The best metal band ever. The founders. The inventers. The originators. Call it what you want. The first 4 Sabbath albums are the blueprint for heavy metal.
Hard to say who was the first true metal band, there were a few that came out right at 1970. Budgie was one of them. many people think Blue Cheer was the first in 1968, but it's really only for one song, and I feel that Blue Cheer was kinda copying Jimi Hendrix's guitar style, who's debut came out a year earlier. I know that the term heavy metal didn't start being used until bands like Led Zeppelin came out.
I also maintain he Sabbath invented the subgenre known as doom metal- the very heavy, slow style best represented by Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus. I think Master of Reality paved the way for this style.
@@westtexas7 I've heard that quote from Ozzy as well. The fact is, in 1970, the term "heavy metal" was not clearly defined, and throughout the 70s it was used interchangeably with "hard rock", sometimes referring to the same music. The term grew organically among rock fans to mean whatever was the heaviest, hardest sounding music at the time, and was probably influenced by songs like Born to be wild, Iron man, and the image of the crashing Hindenburg symbolizing a zeppelin made of lead. All references to metal of some sort.
First 4? Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, other than the title track, is def less metal. But Sabotage? For Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe alone, that's a metal ass album.
THIS is what I love about reaction videos. So many people look at the name of the group and immediately take it badly. They look at Ozzy's drug fueled antics and assume the worst. Then you listen to the lyrics and realize just how deep they are. Never judge a book...❤
OG Sabbath are untouchable. Each member a master of his instrument. Geezer's bass & Bill on drums with Tommi on guitar(s) & Ozzy on vox. Perfect line up imo.
*rant alert* OG Sabbath? Who they?? Okay, deliberately pretending ignorance, just fed up with this 'OG' business. What has 'Original Gangster' to do with anything? Just say 'original', and stop it with this American gang culture slang (yes, I looked up the derivation). This term has seemingly become ubiquitous over the past year or so, with even British broadcasters using it. FFS Why?!? If that's not misappropriation of a distinct cultural term, I don't know what is. *rant over* 😊
War Pigs is one of the best songs of all time. The composition, guitars, drums, bass, vocals everything really astounding individually, but also complements each other so good as a whole. It's a timeless song and showcases why Black Sabbath are head of their time.
Recently it hit me that how Metallica's "Fade to Black" is built up might be based on War Pigs. The chapters, tempo changes and changes in melody and the type of guitar solos. Very different sound and notes but it's like as if they took this song and wrote theirs over it. Check it out and compare.
Timeless. This song was made while I was a child. Just last month, I was praying for my Army officer son as he was preparing to go to Sudan. Nothing, NOTHING has changed.
ABSOLUTELY!! This was the first album by Black Sabbath that I ever owned😮😁😁😎 I listened to this sucker until the tape wore out because I bought it on cassette!! You remember those??😂😂
A very popular Black Sabbath song about the military complex and there propensity for war and using the poor as pawns. There have been over 30 artist that have covered this song.
From my home town, Birmingham UK, Ozzy and boys were game changers in the world of music. There sound was utterly unique, and thus created a new genre of music. They wrote this in protest of the Vietnam war, and like many others on here have said, it's still hold true today.
War Pigs is Black Sabbath to me.... Not only a killer of a start, but Ozzy has a clarity to his voice that is only matched by the clarity of the message. Add in some insane drumming and guitar riffs..... Perfect song.
This song was ground breaking for its time, watch the first live version of this song ever, you’re looking at the emergence of metal, nobody does it like Sabbath, Bill Ward is an absolute beast on the drums🥁Legends 🤘
Yes, live in Paris 1970, Ozzy's doing improv on the lyrics but the band is brutal, Bill Ward treats his drums like they owe him money! Crushing set of pioneering metal.
@@vicprovost2561 agreed, I love the early rough version of this song, Bill Ward absolutely pounded the piss out of those drums and they captured it beautifully, Ozzy is going ham the entire song just adds to the live experience, I love that video, watched it several times ✌️
My favorite Sabbath song. Actually the whole album is fantastic. Saw them in Spokane alongside Aerosmith and Kansas. One the best concert nights ever for me.
“Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why don’t they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor” This song is so incredibly appropriate for today
F Yeah. TOO appropriate. The "YEAH!" Ozzy yells at the end of the verse you transcribed is one of the most cathartic utterances I've ever f**king heard. Here are some more great anti-war lyrics, even perhaps more appropriate for our dangerous, and likely doomed, world today. From The Call, circa 1983, "When the Walls Came Down": I don't think there are any Russians/And there ain't no Yanks/Just corporate criminals/Playin' with tanks."
Yep, 8 times with the original band, 2 of 3 times when Dio was in the band (When they went out as Heaven and Hell they only did Dio Sabbath) once with Ian Gillian and once with Glenn Hughes (regret not seeing Tony Martin) this song always gave you goose bumps and it is Iommi who induces them. Best with the original band, gotta love when the sirens come on, man, freaking chills! 🎸
Hey brothers and sisters of this planet, Revolt with 60-70's revolutionary music. Hendrix and James Brown and of course Living Colour. The time is ripe to receive your due. Rock - Forever - Roll
Bill Ward is a beast on the drums! I love and collect fairies so of course one of my favorite Sabbath songs is Fairies Wear Boots. LOL! Check it out! ✌️❤️
I remember driving from San Bernardino to the beach with my cousins and listening to Black Sabbath on the 8 track tape deck. (Those where the days my friend. We thought they'd never end. ) Lyrics to another song that fits here.
The TRUE Metal pioneers, at their dark BEST. I've been rocking to this for 50 YEARS, and it STILL sounds as fresh as it always has. Welcome aboard you guys...
well said, im 69 and am still amazed listening to them.all great musicians that created a sound never to be duplicated and so ahead of its time,...refreshing to see young people with an open mind thoroughly enjoying their talent and creativity!!!
Yes the famous 60/70ths for me as a teenager, grew up in the middle of the Hardrock music, most bands came from England. We heard the music al days, on radio, in the bars/cafés in tvmusic shows like TOPPOP in the Netherlands, and Musikladen in Germany. Favorite in the Netherlands for me was on radio 3, the Hardrock our from Alfred Lagarde, Betonuur( Concrete our) Later on the Progrock became also very popular. The war in Vietnam was often a topic in many songs of different artist.
This song came on when my grandmother was in the house when I was a teen, and it instantly gave her PTSD hearing the bombing horns as she would call them because she was a teenager living in Germany, during World War II and her hometown was flattened by air raids almost every night for weeks, and she spent almost a week trapped in a basement with a dozen other young kids. But I always love this song and it has so many layers. The message in the song replies, not just governments, end wars, but really any individual that starts conflict and uses others as their ponds to reach their goals. Great reaction 🙂✌
Remembering your gran, nothing like it. Mine heard the first automobile, concluded that it was a gunfight in progress, and hid out, waiting for the end.
My Mom too as a child during the war in Austria. Nazis ,air raids, bombs and death on the streets. Anyone from that time knows that's the sound all of Europe new back then...air raid sirens. I see some people today react to this song and they don't know what that is or what it signifies. Never forget history and it has been left out of schooling today that's for sure!
This is one of my favorites. I love playing this for people who think metal is just noise. Geezer Butler wasn't given enough credit as a lyricist. And Bill Ward is a beast. Interesting that this song was written about the Vietnam war...more than 50 years ago!!🤘😳
Saw them in 1976 and 85, crazy stuff....OK first cut from first album "Black Sabbath" ....they were my Gods, for those first three albums anyway, I was 13...good time to be alive, pot helped too.
Welcome to the Black Sabbath rabbit hole..... So many great songs......my personal favorite sabbath song.....Children of the Grave.... Must be listened to... planet caravan....showing off their blues band origin.
This song came along in the Vietnam era. Very anti government. Remember the lead guitarist has two prosthetic finger tips on his fret hand. Toni has some of the most iconic guitar riffs in metal history!
This was from 1970 so it was pretty early in their career, from the album Paranoid and after all these years it still sounds very current to me, the music and the message. This my favorite of theirs.
You guys were SO close... the video of War Pigs that is a MUST SEE is their 1970 live performance. You'll be blown away about watching a young Ozzy, but more excited to see the wild Bill Ward blasting away at the drum kit. I know you've never done a reaction to the same song twice but PLEASE make an exception just this once!
Great reaction,guys! I was a Beatles fanatic as a kid,so by 1970,the heavy rock bands were emerging. Going from The Beatles to Black Sabbath at the start of the 70's was like getting hit with a brick in the face! They really were the 'birth of heavy metal'. No band was heavier than these guys. But under all that heaviness,you still had melody,great playing and thoughtful lyrics. Along with Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad,uriah Heep,and Deep Purple..the soundtrack of my rockin' High Schol days! :-) Enjoy the journey...regards, T
@@gary6754 How sad. I was born in '65, and I love all kinds of music, hard & soft, new & old, complicated & simplistic. I think it's good to be open-minded.
Geezer, Tony, Ozzy and Bill crafted a masterpiece. This song was written in 1970 at a time when the U.S. war in Vietnam was being heavily televised. Never had people seen the horrors of war on the news every night. The guys in Sabbath grew up Birmingham England where the destruction of lives and property caused buy WWI and WWII was slowly being rebuilt. "War Pigs" perfectly pierced the veil of the noble war.
I was a teen when they hit the album charts, never top 40, only album charts. Listen to the song "Black Sabbath" from their first album, which is also titled "Black Sabbath."
This was over 50 years ago yet the song and lyrics are so current to what is happening today. My teen band played this Sabbath song along with 5 others. Sabbath back then was sometimes looked upon by some elders/parents, as some sort of devil worship music. Ozzy did have his antics but nothing else of the sort told you this was that type if music. In fact, the lyrics point to people being held accountable which right out the Bible. We also have the "war pigs" (leaders of countries that engage in war) begging for redemption/forgiveness when their time has come to and end on Earth and Satin is laughing and "spreads his wings"( denoting he WAS an angel and is now welcoming his new members to the evil side) as they are about to be judged by God and then handed over to Satin. That simplifies it all but that's what I take from the lyrics. When this was written, 1970, the Vietnam War was 2/3 over. People in the USA were for the first time in modern times, shown a lot of war footage of the carnage, or American youth being killed and no one was really given a good reason for the war as it pertained to the American people. I have and had a lot of friends that served in VN and thanks to them and ALL vets, you are asked at times to fight for this county, maybe the reason is not so good, but you do it anyway. A very big THANKS!!!!!
SBS is Sabbath at their sludgiest, especially the last two verses starting with "Where can you run to? What more can you do?" which are criminally cut out on the single edit version
“Fairies Wear Boots” is also a great song, a commentary on UK skinheads. I think you’d like it. Also, Changes, about Ward or Butler’s divorce, is a heart-wrenching ballad. And Planet Caravan is just a vibe you HAVE to check out. If you want more drums and bass, try N.I.B. or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
According to Tony Iommi, Fairies Wear Boots isn't about skinheads; it's just about tripping too much. Ozzy says he doesn't remember what the song is about. LOL. Good song choices, BTW. Planet Caravan is a vibe most people don't know. I'd add Into The Void.
Always one of my favorite songs by Sabbath. It was released when I was 2 years old and it was 44 years later that I got to hear them perform it live. It was just as powerful that night as the day it was released.
In 1970 I was 17 years old. When I first ever heard this song . I couldn’t believe that someone was feeling and singing the same way I was feeling and seeing it the same way. It changed my whole life. I started protesting against the war. We had a voice. I worked on lowering the voting age to 18. Started fighting for women’s rights. Here we go again starting over in 2023. Never thought it would happen. I still have a little fight in me.
Nobody thought that you people would win and keep going. Now we have people who cannot even define what a woman is, or turn everything into a communist struggle session despite nobody doing anything bad.
Sounds like you have plenty of fight in you Donna! If we don't stand for the good,the bad will gladly run rampant! Not on my watch...Not on yours...🎙🥊💪👊
I think Gen Z is gonna put up one hell of a fight. And I think they are gonna win. I ain't saying shit is gonna get fixed but I think we are gonna see some serious changes.
Christian nationalists already have a chokehold on government due to their long plan of infiltrating from the bottom up. What happened to Separation of Church and State?
This song and that album was a game changer when it came out.......... 1970 there was nothing else like it on radio. I was only 5 years old when it came out but by the end of decade I was 15 and listening to this album all the time.
I love so many masterpieces by Yes, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Rush, but this masterpiece by Black Sabbath is right up there with the greatest songs of all time. And, sadly, it's still relevant, if not more so, today. ❤✌
A timeless song written during the height of the Vietnam War. It was really maddening listening to this song while the Iraq War was raging and realizing how nothing had changed, and the lyrics still made perfect sense.
Good comment except 1970 was not thr height of the Vietnam War. 1968 was. By 1970 the Nixon was then president and he started reducing the number of US troops in Vietnam. It went from the height in 1968 from almost 600,000 to 1970 it was down to 200,000 and by 1972 it was down to a little over 60,000
My first concert I ever went to was Black Sabbath in November 1978, in Corpus Christi at the Bayfront Coliseum, which was renamed the Selena Memorial Coliseum. The opening band was Van Halen touring their first album. Needless to say, it was mind-blowing.
Love the reaction guys. Sabbath has a catalogue of pretty deep and provocative songs and "War Pigs" is definitely one of them. "Children of the Grave", "After Forever", and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are a few more I'd put in that category. The one song of theirs I keep mentioning in the comments that I REALLY want you guys to react to though is "Heaven and Hell". Mostly because it's just a phenominal song but also because it's a Dio era song that I'm really curious to see your reaction to. Besides, it has one of the fattest basslines ever. Please guys, you have to do it. ua-cam.com/video/5FRA7UXlGu8/v-deo.html
In addition, "A National Acrobat", "Killing Yourself to Live", "Looking for Today", and "A Spiral Architect" make 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' a great and thought-provoking album.
I'm glad you guys landed here on your journeys today. Black Sabbath is one of the best bands ever. This song came out while the Viet Nam War was on. Check out "Warning," it's them at their bluesiest.
They wanted this to be the title track of the 1970 2nd album, but the record company wouldn't agree. They went with the 'filler' song, Paranoid, instead. The original title of the song was Walpugis(the Witches Sabbath). They record company didn't like that either, and changed it to War Pigs. That's Bill Ward playing the drums you liked. Try Children of the Grave ,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, The Wizard, or N.I.B.
ROB SQUAD I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GOOD IT MAKES MY HEART FEEL WATCHING YOU GUYS REACT TO THIS SONG!!! NOW YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ANTI-WAR SONGS OF THE TIME!! WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT I WAS ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD, VIETNAM WAS STILL HAPPENING!!! AND WATCHING JORDAN'S FACE AS HE IS LISTENING TO THESE LYRICS WAS JUST EPIC!!! PRICELESS!!!
My dad didn't go to Vietnam due to an honorable discharge from the Army (due to a psychotic break from the stress of boot camp) but his older brother was a veteran, and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son was one of my dad's favorite songs (which I know you did about two years ago) but when it comes to Vietnam era protest songs, War Pigs is mine.
Thanks for reacting to this relevant song from 53 years ago. It was the first song I heard by Black Sabbath when I was 14. Been a fan since even got a tattoo of War Pigs. As a side note Black Sabbath originally wanted to name their album " War Pigs" but Warner Brothers refused due to the controversial Vietnam War so they named the album Paranoid instead which is also funny because Paranoid was an after thought because they needed 1 more song to complete the album so Tony Iommi came up with a riff in about 15 minutes which became Paranoid.
IF you go deeper in their discography they have 3 famous lead singers: Ozzy, Dio and Ian Gillian of Deep Purple who sang some of Deep Purple's most famous songs: Smoke on the water, machinegun head, perfect strangers.
Ozzy is an enigma. Dude can sing with such precision and yet talks in grunts. The same with the Gallagher Brothers of Oasis. As for this song, such a banger. The local classic rock station used to play this frequently during the Iraq War.
One of my favourite songs of all time. Very poignant lyrics that do NOT pull any punches, meanwhile you have Tony Iommi on Guitar and Bill Ward on Drums absolutely killing it! Not to mentio Geezer Butler on Bass is highly underrated and Ozzy's vocals as good as always
agree totally, all 4 of them were simply great at what they did, created a new genre that took everyone by storm. im 69 and they still are my favorite band thank God for music of the late 60s thru the early 80s....
I love when people do reactions to the early Black Sabbath songs. I had pretty much the same reaction when I first heard them back in the early 70’s. A lot of people might not agree, but in my opinion they created heavy metal. For your next Black Sabbath reaction, you really should go back to where it started. The song Black Sabbath. But please do the official video. It’s just them playing the song live in a dark room. It is really amazing! Keep up the great work guys!
The bass player, Geezer Butler wrote most of Black Sabbath's lyrics and he is a CRIMINALLY underrated lyricist!
Good to know. Gonna remember that name.
@@you2449 Hard to forget a cool name like that.
He is also a criminally underrated bass player.
Agree totally...I would say the same about Bill Ward the drummer
@@you2449 check out the song Fairies Wear Boots! I believe it was on the same album that this song on!!
Legendary song. Ozzy and Geezer at their best. Message of the poor being eat’n by political war-machines still holds true today.
Military is54percent middle class
Absolutely correct!
cannibalism - TODAY?
@@jollyrodgers7272 yup!
I ain’t No fortunate son ..
Hard to believe this song was released in 1970!!! Still holds up and holds true today.
The best metal band ever. The founders. The inventers. The originators. Call it what you want. The first 4 Sabbath albums are the blueprint for heavy metal.
Hard to say who was the first true metal band, there were a few that came out right at 1970. Budgie was one of them. many people think Blue Cheer was the first in 1968, but it's really only for one song, and I feel that Blue Cheer was kinda copying Jimi Hendrix's guitar style, who's debut came out a year earlier. I know that the term heavy metal didn't start being used until bands like Led Zeppelin came out.
I also maintain he Sabbath invented the subgenre known as doom metal- the very heavy, slow style best represented by Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus. I think Master of Reality paved the way for this style.
When ask Ozzie said we are Rock and Roll.
@@westtexas7 I've heard that quote from Ozzy as well. The fact is, in 1970, the term "heavy metal" was not clearly defined, and throughout the 70s it was used interchangeably with "hard rock", sometimes referring to the same music. The term grew organically among rock fans to mean whatever was the heaviest, hardest sounding music at the time, and was probably influenced by songs like Born to be wild, Iron man, and the image of the crashing Hindenburg symbolizing a zeppelin made of lead. All references to metal of some sort.
First 4? Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, other than the title track, is def less metal. But Sabotage? For Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe alone, that's a metal ass album.
Bill Ward is a very underrated drummer he deserves a lot more credit then history gives him.
In the heavy community, he is hailed as the best.
It's his background in jazz, which becomes clearly apparent in this track.
Watch the live version of this song-recorded in Paris in 1973: you will see Bill at his best!
Correction: That's Paris 1970- sorry.
I love his playing on The Wizard from the debut. Floors me every time.
THIS is what I love about reaction videos. So many people look at the name of the group and immediately take it badly. They look at Ozzy's drug fueled antics and assume the worst. Then you listen to the lyrics and realize just how deep they are. Never judge a book...❤
OG Sabbath are untouchable. Each member a master of his instrument. Geezer's bass & Bill on drums with Tommi on guitar(s) & Ozzy on vox. Perfect line up imo.
who's Tommi, there's a Tony Iommi. You sure you actually like this band bub?
@@bubbaluvv probably auto corrected lommi
@@spicyladjr3650 either that, their post froze midway through
*rant alert*
OG Sabbath? Who they?? Okay, deliberately pretending ignorance, just fed up with this 'OG' business. What has 'Original Gangster' to do with anything? Just say 'original', and stop it with this American gang culture slang (yes, I looked up the derivation). This term has seemingly become ubiquitous over the past year or so, with even British broadcasters using it. FFS Why?!? If that's not misappropriation of a distinct cultural term, I don't know what is.
*rant over* 😊
@@amandab4978 they’re OGs. You’re just mad that you aren’t 😂😂
War Pigs is one of the best songs of all time. The composition, guitars, drums, bass, vocals everything really astounding individually, but also complements each other so good as a whole.
It's a timeless song and showcases why Black Sabbath are head of their time.
This is really part of the birth of heavy metal.
It was definitely true in Vietnam where the rich kids were immune to the draft
This song changed my life. After hearing it, I had to have more and so my quest began.
Agreed
Recently it hit me that how Metallica's "Fade to Black" is built up might be based on War Pigs. The chapters, tempo changes and changes in melody and the type of guitar solos.
Very different sound and notes but it's like as if they took this song and wrote theirs over it. Check it out and compare.
No autotune, no computer-driven effects, just sheer talent.
Exactly!
Timeless. This song was made while I was a child. Just last month, I was praying for my Army officer son as he was preparing to go to Sudan. Nothing, NOTHING has changed.
❤❤
This album has been credited as the first "heavy metal" music. The entire album was a big influence on myself and my 13 year old friends.
ABSOLUTELY!! This was the first album by Black Sabbath that I ever owned😮😁😁😎
I listened to this sucker until the tape wore out because I bought it on cassette!! You remember those??😂😂
A very popular Black Sabbath song about the military complex and there propensity for war and using the poor as pawns. There have been over 30 artist that have covered this song.
War Pigs was the name of my platoon when I was in The Corps.
From my home town, Birmingham UK, Ozzy and boys were game changers in the world of music. There sound was utterly unique, and thus created a new genre of music. They wrote this in protest of the Vietnam war, and like many others on here have said, it's still hold true today.
Live in Paris 1970 - this song and the whole show is amazing. Bill Ward goes crazy on the drums. You will love it!! I promise you both. 🙏🏼
Yes! It’s so raw and perfect. 🔥
Yes , its amazing
Bill Ward goes absolutely “Ham” on the drums.
They're not exagerrating. That performance is the shit!
To see Bill Ward attack those drums like they stole his last dime is something to see
War Pigs is Black Sabbath to me.... Not only a killer of a start, but Ozzy has a clarity to his voice that is only matched by the clarity of the message. Add in some insane drumming and guitar riffs..... Perfect song.
Did you know that Tony has losded his finger tips on his last day at work
@@xarisstylianou,...l o s t...! Bro. 😊
This song was ground breaking for its time, watch the first live version of this song ever, you’re looking at the emergence of metal, nobody does it like Sabbath, Bill Ward is an absolute beast on the drums🥁Legends 🤘
Yes, live in Paris 1970, Ozzy's doing improv on the lyrics but the band is brutal, Bill Ward treats his drums like they owe him money! Crushing set of pioneering metal.
@@vicprovost2561 agreed, I love the early rough version of this song, Bill Ward absolutely pounded the piss out of those drums and they captured it beautifully, Ozzy is going ham the entire song just adds to the live experience, I love that video, watched it several times ✌️
@@Northerngirl15 After watching that performance, I always get the feeling that Ozzy invented the hair twirling you see at metal shows.
@@Oxmustube Ozzy was definitly an influencer, he set the bar high for sure
@@vicprovost2561 Ozzy's voice on that Paris 1970 show is amazing.
These lyrics are so incredible, considering that they still reflect our day to day life. They know what they were talking about.
If you look at our world today , this song has a lot of meaning to we the people *WAKE UP PEOPLE*
My favorite Sabbath song. Actually the whole album is fantastic. Saw them in Spokane alongside Aerosmith and Kansas. One the best concert nights ever for me.
When things change, they actually remain the same ... these lyrics are still true today ....
Strange how music of yesterday are just as meaningful today!
Yes, one actually signed bombs yesterday 😢
No shit!!!
@@jameshoelzeman8679no shit!!
“Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why don’t they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor”
This song is so incredibly appropriate for today
Indeed💙💛
Definitely agree
F Yeah. TOO appropriate. The "YEAH!" Ozzy yells at the end of the verse you transcribed is one of the most cathartic utterances I've ever f**king heard. Here are some more great anti-war lyrics, even perhaps more appropriate for our dangerous, and likely doomed, world today. From The Call, circa 1983, "When the Walls Came Down": I don't think there are any Russians/And there ain't no Yanks/Just corporate criminals/Playin' with tanks."
It's for all times not for today. It's timeless .
I don't think any song comes even close to the lyrics of war pigs and kashmir of led zeppelin.
And it will be forever. War is not ending soon.
I had gotten out of the Army in 1970 and this song really rang true with me when I first heard it.
Bill Ward drummer very underrated drummer
Sabbath is pretty much the originators of that "heavy" sound. Just a great band all around.
I can't believe this is the first time y'all heard this one. Definitely a big time classic. When heard live it makes every nerve in ones body tingle.
Yep, 8 times with the original band, 2 of 3 times when Dio was in the band (When they went out as Heaven and Hell they only did Dio Sabbath) once with Ian Gillian and once with Glenn Hughes (regret not seeing Tony Martin) this song always gave you goose bumps and it is Iommi who induces them. Best with the original band, gotta love when the sirens come on, man, freaking chills! 🎸
This was so jaw-dropping when it first came out because we never heard any thing so hard and meaningful.
The guitar riff at the end is incredible. It sounds like the world is about to end.
Hey brothers and sisters of this planet, Revolt with 60-70's revolutionary music.
Hendrix and James Brown and of course Living Colour.
The time is ripe to receive your due.
Rock - Forever - Roll
Great song, it’s like it was written yesterday, such a powerful song
The original Heavy Metal masters at their best. Doesn't get any better than this.
Bill Ward is a beast on the drums! I love and collect fairies so of course one of my favorite Sabbath songs is Fairies Wear Boots. LOL! Check it out! ✌️❤️
The heaviest sound ever put down and the words are profound its incredible every time I hear it.
I remember driving from San Bernardino to the beach with my cousins and listening to Black Sabbath on the 8 track tape deck. (Those where the days my friend. We thought they'd never end. ) Lyrics to another song that fits here.
The TRUE Metal pioneers, at their dark BEST. I've been rocking to this for 50 YEARS, and it STILL sounds as fresh as it always has. Welcome aboard you guys...
well said, im 69 and am still amazed listening to them.all great musicians that created a sound never to be duplicated and so ahead of its time,...refreshing to see young people with an open mind thoroughly enjoying their talent and creativity!!!
You should check out the live version & see Bill Ward on drums. It's amazing watching him play 🥁
Was just gonna write this 👏🏾👏🏾
It's probably been said several times, but the live version from Paris in 1970 is amazing. Bill Ward, the drummer, is such a beast.
Yes the famous 60/70ths for me as a teenager, grew up in the middle of the Hardrock music, most bands came from England. We heard the music al days, on radio, in the bars/cafés in tvmusic shows like
TOPPOP in the Netherlands, and
Musikladen in Germany.
Favorite in the Netherlands for me was on radio 3, the Hardrock our from Alfred Lagarde, Betonuur( Concrete our)
Later on the Progrock became also very popular.
The war in Vietnam was often a topic in many songs of different artist.
This song came on when my grandmother was in the house when I was a teen, and it instantly gave her PTSD hearing the bombing horns as she would call them because she was a teenager living in Germany, during World War II and her hometown was flattened by air raids almost every night for weeks, and she spent almost a week trapped in a basement with a dozen other young kids. But I always love this song and it has so many layers. The message in the song replies, not just governments, end wars, but really any individual that starts conflict and uses others as their ponds to reach their goals. Great reaction 🙂✌
Politics: the preferred career choice of sociopaths.
That sound has always filled me with horror. It is the most terrifying sound I can think of for those who know what it means...
Remembering your gran, nothing like it. Mine heard the first automobile, concluded that it was a gunfight in progress, and hid out, waiting for the end.
My Mom too as a child during the war in Austria. Nazis ,air raids, bombs and death on the streets. Anyone from that time knows that's the sound all of Europe new back then...air raid sirens. I see some people today react to this song and they don't know what that is or what it signifies. Never forget history and it has been left out of schooling today that's for sure!
One of the most powerful rock songs ever recorded. Period.
This is one of my favorites. I love playing this for people who think metal is just noise. Geezer Butler wasn't given enough credit as a lyricist. And Bill Ward is a beast. Interesting that this song was written about the Vietnam war...more than 50 years ago!!🤘😳
This was 1970, over 50yrs ago
and sounds as relevant today !
Can you imagine 🔥
Saw them in 1976 and 85, crazy stuff....OK first cut from first album "Black Sabbath" ....they were my Gods, for those first three albums anyway, I was 13...good time to be alive, pot helped too.
Welcome to the Black Sabbath rabbit hole..... So many great songs......my personal favorite sabbath song.....Children of the Grave....
Must be listened to...
planet caravan....showing off their blues band origin.
This song came along in the Vietnam era. Very anti government. Remember the lead guitarist has two prosthetic finger tips on his fret hand. Toni has some of the most iconic guitar riffs in metal history!
He lost the tips in a machine shop, right?
This was from 1970 so it was pretty early in their career, from the album Paranoid and after all these years it still sounds very current to me, the music and the message. This my favorite of theirs.
You guys were SO close... the video of War Pigs that is a MUST SEE is their 1970 live performance. You'll be blown away about watching a young Ozzy, but more excited to see the wild Bill Ward blasting away at the drum kit. I know you've never done a reaction to the same song twice but PLEASE make an exception just this once!
The drums must of owed him money!
My first rock concert. 1971. Blew my mind.
Great reaction,guys! I was a Beatles fanatic as a kid,so by 1970,the heavy rock bands were emerging. Going from The Beatles to Black Sabbath at the start of the 70's was like getting hit with a brick in the face! They really were the 'birth of heavy metal'. No band was heavier than these guys. But under all that heaviness,you still had melody,great playing and thoughtful lyrics. Along with Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad,uriah Heep,and Deep Purple..the soundtrack of my rockin' High Schol days! :-) Enjoy the journey...regards, T
beatles way better
i was born in 73, I went from hard rock to the beatles to new wave.
hard rock is grating to me at this point in my life
@@gary6754 cool
@@gary6754 cool
@@gary6754 How sad. I was born in '65, and I love all kinds of music, hard & soft, new & old, complicated & simplistic. I think it's good to be open-minded.
@@gary6754 Each to their own.
Definitely one of my favorite tunes from Black Sabbath. The video in the linked original is fabulous as well, artist/creator deserves equal credit.
Geezer, Tony, Ozzy and Bill crafted a masterpiece. This song was written in 1970 at a time when the U.S. war in Vietnam was being heavily televised. Never had people seen the horrors of war on the news every night. The guys in Sabbath grew up Birmingham England where the destruction of lives and property caused buy WWI and WWII was slowly being rebuilt. "War Pigs" perfectly pierced the veil of the noble war.
All this cowboy has to say is you two make a great couple not only working together but you're reactions are unmatched 👍
These lyrics are my favorite of the two! I'm so glad you pulled this, it def still applies today.
This song could be written today and be spot on to whats happening today!!!!
I was a teen when they hit the album charts, never top 40, only album charts. Listen to the song "Black Sabbath" from their first album, which is also titled "Black Sabbath."
This was over 50 years ago yet the song and lyrics are so current to what is happening today. My teen band played this Sabbath song along with 5 others. Sabbath back then was sometimes looked upon by some elders/parents, as some sort of devil worship music. Ozzy did have his antics but nothing else of the sort told you this was that type if music. In fact, the lyrics point to people being held accountable which right out the Bible. We also have the "war pigs" (leaders of countries that engage in war) begging for redemption/forgiveness when their time has come to and end on Earth and Satin is laughing and "spreads his wings"( denoting he WAS an angel and is now welcoming his new members to the evil side) as they are about to be judged by God and then handed over to Satin. That simplifies it all but that's what I take from the lyrics. When this was written, 1970, the Vietnam War was 2/3 over. People in the USA were for the first time in modern times, shown a lot of war footage of the carnage, or American youth being killed and no one was really given a good reason for the war as it pertained to the American people. I have and had a lot of friends that served in VN and thanks to them and ALL vets, you are asked at times to fight for this county, maybe the reason is not so good, but you do it anyway. A very big THANKS!!!!!
Sabbath is so damn good! These lyrics are 🔥. You should do “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” the guitar riff is so damn heavy, Jordan you’ll love it.
Its a great album also
@@kirkhall2099 Absolutely!
SBS is Sabbath at their sludgiest, especially the last two verses starting with "Where can you run to? What more can you do?" which are criminally cut out on the single edit version
Exactly the song I would suggest for them next, “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” is pure 🔥🔥🔥
I was lucky enough to see them twice live in concert 1975 & 2016 with Ozzy on vocals
I saw sabbath in 78, front of stage, Van Halen was the back up band…
@@jackhuffman9313 I saw van halen in 1993 fresno, ca, sammy hagar was singer
THIS is my favorite Sabbath song. And the message (and reality of the song) has only grown more relevant up to today.
The guitarist Tony Iommi had two fingertips amputated before Sabbath firmed he now has meta tips in their place so he can use the fret board
I heard that when he was young he used the cap of a dish soap bottle to fashion some makeshift prosthetics!
A must do reaction for y'all would be this song Live In Paris 1970. Ward absolutely kills it.
“Fairies Wear Boots” is also a great song, a commentary on UK skinheads. I think you’d like it. Also, Changes, about Ward or Butler’s divorce, is a heart-wrenching ballad. And Planet Caravan is just a vibe you HAVE to check out. If you want more drums and bass, try N.I.B. or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
According to Tony Iommi, Fairies Wear Boots isn't about skinheads; it's just about tripping too much. Ozzy says he doesn't remember what the song is about. LOL.
Good song choices, BTW. Planet Caravan is a vibe most people don't know. I'd add Into The Void.
I really like their song, "Planet Caravan." It's very chill and unique sounding for their music.
Planet Caravan, Changes, and Fairies Wear Boots (about UK skinheads) are also must-listens!!!
War Pigs was a Vietnam antiwar song. Black Sabbath Paranoid is the best album of all time! Every song on this album is awesome. Do "Paranoid"
I'm pretty sure they've done it already.
@@consciousbeing1188 You are correct! My bad. They did it a year ago. I watched it and forgot.
@@brownie1341 I hear that... Done the same thing myself a couple of times 😅
I was jamming to the song before 2 you were ever born oh, it's so nice to see the newer generation recognizing the Breakthrough Talent
1971 live in Paris. Absolutely Amazing !
Always one of my favorite songs by Sabbath. It was released when I was 2 years old and it was 44 years later that I got to hear them perform it live. It was just as powerful that night as the day it was released.
There's a fine live video of this from Paris in 1970 with slightly different lyrics which is even more energetic and the drummer is phenomenal.
In 1970 I was 17 years old. When I first ever heard this song . I couldn’t believe that someone was feeling and singing the same way I was feeling and seeing it the same way. It changed my whole life. I started protesting against the war. We had a voice. I worked on lowering the voting age to 18. Started fighting for women’s rights. Here we go again starting over in 2023. Never thought it would happen. I still have a little fight in me.
1970 I turned 15 (Sept). One of my favorite bands. Peace to you
Nobody thought that you people would win and keep going. Now we have people who cannot even define what a woman is, or turn everything into a communist struggle session despite nobody doing anything bad.
Sounds like you have plenty of fight in you Donna! If we don't stand for the good,the bad will gladly run rampant! Not on my watch...Not on yours...🎙🥊💪👊
I think Gen Z is gonna put up one hell of a fight. And I think they are gonna win. I ain't saying shit is gonna get fixed but I think we are gonna see some serious changes.
Christian nationalists already have a chokehold on government due to their long plan of infiltrating from the bottom up. What happened to Separation of Church and State?
This song and that album was a game changer when it came out.......... 1970 there was nothing else like it on radio. I was only 5 years old when it came out but by the end of decade I was 15 and listening to this album all the time.
Some songs are perfect. This is one of them.
Glad you jumped in deep to this rabbit hole!!! Great reaction!!!! Just about every song of theirs has deep meeting!! Good luck on your journey!!!
Good one David. They should check out AFTER FOREVER from MASTER OF REALITY.
I love so many masterpieces by Yes, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Rush, but this masterpiece by Black Sabbath is right up there with the greatest songs of all time. And, sadly, it's still relevant, if not more so, today. ❤✌
A timeless song written during the height of the Vietnam War.
It was really maddening listening to this song while the Iraq War was raging and realizing how nothing had changed, and the lyrics still made perfect sense.
I was going to say the same thing....has times really changed?
They got mad when I played this while deployed
Nope same same same. Nothing changes with the brainwashed masses
Good comment except 1970 was not thr height of the Vietnam War. 1968 was. By 1970 the Nixon was then president and he started reducing the number of US troops in Vietnam. It went from the height in 1968 from almost 600,000 to 1970 it was down to 200,000 and by 1972 it was down to a little over 60,000
The song makes even more sense today, considering Biden’s warmongering in Ukraine.
Us should stay neutral! My family isn’t fighting for Ukraine.
My favorite Sabbath song. ❤
It's one of the greatest songs ever written. Video is really good
My first concert I ever went to was Black Sabbath in November 1978, in Corpus Christi at the Bayfront Coliseum, which was renamed the Selena Memorial Coliseum. The opening band was Van Halen touring their first album. Needless to say, it was mind-blowing.
Maybe their biggest hit. Go back and listen again and pay attention to the bass. You’ll be shocked. Every part of this song is brilliant.
Love the reaction guys. Sabbath has a catalogue of pretty deep and provocative songs and "War Pigs" is definitely one of them. "Children of the Grave", "After Forever", and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are a few more I'd put in that category. The one song of theirs I keep mentioning in the comments that I REALLY want you guys to react to though is "Heaven and Hell". Mostly because it's just a phenominal song but also because it's a Dio era song that I'm really curious to see your reaction to. Besides, it has one of the fattest basslines ever. Please guys, you have to do it. ua-cam.com/video/5FRA7UXlGu8/v-deo.html
Children of the grave- Epic. You will not be able to get the intro out of your mind. It's insane. The drum.
In addition, "A National Acrobat", "Killing Yourself to Live", "Looking for Today", and "A Spiral Architect" make 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' a great and thought-provoking album.
I vote for Heaven and Hell also. I would love to see their reaction.
@@peroron2000 Right?? Jordan will lose his mind! Lol.
@@l.thegirl2581 Yes!! That galloping bass intro is absolute 🔥🔥!!!
One of the best songs hands down.
I'm glad you guys landed here on your journeys today. Black Sabbath is one of the best bands ever. This song came out while the Viet Nam War was on. Check out "Warning," it's them at their bluesiest.
My dad was killed in Vietnam so this song has always been very relevant to me.
@@robbinrasmussen3060 , thank you for your dad’s and your family’s incredible sacrifice!
Country Joe and the Fish, had an anti-Vietnam song, and is was not subtle at all. Then name of the song is "Then Vietnam Song".
@@robbinrasmussen3060OH my Good God, Robbins, SOOO sad ~ may he live in a peaceful area now 😢❤😊!!! BERNIE GERMANY ❤ 9:19
They wanted this to be the title track of the 1970 2nd album, but the record company wouldn't agree. They went with the 'filler' song, Paranoid, instead.
The original title of the song was Walpugis(the Witches Sabbath). They record company didn't like that either, and changed it to War Pigs.
That's Bill Ward playing the drums you liked.
Try Children of the Grave ,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, The Wizard, or N.I.B.
Absolutely, and I’d throw in “Iron Man”
@@martinmosteller5813 They did Iron Man last year.
@@chriso6719 Better memory than mine, man🤪
ROB SQUAD I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GOOD IT MAKES MY HEART FEEL WATCHING YOU GUYS REACT TO THIS SONG!!! NOW YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ANTI-WAR SONGS OF THE TIME!! WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT I WAS ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD, VIETNAM WAS STILL HAPPENING!!! AND WATCHING JORDAN'S FACE AS HE IS LISTENING TO THESE LYRICS WAS JUST EPIC!!! PRICELESS!!!
This song is ABS9LUTE ...TRUTH!!
2023 and War Pigs still fits perfectly when talking about gov and a lot of people
My dad didn't go to Vietnam due to an honorable discharge from the Army (due to a psychotic break from the stress of boot camp) but his older brother was a veteran, and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son was one of my dad's favorite songs (which I know you did about two years ago) but when it comes to Vietnam era protest songs, War Pigs is mine.
Thanks for reacting to this relevant song from 53 years ago. It was the first song I heard by Black Sabbath when I was 14. Been a fan since even got a tattoo of War Pigs. As a side note Black Sabbath originally wanted to name their album " War Pigs" but Warner Brothers refused due to the controversial Vietnam War so they named the album Paranoid instead which is also funny because Paranoid was an after thought because they needed 1 more song to complete the album so Tony Iommi came up with a riff in about 15 minutes which became Paranoid.
I started learning drums in 1975 after hearing Bill Ward. He was phenomenal. He and Geezer Butler on bass were tight as a section could ever be.
You guys are awesome. Black Sabbath is GOAT. Enjoyed the vid. Thank You.
This song is One of my favorites
IF you go deeper in their discography they have 3 famous lead singers: Ozzy, Dio and Ian Gillian of Deep Purple who sang some of Deep Purple's most famous songs: Smoke on the water, machinegun head, perfect strangers.
What a classic song !!!
Ozzy is an enigma. Dude can sing with such precision and yet talks in grunts. The same with the Gallagher Brothers of Oasis.
As for this song, such a banger. The local classic rock station used to play this frequently during the Iraq War.
U r spot on about the Oz singing better than he speaks. Don’t get me started on the Gallagher bros 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
seeing you grooving to the intro with your eyes closed, not knowing what was coming was perfect.
For me, this is the best rock song of all time...!!!
One of my favourite songs of all time. Very poignant lyrics that do NOT pull any punches, meanwhile you have Tony Iommi on Guitar and Bill Ward on Drums absolutely killing it! Not to mentio Geezer Butler on Bass is highly underrated and Ozzy's vocals as good as always
agree totally, all 4 of them were simply great at what they did, created a new genre that took everyone by storm. im 69 and they still are my favorite band thank God for music of the late 60s thru the early 80s....
A friend, whom has since passed, introduced me to Black Sabbath in 1979. War Pigs was his favorite. Thank you.
I love when people do reactions to the early Black Sabbath songs. I had pretty much the same reaction when I first heard them back in the early 70’s. A lot of people might not agree, but in my opinion they created heavy metal. For your next Black Sabbath reaction, you really should go back to where it started. The song Black Sabbath. But please do the official video. It’s just them playing the song live in a dark room. It is really amazing! Keep up the great work guys!
Influenced me to being anti war in my teens hearing this in the early 70s