True, but something kind of funny I thought about when I saw your comment. I've got a son he's 30 now and he really is a phenomenal guitar player, anyhow several years back we were listening to something, if I recall right it was Let There Be Rock and he says something along the lines of "oh he's not that great, I can play all this stuff" so I said to him thats why he's great. When you've written something and 40 years later kids are bragging I can play that, get back to me. I can tell you he hadn't seen it from that angle and it humbled him when he did
Nick you're an amazing dude! Thanks for the bonus track my friend. I would have chosen "Hand of Doom" myself 😊! I feel a true Sabbath marathon coming on. Catch you on the flip!
Actually the 5hr loop would be great after taking a massive dose of DMT then leaving your body floating into space traveling to each planet stopping bye just to say hello to all the new civilizations then leaving the solar system tagging the black hole at the center of the milky way then switching it to high gear and exiting our galaxy passing the rubicon and floating away into the dark abyss !
Exactly, when my dad heard me listening to this in the early 70's he just thought I was so "lost" listening to stuff like this. I turned out just fine Dad!
Sometimes it is just nice to chill out to tracks like Planet Caravan between the harder rock. I was one of those lucky people who was around at the time it was released.
You are absolutely correct when you state what was it like when you first heard this. I heard this first in 1970 at a friend's house. I listen to a lot of music but I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard this. I've only felt that way a second time and that was when my brother who's 12 years younger than me listening to hair bands and buying a Metallica Kill Them All album gave it to me saying he didn't like it. First time I heard that was like the first time I heard sabbath.
Cool Thanks Nick. You really should try side one of the first Black Sabbath album. You will be blown away by the diversity of sound and riffs. Also the incredible sound of the bass drums and guitar. Just imagine hearing it for the first time in 1970
Nick, you picked two of the best songs on the album 😉 I think "Symptom of the Universe" from their Sabotage album (1975) will blow your mind. ( if you want a longer video, continue with "Megalomania", the next track )
If you want a real Sabbath sonic experience l would opt for 'Wheels of Confusion' from the VOL-4 album.The hoary riffing gives way to an exhilerating finale which reveals the quintessence of the band.Guitars set to stun.
@@roccodifranco7866 Possibly ?.All albums have a reverse 'curates egg' (if such a concept exists lol ?) element.I thought i didn't like the sabbs 'master of reality' album but going through a youtube playlist of M.O.R ,I encounter a song called 'solitude' that's as languid and beguiling as 'Planet Caravan' from a commenter here's recommendation.The Sabbs have such mystery and depth i find ?
I knew you'd be surprised by Planet Caravan. They have a few other good mellow ones like that too. Glad you also did Hand of Doom which phenomenal. Faries Wear Boots is also incredible as is Electric Funeral
Nick, this is the one Black Sabbath album I have, and I love it. I bought it sometime in the 70's as a kid. Every song on this album is awesome. Some of the best music you'll ever hear.
PC is a languid masterpiece that displays the bands awesome subtleties as with that glorious acoustic pattern iommi plays at the end of 'Symptom of the Universe'.Sublime on stilts.
the production is just so tight, especially considering the technical limitations of 1970. Would kill to see a studio based documentary on early Black Sabbath.
Sabbath's music often returns to themes about fate and future. Planet Caravan puts images of this 'lonely rock' drifting in space forever into my mind.
This whole album jams !! And yes , it was fun jammin to this back in the 70 s , drinking a few beers and doing a few bongs and jammin out to Black Sabbath !!!
The best solo tony ever did and the most perfect song the band ever made. The bouncy bass mixed with the sizzling style of the lead is the peak of the bands synchronicity and talent even though they would come close again later. Imo, Paranoid is not the best sabbath album but Fairies Wear Boots is their best song.
Hi Nick , thank you for reacting to Planet Caravan and then doing Hand of Doom. Another brilliant reaction. I bought this album as soon as it came out...I was 13 yrs old. It still sounds as good and fresh as the first time it blew me away. A big shout out to Greybeard for this request. A slower track you might like Nick is Orchid from Master of Reality. The whole album is superb...I'm sure you like it. . Some other friends have mentioned..A National Acrobat already from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.... superb... another track from this album ...Killing Yourself to Live. Looking forward to your next solo reaction Nick and the next with Lexi.. Hope you are both feeling good. Take care, stay safe. Peace and love from Liverpool UK 👍✌️🤘☮️
So in February 1971 we went to see Grand Funk Railroad at The Forum. We hadn't heard of the opening band but to our surprise it was Black Sabbath. The "Paranoid" album didn't come out in the U.S. until January 1971. It was kind of like Led Zeppelin, we heard the 2nd album before we heard the 1st album.
First time I heard "Hand of Doom" I was in complete freaking awe ! .. I just kept staring at the speakers. I was only twelve years old. By that time I was exposed to "Zeppelin" and "purple". Taught and learned by the Vietnam veterans that were coming home in my neighborhood.🇺🇸🇬🇧
Kinda of ironic that Deep Purple was included in that “Unholy Trinity” as Ian Gilliam sang Jesus’ songs in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” album…little known fact…🤷🏻♂️
Not a fan of later Metal at all but this young early Sabbath DEFINED the genre in the early 70's when I was 14, still impressionable and the style was all still new. So I loved this early psychedelic pre-Metal period when it was called HardRock. This era of Sabbath was their best IMO. Another beautiful & rare atypical mellow song of Sabbath is the instrumental called FLUFF. Later when the genre became mainstream I was done with what became Metal because Prog came along and it lacked that sophistication, complexity & originality of this earlier period. By 73, I wanted more than power cords as I matured.
Back in the seventies we called Black Sabbath's music "zwoaren doemp (schweren dampf)" in our local Flemish dialect, which translates as "heavy fumes". Can't remember who coined that phrase or where it came from. "Planet Caravan" raises questions until this very day about the how and especially why it made an appearance on a Black Sabbath album. I start sweating whenever I know it's coming up.
Somewhere there's a clip of the vocals from the master tape, with the effects turned off. It's just the vocal, from the board, with all the other tracks turned off. Ozzy's voice is amazing on this song without any treatments. I think it was from a Black Sabbath documentary, maybe one of those VH1 productions, possibly BBC. It's worth checking out.
Great Sabbath tunes! I believe Ozzy's voice was run through a Leslie vibrato cabinet to get that vocal sound in Planet Caravan. Usually you only hear organ through a Leslie; the studio guys were getting creative. Gives a very cool sound to the vocals.
Definitely very different for Sabbath. And i like your reference to the Doors. Cool comparison. This one is a dreamy classic that most stoners ( especially back then ) would have been fried to. I can practically smell the pot smoke.
DARK SOUNDING WITH POSITIVE MESSAGING, YOU COULDN'T BEAT THAT NICK! :) I SEE THAT YOU PICK UP ON PLAYING LICKS AND RIFFS QUICK, WOWWWW, THAT'S COOL! :)
Great request, definitely deep cuts. Can't remember when I listened to the whole album. So what's left to say about Black Sabbath ? Maybe some personal experiences: I can recall exactly, if Paranoid was the very first BS song I heard, because I remember the fantastic song The Wizard of the first album being #1 in the charts of my local station. I was so impressed by the harmonica and the riff of that song ... and I still am, for sure one of my favourite BS tracks. What I also remember is the dull sound of the first records and a complete new experience, when I bought a best of Cd with all the songs remastered and all of a sudden you could here Geezer and Bill so much clearer. There's always a discussion about original and remastered, but in the case of BS I like the remastered sound better. Finally in 2014 I saw Black Sabbath live for the first and last time, one less on my bucket list 🤘
bugger! now i have to go back to my teens and revisit this album (and remember how i was at work while my mate was in the pub drinking with the band before the concert in Liverpool ! I got there just after the band had left - nearly a good story!!!) keep up the good work
Lord of the riffs. Mr. Tony Iommi. James Hetfield of Metallica has said that nobody can come out with a new metal riff. Tony Iommi has already written them all. People just vary them a bit 😀
Loved this! My personal favorite is the song Black Sabbath. And one of the moments I will never forget is when I saw them live and they opened with that song. I had dreamed of the day I would experience that for years and for it to finally happen was like a dream come true. So if you do a deeper dive in your own as you sometimes do, I recommend the song Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath - and it's the first track of their first album - can't go wrong!! #nicknlexrequest
Hi Nick, been listening to Black Sabbath since my teens during the 70's and love Planet Caravan. So unexpected but then on Black Sabbath 4 there is a slow acoustic instrumental among the heavy rock tracks. Love Ozzy's vocals but even more than that, love the man ...the Legend. His personality and humour is wonderful. God really did break the mould when he made Ozzy. Dispite his illness he released another album "Ordinary Man" which many believe will be his Swansong and if true then what an incredible album to end on ! Byee Jim X
Nick, I love the way your doing these solo reactions. You reacted to Planet Caravan then say, I want to keep going & you do Hands of Doom, fantastic. The acoustic Randy Rhodes was called Dee of Blizzard of Oz.
Great reaction as always Nick, pity though that you didn't include Electric Funeral and Rat Salad with Hand of Doom. To me they sound best together, as integral to one another as Reflection, Disposition, and Triad by Tool. Fantastic album, the number one metal album of all time by a long shot. Never heard anyone cover Dee off of Blizzard of Oz before my friend, thanks for that. One of 1980's finest albums, and yes, Ozzy's first solo effort. Very well played for an off the cuff attempt. Peace!
Thanks man!! I was supposed to react to one song and did two. Sorry don't have the time to do the entire album. But I do want to react to it all maybe with Alexia. Yeah I have to relearn that little tune and for some reason yesterday night a string burst while I left the guitar alone. Might have been Randy saying practice that stuff before you play lol
@@NicknLex I'm sure RR would appreciate someone still bothering to cover his music after 42 years. I thought you were going to play a Iomi riff for a minute, pleasantly surprised to hear Dee instead. You guys are the best Nick, thanks for the response!
Amazing that the Metal Maniac Nuclear Nick isn’t familiar with this. 😁. Their first 4 albums are all awesome. I would think Alexia would even like Iron Man and Paranoid. 👍🏻
Planet Caravan is a song that I wouldn't have listened to until maybe 3 years ago, I bought Paranoid on vinyl a couple months ago and this is one of my favourite songs on the album. The first time I heard this song was the cover done by Pantera which isn't as soft or psychedelic.
IT WAS THEIR 2ND ALBUM, THE FOLLOW UP TO THEIR DEBUT NICK ( BLACK SABBATH ) :) SO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU JUST HEARD THE MAIN HITS : PARANOID, WAR PIGS, IRON MAN :) WOWWWW, I HAD NO IDEA OF THAT. JUST GREAT ORIGINAL HARD ROCK, ENJOYYYYY!
In 1971, at age 11, I had all 3 of Sabbaths albums, courtesy of my dad. Mum chipped in as well. Dad was a rocker. Mum was more into popular music. I got Master of reality first, because I had heard Paranoid. And quite frankly didn't shut up about it. I got MOR , then got Black Sabbath and Paranoid for Christmas. The funny thing is, over the years of buying Sabbath albums from saved pocket money, then from a wage, when I started working in 76 , I of course bought tons of other bands albums. My popular music mum, became a closet Sabbath fan. That's ok, she would say, could you play it again?
Rock music s power and music s in general is that some young low class lads from Birmingham wrote at their early 20s a song like Hand of Doom,a brilliant anti drug song which maybe saved some lives in all these decades.Yes it s nice to have entertaining songs about girls or fast cars but music is an art and have the power to even educate people.And Black Sabbath were brave enough to talk openly about stuff others avoided to talk for their reasons
I was a big music fan starting around the time The Beatles came out, when I was 3 1/2. I stuck with mainly AM radio/top 40-type music into the early 70's. When I heard the heavier stuff it didn't appeal to me. Then 'Black Dog' came out at the end of 71, when I was 11, and I thought it was the greatest song ever. Starting in the spring of 72 my sister started buying albums, Grand Funk Live, Humble Pie 'Rockin' The Fillmore', Alice Cooper 'Killer', Paranoid... All of the sudden I was loving the heavier stuff. At some point in 1973 I had abandoned AM radio and top 40 and wanted nothing but hard rock. 'Fairies Wear Boots' is another great one from Paranoid. Check out the whole album, but that would be a really good one to do here.
Just to give you a taster I was 16 years oild when I bought this and the Beatles were still a functioning band, but my Mum liked the Beatles, she didnt like Black Sabbath, nothing was off limits then you could like King Crimson Van der Graaf generator Black Sabbath Family Led Zep Pink Floyd..Sabbath were absolutely Panned By the music press though all their music was dismissed as simplistic, but the Kids just loved it and they were successful despite the media..I saw Van Halen in support of Sabbath on later tours...ho hum
One of the reasons Sabbath stands out still is because of Bill Ward's drumming. Drummers don't play like this anymore, at least not metal/hard rock drummers. Drumming today is so deferential to the guitars. Even if the drummer is playing the hell out of his drums today, it's doesn't drive the song the way back then. His style compares to Mitch Mitchell and Carmine Appice -- getting in there and really driving the song with a kind of funky style that borders on jazz. Heavy drummers for the past four decades or more don't have that kind of groove -- maybe by choice -- but it's a bad choice in my opinion.
Ginger Baker was a huge influence on the rock drummers you’ve mentioned. I also prefer jazz style drumming because it’s more interesting and adventurous. Ginger was in turn influenced by Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Tony Williams, Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones are some others that could be mentioned as influences in jazz.
Hey N! If time permitting, please consider checkin' out Alcatrazz - 'No Parole for Rock n' Roll' (album) ...at least starting within the first couple a tracks, particularly : 'Islands in the Sun' / 'Hiroshima mon Amour' [ featuring : Graham Bonnet (Rainbow) & Yngwie Malmsteen. - "Satisfaction Guaranteed!" ✌️
Hand of Doom is lyrically and musically more like their first album. Listen to it (Black Sabbath) and imagine folks back in the day hearing it for the first time. It's like.... What is This! In fact, the debut album title track is called Black Sabbath, and the lyrics begin "What is this that stands before me?" You MUST listen, Nick! It's where it all begins. th-cam.com/video/RmeRrVVQsdA/w-d-xo.html
Dang! "Planet Caravan" would be a Black Sabbath song I would think Lexi would have a good reaction to! Ha! I used to have a mix tape just with that song's vibe. I remember Planet Caravan was followed by King Crimson's "The Sheltering Sky", lol.
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Do yourself a favor and look up the Lyrics for Planet Caravan....It's freaking cool........AND I must say it's such a pleasure to see someone listening to a song for the first time and getting the same pleasure that you did after all these years. It just proves that great music is timeless....
Electric Funeral is a real haunting banger - first heard this album in 1972 - half a century later it is still rockin''
True, but something kind of funny I thought about when I saw your comment. I've got a son he's 30 now and he really is a phenomenal guitar player, anyhow several years back we were listening to something, if I recall right it was Let There Be Rock and he says something along the lines of "oh he's not that great, I can play all this stuff" so I said to him thats why he's great. When you've written something and 40 years later kids are bragging I can play that, get back to me. I can tell you he hadn't seen it from that angle and it humbled him when he did
Nick you're an amazing dude! Thanks for the bonus track my friend. I would have chosen "Hand of Doom" myself 😊! I feel a true Sabbath marathon coming on. Catch you on the flip!
Hey Always a pleasure my friend!!!
This is the reason - that Black Sabbath - is considered to be - the 'Kings of Metal.'
First time here really listening to Hand of Doom !
Great to hear you review those tracks Nick . . I saw Black Sabbath in 1971 on one of their early tours in England . . awesome live.
I remember listening to this on headphones in the seventies as an impressionable youth. Amazing album.
On youtube there's a 5 hour loop of Planet Caravan which is perfect for an evening of candlelight and drinks (or something).
we all know drinks isn’t what it’s made for😂
Actually the 5hr loop would be great after taking a massive dose of DMT then leaving your body floating into space traveling to each planet stopping bye just to say hello to all the new civilizations then leaving the solar system tagging the black hole at the center of the milky way then switching it to high gear and exiting our galaxy passing the rubicon and floating away into the dark abyss !
Master of Reality is probably their best album
@@PeterMasi_Son_Tile that's how I ended up here...
@@petrosmiskos Ah, welcome fellow wizard! 🪄🔮
Definitely listen to this whole album. Awesome start to finish.
My first album as a kid... Head Bangin came naturally!
Exactly, when my dad heard me listening to this in the early 70's he just thought I was so "lost" listening to stuff like this. I turned out just fine Dad!
Sometimes it is just nice to chill out to tracks like Planet Caravan between the harder rock.
I was one of those lucky people who was around at the time it was released.
I've Probably Only Listened To This Album About A Couple Million Times.
Any sabbath song is worth listening too its all good
National Acrobat from the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album is great
Going with the concepts in Hinduism was a surprise to me and the execution of the music is very pleasing.
I remember this (Planer Caravan) as the song before Iron Man on the album.... the quiet before the storm.
You are absolutely correct when you state what was it like when you first heard this. I heard this first in 1970 at a friend's house. I listen to a lot of music but I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard this. I've only felt that way a second time and that was when my brother who's 12 years younger than me listening to hair bands and buying a Metallica Kill Them All album gave it to me saying he didn't like it. First time I heard that was like the first time I heard sabbath.
Cool Thanks Nick. You really should try side one of the first Black Sabbath album. You will be blown away by the diversity of sound and riffs. Also the incredible sound of the bass drums and guitar. Just imagine hearing it for the first time in 1970
Nick, you picked two of the best songs on the album 😉
I think "Symptom of the Universe" from their Sabotage album (1975) will blow your mind. ( if you want a longer video, continue with "Megalomania", the next track )
If you want a real Sabbath sonic experience l would opt for 'Wheels of Confusion' from the VOL-4 album.The hoary riffing gives way to an exhilerating finale which reveals the quintessence of the band.Guitars set to stun.
He might as well react to the first six Sabbath albums lol
That song has so much meaning to it
Vol 4 is a so underrated album
@@roccodifranco7866 Possibly ?.All albums have a reverse 'curates egg' (if such a concept exists lol ?) element.I thought i didn't like the sabbs 'master of reality' album but going through a youtube playlist of M.O.R ,I encounter a song called 'solitude' that's as languid and beguiling as 'Planet Caravan' from a commenter here's recommendation.The Sabbs have such mystery and depth i find ?
I knew you'd be surprised by Planet Caravan. They have a few other good mellow ones like that too. Glad you also did Hand of Doom which phenomenal. Faries Wear Boots is also incredible as is Electric Funeral
Nick, this is the one Black Sabbath album I have, and I love it. I bought it sometime in the 70's as a kid. Every song on this album is awesome. Some of the best music you'll ever hear.
PC is a languid masterpiece that displays the bands awesome subtleties as with that glorious acoustic pattern iommi plays at the end of 'Symptom of the Universe'.Sublime on stilts.
the production is just so tight, especially considering the technical limitations of 1970. Would kill to see a studio based documentary on early Black Sabbath.
Lots of cocaïne for concentration.
Sabbath's music often returns to themes about fate and future. Planet Caravan puts images of this 'lonely rock' drifting in space forever into my mind.
This whole album jams !! And yes , it was fun jammin to this back in the 70 s , drinking a few beers and doing a few bongs and jammin out to Black Sabbath !!!
You're missing out on the best song on this album IMO in "Fairies Wear Boots"!
That's one bass line I've never forgotten although I was never in a band which played it.
Huh that’s my least favorite track of the album (not including Rat Salad)
The best solo tony ever did and the most perfect song the band ever made. The bouncy bass mixed with the sizzling style of the lead is the peak of the bands synchronicity and talent even though they would come close again later. Imo, Paranoid is not the best sabbath album but Fairies Wear Boots is their best song.
Probably my favorite as well. At the very least it's an essential listen.
Planet Caravan has always been my favorite Black Sabbath song. So different, so atmospheric.
Same.
Hi Nick , thank you for reacting to Planet Caravan and then doing Hand of Doom. Another brilliant reaction. I bought this album as soon as it came out...I was 13 yrs old. It still sounds as good and fresh as the first time it blew me away.
A big shout out to Greybeard for this request.
A slower track you might like Nick is Orchid from Master of Reality. The whole album is superb...I'm sure you like it. .
Some other friends have mentioned..A National Acrobat already from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.... superb... another track from this album ...Killing Yourself to Live.
Looking forward to your next solo reaction
Nick and the next with Lexi..
Hope you are both feeling good.
Take care, stay safe. Peace and love from Liverpool UK 👍✌️🤘☮️
This whole album jams !!! I would say check out WARNING !!
Glad you reacted to "Hand of Doom". Powerful Anti-drug message the grown-ups thought was pro drugs. Cheers Nick 🤘😎👍🍁
So in February 1971 we went to see Grand Funk Railroad at The Forum. We hadn't heard of the opening band but to our surprise it was Black Sabbath. The "Paranoid" album didn't come out in the U.S. until January 1971. It was kind of like Led Zeppelin, we heard the 2nd album before we heard the 1st album.
First time I heard "Hand of Doom" I was in complete freaking awe ! .. I just kept staring at the speakers. I was only twelve years old. By that time I was exposed to "Zeppelin" and "purple". Taught and learned by the Vietnam veterans that were coming home in my neighborhood.🇺🇸🇬🇧
I was also on that cusp of musical change. Too young for full blown 60's 'hippie' music and well established by the time the 80's hit.
Kinda of ironic that Deep Purple was included in that “Unholy Trinity” as Ian Gilliam sang Jesus’ songs in the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” album…little known fact…🤷🏻♂️
@@terrylandess6072 👍🎶
I didn't listen to this album until 1974, I was 14. Yes, it blew my mind.
Gotta do more of these. Do some reactions from the Master of Reality album or Sabotage.
Not a fan of later Metal at all but this young early Sabbath DEFINED the genre in the early 70's when I was 14, still impressionable and the style was all still new. So I loved this early psychedelic pre-Metal period when it was called HardRock. This era of Sabbath was their best IMO. Another beautiful & rare atypical mellow song of Sabbath is the instrumental called FLUFF. Later when the genre became mainstream I was done with what became Metal because Prog came along and it lacked that sophistication, complexity & originality of this earlier period. By 73, I wanted more than power cords as I matured.
One of the greatest bands of all Time and so versatile.Try the excellent Sanbath Bloody Sabbath album for proof
Ozzies voice is being fed thru a Leslie box or similar treatment on Plant Caravan.
Hand of Doom sounds like a soundtrack from old American detective tv shows with the jazz vibe ..
Back in the seventies we called Black Sabbath's music "zwoaren doemp (schweren dampf)" in our local Flemish dialect, which translates as "heavy fumes". Can't remember who coined that phrase or where it came from. "Planet Caravan" raises questions until this very day about the how and especially why it made an appearance on a Black Sabbath album. I start sweating whenever I know it's coming up.
Somewhere there's a clip of the vocals from the master tape, with the effects turned off. It's just the vocal, from the board, with all the other tracks turned off. Ozzy's voice is amazing on this song without any treatments. I think it was from a Black Sabbath documentary, maybe one of those VH1 productions, possibly BBC. It's worth checking out.
Great Sabbath tunes! I believe Ozzy's voice was run through a Leslie vibrato cabinet to get that vocal sound in Planet Caravan. Usually you only hear organ through a Leslie; the studio guys were getting creative. Gives a very cool sound to the vocals.
Definitely very different for Sabbath.
And i like your reference to the Doors. Cool comparison.
This one is a dreamy classic that most stoners ( especially back then ) would have been fried to. I can practically smell the pot smoke.
I have been a Black Sabbath fan since 1970 and saw them live in 1974 they where the music of my childhood
I hope you decide to start with the entire first album and go through all of them, they have so much amazing music
2 of their absolute best
DARK SOUNDING WITH POSITIVE MESSAGING, YOU COULDN'T BEAT THAT NICK! :) I SEE THAT YOU PICK UP ON PLAYING LICKS AND RIFFS QUICK, WOWWWW, THAT'S COOL! :)
Planet Caravan is a sublime peaceful song. A million miles away from their normal heavy metal sound.
Beautiful and tranquil. - C 2022
Every song on the first four albums are GOLD !!!!
Sabbath in full stoner mode 😀
did I hear "Dee" at the end? 😯
Great request, definitely deep cuts. Can't remember when I listened to the whole album. So what's left to say about Black Sabbath ? Maybe some personal experiences: I can recall exactly, if Paranoid was the very first BS song I heard, because I remember the fantastic song The Wizard of the first album being #1 in the charts of my local station. I was so impressed by the harmonica and the riff of that song ... and I still am, for sure one of my favourite BS tracks. What I also remember is the dull sound of the first records and a complete new experience, when I bought a best of Cd with all the songs remastered and all of a sudden you could here Geezer and Bill so much clearer. There's always a discussion about original and remastered, but in the case of BS I like the remastered sound better. Finally in 2014 I saw Black Sabbath live for the first and last time, one less on my bucket list 🤘
*correction: I CAN'T recall, which song I heard first 🤔
bugger! now i have to go back to my teens and revisit this album (and remember how i was at work while my mate was in the pub drinking with the band before the concert in Liverpool ! I got there just after the band had left - nearly a good story!!!) keep up the good work
Lord of the riffs. Mr. Tony Iommi. James Hetfield of Metallica has said that nobody can come out with a new metal riff. Tony Iommi has already written them all. People just vary them a bit 😀
Definitely recommend the song "A National Acrobat" from the Black Sabbath album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Loved this! My personal favorite is the song Black Sabbath. And one of the moments I will never forget is when I saw them live and they opened with that song. I had dreamed of the day I would experience that for years and for it to finally happen was like a dream come true. So if you do a deeper dive in your own as you sometimes do, I recommend the song Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath - and it's the first track of their first album - can't go wrong!! #nicknlexrequest
Hi Nick, been listening to Black Sabbath since my teens during the 70's and love Planet Caravan. So unexpected but then on Black Sabbath 4 there is a slow acoustic instrumental among the heavy rock tracks. Love Ozzy's vocals but even more than that, love the man ...the Legend. His personality and humour is wonderful. God really did break the mould when he made Ozzy. Dispite his illness he released another album "Ordinary Man" which many believe will be his Swansong and if true then what an incredible album to end on ! Byee Jim X
Patient # 9 bro
@@jimh2594 New single with Jeff Beck !!! Wonderful ! Thankyou........Edited ...Just seen ...New album on way ! Omg ! I'm in tears !
@@jimled50jl49 He just keeps on rockin
Wow I had totally forgotten about this track thanks for the request and the reaction. Geezer Butler plays a great groove and Tony is awesome. 🧨
Nick, I love the way your doing these solo reactions. You reacted to Planet Caravan then say, I want to keep going & you do Hands of Doom, fantastic.
The acoustic Randy Rhodes was called Dee of Blizzard of Oz.
Great reaction as always Nick, pity though that you didn't include Electric Funeral and Rat Salad with Hand of Doom. To me they sound best together, as integral to one another as Reflection, Disposition, and Triad by Tool. Fantastic album, the number one metal album of all time by a long shot. Never heard anyone cover Dee off of Blizzard of Oz before my friend, thanks for that. One of 1980's finest albums, and yes, Ozzy's first solo effort. Very well played for an off the cuff attempt. Peace!
I personally like listening to both Moby Dick and Rat Salad back to back. They are so similar in concept yet really show the differences in approach.
Thanks man!! I was supposed to react to one song and did two. Sorry don't have the time to do the entire album. But I do want to react to it all maybe with Alexia. Yeah I have to relearn that little tune and for some reason yesterday night a string burst while I left the guitar alone. Might have been Randy saying practice that stuff before you play lol
@@NicknLex I'm sure RR would appreciate someone still bothering to cover his music after 42 years. I thought you were going to play a Iomi riff for a minute, pleasantly surprised to hear Dee instead. You guys are the best Nick, thanks for the response!
Great job! This is more from the creative genius, Tony (not Tomy) Iommi. He invented genres like other people wrote songs.
The great Randy Rhoads at the end there, Dee. Sabbath rule, nice reaction!
Amazing that the Metal Maniac Nuclear Nick isn’t familiar with this. 😁. Their first 4 albums are all awesome. I would think Alexia would even like Iron Man and Paranoid. 👍🏻
haha those are the only tunes I did know Iron man and paranoid . Oh and war pigs!!
Planet Caravan is a song that I wouldn't have listened to until maybe 3 years ago, I bought Paranoid on vinyl a couple months ago and this is one of my favourite songs on the album. The first time I heard this song was the cover done by Pantera which isn't as soft or psychedelic.
Hand of doom..what an absolute banger!!..i suggest Under the Sun from volume 4 next..great reaction
If you're doing Sabbath a must is SNOW BLIND.
IT WAS THEIR 2ND ALBUM, THE FOLLOW UP TO THEIR DEBUT NICK ( BLACK SABBATH ) :) SO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU JUST HEARD THE MAIN HITS : PARANOID, WAR PIGS, IRON MAN :) WOWWWW, I HAD NO IDEA OF THAT. JUST GREAT ORIGINAL HARD ROCK, ENJOYYYYY!
In 1971, at age 11, I had all 3 of Sabbaths albums, courtesy of my dad. Mum chipped in as well. Dad was a rocker. Mum was more into popular music. I got Master of reality first, because I had heard Paranoid. And quite frankly didn't shut up about it. I got MOR , then got Black Sabbath and Paranoid for Christmas. The funny thing is, over the years of buying Sabbath albums from saved pocket money, then from a wage, when I started working in 76 , I of course bought tons of other bands albums. My popular music mum, became a closet Sabbath fan. That's ok, she would say, could you play it again?
Planet caravan was actually one of the first Black Sabbath songs Ozzy wrote the lyrics too, most songs were written by Geezer
Good Choice playing Hand of Doom.
Solitude from master of reality is similar
"A National Acrobat" - from 1973 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' album - By - Black Sabbath
I have heard Planet Caravan before but not this version. It must have been a cover of this. Cool song.
You most likely heard the Panters cover from their album Far Beyond Driven.
Rock music s power and music s in general is that some young low class lads from Birmingham wrote at their early 20s a song like Hand of Doom,a brilliant anti drug song which maybe saved some lives in all these decades.Yes it s nice to have entertaining songs about girls or fast cars but music is an art and have the power to even educate people.And Black Sabbath were brave enough to talk openly about stuff others avoided to talk for their reasons
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Aguante el chuky y la tóxica!!!!
Aguante el chuky y la tóxica!!!!
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Great song to smoke too.
Toni could set a mood like no other
I was a big music fan starting around the time The Beatles came out, when I was 3 1/2. I stuck with mainly AM radio/top 40-type music into the early 70's. When I heard the heavier stuff it didn't appeal to me. Then 'Black Dog' came out at the end of 71, when I was 11, and I thought it was the greatest song ever. Starting in the spring of 72 my sister started buying albums, Grand Funk Live, Humble Pie 'Rockin' The Fillmore', Alice Cooper 'Killer', Paranoid... All of the sudden I was loving the heavier stuff. At some point in 1973 I had abandoned AM radio and top 40 and wanted nothing but hard rock. 'Fairies Wear Boots' is another great one from Paranoid. Check out the whole album, but that would be a really good one to do here.
Good choice playing Ratt Salad.
Just to give you a taster I was 16 years oild when I bought this and the Beatles were still a functioning band, but my Mum liked the Beatles, she didnt like Black Sabbath, nothing was off limits then you could like King Crimson Van der Graaf generator Black Sabbath Family Led Zep Pink Floyd..Sabbath were absolutely Panned By the music press though all their music was dismissed as simplistic, but the Kids just loved it and they were successful despite the media..I saw Van Halen in support of Sabbath on later tours...ho hum
They would usually have one "soft" song on their albums, in fact. "Hand of Doom" is one of my faves along w/"Fairies Wear Boots)".
One of the reasons Sabbath stands out still is because of Bill Ward's drumming. Drummers don't play like this anymore, at least not metal/hard rock drummers. Drumming today is so deferential to the guitars. Even if the drummer is playing the hell out of his drums today, it's doesn't drive the song the way back then. His style compares to Mitch Mitchell and Carmine Appice -- getting in there and really driving the song with a kind of funky style that borders on jazz. Heavy drummers for the past four decades or more don't have that kind of groove -- maybe by choice -- but it's a bad choice in my opinion.
Ginger Baker was a huge influence on the rock drummers you’ve mentioned. I also prefer jazz style drumming because it’s more interesting and adventurous. Ginger was in turn influenced by Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Tony Williams, Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones are some others that could be mentioned as influences in jazz.
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At the time Black Sabbath was quallude music, lol
This was back when Cheech and Chong put that 'meme' into one of their albums: "I played Black Sabbath at 78 rpm and saw God!"
Vocals mic’ed through a Leslie speaker?
Cool! ... that's my comment :)
Try "Laguna Sunrise" you would never think it was Sabbath!
Hey N! If time permitting, please consider checkin' out Alcatrazz - 'No Parole for Rock n' Roll' (album) ...at least starting within the first couple a tracks, particularly : 'Islands in the Sun' / 'Hiroshima mon Amour' [ featuring : Graham Bonnet (Rainbow) & Yngwie Malmsteen. -
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Ozzy singing through a Leslie which was mostly used for organs
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More Deep Purple from In Rock album, Speed King, Hard Lovin' Man", all great early heavy metal songs
First and foremost Black Sabbath were story tellers. Listening to the lyrics and music was better than watching a movie.
Reminds me of the sound of a bong
Check out (panteras) version of caravan
Dee, Randy Rhoads 🎸
Hand of Doom is lyrically and musically more like their first album. Listen to it (Black Sabbath) and imagine folks back in the day hearing it for the first time. It's like.... What is This! In fact, the debut album title track is called Black Sabbath, and the lyrics begin "What is this that stands before me?" You MUST listen, Nick! It's where it all begins. th-cam.com/video/RmeRrVVQsdA/w-d-xo.html
And - that was - just a very small dose - of their music.
Dang! "Planet Caravan" would be a Black Sabbath song I would think Lexi would have a good reaction to! Ha! I used to have a mix tape just with that song's vibe. I remember Planet Caravan was followed by King Crimson's "The Sheltering Sky", lol.
P.S. That said: YOUR reaction to the song was great! :) (as usual!)
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Do yourself a favor and look up the Lyrics for Planet Caravan....It's freaking cool........AND I must say it's such a pleasure to see someone listening to a song for the first time and getting the same pleasure that you did after all these years. It just proves that great music is timeless....
I did right after!! Amazing!
Nick, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath with Rick Wakeman from Yes on keyboards and arrangement (no Credit given) IS their best IMHO
It is indeed way up there in their back catalogue...that and Vol 4 !
Fairies have boots a good one.all if them really..