...mmmm.....although "Hysteria" was mainstream, methinks 1991's "The Black Album" (Metallica) bridged the gap of critical & commercial acclaim...let's go with that.... ; )
In 1973 my older cousin played Black Sabbath Vol 4 for me. It was the first real rock music I had ever heard. I was a 12 year old teenybopper listening to bubble gum music. Hearing Black Sabbath for the first time changed my life! Bubble gum music was no longer sufficient. I have been a rock fan ever since. That same year I got my first guitar and became a professional musician. I went to college for music with guitar as my principal instrument. Thank you, Cousin Joel, in Bennettsville, SC!!
It was the summer of 1980 when my teenaged neighbour introduced me to Black Sabbath and basic heavy metal. I was 13 and I was at first just mesmerized by the album cover and then just blown away by the music. Wow, the was a memory dragged out of the old file drawers. Thank you for your channel it's awesome and please keep the good times rolling.
I came to know Sabbath through a greatest hits album when I was 18-19 and it changed my life forever. Here I am now, at 39, watching this video. Sabbath is unique, the atmospheric sound they were able to create back then with basically no technology, no choirs, no orchestra, etc; is outstanding. Bands need all they can get to replicate that these days. I'll probably listen to Sabbath till the day I die.
Hey Adam, I'm 62 and grew up in a great time in music the 70s and 80s. I love your channel and relate to many things you and your viewers say. Keep up the good work!
I'm 61 years old, and have learned a lot about some great music that I didn't relate to from the 80s and 90s, mostly the pop and electro-pop stuff. I also of course learn much about the bands I grew up loving in the 70s, like Steely Dan or David Bowie, from the Prof Of Rock
Man, I started reading this and thought to myself “62, well you old fart”. Then I realized that I’m only a year younger than you. Wtf?! How’d that happen? Anyway, ditto on all aspects!…….lol
When I was touring, we did a lot of covers, and Paranoid was one of the songs we saved for the end of the 3rd set. It packed the floor, everyone was just givin' er, just rockin' out like hell and headbanging. It gave myself and my other guitar player an opportunity to just be crazy, we were wireless, so we ran around the stage trading off dueling solos, we shot totally from the hip, just free form solos, and we'd just nod at each other when we wanted to shift roles. Then we'd give the nod to just do the final 2 bars together in unison, it was pretty cool, and it was really fun. I think it was fun for both the band, and the fans. It's one of those songs that everyone likes, and it is also so versatile when you want to play it live. It's just fun, and simple. I love it still to this day. Rock on folks!
In 1972 when I was 17 yrs old, I was in a Black Sabbath tribute band before tribute bands were a thing. Our lead guitarist had a Gibson SG that added to the authentic sound. One of the best years of my life.
Mate your show really helped me get through Covid. What a score it was to not only come across your channel but to be educated and re-educated about so many classics of a fantastic era. Just please keep doing what you do. Thank you.
Back when I was in my early teens in the early 1980s, a friend and I borrowed this record from another kid at school. We both knew who Ozzy was but this was the first Sabbath record we ever heard. We took it to my friend's house for a listen (and to dub cassettes for ourselves, too). My friend's mom was VERY religious, so we had to smuggle the record into the house and down into the family room, which is where the record player/stereo was. We dropped the needle onto the first track on side one ("War Pigs") and set the volume fairly low. Out comes Ozzy singing "Generals gathered in their masses/just like witches at black masses". My friend couldn't turn down the record fast enough! Thankfully, his mom didn't hear it, and we were able to record it to a cassette. Once we had the cassette, we took his boombox outside and walked around our suburban neighborhood, blaring it for all the world to hear. Good times.
I'm glad you mentioned the Mob Rules. Tony Iomi's guitar work on that album inspired me to play electric guitar in my early teens. It still amazes me today. RIP R.J. Dio.
Black Sabbath and Ozzy music has always put me in a good mood. Consequently, I play it often. Long ago, not realizing how much little kids pick up, my 4-year old son BELTED out, "Finished with my woman..." He sang it with such passion too! Now I make sure my grandkids get a healthy dose of metal, while trying to avoid obscenities.
Don't worry about obscenities. Children love them. Besides would you not introduce a child to the Stones because they can't get no satisfaction? Or that they have Sympathy for the devil? All things have good and bad. Rock and roll can helps teach that. How else will they know to, keep away from run around sue. Or becoming her. Besides watching kids embarrass their parents is what I missed most during the lockdown.
I'll never forget the first time I heard the song Black Sabbath.... I was like 6 years old, and it scared the ever-loving bejesus outta me😳...... And from that moment on I was hooked 🤘
Mom worked at a FM station in Boston in the early 70's, from 69 to 73, I think,. Station was always on in the car and house. Got to listen to album cuts from Sabbath, Floyd, Led, Cream, Deep Purple and many more. Mom told me I was "head banging before anybody knew what it was. Mom never once had anything bad to say about her mates from Birmingham and mom was deeply Christian lady. Mom would rock with me whenever we would ride somewhere together. Lost mom in June of this year. Bless mom and the boys from Birmingham.
Saw them in concert. Black Sabbath, Ozzie’s Crazy Train tour, AC/DC Back in Black tour. I am closer to a hippie than a headbanger but I appreciate great riffs and powerful lyrics and amazing musicians no matter what genre.
Once I heard a cassette tape of VOL4 back in 81, I was hooked. I couldn't get enough. Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. They are the giants of rock music.
The brilliance of Paranoid is it's simplicity. It's one of those songs I never get tired of hearing. Not one Black Sabbath album sounds like the next. They are the kings of Heavy Metal And Tony Iommi is THE riff master. Fun stuff.
@@marktait2371 you’re damn right 🍻. Also, there has to be something with a left handed guitarist missing finger tips that lead to the revolutionary riffs and tones he came up with, (& of course Ozzy loving his job at a slaughter house when he was a teenager probably helped the direction as well 🤣🤣🤣)
Love your reviews You're the best rock reviewer I have watched. Paranoid one of my favorite albums growing up. And far as your poll this is probably my favorite heavy metal album of all time. Please keep up the reviews and thank you so much for sharing them with us
Black Sabbath is such a breakthrough band, with their unique and heavy sound. I love them. I've gone to Sabbath concerts both with Ozzy and with Dio, and I've seen Ozzy solo countless times. I remember once working in an office over the weekend to catch up on some work, and since no one else was there I cranked up the Sabbath hits album, We Sold Our Soul for Rock n' Roll. Another co-worker came in and I told him about how Sabbath had a lot of blues influences. He thought I was crazy, and thought Sabbath was loud noise. I just felt sorry for him that his musical taste were so limited. Long live Black Sabbath!!
What any human would not do to once in their life write a riff like Paranoid! Two and half minutes of metal perfection. This song changed my life for listening to heavier music and guitar music. It's a top 3 favorite song of all time for me and one of the best headbang songs ever. Tony Iommi is the untouchable RIFF LORD of rock, metal, and music. The only who competes with him at that is Jimmy Page and none else. Ozzy is so perfect for Sabbath, Geezer had awesome lyrics on top of being one of the greatest bassists ever. One of the best rhythm sections ever in a band with the jazzy tom drumming of Ward. I can't sing enough praises of this incredible band and song.
Hey Adam, been a minute since I've commented, just wanted to say I'm still around- every day, watching POR. Love Sabbath... Took my oldest to Ozzfest in 05', he was 4 at the time. We had 'working passes' that were gifted to us, so he got a REAL treat! Ended up with a pick from Duff McKagen and later, while in the pit with him on my shoulders(where he spent 90% of that day unless backstage), he ended up with Ozzies shirt when he took it off and flung it in our direction after pointing him out and saying 'check out the little dude'. We also got the opportunity to meet Chad and the rest of the guys from Mudvayne... A great time for my son and I. Thanks for a great Friday episode, peace to all ✌️
@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830 I don't mind the Dio/Sabbath years. I still put The Mob Rules on blast, it's not a bad album. Besides if the title track was good enough for Heavy Metal(movie '81 or '82) it's good enough for me
@@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830 same here ,dio with rainbow was fine . nobody talks about sabbath years with dio . ozzy was so pissed he used to bring a midget out onstage to troll him.
I saw Black Sabbath in Detroit following a band called The Woolys that basically got laughed off stage. The curtain closed, and the next act was announced Black Sabbath. Most of us thought that was going to be another bad band. The curtain opened to a wall of Marshall’s and they started with Paranoid. Needless to say, we all sat there stunned. When they ended the song, the place went nuts! We loved them. Later, when I started college my new roommate was listening to the Four Seasons. When it was my turn, I put on Black Sabbath. I am pretty sure it changed his life, I never heard him play the Four Seasons again.
In the summer of 1966 I was 9 years old. That means I was just the right age to appreciate all the great new albums that were coming out in '68, '69, '70, I was right there experiencing it! I can hardly describe my feelings of excitement as I walked downtown to discover the latest releases. The store was called Shultz's Five & Dime. I practically lived there, poring over all the 45's & albums on their racks. I mean, yes, it is fun to discover new (to you) songs on TH-cam, but not quite the same as being a kid, holding a brand new, sealed in plastic, wrapped album in your hands for the very first time. I studied/read every word, on them as if they were some kind of lost egyptian scroll or something!!! haha I bet the Professor can relate!
My brother's and I didn't have cable but we did get to watch Headbangers Ball & 120minutes. We had a friend who had cable so we got VHS tapes and had him hit record when his parents went to bed. So on Monday morning we had to watch.
I’m repeatedly blown away by how early some of my favorite music was written & released. Sabbath was a mainstay growing up, especially in (1980’s) junior high & high school. I forgot it was written & released in 1970, the year after I was born Thanks for another awesome video!
I was lucky enough to see Black Sabbath live in 2013. It was an unbelievable experience. Ozzy was helped by 30 thousand fans whenever his voice faltered. Geezer and Tony were in fine form. What a night!
I saw the end tour. It was most excellent. Very few bands will ever sound that good at that age. 5 years later the song A National Acrobat helped me trigger what you might call a spiritual awakening. It is an incredibly profound song.
Sabbath are one of my favourite bands. There's a good argument to be made that their debut is the single most influential album of all time, spawning entire genres and subgenres. Rob Zombie once said "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first." Also, Ozzy and Tony get all the attention but Sabbath's rhythm section is one of the finest in rock history. Bill Ward is a fantastic drummer, consistently inventive, you can listen to long Sabbath tracks and he will hardly repeat a fill. He generated such power and variety from a small kit, and his funk and jazz background really shines through and is a big part of why Sabbath sound so distinctive within the rock canon. The Ward/Butler grooves overlaid by Iommi's heavy precision make for a unique blend. That being said Ive always felt that Paranoid is one of their weaker tracks, lacking the depth, and melodic and rhythmic nuance, that was such a hallmark of early Sabbath. Also I never knew that they picked Evil Woman as the first single from the debut lol. You'd think The Wizard or NIB would have been a better choice.
Sabbath is defenately misunderstood as most people assume they are heavy metal and thrash. I guess because of the popularity of those songs but if you dive into any sabbath album you will find trippy love ballads, psychadelic materpieces and quiet heartbreak songs one of my favorites is solitude. The dark sadness of that songs somehow fill me up with joy and happieness, very odd. They are way way more than just a metal band and for me they are the best rock group of all time.
I can't think of another metal band that wrote a song as heavy as 'Into the Void', and also wrote a heart wrenching ballad like 'Changes.' That's just one example of the contrasting styles within their catalog, there are others, but I don't think this has ever been equaled to such a degree in the genre.
My first time hearing Black Sabbath was when I was 12 and one of my older cousins had left his Sold our soul for rock and roll tape at my house. I listened to it so many times over the next week that I’m sure it was almost wore out by the time he got it back. I have been a fan ever since
Back during high school, my buddy had an 8-track player in his car and brought the Paranoid tape. I brought the album since I had a Hi-Fi (still have it... the album that is). In any case we were at his house and there was an 8-track player with their sound system. War Pigs was just coming to end when his mother was passing by as the music speed ramps up. She's thinking the tape was being 'eaten' up by player and trying to figure what to do!!! I told her 'Don't worry Mrs. W... that's how the song ends'. She looked at me and asked "What are you kids listening to these days?" I replied "It's certainly not Frank Sinatra music! (I believe I actually said It's not "Ol' Blue Eyes", my mom's favorite singer.)
The first concert I ever attended was Black Sabbath's Reunion Tour in Dallas, Jan 24 1999. Went with my dad who was a huge fan back in the 1970s. Got to see them again during the The End Tour in Minneapolis, Jan 25 2016, almost 17 years to the day. Paranoid has always been my favorite Sabbath song. Would love to see Ozzy and the guys perform live one more time.
Sabbath with Ozzy and Ward was my very first concert in 1999 when I was 14 going on 15. The opening acts were Drain STH and Godsmack - Hershey, PA. What a time to be alive.
@@johndodson3020I worked for their record/distribution company in the 90’s and it’s been a long time since I heard anyone say the name Drain STH. That was one of those projects that we thought was good, but not many other people did. I might just have to pull my copy out and give it a listen today. Thanks for the memory.
I was fortunate enough to have been raised by a father that was a avid Sabbath fan and a guitarist, he taught me how to play guitar with those songs, even how Iommi got his iconic sound (Drop D tuning all the strings). R.I.P dad.
Black Sabbath was a musical staple with the circle of friends I had in junior high. Lots of memories hanging out in a friend's basement, whose parents didn't seem to mind us cranking up the volume. I could only have wished mine were that cool. The band was never the same without Ozzy, and his signature vocals. I bought most of his solo albums, and even the later reunion record, 13, when it came out. And it always surprised me later, as I grew up, that you could understand his lyrics so clearly when he sang, but you could barely comprehend what the hell he was saying when he talked. 🤷♂😂🤣
Ozzy was Black Sabbath but Dio was great with Sabbath (Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Dehumanizer awesome albums). Dio and Iommi both stated they should have never called themselves Black Sabbath but Heaven and Hell because Ozzy was Sabbath.
@@netgnostic1627 I wouldn't argue that Parkinson's disease can affect one's speech, but Ozzy has been fairly incomprehensible while speaking, for 50 years at least.
As a kid growing up in the 70's & 80's, Black Sabbath was always on along with Led Zeppelin, Rush & Pink Floyd. I love all of them to this day. Great music that never fades just gets better with age like fine wine! I wish there was music and originality like all these bands created today but sadly there really isn't, it was a magical couple of decades that I miss daily.
My first concert was Black Sabbath on the Born Again tour. My second was Ozzy Osbourne on the Bark at the Moon tour. Both bands performed Paranoid. Those nights changed the course of my life.
With this afterthought of a song, they inadvertently changed music forever and inspired many major bands that came after them. They accidentally stepped in it in the best way. Long live the legend.🤘🤟
I bought Black Sabbath Paranoid when the album came out. I love Paranoid even to this day. Every time I listen to Paranoid I can still hear my mom yelling upstairs to TURN THAT SH** DOWN!!!! Thank you for taking me back.
I think it was early 90s when I finally got around to buying the Paranoid CD. My mom was afraid to listen to Black Sabbath just because of the name, but when I played it she liked it better than she thought she would.
the part at 18:18 yeah i WAS on the teacher list and called a Devil worshiper by my Teachers for loving Ozzy and Sabbath. lived in a tiny mid west town in Colorado...
As a teen in the 70's I was inspired to play bass after hearing Geezer's bass playing on the Paranoid and Master of Reality albums. And I'm still playing the bass today. I've seen Sabbath in concert several times, with Ozzy and with Dio. They're one of my all-time favorite rock bands and always will be.
my big brother was in the army and on r & r from fighting in Vietnam, went to a rock fest in Germany 70 or 71, cant remember, said he woke up to Sabbath playing and Ozzie standing on stage 20 feet from him in the middle of this huge bright sun stage prop with Ozzie singing paranoid, when he finished his service in the Army and came home, he gave me his Paranoid album, i was 11 years old and blown away, i still have that album, i miss you Joe, the greatest brother and coolest guy i ever knew
My Sabbath story occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the Black and Blue tour with BOC. BOC absolutely rocked their set whipping the crowd into a frenzy! Sabbath came out and was killing it. Sometime in the second or third song somebody threw a pint bottle at the stage. Hit Geezer in the head, they stopped the show and walked off. After what seemed an eternity, someone walked on stage and admonished the audience for throwing stuff at the stage, the show was over! It caused a riot in the Milwaukee Arena which turned into mayhem! Look it up, it would be a great story!
I was blessed with being able to see Ozzie live several times , thank god I was born in the generation that was able to see so many greats live , l just missed the likes of Janis and Jimmie , but I am so glad to see vanhalens first tour , def leopard , rush who I saw in a roller skating rink , and so many others
Ozzy was gifted with a strangeness that helped to give him an interesting vocal style and sound that is unmistakable. Along with that amazing voice came an ear that kept his tone weirdly in key all the while bordering right on edge of breakup. Throw in Geezers depth of lyrical story telling and finally pair that with the amazing and unique guitar talent possessed by Iommi and that granted us access to the holy grail of metal. We are not worthy 🤘🤘🤘🤘
where i grew up as a youngster in the 80s, i was in my teens, our town had a local radio station, and my town is known for holding the country music awards, a small town in New Zealand, Gore, well our radio station played Black Sabbath, i don't ever remember hearing other stations playing Sabbath at that time, one of me mates is a hardcore metal fan, he got me into Black Sabbath. what i like about Sabbath, is how they go from metal to classical to rock n roll and blues all in one song, just brilliant,
@@ProfessorofRockI had tickets for the Rock Superbowl in Orlando March 20, 1982, my senior year. Obviously, tragedy struck. I didn't even attend the show. I think Pat Travers played instead.
Loved this! I discovered Ozzy and Sabbath separately since I was born in '73. When I discovered Sabbath Tony Martin was the frontman and people don't talk about those albums anymore, it's all about Dio and Ozzy. "Anno Mundi (The Vision)", "Odin's Court⁄Valhalla", "When Death Calls" with Brian May doing the guitar solo, etc. All brilliant, but those albums are largely forgotten nowadays.
@@loveagainstgods5116 I believe you are thinking of the album "The Seventh Star" with Glenn Hughes singing. _It was originally written, recorded, and intended to be the first solo album by Iommi. Because of the pressures from Warner Bros. Records and the prompting of band manager Don Arden, the record was billed as Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi._ - Wiki
Master of Reality is Sabbath's best album imo. Criminally underrated, and heavy as hell. You should just do a whole episode on that album, it's so damn good.
I grew up in Utah and I can appreciate exactly what your saying about FM radio in the early 80s. I used to call the radio station and ask them to play Sabbath and they never would. Every once in awhile Iron Man would could on, but it was extremely rare to hear any Sabbath on the radio.
Thank you for this! Huge Sabbath fan here. Growing up, my dad listened to country and my mom listed to Motown, both of which I enjoy. My older brother however soon started getting ACDC, Van Halen and KISS records. But when he started bringing home mixtapes of hard rock and metal, that was it for me. I remember having one tape where Iron Man was actually cut off too early. To this day, when I hear it, I'm expecting the song to end at the same spot. I'm old now, but still crank Sabbath until the speakers blow.
Sabbath was so far away from where I was musically in my teen years, to the eternal gratitude of my parents, I'm sure. Sabbath and Iron Maiden were definitely dangerous territory-- family intervention sort of music. I owe a friend for helping me expand my palette into classic metal in the '00s after college and this was the album he used to do it. I've since added the quadrophonic DVD version of this album to my growing collection of what I feel are almost necessary 'desert island' albums and it is majestic. In fact, I'm gonna put it on now right to celebrate how epic it truly is. Have a great holiday weekend, Adam and everyone here in the comments at POR. Hope it rocks out wherever you spend it!
Similarly I had this experience with a friend in high school turning me on the Sabbath mainly and others but mostly Sabbath. The 1st alb may have been master of reality or sabotage! Prior I was a Beatles and wings diehard. I’m forever grateful for his input for expanding my musical taste. This was in the mid 1970s whilst sabbath was still making music with original lineup! Yours was in the 2000s! Nice to see the traditions carrying on.
I remember when my oldest brother came home yelling "Guys, you gotta hear this!" and played the LP black sabbath. We were amazed to say the least. The louder it was the more we liked it.
I love Dio,and cand usually put up with Ozzie.I wish they both had stayed with the band.Hey professor! When do we get to see about a deep dive into Blackfoot? And thier connections with Skynyrd? Ano❤❤ther cuople of forgotten guitar greats in there too! Tyvm.
Your story about your dad's Sabbath 8-track made me laugh. That's how I got my Paranoid 8-track. My friend's mom found a copy in the dad's collection and threw it in the trash. I saw it there and rescued it for myself. Later on in life I got to go to see Black Sabbath in concert. That was after the split up with Ozzy which I also got to see in concert. Those early to mid '80s were great for concerts! I still have that 8-track by the way. And also have a vintage console stereo setup with 8-track player and turn table for playing all my valued vinyl and 8-track sweeties. Funny how something so obsolete can bring that warm feeling back.
@professorofrock - Sorry this comes 10 months after this episode's release but thanks for doing this piece on Sabbath and Paranoid. Very cool! Tony Iommi is iconic on guitar and Bill Ward gave Bonzo of LZ a run for the money. I actually learned to play bass listening to Geezer Butler's riffs. And Ozzy is just... Ozzy!
Got tickets back in '81 to go to what I thought was a "Black and Blue" concert (Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult) and when we got there found out it was "only" a Black Sabbath concert. Unbelievably, the only one I ever got to see and it had that micro-demon Ronny James Dio fronting the band. A very memorable metal evening.
I took Paranoid from my mom’s collection when I was in middle school. I listened to it over and over again. Paranoid is one of the first guitar riffs I learned well on the guitar. Definitely a huge reason I am a metalhead today. Deep Purple’s machine head album is another reason.
The first album i ever bought was the self titled album. We call it the witch ablum. I was instantly hooked! I've seen them.several times thru the years with Ozzy and Dio. The last time was the tour for the 2013 album. I was just blown away at how good they sounded and how energetic they were after all those years.
That's how it was. My brother had all the new records and when he was gone I would sneak in to his room and listen. This was different. When "Iron Man" started, my whole world changed. No music has affected me like this. When the needle came to "Paranoid," it was almost a release. Thanks for another great video and greetings from Sweden!
No one hates great British Rock more than British Rock critics 😂 Sabbath, Zeppelin , Pink Floyd etc... One cannot overstate the importance of this song, album, and band!🔥💀🔥
Of course, the job of a critic is to be critical, but since most critics were old fuddy-duddies with no appreciation for this kind of music, they spoke out against it.
This song has one of those riffs that stays in your head for life. When I first heard it as a child I didn't understand a single word in it, just loved the music. Thanks for the breakdown of this song - the lyrics are pretty deep and it's interesting that the word "Paranoid" isn't actually used in it. I do remember Black Sabbath being called a devil worshipping group primarily because of their name.
I don't think you can overstate the influence this song and Black Sabbath had on music. If you love heavy metal the Paranoid album is a staple. I don't think there is a better place to point to than Sabbath's first 2 albums and this song as the birth of the heaviest of metal. Crazy that it was a filler. Great episode professor!
Black Sabbath was my first live concert! My hearing should return shortly . . . and that was 50 some years ago . . . I first heard their title song in a music shop with an audiophile system. I rushed out the door because I thought it was pouring outside. Been a fan ever since.
I remember when this first came out... people were calling it "devil music", so naturally as kids in 7th grade, we listened to it. It was pretty hardcore, and we liked that it was forbidden. By today's standards, it seems pretty tame, but the only thing like it at the time was Iron Butterfly, but Ozzy's voice set it apart.
When my older half brother was seventeen, he moved in with us for the first time in his life. He brought with him four eight track tapes -- Deep Purple's Machine Head and Burn, and Black Sabbath's Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It was my first introduction to heavy metal. I was five and a half years younger and the 'oldest' of us kids at the time aside from my brother, Bob. Prior to his influence, my rock exposure didn't get much harder than Jim Croce's I Got a Name or Don McLean's American Pie. Those eight tracks and a set of headphones got me hooked on metal! Next he brought his vinyl collection starting with Alice Cooper's School's Out, followed by Joe Walsh, Smoker You Drink the Player You Get, Steppenwolf 16 Greatest Hits, Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin among others. I'll never forget these classics! I memorized every word. The first album I bought with the first five bucks I ever earned was Welcome to My Nightmare when it first appeared on the shelves. I had to borrow the change to make up the sales tax. I was blown away! Later, my younger brother and I made it a point to collect Black Sabbath and Deep Purple albums, and between the three of us we had every one of their LPs. Except, for some reason we never bought Deep Purple's Stormbringer album, but my next door neighbor had a copy...what an obsession! My vinyl collection in the late eighties was extremely large. Sold most all of them at the pawn shop one day in 1988 when we ran out of beer, for fifty bucks, the idea being we could get them back easier if it wasn't so much money...I miss them 😢...My brother passed away about eleven years ago when he was fifty five. I've already outlived him by six years. His influence on me changed everything. I would be such a different person today...
What's always upset me was the fact that Dio wasn't inducted into tbe R&R HOF with Sabbath. Ronnie gave the band new life in the 80's and probably the two best albums ever, "Heaven & Hell" and "The Mob Rules."
I’d have to agree with you, “heaven and hell” is probably one of the top 5 of all time metal master pieces, at least from my perspective and I’ve lived and rocked from doors, who, Zeppelin, to the fall of the hair bands. Truth be told, Ozzy sucked.
Hi, greetings from Costa Rica. Saw this video last night and thank you very much. Never heard from ARS before and I've been working hearing them today. It is just awesome.
On April 12th of '78, I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in Austin, Texas. Van Halen was one of the best bands going at the time and Black Sabbath was in decline and Ozzy was on his way out. Sabbath basically got booed off the stage. Wish I could have seen them 5 years earlier. Paranoid is one of my favorite all time albums.
@@ProfessorofRock I'm not sure I remember right. I remember "On Fire" and "I'm the One" but not the order. I remember a Michael Anthony bass solo that led directly into "Running With The Devil". Then towards the end of the main show, Eddie's solo ending with Eruption which led into "You Really Got Me". They basically played the entire first album (out of order) and then a couple of songs for the encore that I didn't know.
You talk about growing up in a small town in Idaho. I was 9 years old and we were living in Council, Idaho the first time I heard Black Sabbath's debut (it was new at the time). My older brother had gotten a copy and was playing it when my mom got home from work. She walked in and heard the Devil's triad being played at high volume, snatched the record of the turntable and flung it across the room breaking it against the back of the fireplace. I have been a Black Sabbath fan ever since.
I Love BLACK SABBATH! You failed to mention when all the original members got together in the year 2000 for Ozz Fest. I will never forget it. One of the greatest nights of my life ❤
Thanks for mentioning Mythology - my dad was the lead singer in that band back in the day. They played blues covers in the north of England, no metal back then ;-)
"Paranoid" is such a great album. It is timeless, to use a cliché, and its sound was way ahead of its time. I play this album all the time, "cover to cover". My favorite Sabbath album is probably "Master of Reality", mainly because the bass is so heavy. My favorite Sabbath song, "Into the Void", is off this album. The bass is so heavy on this tune that you can't upload it, you can only download it. It is so heavy that it has its own gravitational pull. And to be honest, I don't really trust anyone who doesn't own (or at one time owned) the first 6 Sabbath albums and "Heaven and Hell" and Zep's studio albums.
Paranoid being on Rock and Roll racing game shaped my music taste forever, the combination of an amazing track with the action on the race was just too much. Thank you Paranoid for making me a metalhead.
Some other great "filler" tracks include: New World Man by Rush Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple Lucky Man by ELP You've got another thing coming by Judas Priest. Just goes to show that great musicians can just click and make magic happen at the drop of a hat
@@tmr626Hush was written by Joe South for Billy Joe Royal in 1967. On the same album was the song Rose Garden also written by Joe South I have a much older co-worker who loves Lynn Anderson and we talked about Rose Garden. He never new the information i gave him. I had listening to Billy Joe Royal and Joe South in the past
I think these reason these filler tracks are so good is because artists are being given the liberty to write and perform. These songs were written with the freedom from judgement and pressure. In some ways, these are better representations of the artists as creators then the albums they appear on.
120 minutes! My daughter loved it as well, but it came on way past her bedtime. So, I taped it but waited to watch it with her. Loved Matt Penfield, and discovered THE BEST music :-) We both fell in love with Tom Waits when he ran the In The Neighborhood video.
Black Sabbath are the godfathers of heavy metal. They're one of those bands that are often imitated never duplicated. A four star line up with Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill that layed the foundation of the music we now know as Heavy Metal.If there was no Sabbath,there would be no Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden etc. It all starts and ends with Black Sabbath. There never was nor never will be another band like Black Sabbath. Thank you POR for this look back on the greatest Metal band that ever graced the planet, Black Sabbath!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Great episode, Adam! Very happy to hear about some old timey Sabbath, and especially Paranoid. I'm also glad you noted the misheard lyrics from this song, too. It was always clear to me (given the context of the following lyrics), and I know Sabbath got some grief over it. I'd also love to hear any Dio-era Sabbath stuff, too. 👍🏻
I always remember Ozzy being interviewed in the 80’s about satanism in his and Black Sabbath music. He said “ I don’t get it Vincent Price plays a bad guy in a lot of horror movies and no one accuses him of being a satanist “ Side note Paranoid is the fist song most kids my age learned when picking up the guitar.
You actually read the lyrics, they're almost devout Anglicans and Catholics.. and the 'dark' stuff was oh%(*% moments straying from christianity in their eyes..
Adam, at 15:13, you say, "The hands of Iommi gave us the raging sound of Heavy Metal." It is interesting to note that hands of Iommi include prosthetic finger tips. He got the ends of two fingers on his right hand cut off in a sheet metal cutting machine when he was 17. Those were his fretboard fingers because he plays left handed. He found he couldn't play on the stumps, so he melted down a plastic bottle and made his own prosthetic tips. This accident is the reason Black Sabbath sounds like it does.
Wonderful history. I was 13 years old when I bought the Black Sabbath Paranoid album (I cleaned horse corrals and dog runs in those days to earn money to buy albums). Sabbath's sound was so cool. I've been a fan ever since.
Everything Sabbath did was beyond influential, close to life changing. But it was the Dio years that utterly transformed the wat I listen to, and hear the band. Ronnie was a pure monster of rock. Still miss him every day. We're so close to losing Ozzy, it's painful to even think about it.
Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST Metal album ever?
Sonic Temple
...mmmm.....although "Hysteria" was mainstream, methinks 1991's "The Black Album" (Metallica) bridged the gap of critical & commercial acclaim...let's go with that.... ; )
If you want to call it metal, I'll say "Hysteria" by Def Leppard.
Rainbow Rising
@@RBS_ I was thinking about the SAME TWO ALBUMS! 😂 You beat me by 9 seconds, and I left the Metallica album out... although it is amazing.
In 1973 my older cousin played Black Sabbath Vol 4 for me. It was the first real rock music I had ever heard. I was a 12 year old teenybopper listening to bubble gum music. Hearing Black Sabbath for the first time changed my life! Bubble gum music was no longer sufficient. I have been a rock fan ever since. That same year I got my first guitar and became a professional musician. I went to college for music with guitar as my principal instrument. Thank you, Cousin Joel, in Bennettsville, SC!!
Cousin Joel is awesome! 🤘
Wow that’s amazing ! I got indoctrinated to sabbath in 1977 though my best friend!
@@spottsssame, i was a '77 convert also.
It was the summer of 1980 when my teenaged neighbour introduced me to Black Sabbath and basic heavy metal. I was 13 and I was at first just mesmerized by the album cover and then just blown away by the music. Wow, the was a memory dragged out of the old file drawers. Thank you for your channel it's awesome and please keep the good times rolling.
I came to know Sabbath through a greatest hits album when I was 18-19 and it changed my life forever. Here I am now, at 39, watching this video. Sabbath is unique, the atmospheric sound they were able to create back then with basically no technology, no choirs, no orchestra, etc; is outstanding. Bands need all they can get to replicate that these days. I'll probably listen to Sabbath till the day I die.
They were even low-tech for their time. They had no use for studio electronics.
Hey Adam, I'm 62 and grew up in a great time in music the 70s and 80s. I love your channel and relate to many things you and your viewers say.
Keep up the good work!
I gave him a shout out on my channel and I said that he needs at LEAST one million subscribers.
I'm 61 years old, and have learned a lot about some great music that I didn't relate to from the 80s and 90s, mostly the pop and electro-pop stuff. I also of course learn much about the bands I grew up loving in the 70s, like Steely Dan or David Bowie, from the Prof Of Rock
Man, I started reading this and thought to myself “62, well you old fart”. Then I realized that I’m only a year younger than you. Wtf?! How’d that happen? Anyway, ditto on all aspects!…….lol
@@RexHrothgar1 Yes 61 here too! 😂
70 and still rocking and riding my Harley. 🙂
When I was touring, we did a lot of covers, and Paranoid was one of the songs we saved for the end of the 3rd set. It packed the floor, everyone was just givin' er, just rockin' out like hell and headbanging. It gave myself and my other guitar player an opportunity to just be crazy, we were wireless, so we ran around the stage trading off dueling solos, we shot totally from the hip, just free form solos, and we'd just nod at each other when we wanted to shift roles. Then we'd give the nod to just do the final 2 bars together in unison, it was pretty cool, and it was really fun. I think it was fun for both the band, and the fans. It's one of those songs that everyone likes, and it is also so versatile when you want to play it live. It's just fun, and simple. I love it still to this day. Rock on folks!
In 1972 when I was 17 yrs old, I was in a Black Sabbath tribute band before tribute bands were a thing. Our lead guitarist had a Gibson SG that added to the authentic sound. One of the best years of my life.
my first concert in a bar , i was 17 my brother was 14.
of course we played paranoid!!!
hell yeah
I remember 1972 as a pot party, and worrying about going to Vietnam after my next birthday, thankfully they ended the draft
Has life blown since?
Mate your show really helped me get through Covid. What a score it was to not only come across your channel but to be educated and re-educated about so many classics of a fantastic era. Just please keep doing what you do. Thank you.
Back when I was in my early teens in the early 1980s, a friend and I borrowed this record from another kid at school. We both knew who Ozzy was but this was the first Sabbath record we ever heard. We took it to my friend's house for a listen (and to dub cassettes for ourselves, too).
My friend's mom was VERY religious, so we had to smuggle the record into the house and down into the family room, which is where the record player/stereo was. We dropped the needle onto the first track on side one ("War Pigs") and set the volume fairly low. Out comes Ozzy singing "Generals gathered in their masses/just like witches at black masses". My friend couldn't turn down the record fast enough! Thankfully, his mom didn't hear it, and we were able to record it to a cassette. Once we had the cassette, we took his boombox outside and walked around our suburban neighborhood, blaring it for all the world to hear. Good times.
I'm glad you mentioned the Mob Rules. Tony Iomi's guitar work on that album inspired me to play electric guitar in my early teens. It still amazes me today. RIP R.J. Dio.
I remember calling a radio station to ask for some heavy metal song, don't recall which, and being told "we don't play devil music here!". Love it.
Bloody Taliban taking over your country is scary.
Was it “Hello, I am the devil” by “Satan and the Devils”?
@@georgemorley1029 Motley Crue Shout at the Devil
Black Sabbath and Ozzy music has always put me in a good mood. Consequently, I play it often. Long ago, not realizing how much little kids pick up, my 4-year old son BELTED out, "Finished with my woman..." He sang it with such passion too! Now I make sure my grandkids get a healthy dose of metal, while trying to avoid obscenities.
Thats grandparenting correctly! 🤘🏼😂 🤘🏼
Don't worry about obscenities. Children love them. Besides would you not introduce a child to the Stones because they can't get no satisfaction? Or that they have Sympathy for the devil? All things have good and bad. Rock and roll can helps teach that. How else will they know to, keep away from run around sue. Or becoming her.
Besides watching kids embarrass their parents is what I missed most during the lockdown.
No kidding, that melody is one of the most essential in all of rock. I learned it when I was 12!
The obscenity would be not letting them hear Black Sabbath.
Thanks very much for all your content Professor. I'm old at 63 and love it all.
I'll never forget the first time I heard the song Black Sabbath.... I was like 6 years old, and it scared the ever-loving bejesus outta me😳...... And from that moment on I was hooked 🤘
Mom worked at a FM station in Boston in the early 70's, from 69 to 73, I think,. Station was always on in the car and house. Got to listen to album cuts from Sabbath, Floyd, Led, Cream, Deep Purple and many more. Mom told me I was "head banging before anybody knew what it was. Mom never once had anything bad to say about her mates from Birmingham and mom was deeply Christian lady. Mom would rock with me whenever we would ride somewhere together. Lost mom in June of this year. Bless mom and the boys from Birmingham.
Saw them in concert. Black Sabbath, Ozzie’s Crazy Train tour, AC/DC Back in Black tour. I am closer to a hippie than a headbanger but I appreciate great riffs and powerful lyrics and amazing musicians no matter what genre.
Once I heard a cassette tape of VOL4 back in 81, I was hooked. I couldn't get enough. Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. They are the giants of rock music.
The brilliance of Paranoid is it's simplicity. It's one of those songs I never get tired of hearing.
Not one Black Sabbath album sounds like the next.
They are the kings of Heavy Metal
And Tony Iommi is THE riff master.
Fun stuff.
I am so grateful for growing up with this group. Their music just spoke to my generation. I still stream their music over many of the newer bands.
Paranoid was so ahead of its time! Just amazing…so glad I got to see Sabbath live on their reunion tour!
Thanks Prof, Paranoid is one of the seminal albums of my life.
No one can say enough about Sabbath. They started &/or perfected damn near everything great about music today.
Amen!
Way ahead of their time…so glad I got to see them live on their reunion tour!👌🏼
@@ProfessorofRockby the way, love the DK shirt Professor!! 😜
No doubt about it.
@@marktait2371 you’re damn right 🍻. Also, there has to be something with a left handed guitarist missing finger tips that lead to the revolutionary riffs and tones he came up with, (& of course Ozzy loving his job at a slaughter house when he was a teenager probably helped the direction as well 🤣🤣🤣)
Love your reviews You're the best rock reviewer I have watched.
Paranoid one of my favorite albums growing up.
And far as your poll this is probably my favorite heavy metal album of all time.
Please keep up the reviews and thank you so much for sharing them with us
And the best eye glasses Zena
When I think of the OG Sabbath it makes me want to cry. They're literally everything. I'm so thankful.
Black Sabbath is such a breakthrough band, with their unique and heavy sound. I love them. I've gone to Sabbath concerts both with Ozzy and with Dio, and I've seen Ozzy solo countless times. I remember once working in an office over the weekend to catch up on some work, and since no one else was there I cranked up the Sabbath hits album, We Sold Our Soul for Rock n' Roll. Another co-worker came in and I told him about how Sabbath had a lot of blues influences. He thought I was crazy, and thought Sabbath was loud noise. I just felt sorry for him that his musical taste were so limited. Long live Black Sabbath!!
He needs to realize they are so much more than that!
And according to Bill Ward, Sabbath's music is also jazz based.
I own that album, first pressing (and Blizzard first pressing...RIP Randy Rhodes...)
ozzy is a blues vocalist.
What any human would not do to once in their life write a riff like Paranoid!
Two and half minutes of metal perfection. This song changed my life for listening to heavier music and guitar music. It's a top 3 favorite song of all time for me and one of the best headbang songs ever. Tony Iommi is the untouchable RIFF LORD of rock, metal, and music. The only who competes with him at that is Jimmy Page and none else. Ozzy is so perfect for Sabbath, Geezer had awesome lyrics on top of being one of the greatest bassists ever. One of the best rhythm sections ever in a band with the jazzy tom drumming of Ward. I can't sing enough praises of this incredible band and song.
Tony is so underrated as a guitarist. They all brought something amazing to the Sabbath table.
Hey Adam, been a minute since I've commented, just wanted to say I'm still around- every day, watching POR. Love Sabbath... Took my oldest to Ozzfest in 05', he was 4 at the time. We had 'working passes' that were gifted to us, so he got a REAL treat! Ended up with a pick from Duff McKagen and later, while in the pit with him on my shoulders(where he spent 90% of that day unless backstage), he ended up with Ozzies shirt when he took it off and flung it in our direction after pointing him out and saying 'check out the little dude'. We also got the opportunity to meet Chad and the rest of the guys from Mudvayne... A great time for my son and I. Thanks for a great Friday episode, peace to all ✌️
Ozzy leaving Sabbath was the best thing that happened to rock. We got not only Ozzy material from that but also Black Sabbath with Dio!
Right you are!
Serious question: am I the only person that loves Ozzy, Dio, and Sabbath…but not the Dio years of Sabbath? Is something wrong with me? Lol.
@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830 I don't mind the Dio/Sabbath years. I still put The Mob Rules on blast, it's not a bad album. Besides if the title track was good enough for Heavy Metal(movie '81 or '82) it's good enough for me
I have to agree!
@@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830 same here ,dio with rainbow was fine . nobody talks about sabbath years with dio . ozzy was so pissed he used to bring a midget out onstage to troll him.
I saw Black Sabbath in Detroit following a band called The Woolys that basically got laughed off stage. The curtain closed, and the next act was announced Black Sabbath. Most of us thought that was going to be another bad band. The curtain opened to a wall of Marshall’s and they started with Paranoid. Needless to say, we all sat there stunned. When they ended the song, the place went nuts! We loved them. Later, when I started college my new roommate was listening to the Four Seasons. When it was my turn, I put on Black Sabbath. I am pretty sure it changed his life, I never heard him play the Four Seasons again.
In the summer of 1966 I was 9 years old. That means I was just the right age to appreciate all the great new albums that were coming out in '68, '69, '70, I was right there experiencing it! I can hardly describe my feelings of excitement as I walked downtown to discover the latest releases. The store was called Shultz's Five & Dime. I practically lived there, poring over all the 45's & albums on their racks. I mean, yes, it is fun to discover new (to you) songs on TH-cam, but not quite the same as being a kid, holding a brand new, sealed in plastic, wrapped album in your hands for the very first time. I studied/read every word, on them as if they were some kind of lost egyptian scroll or something!!! haha
I bet the Professor can relate!
@DarkFlamage I can relate! Opening up a Pink Floyd record and finding stickers and a poster was like Christmas!
My brother's and I didn't have cable but we did get to watch Headbangers Ball & 120minutes. We had a friend who had cable so we got VHS tapes and had him hit record when his parents went to bed. So on Monday morning we had to watch.
I’m repeatedly blown away by how early some of my favorite music was written & released. Sabbath was a mainstay growing up, especially in (1980’s) junior high & high school. I forgot it was written & released in 1970, the year after I was born
Thanks for another awesome video!
I was lucky enough to see Black Sabbath live in 2013. It was an unbelievable experience. Ozzy was helped by 30 thousand fans whenever his voice faltered. Geezer and Tony were in fine form. What a night!
I saw them live in 1971. In their prime. Awesome.
I saw the end tour. It was most excellent. Very few bands will ever sound that good at that age.
5 years later the song A National Acrobat helped me trigger what you might call a spiritual awakening. It is an incredibly profound song.
When I listen to Black Sabbath so do my neighbors.
Once, they threw a brick through my window just so they could hear it better.
When I listen to Sabbath so does my neighbors wife in my bed
Sabbath are one of my favourite bands. There's a good argument to be made that their debut is the single most influential album of all time, spawning entire genres and subgenres. Rob Zombie once said "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first." Also, Ozzy and Tony get all the attention but Sabbath's rhythm section is one of the finest in rock history. Bill Ward is a fantastic drummer, consistently inventive, you can listen to long Sabbath tracks and he will hardly repeat a fill. He generated such power and variety from a small kit, and his funk and jazz background really shines through and is a big part of why Sabbath sound so distinctive within the rock canon. The Ward/Butler grooves overlaid by Iommi's heavy precision make for a unique blend.
That being said Ive always felt that Paranoid is one of their weaker tracks, lacking the depth, and melodic and rhythmic nuance, that was such a hallmark of early Sabbath. Also I never knew that they picked Evil Woman as the first single from the debut lol. You'd think The Wizard or NIB would have been a better choice.
Of all time? I doubt that. But their music did transcend generations. That in and of itself speaks volumes.
@@nole8923 Name another...
Sabbath is defenately misunderstood as most people assume they are heavy metal and thrash. I guess because of the popularity of those songs but if you dive into any sabbath album you will find trippy love ballads, psychadelic materpieces and quiet heartbreak songs one of my favorites is solitude. The dark sadness of that songs somehow fill me up with joy and happieness, very odd. They are way way more than just a metal band and for me they are the best rock group of all time.
I can't think of another metal band that wrote a song as heavy as 'Into the Void', and also wrote a heart wrenching ballad like 'Changes.' That's just one example of the contrasting styles within their catalog, there are others, but I don't think this has ever been equaled to such a degree in the genre.
@@brandonjohnson191 Only other possibilities that come to mind are Pet Sounds or Nico.
My first time hearing Black Sabbath was when I was 12 and one of my older cousins had left his Sold our soul for rock and roll tape at my house. I listened to it so many times over the next week that I’m sure it was almost wore out by the time he got it back. I have been a fan ever since
Back during high school, my buddy had an 8-track player in his car and brought the Paranoid tape. I brought the album since I had a Hi-Fi (still have it... the album that is). In any case we were at his house and there was an 8-track player with their sound system. War Pigs was just coming to end when his mother was passing by as the music speed ramps up. She's thinking the tape was being 'eaten' up by player and trying to figure what to do!!! I told her 'Don't worry Mrs. W... that's how the song ends'. She looked at me and asked "What are you kids listening to these days?" I replied "It's certainly not Frank Sinatra music! (I believe I actually said It's not "Ol' Blue Eyes", my mom's favorite singer.)
The first concert I ever attended was Black Sabbath's Reunion Tour in Dallas, Jan 24 1999. Went with my dad who was a huge fan back in the 1970s. Got to see them again during the The End Tour in Minneapolis, Jan 25 2016, almost 17 years to the day. Paranoid has always been my favorite Sabbath song. Would love to see Ozzy and the guys perform live one more time.
I was at that Dallas concert. Pantera opened up. Awesome show.
My favorite Sabbath album is Sabotage. Totally underrated.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath too
I had that album on cassette and wore it out
Heaviest album ever made. Black Sabbath invented Heavy Metal, Sabotage was their Magnum opus
Its ACDCs Powerage..
@@JoriDiculousHole in the sky and symptom of the universe were thrash before thrash no doubt.
Sabbath with Ozzy and Ward was my very first concert in 1999 when I was 14 going on 15. The opening acts were Drain STH and Godsmack - Hershey, PA. What a time to be alive.
Saw them at that Ozzfest as well. Was surprised Adam didn’t mention that tour
@@jeremywheeler8902yep I saw them at Ozzfest in 2005 (iirc, could’ve been ‘04).
Drain STH. I haven't thought of them in years. Gonna have to pull out the cd I bought of them what 20yrs ago or so
@@johndodson3020I worked for their record/distribution company in the 90’s and it’s been a long time since I heard anyone say the name Drain STH. That was one of those projects that we thought was good, but not many other people did. I might just have to pull my copy out and give it a listen today. Thanks for the memory.
Sounds like a fun show.
I was fortunate enough to have been raised by a father that was a avid Sabbath fan and a guitarist, he taught me how to play guitar with those songs, even how Iommi got his iconic sound (Drop D tuning all the strings).
R.I.P dad.
Dads are great.....miss em when they go.
Black Sabbath was a musical staple with the circle of friends I had in junior high. Lots of memories hanging out in a friend's basement, whose parents didn't seem to mind us cranking up the volume. I could only have wished mine were that cool.
The band was never the same without Ozzy, and his signature vocals. I bought most of his solo albums, and even the later reunion record, 13, when it came out.
And it always surprised me later, as I grew up, that you could understand his lyrics so clearly when he sang, but you could barely comprehend what the hell he was saying when he talked. 🤷♂😂🤣
Ozzy was Black Sabbath but Dio was great with Sabbath (Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Dehumanizer awesome albums). Dio and Iommi both stated they should have never called themselves Black Sabbath but Heaven and Hell because Ozzy was Sabbath.
Ozzy has been diagnosed with Parkinson's. So it seems like his speech might have been the first aspect of it.
Drugs take a toll
@@netgnostic1627 I wouldn't argue that Parkinson's disease can affect one's speech, but Ozzy has been fairly incomprehensible while speaking, for 50 years at least.
What a brilliant time to be alive... have the original vinyl, still rocks your socks off.
The narrative with this undeniably influential song is pure poetry. Amazing writing.
As a kid growing up in the 70's & 80's, Black Sabbath was always on along with Led Zeppelin, Rush & Pink Floyd. I love all of them to this day. Great music that never fades just gets better with age like fine wine! I wish there was music and originality like all these bands created today but sadly there really isn't, it was a magical couple of decades that I miss daily.
My first concert was Black Sabbath on the Born Again tour. My second was Ozzy Osbourne on the Bark at the Moon tour. Both bands performed Paranoid.
Those nights changed the course of my life.
With this afterthought of a song, they inadvertently changed music forever and inspired many major bands that came after them. They accidentally stepped in it in the best way. Long live the legend.🤘🤟
I bought Black Sabbath Paranoid when the album came out. I love Paranoid even to this day. Every time I listen to Paranoid I can still hear my mom yelling upstairs to TURN THAT SH** DOWN!!!! Thank you for taking me back.
I think it was early 90s when I finally got around to buying the Paranoid CD. My mom was afraid to listen to Black Sabbath just because of the name, but when I played it she liked it better than she thought she would.
the part at 18:18 yeah i WAS on the teacher list and called a Devil worshiper by my Teachers for loving Ozzy and Sabbath. lived in a tiny mid west town in Colorado...
Same went to parochial school was thrown out and deemed a devil worshiper
As a teen in the 70's I was inspired to play bass after hearing Geezer's bass playing on the Paranoid and Master of Reality albums. And I'm still playing the bass today. I've seen Sabbath in concert several times, with Ozzy and with Dio. They're one of my all-time favorite rock bands and always will be.
my big brother was in the army and on r & r from fighting in Vietnam, went to a rock fest in Germany 70 or 71, cant remember, said he woke up to Sabbath playing and Ozzie standing on stage 20 feet from him in the middle of this huge bright sun stage prop with Ozzie singing paranoid, when he finished his service in the Army and came home, he gave me his Paranoid album, i was 11 years old and blown away, i still have that album, i miss you Joe, the greatest brother and coolest guy i ever knew
My Sabbath story occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the Black and Blue tour with BOC. BOC absolutely rocked their set whipping the crowd into a frenzy! Sabbath came out and was killing it. Sometime in the second or third song somebody threw a pint bottle at the stage. Hit Geezer in the head, they stopped the show and walked off. After what seemed an eternity, someone walked on stage and admonished the audience for throwing stuff at the stage, the show was over! It caused a riot in the Milwaukee Arena which turned into mayhem! Look it up, it would be a great story!
I was blessed with being able to see Ozzie live several times , thank god I was born in the generation that was able to see so many greats live , l just missed the likes of Janis and Jimmie , but I am so glad to see vanhalens first tour , def leopard , rush who I saw in a roller skating rink , and so many others
Ozzy was gifted with a strangeness that helped to give him an interesting vocal style and sound that is unmistakable. Along with that amazing voice came an ear that kept his tone weirdly in key all the while bordering right on edge of breakup. Throw in Geezers depth of lyrical story telling and finally pair that with the amazing and unique guitar talent possessed by Iommi and that granted us access to the holy grail of metal. We are not worthy 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Paranoid was definitely the first Sabbath song that snapped my neck around. They only get better to my ears every listen.
where i grew up as a youngster in the 80s, i was in my teens, our town had a local radio station, and my town is known for holding the country music awards, a small town in New Zealand, Gore, well our radio station played Black Sabbath, i don't ever remember hearing other stations playing Sabbath at that time, one of me mates is a hardcore metal fan, he got me into Black Sabbath. what i like about Sabbath, is how they go from metal to classical to rock n roll and blues all in one song, just brilliant,
Paranoid is their masterpiece album - Iron Man , Paranoid, War Pigs and Planet Caravan - just an awesome album
Amen! Thanks for watching. Did you ever catch them live?
Planet caravan so underrated.
All metal staples!
@@ProfessorofRockI had tickets for the Rock Superbowl in Orlando March 20, 1982, my senior year. Obviously, tragedy struck. I didn't even attend the show. I think Pat Travers played instead.
Yup, all the radio tracks.
Loved this! I discovered Ozzy and Sabbath separately since I was born in '73. When I discovered Sabbath Tony Martin was the frontman and people don't talk about those albums anymore, it's all about Dio and Ozzy. "Anno Mundi (The Vision)", "Odin's Court⁄Valhalla", "When Death Calls" with Brian May doing the guitar solo, etc. All brilliant, but those albums are largely forgotten nowadays.
Dio, Ian Gillan and Tony Martin made me a fan of Sabbath, but the deeper cuts with Ozzy are fantastic as well.
They were supposed to be Tony’s solo records but the record label would only release it if it were titled a sabbath albums
@@loveagainstgods5116 I believe you are thinking of the album "The Seventh Star" with Glenn Hughes singing. _It was originally written, recorded, and intended to be the first solo album by Iommi. Because of the pressures from Warner Bros. Records and the prompting of band manager Don Arden, the record was billed as Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi._
- Wiki
Master of Reality is Sabbath's best album imo. Criminally underrated, and heavy as hell. You should just do a whole episode on that album, it's so damn good.
💯 percent agree 👍born in 65, loved The Sabs since 12 years old
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my favorite..."A National Acrobat " turned into Fade to Black
Masters of Reality is a classic.
It’s underrated?
Sweet leaf was the song
I grew up in Utah and I can appreciate exactly what your saying about FM radio in the early 80s. I used to call the radio station and ask them to play Sabbath and they never would. Every once in awhile Iron Man would could on, but it was extremely rare to hear any Sabbath on the radio.
Thank you for this! Huge Sabbath fan here. Growing up, my dad listened to country and my mom listed to Motown, both of which I enjoy. My older brother however soon started getting ACDC, Van Halen and KISS records. But when he started bringing home mixtapes of hard rock and metal, that was it for me. I remember having one tape where Iron Man was actually cut off too early. To this day, when I hear it, I'm expecting the song to end at the same spot. I'm old now, but still crank Sabbath until the speakers blow.
Rock on 🤘
The Professor..... Love you man..... really appreciate your channel....
Sabbath was so far away from where I was musically in my teen years, to the eternal gratitude of my parents, I'm sure. Sabbath and Iron Maiden were definitely dangerous territory-- family intervention sort of music. I owe a friend for helping me expand my palette into classic metal in the '00s after college and this was the album he used to do it. I've since added the quadrophonic DVD version of this album to my growing collection of what I feel are almost necessary 'desert island' albums and it is majestic. In fact, I'm gonna put it on now right to celebrate how epic it truly is. Have a great holiday weekend, Adam and everyone here in the comments at POR. Hope it rocks out wherever you spend it!
Similarly I had this experience with a friend in high school turning me on the Sabbath mainly and others but mostly Sabbath. The 1st alb may have been master of reality or sabotage! Prior I was a Beatles and wings diehard. I’m forever grateful for his input for expanding my musical taste. This was in the mid 1970s whilst sabbath was still making music with original lineup! Yours was in the 2000s! Nice to see the traditions carrying on.
Black Sabbath
One of the best album covers every.
It represents the music perfectly.
I remember when my oldest brother came home yelling "Guys, you gotta hear this!" and played the LP black sabbath.
We were amazed to say the least. The louder it was the more we liked it.
I love Dio,and cand usually put up with Ozzie.I wish they both had stayed with the band.Hey professor! When do we get to see about a deep dive into Blackfoot? And thier connections with Skynyrd? Ano❤❤ther cuople of forgotten guitar greats in there too! Tyvm.
Your story about your dad's Sabbath 8-track made me laugh. That's how I got my Paranoid 8-track. My friend's mom found a copy in the dad's collection and threw it in the trash. I saw it there and rescued it for myself. Later on in life I got to go to see Black Sabbath in concert. That was after the split up with Ozzy which I also got to see in concert. Those early to mid '80s were great for concerts! I still have that 8-track by the way. And also have a vintage console stereo setup with 8-track player and turn table for playing all my valued vinyl and 8-track sweeties. Funny how something so obsolete can bring that warm feeling back.
I swear there are so many stories like this. I wish more artists would take the “let’s just get this last song over with” for every album. It works
@professorofrock - Sorry this comes 10 months after this episode's release but thanks for doing this piece on Sabbath and Paranoid. Very cool! Tony Iommi is iconic on guitar and Bill Ward gave Bonzo of LZ a run for the money. I actually learned to play bass listening to Geezer Butler's riffs. And Ozzy is just... Ozzy!
Got tickets back in '81 to go to what I thought was a "Black and Blue" concert (Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult) and when we got there found out it was "only" a Black Sabbath concert. Unbelievably, the only one I ever got to see and it had that micro-demon Ronny James Dio fronting the band. A very memorable metal evening.
I took Paranoid from my mom’s collection when I was in middle school. I listened to it over and over again. Paranoid is one of the first guitar riffs I learned well on the guitar. Definitely a huge reason I am a metalhead today. Deep Purple’s machine head album is another reason.
The first album i ever bought was the self titled album. We call it the witch ablum. I was instantly hooked! I've seen them.several times thru the years with Ozzy and Dio. The last time was the tour for the 2013 album. I was just blown away at how good they sounded and how energetic they were after all those years.
That's how it was. My brother had all the new records and when he was gone I would sneak in to his room and listen. This was different. When "Iron Man" started, my whole world changed. No music has affected me like this. When the needle came to "Paranoid," it was almost a release. Thanks for another great video and greetings from Sweden!
No one hates great British Rock more than British Rock critics 😂 Sabbath, Zeppelin , Pink Floyd etc... One cannot overstate the importance of this song, album, and band!🔥💀🔥
Without the British Invasion we wouldn’t even have all this interesting music!
Of course, the job of a critic is to be critical, but since most critics were old fuddy-duddies with no appreciation for this kind of music, they spoke out against it.
And their lickspittles at Rolling Stone.
they sed jimmy pages new band was sed it would go over like a led zeppelin 😅😂
Deep Purple, Judas Priest (essentially invented the term "metal" due to the British Steele album), ...
This song has one of those riffs that stays in your head for life. When I first heard it as a child I didn't understand a single word in it, just loved the music. Thanks for the breakdown of this song - the lyrics are pretty deep and it's interesting that the word "Paranoid" isn't actually used in it. I do remember Black Sabbath being called a devil worshipping group primarily because of their name.
I don't think you can overstate the influence this song and Black Sabbath had on music. If you love heavy metal the Paranoid album is a staple. I don't think there is a better place to point to than Sabbath's first 2 albums and this song as the birth of the heaviest of metal. Crazy that it was a filler. Great episode professor!
Paranoid is a classic.
Black Sabbath was my first live concert! My hearing should return shortly . . . and that was 50 some years ago . . . I first heard their title song in a music shop with an audiophile system. I rushed out the door because I thought it was pouring outside. Been a fan ever since.
I remember when this first came out... people were calling it "devil music", so naturally as kids in 7th grade, we listened to it. It was pretty hardcore, and we liked that it was forbidden. By today's standards, it seems pretty tame, but the only thing like it at the time was Iron Butterfly, but Ozzy's voice set it apart.
When my older half brother was seventeen, he moved in with us for the first time in his life. He brought with him four eight track tapes -- Deep Purple's Machine Head and Burn, and Black Sabbath's Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It was my first introduction to heavy metal. I was five and a half years younger and the 'oldest' of us kids at the time aside from my brother, Bob. Prior to his influence, my rock exposure didn't get much harder than Jim Croce's I Got a Name or Don McLean's American Pie. Those eight tracks and a set of headphones got me hooked on metal! Next he brought his vinyl collection starting with Alice Cooper's School's Out, followed by Joe Walsh, Smoker You Drink the Player You Get, Steppenwolf 16 Greatest Hits, Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin among others. I'll never forget these classics! I memorized every word. The first album I bought with the first five bucks I ever earned was Welcome to My Nightmare when it first appeared on the shelves. I had to borrow the change to make up the sales tax. I was blown away! Later, my younger brother and I made it a point to collect Black Sabbath and Deep Purple albums, and between the three of us we had every one of their LPs. Except, for some reason we never bought Deep Purple's Stormbringer album, but my next door neighbor had a copy...what an obsession! My vinyl collection in the late eighties was extremely large. Sold most all of them at the pawn shop one day in 1988 when we ran out of beer, for fifty bucks, the idea being we could get them back easier if it wasn't so much money...I miss them 😢...My brother passed away about eleven years ago when he was fifty five. I've already outlived him by six years. His influence on me changed everything. I would be such a different person today...
What's always upset me was the fact that Dio wasn't inducted into tbe R&R HOF with Sabbath. Ronnie gave the band new life in the 80's and probably the two best albums ever, "Heaven & Hell" and "The Mob Rules."
I agree.
Yes, because the RRHOF’s decisions make zero sense.
I’d have to agree with you, “heaven and hell” is probably one of the top 5 of all time metal master pieces, at least from my perspective and I’ve lived and rocked from doors, who, Zeppelin, to the fall of the hair bands. Truth be told, Ozzy sucked.
Cause Dio was unbearable. Simply put.
I think the Rock & Roll HOF is a joke. There are so many bands out there that should be in there and vice-versa.
Hi, greetings from Costa Rica. Saw this video last night and thank you very much. Never heard from ARS before and I've been working hearing them today. It is just awesome.
On April 12th of '78, I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in Austin, Texas. Van Halen was one of the best bands going at the time and Black Sabbath was in decline and Ozzy was on his way out. Sabbath basically got booed off the stage. Wish I could have seen them 5 years earlier. Paranoid is one of my favorite all time albums.
Thanks for sharing. What did VH open with?
@@ProfessorofRock I'm not sure I remember right. I remember "On Fire" and "I'm the One" but not the order. I remember a Michael Anthony bass solo that led directly into "Running With The Devil". Then towards the end of the main show, Eddie's solo ending with Eruption which led into "You Really Got Me". They basically played the entire first album (out of order) and then a couple of songs for the encore that I didn't know.
What happened that derailed the plans?
You talk about growing up in a small town in Idaho. I was 9 years old and we were living in Council, Idaho the first time I heard Black Sabbath's debut (it was new at the time). My older brother had gotten a copy and was playing it when my mom got home from work. She walked in and heard the Devil's triad being played at high volume, snatched the record of the turntable and flung it across the room breaking it against the back of the fireplace. I have been a Black Sabbath fan ever since.
I Love BLACK SABBATH! You failed to mention when all the original members got together in the year 2000 for Ozz Fest. I will never forget it. One of the greatest nights of my life ❤
I saw them all together in Ozzfest 2005.
Thanks for mentioning Mythology - my dad was the lead singer in that band back in the day. They played blues covers in the north of England, no metal back then ;-)
"Paranoid" is such a great album. It is timeless, to use a cliché, and its sound was way ahead of its time. I play this album all the time, "cover to cover". My favorite Sabbath album is probably "Master of Reality", mainly because the bass is so heavy. My favorite Sabbath song, "Into the Void", is off this album. The bass is so heavy on this tune that you can't upload it, you can only download it. It is so heavy that it has its own gravitational pull. And to be honest, I don't really trust anyone who doesn't own (or at one time owned) the first 6 Sabbath albums and "Heaven and Hell" and Zep's studio albums.
Children of the Grave best song in Master of Reality. But I like 3 others
Paranoid being on Rock and Roll racing game shaped my music taste forever, the combination of an amazing track with the action on the race was just too much.
Thank you Paranoid for making me a metalhead.
Some other great "filler" tracks include:
New World Man by Rush
Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
Lucky Man by ELP
You've got another thing coming by Judas Priest.
Just goes to show that great musicians can just click and make magic happen at the drop of a hat
Many people are unaware of Deep Purple's first '68 smash hit song "Hush."
Smoke on the Water surprises me.
@@tmr626Hush was written by Joe South for Billy Joe Royal in 1967.
On the same album was the song Rose Garden also written by Joe South
I have a much older co-worker who loves Lynn Anderson and we talked about Rose Garden.
He never new the information i gave him.
I had listening to Billy Joe Royal and Joe South in the past
I think these reason these filler tracks are so good is because artists are being given the liberty to write and perform. These songs were written with the freedom from judgement and pressure. In some ways, these are better representations of the artists as creators then the albums they appear on.
Just a song before I go by Graham Nash...written in ten minutes at an airport on a bet
120 minutes! My daughter loved it as well, but it came on way past her bedtime. So, I taped it but waited to watch it with her. Loved Matt Penfield, and discovered THE BEST music :-) We both fell in love with Tom Waits when he ran the In The Neighborhood video.
Black Sabbath are the godfathers of heavy metal. They're one of those bands that are often imitated never duplicated. A four star line up with Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill that layed the foundation of the music we now know as Heavy Metal.If there was no Sabbath,there would be no Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden etc. It all starts and ends with Black Sabbath. There never was nor never will be another band like Black Sabbath. Thank you POR for this look back on the greatest Metal band that ever graced the planet, Black Sabbath!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Greatest metal band, I agree!
Well said
Great episode, Adam! Very happy to hear about some old timey Sabbath, and especially Paranoid. I'm also glad you noted the misheard lyrics from this song, too. It was always clear to me (given the context of the following lyrics), and I know Sabbath got some grief over it. I'd also love to hear any Dio-era Sabbath stuff, too. 👍🏻
What an Album - the anthem to my youth.
That one track is just the song that defines them.
When I listen to Ozzy's voice I hear a plaintive wail.
Great comment. Love how you stated it. What's your top Sabbath track>?
Symptom of the Universe
"Plaintive wail". Perfect. I've felt that for decades but could never reduce it to words. Great job.
Ozzy is the GOAT
Show us on the doll where Ozzy touched you
I was 13 in 1970 when I bought this album with money from my newspaper route. Never looked back. Love it to this day. I am 67 now.
I always remember Ozzy being interviewed in the 80’s about satanism in his and Black Sabbath music.
He said “ I don’t get it Vincent Price plays a bad guy in a lot of horror movies and no one accuses him of being a satanist “
Side note Paranoid is the fist song most kids my age learned when picking up the guitar.
I loved Vincent Price!
Especially on songs for Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden.
You actually read the lyrics, they're almost devout Anglicans and Catholics.. and the 'dark' stuff was oh%(*% moments straying from christianity in their eyes..
Adam, at 15:13, you say, "The hands of Iommi gave us the raging sound of Heavy Metal." It is interesting to note that hands of Iommi include prosthetic finger tips. He got the ends of two fingers on his right hand cut off in a sheet metal cutting machine when he was 17. Those were his fretboard fingers because he plays left handed. He found he couldn't play on the stumps, so he melted down a plastic bottle and made his own prosthetic tips. This accident is the reason Black Sabbath sounds like it does.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!
There it is!
Wonderful history. I was 13 years old when I bought the Black Sabbath Paranoid album (I cleaned horse corrals and dog runs in those days to earn money to buy albums). Sabbath's sound was so cool. I've been a fan ever since.
Everything Sabbath did was beyond influential, close to life changing. But it was the Dio years that utterly transformed the wat I listen to, and hear the band. Ronnie was a pure monster of rock. Still miss him every day.
We're so close to losing Ozzy, it's painful to even think about it.