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Paranoid [Deluxe Edition] [CD+DVD]

~ Black Sabbath
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Product details

  • Audio CD (30 Mar 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Deluxe Edition, CD+DVD
  • Label: Sanctuary
  • ASIN: B001D2AYCI
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 697 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. War Pigs
2. Paranoid
3. Planet Caravan
4. Iron Man
5. Electric Funeral
6. Hand Of Doom
See all 8 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. War Pigs
2. Paranoid
3. Planet Caravan
4. Iron Man
5. Electric Funeral
6. Hand Of Doom
See all 24 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. War Pigs
2. Paranoid
3. Planet Caravan
4. Iron Man
5. Electric Funeral
6. Hand Of Doom
See all 8 tracks on this disc

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CD Description
Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne--four names that resonate throughout rock’s recorded history as clear and sublime as the haunting bell that tolls the opening to their eponymous debut album from 1970. Collectively, they formed Black Sabbath and forged the most haunting and hypnotic rock sound of all time. From humble beginnings, the Birmingham quartet enslaved the minds and souls of millions of rock fans around the world and continue to do so into the new millennium. The musical genre they created inspired countless musicians and spawned countless bands, all of which have attempted to emulate the Heavy Metal originators. Few have come close to rival the uniquely powerful musical make-up of the all powerful Black Sabbath. Now, for the first time-ever, the blueprint, or rather black-print, to Sabbath’s musical plan can be scrutinised via a myriad of previously unreleased studio outtakes, recently unearthed and compiled as additional bonus discs accompanying the band's genre defining 1970 album Paranoid.

Paranoid was released in the United Kingdom during September 1970, and contains some of the band's most famous work, including the songs "Iron Man", "War Pigs" and the title track "Paranoid". The album is regarded as a classic of the heavy metal genre and one of the most influental heavy metal albums.

Paranoid is expanded to a triple-disc containing the extremely rare 1974 Quadrophonic mix of the album. The album also includes deluxe digipak gatefold packaging with expanded booklets containing rare and previously unseen photographs, comprehensive sleeve-notes telling the story behind each album and include images of rare single covers and memorabilia from the period. Paranoid is the first release in a set of Black Sabbath deluxe expanded editions. Each remastered album includes an additional disc of previously unheard outtakes, demos and instrumental tracks taken from the original studio sessions.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best "Paranoid" CD, 4 April 2009
By M. Filipovic "Justified Ancient" (Croatia) - See all my reviews
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Rejoice, people - this is truly the exception from the "rule" that new remasters sound worse than the older CD editions! This is probably the best "Paranoid".

It's definitly better than the 2004 Black Box release (don't believe what J. Siegler says), and I believe it's better than the 1996 Castle CD. There are some other CD editions which I have never listened or I heard them a long time ago, but I don't believe they are better.
And there's edition which I own for some time, 2001 Sanctuary mini vinyl replicas 8-disc box-set.
This new 2009 edition is released 5 days ago on the same label - Sanctuary. I must say that guys there now their job. So - congratulations and respect to Sanctuary!

After detailed analysis it seems to me that they used the same source as in 2001, but remastered it in a different way. Both 2001 and 2009 editions have loudness boosting just very slightly over the edge, almost unnoticeable, which makes them incomparably better than most of today's releases with ridiculously boosted loudness. So there's almost NO trace of small dynamic range, distortion and compression.
When I compared 2001 and 2009 edition:
2001 has less noise and more bass; 2001 sounds muddy, with prominent low range, while 2009 sounds more natural, with prominent mid-range.
They both sound good, and eventually it's up to the listener to decide which sound he/she prefers. I don't know which one sounds closer to the original 1970 vinyl, I could know that only if I put that LP (but in mint condition!) on a high-end turnatable and make comparison - but that will never happen. So, my final conclusion is: I FEEL that this 2009 CD is the closest thing to the original record.

But this new remaster also came out as a double LP 10 days ago - if someone is interested in that. That vinyl edition should sound even better, if you have the right equipment in your home.

All this being said, for me the most important value of this new edition is not remastered sound of the original album (disc 1), but bonus tracks.
Disc 2 is NOT CD, but DVD audio, which contains 1974 QUADROPHONIC MIX. I'm not really interested in that, but I know there are some who are.
The reason I bought this (I didn't know and didn't believe that disc 1 will have such a superior sound!) is disc 3. It contains 8 album tracks, but in a way that no-one has ever heard before! 5 of them are instrumentals and 3 are alternative versions! All unreleased for 38 years and 9 months! Maybe some will not be thrilled with that, but I am! It was fantastic experience yesterday for me to listen those songs, which are full of interesting surprises. Because when you intuitively feel/expect to hear something at some moment, you don't hear that, and so that gives you completely new listening experience of that classic!

Also, there's beautiful 24-page booklet, with tons of linear notes and related pictures, even from the original Paranoid tour programme!

There was several times when this CD was announced, and then stopped at the last moment, but I guess now Iommi definitely lost legal battles. There are already announcements of releasing the other Sabbath classics as expanded deluxe editions. I feel that we won't have to wait much to get "Master of reality" unreleased out-takes...

I'm sorry if all this happened against the will of Iommi & Sabbath, I do respect them and their wishes, but only up to a point - because as much I love Sabbath, even more I love myself. :D And I want Sabbath unreleased stuff... me and thousands of other Sabbath fans. And I feel that we are true fans, even if we'll give money for something that Iommi didn't want to see the light of the day. And these 2001 and 2009 Sanctuary releases, although without blessing from the band, are infinitely better products than 2004 Black Box which had all the blessings.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Crappy sounding quad mix, 20 April 2009
This is an excellent album, a classic. But this review is for the quad mix. I already own 2 copies of this great album, so my reason for getting this a third time wasn't the cd, but..? yes, the quad mix. And what a let down.

This was supposed to come out as an SACD last autumn, but they scrapped the SACD all together weeks upon it's final release. Which was postponed several times. I was intially very let down by the lack of SACD, but the Quad mix sounds so bad, it's a terrible transfer from a poor source. So considering the awful sound quality it's understandable they scrapped the SACD since it wouldn't have made any difference soundwise anyway. The mystery however is how this turd came past the quality control.

The quality of this Quad mix is so bad that if a regular employee had come up with this and the employer were to evaluate his work at the end of the day he would have been fired on the spot. It's that bad.

Compared to the excellent SACD quad mix of Deep Purple's Machine head, which I was hoping this would be similar to (soundwise), I had to give this 1 star, wheras Machine Heads warrants a solid 5. What a shame.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars for the main album, 3 stars for the extras., 6 April 2009
By Fletch-a-sketch "Fletch" (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
  
Disc 1 the main album is worthy of 5 stars the album which brought black Sabbath to prominence via the single `Paranoid', and its spooky follow up `Iron Man'. What can you say about an album which has inspired many a guitarist over the last 40 years? If it's not 'Smoke on the water' then it's the riff from 'Iron man' you hear in guitar ships to this day. This deluxe 3 disc edition gives us a nicely mastered original album complete with an original looking vertigo swirl LP image on the disc. The mastering seems to be quite well regarded and certainly does not suffer greatly from that modern compression that so many reissues discs do suffer from these days.

Disc 2 is an Audio DVD and NOT a DVD Audio (no MLP) or SACD, this amount to a disappointment for me of this set. While it is nice to have a version of the original QUAD mix for the album it is only in lossy DTS and is not from a very good source. So full marks for effort in providing this disc but marks dropped for not getting a better source. That said the quad mix does open up the sound field quite a lot and manages to enhance the power of the original album on many of the tracks. Also of concern for a deluxe edition where you expect good sound quality the stereo track on the disc is lossy Dolby Digital rather than high bit rate LPCM as stated on the cover of the package?

Disc 3 is a disc of early versions of the songs on the original album in the order they appear on the original album. Of interest are the original lyrics to `Paranoid' and `Planet Caravan' which appears to have originally been almost 2 minutes longer. The other tracks offer little to the casual listener and are really for fans only.

For the price this is a very good set and deserves the deluxe tag, however there are flaws in the set and while its great to have the original quad mix it would be better to have it sourced for a good tape and as a DVDA.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Good but clipped sound
I wanted to comment not so much on the over-reverberant, dull sound of the 5.1 DTS, but on the mastering of the two CDs. Read more
Published 2 months ago by res

1.0 out of 5 stars What a pathetic effort & missed opportunity! Low-fi quad-mix, bungled descriptions
Wow. I really had high expectations for this release; and pre-ordered it way back in October 2008 after learning of its existence on sa-cd. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Martin Andersen

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have!
If you're a Black Sabbath fan, you've GOT to get this! When I first heard rumours about Paranoid in a three-disc version late last year, I was seriously foaming at the mouth... Read more
Published 2 months ago by WrathofShatner

1.0 out of 5 stars Fiasco!
Whilst the idea of going back into the vaults forthe quad mix is a superb idea - and I wish that more would re-appear - what I fail to understand is why warners felt the need to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Neil Wilkes

5.0 out of 5 stars Return to the sound of the 70's in high fi!
This is my second review (Amazon having deleted my first one because it was too long), so I'll be short:

This is the single best version of Paranoid that has ever... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Bongiorno

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