Who do you prefer? Black Sabbath - When Death Calls - REACTION
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2021
- Tonight i listened to Black Sabbath and their song When Death Calls. This was the first song sung I've heard sang by Tony Martin and I must say i really enjoyed it.
I loved the ambience in the start; almost sounded like bells to kick us off with, followed by a lovely soft velvety tone to Tony's voice. Then from there, the song really took off!
I'm preferring this sound tbh, but i want you all to tell me what Ozzy Osbourne song I should be listening to next
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There are 5 albums with Tony Martin. Some of their best stuff that no one ever heard. Please continue. Thanks
I have listened to it and there's a few diamonds in there but most of it is pretty generic and unremarkable. On my last try to listen to their whole discography I got bored and skipped ahead to Ozzy's return
Some good stuff in the Tony Martin Era: Black Moon, Nightwing, Valhalla, Anno Mundi, Glory Ride, The Shining and Forbidden to name a few. Tony really improved his soloing during the Martin Era.
Tony improved his soloing during the Martin era ?. Did you miss 7th Star ?.
Nope, I have it. But I feel after 7th Star even.
I'm unpopular with my friends as THIS BS song is my absolute favorite. Martin so overlooked. Love the Brian May solo on this one.
Tony Martin wrote this about an out of body experience he had while he was sleeping - he's mentioned this in interviews and during live shows.
I love Sabbath's albums with Tony ,very underrated albums!😍😍😍
maybe my fav Black Sabbath song. if it doesn't put a chill down your spine, your probably already dead....
Best singer period.. never cancelled a show for itchyness or bitchyness.. tevhnical the best one they had, criominally underrated singer... and OZZY ISN'T Black Sabbath... NEITHER IS DIO... TYONI IOMMI IS !!!
Note When Death Calls is the only Sabbath song where Tony Iommi didn't play lead; it's Brian May of Queen (they're mates.) Next check out the Glenn Hughes era with Turn To Stone and their time with Ian Gillan with Disturbing The Priest.
I second the vote for Disturbing the Priest, but I'd go with Danger Zone or Angry Heart/In Memory from the Glenn Hughes era.
Disturbing the Priest is the song you crank when new neighbors move in!
@@bmayer9160 ...LOL!!
YES!! I am SOOO happy to see Tony Martin get a measure of the respect that his work with Sabbath so richly deserves. I strongly recommend checking out more of the Martin era Sabbath albums. I would also recommend the Born Again album, which featured Ian Gillan of Deep Purple as the lead vocalist.
God bless!
Great song choice Tommy, I never heard this song from SABBATH, It’s an absolute banger, added to me playlist almost immediately.
Damm Straight!
Saw this lineup in 90 at Bradford, stood right beside Tont Iommi's massive speaker stack, couldn;t hear straight for days after it but loved it!
Saw Tony with Sabbath 4 times. I enjoyed him, powerful voice. I was disappointed with Ronnie when I saw him take the lead in the nineties. Ozzy era, check out A National Acrobat, a few change ups in that one or Into the Void.
Singers: Ozzy, Dio, Ian Gillan (ex Deep Purple), Glenn Hughes (ex Deep Purple) then Tony Martin
Ah ok! I assumed he was the replacement for Dio 👍
Ozzy before Dio? Really? As vocalists they are in very different leagues.
@@unkle_bear Umm I was listing them in chronological order, not any order of preference.
I love Tony's voice. The "Cross Purposes" & "Tyr" records have some amazing stuff on it. Worth a listen for sure. Tony was definitely influenced in his singing style by Dio. I love old Sabbath stuff, but do prefer the Dio, Martin stuff. I will watch for another Tony Martin reaction my friend.
What I love about your reactions, you don't hold back and are honest, wether you like it or not so much. Like the first time you heard Queensrÿche. You don't bury the band or artist, just give your piece of mind. That is how it is done, and should be.
One of my favourite Sabbath songs for sure. For me it is even a Black Sabbath classic!
The Tony Martin period is so very underpreciated by the hard-liners, while the guy deserves so much credit. Not only was he an incredible singer (especially in his earlier years), he along with Iommi kept Sabbath going throughout the eighties, which were not that great for the band, with too many reasons to mention on why. He does remind me in some cases of a Dio-light, but with a wider range back then. High pitched, raspy and yet also so much power and clearity to his voice.
I very appreciate you choosing this song, most people go for the easier choices (and/or skip the Martin years all together), the obvious classics. My compliments for taking a different road!
Thank you! Hopefully that’s one of the things that kept bringing people back to the channel. I felt I was considered and even if I didn’t like a song, I would try to explain why
@@ThomasJ_Music I do agree. That is why I do come back here and even get to see a song from a different point of view at times. That is also why I like these first time video reactions.
And much like bands that choose to record songs just for pleasing the fanbase in the back of their minds, you risk the change of them getting bored of you. Staying true to yourself is always the right thing to do, in the long run.
When Dio left Sabbath he was replaced by Ian Gillan, who probably to this day still wondered how he ended up in Sabbath. Glenn Hughes followed on the Seventh Star but was too alcoholic to finish the tour and got replaced by Ray Gillen. Who was going to record the next Eternal Idol album but left. Upon which Tony Martin entered the band. After that album and tour guitarist Tony Iommi teamed up with drummer Cozy Powell and they were going to rebuild Sabbath, which had kinda become a joke. A constant going of musicians with only Iommi being the only constant. The Headless Cross album was going to be Black Sabbath's big return to form, a new lineup, a new album. Tony wanted a different vocalist, thinking Martin lacked stage presence, but Cozy seemed to like him and persuaded Tony to keep Tony Martin. And one of the best Sabbath albums was born. The Headless Cross and Tyr albums are easily the best Sabbath period, together with the first 6 Ozzy albums and the first 2 Dio albums. It might even be that this Dio esque quality to Tony Martin was what appealed to Cozy Powell, who had been with Dio in Rainbow.
Sadly, Tony Iommi, despite being a metal/riff guitar god, was a shit band leader, and ditched Tony Martin after the Tyr tour to hook up with Dio again because commercial success was not happening for the Tony Martin Sabbath era. No small thanks to Sharon Osbourne who sabotaged their chances in the US. Tony Martin was booked to sing on Dehumanizer but when the negotiations with Dio went through he got shitcanned. Only to be asked back by Iommi after Dio left the band again, doing two more albums and tours with Sabbath, Cross Purposes and Forbidden. to fulfill contracts with the label. But those albums weren't as good as Headless Cross and Tyr. Plus his voice began to suffer. Maybe from singing too many Ozzy songs, as Tony Martin is the only Sabbath singer to have ever sung the full version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, including the 2nd Where can you run too part, which Ozzy never sings.
Glen never got kicked out of sabbath for drinking to much, he got into a fight with one of the roadies and the roadie punched him knocking him out cold the punch fucked up his nasal passage and throat and thus had to back out of the tour and was replaced with tony Martin
That is a very condensed version of this history with some slight inaccuracies. Dio left when Tony and Geezer decided to briefly reunite with Ozzy for one show (90% sure on this one, would need to be fact checked). After Gillan they went through a few vocalists including Dave Donato. The reasons for Glenn leaving were his messed up voice on tour after an event another comment has already pointed out. Ray Gillen DID record Eternal Idol but left before it was finished. There's a version of the record including his demos as bonus tracks and they're almost identical.
@@j800r_aswell I've heard the early versions of Eternal Idol with Ray Gillen and noticed that the vocal lines were identical to Tony Martin's as ended up on the record. Must have been tough for him as he didn't get to do his own thing. And why to me Headless Cross was where Tony finally got to shine.
Just, thanks for info..! Eternal idol is really good... Era with Tony Martin is the best for my likings. Although I cannot compare the band with Dio. That's on another realm. With Ozzy..? Nah, I think punk was better then. :)
@@MetalMe55iah Glenn was too much on Coke
This is the most underrated song of all time. Iommi nailed the writing on this one! Tony iommi and Brian May are great friends. The lyrics are a little off; later in the song, the lyric is "This is the art of dying."
Nooooo dude, it is "this is the hours of dying".
@@Thalys756 , not in the last verse. It changes there.
All the websites I look for the lyrics it seems to be 'hours' in all 3 verses. And it is what I actually hear in the live versions!
I think its because he pronounces hours with his mouth wide open, to distort the vowels. It is a technique that singers use, because sometimes it is easier to reach higher notes in other vowels, so they distort a bit.
Ian Gillan replaced RJD, on "Born Again". Then, Glenn Hughes on "7th Star". Then, initially, Ray Gillen on "Eternal Idol", but Ray left to form the group "Badlands". So, most of, if not all of Eternal Idol was already recorded when Tony Martin arrived. YOU MIGHT FIND THE SONG "AIR DANCE" A GEM FROM THE "NEVER SAY DIE" ALBUM with Ozzy. A beautiful song from the beginning to its end.
Dio too agressive, ozzy to quiete, Martin....perfect
You need to listen to The Seventh Star - Glenn Hughes was a very different front man for Sabbath. Born Again is painfully underrated too - some amazing tracks with Ian Gillan.
Tony didn't replace Dio. It was Ozzy->Dio->Gillan->Hughes->Gillen->Martin
Great band and all in all my favorite band. I love all the lineups of Black Sabbath. Tony Martin being probably my absolute favorite!
The 3 main Tony Martin albums are severely overlooked. Try "Feels good to me" from the next album Tyr for their most melodic Sabbath song ever.
The title track, Headless Cross is fantastic. Great reaction.
This is a good one but the entire album is SUBLIME - Also check out Tyr and Cross Purposes they're both excellent. Even Forbidden, Martin's last album with the band was good in places.
Brian May from Queen plays the solo on this track as he is very good friends with Tony Iommi
Isn't it absolutely ridiculous that this is relatively unknown? I've been a huge fan of the 5 albums Tony Martin did with Sabbath since I got the very first one, The Eternal Idol when it came out on cassette in 1987.
Love Tony Martin era Sabbath
What a song!!!
you should check out odins court/valhalla and the sabbath stones off the album tyr. tony martin at his best I think.
Tony Martin era Sabbath is very good, his albums with Dario Mollo and the Giuntini Project are well worth checking out.
Nice!!!!!
A little trivia for you here. Brian May (a good friend of Tony Iommi) guested on this song playing the solo.
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Never mind. Premature posting.
For I believe Satan lives in the souls of dying !!! That's the most epic lyric ever
Iommi and May are best friends
Headless cross is one of the best Sabbath albums. No matter the singer, Sabbath is recognizable due to the signature riffs written by Tony Iommi.
I'd never heard Black Sabbath under Tony Martin until this reaction. I have no problems with Tony as a vocalist, but I have to say that I seem to categorically prefer the sound of the band in the earlier, Ozzy years over what I've heard here.
@Kevin Badger There is no amount of opening my mind which will be sufficient to prevent people from judging my tastes and preferences. I made peace with that decades ago.
@Kevin Badger I'm sorry, you seem to have made an assumption that I don't understand, and are consequently asserting that I meant things which I did not. I never said "I prefer Ozzy," much less "Ozzy or nothing," so any "very clear" conclusions you've reached are unfortunately as inaccurate as your summary of what I said.
What I actually said was "I prefer the *sound of the band* at the time when Ozzy was their front-man," meaning that I like the style of music of earlier Sabbath over later Sabbath. That would hold true no matter who the vocalist is. Even if they had hypothetically kept Ozzy the entire time, I would still prefer Paranoid's sound over Headless Cross, even with Ozzy singing.
ua-cam.com/video/ydwXA0EpXpc/v-deo.html If interested; here is a new track with Tony Martin on lead-vocals. If you have a listen; hope you enjoy it!
I don’t mean to bust up your Black Sabbath party... but I had a couple RUSH requests! Will you please do “Broons Bane and the Trees - Exit Stage Left” (it has to include the Broons Bane part to get the guitar solo) and “By-Tor and the Snowdog - lyric version” the next time you do some RUSH!! I’d so enjoy seeing your reaction to these two Rush song!! FYI: Black Sabbath puts on a great show, I’ve see them twice, once with Ozzy and once with Dio! Be well and God Bless... from Texas!
Oh yes, but you missed the best song of the LP, "The Headless Cross", also "Devil & Daughter" is a very nice one.
Nice choice. Tony is an amazing singer. Sub from me
Dio was replaced by Ian Gillan (of Deep Purple fame). Martin only came in after Gillan left. So I doubt it was a conscious choice.
Have to admit, I don't care much about the Tony Martin era (or the other singers they had other than Ozzy and Ronnie). I don't have anything against them, either; these records just lack the creativity of the first six Sabbath albums or H&H/Mob Rules (or even Dehumanizer). Martin is technically a better singer than Ozzy (but then again, all of the others were technically better singers than Ozzy), but he's no Dio. It didn't help that he had the stage presence of an electrician walking around a construction site.
Sabbath in this era, to me, sounded like dozens of other hard rock/metal bands sounded at that time. It's by no means bad, but there's nothing really special about them. And that's unfortunate for such a legendary band.
You've phrased what I wanted to say much better than I ever could.
After Gillan was Glenn Hughes, then Ray Gillan, then Tony Martin (on records at least)
Sabbath without Ozzy was no longer Sabbath. Ozzy solo was more Black Sabbath than anything the Sabbs made after 1979. There were some good albums, sure, but every new member brought influences with them that didn't feel Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi kept using the Black Sabbath name under pressure from the record company and management, else the name would have died a long time ago. Band members can be swapped around except for a singer with a voice as distinctive as Ozzy's. Iommi may have written the riffs and Geezer the lyrics, it was Ozzy who was capital to half of the Sabbath sound. Like I said, nice albums, wrong name.
Infatti se avessero avuto un'altro nome avrebbero avuto un successo superiore
The Tony Martin cds are hard to find these days and its an absolute travesty.
Black Sabbath with Tony Martin is like Nightwish with Adele instead of Floor Jansen. It could still have a good sound but it isn't Nightwish. Ozzy brought more to the band than just vocals. Personal opinion, not an expert or anything just my feelings Tommy.
Don’t have to apologise at all Paul, it’s comments like this that help me understand the context around the band’s history which is more than just what I hear through my headphones
@@ThomasJ_Music Ozzy contributed the crazy factor. Musically, I think another big factor is the departure of Bill Ward in 1980 (creatively, he was already out of the picture due to drugs and alcoholism when they recorded H&H; he later said he doesn't even remember recording the album). I think the impact of that shift in creative power balance might be underestimated.
Ronnie James Dio was more powerful vocally.