supernaut”!!! It’s one of those songs that if you listen to it while driving you’ll end up getting arrested for going over 100 mph.
The song is 51 years old -- same age as me -- and the fact that it is a blistering saga masterpiece that would do well even today because it kills most shit in the today's marketplace makes it even more jaw dropping.
Anyway this song is a classic I grew up to a lot of classic rock and my personal favourite classic rock band is Led Zeppelin followed closely by Deep Purple and my favourite overall rock pop bands are U2 and Coldplay.
I am glad to see you back. We missed you! You remain the best and most varied reactor on UA-cam. The only downside is that you seem only to accept recommendations from your social media links, not these comments. As I don't use social media, I have given up making suggestions, even though I have been doing so since your first videos.
The sound of Toni Iommi's guitar is very unique because while working in his regular job in a factory he chopped the tip of his 2 fingers off. He healed but playing was extremely painful, so he made his own prosthetics with a leather jacket and had to hack and modify his guitar including different adding lighter strings from other instruments, etc. to minimize the pain when pressing the strings. Later once he had some celebrity status a company manufactured light strings and is what he kept using...
I remember the first time I heard this album, I was like 15 and when I put the album on the turn-style and started playing it (War Pigs?) the bass must have been turned up enough to vibrate the speakers that the album cover and whatever else I had on one of them went flying right off onto the floor. You have to keep in mind that I was brought up in a pretty religious household and just the name of this band was a little scary at the time, so when that happened my first reaction was that maybe something less than holy had knocked all the stuff off the speaker - at least until I got to thinking and logic kicked in, ha ha.
I remember when they came out with your paranoid album this is one of many great songs on that LP. Had the opportunity to see the black and blue concert. Molly Hatchet headlining then Blue Oyster Cult and then Black Sabbath. Nearing the end of Black Sabbath performance we were hit by 80 Mi an hour wall of dust. It blew over a wall of speakers and destroyed their Sound Stage with the mixers. Despite concert almost being finished they told us keep our ticket stubs they were coming back to do it again. And again they did a few months later.
3 musicians, drums bass guitar. One vocalist. In these studio songs they sometimes track an additional guitar track so it sounds fuller, and overdub more guitar. Listen to some of Black Sabbath's live stuff my friend, the guitarist Tony iomi is awesome live!
Love this react man. You got rocked. Everybody who hears this gets rocked. Most get lost and can't follow either the music or the story and you very perceptively laid out the ongoing premise mid way which was very impressive. i really enjoy watching people with a good ear for music get their minds blown. this one is like an onion with the amount of layers and will be a good listen for ever. Great job man and thank you.
The Road Warriors, if you you watched wrestling in the 80s used this as entrance music. It's famously called "The Road Warrior pop" for how crazy the fans would get. They always got the loudest reactions and other wrestlers strive to get that pop to this day.
The bigger invoice is ran through a electron it device called a “ring modulator” Which is basically an amplitude modulator So I was inspired back in 19 pre-70s to build one for my little rock band as the electronics guy
Black Sabbath is 4 members - Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), Bill Ward (drums) & Ozzy Osbourne (vocals)... In the studio, they could overdub guitar tracks, but they had 1 guitar in concerts... later, they used a keyboard player unofficially - (the late) Geoff Nichols who played on their records & in concert from 1980 (after Ozzy was fired, Ronnie James Dio became their vocalist & Vinnie Appice replaced Bill Ward on drums from 1980 to 1982)
So many great songs from them. My faves are "Black Sabbath", "Fairies Wear Boots", "Children of the Grave", "Supernaut", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Symptoms of the Universe". One in each Ozzy-period albums
We use to Rollerskate to this when the popular rink would be open 24 hours straight and for summer vacation when i was a teenager in Anchorage, Alaska..
Tony iommi is one of the greatest metal guitarists ever, he’s one of the founders of the heavy metal genre. Every riff hes ever made is some of the greatest riffs to come out of an amp.
The Marvel comic book hero "Iron Man" first appeared in 1963... Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" was written around 1969. I think Geezer Butler (bass) wrote the lyrics inspired by science fiction stories & old sci-fi movies that depicted giant robots (Butler claimed he never heard of, or read the 'Iron Man' comic book😂) and was told by Sabbath fans in the 70's about the comic book super hero. When Marvel made the 'Iron Man' movie, they used the Sabbath song...
Imagine being an average Pop music listener in 1970 and hearing this track coming at you like a monster from a horror movie. This was the birth of Heavy Metal.
Facts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pop music wasn't much different than metal back then. Late 60s pop was psychedelia, which is not just acoustic sing alongs. Psychedelia can be hard and hit you with no mercy sometimes. Blue Cheer proved it. Same as Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly.
In the early 1970s Glam Rock was the pop music of the day in the UK.
You might be surprised how heavy a lot of that music could be. In hindsight it's surprising how that sound became the pop music of its time.
Black Sabbath wasn't the shock to the system as you might imagine they were. Though they were an evolution and pioneers of a sound which would influence others who came after them.
Yeah, played on AM radio pop stations. The Archies, Glen Campbell, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath. All played on the same station, one after the other.
this came out decades before the Ironman movie - but Marvel was smart enough to use part of this song in the movie
Iron man comic was first published in 1963.
I remember the whole theater cheering when this song came over the end credits. Ahh, the good old days of Marvel movies, haha...
There was also a collab between Busta Rhymes and Ozzy using that song.
Perfect for Robert Downey Jr.
Yeah the end of it lol everyone knows Ozzy is the true iron man they should’ve played the whole song
From Wikipedia:
"'Iron Man' is a song written and performed by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on their 1970 album Paranoid. The lyrics tell the story of a man who time travels into the future and sees the apocalypse. In the process of returning to the present he is turned into steel by a magnetic field, and his attempts to warn the public are ignored and mocked. Feeling shunned and alone, Iron Man plans his revenge on mankind, causing the apocalypse seen in his vision.
Upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne remarked that it sounded "like a big iron bloke walking about". The title became "Iron Man", with Geezer Butler writing the lyrics around the title. Osbourne sang behind a metal fan to get the sound effect in its first line, 'I am Iron Man!'. Despite the title, the song has no connection to the Marvel Comics character of the same name."
You can try and warn about the future consequences of the ignorance of the present, but said ignorance will not heed your warning. Such is Human Life on this planet. And we only see it furthering more and more as days pass.
@@allanbaker3958 AMEN
Paradox of time travel. Had he never travelled Time there would not have been an apocalypse.
All of that and a Kick ass Riff too! 🤘
I think geezer had also read a bit of the iron man by ted hughes myself in the book the iron giant is rejected by the world that he ultimately saves, geezer him self states he was reading "a lot of sc fi" at the time
'They're pretty good man!' Understatement of the year my friend! 😂😂👍
They were and are still the godfathers of this style of music. 🙌
All the best from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪👍 (Which is also the ancestral home of Black Sabbath bass player and songwriter Geezer Butler 😁)
Haha, love it. I heard that and immediate started my comment as well. Cheers to Dublin and the greatest band of all time, Black Sabbath.
Jay welcome back to the 1970s ..
I just wanna say that cork is a superior county 😌
@@RL12778 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This and the riff in "Smoke on The Water"are the most iconic riffs from the beginnings of metal
it was my first album, about 50 years ago
Smoke on the water is so annoying. I not only like rock, i love it. But this riff is so annoying that if my group made it and i had to play it in every concert because it would be a signature hit for us, i would eat my guitar.
@@On_Dust I agree somewhat. I liked it as a teenager when I newly discovered it. Thou I'm quite sick of hearing it nowadays. But it's still iconic. Personally I'm more of a sabbath fan. Purples first singer Rod Evans went to the group Captain Beyond. Their self titled debut album is packed with astonishing spacey hard rock. I prefer it over most, if not all Purples albums. Highly recommended.
Yup, I’d agree with that. Beavis and Butt Head always sang them too… duhhh-duhhh-duhduhduh! 😂😂😂
There is one guitarist over-dubbing, Tony Iommi, Bassist Terry ''Geezer'' Butler, drummer Bill Ward, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne
They did that song live. I sometimes forget how great the groups were in the 70s, my era. No studio help, just talent.
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and Rory Gallagher were a huge part of my childhood - blasted throughout the house.
Back in the day Iron Man and Smoke On The Water was the first thing you learn on a guitar, but just the Riff, not the solo!
I was so proud the day my now 31 year old son, 1st played it on guitar.... 🤣🤘
true! i started with this songs as well ... and as i was good enough for learning picking I played stairway to heaven! ^^+gg
@@JohnHazelwood58..yeah but not in a guitar shop hey!..🤣🤣
@@AB-zc8ps no! the sign in the shop said: "no stairway to heaven!" ;-)
@@JohnHazelwood58 ..."Denied"...🤣🤘
This is one bad ass song. When l listen to It my neighbors do too. Awesome choice, the fathers of heavy metal.
Early Ozzy days!! 🥰
He can't talk on his reality show but he can sing.
He was being highly over medicated by his physician at the time. His regiment has changed and he is as "normal" as Ozzy can ever be again.
@@nogoogle1935 Really?? That's wonderful
@@VelinCali Yeah, I guess it stinks he came off that way, but that is how how was acting at the time, and it made for another crazy chapter in the story that is Ozzy!
I spent a whole weekend programming my calculator memory the number sequence to play the Paranoid riff in Casio beeps 😂 in hindsight I realise I was an annoying child
In his younger days the guitarist chopped off the tips of some of his fingers in an accident and to be able to play the guitar for years he would make his own tips to put over the fingers that he had remaining, in the later years he had them professionally made for him but still impressive that he still went on to become a guitar god and didn't let the accident stop him.
He was inspired by Django Reinhardt who injured his hand very badly in a fire and had to learn to play all over again 👍
Pretty good ? Are you kidding me, seriously! Jeez it’s Black Sabbath!
1970 Great song 80 Great song 90 Great song
Man, I am 60 years old. I first heard this in grade school and was hooked immediately. Great music transcends time.
Great reaction. Sheer power. This came out in 1970. What sounded like this in 1970? Heavy heavy. The bass drum hits in the beginning is Iron Man walking. He then introduces himself in that deep voice. Sometimes Iommi will record another guitar at a slightly different tune over top his original tone. All guitars are only Tony Iommi. Geezer Butler ( bass ) and Bill Ward ( drums) add the incredible platform everything is built on. This song is over 50 yrs old and will stand strong with anything done after it. What a testimony of greatness. Please keep the Sabbath coming. Thanks
What sounded like this is 1970? 21st century schizoid man is definitely something that Sabbath would play. The riff is nothing like iron man's riff. But it definitely is something that is seriously heavy before them.
@@On_Dust Thanks, I'll check it out.
Love that song and raised my sons on it...we still laugh about. Schizoid Man 😆
Iconic
Bill Ward Drums . Tony Iomi on guitar . Geezer Butler Bass . Ozzy singing lead
Tony "riffmaster" Iommi if you please
Who knew a little old group from England, would be the start of Heavy metal... and that "riff" just goes to the heart of every metaler out there... it runs though your blood, can you tell I love this track yet? 🤘Black Sabbath 🤘
@Luna Raven yes I do have a metal side, due to my Son who plays in a metal band! 😁🤘
@A B you mean a little old band from my home city of Birmingham and supporters of the mighty Aston Villa FC ;)
@@tomfleming8230 not a football fan, but yes your great City of Birmingham is their home, soz for generalizing under UK.... 🙏🤘
My ears thank you so much, I was bopping my head like no ones business, I LOVE OZZY no one like him and never will be.
Great seeing you doing Black Sabbath. Needs more! 🤘
Such good memories, being a teenager in the 70s. Black Sabbath was the shizzle - and watching my stoned friends listen to this was pretty awesome, too. 🤣♥️ My little brother started playing guitar because of this song and other classics like this - he’s still one of the best guitarists I’ve heard, too. Good times.
Bill Ward is a killer on drums. He attack the Hell out of those things, but with great skill, and very clean precision . He's one of the best drummers in historty. A lot of fun to watch.
Eeh. He wasn't the best drummer there was. But he was okay enough to do the job as a rock drummer.
@@On_Dust Dude, Bill Ward is and was an amazing drummer.
React to their song "Sweet Leaf". Sabbath was damn near at their best when Ozzy was their singer. Yes, that is Ozzy singing.
This band in their early years were the bomb, with album after album of heavy metal riffs, that never disappointed the ears of their fans, and still hold up to anything out there nowadays.
And they weren't content with formulaic tunes of rock and roll, but instead would take you on journeys of wonder and exhilaration, never knowing if you'd get back or just be launched out to points of no return!
Just great unvarnished heavy metal acid rock that never grows old, played by a quartet of head banging brothers that unfortunatelyy couldn't help but grow old.
Like the rest of us.
Please react to Rainbow - Stargazer, I think you would enjoy it too.
Also, the singer from Rainbow, Ronnie James Dio, was part of Black Sabbath for a while, specifically during their "Heaven And Hell" album.
Would love him to do Stargazer!
Need to check out "The Wizard" or "N.I.B." from their first album. I bought their first 3 albums when they first came out, still have them today.
this song actually plays over the end credits to the movie Ironman.. the song came out the same year I was born .... 1970.
One of the most recognizable riffs in all of music!
So now when you see oldies getting into rock you'll have some respect for their experience. We had the heaviest rock and the trippiest psychedelic rock ever created. Listen to the full 3 part "The Real Thing" by Russell Morris. First recorded in 1969. He still sings it now and we still love it.
The song title doesn't have anything to do with the character in the Marvel comic books, but Iron Man the character was around in 1963, this song came out in 1970. But the first time Ozzy heard it, he said it hits so hard it was like a guy in a Iron suit destroying things. Tony Iommi is on guitars, Bill Ward on drums.
I love that whole album! I saw them as a 13 year old, when they did the “Paranoid” tour. So GOOD! 😎
When Big J thunders "Hold on,wait a minute",you know it's a done deal!
This is the first tune in my work out play list. Nothing gets me pumped like looking at the bar and saying “I am IRON MAN”
I hadn't ever intentionally listened to Black Sabbath before. Heard some on the radio back in the days of radio. Thanks!
Before it was in the movies it was the theme song for the Road Warriors. One of my favorite songs by Sabath. Classic.
Bill Ward is one of the finest drummers this country has produced… and he doesn’t get enough credit
We used to hang out my cousins window smoking weed and listening to this album over and over back in the day... good times..
I love your reactions. You are so open to new old music and experience all the stuff I’ve grown up with. Awesome Beatles shirt too!
From Chicago Illinois, weighing in a combined weight of 595 pounds, Hawk and Animal, the Legion of Doom, the ROAD WARRIORS!
If you were a wrestling fan in the 80s like me, when you heard those drums and then the guitar, you knew business was about to pick up. Best wrestling theme song ever in my opinion.
Oh man, wrestling in the 80s was the best. Remember the AWA match against Baron von Rashke and Curt Henning? Curt got his head caught in the ropes. Fans got involved. That was a crazy one.
God Bless you for this, i was hoping somebody posted it, otherwise i was gonna have to. Was anything better than this music starting, them sprinting to the ring and the competitors running out of the ring?
@@itscrazyal Theirs and I also liked Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez entering to We Will Rock You.
I remember hearing this on beach and I said can I hear again and again when you to listen on no play it you have buy cassette no radio air play
That’s Ozze Ozborn. He’s in his 70’s now and just did a single with post malone
Osborne
@@jessluxsozzy Osbourne
This iconic british bandy are going to take you on a whole different level that arn't going to dissapoint. More!!!
Yes Jay...... Ironman.... Black Sabbath ... now that's a tune that will get stuck in your head all weekend.... that guitar riff is classic and I remember my Son learning guitar and playing that for the1st time , I was so proud of him...🤘🙏
Loved your reaction. You really "got" this song
Agreed! I love Jay's channel because doesn't just listen to the songs, he "gets" them. From his first time hearing songs, I'm always impressed by how deep he goes without research. So intuitive.
Black Sabbath (the song, from the album Black Sabbath)
NIB
The Wizard
Electric Funeral
Sweet Leaf
Wait until you hear the Black Sabbath song “Supernaut”!!! It’s one of those songs that if you listen to it while driving you’ll end up getting arrested for going over 100 mph.
First album I ever bought! (Paranoid)
Best reaction channel I've seen. Keep them coming!
Here are some more BLACK SABBATH songs to check out:
INTO THE VOID.
BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP.
FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS.
A NATIONAL ACROBAT.
SNOWBLIND.
They were the 70's definitely listen to during acid trips. But still great. When Ozzie broke away he was great
You need a voice like Ozzy to match the giagantic sound of the band and visa versa.
The song is 51 years old -- same age as me -- and the fact that it is a blistering saga masterpiece that would do well even today because it kills most shit in the today's marketplace makes it even more jaw dropping.
Anyway this song is a classic I grew up to a lot of classic rock and my personal favourite classic rock band is Led Zeppelin followed closely by Deep Purple and my favourite overall rock pop bands are U2 and Coldplay.
I am glad to see you back. We missed you! You remain the best and most varied reactor on UA-cam. The only downside is that you seem only to accept recommendations from your social media links, not these comments. As I don't use social media, I have given up making suggestions, even though I have been doing so since your first videos.
That is a false statement I look at my comments
More Sabbath. Give a reaction to. Hand of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Love the channel
The sound of Toni Iommi's guitar is very unique because while working in his regular job in a factory he chopped the tip of his 2 fingers off. He healed but playing was extremely painful, so he made his own prosthetics with a leather jacket and had to hack and modify his guitar including different adding lighter strings from other instruments, etc. to minimize the pain when pressing the strings. Later once he had some celebrity status a company manufactured light strings and is what he kept using...
I remember the first time I heard this album, I was like 15 and when I put the album on the turn-style and started playing it (War Pigs?) the bass must have been turned up enough to vibrate the speakers that the album cover and whatever else I had on one of them went flying right off onto the floor. You have to keep in mind that I was brought up in a pretty religious household and just the name of this band was a little scary at the time, so when that happened my first reaction was that maybe something less than holy had knocked all the stuff off the speaker - at least until I got to thinking and logic kicked in, ha ha.
I remember when they came out with your paranoid album this is one of many great songs on that LP. Had the opportunity to see the black and blue concert. Molly Hatchet headlining then Blue Oyster Cult and then Black Sabbath. Nearing the end of Black Sabbath performance we were hit by 80 Mi an hour wall of dust. It blew over a wall of speakers and destroyed their Sound Stage with the mixers. Despite concert almost being finished they told us keep our ticket stubs they were coming back to do it again. And again they did a few months later.
Some consider this song the first metal song ever made 🤘🏽
My brother played their Paranoid album over and over again...i learned it by osmosis
That riff is legendary, another must from this era, Sweet leaf 🔥
Vocals: Ozzy Osbourne
Guitar: Tony Iommi
Bass: Geezer Butler
Drums: Bill Ward
The Best Band Ever??????
This is such a cool heavy song from Sabbath!! It has tons of power! My eyes are closed and playing air guitar and air drums! Those drums! Ha!!!!🎸✌💗🎶😁
It's about time. Other wordly. A GREAT Classic group.
Even though the song wasn't written for the Iron Man movie, they used this song to great effect in the movies. :)
Yes. Black Sabbath is da thing... grew up with them...
This is a classic and the musicianship of the band is top notch. Great song! My brother played some mean air guitar with this song. Great memories.
My first Sabbath song at 15 in 75...Never looked back. Sabbath Forever! It's only one guitarist ( Tony Iommi) playing a stereo guitar.
The idea of getting revenge, but then having fun with it. What a concept for a song.
3 musicians, drums bass guitar. One vocalist. In these studio songs they sometimes track an additional guitar track so it sounds fuller, and overdub more guitar. Listen to some of Black Sabbath's live stuff my friend, the guitarist Tony iomi is awesome live!
One of the best song ever made :)
"All I can say is Wow"...very well said my friend.
If you say” I am Iron Man”, into the back of a fan; it produces the desired affect.
I can’t be the only one who did this!
Love this song, many years ago at age 12 our football team would storm onto the field while this song was blasting in the background, good memories
Classic!
Love this react man. You got rocked. Everybody who hears this gets rocked. Most get lost and can't follow either the music or the story and you very perceptively laid out the ongoing premise mid way which was very impressive. i really enjoy watching people with a good ear for music get their minds blown. this one is like an onion with the amount of layers and will be a good listen for ever. Great job man and thank you.
One of those bands whos members changed over the years.. theres a big difference between Dio Black Sabbath and Ozzy Black Sabbath
I prefer Sabbath with ozzy. But dio was way too good vocalist. He is not my favourite, but he is awesome.
Heck yeah Thank you for this one. Buckle up and enjoy this all time classic. AKA Lowrider.
And now for the Christmas version…
"I am Santa Claus!" "He's so full of cheer, only has to work one day a year".
The Road Warriors, if you you watched wrestling in the 80s used this as entrance music. It's famously called "The Road Warrior pop" for how crazy the fans would get. They always got the loudest reactions and other wrestlers strive to get that pop to this day.
Became very popular in our high school when it was released in 1970. Thanks for reviewing it.
Great reaction, Jay. Ozzy‘s lost his mind. 1970 classic. Loved it. Thank you😀👍❤️✌️🌼
The Cardigans did a cool cover of this.
really love that cover
They go wild on 3 occasions and bring it back. the last time is all time, archytyple, primal.
The bigger invoice is ran through a electron it device called a “ring modulator”
Which is basically an amplitude modulator
So I was inspired back in 19 pre-70s
to build one for my little rock band as the electronics guy
Black Sabbath is 4 members - Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), Bill Ward (drums) & Ozzy Osbourne (vocals)... In the studio, they could overdub guitar tracks, but they had 1 guitar in concerts... later, they used a keyboard player unofficially - (the late) Geoff Nichols who played on their records & in concert from 1980 (after Ozzy was fired, Ronnie James Dio became their vocalist & Vinnie Appice replaced Bill Ward on drums from 1980 to 1982)
Tony Lommi on lead guitar and Bill Ward on Drums
It’s an “I”, not and “L”. It’s pronounced EYE-ommi.
@@Wrangzilla my bad
Tommy Iommi guitarist, Bill Ward drummer Geezer Butler bassist Ozzy Osbourne vocalist band formed in 1968. The movies used the song.
So many great songs from them. My faves are "Black Sabbath", "Fairies Wear Boots", "Children of the Grave", "Supernaut", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Symptoms of the Universe". One in each Ozzy-period albums
Feel like I’m back in 1980. Great concert in Milwaukee.
I feel like im Back in 1970 ,,, When Iron man WAS RELEASED ,,,Them Sweet 1970s
@@theodoreritola9758 I remember when it was starting to play on our rock station. We all loved the beginning.
This is THE metal song, everything else derives from it.
We use to Rollerskate to this when the popular rink would be open 24 hours straight and for summer vacation when i was a teenager in Anchorage, Alaska..
Tony iommi is one of the greatest metal guitarists ever, he’s one of the founders of the heavy metal genre. Every riff hes ever made is some of the greatest riffs to come out of an amp.
I was 11, this was so different. It was great we started banging our heads.😊
This was new when I was a teen, great times
The Marvel comic book hero "Iron Man" first appeared in 1963... Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" was written around 1969. I think Geezer Butler (bass) wrote the lyrics inspired by science fiction stories & old sci-fi movies that depicted giant robots (Butler claimed he never heard of, or read the 'Iron Man' comic book😂) and was told by Sabbath fans in the 70's about the comic book super hero. When Marvel made the 'Iron Man' movie, they used the Sabbath song...
‘These guys are insane.’ YES!!
It is a good "whistling tune" for work!!
This the first song by them i ever heard in 79 They have been part of me since
There the First and Best Sabbath is a deep dive so much great listening. Great job