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!'by the lake, a young girl waits, unseeing she believes herself unseen, she smiles faintly at the distant tolling bell, and the still falling rain'. So runs the slightly bizarrely written poem on the sleeve of Black Sabbath's debut. This, together with the mysterious, evocative sleeve (neither of which had anything to do with the band and whose origins are shrouded in mystery), sets the stage for one of the most striking opening statements in the history of rock music.
'Black Sabbath' is still powerful now; as iconic as the opening of ''Anarchy in the UK'', ''Whole Lotta Love'' or even ''A Love Supreme''. God knows what it must have sounded like to a generation of lank haired teenagers back in 1970. As the band bite down on Tony Iommi's monstrous riff it's immediately clear that Sabbath were taking heavy rock in a direction that owed little to its blues roots (in fact, the riff was based around the interval of a tritone, known commonly as the 'diabolus in musica' due to its supposedly devilish qualities). This wasn't good time music.
Though the song's lyrics were inspired by a personal supernatural experience, they're more Hammer film camp than H.P. Lovecraft. Lyrical finesse was never the band's strong point - as Sabbath authority Paul Wilkinson points out, there are only five words on the entire album that are longer than two syllables. But Ozzy Osbourne invests them with more emotion than any otther vocal performance he managed later. His cry of 'Oh no, please God help me!' before Iommi, Butler and Ward launch into their final galloping assault on the senses is genuinely scary.
Elsewhere the lack of suitable material and the rushed production job don't help, though 'Behind The Wall of Sleep' and the 'N.I.B.' (in which Lucifer falls in love and becomes a nice bloke) show off Iommi's evolving compositional skills to full effect. Black Sabbath was recorded in two days and cost £600 to make, which isn't a bad investment for an album that changed the face of rock music. That's not an exaggeration by the way... --Pete Marsh
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2CD DELUXE : Rematered seminal 1970 debut with bonus disc of b-sides, outtakes & instrumental versions.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Ok first off let's not confuse this release with the single cd available as this is a new remaster and what a remaster at that!
I was a tad skeptical about this release and one reason i didn't rush straight out and buy because i wasn't sure if it was just the same as the single cd,but after reading on the black sabbath forum about the unbelievable quality i had to get it asap.
Ok onto the review.
Well Many cds these days are so poorly re-mastered that great dynamic sounding music seems to be becoming a rarity these days with many artist's back catalogues and indeed new music being butchered and ruined so it fills me with enormous happiness to say this deluxe edition is really quite superb,in fact it's one of the best cds ive ever heard.
Everything about this cd is brilliant,one because it was the first and highly influential album from sabbath and two ive never heard it sound better.
From the opening of black sabbath to the final track of disc one warning i was amazed at how dynamic and powerful sounding this is.
The second cd has outtakes and instrumentals from the album which i found to be excellent especially the studio outtake of black sabbath,at the start you hear ozzy say (and i'll leave out certain words lol) "i dont understand it....i can't remember the words"....it really is priceless and in my opinion worthy of purchase on this reason alone.
Seriously though this is a masterclass in remastering and one that all engineers should take note and learn from.
So if you are a fan of heavy metal or sabbath and you are not quite sure whether to get it then don't wonder anymore just go for it.
Comparing this to the single cd version is like comparing gold to dirt,the single cd is louder,harsh sounding and brittle,this deluxe edirion is pure gold,not at all loud very smooth and rich.
Absolutely brilliant and a pleasure to award it 5 stars!
I was a tad skeptical about this release and one reason i didn't rush straight out and buy because i wasn't sure if it was just the same as the single cd,but after reading on the black sabbath forum about the unbelievable quality i had to get it asap.
Ok onto the review.
Well Many cds these days are so poorly re-mastered that great dynamic sounding music seems to be becoming a rarity these days with many artist's back catalogues and indeed new music being butchered and ruined so it fills me with enormous happiness to say this deluxe edition is really quite superb,in fact it's one of the best cds ive ever heard.
Everything about this cd is brilliant,one because it was the first and highly influential album from sabbath and two ive never heard it sound better.
From the opening of black sabbath to the final track of disc one warning i was amazed at how dynamic and powerful sounding this is.
The second cd has outtakes and instrumentals from the album which i found to be excellent especially the studio outtake of black sabbath,at the start you hear ozzy say (and i'll leave out certain words lol) "i dont understand it....i can't remember the words"....it really is priceless and in my opinion worthy of purchase on this reason alone.
Seriously though this is a masterclass in remastering and one that all engineers should take note and learn from.
So if you are a fan of heavy metal or sabbath and you are not quite sure whether to get it then don't wonder anymore just go for it.
Comparing this to the single cd version is like comparing gold to dirt,the single cd is louder,harsh sounding and brittle,this deluxe edirion is pure gold,not at all loud very smooth and rich.
Absolutely brilliant and a pleasure to award it 5 stars!
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic package. Second disc is really interesting, the sound on the original disc? Awesome!
19 Aug 2009
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Check out the video below where I talk about the release. I show you a complete unboxing, showing everything that is inside there, speak to the sound quality, the extras on the second CD, etc, etc... The real review is in the video, not in this text. :)
Minor updates to my review. The book I mention towards the end is not Mark Weiss, he was the photographer, I believe. And the poem from the original release *IS* here, but not the upside down cross. That was my error.
Minor updates to my review. The book I mention towards the end is not Mark Weiss, he was the photographer, I believe. And the poem from the original release *IS* here, but not the upside down cross. That was my error.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I thought i had won the lotto when i saw this release. Any new unheard sound of the old Sabbath is a total joy and bonus to me. Best band in the world. This is my fav Sabbath album, so i bought it right away and so glad i did. Sound quality is awesome on disc one and i love the bonus material on disc two. Would of been nice to of had bonus stuff on vol 4, sabbath bloody sabbath, sabotage, technical ecstacy and never say die new releases too, but never mind. If you have this album loads of times already like i do, buy it, worth it for sound and bonus stuff. This album and band will go with me to my grave. Killer.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Gloriously well-handled remaster
If you're new to Sabbath and wondering where to start, the answer is right here. They set out their stall on their brilliant debut and everything that we love about them is... Read more
Published 16 months ago by PE Bowen
No need for anything extra
The remastering is worth getting this album . I have played the bonus disc once and will probably never need to hear it again BUT the original album will never age , what a debut. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2009 by steven music fan james
For "must have" fans
CD 1 we've all got at least one media type already
CD 2 "previously unreleased material" no surprise
CD 2 "previously unreleased material" no surprise
Published on 20 Sep 2009 by Ian
gloom & doom, not on full display!!
Gloom & doom never sounded so good. 2** docked for not reproducing the iconic cover art!
I can understand on the outer cover as to display the track listing. Read more
I can understand on the outer cover as to display the track listing. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2009 by Mr. Marc Lang
Very curious
I never got around to replacing my vinyl version of this album so with this release it seemed an ideal time to upgrade. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by A. P. Blunden
Geat ! but, N.I.B. is not instrumental
These editions with a bonus CD are very interesting for the fans of Black Sabbath. On the other hand, a big disappointment for the title N.I. Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by Morpho
classic rock
i was at school when this album was first released.
it was a favourite with the long hairs in the common room. Read more
it was a favourite with the long hairs in the common room. Read more
Published on 8 July 2009 by G. V. Best
Only for absolute completists
This reissue of Black Sabbath's first album has the vanilla version of the album on the first CD and some outtakes and alternative versions as well as a single B-side on the second... Read more
Published on 7 July 2009 by lothda
Good but could be better
Good reissue of classic album, not up to the standards of other deluxe reissues though, a lot of these sabbath versions just seem to drop out the vocal and give you an instrumental... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by Simon Ogg
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