@alxt52 totally agree. Surely there was more to uncover. There is some decent live concert footage from this era on TH-cam I highly recommend checking out as well.
What a great review guys-I enjoyed that immensely. These were my 4 favorites as well growing up, first hearing them when I moved to England for 3 years in 1971. I always felt the strongest connection to Sabbath-it was as if this band was making music that spoke to me directly. The next favorites were Purple, Heep, then Zep with the Who and Tull mixed in. As I have gotten older, I appreciate Master of Reality more and more, absolutely loving After Forever. As far as the album Paranoid, like Pete I never tire of War Pigs with Fairies Wear Boots a close second. I think their most creative album is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-such a brilliant collection. Vol4 and Sabotage are a notch below for me. Favorite choice for Heep is Demons and Wizards, Burn for Purple, and Physical Graffiti for Zep-which contains my 3 favorite songs by them- Kasimir, The Rover, and the truly brilliant 10 Years Gone. What a tremendous, influential decade of music. I feel blessed to have experienced it-thank you for the memories- cheers.
I have to agree. I can't go more than 30 seconds with Uriah Heep when they come on Spotify or Sirius XM. They were around in the early days of heavy metal, but that doesn't make them good or better than other bands of that era. I saw Uriah Heep live as an opening act in 1976 or 1977. Not impressed. Pete likes them, which is fine, but I'm not drinking that Kool-Aid.@@emdiar6588
Ranking all the albums is gonna be a project for me this week but for the band ranking I’d go 1. Led Zeppelin 2. Black Sabbath 3. Deep Purple 4. Uriah Heep
You can put them in a different order also...and nobody would laugh at you. Personally I think ( as with most of the bands) there was a period of a few years they were absolute masters! The four of them! '70-'75? My favorite SINGER of all the rockbands here is and will always be David Byron... maybe I 'm a bit of a nostalgic.
Master of Reality has unbelievable production for 1971. That guitar tone moves mountains and just asks to crank it up to eleven. Still 50+ years later.
Iommi downtuned his guitar (Geezer did the same with his bass) because the strings hurt his fingers. That resulted in the thundering, muddy sound of the album. Thank Tony’s severed fingertips for giving birth to stoner metal.
Dear Pete and Martin I believe this is the first time I've responded to this forum but have been following for some years now and like yourselves I am an ageing rocker from the same time period as yourselves as I near my 62nd birthday in October. I completely salute both of you to have sat down and ranked such a seemingly impossible task. I would find this task virtually impossible as there are many albums on this list which I could not rank one over the other. So at any given time the following albums are my top tier albums by these bands and their popularity can interchange with time and with the amount of time spent listening to them and also the amount of time which has elapsed since last listening to them. These include: Top tier albums: Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Paranoid, Led Zeppelin IV, Deep Purple In Rock, Led Zeppelin I, Black Sabbath, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin II, Master Of Reality, Demons And Wizards, Led Zeppelin III and Technical Ecstasy. The following are also classics in their own rights but not on the same level as those above and they include: Second tier albums: Machine Head, Never Say Die, Houses Of The Holy, Look At Yourself, The Magician's Birthday, Presence, Salisbury and Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble. The following are albums by these bands which are slightly under par but contain some gems and these include: Third tier albums: Fireball, In Through The Out Door and Sweet Freedom All the albums mentioned above I actually own and have been in my collection for the most part of 40 years. The following albums I have heard but do not own in any format but do contain the odd track which is good and these include: Fourth tier albums: Burn, Return To Fantasy and Wonderworld. (Burn possibly being a third tier album?) The remaining albums I do not own and having listened too some and skirted through others, I reserve the right to not really wanting to own them as they hold very little in the way of interest in their content. These include: Fifth tier albums: Who Do We Think We Are, High 'n' Mighty, Come Taste The Band, Stormbringer, Firefly, Innocent Victim and Fallen Angel. As mentioned above these placements can change with time but as there have been very little in major movements in the ranking tiers over the last 30 to 40 years I do not really envisage any big changes. But one can never tell. I welcome any comments.
I'll do a top 15 ( excluding the 2 Led Zep '69 albums - which would be in the top 10 for me, but they're not 70s albums, and Sabbath self titled is really a '69 album - but, it wasn't released until early 1970 ). 1. Black Sabbath S/T 2. Sabotage 3. Houses of the Holy 4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 5. In Rock 6. Paranoid 7. Presence 8. Master of Reality 9. Physical Graffiti 10. Salisbury 11. Machine Head 12. Technical Ecstasy 13. The Magician's Birthday 14. Look at Yourself 15. L.Z III
Yep I love that song and album,and I didn't like any of the other bands 1973 releases nearly as much.Sabbath Bloody Sabbath starts out with 2 great songs then plummets.I just never got Houses Of The Holy, that's not what I wanted in my Zep..
Those of you complaining, whining or fussing about Pete's choice of Uriah Heep clearly do not watch this channel a lot or do not know Pete that well or simply do not listen when he speaks: he's a huge Uriah Heep fan and considers them as part of the Big Four along with Zeppelin, Purple and Sabbath so of course he's going to include them here.
As my main comment, this seems a very "synthetic" comparison whether or not Uriah Heep (one of my favourite bands) is included. Why not remove Deep Purple and stick Gentle Giant in instead? Or even Abba, if the intention is to compare a subset of 1970's albums? What's the criteria for including or excluding certain bands in the first place?
Great ranking idea guys! I'm enjoying these. The interrelationships between these bands is fun. For me "Master of Reality" continues to creep up my favorites as well Pete.
Maybe 'cause it's a weak album. Airdance is a beautiful song, otherwise it's forgettable shit. Technical Ecstasy at least had a couple of good tracks. He asks if you like a certain album or albums, are you really a fan, and then he goes with NSD. I love SBS, Sabotage and Headless Cross. I love B.Ö.C's Club Ninja, Imaginos, Revölution by Night, their best albums. Love the 70's stuff too. Purple albums that I love the most are s/t, The Book of Taliesyn and Come Taste the Band. So, you're a fan even if your favorites are not the same old tiresome albums that everybody else likes.
@@henrihelander7331 Disagree.. NSD is a great friggin album.. Some high energy tunes on there with a positive vibe.. it's refreshing to hear since Black Sabbaths 70s discography is mostly dark and doomy material
@@toneman8478 Well, if you're after a positive take on Black Sabbath, wouldn't Technical Ecstasy do? There's at least some memorable songs. Actually it's a pretty ok album compared to NSD, I've listened to Never Say Die countless times, still can't remember anything else than the wonderful Airdance and the very mediocre title track. Maybe you should get into Monster Magnet. That's pretty groovy, Dopes to Infinity.
Presence , Sabbath bloody Sabbath, Demons and wizards and In Rock were the first albums I had from each band and remain to this day some of my favourite ones from each band.
Great point from Martin, that the Physical Graffiti songs simply ‘benefit’ from being on that album. That does register with me lol! Physical Graffiti was an INCREDIBLE work of art!
It was a good attempt by him to describe the magic of that record. You can’t really take those songs off even though some I think are among their weakest tracks.
This is my top ten starting with one 1.Uriah Heep-Look At Yourself 2.Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 3.Deep Purple-In Rock 4.Uriah Heep-Self Titled 5.Deep Purple-Who Do We Think We Are 6.Led Zeppelin-IV 7.Led Zeppelin-II 8.Black Sabbath-Master Of Reality 9.Black Sabbath-Sabatage 10.Deep Purple-Machine Head
"You Won't Change Me" is incredible. Some of the best singing Ozzy did. Also a key example of Ward and Ozzy - their chemistry. Brilliant set up by Ward going into the vocals. Brilliant.
I think this might very well be my favorite “Friday at the Funhouse” ever, and that is saying something, because you guys never disappoint. Would love to see more of these type of ranking shows because you get a ton of variety within the same genre!
I am Def with Martin on Technical Ecstasy. I dig this underrated offering. Discovered it in the late 70s. The older sister of my schoolmate played it one Saturday night when we were all sitting around taking Thai-stick and blonde hash. You Won't Change Me, Backstreet Kids and Dirty Women are some of my fav Sabbath songs. I even dig She's Gone, It's Alright and Rock N Roll Doctor, that alot of fans don't really like. The Ozzy-ere was absolutely essential to the birth of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, especially the Doom sub-genre.
Have you noticed the part of Dirty Women Ozzy ripped off for I Don't Know? I only recently noticed it myself. Maybe it was Bob Daisley's idea, but if you're going to rip off someone rip off yourself. 😂
Great video guys, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you! I agree with a lot Martin told about Black Sabbath. "Never Say Die" and "Physical Graffity" also were growing for me over the years, perhaps because you're able to find something on them what appears as you never heard it before, as these are simply the least played Sabbath records over time... But I wouldn't order them over the superb "Sabotage", "SBS", "Vol. 4" and "MOR". And cheers to Pete for listing "Master Of Reality" as his favourite Sabbath album! Great choice! Love and peace.
Kudos on your rankings gentlemen. Impossible for me to rank all of these, but here's how I rank the bands: 4. Heep (they have some great albums, but they have more that I don't like than I do like) 3. Purple (love Mark II, like other lineups to varying degrees) 2. Sabbath (mainly the Ozzy and Dio eras for me) 1. Zeppelin (I've always been more of a Zeppelin guy over the other four, great as they all are. I like the range of material.)
Pete & Martin - LOVED 😍 🥰 this show! Thankyou! Heres an idea for a follow up - the thrash 'big 4' 1980-1990 - or maybe 81-91 so Rust in Peace gets in there...
Cool show (as always, I might add :-)) I won't attempt to rank them, but I think my top 6 would be the first 6 Sabbath albums... and Technical Ecstasy might be 7... And I like most of the albums. But I just love Sabbath so much more than the others.
Or the Innocent Victim cover. lol As a comic book/horror fan too, I'd say it's cool just goofy fun. As for Sabbath, nothing wrong with bands trying something a little different and experimenting there instead of just being heavy for the sake of it, spice it up a bit.
@@drewrose374 / between the 9. Albums I listened to all week of. Badfinger. I did have a list. It was pretty damn close to. Pete’s. More than martins lol. I just didn’t put in the comments. 👍💯
Cool show...will get to it soon. I was around 13-14 when I bought these - So, my top LPs by these bands are a no-brainer- LED ZEP IV MACHINE HEAD DEMONS AND WIZARDS PARANOID
I have never listened to Uriah Heep that I know of (born 93), so I would put Taste up there with LP, DP and BS. But I'm definitely listening to Heep now!
Great show Pete,thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t complain with your top 10 but Martin’s comments on some of my beloved tracks from these bands had me shaking my head. Never Before is a superb cut. Oh well,opinions eh?
I've been hoping for this show for quite a while, and it certainly did not disappoint. A huge list to sift through, a few surprising choices ('Salisbury'), but a great focus on these four foundational rock/metal bands.
1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 2. Who Do We Think We are 3. Paranoid 4. Burn 5. Black Sabbath 6. Led Zeppelin IV 7. Vol. 4 8. Master Of Reality 9. Look At Yourself 10. In Rock 11. Demons And Wizard 12. Stormbringer 13. Come Taste The Band 14. Machine Head 15. The Magician´s Birthday 16. Sabotage 17. Fireball 18. Sweet Freedom 19. Salisbury 20. ...Very `eavy ... Very `umble 21. Precense 22. Led Zeppelin lll 23. Wonderworld 24. Never Say Die The rest I have not heard enough to rank...
Great show as always guys. What Pete states rings true with me. Sabbath resonates deeply within me. It was the defining band for me. It was the band that shaped my future listening path. I'm roughly a year older than Pete and when I first heard Black Sabbath in 1978 it wasn't the current Never Say Die album. It was the Paranoid album. I also care not to hear the title track ever again. It was literally the filler track on that album. Go figure. Never Say Die has grown on me and I appreciate it more today. Deep Purple has always been a constant to me. Zeppelin and Uriah Heep have always been constants to me. They're considered the Big 4 of that era for a reason. The defining Heep song for me was Magician's Birthday. Zeppelin has always been Black Dog. Purple has always been the title track of Burn. The Whitesnake updated version of Burn is killer. The one they made a video to with the chick unleashing fire. Sabbath went from Iron Man to War Pigs to Megalomania for me. Raw energy for hatred of their management unleashed this fury. It's too bad it wasn't a concert staple. Same with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Another must listen.
01. Black Sabbath 02. In Rock 03. Houses Of The Holy 04. Sabotage 05. Led Zeppelin 06. Led Zeppelin II 07. Master Of Reality 08. Physical Graffiti 09. Led Zeppelin IV 10. Black Sabbath Vol. 4 11. Fireball 12. Paranoid 13. Machine Head 14. Look At Yourself 15. Led Zeppelin III 16. Burn 17. Demons And Wizards 18. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 19. Very Eavy...Very Umble 20. Who Do We Think We Are? 21. Salisbury 22. Stormbringer 23. The Magician's Birthday 24. Sweet Freedom 25. Wonderworld 26. Presence 27. Never Say Die! 28. Come Taste The Band 29. Firefly 30. In Through The Out Door 31. Technical Ecstasy 32. Return To Fantasy 33. High And Mighty 34. Innocent Victim 35. Fallen Angel This list is a work in progress, I may change my mind. Also it seems that from this list Led Zeppelin is beating Black Sabbath however I do rank Sabbath slightly higher than Zeppelin. Had Heaven and Hell and The Mob Rules been included on this list Sabbath would have easily defeated Zeppelin
While not my favourite Sabbath album, I love Never Say Die. I think its for its punky esthetic that I hear even in the first albums by bands like Cheap Trick or even Maiden. All great rock for me dating back to the 50's has that underlying raw 'off the cuff' feel. If a band can make me feel their songs were cut after the first few takes, were not too laboured or premeditated(and otherwise tapped into their muse) Im sold
Top and bottom 7... 1. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 2. Led Zeppelin - IV 3. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality 4. Black Sabbath - Sabotage 5. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 6. Deep Purple - In Rock 7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 29. Deep Purple - Fireball 30. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door 31. Uriah Heep - High And Mighty 32. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy 33. Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band 34. Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are 35. Led Zeppelin - Presence
As a result of this great exercise guys I picked up two from Black Sabbath I had not heard before! I am now a huge fan of Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! Thank you both! I have everything else mentioned lol! The funny thing is I don’t really consider myself a doom or Black Sabbath head, but, as they say lol, if the head fits wear it! Good music IS always good music! I DO have to agree with Pete’s placement of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-ever since hearing at 16 this has been a special one for me! Looking for Today indeed, the Beatles influence obvious to me! I’m sometimes amazed at the decent taste I had as a child lol! Spiral Architect is incredible!
My Favs: : 1. Houses of the Holy 2. Physical Graffiti 3. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 4. Demons And Wizards 5. LZ IV 6. Vol IV 7. Sabotage 8. The Magician's Birthday 9. In Rock 10. Master of Reality
Definitely agree on the mid-to late 70s Heep albums. Recently did a marathon of their entire 70s discography for the first time and it was kind of tough. Would love to have a “best of” from that period.
Can't understand the discussion about Heep. They definitely belong to the Big4. Maybe not commercially, but they were highly influential and their early albums were very important for the evolution of hard rock/metal.
I am intrigued by Martin's perception of some albums as being "old'. Does that pertain to only popular music? I mean, the language game could also be expanded to classical, such as Beethoven, Bach, and of course, Mozart. Symbol systems are divergent, of course, and language is constantly growing, even in music.
I think he means it sounds very much of it’s time. Like for example Foghat sounds very 70’s bluesy boogie rock but a band like Can, despite also being from the 70’s, sounds like they could be a current band.
What a great discussion. I like the majority of these albums and I will say the latter Heep albums are definitely the weakest, but even then we’ll get a “Free and Easy.” Impossible to rank all 35, I’ll just say my favorite from each band and wonderful job, gentleman. Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Deep Purple - Fireball Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom
Without possible discussion it is indeed the big four of this era 1 Machine head 2 Demons and Wizards 3 VOL 4 4 Led Zeppelin II 5 In rock 6 Magicians's birthday 7 Physical graffiti 8 Fireball 9 Burn 10 Led Zeppelin IV 11 Very eavy...12 Sabotage 13 Stormbringer 14 House of holy 15 Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Great job, guys. This really wasn't that "tough" of an assignment, more of a logistical challenge. I think most people have a similar ranking to you both, other than an eclectic outlier or someone with specific taste here & there. For instance, I think most people tend to lean towards the 2nd, 4th, and 6th of the Zeppelin albums. This assignment does, however, really help point me towards the best "Heep" albums of which I'm less familiar. Thanks for your help!!
Right before watching this podcast I watched a Contrarians episode and left a comment about the band Tank and when would Martin and Pete do an album ranking of them and what do I see but Martin wearing a Tank T-shirt on this show! What the Hell? I won't rank the albums of this show but what stood out the most to me was Martin's comment about Black Sabbath trying the hardest of all these bands. I never thought of that before but as soon as I heard that I thought,"of course!".That and the comments about Physical Graffiti,oh and I rank Never Say Die quite highly myself. Sorry,Pete.
Hard to rank, so I'll just give my top 5 for each band. Purple - Stormbringer, In Rock, Fireball, Burn and Machine Head. Zeppelin - III, Houses, Graffiti, II and IV. Sabbath - Master of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Paranoid, Sabotage and Technical Ecstasy. Heep - Look at Yourself, Birthday,
It’s funny how Popoff set up the first 2 Zeppelin albums being included in the last video you guys did together, then put them way too low for “sounding too old”. Lol. I’m just having fun ragging, love all these ranking vids, keep it up!
I´ll also look forward to next week´s episode, yet going through the inventory you said it would be less albums with the Purple family from 76-83 and you are correct... It´s 34! At least if you only count Mark II and Mark III, or are you not including Mark III, then the number would be quite lower. I´m actually amazed at how prolific these 8 guys were in that timeframe, Bolin died early and Hughes only contributed 2 albums which breaks it down to 6
How many times am i in line with Martin, and i'm well into the punk side of things as well as him----anyway my top 3. 1. Physical Graffiti 2. Sabotage 3. Machine Head.
So strange that it seems a lot of people including myself have an inner respect for Purple’s Who Do We Think We Are. A superb album in my opinion and great for me because Gillan sings so well and limits his screaming to a bare minimum. Thank you for that.
Sabbath and Purple are obviously for me rather towards the top... I guess I´m gonna positively surprise the Heep fans and trigger some Zep Fans. My band ranking would be 1 Black Sabbath 2 Uriah Heep 3 Deep Purple 4 Led Zeppelin. First three bands are easily in my top 3-15 bands of all genres, and I like Led Zeppelin and love 2-3 albums of theirs. 35 Never say die 34 In through the outdoor 33 Fallen Angel 32 Who do you think you are 31 Houses of the Holy 30 High and Mighty 29 Return to Fantasy 28 I 27 Innocent Victim 26 Technical Ecstasy 25 Wonderworld 24 IV 23 Prescence 22 Come taste the band 21 Firefly 20 Sabotage 19 II 18 III 17 The Magician´s birthday 16 Black Sabbath 15 Very eavy very umble 14 Stormbringer 13 Machine Head 12 Salisbury 11 Vol 4 10 Sweet Freedom 9 Burn 8 Fireball 7 Demons and Wizards 6 Paranoid 5 Master of Reality 4 Physical Grafitti 3 Look at yourself 2 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 1 In Rock
Awesome Show for me I had “Uriah Heep” “Demons and Wizards” which I just never listen to back in the 70s so therefore I never bought the rest of their catalog. I just probably didn’t care for the vocal sound. The band I would put over them that I used to listen to all the time from 69 to 73 was “Jethro Tull”. I consider them even though they turn more Prague later in the 70s one of the big four. in fact, in 1978. I saw “Jethro Tull” live, and “Uriah Heep” was the opener. at least on the West Coast “Jethro Tull” was just huge. They were selling out giant basketball areas. and Heep was just faded into the shadows.
1 Purple in Rock 2 Led Zeppelin IV 3 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 4 Master of Reality 5 Machine Head 6 Black Sabbath 7 Paranoid 8 Burn 9 Led Zeppelin II 10 Look at Yourself 11 Vol. 4 12 Sabotage 13 Houses of the Holy 14 Physical Graffiti 15 Fireball 16 Stormbringer 17 Led Zeppelin III 18 Demons and Wizards 19 Salisbury 20 Led Zeppelin 21 The Magician's Birthday 22 ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble 23 Presence 24 Who Do We Think We Are 25 Sweet Freedom 26 Wonderworld 27 Return to Fantasy 28 Come Taste the Band 29 Technical Ecstasy 30 In Through the Out Door 31 High and Mighty 32 Never Say Die! 33 Firefly 34 Innocent Victim 35 Fallen Angel
Unbelievable all these records came out in one decade
And these are just 4 bands. Priest, Nazareth, Budgie, Rainbow, Queen, Aerosmith, and more. 70s magic for sure.
The 70's are the best.
70s Is so good it makes me cry
Martin always says at least one crazy controversial thing like putting Salisbury so low. It's why I like him so much.
He was trolling the zeppelin fans here too I reckon.
You can have him.
Speaking of Sabbath, we’re finally getting the long overdue Tony Martin era box set on May 31!
Yeah 🤘! I’ve been looking forward to having every sabbath album on my phone.
Mr. Iommi just posted on FB and hour ago so it's now officially official. 🤘🏼
Yes just heard can't wait when date of preorder is available 💯💯🤘🤘
They just released the Headless Cross and Anno Mundi remasters on Spotify. Sound great!
@alxt52 totally agree. Surely there was more to uncover. There is some decent live concert footage from this era on TH-cam I highly recommend checking out as well.
What a great review guys-I enjoyed that immensely. These were my 4 favorites as well growing up, first hearing them when I moved to England for 3 years in 1971. I always felt the strongest connection to Sabbath-it was as if this band was making music that spoke to me directly. The next favorites were Purple, Heep, then Zep with the Who and Tull mixed in. As I have gotten older, I appreciate Master of Reality more and more, absolutely loving After Forever. As far as the album Paranoid, like Pete I never tire of War Pigs with Fairies Wear Boots a close second. I think their most creative album is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-such a brilliant collection. Vol4 and Sabotage are a notch below for me. Favorite choice for Heep is Demons and Wizards, Burn for Purple, and Physical Graffiti for Zep-which contains my 3 favorite songs by them- Kasimir, The Rover, and the truly brilliant 10 Years Gone. What a tremendous, influential decade of music. I feel blessed to have experienced it-thank you for the memories- cheers.
Martin on Never Say Die: "more about that in about two and a half hours" 😂😂
I'm glad that you have included Uriah Heep because they definitely belong to the Big Four of hard rock.
In the same way that Dandelion and Burdock or Ginger Beer belong with Coke, Pepsi and 7up in the Big Four of soft drink flavours? Sure.
I have to agree. I can't go more than 30 seconds with Uriah Heep when they come on Spotify or Sirius XM. They were around in the early days of heavy metal, but that doesn't make them good or better than other bands of that era. I saw Uriah Heep live as an opening act in 1976 or 1977. Not impressed. Pete likes them, which is fine, but I'm not drinking that Kool-Aid.@@emdiar6588
😊, Cuatro maravillas!! Deep Purple para mí, la más grande 💜💜💜💜
Ranking all the albums is gonna be a project for me this week but for the band ranking I’d go 1. Led Zeppelin 2. Black Sabbath 3. Deep Purple 4. Uriah Heep
As it should be . Spot on .
You can put them in a different order also...and nobody would laugh at you. Personally I think ( as with most of the bands) there was a period of a few years they were absolute masters! The four of them! '70-'75? My favorite SINGER of all the rockbands here is and will always be David Byron... maybe I 'm a bit of a nostalgic.
Master of Reality has unbelievable production for 1971. That guitar tone moves mountains and just asks to crank it up to eleven. Still 50+ years later.
That's one of my favourite Sabbath albums
Iommi downtuned his guitar (Geezer did the same with his bass) because the strings hurt his fingers. That resulted in the thundering, muddy sound of the album. Thank Tony’s severed fingertips for giving birth to stoner metal.
Another classic episode.
Already looking forward to “Hungry Days (Daze?)”.
Dear Pete and Martin I believe this is the first time I've responded to this forum but have been following for some years now and like yourselves I am an ageing rocker from the same time period as yourselves as I near my 62nd birthday in October. I completely salute both of you to have sat down and ranked such a seemingly impossible task. I would find this task virtually impossible as there are many albums on this list which I could not rank one over the other.
So at any given time the following albums are my top tier albums by these bands and their popularity can interchange with time and with the amount of time spent listening to them and also the amount of time which has elapsed since last listening to them. These include:
Top tier albums: Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Paranoid, Led Zeppelin IV, Deep Purple In Rock, Led Zeppelin I, Black Sabbath, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin II, Master Of Reality, Demons And Wizards, Led Zeppelin III and Technical Ecstasy.
The following are also classics in their own rights but not on the same level as those above and they include:
Second tier albums: Machine Head, Never Say Die, Houses Of The Holy, Look At Yourself, The Magician's Birthday, Presence, Salisbury and Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble.
The following are albums by these bands which are slightly under par but contain some gems and these include:
Third tier albums: Fireball, In Through The Out Door and Sweet Freedom
All the albums mentioned above I actually own and have been in my collection for the most part of 40 years. The following albums I have heard but do not own in any format but do contain the odd track which is good and these include:
Fourth tier albums: Burn, Return To Fantasy and Wonderworld. (Burn possibly being a third tier album?)
The remaining albums I do not own and having listened too some and skirted through others, I reserve the right to not really wanting to own them as they hold very little in the way of interest in their content. These include:
Fifth tier albums: Who Do We Think We Are, High 'n' Mighty, Come Taste The Band, Stormbringer, Firefly, Innocent Victim and Fallen Angel.
As mentioned above these placements can change with time but as there have been very little in major movements in the ranking tiers over the last 30 to 40 years I do not really envisage any big changes. But one can never tell. I welcome any comments.
"How hard were any of them trying" slayed me. So funny. What a great conversation. Absolutely love listening to Pete and Martin. Cheers!
Not only did you guys nail this. You had a PERFECT PACE/ it flowed tremendously. Totally enjoyed it. Thanks. Pete & Martin 👍💯
I'll do a top 15 ( excluding the 2 Led Zep '69 albums - which would be in the top 10 for me, but they're not 70s albums, and Sabbath self titled is really a '69 album - but, it wasn't released until early 1970 ).
1. Black Sabbath S/T
2. Sabotage
3. Houses of the Holy
4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. In Rock
6. Paranoid
7. Presence
8. Master of Reality
9. Physical Graffiti
10. Salisbury
11. Machine Head
12. Technical Ecstasy
13. The Magician's Birthday
14. Look at Yourself
15. L.Z III
Deep Purples Our Lady, I love that song! I can sit and listen to it a dozen times in a row.
Yep I love that song and album,and I didn't like any of the other bands 1973 releases
nearly as much.Sabbath Bloody Sabbath starts out with 2 great songs then plummets.I just never got Houses Of The Holy, that's not what I wanted in my Zep..
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Those of you complaining, whining or fussing about Pete's choice of Uriah Heep clearly do not watch this channel a lot or do not know Pete that well or simply do not listen when he speaks: he's a huge Uriah Heep fan and considers them as part of the Big Four along with Zeppelin, Purple and Sabbath so of course he's going to include them here.
Absolutely👍👍
Heep in that era kicked major ass...Thain was a beast!
When he left (passed), I was done.
Thain is one of my favorites as well!!!@@jazzpunk
I barely know their catalogue. But who has the nerve to question what he talks about on his own channel?
As my main comment, this seems a very "synthetic" comparison whether or not Uriah Heep (one of my favourite bands) is included. Why not remove Deep Purple and stick Gentle Giant in instead? Or even Abba, if the intention is to compare a subset of 1970's albums? What's the criteria for including or excluding certain bands in the first place?
This was very enjoyable. Great job on the ranking.
Great ranking idea guys! I'm enjoying these. The interrelationships between these bands is fun. For me "Master of Reality" continues to creep up my favorites as well Pete.
Thank you, Martin, for giving “Never Say Die” some love! I never understood the hate it usually gets…
Maybe 'cause it's a weak album. Airdance is a beautiful song, otherwise it's forgettable shit. Technical Ecstasy at least had a couple of good tracks. He asks if you like a certain album or albums, are you really a fan, and then he goes with NSD. I love SBS, Sabotage and Headless Cross. I love B.Ö.C's Club Ninja, Imaginos, Revölution by Night, their best albums. Love the 70's stuff too. Purple albums that I love the most are s/t, The Book of Taliesyn and Come Taste the Band. So, you're a fan even if your favorites are not the same old tiresome albums that everybody else likes.
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Disagree.. NSD is a great friggin album.. Some high energy tunes on there with a positive vibe.. it's refreshing to hear since Black Sabbaths 70s discography is mostly dark and doomy material
@@toneman8478 Well, if you're after a positive take on Black Sabbath, wouldn't Technical Ecstasy do? There's at least some memorable songs. Actually it's a pretty ok album compared to NSD, I've listened to Never Say Die countless times, still can't remember anything else than the wonderful Airdance and the very mediocre title track. Maybe you should get into Monster Magnet. That's pretty groovy, Dopes to Infinity.
Which is the greatest track on Never Say Die?
One thing I agree with Martin Popoff, Renegade is the best Thin Lizzy album.
The fact these guys have listened to every one of these albums is a feat in itself.
As probably millions of people have…it’s not that great of a feat.
I’ve listened to everyone of them as well.
I couldn't do it. I tried, I think the bottom is pretty easy, but like them I went with physical graffiti but after that, way to hard.
Not enough hours in life to get to Uriah Heep or even all the Deep Purple. Too much other good music to get to and things to do.
No, my life now is only listening 70s hard rock
Really love this episode! The whole concept is amazing and really pleasant to Watch ❤
Martin kills me ! Great show. Love that Pete's top ten included a variety of the bands but Martin was all about "SABBATH !!"
What an excellent video very entertaining very informative. Keep up the work
. Really enjoy your perspective on these bands
Loved this episode. 4 of my favorite bands growing.
Finally Martin says something that gets me cheering .... In Through The Outdoor!
Presence , Sabbath bloody Sabbath, Demons and wizards and In Rock were the first albums I had from each band and remain to this day some of my favourite ones from each band.
I agree with everything y’all say about Physical Graffiti, next week’s episode sounds really interesting…can’t wait! Thanks guys!
Great point from Martin, that the Physical Graffiti songs simply ‘benefit’ from being on that album. That does register with me lol! Physical Graffiti was an INCREDIBLE work of art!
Start to finish indeed ! No.1 album for me anyway.
Yes Paul I’m with you on this double record!!!
It was a good attempt by him to describe the magic of that record. You can’t really take those songs off even though some I think are among their weakest tracks.
This is my top ten starting with one
1.Uriah Heep-Look At Yourself
2.Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3.Deep Purple-In Rock
4.Uriah Heep-Self Titled
5.Deep Purple-Who Do We Think We Are
6.Led Zeppelin-IV
7.Led Zeppelin-II
8.Black Sabbath-Master Of Reality
9.Black Sabbath-Sabatage
10.Deep Purple-Machine Head
"You Won't Change Me" is incredible. Some of the best singing Ozzy did. Also a key example of Ward and Ozzy - their chemistry. Brilliant set up by Ward going into the vocals. Brilliant.
Hats off to you both, Pete and Martin. A very enjoyable hour.
I think this might very well be my favorite “Friday at the Funhouse” ever, and that is saying something, because you guys never disappoint. Would love to see more of these type of ranking shows because you get a ton of variety within the same genre!
Thank you Pete & Martin for another excellent show! 👍
For me the groups were arranged like this:
1. Deep Purple
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Black Sabbath
4. Uriah Heep
But I don’t rank albums because I’m biased.
Martin has an uncanny knack of slamming peoples favourite songs and albums.
I am Def with Martin on Technical Ecstasy. I dig this underrated offering. Discovered it in the late 70s. The older sister of my schoolmate played it one Saturday night when we were all sitting around taking Thai-stick and blonde hash. You Won't Change Me, Backstreet Kids and Dirty Women are some of my fav Sabbath songs. I even dig She's Gone, It's Alright and Rock N Roll Doctor, that alot of fans don't really like. The Ozzy-ere was absolutely essential to the birth of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, especially the Doom sub-genre.
Have you noticed the part of Dirty Women Ozzy ripped off for I Don't Know? I only recently noticed it myself. Maybe it was Bob Daisley's idea, but if you're going to rip off someone rip off yourself. 😂
Great video guys, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you!
I agree with a lot Martin told about Black Sabbath. "Never Say Die" and "Physical Graffity" also were growing for me over the years, perhaps because you're able to find something on them what appears as you never heard it before, as these are simply the least played Sabbath records over time...
But I wouldn't order them over the superb "Sabotage", "SBS", "Vol. 4" and "MOR". And cheers to Pete for listing "Master Of Reality" as his favourite Sabbath album! Great choice!
Love and peace.
Kudos on your rankings gentlemen. Impossible for me to rank all of these, but here's how I rank the bands:
4. Heep (they have some great albums, but they have more that I don't like than I do like)
3. Purple (love Mark II, like other lineups to varying degrees)
2. Sabbath (mainly the Ozzy and Dio eras for me)
1. Zeppelin (I've always been more of a Zeppelin guy over the other four, great as they all are. I like the range of material.)
Pete & Martin - LOVED 😍 🥰 this show! Thankyou! Heres an idea for a follow up - the thrash 'big 4' 1980-1990 - or maybe 81-91 so Rust in Peace gets in there...
Cool show (as always, I might add :-)) I won't attempt to rank them, but I think my top 6 would be the first 6 Sabbath albums... and Technical Ecstasy might be 7... And I like most of the albums. But I just love Sabbath so much more than the others.
Pete's face when Martin shows Never Say Die, hahaha
Or the Innocent Victim cover. lol As a comic book/horror fan too, I'd say it's cool just goofy fun. As for Sabbath, nothing wrong with bands trying something a little different and experimenting there instead of just being heavy for the sake of it, spice it up a bit.
I never understood the hate on Sabbath 's Never Say Die. I think it's a great album. The one I never really got into was Technical Ecstasy.
I do like Never Say Die too - side 1 is incredible. Side 2 for me just listless like they ran out of time.
@@davidrold9770both are great! Just compared to earlier records not AS great.
And in rock
What a TASK!! 👍💯
Where is your list Gary? Did you Do one?
@@drewrose374 / between the 9. Albums I listened to all week of. Badfinger. I did have a list. It was pretty damn close to. Pete’s. More than martins lol. I just didn’t put in the comments. 👍💯
Yeah so cool Gary!
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@@garyjoyce2160 I put mine up!
Cool show...will get to it soon. I was around 13-14 when I bought these - So, my top LPs by these bands are a no-brainer-
LED ZEP IV
MACHINE HEAD
DEMONS AND WIZARDS
PARANOID
I have never listened to Uriah Heep that I know of (born 93), so I would put Taste up there with LP, DP and BS.
But I'm definitely listening to Heep now!
This concept is fantastic! Keep 'em coming. 🤟
Great show Pete,thoroughly enjoyed it.
Can’t complain with your top 10 but Martin’s comments on some of my beloved tracks from these bands had me shaking my head.
Never Before is a superb cut.
Oh well,opinions eh?
I've been hoping for this show for quite a while, and it certainly did not disappoint. A huge list to sift through, a few surprising choices ('Salisbury'), but a great focus on these four foundational rock/metal bands.
Great show, as always, Guys. I just wanted to say that I’m currently reading Martin’s illustrated Hair Metal book. Love it. 😊
A truly herculean task. How on earth do a couple of old geezers find the energy for such an undertaking?!
Pete, the same thing happened to me with Masters of Reality, for years it was between Vol.4 & Sabotage but for the last couple of years it's changed.
1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Who Do We Think We are
3. Paranoid
4. Burn
5. Black Sabbath
6. Led Zeppelin IV
7. Vol. 4
8. Master Of Reality
9. Look At Yourself
10. In Rock
11. Demons And Wizard
12. Stormbringer
13. Come Taste The Band
14. Machine Head
15. The Magician´s Birthday
16. Sabotage
17. Fireball
18. Sweet Freedom
19. Salisbury
20. ...Very `eavy ... Very `umble
21. Precense
22. Led Zeppelin lll
23. Wonderworld
24. Never Say Die
The rest I have not heard enough to rank...
Great show as always guys. What Pete states rings true with me. Sabbath resonates deeply within me. It was the defining band for me. It was the band that shaped my future listening path. I'm roughly a year older than Pete and when I first heard Black Sabbath in 1978 it wasn't the current Never Say Die album. It was the Paranoid album. I also care not to hear the title track ever again. It was literally the filler track on that album. Go figure. Never Say Die has grown on me and I appreciate it more today. Deep Purple has always been a constant to me. Zeppelin and Uriah Heep have always been constants to me. They're considered the Big 4 of that era for a reason. The defining Heep song for me was Magician's Birthday. Zeppelin has always been Black Dog. Purple has always been the title track of Burn. The Whitesnake updated version of Burn is killer. The one they made a video to with the chick unleashing fire. Sabbath went from Iron Man to War Pigs to Megalomania for me. Raw energy for hatred of their management unleashed this fury. It's too bad it wasn't a concert staple. Same with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Another must listen.
29:00 It's falling Pete, it's FALLING, IT'S FALLING!
01. Black Sabbath
02. In Rock
03. Houses Of The Holy
04. Sabotage
05. Led Zeppelin
06. Led Zeppelin II
07. Master Of Reality
08. Physical Graffiti
09. Led Zeppelin IV
10. Black Sabbath Vol. 4
11. Fireball
12. Paranoid
13. Machine Head
14. Look At Yourself
15. Led Zeppelin III
16. Burn
17. Demons And Wizards
18. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
19. Very Eavy...Very Umble
20. Who Do We Think We Are?
21. Salisbury
22. Stormbringer
23. The Magician's Birthday
24. Sweet Freedom
25. Wonderworld
26. Presence
27. Never Say Die!
28. Come Taste The Band
29. Firefly
30. In Through The Out Door
31. Technical Ecstasy
32. Return To Fantasy
33. High And Mighty
34. Innocent Victim
35. Fallen Angel
This list is a work in progress, I may change my mind. Also it seems that from this list Led Zeppelin is beating Black Sabbath however I do rank Sabbath slightly higher than Zeppelin. Had Heaven and Hell and The Mob Rules been included on this list Sabbath would have easily defeated Zeppelin
I’ve not delved into Uriah Heep but have always wanted to. I will check out there catalog ASAP
While not my favourite Sabbath album, I love Never Say Die. I think its for its punky esthetic that I hear even in the first albums by bands like Cheap Trick or even Maiden. All great rock for me dating back to the 50's has that underlying raw 'off the cuff' feel. If a band can make me feel their songs were cut after the first few takes, were not too laboured or premeditated(and otherwise tapped into their muse) Im sold
Top and bottom 7...
1. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
4. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
5. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
6. Deep Purple - In Rock
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
29. Deep Purple - Fireball
30. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
31. Uriah Heep - High And Mighty
32. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
33. Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band
34. Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are
35. Led Zeppelin - Presence
As a result of this great exercise guys I picked up two from Black Sabbath I had not heard before! I am now a huge fan of Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! Thank you both! I have everything else mentioned lol! The funny thing is I don’t really consider myself a doom or Black Sabbath head, but, as they say lol, if the head fits wear it! Good music IS always good music! I DO have to agree with Pete’s placement of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-ever since hearing at 16 this has been a special one for me! Looking for Today indeed, the Beatles influence obvious to me! I’m sometimes amazed at the decent taste I had as a child lol! Spiral Architect is incredible!
Great stuff! This is "the Funhouse" at its best.
My Favs: :
1. Houses of the Holy
2. Physical Graffiti
3. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Demons And Wizards
5. LZ IV
6. Vol IV
7. Sabotage
8. The Magician's Birthday
9. In Rock
10. Master of Reality
Definitely agree on the mid-to late 70s Heep albums. Recently did a marathon of their entire 70s discography for the first time and it was kind of tough. Would love to have a “best of” from that period.
Can't understand the discussion about Heep. They definitely belong to the Big4. Maybe not commercially, but they were highly influential and their early albums were very important for the evolution of hard rock/metal.
Exactly..people are letting their personal biases or record sales cloud their understanding of the simple logic here in picking these 4 bands.
Nope, it's the holy Trinity, not the big four.
Wow What Legendary Bands
I am intrigued by Martin's perception of some albums as being "old'. Does that pertain to only popular music? I mean, the language game could also be expanded to classical, such as Beethoven, Bach, and of course, Mozart. Symbol systems are divergent, of course, and language is constantly growing, even in music.
Yeah I get not liking an album but it sounding "old" is kind of an odd way to phrase it , I am not quite sure what it refers to.
I think he means it sounds very much of it’s time. Like for example Foghat sounds very 70’s bluesy boogie rock but a band like Can, despite also being from the 70’s, sounds like they could be a current band.
i agree 100% with martin on production notes ie. cold and clanky for older records
What a great discussion. I like the majority of these albums and I will say the latter Heep albums are definitely the weakest, but even then we’ll get a “Free and Easy.” Impossible to rank all 35, I’ll just say my favorite from each band and wonderful job, gentleman.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Deep Purple - Fireball
Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom
Outstanding show, gentlemen
This gives me an Idea for a 60's version of this. Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer, The Who and Zeppelin/Deep Purple.
Spot on, almost the same taste with Pete 😁
Wow next week should be interesting!
Pete, just curious, which Live album did you get that features Wheels of Confusion? Thanx.
Cheers.
Dayton, OH July 1972
Favorite show on SOT !
I agree…Sabotage #1 out of all of these.
Without possible discussion it is indeed the big four of this era
1 Machine head 2 Demons and Wizards 3 VOL 4 4 Led Zeppelin II 5 In rock 6 Magicians's birthday 7 Physical graffiti 8 Fireball 9 Burn 10 Led Zeppelin IV 11 Very eavy...12 Sabotage 13 Stormbringer 14 House of holy 15 Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Great job, guys. This really wasn't that "tough" of an assignment, more of a logistical challenge. I think most people have a similar ranking to you both, other than an eclectic outlier or someone with specific taste here & there. For instance, I think most people tend to lean towards the 2nd, 4th, and 6th of the Zeppelin albums.
This assignment does, however, really help point me towards the best "Heep" albums of which I'm less familiar. Thanks for your help!!
When it comes to Heep don't pay attention to Martin's opinion on Salisbury! lol
Right before watching this podcast I watched a Contrarians episode and left a comment about the band Tank and when would Martin and Pete do an album ranking of them and what do I see but Martin wearing a Tank T-shirt on this show! What the Hell? I won't rank the albums of this show but what stood out the most to me was Martin's comment about Black Sabbath trying the hardest of all these bands. I never thought of that before but as soon as I heard that I thought,"of course!".That and the comments about Physical Graffiti,oh and I rank Never Say Die quite highly myself. Sorry,Pete.
Hard to rank, so I'll just give my top 5 for each band.
Purple - Stormbringer, In Rock, Fireball, Burn and Machine Head.
Zeppelin - III, Houses, Graffiti, II and IV.
Sabbath - Master of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Paranoid, Sabotage and Technical Ecstasy.
Heep - Look at Yourself, Birthday,
my favorite 3 bands of all time 🖤💜💙
@@erorufurakku6378 not at these bands level for me... good though
It’s funny how Popoff set up the first 2 Zeppelin albums being included in the last video you guys did together, then put them way too low for “sounding too old”. Lol. I’m just having fun ragging, love all these ranking vids, keep it up!
I´ll also look forward to next week´s episode, yet going through the inventory you said it would be less albums with the Purple family from 76-83 and you are correct... It´s 34! At least if you only count Mark II and Mark III, or are you not including Mark III, then the number would be quite lower. I´m actually amazed at how prolific these 8 guys were in that timeframe, Bolin died early and Hughes only contributed 2 albums which breaks it down to 6
Great show!
Really interesting selection and discussion. Now, if you had put Hawkwind in there it would have been even better ...
How many times am i in line with Martin, and i'm well into the punk side of things as well as him----anyway my top 3.
1. Physical Graffiti
2. Sabotage
3. Machine Head.
I agree 95% Pete and 15% Martin
So strange that it seems a lot of people including myself have an inner respect for Purple’s Who Do We Think We Are. A superb album in my opinion and great for me because Gillan sings so well and limits his screaming to a bare minimum. Thank you for that.
The high water mark for rock , Prog and electric jazz was the 70s IMHO.
Cool show! Hard to rank so many albums!
The bottom of the list shows Uriah Heep is one league below the other three giants.
Sabbath and Purple are obviously for me rather towards the top... I guess I´m gonna positively surprise the Heep fans and trigger some Zep Fans. My band ranking would be 1 Black Sabbath 2 Uriah Heep 3 Deep Purple 4 Led Zeppelin. First three bands are easily in my top 3-15 bands of all genres, and I like Led Zeppelin and love 2-3 albums of theirs.
35 Never say die
34 In through the outdoor
33 Fallen Angel
32 Who do you think you are
31 Houses of the Holy
30 High and Mighty
29 Return to Fantasy
28 I
27 Innocent Victim
26 Technical Ecstasy
25 Wonderworld
24 IV
23 Prescence
22 Come taste the band
21 Firefly
20 Sabotage
19 II
18 III
17 The Magician´s birthday
16 Black Sabbath
15 Very eavy very umble
14 Stormbringer
13 Machine Head
12 Salisbury
11 Vol 4
10 Sweet Freedom
9 Burn
8 Fireball
7 Demons and Wizards
6 Paranoid
5 Master of Reality
4 Physical Grafitti
3 Look at yourself
2 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1 In Rock
Awesome Show for me I had “Uriah Heep” “Demons and Wizards” which I just never listen to back in the 70s so therefore I never bought the rest of their catalog. I just probably didn’t care for the vocal sound. The band I would put over them that I used to listen to all the time from 69 to 73 was “Jethro Tull”. I consider them even though they turn more Prague later in the 70s one of the big four. in fact, in 1978. I saw “Jethro Tull” live, and “Uriah Heep” was the opener. at least on the West Coast “Jethro Tull” was just huge. They were selling out giant basketball areas. and Heep was just faded into the shadows.
Neither of them brought up "all moving parts stand still" when talking about tech ex. It's my fav song on the album.
Mine too.
Great 70’s ４ bands‼️.
Ranking in my opinion.
①paranoid
②technical ecstasy
③s bloody s
④zep Ⅳ
⑤maid in japan
You all should rank the 70’s albums of Boston, Journey, Foreigner, Styx and REO Speedwagon.
1 Purple in Rock
2 Led Zeppelin IV
3 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4 Master of Reality
5 Machine Head
6 Black Sabbath
7 Paranoid
8 Burn
9 Led Zeppelin II
10 Look at Yourself
11 Vol. 4
12 Sabotage
13 Houses of the Holy
14 Physical Graffiti
15 Fireball
16 Stormbringer
17 Led Zeppelin III
18 Demons and Wizards
19 Salisbury
20 Led Zeppelin
21 The Magician's Birthday
22 ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble
23 Presence
24 Who Do We Think We Are
25 Sweet Freedom
26 Wonderworld
27 Return to Fantasy
28 Come Taste the Band
29 Technical Ecstasy
30 In Through the Out Door
31 High and Mighty
32 Never Say Die!
33 Firefly
34 Innocent Victim
35 Fallen Angel
Looking forward to Hungry Days!
the guitar solo by blackmore in strange kind of woman sounds iconicly!
Martin, you sure are taking a bunch of notes. Perhaps a Sea of Tranquility Pete and Martin Book one day? Sign me up on the pre-order!!!
It was just keeping track of Pete's numbering.
Interesting to consider which of these bands you feel most at home with. For me it’s Deep Purple Mark II. But the one I admire most is Led Zeppelin.
HARD TASK but my favourite are maybe a lot of purple albums fireball burn and machine head but it's impossible task but great fun
Interesting exercise.
Do a Priest/Maiden/Motorhead one sometime.
Martin doing Martin with Never Say Die 😂
Sorry guys I like strange kind of woman. Love Jon lords keyboard work, Gillian’s vocals, paices drums and blackmores solo…..