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Paranoid has been hailed as the greatest heavy metal album of all time. This was the album that distilled the essence of the doom-laden sound of Black Sabbath and burned the name into the minds of rock fans all over the planet. Featuring ultra-rare archive film of Black Sabbath in concert previously unreleased on DVD, plus the reflections of Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Neil Murray and Bobby Rondinelli. Alongside the views of a leading team of working musicians, musicologists and rock journalists, this is the definitive review of how the album was made and how the music has stood the test of time.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fairly standard "rockumentary" looking at the first 2 Black Sabbath albums. The focus is on the music rather than the history of the band or its members. There is a lot of comment by "music experts" and some brief interviews with band members. There is video footage of the band playing live in the early seventies however the image quality is very poor. Extras include guitar technique tutorials on some of the tracks which is a nice idea but a bit simplistic and only looks at the basic riffs. Worth watching once.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
disappointing
30 May 2006
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i was really excited to get this dvd. finally, getting to see vintage sabbath; nice. unfortunately, i was a very disappointed.
the audio for the live footage is pretty good, however, the editing leaves a lot to be desired. the lion's share of the live footage consists of close ups of the vocalist; the guitarist is shown mainly during solos; the drummer gets a couple minutes of screen time; and we barely ever see the bassist. every song is interrupted, at least once, to let the experts speak, but i found myself quite uninterested in what they had to say.
only the guitarist is interviewed on video. there are a couple bad quality audio clips from the vocalist and the bassist.
the live tracks consist of 'black sabbath', 'war pigs' (with alternate lyrics), 'paranoid', 'iron man', 'hand of doom', and 'fairies wear boots'.
in addition to the interrupted live tracks, there is a bonus section that contains uninterrupted versions of 'paranoid', 'iron man', 'war pigs', and 'fairies wear boots'. this dvd would have been much better if it had been primarily presented in this uninterrupted fashion. i'm not sure why they chose to leave out 'planet caravan', 'electric funeral', and 'rat salad'. it's doubtful that it's from lack of footage, as you can clearly hear the beginning of 'rat salad' at the end of 'hand of doom' in the main section of the dvd.
the audio for the live footage is pretty good, however, the editing leaves a lot to be desired. the lion's share of the live footage consists of close ups of the vocalist; the guitarist is shown mainly during solos; the drummer gets a couple minutes of screen time; and we barely ever see the bassist. every song is interrupted, at least once, to let the experts speak, but i found myself quite uninterested in what they had to say.
only the guitarist is interviewed on video. there are a couple bad quality audio clips from the vocalist and the bassist.
the live tracks consist of 'black sabbath', 'war pigs' (with alternate lyrics), 'paranoid', 'iron man', 'hand of doom', and 'fairies wear boots'.
in addition to the interrupted live tracks, there is a bonus section that contains uninterrupted versions of 'paranoid', 'iron man', 'war pigs', and 'fairies wear boots'. this dvd would have been much better if it had been primarily presented in this uninterrupted fashion. i'm not sure why they chose to leave out 'planet caravan', 'electric funeral', and 'rat salad'. it's doubtful that it's from lack of footage, as you can clearly hear the beginning of 'rat salad' at the end of 'hand of doom' in the main section of the dvd.
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