RIP Ozzy Osbourne.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

10 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

You took notice, to quote Bernard Stollman, "you never heard such sounds in your life"

Nothing proceeds this, but then:

Even my mom had a 45 single of Paranoid she bought back in 1970!

 

Maybe it was a New England thing or a Massachusetts thing, but I didn't know anyone that had "Paranoid" in their LP racks. If they had any Sabbath, it was usually the compilation, "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll".

[Holy Ghost]

9 hours ago, mjazzg said:

 

That contrast from the interlude into the opening riff is pure musical theatrend genius.

Indeed! The contrast, the switch, it was makes Sabotage stand out!

 

[JSngry]

Brass is Metal:

THIS should be covered by a Metal band.

[felser]

2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Maybe it was a New England thing or a Massachusetts thing, but I didn't know anyone that had "Paranoid" in their LP racks. If they had any Sabbath, it was usually the compilation, "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll".

Could have been, or else may have been a timing thing, depending on when your crowd started buying rock albums.  From what I see, Paranoid (released 1970) went 4x platinum, Masters of Reality (released 1971) and We Sold Our Soul (released 1976) each went 2x platinum, and nothing else went more than single platinum.  We Sold Our Soul was a double album, which I think was specially priced (I never owned it), so it probably looked like the better "deal" back then.

Edited 16 hours ago by felser

[Holy Ghost]

We Sold Our Soul...was released during the dull period following

A blah record, but Warner Bro's wanted their investment back. Basically a repackaging of the first three records, leaving off key tracks, like "Into the Void" on Master of Reality. Still charted and did well, and afforded them another okay record. 

By 1977, Ozzy and Bill became reliabilities. These dudes were horning and drinking so hard, they wind up in hotels for days that they didn't even book. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

10 hours ago, felser said:

Could have been, or else may have been a timing thing, depending on when your crowd started buying rock albums.  From what I see, Paranoid (released 1970) went 4x platinum, Masters of Reality (released 1971) and We Sold Our Soul (released 1976) each went 2x platinum, and nothing else went more than single platinum.  We Sold Our Soul was a double album, which I think was specially priced (I never owned it), so it probably looked like the better "deal" back then.

Could have been timing too... I was just entering high school in 1976 but my older brother Patrick was graduating and he was my main music influence. I used to play his records for years before I started buying my own. He was into Zep, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, etc. but never Sabbath.

You know, thinking about it, it might have had something to do with their faux "devil worship" shtick, which would have been frowned upon by our parents. I remember bringing home a 45 rpm single of Zep's "Whole Lotta Love" and cranking it up on my family's console only to have my mom storm in, rip it off the turntable and force me to return it. It wasn't until many years later that I learned why she was so upset at 8-year old me screaming, "Gonna give you every inch of my love".