This is the birth of metal. These are the godfathers, the grandfathers of metal. Everyone who came after owe something to these guys. Arguably their most simple song, but still great Lex is so on it! Yes this was shocking to the first people hearing this.
@Kalda Forn Yes, indeed. You have to realise that the parents of that generation grew up before a youth culture really existed. There was so much conservatism to challenge - in music, hair, clothes, drugs. Previously music was to soothe, not to excite. It was following after a style of singers called "crooners". No wonder there was a need to rebel. Today, that setup doesn't exist.
Bill Ward is (in my opinion) one of the most underrated rock drummers. Sabbath's rhythm section (Bill and Geezer on bass), really drive their songs along.
I saw a "top 100 drummers" article not too long ago, and Bill Ward was down in about 40th place or something! I couldn't believe it. I'd easily place him in the top ten.
Ironically, Bill and Geezer are also the most under rated funk rhythm section of the era ... seriously some P-funk level funk grooves to early Black Sabbath. I think even Bootsy would agree.
Imo best of "rock" (in commas because it is post-rock I'm talking here) drummers is Dave Turncrantz from Russian Circles. I'd line up him with Dave Grohl.
Ozzy is one of the rare people that is easier to understand with the singing voice even before Parkinson's disease(which whild he admitted he has it only this january, he has had since 2003)
This band changed music forever. All the metal bands that you love owe thier existance to this band. The birth of metal is BLACK SABBATH!!! Ozzie's voice is just phenominal.
Ozzie sounds very different here than from recordings only a few years later. I think he sounds much better in this early performance. I was a little kid when this came out but in the late 1970's my brothers and their friends were big fans. I was into different genres of music, more of R&B, soul & funk but I appreciate all music and used to hear my brothers play rock and metal music. Now I actually like listening to a lot of older classic rock, some metal and I realized I had some subliminal learning of the artists & music just from my brothers' influence. Love all types of music. Great stuff.🙂
alice cooper was first 1967. everything was flower power free love drugs and off to never never land. alice said they need a captain hook!!! sabbath created the heavy metal guitar sound.
Blue Cheer is historically considered the first 'true' heavy metal band, and their cover of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is often seen as the first 'metal' single released.
I dunno... Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum came out in 1968, and that was as heavy as anything Sabbath did then. Listen to 'Doctor Please' off that album. Same thing for Baby Grandmothers, their 1968 eponymous album was heavy as shit. Listen to 'Somebody Keeps Calling My Name'. Yeah, Black Sabbath were there at the beginning too, but it's unfair to other good early metal bands from that time to say they were the first.
@@terrycunningham8118 that interesting. I checked that out based on your suggestion. As a kid born in the 60’s but really started to listen to the radio in the 70s, I never heard them at that time. Did you hear them at the time or did you discover them later, looking back?
@@jameslam1759 I was around then (born in the '50s). I lived in England until late '68, my older cousin lived in London and he was big into a lot of that music, so when I would visit him he would introduce me to new bands, Baby Grandmothers among them. When I got to the states there was some small airplay for Blue Cheer's 'Summertime Blues' and I bought their album on the strength of that. I've some of stuff as it happened over the years, but I was aware of some of those proto-metal bands.
Blue Cheer is historically considered the first 'true' heavy metal band, and their cover of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is often seen as the first 'metal' single released.
Black Sabbath gave new meaning to heavy back then. This is the origin of metal, and the idea that "all that metal shit is satanic." It scared parents and little kids alike. As a young child in the early '70s, listening to stuff ranging from Merl Haggard to Doo Wop to the more poppy Beatles stuff, when my uncle put headphones on me and played me this, it dang near gave me PTSD. Lol. By the later 70s I loved Sabbath.
I find the song "After Forever" on their Master Of Reality album to be something unlikely to have been written by a satanist. Usually where I've pointed people who try to accuse Black Sabbath of it. That album, at least, strikes me as more brutal, in-your-face, Christianity, actually. "Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say If they knew you believe in God above? They should realize before they criticize That God is the only way to love" - After Forever "You think you're innocent you've nothing to fear You don't know me you say, but isn't it clear? You turn to me in all your worldly greed and pride But will you turn to me when it's your turn to die, yeah" - Lord Of This World
Blue Cheer is historically considered the first 'true' heavy metal band, and their cover of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is often seen as the first 'metal' single released.
@@corneliusantonius3108 If you wanna go that route then there were psychedelic rock bands before Blue Cheer that used a bit of that heavy sound that can be considered heavy metal. But none of these bands including Blue Cheer were full on metal. The fact of the matter is that Sabbath is the first real true heavy metal band because not only were they heavy but they had the dark lyrics and image and stage presence that other bands didn't have at the time. I would say it fully started with their second album Paranoid because the first album still had alot of blues influence and most of those songs were written when they were called Earth.
@@deadliestassassin3092 I'm not buying that. I you listen to Vincebus Eruptum you get songs, like 'Doctor Please' that are full-on metal and not just heavy blues. They use distortion and overdrive for it's own sake, there's heavy use of power drumming with little finesse, you get early samples of drum/rhythm guitar shred, and there are songs are written outside of blues 8 or 12 bar structure. I'm willing to say that Sabbath might be the first to put together a fully realized metal album, but they didn't birth the genre.
This song has been used in a lot of movies, tv shows, video games, etc. Sabbath helped to lay the ground work for the harder, and faster playing metal bands that would develop in the late 70's, early 80's. Most of their songs are about drugs, war, mental issues, the occult. You don't have to like them, but to understand the history of metal, and where it came from, Black Sabbath are at the top.
Sabbath is arguably the godfathers of heavy Metal. This is off of their second album. If you want to hear a song that really shows their musicianship try Warning off of their debut album Black Sabbath.
@@neillenet291 I didn't know for a long time either, but it becomes kind of obvious when you figure out that "I was warned about you, baby" makes a lot more sense than "I was born without you, baby" and also fits the title.
@@roberttaylor5997 yeah I always got that lyric wrong as well. And I've been the lead singer for a couple of Black Sabbath tribute bands, LOL. Back in the day you had to listen to the song over and over again and try to pick out the lyrics, this was before you could go online and print them.
I'll be 52 at the end of this year, this song came out when I was literally a baby, and I've probably played this song on guitar or drums in nearly every band I've played in over the past 30 years. Some tunes are simply classics.
@@BrickNewton it's kinda fast but it's basically all standard pentatonic rock licks, I'm sure if you check it out there's someone on RU-vid showing how it's played, if you just take it one phrase at a time and slowly add it together, and take your time at it you should be able to get there, RU-vid also has a function where you can change the playback speed, a really useful feature for learning to play tunes at slower speeds until you can get them under your fingers, and then you can try playing faster than the normal tempo so that normal speed feels easy.
Black Sabbath are arguably the Band that invented Heavy Metal. This song was a filler and was written in 5 minutes but went in to become one of the greats songs with one of the most recognisable riffs in metal. Tony Iommi is a legendary riff writer and songwriter. Geezer on Bass is a legend on bass and wrote a lot of Sabbath’s songs. Bill Ward was a crazy drummer. Ozzy is quite polarising. Some Sabbath fans love him while others hate him and prefer Dio instead.
they were the 1st what i consider to be heavy metal band but i wouldn't say they invented it they built on what Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer did and pushed the genre forward
Blue Cheer is historically considered the first 'true' heavy metal band, and their cover of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is often seen as the first 'metal' single released.
Lex has a wonderful imagination of putting herself in a different era and feeling the energy of it (when Brad said he could only imagine hip-hop in a club I shook my head). Paranoid was before my musical awareness, but it must have been amazing hearing played somewhere.
Such an important song (and group) for many reasons. The detuned rawness, the originators of metal, the iconic voice, the talent, the mental health message of the song, and the trouble they got into with one particular line in the song. They are a great rabbit hole of bluesy heavy talent. Very Earthy. Wicca Druid influences. And of course early Ozzy. If you like harmonica's go deep with a song called The Wizard.
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT!! BLACK SABBATH ARE THE GOD'S OF METAL!!! I grew up with my dad a ozzy fanatic.. and now I'm not far from a sabbath fanatic now. Lol
No it's a actual not about clinical depression the song is actually about the paranoia from taking and coming down from drugs in particular weed, Butler wrote the song based on how he used to feel when smoking weed
I get what Lex says about how different this must have sounded to people listening to this on the radio after hearing Patsy Kline, Sinatra & the rest? This song was one of the first Heavy Metal/Rock tracks following Deep Purples vibe? It must have really stood out on its own as an entirely new Genre of Rock?
This was so far ahead of it's time in 1970 and although Sabbath pretty much created a whole genre in metal, this song was also a huge influence on 70s UK punk. Punks who weren't really into metal all loved this song. That chugging guitar style and the sheer energy was irresistible.
The band is considered to be the founding of heavy metal, But if you hear the vocals you will see they are visionaries! They are talking about how history repeats itself!
Check out Crazy Train by Ozzy as a solo artist. The Paranoid (Live 1981) version with guitarist Randy Rhodes is the best version. It says it's "live" but its as good as a studio version and is the version they put on the greatest hits album.
Geezer Butler was originally a guitarist who switched to bass; he became arguably one of the greatest bassist ever. Ozzy Osborne on vocals. Toni Iommi on guitar and Bill Ward on drums. Check out their 1970 live video from Paris called War Pigs. Ozzy is lit in that video and Bill Ward is an Animal on the drums.
Many musicians and fans attribute Black Sabbath as the original "Heavy Metal" band. Brad you are a lyric kind of guy and Sabbath just for that is worth listening to. Don't let the band name mislead you as when you do listen to the lyrics you will find out the are not dark at all... Their songs are warnings of evil. warnings of drug use and political calls to action which still hold value to this day. I highly suggest you listen to "After Forever" by them next, it may shock you. Also, for the love of God if you react to War Pigs DO NOT USE THE FAN MADE VIDEO.
Agreed. I hate when reactors watch those fan-made videos and think they have anything to do with the original artist. And they always detract from the listening to of the song and focus the attention to the visuals instead.
Sabbath was the original metal band. They started the galloping sound that is used in every single metal song nowadays and every single Metallica song.
This is the birth of heavy metal, an iconic riff. A lot of other music of this era was still singing about peace and love, Black Sabbath came out talking about the dark side. This track was on their 2nd album released only 6 months after their debut album, it was an afterthought, they needed another 3 minutes to fill the album, it was released as a single and reached No 4 in the pop charts. They formed the band in Birmingham, UK, the same industrial city that Led Zeppelin's (singer) Robert Plant and (Drummer) John Bonham came from. Black Sabbath got their name and style after seeing how folks flocked to see horror films, and felt if they could scare people with music they'd love that too. If you know of the TV show' The Osbornes', then you might recognise the very young Ozzy Osbourne here on lead vocals. The lead guitarist , Tony Iommi, after resigning to go professional with music, on his final day working at a metal foundry he had an industrial accident, chopping off the ends of two of his fingers. However it didn't stop him for long. After discovering Django Reinhardt's work, who become world famous as a jazz guitarist despite also loosing two fingers in an accident, Tony was inspired and determined to find a way around his own injuries. He used his ingenuity and experimented with constructing two leather finger tips and developed a way to still be able to play his guitar.
The entire genre of metal can trace itself to some combination of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Sabbath and Purple in particular share a lot of lineage; listen to some Rainbow sometime.
Metal has earlier roots in individual songs, like Parchment Farm by Blue Cheese and some songs by MC5. The horror theme was introduced by Sabbath, which gave metal it's own world, instead of just heavier versions of regular songs. Zeppelin was the most experimental, Purple was sort of a mix between the two. Blackmore played in the Deep Purple Mk2 line up, he left to start Rainbow with the then unknown Dio, who in turn left for Sabbath after talking to Iommi, when he didn't agree with the direction Blackmore was taking Rainbow. Blackmore then quit Rainbow to join Sabbath for the '84 reunion, which he then quit to start a medieval themed performance duo with his wife, who was a backup singer for Purple. The lives of these guys are so wild!
Blue Cheer is historically considered the first 'true' heavy metal band, and their cover of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is often seen as the first 'metal' single released.
This is the studio version. This is the real deal SHXT! This is the birth of heavy-metal and death metal by some of the most iconic rockers of all time! If you didn’t have the paranoid album you didn’t have albums!
Interesting story I've heard about this song, that it was written more or less on the spot, in the studio, because they needed another three minutes or so to fill out the album. If true, rather amazing that it became the title cut, single release, and one of their more well known songs, to this day. And, yes, very original in its day. For one, Black Sabbath make up one of a quartet of bands I think of as the bands that set the template for hard rock that followed. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple with the "wall of sound" approach, Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep with mix of light and heavy. A very large part of the originality of their sound is Tony Iommi, the guitarist, and the fact that he cut off fingertips on one hand in an accident prior to the band. He has prosthetics on those fingers, and I believe he ended up retuning the guitar as well, resulting in the sound.
I am so glad you were able to show this particular video. This video is one of my favorites and is saved in my RU-vid playlist. This song ALWAYS makes me want to drive 100 mph !! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Paranoid is widely considered the first heavy metal song, was the their first single released and launched Black Sabbath along with Ozzy Osbourne to fame. Black Sabbath is the God Father of heavy metal and where it all began.
I don't think this would be considered the first heavy metal song since they had a whole album before this one. It wasn't their first single, though it was their first one to chart. You can argue that they were the first true metal band, but the groundwork had been laid by many other artists. Trash Theory did a good video on the origins of metal.
@@MadSlantedPowers that's why I said widely considered, as there's fun to be had arguing about who's really first, and it is their first single released in America.
OMG I was so hooked on the music of Black Sabbath back in the day and I was a little girl feeling the guitar and music back then I am 59 today and I still happy that I sold my soul for Rock and Roll then and now Lexy you get it Rock on 🤘
🤟🏼🎧🤘🏼HELL YEAH- Sabbath!! You need 🎃 Halloween play list with the first song “Black Sabbath” from their first album “Black Sabbath” … by who? Um, *BLACK SABBATH* 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Live version of this with Randy Rhoads on guitar is unreal and you'd think that Randy was playing lead, rhythm, and bass with his ability to add texture and "fullness" or "richness" to each song.
This was still that old format of showing off bands like on The Lawrence Welk Show. The hilarious part must have been the looks on people's faces seeing Sabbath for the first time!! 😬......😂
These people are the grandfathers of Heavy Metal. This was off their second album. Their music was very heavy in dark sound, and not over produced like todays music. When this album hit the streets. The clubs where raging with Disco. Black Sabbath got very little air play on the radio, but the underground scene if was king.
Lex you got it. This is the original Heavey metal these guys invented it in the grimy streets of the industrial Black Country of Birmingham UK.. Lead guitarist Tomi iommoi had his fingers sliced off by a sheet metal guillotine. He rebuilt his finger tips and created his unique sound. His influence since then has been huge.
As others (Von Bass) have said - this is the birth of heavy metal. Black Sabbath created the genre. This is off their 2nd album - so i hope some day you explore their first album - self titled "Black Sabbath."
This music is more popular today than it ever was when it was first released. To Lex'[s comment about hearing this music everywhere, I grew up near Chicago, and for the entire decade of the seventies, across three rock stations I listened to, I never heard a Black Sabbath song played. Sabbath was cult popular with a large fan base, but that fan base what not the fan base that advertisers were targeting. Paranoid is a great song. It's simply constructed and wasn't overproduced in the studio, like many songs are today. It's short run time should have made it ideal for radio, but metal wasn't popular then. If you're looking for another Black Sabbath song, I suggest "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". You've seen life through distorted eyes You know you had to learn The execution of your mind You really had to turn The race is run the book is read The end begins to show The truth is out, the lies are old But you don't want to know SBS has two great riffs in it Who could ask for more. Check it out.
"Paranoid" is a song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1970 off the band's second studio album Paranoid (1970). It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song "The Wizard". It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[1]
On Black Sabbath Guitarist Tony Iommi's last day of work as a metal worker, he cut the tips off two fingers on his fingering right hand. He had to put rubber caps on his fingers so he could play the rest of his career.Also, Tony had a brief stint with Jethro Tull before he finally hooked up with Sabbath. For proof, watch The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, Tull does the tune Song For Jeffrery, and there is Tony, with his hat on, playing along. He was in Sabbath a week or two later.
Toni Iomi after loosing his fingers was given a jazz record by 1930's Belgium Django Rienhardt as he played gypsy jazz after loosing his fingers and having to learn the guitar again, it was given to him to keep his spirits up and show anything is possible. Jimmy Hendrix loved Django also. Who btw was a lightning fast guitar player on an acoustic jazz guitar. I will see you in my dreams has a fast and intricate guitar piece that to this day is sublime.
Black Sabbath and zepplin really pioneered heavy metal. There may not be a more under rated voice than Ozzy. Geezer and Tony are really the driving force of the band. Lots of great stuff from these guys
Yess! Love me some black sabbath, Next react to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by them :) Other suggestions by Black Sabbath, NIB, Hand of Doom, Black Sabbath & Fairies Wear Boots
Ozzy was fired after the Never Say Die tour. Sabbath brought in former Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio and had 2 more amazing albums before Dio left to pursue an equally amazing solo career.
This was the Last song played for the Album - it was written very quickly because the producer wanted one more song - a filler song but ended up one of their most known songs -This is the album studio version
