This song was written by the bassist Gezzer Butler and it’s about floating in space with the one that you love. Also Pantera did a great cover of this song.
This was recorded in 1970 on Black Sabbath's 2nd album 'Paranoid'... Tony Iommi wrote the music inspired by 60's psychedelic music and Ozzy sang it w/ some effects in the studio. It wasn't the usual Sabbath riff-heavy song and added some diversity to their music... Pantera covered 'Planet Caravan' in 1994 for the same reason... they wanted a departure from their usual shredding extreme metal 🤘🤘 Black Sabbath did have some departures from their usual brand of heavy rock... 'Warning' was a blues track... They had ballads like "She's gone" ...and "It's alright" (w/ drummer Bill Ward on lead vocals) ... and the keyboard-heavy "Who are you?" Ozzy had said that Sabbath had played w/ diverse artists like The Eagles back in the 70's, but that was not possible anymore... He wanted to make great music, but they seemed destined to be the "Godfathers of Heavy Metal music"...Sabbath tried to do different things musically in 1976 and 1978, but Ozzy hated that direction... the fans felt the same way and those records bombed commercially. It was the same way w/ Led Zeppelin - they didn't want to be known just for heavy rock; they experimented w/ folk and acoustic guitars and psychedelic influences as well. They wanted to be more diverse, and their audience was more open to their experimentation.
@Simon Jamal, your quote "Tony Iommi wrote the music inspired by 60's psychedelic music" Utter Rubbish. Tony's solo was pure jazz, inspired by Django Reinhardt. Here a Black Sabbath vid "BLACK SABBATH - The Story Behind "Planet Caravan" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zoQga3hMkyc.html
@@protarget1 "Utter rubbish"? Did u even watch the clip? Django Reinhardt inspired Tony Iommi to play guitar again after he lost his fingertips... Not the actual song 'Planet Caravan'! It's no secret that the members of Black Sabbath would get stoned smoking dope and listening to 60's psychedelic records by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream... That's where their psychedelic influences came from! Sheesh! What a maroon...🙄
I've never heard this song and it was a surprise not what expected all from Black Sabbath. See you guys are getting so educated now you're teaching us stuff. This sounded more like jazz than Rock. Jay, those " hand drums" are bongos. And Amber look like she was tripping big time. She would have fit right in with the 60s 😉!
Another track in which Sabbath go off piste, is Changes and is a lovely track , I think Rick Wakeman may have done keyboards on - as he was great friends with the band
Us? LOL Sure, they might be teaching us stuff about Black Sabbath because us don't tend to listen to Metal. Us are notoriously self-painted into their own little musical corner (of artists who "look like" them). But that'll be the day they teach ME anything about the mighty Sabbath.
@@Steve-cm2ys I'll put the diversity of my record collection, ( and yes I mean actual vinyl records) up against yours anytime. Because it includes blues, jazz, rock, metal, New Wave, Punk, soul, classical, and reggae. You've exposed your limited musical taste with this comment.
Last year on my 21st birthday my buddies n I lit up around a firepit and I remember hearing this song vividly as we stared into the fire, beautiful memory.
Black Sabbath recorded a song similar in vibe to Planet Caravan on their last LP. The song is called "Zeitgeist." Also, Pantera did a cover of this song. So cool, respecting the original, so smooth and Dime's solo, great as always.
Side 1 of the Paranoid album consists of 4 songs: War Pigs, Paranoid, Planet Caravan and Iron Man. You've now done 3 of the 4...all except War Pigs, which,IMO, is not only the best of the 4, but is also one of the best songs that Black Sabbath ever recorded.
I thought these guys had done War Pigs, not sure as been watching them since the start and forgotten a lot. Agreed though, don't do that awful fan made video just the music or a lyric video. After that, the live video of them performing and early version of it in 1970!
Been listening to this song for the last 40+ years, but the lady here nailed the "voice is somewhere behind the music" thing, never felt this before. Brava !
This song plus "Changes' proved they were so much more! and yes Sabbath, with LZ and Deep Purple gave the world the base for Rock and Metel from the late 60's til the present day.
I've always loved the jazz guitar solo/outro by Toni. He was known for his iconic, heavy, rock riffs, but It showes what a great and diverse player he really is.
The change up on side one of Paranoid, back in the day it was the pause between heavy rockers with its low key vibe that clams before the next strike. Sabbath always had a way with the softer songs, often a prelude like Sleeping Village is to Warning. Try those, you will never forget hearing them together. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
Your hair looks great Amber!!! Btw, I believe this is my first time for this song as well... I'm a minute in and blown away as are you two.. Hope we Love it!!! Thanks for making us 😁 today!!!! 😃😄😅😆😉
Yah.... this was EPIC maybe a new favorite song. I wonder can it replace my current face song that reactor ScribeCash did probably about 4 years ago; she turned me on to Chigago Transit Authority Poem 58. You guys turned me on to Black Sabbath Planet Caravan just now... Thank you two soooooo much 😁😁😁😁
Every Sabbath album has 1 song that sticks out like a sore thumb. IE -this, Laguna Sunrise or Changes. The whole album is this heavy demonic doom music, then all of a sudden, there's this light-hearted / light at the end of the tunnel happy song lol
Great reaction as usual guys. If you want a taste of where heavy music came from, you really need to go back to the beginning. The song Black Sabbath. I know you guys usually like to listen to studio versions of songs, but please watch the official video. It is a very young Black Sabbath playing the song live in a dark room in 1970. It really is amazing!
I remember being 14, taping up my cousins door, putting a wet towel on the bottom of the door, and hanging out the window smoking a joint listening to this over and over back in the early 90’s…. Lol
No way, I did something similar to this last year on my 19th birthday. Had a buddy of mine over and we passed around a joint and relaxed to this on repeat! Man, that was great.
It's nice to see you went into a deeper cut from Black Sabbath. I hope to see you experiment more with deeper cuts from bands like Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, and so many more I could list.
If you want a great combination of raw and rocking Black Sabbath with some mellow, spacey Black Sabbath, try "Symptom of the Universe." It's quite the trip.
@@LiberalsArePoop Yeah, you really can't go wrong with anything on that album. I like the energy on "Symptom of the Universe" on the first half and vibe of that acoustic second half. Sometimes the tempo on "The Writ" feels a bit plodding. But I respect where you're coming from.
Planet Caravan is one of my favorite Black Sabbath Songs. Cuz the song is a head trip in itself, which is what i love about it, It's one of the songs I can play on guitar myself as well. check Out The warning Next, That is one of their heavier metal sounding songs. With 2 to 3 solos in the song.
As someone has noted when we listened to the album, this was a cool break from the Classic riffs and heavy drums we know them for. Amber has left the building. Thanks for this smile.
Originally, black sabbath were a blues band, called Earth, and , although i am glad they took it another direction, i would like to think they would still have made this tune. It's so jazzy and mellow and trippy.
There's a cover of this song by a group called Rondellus. By way of background, Rondellus' main gig is playing medieval music in Latin on handmade replica instruments based on roughly 12th century period instruments (note that virtually no modern instrument would have existed at the time, except for maybe drums). They did an album of Black Sabbath songs called Sabbatum in which they translated many of your favorite Black Sabbath hits into Latin and played them on medieval instruments. I think this is the best one of the collection since it has a sort of medieval cadence and a touch of mysticism.
They did one to two songs per album to break up the hard stuff. Orchid, Changes, second half of Symptom of the Universe, Laguna Sunrise are all examples.
This is pure stoner music. Music that you light up and smoke a doob to after work or school and just chill to. The 70s were filled with music like this. Pink Floyd and Parliament-Funkadelic were the masters of it. This is why there were so many albums that had to be heard in their entirety; you’d put an album on the turntable, put the needle on, sit back, relax, and blaze up a spliff or grab your bong and light up, maybe even drop a tab of acid (LSD) or a couple Quaaludes (if your dealer had access to those) and just....LISTEN. And explore the universe of your mind and spirit. You should also listen to another famous Black Sabbath tune that extols the virtues of cannabis sativa: the iconic “Sweet Leaf,” which begins with a legendary recording of Ozzy coughing the standard stoner cough.
You can definitely hear the jazz influence in Sabbath's music - especially on this album (Paranoid)! Not only were they the "Pioneers of Metal", they also inadvertently created the subgenres: groove metal, doom metal, stoner metal, etc.!
One of my favourite Sabbath songs. Released on the Paranoid album in 1970. The first time i heard it i was blown away by how different it was from the rest of the album. Sabbath actually recorded many unusual and diverse sounding songs between 1970 and 1978. I would recommend listening to the songs: Solitude, She's gone, It's Alright, Air Dance and A Hard Road to hear Sabbath doing other styles of music besides rock and heavy metal.
The vocal effect on Ozzy's voice is a Leslie (rotating) speaker. The Leslie speaker is usually used with an Organ, but guitar players, singers and others have used the effect. Guitarist Tony Iommi played the flute, some of the 'sound effects' and some of the piano. Drummer Bill Ward played the Congas and Bassist Geezer Butler wrote the Lyrics. Tom Allom, a session player, is also credited as playing a piano. My favourite part of the song is Tony's guitar playing on the Outro. The solo reminded me of a George Benson Jazz solo. Geezer has said that the song is about "floating through the universe with one's lover". A video on "The Story behind Planet Caravan" is here -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zoQga3hMkyc.html Geezer shared that Tony liked the music of the Jazz Greats - Django Reinhardt and Joe Pass. Notably, Django, though he had lost two of his fingers on his fretting hand due to a fire, he persevered and continued to play guitar. Django inspired Tony to carry on after the accident the took the ends of a couple of his fingers. Thanks to the RSR family for recommending the this song and RSR for taking it up. 🎸😎
Black Sabbath originated in Birmingham, England, UK as did Heavy Metal. Your next song should be Symptom of the Universe by Sabbath, you'll see hard and soft in the same song, it's spectacular!
Excellent reaction. Thank you for reacting to this beautiful experience. Not sure if you’re familiar with Pantera but they did a cover of this song and did an excellent job🖤
Tony Iomi is one of the greatest blues/rock musicians ever, and positively invented heavy metal guitar. Let this song be your gateway. If the blues was unexpected to you, I IMPLORE YOU to check out the depths of their first album. Start with a track called A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning It will change your whole idea of who Sabbath and Ozzy are. Do it. You will know what I’m talking about very quickly.
Make sure you do the full version with “Wicked World” at the end. Do it!! Other family who know what he’s talking about, back us up here! Get their attention, they don’t want to miss this!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Just read in Wiki: "On 31 May 2020, "Planet Caravan" was used as wake-up music for the crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon before the craft's launch later that day. It was the first time music was used to wake astronauts since the last shuttle mission in July 2011. The craft was bound for the International Space Station." Imagine to wake up in space, zero gravitation and the first thing you hear is this song!
Love this song. I always like to follow it up with Clutch's "Spacegrass". Doesn't look like you've done Clutch yet, so I definitely recommend that tune.
I love it when black sabbath surprise, with ,a ballad or mellow instrumental. It you liked this, please check out, their other chill songs, laguna sunrise, fluff, solitude, the intro to sleeping village, to name a few.
Nice reaction guys! When Black Sabbath was big, I never listened to them. As I get older, I'm being drawn more and more to metal and I do consider this group as a pioneer in the genre.
Have listened to a lot of Sabbath in my day but don’t recall hearing this one. Didn’t necessarily dislike it, but not at all what I was expecting. Had a pretty chill relaxing vibe to it.
Tonni Iommi was a trained jazz guitarist before Black Sabbath. His solo in this song truly shows just how good he really is. A true Guitar God. One of my favorite guitar solo's ever.
Pantera did a cover of this song, and honestly, it's not to be missed, very musically similar, with better recording, and cleaner vocals. If you search 'Planet Caravan' it's the one that will most likely pop up. Homage to the OG, but I think they did it even better.
Pantera does a cover of this. Definitely should give that a listen too. They do it justice! Would be a nice comparison video. Just a thought. You guys are awesome!
FiREBALL -by DEEP PURPLE 🔥 1971 with it's high speed Metal sound Double Kick Drums and fast moving Organ keyboards and those electric 🎸 Guitar riffs that just are at another level these are the songs that inspired the speedier metal in the later years of the 80s
Another haunting song by Sabbath is Air Dance from the 1978 album Never Say Die. For the intense heavy Sabbath, check out 1983 Born Again album and 1989 Headless Cross album.
Just something to remember, nearly all rock 'n' roll from the 50s 60s and 70s (up until disco) was blues-based - however distantly. It may not have had the same overall feel; Poppy, upbeat, heavy - but by and large it shared the 4/4 time signature. So even the bands that expanded into new genres like Black Sabbath, they can trace the style back to blues.
Usually, I'm not that childish about anything- but I had figured that this would be an extremely METAL 'Black Sabbath' song. Your Channel is great, but I'm probably not going to finish this video. Your Channel has been around for at least a year, so there's gotta be some ROCK or METAL songs you've done reactions to that hopefully 'Sabbath has done. OZZY IS EPIC! LOL.
If Amber loves Ozzy Osbourne you should try Goodbye to Romance or Mama I'm Coming Home, The Road to Nowhere, or Revelation Mother Earth. There is some great mellow Ozzy out there. Tonight, Diary of a Madman, Shot in the Dark, S.A.T.O., and S.I.N., are some more upbeat but still fantastic Ozzman vocals.
She'll tell you the movement's if they are true or not, that's pure love right there. That's what anyone playing wishes they could do to a group of people.
