NIB - Black Sabbath | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Was time to bring it back and show Alex one of the high points from when I dived through Sabbath‘s Debut over a year ago! Where should we go next with Sabbath guys?!?! Let us know down below!!! 🔥🤟🏻

The album that scared the hell out of parents everywhere.

Fairies Wear Boots HAS to be next!! Crank it too!

The entire first album is, in my opinion, flawless. Absolutely nothing weak on the whole album.

Geezer Butler wrote most of the lyrics to Black Sabbath songs.

Children of the Grave is one of Black Sabbaths greatest songs, both studio and from the live Reunion CD.

N.I.B. was named after Bill Ward's beard it was in the shape of a pen nib. So they called it NIB. They didn't know what to name the song. Someone suggested putting the punctuation between each letter. They didn't have any meaning to the acronym. Some fans thought it meant Nativity in Black but Geezer Butler the writer of the song denies that is what the acronym means.

HAND OF DOOM by Sabbath. It's on the Paranoid album.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that you guys haven't done "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" yet. It's got an awesome riff, goes from heavy to light on a dime, transitions you so crave and a middle section that sounds like a sludge pit personified.

Depending on what source you read N.I.B. has come to be widely accepted as meaning "Nativity In Black" like VeryUs Mumblings has already mentioned below. I have also read that it was a slang word of the day to describe a type of beard that Bill Ward had at the time. The band called him "Nibby" because they thought his beard looked like the nib on the end of a pen. Either way the song kicks ass. Oh and by the way it took Sabbath only 12 hours to record their first album. 4 months later they went back into the studio to record their second album, "Paranoid". This took a little bit longer to crank out. They spent 5 whole days to make that masterpiece. Lets see bands do that today. Great job guys. Keep them coming. \m/ \m/

I'm only too happy to hear the rawness of this song being recorded under those conditions because it encapsulated how talented they were to push that all out under such extreme circumstances. Today, everything is polished down to the finest degree where one wonders if there is any real talent in current artists an their recordings.

God I love Black Sabbath! Easily in my top 5 bands of all time. Do their song Megalomania, you don't be disappointed.

Sweet leaf.... Ozzy's tribute to weed

Thanks for the continuing journey and respectful handling of rock. Great jobs as always.

YEAHHH!!! Eye's roll up into head! A classic Sabbath track - I love them!

React to Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion Guys you need to do it

What you heard here was Black Sabbath direct off the road. They served an apprenticeship just like Led Zep and Deep Purple in crappy venues all over the UK. When they got enough money to buy studio time, they went in and did what they’d done the night before in a pub somewhere. I was lucky enough to see a lot of these bands in the 70's and their energy and what was then a new genre of music was a night out to die for.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a must-hear. I'm pretty fond of The Wizard off this album, too , but it's not as good....On the other hand, it features harmonica.

What I love about this album is the lack of production it's raw and allows their talent to shine. It's imperfections are perfection. My favorite album of theirs love a lot of songs from their later albums but usually skip songs on later albums this one I'll listen to every song

They hit their peak with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage. Amazing albums! A national acrobat, Spiral Architect, Thrill of it all and Megalomania are some of their lesser known awesome songs.

Very nice. I second the votes for Faires Wear Boots. Also recommend Deep Purple's Hush and maybe a little Steppenwolf.

I remember geezer and the guys from the days before Sabbath, they used to play gigs over pubs and such around Birmingham and the surrounding areas and I chatted with them on a few occasions at gigs, happy memories of raw music and a good pint of beer.

According to Wikipedia: When the song was first released, its title was widely rumoured to have stood for "Nativity in Black", or to a lesser extent "Name in Blood". In a 1992 interview, Geezer Butler states that the title simply refers to Bill Ward's goatee at the time, which the rest of the band thought was shaped like a pen nib; also referred to as nibby.[7] Apparently, Geezer Butler said: "Originally it was Nib, which was Bill's beard. When I wrote N.I.B., I couldn't think of a title for the song, so I just called it Nib, after Bill's beard. To make it more intriguing I put punctuation marks in there to make it N.I.B. By the time it got to America, they translated it to 'Nativity in Black'."

Thanks for doing this track guys. It's one of my all time faves....the transitions!

Don't forget, in addition to being pressed for time in the studio, that these dudes were young when they recorded this - like 20-21 years old - and hadn't been a band for all that long.

I use to play this song over and over when I was 15. Cheers from the Past.

You guys need to delve deeper into my favourite Sabbath album Sabotage, "Megalomania" or "Thrill of it all" will do for me! 😉 Ozzy's voice is the best it's ever been on that record!

Love Black Sabbath best band from 70’s🎸🎤🥁😎

Guys.... fire up a large bowl and put on "Sweet Leaf" Your mind will be officially blown GUARANTEED.

Its about time you get back to some Sabbath. Been waiting very patiently. Please do more. I'm a new patrion.

You really , really , really have to listen to " Warning " by Sabbath . Nothing short of genius metal , rock and blues . I bought my first vinyl of Sabbath in 1971 , still in awe . You will not regret it .

A new old song, is how I see this... I'd never heard it. It's good! My first though was that the opening reminded me of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water"... but I looked it up, and if anything, the influence went the other way, this song was released a year before "Smoke"... That's when I realized that both this song, and Smoke on the Water's openings sound like "Sunshine of Your Love", released by Cream three years before! I love how from our enviable position of hindsight, these groups influenced each other as much as they did bands that would follow. Not plagiarism, but a creative symbiosis fueled by the times... Not to mention similar experimentation with controlled substances. ;-]

Love Black Sabbath as IS! RAW!

A&A - I can't remember year of debut? It is raw & "innocent". If you listen, you'll hear little pieces of "Sunshine of Your Love" & "Smoke on the Water"... Interesting! Keep rockin' the classics and they will serve you well into future. Great job fellas. -- Lisa.

Black Sabbath was a band that performed live. They did not need to have their sound to be "engineered" in a studio. Going into the studio was to them nothing more than playing live but inside of a booth instead of in front of a bar fill of people.

They all sound so amazing here, including Ozzy. I've honestly not heard him sound so good. So I guess it's another one being added to my playlist.

First...love it. Cool merch.... Sometimes you should go Back to the black background sometimes like at night.. and light a candle and have a cocktail..🎸🎶🎶🎶

Bassist Geezer Butler wrote all the lyrics in. Ozzy era Sabbath. Their funkiest track "Supernaught" Their greasiest track "Electric Funeral". These 2 equivalent to Born on the Bayou for CCR. Swampy, Greasy and haunting!!!

For a chilled Sabbath track I've always loved Planet Caravan, especially after or during a doob !

Yes! 10.0 🤘🏼 If I had a Top 5 Sabbath song list, “N.I.B.” and “Fairies Wear Boots” would be there. Nice job dudes 🤙🏼

My favorite black sabbath song of all fucking TIME baby

Guys - put it into this context: in the first Rolling Stone review of Sabbath's debut album, Lester Bangs panned it a "bit," and got it wrong: Black Sabbath, ‘Black Sabbath’ (1970) Lester Bangs is one of the most esteemed rock writers in history, but even he didn't quite get Black Sabbath when he heard their first record back in 1970. "Over across the tracks in the industrial side of Cream country lie unskilled laborers like Black Sabbath, which was hyped as a rockin' ritual celebration of the Satanic mass or some such claptrap, something like England's answer to Coven. Well, they're not that bad, but that's about all the credit you can give them. The whole album is a shuck - despite the murky song titles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés that sound like the musicians learned them out of a book, grinding on and on with dogged persistence. Vocals are sparse, most of the album being filled with plodding bass lines over which the lead guitar dribbles wooden Claptonisms from the master's tiredest Cream days. They even have discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like velocitized speedfreaks all over each other's musical perimeters yet never quite finding synch - just like Cream! But worse." -Lester Bangs P.S. That being said, I like Cream's albums better than Sabbath.

First song I learned how to play on an electric. Friends older brother taught it to us when I was 10 years old in 1979. Still know it.

I was at the Black and Blue concert at Boston Garden. Ronnie James Dio said that N.I.B. stood for " Nativity in Black"

Andy & Alex, much respect to you for not stopping to talk, fucking with the crescendos and such... I will nominate ya'll for the bess stank faces when that Sabbath got good to ya! A fan in NOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome video..yeah I thought I saw somewhere that nib was a joke about one of the band members goatee or something.I always loved The Wizard..man Ward's drum work is crazy!

To me, this was the best BECAUSE it was raw and they just did it. That first album will always be my favorite.

Favorite Sabbath song

Time for some Pie -- Humble Pie, "I Don't Need No Doctor".

Looking forward to hearing you two dudes debut album to show everyone how it should be done man👍

If you guys haven't seen it, watch The Last Supper - live show from their reunion tour in 1999, with band interviews dispersed throughout. There's a lot of good info in that. Bill Ward answered your question in it - when they started doing it, it's like the songs were already written. Try Electric Funeral from the Last Supper for some epic machine gun Bill Ward

Black Sabbath, they truly mastered the ways of making tambourines sound sinister.

New to the channel. Love seeing your reactions to the music I grew up on! Rock on dudes!

Do some Sabbath from the Dio days. Preferably the song called " I " from Dehumanizer album.

From THE BEST Black Sabbath album. The first one is unique in having that magical, spiritual sound.

Ok excellent to be back hearing Black Sabbath..so ty guys..Ok I know you may have already done "Paranoid" Andy years ago but that would be my Pick for Alex to join in the reaction, has always been one of the top 3 I love from Sabbath..awesome driving tune and one i still play when doing crap around the house just adds adrenaline to work so that's my Pick. Keep Well Keep Safe Keep Rocking🤘🤘

NIB is so named because. Geezer Butler has goatee at the time look like a fountain pen nib according to Ozzy speaking in the interview on another video I saw.

Fantastic Ozzy era song! Can't believe there isn't any love in the comments for Dio era songs. I highly suggest "Heaven and Hell", "Lady Evil", "Children of The Sea", and "Mob Rules". They are ALL bangers.

A Black Sabbath staple. I like it the way it is. Perfection can be a negative in music. The female vocal break in Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" for example. Wouldn't change it for the world

Children of the Grave! (Sweet Leaf ... sooo very sweet as well)

So glad to see your generation is getting a taste of some of the shit i grew up with started listening to Sabbath in 1970 8th grade been a metal head ever since do the math its a long time

Wicked World is a much better song on this album!!

The band were in germany for a few months b4 recording playing 4 or 5 times a day so they were so tight they were able to record album in 12 hours

N.I.B. Stands for Nativity In Black.

If you want another corker of an album check out Sabotage. It is amazing from start to finish and probably my favourite

This was some ground breaking stuff at the time. I always think of what it must have been like to hear it for the first time. Must have been like when I heard Metallica's Kill 'Em All as a young teenager back in the day. Never heard anything like it and was love at first listen. That must be how people felt back then when hearing this.

Would love you guys to react to David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise. Steve Vai's playing is awesome on the track.

One of my favorite Bands. As always, great video with you guys reacting and giving your thoughts! Still, gimme more Rolling Stones😭😂.

DREAM THEATER - THE GLASS PRISON

So many people don’t realize what an awesome voice Ozzie had

When I first started learning how to play the guitar, I started by learning a few songs​ by Black Sabbath. To this day, I still use some of their riffs when creating my own music.

The opening is a separate song called Bassically. N.I.B. is, according to many, Nativity In Black. Geezer says it was about Bill Ward's nib of a goatee. Ut is a song about the Devil falling on love with a human woman. Lastly, the lines "Your love for me has just got to be real Before you know the way I'm going to feel" is lifted straight from Buddy Holly's classic song "Not Fade Away." It sounds far less creepy there. Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics. Tony Iommi wrote the music. Ozzy created the vocal melodies. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a great record and many will mention Sabotage. Or Mob Rules from the Dio era.

It’s Nativity in Black. Dudes we used to have Fontana Hall bangin to this in early 80s. Anybody on Fletcher could hear us in a quarter mile radius. It’s because all 4 of them were straight up BAMFs! THATS how they did it. You guys should do a band we all used to see at Mr. T’s Club 19 or The Rocket Club back then; SAVATAGE. They were a Tampa Band. Their guitar player Chris Oliva was a riff machine. You could try Hall of the Mountain King for starters.

Top three that Alex needs to hear if he hasn't already: Black Sabbath's self titled track off their first album. Rain and Thunder begins the track, and it's epic. Children of the Grave - That background drumming that gets panned to either side is just SICK. into the Void - The bass is just DIRTY, and it's glorious 😁

I had the first album, We Sold Our Souls, Master of Reality, Sabatoge, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Never Say Die all on album when they came out.

‘Voodoo’ from the mob rules album is a brilliant sabbath track with Dio on vocals ..🤟🏼

NIB - Geezer Butler said it stands for the nickname of Bill Wards beard, because he didn’t have a title for the song. It was rumored to stand for Nativity in Black but that’s not exactly what Geezer named it.

Everyone has their personal favorites so I might as well add mine. Sabbra Cadabra from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album. Rarely will I guarentee someone will love a song, but I'm guaranteeing that one.

I love seeing the younger generation showing such appreciation for outstanding classic songs and songwriting such as this. 🤘

The song is about Lucifer falling in Love. "My name is Lucifer please take my Hand"!!!

The front cover picture has become a bit of a shrine to Sabbath fans.it's called mapledurham watermill it sits on the river Thames in Oxfordshire in England .many fans have visited the mill so they can take a photo of themselves standing in the same place as the young lady in the picture.

love yer videos do the song hole in the sky next that one just rips !!

about the transition thing, you're right, cause in those days you got lots of rock progresive bands experts on that

Waaay out there for that time. ! A lot of people must have lost their minds over it. !

Hard to believe this song’s 50+ years old, and still is hard as it is. If you want to go back to another song to reposted to it for Alex, do Into The Void or Electric Funeral. Or, you could go for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and do the title track. It’s a serious banger. Edit: Ooh! Or you could do A National Acrobat for something completely different.

Great job as always guys

Check out some of the Tony Martin stuff at some point--a truly underrated era as the band was going through frequent lineup changes, but damn strong in its own right. Eternal Idol (1987) was a Dio-esque masterpiece and Tyr (1991) was pretty classic as well. Always loved the cover art and Norse-themed storytelling on that album. Some "bangers" on Headless Cross (1989) and Cross Purposes (1994) too.

NEON KNIGHTS will take this song to my grave I love it!

Next song you guys should check out is megalomania by sabbath! Lyrics wise and instrumental wise its absolutely amazing! By the way loved the video!

N.I.B. had been suggested to stand for Nativity in Black, but it's actually a joke about drummer Bill Ward's beard, which the other band members thought was nibby.

I heard a similar story, that the song was named after Bill Wards beard ( I heard Tony Iommi thought Bill's head looked like a pen nib, or cap, as Americans call them.) Tony says, to this day, he still calls him Nibby. Anyway, how about the title track from the great album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!?

Your signature or N.I.B. The title of this song greatly represents how they could do this in one take. You get one chance to leave your mark. Sign your name to the page. No sooner had I scratched my "Name In Black" that the ink turned into a crimson red "Blood" and ran down the page. And now you know the way you're going to feel.🤘🤘🔥

ozzy sings really well on this. I grew up hearing what ozzy sounded like live around 2000's and later.. and never realized how well he could sing until i dove into their early albums.

"Sabotage" Best Guitar (Banger )Album from Black Sabbath.

NIB is the beginning with the bass the song was originally called Black Sabbath and that was from a local band who played a cover version you hear many tales about this track I just like it because it's a banger stay lucky stay safe Mike UK What type of whiskey are you guys drinking?

Andy gets IT, Alex doesn't. This song is 50 yrs old, Black Sabbath are the GOAT!

Remember there was nothing like this in 1970 friend brought it over and played it i was like you what the fuck was that thanks nick

This album came out when I was a sophomore in High School. The album cover freaked me out. The next two albums are my faves. Others have told you about the bands songwriters.

NIB is a fun name they made up for the tip of Iommies finger that got chopped off. He has a plastic tip on his finger he uses to play and they in England called it a NIB.

the more I listen to sabbath, and also revisit grunge, the more I notice how big of an influence sabbath was for soundgarden. the album superunknown is something you dudes should definitely check tf out.