Craziest part is that this album was actually recorded in 1969. The hippie movement was still alive and well at that time, and the Beatles were the biggest band in the world. This would have been so insane to hear..
I imagine this is why my parents bought me a little record player to listen in my bedroom with the door closed. Before then I listened in the living room on my parents Hi-Fi. Mom was not a big fan.
They have some great music, but there are many songs throughout the course of their reign that aren't so good, unlike Zeppelin where every song was worth a listen, at least to most people, but Sabbath had some terrible songs, that is in my opinion of course, although I'm up for some more from this album, and definitely from Paranoid, however I believe they already reacted to a couple of songs from that album
@@robinhines1 Agree. As for the album, it was a darker, heavier variant of the jazzy blues rock (such as Cream) that influenced them. Purple's In Rock is more Metal.
Considering how there was no indication that the album would be successful when it was released, it makes it even cooler that they chose this date. I assume they chose it ;)
Just imagine hearing this for the first time in 1970. After hearing something the Beatles. Literally chills down your spine. Before those Raindrops fell the world had never heard Metal
Steve Vai once told Ozzy that this album is out of tune. Ozzy responded with “Rock music is not supposed to sound perfect. If you want to hear perfect, go and watch a fucking symphony orchestra.”
I bought it in 1970. Hendrix was dead & The Beatles had finished. Been playing in groups for three years by then, but we weren't all "tiny boppers" then. Still a full 10 out of 10 for Ozzy & the gang then.
Black Sabbath, was named after a Butler song inspired by a Boris Karloff movie. They were the band Earth but they changed it to a movie of the time. This is where it started and everyone else would agree. Prove me wrong.
No genre was ever created so completely, so quickly. This is decades worth of musical of evolution. The sort of creativity you can only find down at the crossroads...
This is Hendrix, The Who, the Velvet Underground, The Beatles and MC5. Sabbath invented a new sound with those ingredients, it didn't come from nowhere.
This is where it all started !!! Heavy riffs inspired by grainy grimy Horror movies from Hammer, Amicus and American International !! The movie named " Black Sabbath " starred Boris Karloff and is pretty cool too.
Back in the day when this came out, there was a house here in Salem mass, that looks exactly like this album cover. Trippy when we listened to this album in the nearby lot.
Yeah, that sounds just right. There's a lot of English style houses all over that state. Rotting cemeteries too. This cover is so Hammer like" Blood on Satans Claw " " Witchfinder General" and "Captain Kronos" @@alldayadventures5418
So, I was around 12 or 13 and I went over to my friends house and we hung out. We turned the lights down low and listened to this album. Then I had to walk home, alone in the dark with this song ringing in my ears. Never been so scared in my life.
This song was terrifying. Even the guitar solo sounds panicked and scared. They were practicing across from a movie theater and were watching this long line of people going to see a horror film, and thought what if we made a horror film but with music instead of film. People love to get scared. They pretty much created a whole genre of music with this song.
Guitarist Tony Iommi accidentally chopped-off two fingertips from his fret-hand on his last day at work and had to play with self-made plastic prosthetics. But even with his plastic tips, he had to tune-down the strings on his guitar because playing with regular tension was too painful. That's how the low, heavy sound of Iommi's guitar came into existence.
I first heard this in 1977. Scare the living sh*t out of me at age 13. But I wanted MORE. This is THE foundation of the music I love. Black Sabbath ARE the kings of Heavy Metal.
I was 12 years old in 1970, when this album dropped. The day I bought it, I played it over and over, all day. Mind blown! I still believe it was the biggest influence of my life. Just a total masterpiece.
I bought the LP in '70 just by the title, and when I got home and played it I went back to the record shop and bought the other 4 they had in stock. I wore out 4 of the albums over time and saved the last one just to record onto a cassette (new technology, at the time), and wore out 3-4 cassettes till the music CD came out in the early 1980's. Also I found out Iommi played a Gibson SG, and went to the pawn shop and bought a used '67 SG, and played the hell out of that too !! I still have the guitar. I'm 75 years young. I saw Sabbath every time they came to South Florida (7-10 times) !! AWESOME !!
Osbourne and Butler wrote the lyrics for a song called "Black Sabbath", which was inspired by the work of horror and adventure-story writer Dennis Wheatley, along with a vision that Butler had of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed.
"Black Sabbath" was the name of a 1963 horror movie, which was three short tales in one movie. The inspiration for the lyrics of this song came from a real life experience that Geezer had after getting too deep into the occult: "According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone. Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience."
The first 4 Sabbath albums are the guidelines for every type of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. It’s always great to to hear the progression from S/T to Vol 4 and even Sabotage.
My Dad had fisher wall mounted speakers in the 70's. I Remember getting this album when it first came out , cranking it up and it blew a picture off the wall and broke a knick-knack that fell off a table. Vibrated the whole family room and I was Hooked!
This is the second album i bought with my own money. At 10 yrs old in 1970. I played it on my kids record player, my mom heard it and thought she had lost her little boy. For me, what a great time to grow up with great music.
The band were originally named Earth but, there was a horror film playing at their local cinema called Black Sabbath starring horror film stalwart Boris Karloff. It may have been bassist Geezer Butler who remarked how weird it was that people pay to be scared and a collective light bulb lit up in the bands mind that maybe we could play scary music. Butler also says he was woken one night by a black figure at the end of his bed, which was the inspiration for the song.
This is one of the best opening songs, *and* one of the best debut albums, of all time! As a fan of Black Sabbath for most of my life, it may still be my favorite Sabbath album! I *love* the production on this album. There is such a wide dynamic range, and yet, it still sounds "in your face," as if the band is in the room with you. I wonder if Funkadelic were influenced by this album? Their creepy, ominous "Maggot Brain" album came out a year later.
@@anthonyv6962 100%. Eddie Hazel (RIP) is one of the most unsung guitarists that *every* serious music fan should know about! He could play funk, soul, hard rock, psychedelic music, and more-- I even heard one Funkadelic song where his playing sounded like the Ramones, two years before the first Ramones album!
Brought this home when it came out, I was 14. Put it on my GE record player with swing out speakers "we were poor" cranked it up and fell in love with Black Sabbath. Mom said I needed to go to church more.😈🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✌️
I’ve heard Ozzy in interviews suggest that the bands style evolved out of a combination of music that they liked at the time , soul, blues and psychedelia. Ozzy was a Beatles and Motown fan while Tony Iommi was a fan of Eric Clapton and after he lost his finger tips he was introduced to gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt
Tony Iommi on the debut album: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland."
I was 8 yrs old when I first heard this album. I just started playing guitar about 6mos earlier. I went to my guitar teacher and said I have to learn this song. This is where I first learned of a drop E tuning and using thinner jazz strings to get that melodic sound, and tempo changing. By far one of the greatest debut albums in my opinion. Great great reaction suggestion listen to the entire album you will be blown away. Please keep up the great work.
Black Sabbath is one of my favorite bands of all time. You guys should definitely check out some of their songs from the album “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” My personal favorite album of theirs. Especially songs like Sabbra Cadabra, and Killing Yourself To Live. Such amazing tracks!
The most Black Sabbath track ever! Not just because of the title (though that doesn't hurt), but it's where it all started, and perfectly showcases what made them so unique. The great riffs, the vocals, those drums, the changeup in the middle, the creepy sound effects, etc. It's not necessarily my favorite song of theirs (though it's up there), but if I had to choose one track to define Black Sabbath, this would probably be it. All these many years later, and it still sounds absolutely amazing and UNIQUE. Many have tried, but nobody else sounds like this.
When I was a little kid my parents played Black Sabbath albums a lot, especially at night after I was put to bed. Hearing this particular song as a little kid laying in bed at night absolutely terrified me.
absolutely love your reaction....i was in shock when i first heard this, and had to have more, still my favorite all time band. beside the obvious genre created immediately you get to hear the talents of all 4 in the band...and it only got better from there!!!
My first album(still have it) and first concert. They Rule !!!! The influence for this....not music cause noting was close to this,it must have been life. They grew up in the working class poor part of England . WW 2 was still fresh in the minds of the adults and the children picked up on that....and they made this album. The greatest meatal/rock album ever !!!!
Haunting is an understatement, no way they ever played anything off this album in the 1970s on the radio, the industry and general society was freaked out when they heard the opening track and it was a couple decades before they really started getting the radio play they deserved. The critics were dead wrong, this album is one of the most important in Rock history, as it announced a great, new group had arrived and created a whole new genre of heavy Rock. I will never forget us buying it and playing it at my friend's house while his parents were out, his younger sister came in and screamed, 'Turn it Up!' and we all sat in amazement as the album played out, never having heard anything like it before. I can't wait to see your faces when you get to hear Iommi unleashed on Warning, one of the most powerful musical statements ever. Lastly, this album caused all kinds of friction between the older generation and all my friends who had issues playing it at home. About a month after first hearing it, we were in my friend's bedroom when his father burst into the room and screamed, 'what the Hell are you listening to?' Just as he did, the lyric 'Satan' came out of Ozzy's mouth and he freaked, grabbing the record off the turntable and breaking it over his knee, screaming you will all go to Hell listening to this music! He threw us out and my friend bought a replacement record and a cassette tape to hear it in his car, LOL! Great freaking album and we were fans for life. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
All the emotions we feel.. Has to come out in music too. What makes us listen to things at certain times. This is when I'm pissed, listen dance it out all good! Release what you feel a healthy way😂 Cheers all, Misic be the food of luv, play on.
This is going to be good, can't wait! I think I mentioned that the first time I saw these guys they were the opening act for Grand Funk Railroad. We didn't know who they were but 50+ years later I still love this music.
Black Sabbath still had many hard rock, psychedelic rock and blues influences, but Gustav Holst's Mars was a 20th-century classical piece that was a huge influence on this song, the very first metal song. Mars is part of the planets suit, a great piece. Classical/Baroque music have had a big influence on heavy metal since he beginning!
@FredPena-rd5cf seems Gustav Holst has been a massive influence on Pop/rock/metal. And of course, many film composers have straight up ripped him off, haha😂
Imagine a 3rd grader (me) sitting playing a board game with a friend and my older brother walks in and says he has a new song for me to hear and drops the needle on this..........scared the shit out of us! My friend went home but I loved it and been a fan ever since.
I think this song and album flipped out most parents, esp in 1970 ! However the kids loved it, cranked it up until shit blew up or broke…it was clear that with the breakup of the Beatles, the advent of the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Woodstock, etc., that music the kids liked had changed! Sabbath became a fixture on stereo systems thru the decade. Love the reaction! Wish you both had been there then..it was great! Cheers!😊
At the age of 17, Tony Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an industrial accident. He went home for lunch and got a call that Black Sabbath was going to be signed. Tony wasn't going to go back to work but his mother insisted he go back and at least finish the day. That afternoon was when the accident happened. Tony wears prosthetic fingertips because of the accident and it certainly seemed like a setback, but it actually helped him form his unique style and sound because of it. - From Wikipedia
"Black Sabbath" was apparently a horror film that inspired Tony Iommi, who noticed that people seemed to love to be scared whch influenced the bands sound .... is the story I recall hearing. Epic!
In a way this is like Led Zeps first album in that they still had a lot of blues in their songwriting and the recording has a really live , immediate, loose feeling to their playing. By the next LP " Paranoid" is when their classic and unique sound kicks into gear. Those 2 handed triplet flams that Bill Ward is playing all the way to the end are a BITCH by the way...
This song is about an experience bassist Geezer Butler had. This is his words about it. "I'd been raised a Catholic so I totally believed in the Devil. There was a weekly magazine called Man, Myth and Magic that I started reading which was all about Satan and stuff. That and books by Aleister Crowley and Dennis Wheatley, especially The Devil Rides Out ... I'd moved into this flat I'd painted black with inverted crosses everywhere. Ozzy gave me this 16th Century book about magic that he'd stolen from somewhere. I put it in the airing cupboard because I wasn't sure about it. Later that night I woke up and saw this black shadow at the end of the bed. It was a horrible presence that frightened the life out of me! I ran to the airing cupboard to throw the book out, but the book had disappeared. After that I gave up all that stuff. It scared me shitless."
Ozzy said that when they started, their practice space was across the street from a movie theater that played a lot of horror movies, and they got the idea to do horror music.
It is on now!....You will find a deep pocket in these first five Sabbath albums. Taken from a big jazz/funk influence of the 60s and 50's blues scales, they created a mini cosmos of sound via Geezer's{Bass) esoteric lyrics and the bands sick polyrhythms. They would change times and tempo like prog music of that era... But none had a nastier groove....
As usual great reaction guys. This album took 12 hours to record and was released of Friday the 13th in February 1970. Can you imagine what it must have been like to hear that back then for the first time. Most folks just sat there with there mouths wide open in utter amazement or they were terrified. As I suggested please continue with this and all Sabbath records track by track. 🤘
Imagine being a 14 yr old seeing them play this for the first time, those were concerts l'll never forget. I saw them many in concert, some of the best times of my life🤘🎶🥰
OHHH Ozzy, the prince of darkness, 72 still rockin it! No matter what os happening the legend comes on stage and turns into himself the ultimate performer!❤
The band was a blues band, before going in this far darker and heavier direction. The first album still carries a lot of those blues elements. To my ears half the songs are blues rock, and half of them are heavy metal. The band was in a transitionary period here. By their next album they had dropped the blues completely and were a full on heavy metal band. They recorded this whole album in a day, live on the floor with Ozzy in a booth, with only a few second takes, or overdubbed guitar parts.
And some young people wonder where Ozzy got his reputation as Prince of Darkness. 😂 I heard this album as a 13yo down in the basement with headphones on…1970-71. My brother left them when he went into Marines. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, War Pigs, Iron Man… such a cool introduction into early Heavy Metal!❤
53 years later, still one of the heaviest riffs ever written. pure fucking metal.
Imagine what the parents were thinking hearing this come out of their kids room in 1970.
#1 at the time was Close To You by The Carpenters.
Craziest part is that this album was actually recorded in 1969. The hippie movement was still alive and well at that time, and the Beatles were the biggest band in the world. This would have been so insane to hear..
I imagine this is why my parents bought me a little record player to listen in my bedroom with the door closed. Before then I listened in the living room on my parents Hi-Fi. Mom was not a big fan.
I know mine didn't like it
@@ALD56mine either...I was young....too young to be listening to this...but I loved hearing it.😂
The birth of Metal. I hope this means you are going to do their whole discography like you did with Zeppelin.
Now, that would be fantastic!
They have some great music, but there are many songs throughout the course of their reign that aren't so good, unlike Zeppelin where every song was worth a listen, at least to most people, but Sabbath had some terrible songs, that is in my opinion of course, although I'm up for some more from this album, and definitely from Paranoid, however I believe they already reacted to a couple of songs from that album
And with this track, the birth of doom metal.
@@robinhines1 Agree. As for the album, it was a darker, heavier variant of the jazzy blues rock (such as Cream) that influenced them. Purple's In Rock is more Metal.
@@Ledzepnut Sabbath has six perfect albums in a row.
One of the darkest riffs of all time. So mood inducing.
Toni iommi best and heaviest riffs in rock period
bill and geezer behind him....theres not much fucking finer
Just imagine, this dark album was released on Friday February 13th 1970!
Considering how there was no indication that the album would be successful when it was released, it makes it even cooler that they chose this date. I assume they chose it ;)
Just imagine hearing this for the first time in 1970. After hearing something the Beatles. Literally chills down your spine. Before those Raindrops fell the world had never heard Metal
The birth of heavy metal.
Black Sabbath scared the hell out of my parents. They thought I was going to turn evil at 14!
You told them you were born evil.
Black Sabbath is top 3 all time
Steve Vai once told Ozzy that this album is out of tune. Ozzy responded with “Rock music is not supposed to sound perfect. If you want to hear perfect, go and watch a fucking symphony orchestra.”
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Gotta love Ozzy!🤘
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Great response from Ozzy.
Must say I agree with Ozzy there.
who is steve vai...? i have to know him...? but everybody on earth know ozzy... so he did everything right...
One of the best Halloween playlist songs of all time.
I can imagine the faces of the people who dropped the needle on this track in 1970... Minds blown and freaked out. Dayum!
And parents gone mad!
I bought it in 1970. Hendrix was dead & The Beatles had finished. Been playing in groups for three years by then, but we weren't all "tiny boppers" then. Still a full 10 out of 10 for Ozzy & the gang then.
Black Sabbath, was named after a Butler song inspired by a Boris Karloff movie. They were the band Earth but they changed it to a movie of the time. This is where it started and everyone else would agree. Prove me wrong.
No genre was ever created so completely, so quickly. This is decades worth of musical of evolution.
The sort of creativity you can only find down at the crossroads...
That's classic
Or down at the chip shop.
This is Hendrix, The Who, the Velvet Underground, The Beatles and MC5. Sabbath invented a new sound with those ingredients, it didn't come from nowhere.
This is where it all started !!! Heavy riffs inspired by grainy grimy Horror movies from Hammer, Amicus and American International !! The movie named " Black Sabbath " starred Boris Karloff and is pretty cool too.
Back in the day when this came out, there was a house here in Salem mass, that looks exactly like this album cover. Trippy when we listened to this album in the nearby lot.
Yeah, that sounds just right. There's a lot of English style houses all over that state. Rotting cemeteries too. This cover is so Hammer like" Blood on Satans Claw " " Witchfinder General" and "Captain Kronos" @@alldayadventures5418
So, I was around 12 or 13 and I went over to my friends house and we hung out. We turned the lights down low and listened to this album. Then I had to walk home, alone in the dark with this song ringing in my ears. Never been so scared in my life.
😂😂😂
My parents had the record and I used to do the same thing and just freak myself out.
This song was terrifying. Even the guitar solo sounds panicked and scared. They were practicing across from a movie theater and were watching this long line of people going to see a horror film, and thought what if we made a horror film but with music instead of film. People love to get scared. They pretty much created a whole genre of music with this song.
I was 15, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This song changed music.
Guitarist Tony Iommi accidentally chopped-off two fingertips from his fret-hand on his last day at work and had to play with self-made plastic prosthetics. But even with his plastic tips, he had to tune-down the strings on his guitar because playing with regular tension was too painful. That's how the low, heavy sound of Iommi's guitar came into existence.
100% correct information
Some of the most awesomely wicked music ever made or that ever will be!
I first heard this in 1977. Scare the living sh*t out of me at age 13.
But I wanted MORE.
This is THE foundation of the music I love.
Black Sabbath ARE the kings of Heavy Metal.
I was 12 years old in 1970, when this album dropped. The day I bought it, I played it over and over, all day. Mind blown! I still believe it was the biggest influence of my life. Just a total masterpiece.
No heavy metal band has ever made a better album so I only listen to Black Sabbath. Still own the original album. 🙏🍁
I was a little kid when my brother, who was a teenager, brought this home from the record store. Our lives were changed forever.
My fave Sabbath song was always The Wizard from this same first album. Very powerful. Bonus is the harmonica.
I bought the LP in '70 just by the title, and when I got home and played it I went back to the record shop and bought the other 4 they had in stock. I wore out 4 of the albums over time and saved the last one just to record onto a cassette (new technology, at the time), and wore out 3-4 cassettes till the music CD came out in the early 1980's. Also I found out Iommi played a Gibson SG, and went to the pawn shop and bought a used '67 SG, and played the hell out of that too !! I still have the guitar. I'm 75 years young. I saw Sabbath every time they came to South Florida (7-10 times) !! AWESOME !!
Osbourne and Butler wrote the lyrics for a song called "Black Sabbath", which was inspired by the work of horror and adventure-story writer Dennis Wheatley, along with a vision that Butler had of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed.
"Black Sabbath" was the name of a 1963 horror movie, which was three short tales in one movie. The inspiration for the lyrics of this song came from a real life experience that Geezer had after getting too deep into the occult:
"According to the band, the song was inspired by an experience that Geezer Butler had in the days of Earth. Butler, obsessed with the occult at the time, painted his apartment matte black and placed several inverted crucifixes and pictures of Satan on the walls. Ozzy Osbourne gave Butler a black occult book, written in Latin and decorated with numerous pictures of Satan. Butler read the book and then placed it on a shelf beside his bed before going to sleep. When he woke up, he claims he saw a large black figure standing at the end of his bed, staring at him. The figure vanished and Butler ran to the shelf where he had placed the book earlier, but the book was gone. Butler related this story to Osbourne, who then wrote the lyrics to the song based on Butler's experience."
Good imfo .. thanks
The first 4 Sabbath albums are the guidelines for every type of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. It’s always great to to hear the progression from S/T to Vol 4 and even Sabotage.
The Grandfathers of Heavy Metal. Nobody has ever done it better.
I have that album on vinyl. Creepiest cover of all time. Every song kicks.
Thanks for your reaction.
My Dad had fisher wall mounted speakers in the 70's. I Remember getting this album when it first came out , cranking it up and it blew a picture off the wall and broke a knick-knack that fell off a table. Vibrated the whole family room and I was Hooked!
That's pretty legit.
_I_ called the police on you ~ they arrested _ME_ !
This is the second album i bought with my own money. At 10 yrs old in 1970. I played it on my kids record player, my mom heard it and thought she had lost her little boy. For me, what a great time to grow up with great music.
Radio stations wouldnt play them for this reason. But they got so popular they couldnt refuse.
TURN IT UP!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! 😊
This is the perfect Halloween song
The band were originally named Earth but, there was a horror film playing at their local cinema called Black Sabbath starring horror film stalwart Boris Karloff. It may have been bassist Geezer Butler who remarked how weird it was that people pay to be scared and a collective light bulb lit up in the bands mind that maybe we could play scary music. Butler also says he was woken one night by a black figure at the end of his bed, which was the inspiration for the song.
This song never fails to impress. The whole record really. This is Sabbath right out of the freakin gate! Unbelievable.
Bill Ward, the greatest drummer nobody ever talks about
This is one of the best opening songs, *and* one of the best debut albums, of all time! As a fan of Black Sabbath for most of my life, it may still be my favorite Sabbath album! I *love* the production on this album. There is such a wide dynamic range, and yet, it still sounds "in your face," as if the band is in the room with you. I wonder if Funkadelic were influenced by this album? Their creepy, ominous "Maggot Brain" album came out a year later.
I'm sure Funkadelic was aware of this album. Maybe not all of them but I have no doubt Eddie Hazel had listened to it.
@@anthonyv6962 100%. Eddie Hazel (RIP) is one of the most unsung guitarists that *every* serious music fan should know about! He could play funk, soul, hard rock, psychedelic music, and more-- I even heard one Funkadelic song where his playing sounded like the Ramones, two years before the first Ramones album!
i was just listening to eddie hazel and p funk!!!
@@barrywhite828 Right on! 🙂
Brought this home when it came out, I was 14. Put it on my GE record player with swing out speakers "we were poor" cranked it up and fell in love with Black Sabbath. Mom said I needed to go to church more.😈🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✌️
This is IT! OG Heavy Metal in its truest form.
I’ve heard Ozzy in interviews suggest that the bands style evolved out of a combination of music that they liked at the time , soul, blues and psychedelia. Ozzy was a Beatles and Motown fan while Tony Iommi was a fan of Eric Clapton and after he lost his finger tips he was introduced to gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt
What a great, heavy first album ! Love this band xx
Tony Iommi on the debut album: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland."
This band sent me on whole new direction as a kid. Absolutely ahead of their time. Lyrics music vibe. Legends
I was 8 yrs old when I first heard this album. I just started playing guitar about 6mos earlier. I went to my guitar teacher and said I have to learn this song. This is where I first learned of a drop E tuning and using thinner jazz strings to get that melodic sound, and tempo changing. By far one of the greatest debut albums in my opinion. Great great reaction suggestion listen to the entire album you will be blown away. Please keep up the great work.
Black Sabbath is one of my favorite bands of all time. You guys should definitely check out some of their songs from the album “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” My personal favorite album of theirs. Especially songs like Sabbra Cadabra, and Killing Yourself To Live. Such amazing tracks!
You guy get it. So many years have gone by, and nothing comes close to the heavy gloomy sounds of this masterpiece.🤘
The most Black Sabbath track ever! Not just because of the title (though that doesn't hurt), but it's where it all started, and perfectly showcases what made them so unique. The great riffs, the vocals, those drums, the changeup in the middle, the creepy sound effects, etc. It's not necessarily my favorite song of theirs (though it's up there), but if I had to choose one track to define Black Sabbath, this would probably be it. All these many years later, and it still sounds absolutely amazing and UNIQUE. Many have tried, but nobody else sounds like this.
I hate to say it, but when I was a teenager in the 70’s and high, very high and heard this for the first time, I think I wet my pants 😎with fear
I grew up listening to black Sabbath. Know every word to every song for years I love black Sabbath forever...
The first song on their first record recorded for $600 on a weekend. Now that’s a debut.
When I was a little kid my parents played Black Sabbath albums a lot, especially at night after I was put to bed. Hearing this particular song as a little kid laying in bed at night absolutely terrified me.
absolutely love your reaction....i was in shock when i first heard this, and had to have more, still my favorite all time band. beside the obvious genre created immediately you get to hear the talents of all 4 in the band...and it only got better from there!!!
My first album(still have it) and first concert. They Rule !!!! The influence for this....not music cause noting was close to this,it must have been life. They grew up in the working class poor part of England . WW 2 was still fresh in the minds of the adults and the children picked up on that....and they made this album. The greatest meatal/rock album ever !!!!
Haunting is an understatement, no way they ever played anything off this album in the 1970s on the radio, the industry and general society was freaked out when they heard the opening track and it was a couple decades before they really started getting the radio play they deserved. The critics were dead wrong, this album is one of the most important in Rock history, as it announced a great, new group had arrived and created a whole new genre of heavy Rock.
I will never forget us buying it and playing it at my friend's house while his parents were out, his younger sister came in and screamed, 'Turn it Up!' and we all sat in amazement as the album played out, never having heard anything like it before. I can't wait to see your faces when you get to hear Iommi unleashed on Warning, one of the most powerful musical statements ever.
Lastly, this album caused all kinds of friction between the older generation and all my friends who had issues playing it at home. About a month after first hearing it, we were in my friend's bedroom when his father burst into the room and screamed, 'what the Hell are you listening to?' Just as he did, the lyric 'Satan' came out of Ozzy's mouth and he freaked, grabbing the record off the turntable and breaking it over his knee, screaming you will all go to Hell listening to this music! He threw us out and my friend bought a replacement record and a cassette tape to hear it in his car, LOL! Great freaking album and we were fans for life. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
Please do the ENTIRE Black Sabbath catalog.
All the emotions we feel.. Has to come out in music too. What makes us listen to things at certain times.
This is when I'm pissed, listen dance it out all good! Release what you feel a healthy way😂
Cheers all, Misic be the food of luv, play on.
That album cover still creeps me out.
It's creepy as all get out.
It is impossible to overstate how groundbreaking this was...
This is going to be good, can't wait! I think I mentioned that the first time I saw these guys they were the opening act for Grand Funk Railroad. We didn't know who they were but 50+ years later I still love this music.
Live early versions /paris 1970
are a absolute must see
Black Sabbath still had many hard rock, psychedelic rock and blues influences, but Gustav Holst's Mars was a 20th-century classical piece that was a huge influence on this song, the very first metal song. Mars is part of the planets suit, a great piece. Classical/Baroque music have had a big influence on heavy metal since he beginning!
Jimmy Page was also influenced by 'Mars'.
@@FredPena-rd5cf David Bowie too!
@FredPena-rd5cf seems Gustav Holst has been a massive influence on Pop/rock/metal. And of course, many film composers have straight up ripped him off, haha😂
This set the tone.....that guitar tone is absolutely haunting . Ingenious.
Imagine a 3rd grader (me) sitting playing a board game with a friend and my older brother walks in and says he has a new song for me to hear and drops the needle on this..........scared the shit out of us! My friend went home but I loved it and been a fan ever since.
Listen how tight Geezer, Bill and Tony are. One among many reasons why i love Sabbath. Love you to OZZY
Band name came from an old Boris Karloff horror movie. Killer debut
Yes sir! Black Sabbath playing Black Sabbath off of the Black Sabbath album. 🤘
What a great opening track on a debut album
Such beautiful comping. He was still doing it 10 years later on Lonely Is The Word. My favourite drummer.
I was terrified of this as a kid when my older cousin Billy was playing it on the stereo. Fast forward a few years, I loved it 🤘
Every single level of their music was masterful. Ozzy was an incredible song writer
Bill Ward was a great heavy metal drummer. But really he was a great percussionist. Songs like this showcase his skill.
I think this song and album flipped out most parents, esp in 1970 ! However the kids loved it, cranked it up until shit blew up or broke…it was clear that with the breakup of the Beatles, the advent of the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Woodstock, etc., that music the kids liked had changed! Sabbath became a fixture on stereo systems thru the decade. Love the reaction! Wish you both had been there then..it was great! Cheers!😊
At the age of 17, Tony Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an industrial accident. He went home for lunch and got a call that Black Sabbath was going to be signed. Tony wasn't going to go back to work but his mother insisted he go back and at least finish the day. That afternoon was when the accident happened. Tony wears prosthetic fingertips because of the accident and it certainly seemed like a setback, but it actually helped him form his unique style and sound because of it. - From Wikipedia
Early stuff was their best. Just my opinion. Great reaction fellas. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
What a debut song... Hey We're Black Sabbath and your world is about to get twisted up... What till u hear The Warning... best debut album ever...
Warning Is dope and has Iommi announcing to the world there is a new sheriff in town. Devastating!
I have always loved this track🥰it got my young mind thinking
Their first and my first album and still my favorite, that I bought in 1971. And for me, the best album ever put out for its time.
The end of this is the BEST! Now imagine yourself at the live show - one a kind for sure.
13 times my friend: 8 with Ozzy, 3 with Dio, once each with Ian Gillian and Glenn Hughes. 13 brain melting times with Tony Iommi! 🎸
Heaviest sound out there in 1970. Heavier than even Zeppelin. You can hear the beginning of metal right here.
Putting this record on was like breaking out the Ouija board. Everyone was afraid to start it but everyone wanted it.
"Black Sabbath" was apparently a horror film that inspired Tony Iommi, who noticed that people seemed to love to be scared whch influenced the bands sound .... is the story I recall hearing. Epic!
In a way this is like Led Zeps first album in that they still had a lot of blues in their songwriting and the recording has a really live , immediate, loose feeling to their playing. By the next LP " Paranoid" is when their classic and unique sound kicks into gear. Those 2 handed triplet flams that Bill Ward is playing all the way to the end are a BITCH by the way...
This song is about an experience bassist Geezer Butler had.
This is his words about it.
"I'd been raised a Catholic so I totally believed in the Devil. There was a weekly magazine called Man, Myth and Magic that I started reading which was all about Satan and stuff. That and books by Aleister Crowley and Dennis Wheatley, especially The Devil Rides Out ... I'd moved into this flat I'd painted black with inverted crosses everywhere. Ozzy gave me this 16th Century book about magic that he'd stolen from somewhere. I put it in the airing cupboard because I wasn't sure about it. Later that night I woke up and saw this black shadow at the end of the bed. It was a horrible presence that frightened the life out of me! I ran to the airing cupboard to throw the book out, but the book had disappeared. After that I gave up all that stuff. It scared me shitless."
I remember the day in 1970 when I first heard this. Led Zeppelin in 1969. The origins of heavy duty music.
Ozzy said that when they started, their practice space was across the street from a movie theater that played a lot of horror movies, and they got the idea to do horror music.
And the movie showing at the time was called Black Sabbath
First time I saw " Sabbath" was in 1976 ! .. "Boston" opened up, on their debut tour.
It is on now!....You will find a deep pocket in these first five Sabbath albums. Taken from a big jazz/funk influence of the 60s and 50's blues scales, they created a mini cosmos of sound via Geezer's{Bass) esoteric lyrics and the bands sick polyrhythms. They would change times and tempo like prog music of that era... But none had a nastier groove....
The greatest band in the world. Always will be.
As usual great reaction guys. This album took 12 hours to record and was released of Friday the 13th in February 1970. Can you imagine what it must have been like to hear that back then for the first time. Most folks just sat there with there mouths wide open in utter amazement or they were terrified. As I suggested please continue with this and all Sabbath records track by track. 🤘
When it began 1970 music was never the same! I was 12
I listen to this album all the time
Black Sabbath was a horror movie back in the 60s. With Vincent Price in it. That’s where the band got the name from. ✌️
Imagine being a 14 yr old seeing them play this for the first time, those were concerts l'll never forget. I saw them many in concert, some of the best times of my life🤘🎶🥰
OHHH Ozzy, the prince of darkness, 72 still rockin it! No matter what os happening the legend comes on stage and turns into himself the ultimate performer!❤
The band was a blues band, before going in this far darker and heavier direction. The first album still carries a lot of those blues elements. To my ears half the songs are blues rock, and half of them are heavy metal. The band was in a transitionary period here. By their next album they had dropped the blues completely and were a full on heavy metal band.
They recorded this whole album in a day, live on the floor with Ozzy in a booth, with only a few second takes, or overdubbed guitar parts.
And some young people wonder where Ozzy got his reputation as Prince of Darkness. 😂
I heard this album as a 13yo down in the basement with headphones on…1970-71. My brother left them when he went into Marines.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, War Pigs, Iron Man… such a cool introduction into early Heavy Metal!❤