Black Sabbath - *The official thread*

Season Of The Dead and Cry All Night are both really cool songs.  There's also a nice surprise with a short flamenco guitar solo on Take Me Home. Isolated Man is good as well, especially the guitar solo.

With these 4 songs + the 4 tracks from the deluxe edition you've basically got a second album from the 13 sessions.

muckie wrote:

Some of our Japanese friends may think that Ratt, Motley and Guns & Roses pioneered metal, but I am always quick to tell them, in their native language:

「本当です。ヘービー・メタルは７０年代に遡ります。 BLACK SABBATH（ブラック・サバス）とともに。」

Very cool, muckie.

S.D. wrote:

Season Of The Dead and Cry All Night are both really cool songs.  There's also a nice surprise with a short flamenco guitar solo on Take Me Home.  Isolated Man is good as well, especially the guitar solo.  

With these 4 songs + the 4 tracks from the deluxe edition you've basically got a second album from the 13 sessions.

Where can a guy find these songs?

Saw these at my local chain today:

BLACK SABBATH-Paranoid (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Master Of Reality (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Black Sabbath (2CD/Deluxe)

I want to be in on these but I feel as though Sharon Osbourne has enough of my money.

DevZor wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Season Of The Dead and Cry All Night are both really cool songs.  There's also a nice surprise with a short flamenco guitar solo on Take Me Home.  Isolated Man is good as well, especially the guitar solo.  

With these 4 songs + the 4 tracks from the deluxe edition you've basically got a second album from the 13 sessions.

Where can a guy find these songs?

Youtube for now.

the sentinel wrote:

Saw these at my local chain today:

BLACK SABBATH-Paranoid (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Master Of Reality (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Black Sabbath (2CD/Deluxe)

I want to be in on these but I feel as though Sharon Osbourne has enough of my money.

These are just US releases of the Vertigo UK Deluxe Editions from 2012.

S.D. wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

Saw these at my local chain today:

BLACK SABBATH-Paranoid (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Master Of Reality (2CD/Deluxe)
BLACK SABBATH-Black Sabbath (2CD/Deluxe)

I want to be in on these but I feel as though Sharon Osbourne has enough of my money.

These are just US releases of the Vertigo UK Deluxe Editions from 2012.  

I was gonna ask "didn't they recently do deluxes of these" but didn't want to sound any dumber than I normally do.

muckie wrote:

Some of our Japanese friends may think that Ratt, Motley and Guns & Roses pioneered metal, but I am always quick to tell them, in their native language:

「本当です。ヘービー・メタルは７０年代に遡ります。 BLACK SABBATH（ブラック・サバス）とともに。」

I understand the Japanese use different keyboards and all that. Makes it more difficult to join international heavy metal discussion boards, for instance.

But they have such a rich heavy metal culture. Do they have their own metal forums, and are they better than ours?

I can't really answer those particular questions, Lari, but I would like to say that based on the fact that for years the Japanese editions of Metal albums got the bonus tracks and the old phrase "we're big in Japan" says that the Metal culture there is probably thriving more than here in America. Just my .02.

Considering that Ratt's comeback album "Infestation" significantly outsold it's American release (18,000 in the US vs. 150,000+ in Japan) that's saying something. Ratt was always a favorite there. Though I do seem a little bit irked at what kind of stuff they use as an example of a genre when introducing people to it. For example, M.C. Hammer gets mentioned a lot whenever I see Japanese sites recommend a hiphop artist to start with. It's not that they're any more ignorant than we are, it's just the mainstream view vs. the diehards like all cultures have. I know some Japanese who are probably more educated in some western genres than even many westerners themselves, and I've had Japanese tell me that I know more about the music of Japan than they do.

I actually don't have much experience with Japanese HM boards specifically, but what I do know about reading and interacting with Japanese collectors and enthusiasts of virtually anything is that they are very adept at researching and knowing their passions. It's partly the collectivist loyalty of their society, and the fact that they are both well organized and perfectionist. Anything ranging from Heavy Metal to postage stamps, you know the Japanese enthusiasts have it nailed. I mean in what other culture would parents take their kids to post offices across the country to collect rare, limited edition sets of Pokemon stamps?

Cash Grabbath now is just another cover band with no original drummer just to get some more dope money from the fans.

Any chance of Ian Gillan getting back w/Sabbath to finish the "Born Again" tour?

candlemass wrote:

Any chance of Ian Gillan getting back w/Sabbath to finish the "Born Again" tour?

Now that Axl's fronting AC/DC, I'd say anything is possible these days.

So this is the woman Ozzy nearly broke up his marriage over...

You might be the Prince of F**kin' Darkness, Oz, but you have terrible taste in women.

Who is that, and how do you know she's terrible?

Lari wrote:

Who is that, and how do you know she's terrible?

Ozzy's girlfriend of the last 4 years and I'm sure she has a wonderful personality.

http://www.people.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-mistress-michelle-pugh-calls-him-love-of-life

Have you found yourself saying that you need to add yet another bloated compilation of Sabbath songs that you already own and yet completely ignores the non-Ozzy years to your collection? Well, you're in luck, my friend...

BLACK SABBATH will release "The Ultimate Collection" on October 28 via BMG. Curated in conjunction with the band, the 31-track collection features the band's classic songs, including "Paranoid", "Iron Man", "War Pigs", "N.I.B." and "The Wizard" as well as choice cuts from their classic albums and is the definitive accompaniment for all SABBATH fans as well as those with a love of hard rock.

CD Disc One track listing:

01. Paranoid
02. Never Say Die
03. Iron Man
04. Black Sabbath
05. Children Of The Grave
06. Fairies Wear Boots
07. Changes
08. Rat Salad
09. Sweet Leaf
10. War Pigs
11. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
12. Hole In The Sky
13. Symptom Of The Universe
14. Spiral Architect
15. Rock 'N' Roll Doctor

CD Disc Two track listing:

01. Dirty Women
02. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me
03. A Hard Road
04. Lord Of This World
05. Into The Void
06. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
07. Snowblind
08. Tomorrow's Dream
09. The Wizard
10. N.I.B.
11. Electric Funeral
12. Embryo
13. Killing Yourself To Live
14. Am I Going Insane
15. Wicked World
16. It's Alright

^^ Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Meh, another meaningless comp. Most fans have those songs in their collection already.

Useless. Can't they re-release tyr? I've been waiting for it for ages.

Nothing from 13 either.

I'm surprised 'It's Alright' made it on there. I thought Sharon had Bill's contributions wiped from Sabbath history. Will they crop him out of photos in the liner notes?

Another fabulous cash grab from $auron Osbourne

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Have you found yourself saying that you need to add yet another bloated compilation of Sabbath songs that you already own and yet completely ignores the non-Ozzy years to your collection? Well, you're in luck, my friend...

BLACK SABBATH will release "The Ultimate Collection" on October 28 via BMG. Curated in conjunction with the band, the 31-track collection features the band's classic songs, including "Paranoid", "Iron Man", "War Pigs", "N.I.B." and "The Wizard" as well as choice cuts from their classic albums and is the definitive accompaniment for all SABBATH fans as well as those with a love of hard rock.

CD Disc One track listing:

01. Paranoid
02. Never Say Die
03. Iron Man
04. Black Sabbath
05. Children Of The Grave
06. Fairies Wear Boots
07. Changes
08. Rat Salad
09. Sweet Leaf
10. War Pigs
11. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
12. Hole In The Sky
13. Symptom Of The Universe
14. Spiral Architect
15. Rock 'N' Roll Doctor

CD Disc Two track listing:

01. Dirty Women
02. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me
03. A Hard Road
04. Lord Of This World
05. Into The Void
06. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
07. Snowblind
08. Tomorrow's Dream
09. The Wizard
10. N.I.B.
11. Electric Funeral
12. Embryo
13. Killing Yourself To Live
14. Am I Going Insane
15. Wicked World
16. It's Alright

I've got no problem with this at all! 70s Sabbath is a big thing with the generation who haven't had all of these songs for the last 35 years, you know, the one that haven't been alive for the last 35 years but have a hundred copycat bands and a big bong Any band with half a ounce of business sense would do the same.

They are not going to draw that crowd with the Dio/Gillan/Martin years comp and let's be honest, we wouldn't buy it either as we have all those albums as well.

That said 'It's Alright' over 'You Don't Own Me' unforgivable!

But current generation isn't actually buying albums anyway. Who are they targeting with this? It's the collectors who feel they need to own it all. And a couple of people who buy it as a gift for their kids/grandchildren maybe?

These big bands are probably approached tons of times a year to release these comps from all different companies so I am actually surprised there is not more of these out there.