Metal is a huge umbrella of a category, not everyone's gonna like the same style. Black Sabbath is one of the best bands IMO but ya can still be a metalhead and not be big on sabbath
@@derekperkins57 true, but black sabbath was basically the first metal band and pretty much invented plenty of different types of metal music in general. Black Sabbath (the song), Killing Yourself To Live (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath), and Computer God (DeHumanizer) are good examples of doom metal. Symptom Of The Universe (Sabotage) has a main riff very similar to thrash metal. Fairies Wear Boots, Sweet Leaf (Master Of Reality), and Supernaut (4th Album) are also great examples of stoner metal. Many of the songs from the Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! albums definitely give off a glam metal vibe. In other words, it's quite difficult for a heavy metal fan not to like at least 1 Black Sabbath song. If they don't, it just means that they haven't listened to the type of song from Black Sabbath that they've liked yet.
I have been a sabbath fan since over forty years and still haven't been disappointed. You need to see what they do live. Just bloody fantastic to this day
Musical perfection. The S.O.S. type riff at the end to me is a cry of help that has rung throughout the LP. The backdrop of the Vietnam Conflict, the hard drugs and their toll at the end of the Sixties, the civil rights protests, the war mongering politicians. In my mind Paranoid is one of the best albums to capture an epoch.
The track is about the band being attacked by a gang of skinheads on the way home from a party. The drug reference at the end was a parody because the band enjoyed soft recreational drugs as did every rock band in those days.
My 13 year old daughter yelled this at a DARE function. It was hard to discipline her and keep a straight face. How do you discipline the YOU outta your kid? 😂
Ozzy Ozbourne was a visionary for sure. The man was brilliant with lyrics that not only inspired but also intrigued his listeners to indulge further. A brilliant man to this day.
I'm jamming this windows open on my house right now and a deer, a deer, walks up. It's standing there 20 feet away and listening. It just standing there and listening right now. It's standing there and listening with a wtf look on it's face. I'm gonna play Paranoid next and see what it does. UPDATE: 1 MINUTE LATER , now I see it has it's little spotted Bambi baby right outside eating my lawn. They like OZZY! I've decided to play Pink Floyd PIGS and see what they do! LOL
Grew up listening to Sabbath in the 70s & never heard this one til today. The music is epic just like everything they do but the lyrics just tickled me.
I'm a grandma and I have been privileged to see BS 3 times . Althought I never seen Randy Roads. I've seen Ozzy 6 times. He threw water on me and my husband . Zakk threw a guitar pic . The Drummer threw two drum sticks and my husband caught them. We were in the 3 row. After the concert my ex almost got rolled . Luckley we got away with the memorabilia. Then seen Ozzy , Vixin and Uglykid joe on the 4th of July . We took our 10 yr old son. Best band ever.
As I was listening to this “blast from the past” it came to my attention that this song may be considered non-pc with all its talk about fairies and dwarves. Made me like it even more. Rock on my little chickadees.
Black Sabbath, created the heaviest music in 1970, they are the true god fathers of Heavy type of music, Feb 13 1970 their Masterpiece first album came out. was mind blowing then, to day remains a Masterpiece, all hail the mighty Black Sabbath.
Ozzy was seen as a bit odd dragging a plimsoll around the streets of Birmingham as a teenager good job it's often the case that oddest creates such greatness
I saw a fairy with boots on and you got to believe me.So true because I have to.😀 Seriously I really did and no tripping either 😀👍.One it their best songs ever.
Yeah, right. I mean, that's cool, cuz who needs a group of bored, angry, violent, stupid, destructive, bigotist, hate-mongering kids with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands hanging around. But, I personally think that's just an excuse to cover-up the real inspiration for the track. Ozzy's really bad acid trip..
@@Alberto-ny7kf Yeah. I'm just stating what i read about ther origin of the song on genius.com. I always thought it was obviously about a never-ending acid trip gone horribly wrong!
I remember this song was always playing while we were smoking and tripping in our early 20' s with the boys ....and hearing that in the song always tripped me out 😝😂😱😏
Really the heaviest song of all......not much radio play. But that was really great tripping music! Microdot anybody? Blotter? Paranoid,Hair of the Dog,Machinehead.Dark side of the moon. 4 albums you just had to have. 70’s thru the 80’s.....and beyond!
Sabbath is the bringers of metal Ozzy is the metal God I was lucky enuff to see him twice once on the Sabbath reunion tour and oooooh yea he blew the roof of the fucking dump I couldn't speak for four days sabbath rocked me out in my drunken stupper I've seen many Ozzy and sabbath was the most bad assed display of jamming I've ever seen
actually, listening now to the lyrics, it's simple as all hell. I'm 63, so this was from back in my teenage years. I grew up on rock and roll from the 60s and 70s, but now, a lot of what I used to think was so damn deep just seems kind of goofy. Good music though.
I first heard this song the summer of 1994 when some kid at summer camp had the CD. Maybe a few months later I found it at a record store and it blew me away, giving me nightmares for a long time, months I would wake up in the middle of the night terrorized by this music. I *LOVED* it, every song on it, but IMHO the most terrifying were Electric Funeral and this. Still moves me to this day, very powerful tune, huge bass line and haunting lyrics. If I were the devil head on with Sabbath playing this tune I would surrender and turn hell over to them, I saw it with my own two eyes!
I remember being about 6 or 7 (82) and my cousin telling me this was about gays in the military. I didn't understand the joke until many years later. Lol. When I listen to Sabbath, so do the neighbors 😉
Good cousin anecdote! My life long cousin story: I was 10 in '76, and my cousin told me in Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?", that during a long passage with Peter staying quiet, he was actually hiding behind some speakers, shooting up drugs! I believed him for quite a while, due to Frampton's "look" on the album cover!
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