The jazz influence is heavy. Most people don't recognize it. 60s bands grew up on what thier parents listened to and they weren't listening to blues. The blues were verboten. It's mainly jazz they grew up with mixed with the blues just being discovered by the next generation. But listen to any 60s band... the drummer always swings. Cream, Sabbath, Hendrix... the list goes on. All jazz drummers.
@@danbardos3498 yeah.. I mean on this album: Hand of Doom / Rat Salad / Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots, is just pure Blues+Rock+Jazz hybrid culture.
When this song was recorded Black Sabbath was: Geezer Butler-Bass, Bill Ward-Drums, Tony Iommi-Guitar and Ozzy Osbourne-Vocals. Prime Time Black Sabbath at it's best.
I personally think that my favorite version is off the Reunion album. Although Randy Rhodes tore this song up so it’s a tough call. The Tribute and Reunion albums are just phenomenal.
Back in the day I used to work in Audio/Video stores, when they used to exist, and folks wanted to hear something loud out of some speakers, "Fairies Wear Boots" was my go to demo song. Even with the doors in the demo room shut, people on the sales floor could not hear each other talk during these demos. "Fairies Wear Boots and you got to believe me!" Sing it Ozzy!!!
Got kicked out of one of those places for playing AC/DC Back in Black way to loud when the album first came out, they even tried to say I blew out one of the demo speakers and tried to get me to call my parents to come pay for it. I just told them my dad wouldn't pay because he'd just say that it wasn't my kids fault your speakers suck lol. Btw got banned for life which lasted a whole 7 years when they went out of biz.
Haha indeed! Love the ending to the song, starts taking off while fading out, makes it feel hopeful and a little sad, I always turn up as it fades and then the next song starts and blasts me into next Tuseday haha ✨🤙🏼
Child of the 70s, graduated 1981, if you want more Sabbath and haven't heard it yet, something from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album like National Acrobat really rocks
3:25 I was about 4 I think when I fell off the top bunk and broke my middle finger. Apparently I ran around flipping everyone off and telling them "I broke this finger!" One of my favorite endings to any metal song! If you want Sabbath at their bluesiest, it's The Wizard, Bassically/NIB and if you thought this was hard, next one has to be Hand of Doom!
Children of the Grave and Symptom of the Universe are two other bangers by them that inspired others to use the Sabbath playbook as a template to further heavy metal with killer chugging riffs !
Geezer lived down the street from a buddy of mine back in the 90s. He called us out once for smoking weed while fishing in the pond that his house backed up to… called us out more as a joke and all in good nature. He moved about a year later when BS was reuniting with Bill Ward for the Oztest tour
Back in the early days of rock and heavy rock, a lot of musicians used the term "The Doctor". Which is another way of saying "A dealer". Whether was a hook up for women or the hook up for things to party with. There are many songs that refer to "The Doctor". Just gotta listen for them.
The song came about when an incident occurred where Geezer and Ozzy were smoking cannabis and saw fairies in boots running around a park, but the most known story around the song was that the band got attacked by skinheads (the skinheads being the fairies in the song), but it's been proven to not be true
Fun fact: in Type O Negative's version of the song Black Sabbath, the solo at the end of the song is one of the main riffs of Fairies Wear Boots...played on the organ.
This is actually 2 songs played together. The instrumental part is Jack The Stripper and the heavier part with vocals is Fairies Wear Boots. They switch back and forth.
I've read that this song is about Sabbath making fun of Skinheads because they used to get attacked and/or get into fights with Skinheads or it's about tripping on drugs... I suppose I can see both interpretations but regardless, this track fucking rules! It's not my number one favourite track off Paranoid but it's definitely in the top three!🤘I'd love to see you guys check out Headless Cross by Black Sabbath at some point, it's a criminally underrated track and a criminally underrated album in general to be honest. It's easily one of my top 5 favourite Sabbath albums!
the live version from speak of the devil at the ritz theater,smokes w/brad gillis on guitar.was at the show n ozzy did all black sabbath songs.best concert i ever went to.
Have you ever heard Of Exodus?They do thrash,and I recommend their song “The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”:which I believe is concerned with the time at around 2020/2021 or maybe 2022 when America seemed to be losing its collective mind.It has(in my opinion) very entertainingly ironic lyrics on the order of Jonathan Swifts’ A Modest Proposal(I’m not saying quality-wise they are the same,just purpose-wise).As for another Black Sabbath song,what about A National Acrobat.Thanks guys.
I heard a TOTALLY different story about this song by Ozzy ! LOL ! He said he was stumbling home drunk from a pub and he walked by a window and saw a fellow in drag dancing in his sexy lingerie yet he still had his boots on . And he couldn't help but do a double take like "whoah ! did I just see that ? " So he looked back again and said " Yup . That is what I thought I saw " and proceeded home .If I remember right it might have been the super for his apartment even . Or something like that . Now there is 3 stories ! Who knows lol !
I actually didn't realize this was the song you were doing lol I saw the title and was a little confused, but then remembered that I got introduced to this song via its alternate name 'Jack the Stripper' lol
Sabbath didn't wear nail polish or eyeliner. They worked in factories in Aston and would've been beaten up by old ladies for wearing make-up, let alone skinheads.
such a fun channel. Ya'll about a full decade young'ns but I totally agree with with ya's. too cool for school . lol. kudos gents. Love all of your reactions.
The story goes, Ozzy and crew were at a pub, a group of skinheads were roughing up a guy, Ozzy stepped in to help fight them off. "Fairies" at the time was a slang name for skinheads.
I came home from an Explorer Scout trip after hiking eight days down into, through then up out of the Grand Canyon. I was dropped off at my house and discovered a note on the front door: "grandpa Minnis has died, we are in Knoxville TN. fridge is full, freezer is full, we will be back......". so anywho, I found a turkey in the freezer. I love turkey!!!!! so my fifteen years old self reckond I could microwave it. "delicate defrost" for 15 min. still seemed frozen. another 15 min same setting. ok now cook? 10 min full power. another 15 full power. repeated I forget how many times, but had a delicious turkey for dinner. my dad told that story 'til the day he died. I miss my dad
I did see an interview many years ago with young Ozzy where he said it was about their fight with a group of skinheads and he said that since he got his ass beat he got salty and he wrote a song calling them gay because he knew that would piss them off the most, so even if old Ozzy understandably doesn't remember a song he wrote yesterday, young Ozzy did agree with Geezer about this song at least at some point.
I can't listen to this song without laughing at the lyrics. Of course the riffs and grooves are great, but I always laugh picturing fairies dancing with a dwarf.
So much fun in live chat as always! Much love, y'all. Check out some Mac Sabbath. They do parodies of Black Sabbath songs dressed as McDonald's Characters with fast food themed lyrics. Saw them live a few months ago. So much fun!
This is one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. Not only from Paranoid, but from their discography. I especially love Geezer's bass on this and Bill Ward goes a little crazy with those drums lmao. Next Sabbath song you should do should be "Wasp/Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B." This is off of their very first album and is another one of my all time favorite songs. The song has different names because it has "chapters" or "segments" to it. The most famous part is NIB, which I'm 90% sure you have heard somewhere in passing ua-cam.com/video/OYgBOVoLI6U/v-deo.htmlsi=swtwCAbd1sXh71fO
What a groove. Butler and Ward killing it as always. One of the few best rhythm sections in Rock. Y'all want something different. Try God Is Dead by Sabbath. Killer sound.
If you check out black Sabbath before they where black Sabbath. They where called polka tulk blues band and after that earth and played more of a jazz/blues rock with piano. There is a lot of recordings on UA-cam.
“…. Looks like we made it Look how far we've come, my baby We mighta took the long way We knew we'd get there someday…” I sang that Shania Twain song at my aunt’s wedding about 25 years ago. Dang! My dad still loves to brag about how I carried a 10lb/50lb watermelon on the beach when I was 2years or 6 months old or whatever the exaggeration is now. 😂I don’t know why he gets such a kick out of that. Thanks y’all! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Tony Iommi may be the maestro, but Bill Ward and Geezer Butler are the engine of Black Sabbath... Speaking of: The band Sleep does a song called "Giza Butler" that you should definitely check out. 🤘
The song may have been inspired by Ozzy Osbourne being called a "fairy" by a group of skinheads in London. The skinheads were punks and anarchists who usually wore boots
I always had it in my head that this song was about Ozzy being high and running into a man dressed as a woman with boots while they were doing some homosexual action.
You've heard Black Sabbath with Ozzy and Dio, now you need to check Sabbath out with Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) and Tony Martin. All different, but all good.
Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do.......yeahhhhh
So I went to the doctor to see what he could have me....
@@heywoodjablowme8120 son you gone too far...✌💖☮
Deedley doodley deedley doodley (guitar outro) 😁
It's obvious it's what these guys do lol
I picture the Dr. yelling in Ozzy's face: "YEAAHHHHH!"
Bill Ward and Geezer Butler are the stars of this one. IMO.
The jazz influence is heavy. Most people don't recognize it. 60s bands grew up on what thier parents listened to and they weren't listening to blues. The blues were verboten. It's mainly jazz they grew up with mixed with the blues just being discovered by the next generation.
But listen to any 60s band... the drummer always swings. Cream, Sabbath, Hendrix... the list goes on. All jazz drummers.
@@danbardos3498Bill Ward and John Bonham both started as Jazz Drummers.
Bill called himself a percussionist. Jazz roots run deep into rock drumming.
@@danbardos3498 yeah.. I mean on this album: Hand of Doom / Rat Salad / Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots, is just pure Blues+Rock+Jazz hybrid culture.
Ward was such a talented drummer.
They always were mate...Iommi had a very "heavy" back up to do his job...stepped in very strong shoulders....
That bass is groovin
Geezer Butler is one of my favorite bass players.
When this song was recorded Black Sabbath was: Geezer Butler-Bass, Bill Ward-Drums, Tony Iommi-Guitar and Ozzy Osbourne-Vocals. Prime Time Black Sabbath at it's best.
Although this song is about drugs, it's also about the skinheads (who wear boots) that sabbath had a few nasty encounters with.
Amazing song full of hair-raising Iommi filthy riffs to end this legendary influential metal album.
Children of the Grave is my favorite Sabbath tune! If you haven’t checked it out yet you should
Baddest rif of all time. I like your attitude!
I mentioned that too ! Also Symptom of the Universe .
And a good message it that song.
I personally think that my favorite version is off the Reunion album. Although Randy Rhodes tore this song up so it’s a tough call. The Tribute and Reunion albums are just phenomenal.
Back in the day I used to work in Audio/Video stores, when they used to exist, and folks wanted to hear something loud out of some speakers, "Fairies Wear Boots" was my go to demo song. Even with the doors in the demo room shut, people on the sales floor could not hear each other talk during these demos. "Fairies Wear Boots and you got to believe me!" Sing it Ozzy!!!
Ah sweet man. I remember those days going into a stereo store and cranking it just because. Classic song, good choice.
Got kicked out of one of those places for playing AC/DC Back in Black way to loud when the album first came out, they even tried to say I blew out one of the demo speakers and tried to get me to call my parents to come pay for it. I just told them my dad wouldn't pay because he'd just say that it wasn't my kids fault your speakers suck lol. Btw got banned for life which lasted a whole 7 years when they went out of biz.
Geezer goes ham in this track.
Geezer (the bass player) was the main lyricist for Sabbath, not Ozzy.
Takes all the parts to make bus move. Lyrics lay flat on the floor without the melody.
It was Geezer and Ozzy
Geezer did the lyrics, Ozzy was responsible for all vocal melodies.
@@tubelious Maybe for this one song... Not the whole time
True, Geezer probably wrote 90% of the lyrics and you can tell that Ozzy wrote this one.
this is the music to sit in a dark room and just feel the vibes man, what a tune
Geezer crushing it on the bass.
Geezer Butler and his bass is very prominent in this song
Just got pretty blazed😄 saw this pop up and hit play, couldn’t wait!
Then saw it premieres in 10hrs haha
I’ll be back 🤙🏼
puff puff pass ✌💖☮
Haha indeed!
Love the ending to the song, starts taking off while fading out, makes it feel hopeful and a little sad, I always turn up as it fades and then the next song starts and blasts me into next Tuseday haha ✨🤙🏼
My favourite Sabbath song!!!
Gotta do the wizard next !!
Was anyone else literally just listening to this today on full blast?!
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This song shows you the difference between when Ozzy writes the lyrics vs when Geezer writes them...
I wanna see a reaction to pink floyd "dogs" so bad. IM ABSOLUTELY FIENDING BRO😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭
Anyway fairies wear boots is awesome. excited to see this❤
Child of the 70s, graduated 1981, if you want more Sabbath and haven't heard it yet, something from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album like National Acrobat really rocks
I played drums in a band years ago and we did this song. It was by far my favorite to play!
I haven’t clicked this fast on a video in a long time. Great tune.
3:25 I was about 4 I think when I fell off the top bunk and broke my middle finger. Apparently I ran around flipping everyone off and telling them "I broke this finger!"
One of my favorite endings to any metal song!
If you want Sabbath at their bluesiest, it's The Wizard, Bassically/NIB and if you thought this was hard, next one has to be Hand of Doom!
Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, John Mellencamp
Tiger Woods
Banger 🔥🔥🔥
Children of the Grave and Symptom of the Universe are two other bangers by them that inspired others to use the Sabbath playbook as a template to further heavy metal with killer chugging riffs !
Geezer said that Ozzy added in the part about the doctor while they were rehearsing it and they kept it in.
Great song with great rift
One of my all time favorites from Black Sabbath ❤❤❤❤❤ that riff and drum and the lead with the vocals just perfection on this track
Geezer lived down the street from a buddy of mine back in the 90s. He called us out once for smoking weed while fishing in the pond that his house backed up to… called us out more as a joke and all in good nature. He moved about a year later when BS was reuniting with Bill Ward for the Oztest tour
Use to listen to ferries where boots going to high school
Ships have boots??
Back in the early days of rock and heavy rock, a lot of musicians used the term "The Doctor". Which is another way of saying "A dealer". Whether was a hook up for women or the hook up for things to party with. There are many songs that refer to "The Doctor". Just gotta listen for them.
My Fav Sabbath song !❤❤❤❤❤
O G Original Geezer
Hey trash talkers. My favorite Ozzy Black Sabbath song here.
Geezer wrote most of their lyrics so you should go by his interpretation of the story.
The song came about when an incident occurred where Geezer and Ozzy were smoking cannabis and saw fairies in boots running around a park, but the most known story around the song was that the band got attacked by skinheads (the skinheads being the fairies in the song), but it's been proven to not be true
Yeah
They were tripping balls and one of them saw little people wearing brightly colored boots
Thanks for the info! I always thought this song also has something to do with LOTR because The Wizard was about Gandalf.
How was it proven untrue?
One of my favorite Ozzy era Black Sabbath songs🤘🏼🧚🏼♀️
Oh,and the lyrics were mostly written by Geezer on most,if not all albums
Yes!!!!!! This is one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs along with Rat Salad!!!!!!!!!!
Great choice. For another under appreciated banger, try "All Moving Parts Stand Still". Trust!
When dude joins in with the "Yeah!" at the end - that was fun to watch!! Thanks guys great reaction!
One of my favourite Black Sabbath songs.
Hollywood 6's description of prime rib slow cooker Black Sabbath is spot on
One of my favorite Back Sabbath songs!
As heavy as they are, Sabbath can swing!
Ive just recently rebought Sabbath greatest hits c.d and i blare this song so much .
I would suggest you guys listen to "No more Tears" as well!!!! It's not from the Black Sabbath Band but it's amazing!!
One of my favorite guitar solos 😊
Tony oozes heavy metal riffs from pours that even he doesn't know that he has.
one of the best songs in the world. That bass, those Gtr riffs and drums...
Ahhh My Favorite Sabbath Song. Enjoy
Volume 4 is a must. The whole album is fire. "Wheels Of Confusion" is the best. Imo.
Fun fact: in Type O Negative's version of the song Black Sabbath, the solo at the end of the song is one of the main riffs of Fairies Wear Boots...played on the organ.
The godfather of heavy metal
This song is such a grower. The bass and drums are fantastic.
This is actually 2 songs played together. The instrumental part is Jack The Stripper and the heavier part with vocals is Fairies Wear Boots. They switch back and forth.
I've read that this song is about Sabbath making fun of Skinheads because they used to get attacked and/or get into fights with Skinheads or it's about tripping on drugs... I suppose I can see both interpretations but regardless, this track fucking rules! It's not my number one favourite track off Paranoid but it's definitely in the top three!🤘I'd love to see you guys check out Headless Cross by Black Sabbath at some point, it's a criminally underrated track and a criminally underrated album in general to be honest. It's easily one of my top 5 favourite Sabbath albums!
the live version from speak of the devil at the ritz theater,smokes w/brad gillis on guitar.was at the show n ozzy did all black sabbath songs.best concert i ever went to.
Happened to me in the Army
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Have yall done war pigs ?
Yes they did 😊
mann they did that dumb ass live they gotta do the studio version!
my introduction to metal back in 86 indeed a classic !
Best band ever
Have you ever heard Of Exodus?They do thrash,and I recommend their song “The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”:which I believe is concerned with the time at around 2020/2021 or maybe 2022 when America seemed to be losing its collective mind.It has(in my opinion) very entertainingly ironic lyrics on the order of Jonathan Swifts’ A Modest Proposal(I’m not saying quality-wise they are the same,just purpose-wise).As for another Black Sabbath song,what about A National Acrobat.Thanks guys.
I will agree one hundred percent that national acrobat is a kick ass song. Excellent choice.
I heard a TOTALLY different story about this song by Ozzy ! LOL ! He said he was stumbling home drunk from a pub and he walked by a window and saw a fellow in drag dancing in his sexy lingerie yet he still had his boots on . And he couldn't help but do a double take like "whoah ! did I just see that ? " So he looked back again and said " Yup . That is what I thought I saw " and proceeded home .If I remember right it might have been the super for his apartment even . Or something like that . Now there is 3 stories ! Who knows lol !
both stories are right, the song is about a bad trip but the idea came from the fight...
I actually didn't realize this was the song you were doing lol I saw the title and was a little confused, but then remembered that I got introduced to this song via its alternate name 'Jack the Stripper' lol
Classic Sabbath tune!🤘
Sabbath didn't wear nail polish or eyeliner. They worked in factories in Aston and would've been beaten up by old ladies for wearing make-up, let alone skinheads.
such a fun channel. Ya'll about a full decade young'ns but I totally agree with with ya's.
too cool for school . lol.
kudos gents. Love all of your reactions.
Toni Iommi...The Dark Lord of the Riff.
The story goes, Ozzy and crew were at a pub, a group of skinheads were roughing up a guy, Ozzy stepped in to help fight them off. "Fairies" at the time was a slang name for skinheads.
I came home from an Explorer Scout trip after hiking eight days down into, through then up out of the Grand Canyon. I was dropped off at my house and discovered a note on the front door: "grandpa Minnis has died, we are in Knoxville TN. fridge is full, freezer is full, we will be back......". so anywho, I found a turkey in the freezer. I love turkey!!!!! so my fifteen years old self reckond I could microwave it. "delicate defrost" for 15 min. still seemed frozen. another 15 min same setting. ok now cook? 10 min full power. another 15 full power. repeated I forget how many times, but had a delicious turkey for dinner. my dad told that story 'til the day he died. I miss my dad
I did see an interview many years ago with young Ozzy where he said it was about their fight with a group of skinheads and he said that since he got his ass beat he got salty and he wrote a song calling them gay because he knew that would piss them off the most, so even if old Ozzy understandably doesn't remember a song he wrote yesterday, young Ozzy did agree with Geezer about this song at least at some point.
I can't listen to this song without laughing at the lyrics. Of course the riffs and grooves are great, but I always laugh picturing fairies dancing with a dwarf.
So much fun in live chat as always! Much love, y'all. Check out some Mac Sabbath. They do parodies of Black Sabbath songs dressed as McDonald's Characters with fast food themed lyrics. Saw them live a few months ago. So much fun!
Sweet beef 🍔 😆
@@ShanLH5 I AM FRYING PAN
@@PeeWeeGerman1313 😆 N.I.B.B.L.E.
@@ShanLH5 I can't think of more titles offhand hahaha
@@PeeWeeGerman1313 lol that’s ok
Saw Flotsam and Jetsem do a cover of this live and had the whole place jumping
Black Sabbath have always reminded me of The Isley Brothers drinkin' Hennessey and poppin' Quaaludes... Then doin' a bump to wake the F*#K back up!😁
Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
ALLLLRIGHT NOW!
As Geezer writes the lyrics, I go with his description.
"I thought that might have been a thing"
Are you talking about the band with songs called Snowblind and Sweet Leaf?
check out Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath totally worth it
It was Brown Sabbath after Ozzy left...
This is one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. Not only from Paranoid, but from their discography. I especially love Geezer's bass on this and Bill Ward goes a little crazy with those drums lmao.
Next Sabbath song you should do should be "Wasp/Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B." This is off of their very first album and is another one of my all time favorite songs. The song has different names because it has "chapters" or "segments" to it. The most famous part is NIB, which I'm 90% sure you have heard somewhere in passing
ua-cam.com/video/OYgBOVoLI6U/v-deo.htmlsi=swtwCAbd1sXh71fO
All Right Nowww
White Zombie doesn’t get enough love!🤘🏻
What a groove. Butler and Ward killing it as always. One of the few best rhythm sections in Rock. Y'all want something different. Try God Is Dead by Sabbath. Killer sound.
If you check out black Sabbath before they where black Sabbath.
They where called polka tulk blues band and after that earth and played more of a jazz/blues rock with piano.
There is a lot of recordings on UA-cam.
“…. Looks like we made it
Look how far we've come, my baby
We mighta took the long way
We knew we'd get there someday…” I sang that Shania Twain song at my aunt’s wedding about 25 years ago. Dang!
My dad still loves to brag about how I carried a 10lb/50lb watermelon on the beach when I was 2years or 6 months old or whatever the exaggeration is now. 😂I don’t know why he gets such a kick out of that.
Thanks y’all! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Bill Ward is the TRUTH, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me GAWD!!!!!
A great song!
Tony Iommi may be the maestro, but Bill Ward and Geezer Butler are the engine of Black Sabbath... Speaking of: The band Sleep does a song called "Giza Butler" that you should definitely check out. 🤘
The song may have been inspired by Ozzy Osbourne being called a "fairy" by a group of skinheads in London. The skinheads were punks and anarchists who usually wore boots
I always had it in my head that this song was about Ozzy being high and running into a man dressed as a woman with boots while they were doing some homosexual action.
It's not an Ozzy/Black Sabbath song without Ozzy yelling "Alright now!" It's like James Hetfield with "Yeah!"
You've heard Black Sabbath with Ozzy and Dio, now you need to check Sabbath out with Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) and Tony Martin. All different, but all good.
...smoke 'em if you got 'em....🤣🤣
Isn't the song titled "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots?" Did Jack get cancelled???
nice,furie faces 🤣🤣
the transitions though