Laa and Chee. They were served with a writ by there manager’s when they were trying to get out of deal that was making them, the managers, rich, while they were broke. They got 250,000$ to play Cal Jam in 74. They ended up with 1,500 a piece out of the quarter million payment. Ozzy said he drove his VW bug to a meeting with the management team and they pulled up in Mercedes, when 3 years earlier they were broke as the band was. Age old story. Band goes bankrupt, management get rich. The Writ. Awesome.
I wonder why Sabbath refused to join Swan Song with Zeppelin, if they were getting screwed over by their managers. Certainly they would have more freedom, and a better financial deal I would think.
One of few Sabbath tunes where Ozzy wrote the lyrics. Blow on the Jug was Bill Ward singing and playing piano with Ozzy singing background. Sabotage is my favorite Sabbath album, the first one I bought when it came out
You boys are still at the beginning of this journey. So many great bands and songs were birthed from Black Sabbath. Can’t wait till you get to OZZY solo with Randy Rhodes. DIO in Sabbath, and his solo stuff. Zack Wild, etc.
Geezer Butler (standing with the umbrella) usually wrote the lyrics, but this was apparently one of the few songs Ozzy wrote the lyrics for. Tony iommi (seated) wrote the music. This is toward their management. There was a lawsuit which is where the title (a writ is a legal document issued by a court) comes from. Nothing to do with their fans or women.
The Writ" is one of only a handful of Black Sabbath songs to feature lyrics composed by vocalist Osbourne. Osbourne felt at the time, as Black Sabbath's former manager Patrick Meehan was suing the band after having been fired. Then we Blow on the Jug. Ozzy and Bill
The last little skit song (blow on the jug) was i think Bill Ward and maybe Ozzy? playing around on the piano and singing... and one of the engineers recorded it and snuck it on the end of the album! Awesome
My favorite album. Ozzy sang on the next two albums. You can hear the foundations cracking, though i love Never Say Die. When they finally split, both sides made incredible albums that defined metal in the 80s. Ozzy did Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. Sabbath did Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules. As important to metal as any album could be...
Now, you get to enjoy Technical Ecstasy. Dont let the haters deter you from enjoying another great album from Sabbath. Just take into context that the band was literally imploding right in front of everyone. They needed a break, a long one, they got a small respite but clearly not enough.
While the industry, the critics, and everyone else were good guesses, this song is about their management. They got served with a writ when they were making this record.
One of my top favorite songs from Sabbath. Great album over all-I wasn't a fan of Hole in the Sky-but every other song on Sabotage is top shelf Sabbath. Unfortunately, the decline of the Sabbath we all love begins on the next couple albums. Thanks, guys.
Two more Ozzy albums to go - and less popular than their early Ozzy albums, but I still think they're solid. As a bonus, the drummer Bill Ward starts singing some songs!
Love it. Love you got the original version w/ the Blow On the Jug bit at the end. I basically think same as @painless465: one of the few songs Ozzy wrote the lyrics to, I think the first Sabbath album I bought when it came out (but Bloody Sabbath was probably close). Sabotage is rank #4 for me, with Master of Reality, Paranoid, Bloody Sabbath in 3 way tie for 1st. I don't care much for next 2 Sab albums w/ Ozzie, massive drop-off compared to the classic first 6. But Sabotage is kind of under appreciated classic I think.
The following album Technical Ecstasy is full of amazing Sabbath songs, yet it is mixed a bit differently. They kind of modernized a bit the way they record themselves. Also the type of songs on the next album are less of the early style and yet more of these experimental type tracks that are not that heavy or anything we're used to. In fact most people who hate Technical Ecstasy are those who prefer the heavier sound of Sabbath. And those who prefer the heavier sound usually divert to Master of Reality, like me :)
You have to more full albums with Ozzy and all four original members. You have Technical Ecstasy which I think is great, and then Never Say Die, with all original members. Then Ozzy is pretty much fired and Sharon, his wife now saves his life from drinking and drugging himself to death, and helped him start his Amazing Solo career. Until they get back together in like 2013-2014 with everyone but Bill Ward, and made a great album called 13. But you guys will like the Black Sabbath with Dio doing vocals. It is awesome music!!!!
This album was called Sabotage in reference to the legal battles they were having with their management at the time. They realized they were being ripped off. Their albums were selling and they were making money but they started questioning why the cars and houses they were buying were all in their manager's name. Something on the business side of things was very fishy. This particular track "The Writ" is result of the frustrations dealing with the vultures of the music industry.
Gentleman, you have 2 Ozzy albums left, Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!, both are OK, with some good tunes, but IMO don't hold up to their best albums. Dio steps in on album #9, Heaven and Hell, then one more with Mob Rules. After that Sabbath members become a revolving door with only Tony Iommi never leaving.
The band's frustrations with the music business and their former manager, Patrick Meehan, who was suing the band after being fired. The song's lyrics are a direct attack on Meehan, and Osbourne wrote most of them himself.
Their former manager ripped them off bad. They'd only become aware of how bad while they were recording this album. All the vile in the lyrics are directed at him.
Technical ecstasy and never say die are next don’t let people tell you they’re not good albums they are very good & very different, The last two with Ozzy
Extremely few Sabbath songs have Ozzy lyrics [another reason that: Bob Daisley wrote the majority of his solo catalogue (at least: the legendary & most beloved songs, with the original Blizzard Of Ozz [designed to be a new band which Ozzy fronted, but: got "flip-switched" into "Ozzy as solo artist" (without telling the rest of the band [as turd Nugent did with HIS band & career, as well!]!)], however: "The Writ" is one. This, effectively, went directly from: experience to expression. --- As far as the final 2 Ozzy-era albums: Never Say Die is the stronger of the two [although they were all, pretty much, drugged-to-incomprehensibility on the tour. Ozzy was, most noticeably, atrocious. Their "biggest problem," (not really, of course! ...but certainly not the wisest choice!) was: having a young, insane juggernaut of a band named: VAN HALEN open for them, on that tour! Van Halen, in 1978, was blowing Black Sabbath off of their own stages, almost nightly!! - This wasn't because the music was bad ...just that: the musicians weren't sober enough to perform it well! NEVER SAY DIE gets (unfairly and ridiculously) shit on, regularly, because: it's different and demonstrates: "latitude," reach and growth. All GREAT & important things for a band! ...Technical Ecstasy, while less cohesive or interesting, certainly deserves more notice and respect than it gets, as well. ["Dirty Women" alone!!!! 🤘🤘 - Although, the truth is: The Hellacopters were the band that perfected that song, about 2.5 decades later, when THEY covered it 🔥💜!! -but that's another story, as well!! 😛😛] Anyone listening to Black Sabbath's catalogue or familiarizing themselves with the band's music, absolutely, never completes its task and unfairly undercuts itself when they avoid/do not listen to: Never Say Die & Technical Ecstasy. BLACK SABBATH knew that: They couldn't clean -up Ozzy and that: Ozzy, as he was, would drag the band down. They weren't "clean" themselves, but: they, at least, wanted to (and did) work on it. Ozzy wouldn't. Sharon, did, "save" him and forced him to begin dealing with things enough to get him off the dirty floor of a hotel. ...but she had no experience with this and couldn't control him for long (she, also, learned her self-aggrandizing, abusive behaviors from her abusive dad, who "owned" and ran Black Sabbath for almost a decade.). She, eventually, became worse than he was (but THAT, ALSO: is ANOTHER story, still!)! ...but the commonized "end result" was: Ronnie James Dio left another collapsing band [Rainbow] and became an unexpected "second king" of the Black Sabbath empire. ...while Ozzy formed a brilliant outfit (which, really, helped move the excitement of and styles of the NWoBHM to the U.S. and helped popularize Metal as a COMMERCIALLY successful style and 1980s "growth industry.") which was intended to be: the second band he fronted, but became "his solo career" ...with this amazing band backing him (but never being compensated equally - even though, they were, really, carrying all of the weight, for the entire Ozzy Osbourne outfit!). The 2 bands were (esp. as far as: management and label ownership were concerned!!) "in direct competition," but: I don't know a SINGLE fan who said or felt: "I like one, but not the other" ...so: out of the turmoil, fans got TWO excellent bands, instead of only one! 🤘🤘🔥💜 - The biggest tragedy was: the totally unnecessary death of RANDY RHOADS , who (despite what the Osbourne camp will talk about, etc.), had, effectively, already decided to LEAVE Ozzy Osbourne and move forward (creating GOD'S KNOW what GENIUS!), but before he could, was killed 😭😭😭😭 ...creating a massive hole in music, fans' hearts, families and history. The fact that sharon (then not-yet 'Osbourne') refused to cancel, or postpone, the rest of the tour (for mire than a few weeks - I think it was just over a month... possibly 3 weeks or possibly 7, that the band had "to grieve". ..but they were pushed, unprepared, abd unduly, back onto the stage!) and pushed the band back onto the road, only weeks after the shock and horror of the accident ...only goes to demonstrate: how callous and self-serving she is capable of being and always has been.
masterpiece, powerful, as others already said, about an asshole manager. Technical Ectasy would be next chronologically, but one I never listen too. To me, it's a bit of a formula album (although still epic). The band maybe felt the same, as they went a pretty different direction for Never Say Die, with jazz elements, and even blue eyed soul. A direction I wish they would have explored further. Really looking forward to any reactions on that one.
Unfortunately they made 2 more albums after this and the quality kinda took a nosedive. After that is when ozzy got fired and they hired DIO. If you guys really like ozzy you could check out some of his early solo stuff
Yall got 2 more Ozzy era albums (3 if you include 13 from 2011) would actually love if yall did the next 2. Theyre different, but i dont think they are as bad as they've been made out to be.
Just go straight to the Heaven & Hell LP with Dio, it’s a masterpiece! The last two Sabbath albums with Ozzy on them are spotty at best and it will ruin your Sabbath vibe to go through each song on them.
Sorry, hate to be a contrarian, but you guys are the best reactors on You Tube and after sharing Steely Dan and Van Morrison with your fans (me) I'm surprised you'd waste so much time on a dime a dozen heavy metal jokers. Dig deeper into the 70/80's with the Wateboys, Graham Parker, or Dire Straits. Keep on rocking in the free world.
Great job guys this is my personal favorite Sabbath album although the first six imo are masterpieces; as good as Ozzy sounds on this album, he HATED this album! Go figure!
2 more Ozzy albums. The next 2 albums are alright, but not as good as the previous ones. They used more synthesizers and sound more mellow....it was the Disco era.
Lyrically similar to Queens “Death on two legs” which funnily enough came out around the same time. All this crap with rip-off management didn’t begin with Kanye, it’s been happening forever!
geezer writes 99 percent of the lyrics ozzy would find the melody and Geezer writes it. Geezer has often claimed he would wake up and he would have the lyrics
You guys have reached the end of an era. There are 2 more albums with Ozzy on vocals, but they are not on the level of the first 6. Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die are ok. If you guys listen to them, don’t expect the level of greatness you’ve been getting from the previous albums. There are some good songs on both albums. They’re not horrible, but they are a bit of a let down.
Diving back into some blues. Women. Dishonest business people. Black Sabbath over BS. ⚖️ Early shades of 'Only Women Bleed', maybe? Both '75; great minds think alike? 🤷🏽 ✌🏼🙄🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The next two albums after Sabotage are not great. A couple good tracks here and there but doesn't compare to the first 6 LP's. Then Heaven and Hell with Dio is excellent. After that album there wasn't much that interested me.
There is still 2 more albums with ozzy, but they are not that good. There is some good songs, but it's the beginning of the end of black Sabbath with ozzy. Heaven and Hell with Dio is great!!
Vol 4 is the album you guys weren't feeling. im ok with the album but whatever they did with the drums kill sit for me. they sound very dull on that record. this obe you guys just finished with is tops
This is Sabbath's worst album, imo, and yet this song, for whatever reason, could possibly be my favorite Sabbath track. It's my favorite Ozzy vocal performance, anyway. Edit: wait... Technical Ecstasy is their worst album. Without a doubt.
There's so much history and phenomenal music surrounding Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, both of which intersect and have spawned other bands and solo careers. I tried to introduce you guys to Dio a couple of years ago with Rainbow - Man on the Sliver Mountian, but I think you had some technical difficulties. Once I realized you were gonna explore Sabbath's discography I decided to wait for Dio, but it's driving my crazy at this point. I'm really looking forward to you guys trying Ozzy's early solo albums, just keep a watch out for Sharon Osbourne, she'll kick your dog over copyrights.
The lyrics are about their former manager ripping them off. And the legal battles that ensue...
Sabbath Slams their Manager after firing his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ozzy pouring out his soul on this album!
Laa and Chee. They were served with a writ by there manager’s when they were trying to get out of deal that was making them, the managers, rich, while they were broke. They got 250,000$ to play Cal Jam in 74. They ended up with 1,500 a piece out of the quarter million payment. Ozzy said he drove his VW bug to a meeting with the management team and they pulled up in Mercedes, when 3 years earlier they were broke as the band was. Age old story. Band goes bankrupt, management get rich. The Writ. Awesome.
Laa and Chee. Two more Ozzy records. Very underrated records. Technical ecstasy and never say die.
I wonder why Sabbath refused to join Swan Song with Zeppelin, if they were getting screwed over by their managers. Certainly they would have more freedom, and a better financial deal I would think.
They found out everything they made went into some kind of corporate account controlled by management. They didn't even own the houses they lived in.
@@twobeer3316they couldn’t, the were legally bound to there management team.
@@KennyCamaro2364I think Tony produced technical ecstasy, oh yeah I love this record
That was a masterpiece. The best of Black Sabbath.
This is Ozzy’s finest hour in Black Sabbath. His vocals on this song are awesome
This song is as HEAVY AS IT GETS, one of my top 5 Black Sabbath songs.
Yep, the industry!
Two more Ozzy records Laa and Chee. Two very underrated records, technical ecstasy, and never say die. Then on the Ronnie James Dio Laa!!
One of few Sabbath tunes where Ozzy wrote the lyrics. Blow on the Jug was Bill Ward singing and playing piano with Ozzy singing background. Sabotage is my favorite Sabbath album, the first one I bought when it came out
Absolutely amazing track. No one switches it up seamlessly in one song like Black Sabbath.
Megalomania off same album does changes a lot
The Writ is a Masterwork ...Ozzy absolutely kills on this track....great reaction
This song has the most agry guitars of them all. Some f*cking agry sh*t and I love it. One of the greatest rock albums of all time.
My all time favorite Sabbath song. Thanks guys.
Now that is saying something.... It's a album I never reach for. I will put it underneath the needle/microscope this weekend.
You boys are still at the beginning of this journey. So many great bands and songs were birthed from Black Sabbath. Can’t wait till you get to OZZY solo with Randy Rhodes. DIO in Sabbath, and his solo stuff. Zack Wild, etc.
Geezer Butler (standing with the umbrella) usually wrote the lyrics, but this was apparently one of the few songs Ozzy wrote the lyrics for. Tony iommi (seated) wrote the music. This is toward their management. There was a lawsuit which is where the title (a writ is a legal document issued by a court) comes from. Nothing to do with their fans or women.
Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
This is the song I was waiting for you to react to from this album. One of my faves.
The Writ" is one of only a handful of Black Sabbath songs to feature lyrics composed by vocalist Osbourne.
Osbourne felt at the time, as Black Sabbath's former manager Patrick Meehan was suing the band after having been fired.
Then we Blow on the Jug. Ozzy and Bill
The last little skit song (blow on the jug) was i think Bill Ward and maybe Ozzy? playing around on the piano and singing... and one of the engineers recorded it and snuck it on the end of the album! Awesome
Stone cold masterpiece.
This song is a masterpiece!
By far Sabbs heaviest album and the one I like the most. Love your reactions amigos. Cheers.
My favorite album. Ozzy sang on the next two albums. You can hear the foundations cracking, though i love Never Say Die. When they finally split, both sides made incredible albums that defined metal in the 80s. Ozzy did Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. Sabbath did Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules. As important to metal as any album could be...
Black Sabbath - when they are at their best, this is the sound.
This song was a response to managers screwing them out of a lot of money.
I listened to this song for decades and didn't know what it was about but you guys got 5 seconds in and knew exactly what was up.
Finally. I've been waiting for you to do this song. Thanks guys. You have to do most of Technical Ecstasy. Please. It's better than you think.
Love this song!
100% Pure Grade A Sabbath!
Now, you get to enjoy Technical Ecstasy. Dont let the haters deter you from enjoying another great album from Sabbath. Just take into context that the band was literally imploding right in front of everyone. They needed a break, a long one, they got a small respite but clearly not enough.
Saw them in '75 at MSG , with Aerosmith opening up for them , they were promoting this album, it was incredible , they were a great live band.
Hmm surprised they weren't opening for Aerosmith
Toys in the attic just came out , when that album became a smash hit , they never had to open for any band again.
Ozzy wrote the lyrics also 2more albums with ozzy
My favorite Sabbath tune!
While the industry, the critics, and everyone else were good guesses, this song is about their management. They got served with a writ when they were making this record.
Sabbath and ZZ my favorite reactions by the fellas can’t miss. Keep killin it boys! 💪
At that point management was ripping
them off , they weren’t making what they should’ve !
This is the end of their first 6 albums which are considered classic. But the original lineup released two more records after this one
shit is so dope
one of the only people I've heard say "I like that cover" :) like me
The end is Bill on the piano and Ozzy fooling around.
another great song on this album . sabotage is one of there best !
Like # 545... missed you guys. Been awhile. Hope y'all doing well!
Awesome. What a Great song.
Ozzy was something to behold...
Thanks!
the guitar though
One of my top favorite songs from Sabbath. Great album over all-I wasn't a fan of Hole in the Sky-but every other song on Sabotage is top shelf Sabbath. Unfortunately, the decline of the Sabbath we all love begins on the next couple albums. Thanks, guys.
2 more albums then Dio joins the band on the Heaven and Hell album and Dio kills it and the band reaches new limits
cant wait for technical ecstasy.
Two more Ozzy albums to go - and less popular than their early Ozzy albums, but I still think they're solid. As a bonus, the drummer Bill Ward starts singing some songs!
Absolutely I posted this up top give me a thumbs up cause I like those albums
😊❤👏🙏
And never say die album so 2 more Albums with OZZIE!!!
the end part he is singing blow on a jug, I think they were goofing on mongo jerry in the summer time
Great song. Hope you feel better soon
Allergies, cold 😢
Ozzy solo… Flyin High Again is righteous 🎶
Thank you. I’m getting better
Love it. Love you got the original version w/ the Blow On the Jug bit at the end. I basically think same as @painless465: one of the few songs Ozzy wrote the lyrics to, I think the first Sabbath album I bought when it came out (but Bloody Sabbath was probably close). Sabotage is rank #4 for me, with Master of Reality, Paranoid, Bloody Sabbath in 3 way tie for 1st. I don't care much for next 2 Sab albums w/ Ozzie, massive drop-off compared to the classic first 6. But Sabotage is kind of under appreciated classic I think.
The following album Technical Ecstasy is full of amazing Sabbath songs, yet it is mixed a bit differently. They kind of modernized a bit the way they record themselves. Also the type of songs on the next album are less of the early style and yet more of these experimental type tracks that are not that heavy or anything we're used to. In fact most people who hate Technical Ecstasy are those who prefer the heavier sound of Sabbath. And those who prefer the heavier sound usually divert to Master of Reality, like me :)
You have to more full albums with Ozzy and all four original members. You have Technical Ecstasy which I think is great, and then Never Say Die, with all original members. Then Ozzy is pretty much fired and Sharon, his wife now saves his life from drinking and drugging himself to death, and helped him start his Amazing Solo career. Until they get back together in like 2013-2014 with everyone but Bill Ward, and made a great album called 13. But you guys will like the Black Sabbath with Dio doing vocals. It is awesome music!!!!
This album was called Sabotage in reference to the legal battles they were having with their management at the time. They realized they were being ripped off. Their albums were selling and they were making money but they started questioning why the cars and houses they were buying were all in their manager's name. Something on the business side of things was very fishy. This particular track "The Writ" is result of the frustrations dealing with the vultures of the music industry.
Next Album Technical Ecstasy is still Ozzie!!! alot did not like it but i did!
Me too 👍
Gentleman, you have 2 Ozzy albums left, Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die!, both are OK, with some good tunes, but IMO don't hold up to their best albums.
Dio steps in on album #9, Heaven and Hell, then one more with Mob Rules. After that Sabbath members become a revolving door with only Tony Iommi never leaving.
MOTHERFUCKIN BILL WARD SWINGIN SLEDGE HAMMERS BACK THERE AT THE END 🤘🤘🤘🤘
haha sorry for yelling
Also lols for Blow on a Jug being included 😂
🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥
Blow on a jug. bill singing
Love whole album fire megalomania favorite song no one reacts to
A lot of it going around, kinda like Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" there were bands that got ripped off.
Ozzy was there for two more. Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. Maybe not as good as the first five, but still great albums IMO.
You have two more Black Sabbath albums to go yet with Ozzy. :o)
The band's frustrations with the music business and their former manager, Patrick Meehan, who was suing the band after being fired. The song's lyrics are a direct attack on Meehan, and Osbourne wrote most of them himself.
Their former manager ripped them off bad. They'd only become aware of how bad while they were recording this album. All the vile in the lyrics are directed at him.
Ozzy remained for the next TWO albums.
I believe Geezer Butler wrote most of their lyrics but I'm not sure on this particular song?
The lyrics are usually by Geezer Buttler
Technical ecstasy and never say die are next don’t let people tell you they’re not good albums they are very good & very different, The last two with Ozzy
Extremely few Sabbath songs have Ozzy lyrics [another reason that: Bob Daisley wrote the majority of his solo catalogue (at least: the legendary & most beloved songs, with the original Blizzard Of Ozz [designed to be a new band which Ozzy fronted, but: got "flip-switched" into "Ozzy as solo artist" (without telling the rest of the band [as turd Nugent did with HIS band & career, as well!]!)], however:
"The Writ" is one.
This, effectively, went directly from: experience to expression.
--- As far as the final 2 Ozzy-era albums:
Never Say Die is the stronger of the two [although they were all, pretty much, drugged-to-incomprehensibility on the tour. Ozzy was, most noticeably, atrocious.
Their "biggest problem," (not really, of course! ...but certainly not the wisest choice!) was: having a young, insane juggernaut of a band named: VAN HALEN
open for them, on that tour!
Van Halen, in 1978, was blowing Black Sabbath off of their own stages, almost nightly!!
- This wasn't because the music was bad
...just that: the musicians weren't sober enough to perform it well!
NEVER SAY DIE gets (unfairly and ridiculously) shit on, regularly, because: it's different and demonstrates: "latitude," reach and growth. All GREAT & important things for a band!
...Technical Ecstasy,
while less cohesive or interesting, certainly deserves more notice and respect than it gets, as well.
["Dirty Women" alone!!!! 🤘🤘 - Although, the truth is: The Hellacopters were the band that perfected that song, about 2.5 decades later, when THEY covered it 🔥💜!!
-but that's another story, as well!! 😛😛]
Anyone listening to Black Sabbath's catalogue or familiarizing themselves with the band's music, absolutely, never completes its task and unfairly undercuts itself when they avoid/do not listen to: Never Say Die
&
Technical Ecstasy.
BLACK SABBATH knew that: They couldn't clean
-up Ozzy and that: Ozzy, as he was, would drag the band down.
They weren't "clean" themselves, but: they, at least, wanted to (and did) work on it.
Ozzy wouldn't.
Sharon, did, "save" him and forced him to begin dealing with things enough to get him off the dirty floor of a hotel.
...but she had no experience with this and couldn't control him for long (she, also, learned her self-aggrandizing, abusive behaviors from her abusive dad, who "owned" and ran Black Sabbath for almost a decade.).
She, eventually, became worse than he was (but THAT, ALSO: is ANOTHER story, still!)!
...but the commonized "end result" was:
Ronnie James Dio left another collapsing band [Rainbow] and became an unexpected "second king" of the Black Sabbath empire.
...while Ozzy formed a brilliant outfit (which, really, helped move the excitement of and styles of the NWoBHM to the U.S. and helped popularize Metal as a COMMERCIALLY successful style and 1980s "growth industry.")
which was intended to be: the second band he fronted, but became "his solo career"
...with this amazing band backing him (but never being compensated equally - even though, they were, really, carrying all of the weight, for the entire Ozzy Osbourne outfit!).
The 2 bands were (esp. as far as: management and label ownership were concerned!!) "in direct competition," but: I don't know a SINGLE fan who said or felt: "I like one, but not the other"
...so: out of the turmoil, fans got TWO excellent bands, instead of only one!
🤘🤘🔥💜
- The biggest tragedy was: the totally unnecessary death of RANDY RHOADS
, who (despite what the Osbourne camp will talk about, etc.), had, effectively, already decided to LEAVE Ozzy Osbourne and move forward (creating GOD'S KNOW what GENIUS!), but
before he could, was killed 😭😭😭😭
...creating a massive hole in music, fans' hearts, families and history.
The fact that sharon (then not-yet 'Osbourne') refused to cancel, or postpone, the rest of the tour (for mire than a few weeks - I think it was just over a month... possibly 3 weeks or possibly 7, that the band had "to grieve". ..but they were pushed, unprepared, abd unduly, back onto the stage!) and pushed the band back onto the road, only weeks after the shock and horror of the accident
...only goes to demonstrate: how callous and self-serving she is capable of being and always has been.
The BS albums after Sabbath Bloody Sabbath didn’t impact me quite as much, but this song is EPIC!
masterpiece, powerful, as others already said, about an asshole manager. Technical Ectasy would be next chronologically, but one I never listen too. To me, it's a bit of a formula album (although still epic). The band maybe felt the same, as they went a pretty different direction for Never Say Die, with jazz elements, and even blue eyed soul. A direction I wish they would have explored further. Really looking forward to any reactions on that one.
Unfortunately they made 2 more albums after this and the quality kinda took a nosedive. After that is when ozzy got fired and they hired DIO. If you guys really like ozzy you could check out some of his early solo stuff
Yall got 2 more Ozzy era albums (3 if you include 13 from 2011) would actually love if yall did the next 2. Theyre different, but i dont think they are as bad as they've been made out to be.
Just go straight to the Heaven & Hell LP with Dio, it’s a masterpiece! The last two Sabbath albums with Ozzy on them are spotty at best and it will ruin your Sabbath vibe to go through each song on them.
The first half sounds like they took a page from Ted nugent and queen .it was absolutely Blazing
They said they received a tax bill for the money the manager was making.
Sabbath wasn't Sabbath without Ozzy.
yous need to do live at last when your done with never say die
Sorry, hate to be a contrarian, but you guys are the best reactors on You
Tube and after sharing Steely Dan and Van Morrison with your fans (me)
I'm surprised you'd waste so much time on a dime a dozen heavy metal
jokers. Dig deeper into the 70/80's with the Wateboys, Graham Parker, or
Dire Straits. Keep on rocking in the free world.
Great job guys this is my personal favorite Sabbath album although the first six imo are masterpieces; as good as Ozzy sounds on this album, he HATED this album! Go figure!
2 more Ozzy albums. The next 2 albums are alright, but not as good as the previous ones. They used more synthesizers and sound more mellow....it was the Disco era.
Lyrically similar to Queens “Death on two legs” which funnily enough came out around the same time. All this crap with rip-off management didn’t begin with Kanye, it’s been happening forever!
Dio slams.
geezer writes 99 percent of the lyrics ozzy would find the melody and Geezer writes it. Geezer has often claimed he would wake up and he would have the lyrics
You guys have reached the end of an era. There are 2 more albums with Ozzy on vocals, but they are not on the level of the first 6. Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die are ok. If you guys listen to them, don’t expect the level of greatness you’ve been getting from the previous albums. There are some good songs on both albums. They’re not horrible, but they are a bit of a let down.
Had to have influenced Beastie Boys.
Diving back into some blues. Women. Dishonest business people. Black Sabbath over BS. ⚖️
Early shades of 'Only Women Bleed', maybe? Both '75; great minds think alike? 🤷🏽
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Ok, you can stop right there, the next 2 are not good. Skip Never Say Die and Technical Ecstasy and go straight to Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules.
They were too heavy into drugs after this album, and the rest of the albums suffered.
The next two albums after Sabotage are not great. A couple good tracks here and there but doesn't compare to the first 6 LP's. Then Heaven and Hell with Dio is excellent. After that album there wasn't much that interested me.
I know geezer wrote most of the lyrics...not totally sure about this one
There is still 2 more albums with ozzy, but they are not that good. There is some good songs, but it's the beginning of the end of black Sabbath with ozzy. Heaven and Hell with Dio is great!!
Vol 4 is the album you guys weren't feeling. im ok with the album but whatever they did with the drums kill sit for me. they sound very dull on that record. this obe you guys just finished with is tops
This is Sabbath's worst album, imo, and yet this song, for whatever reason, could possibly be my favorite Sabbath track. It's my favorite Ozzy vocal performance, anyway.
Edit: wait... Technical Ecstasy is their worst album. Without a doubt.
There's so much history and phenomenal music surrounding Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, both of which intersect and have spawned other bands and solo careers. I tried to introduce you guys to Dio a couple of years ago with Rainbow - Man on the Sliver Mountian, but I think you had some technical difficulties. Once I realized you were gonna explore Sabbath's discography I decided to wait for Dio, but it's driving my crazy at this point. I'm really looking forward to you guys trying Ozzy's early solo albums, just keep a watch out for Sharon Osbourne, she'll kick your dog over copyrights.
😂😂 we are almost there!!
Brutal guitar, soulful singing, killer lyrics…what’s not to love about this classic?