Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075992727228 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: October 25, 1990 Sales Rank: 9855 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
Amazon.com: As if their dark lyrics and wall-of-sludge sound didn't already have an epic sweep, Black Sabbath braved an even more ambitious approach on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, adding synthesizers and even strings to tracks such as 'Who Are You?' and 'Spiral Architect.' But even without them, the Sabbath classics 'Killing Yourself to Live,' 'National Acrobat,' 'Looking for Today,' and the title track pack a thunderous sonic wallop. 'Fluff,' a bit of ponderous musing on acoustic guitar and keyboards, adds variety to the disc but brings the headbanging pleasure of the rest of the album to a screeching halt. Beyond that misstep, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is as slow and deliberate as a lava flow, and just as powerful. --Daniel Durchholz
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Rating: - Timeless classic
I bought this album when it was released in 1974. (I was 15, so I had to hide it from my parents because of the "scary" cover!)
I couldn't get enough of this album then, and now 34 years later, I still love it. The songs are absolutely infectious, displaying a high degree of musicianship, the lyrics are just ambiguous enough to let your imagination go wild, and Ozzy has never sounded better with his signature style of controlled hysteria. This album is a timeless classic.
One of the standout tracks for me is Spiral Architect. It perfectly encapsulates Ozzy's take on false prophets and personal redemption:
"Sorcerers of madness/Selling me their time/Child of God sitting in the sun/Giving peace of mind/Fictional seduction/On a black snow sky/Sadness kills the superman/Even fathers cry/Of all the things I value most of all/I look inside myself and see my world/and know that it ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome riffs/drums
If you love heavy riffs and great drumming there is no way you can't love this album. SBS has it all....killer guitar, jazzy drums, and cool Wakeman piano.....people often overlook how great each player was in this band. Turn Sabra Cadabra up to MAX volume and feel the chills as the bass kicks in to that awesome guitar riff.....Billy Ward banging away with cool fills.....and it's a love song WTF? A couple of duds I could do without like Fluff and Who are You? But the rest rock.....SBS, National Acrobat, KYTL, and Looking for Today all rock out. Tough to be heavy and melodic but they hit it here. Cheers!
Rating: - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ****1/2
When I was asked to describe Black Sabbaths sound in my music journalism class all I could say was "Pompei, Black Sabbath is like the slow crawl of the volcano erupting and covering the village in certain death,' that explanation is about a cheesy and dead on as you can get. Ozzy's shrieks of heaven, hell, and strange dimensions in between combined with Iommi's under appreciated guitar work, and Geezer Butler and Bill Wards wall of rhythm, which by the way is the best in rock in roll, make this one of the heaviest albums of all time. I don't mean heavy as in loud and fast, I mean heavy as in slow, chugging, dark, scar the pants of your mother heavy.
The only misstep on the album is, and now this is a big one, 'Fluff.' The song is useless. It is a beautiful acoustic melody from Iommi, but it does not work here, yes it does give variety to the album, ... Read More
Rating: - More of the same, yet very different...
Despite what the blurb above says, Black Sabbath cast off some of their gritty bombast to produce a more measured and experimental effort with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The killer riffs are still there, but a little of the high-volume was replaced with some high-fidelity. I initially found this disappointing - it is nowhere near as viscerally exciting as the Paranoid album for example - but it was necessary to make space for the plethora of other instruments & ideas to take hold. As such the listening experience is more complex and more interesting, but with less raw energy.
Others have done the detailed track analyses & I don't intend to repeat them here, but I would take issue however with the claim that the track "Fluff" is a misstep: far from it. Apart from being a worthy musical contribution in its own right, it provides a wonderful counterpoint to the heavier material on the album. They did a similar ... Read More
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