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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 5714
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $6.18 |
| Used Price: $5.75 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Black Sabbath Track Listing:
1. Black Sabbath
2. Wizard
3. Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B.
4. Wicked World
5. Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning
Editorial Review:
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No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: BLACK SABBATH
Title: BLACK SABBATH
Street Release Date: 04/26/1988
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
Description of Black Sabbath:
Some might claim that this 1970 debut is the definitive Black Sabbath record. While the gothic overtones of the opening track, "Black Sabbath" (thunderstorms and foreboding church bells introduce Ozzy Osbourne's howl and Tony Iommi's sludgy guitar), and the raucous defiling of Cream on "N.I.B." were thrilling then (and remain so now), there is too much wanking here to really qualify the collection as the must-have Black Sabbath record. (That prize would have to go to Paranoid.) But the blues-heavy riffs of "The Wizard," the soon-to-be-famous chord-progression stylings on "Wasp," and the grunge-boogie of "Wicked World" allow it to stand as a solid testament to the deep and lasting influence the band has had over the years. --Lorry Fleming
Black Sabbath Reviews:
Best Sabbath Ever 
2009-10-23 - This is a perfect Sabbath album, and I think it's their best. It still has that bluesy feel to it. I call it "Evil Blues." Worth every penny.
One of the all time best heavy rock albums
2009-09-03 - I bought this in '72 when I was 12 years old. It blew my mind and I was hooked. Bought it again on vinyl and then on CD. I wound up with a little Black Sabbath collection, but my favorite by far is this album. Here I am pushing 50 years old and still have to play this cd at least a couple times a year. I don't even listen much to hard rock or heavy metal any more, but this masterpiece I always come back to. To me it's also one of the most under-rated albums. And I have to disagree with the editor's review. I grown tired of Paranoid before the 70's ended and found it less sophisticated musically than this album. Paranoid never really had the magic in it that this first Black Sabbath album had.
The album that started it all
2009-08-01 - I purchased this recording on vinyl when I was about 14, but I must say it took me a while to REALLY understand it. Now over thirty years later I am blown away by it's brilliance. A low budget 8 track recording...and it just destroys! My band Non-Fiction were heavily influenced by Sabbath. We're doing a reunion show Sat. Nov 7th 2009 at Dingbatz in Clifton NJ.
the blueprint
2009-06-27 - this and the first zeppelin album is where it all started.every hard rock band since has followed these 2 blueprints
The first is still the best.
2009-05-20 - Black Sabbath's debut is still one of the bets heavy metal albums of all time. There's not a boring spot on the entire album and the whole thing reeks of pure genius. Nothing sounds like this, nothing. It's as if Ozzy, Geezer, Bill and Tony were put on deserted islands at the time of their births and they learned to play and write music with NO outside influences at all. This is an essential album. Even the cover is dark and menacing, a concept metal bands would adopt just as much as Sabbath's sound.
