I was 10 in 70 and it blew my little mind! Took it to school and the music teacher played it for the class. I took a lot of albums to class and she played every single one! Grand Funk, Sabbath, Mountain etc. She was cool as hell man✌🤘
It still astounds me that any of Sabbath's 70s catalog was made that early. They were indeed the inventors of true HEAVY metal. (And yes,I am old enough to have heard this when it was released and I was surprised and captivated by it).
My favorite Black Sabbath line up!! Ozzy On vocals, Tony Iommi lead guitar, Geezer Butler on Bass & the amazing Bill Ward on drums 🔥 When I first heard this I thought WOW 🔥🔥 I need this album!! I still have it. This song is off their 1970 album “Paranoid” Pure fire ♥️
Got a loan of the Paranoid album which Iron Man is on during the school lunch break. Ran home put it on my mums mono record player and she freaked out thinking I had suddenly become a devil worshipper or something. We had never heard music like it- she hated it, I was hooked and still am 53 years later at the age of 67. Great reactions man
First time I heard this song was after I bought the album, because I liked "Paranoid". "Iron Man", like "Paranoid", was another instant hit with me. It was so heavy but melodic at the same time. The multiple transitions all have their unique hooks. That's something I always liked about Black Sabbath, the way they throw wonderful transitions into their songs, speeding up, slowing down, getting heavy and then light again. Keeps you wondering what they're going to do while you listen. Good job, SalvoG!
It's still heavy to this day. Sure, Metal has gotten "heavier" since then but this is timeless type of heavy. One that set a tone for an entire genre. To me, this will always be heavier than the metal we have today.
For me, it went Blue Cheer, then Sabbath's first album, then the second. I was more surprised with Blue Cheer's heavy sound but Sabbath's first album brought heavy to a completely different and more powerful level. Blue Cheer's cover of Summertime Blues was on the Billboard charts in 68.
I had that album VINCEBUS ERUPTUM. parchman farm was quite a heavy second. Saw them live in California a couple of times. The first drummer that sported tympani drums w/mallets
I was 15 when I started to listen to Black Sabbath music. Now you have to think back, because nobody dissected the story or lyrics, we just listened to the songs, the vibrations and how good we felt with the beat and rhythms. In that time, era there were many types of music like there is now days. Not everybody was listening or digging for this kind of music, far Out Man! Everyone listened to soft rock ( Elton John, Johnny Mathis, Bee Gees, Cher) so on and soul music (Aretha Franklin, Dina Ross). Only a select few listened to this kind of music. You only heard it in pool parties or car show gatherings, parks and beach parties, never anywhere else, and yeah you could smell "Mary Jane" in the air. I was into this and very heavy metal and I'm 68 and still listen to this when I can, when I'm alone from my G'Kids and I also put on my headphones and remember the times, sometime smelling the sweetness of the air! I'm a respectable Man at work, Sr. Equipment Technical Technician, NHRA Safety Safari Drag Racing Official and an accomplish author with a few Motion Picture connections to my stories but you'd never know my Wild Music Selection going back to the 70's - cheek it out bleed bro! Can You Dig It!
I was so ready for these guys! Skipped school to hang in my best friends basement to hear it for the first time . l was 12 and they totally changed my taste in music
Wow … Iron Man …. I first started listening to metal in about 78 or so at the tender age of 11. I first was listening to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin …. And that got me turned on Sabbath …. And holy shit … Sabbath blew my mind. Once I heard Iron Man and War Pigs, well there was just no turning back. I’ve been a metal head ever since
I got to see Sabbath on The End Tour with my cousin, who is also a crazy metal head. We both agree that it is the greatest of all the old school metal gigs we have ever seen.
My first encounter with BLACK SABBATH i was 13 yrs old I'm now 56 and still loving one of the best bands around try ROCKIN ROL DOCTOR FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS , HAND OF DOOM , AND ONE OF OZZIES LAST BEFORE LEAVING THE BAND JOHNNY BLADE keep up the great work enjoy MATE FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER
The tag team the Road Warriors used this as their entrance music in the mid 80s, it was incredible the pop they got when they came out to it, in wrestling a loud pop for wrestlers became known as "The Road Warrior Pop" for this.
I've been on board since 1st album. Paranoid obviously was killer. MASTER OF REALITY really was a game changer in hard rock. Tony tuned down to C# the lyrics went to another level.
True! but one thing a lot of people get wrong is they think he tuned down from the beginning when actually he didn't start tuning down until their 3rd album, Master Of Reality, that's when things got really heavy! The debut album and Paranoid were both entirely in Standard E tuning, but Tony used lighter gauge strings to compensate for his finger tips (Still sounded so heavy). He still used relatively light gauge strings after discovering down tuning but not as light as he started off with. The more you know!
awesome, if you want to continue on the Sabbath vein, I suggest "Fairies Wear Boots", I was working in a rock band in the early 80s and we had a jazz drummer, awesome drummer. He was playing rock to make money, Fairies was his suggestion to the band repertoire. Tough song to play.
Our parents frownded on this band back in the 70s, calling it "drug" music...promoting sex, drugs and rock and roll...but the lyrics to most of the songs always dealt with events of the time...with the few exceptions...but all in all, our parents didn't look past the album cover for the most part...but we knew great music when we heard it...I'm thrilled to see that they are still being discovered, and appreciated...Rock ON!!
It was cool, that whole album was on my turntable for a few weeks. Saw it live within the year, the entrance for the gig was like 10cents your money (1s 9d my money at the time)! Crazy times, they were the headliners and there were 2 support bands.
Nothing like this existed in 1970. No one was doing anything like this, so I and every other kid I knew were all blown away. Best of all, the critics hated them. I strongly urge you to react to a lyric video of Into the Void, one of Iommi's masterpieces (1971) and Symptom of the Universe (in which Tony Iommi started thrash in 1975).
You want to hear ozzys range check out sabbath bloody sabbath from thier album sabbath bloody sabbath or thier song megalomania one of if not ozzys best vocal performances ever recorded
I bought this album when I was 9. With Christmas money. My grandmother took me to The Record Cellar to buy an album. I picked Black Sabbath, "Paranoid". She never took me back to the record store.
Try War Pigs live 1970 version in paris i think Bill Ward the drummer will blow you away The drums cringe when they see him walk on stage He is a beast
70`s where do you think metal came from I was there from the beginning it was wonderful all the talent that destroyed itself parties drugs rock and roll it was great and awful fun had by all God bless
There were actually alot of hard tunes during that time. Nothing too shocking. I was a pre-teen. These guys, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, etc. It was a time of explosive experimentation & creativity in music with the Vietnam War going on and social/political turmoil.
Ozzy Range: Anything from the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973) and "Sabotage" (1975) albums!!! Those 2 albums were the PEAK of Ozzy's vocals in his career!!! Songs such as "A National Acrobat", "Sabracadabra", "Spiral Architect", "Symptom of the Universe", "Megalomania", "Thrill of it All" and "The Writ"
I was too young when this came out to fully appreciate how incredible and special Black Sabbath was. I was born in 1955 and was just starting to really collect music (Capital Tape and Record Club) when Black Sabbath came to life. I certainly recognized that it was different but didn't know that it was totally unique. I was too inexperienced. But NOW, Black Sabbath and especially Tony Iommi is my favorite and has been for a long time. Iron man didn't stand out very much (for me) from all the other awesome music on the "Black Sabbath" and "Paranoid" albums. Soon followed by "Master of Reality". I think just about any song on those first 3 albums is as good or better than Iron Man.
Yeah, that was when music was the best. Just think of the bands that were putting out albums at that time, all the greats : Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Who, Eric Clapton and I know I am leaving out a whole heck of a lot of others, but you get the idea. I turned 10 in 70, and was lucky enough to have an older brother that put me on to music, and I STILL think it is the best music ever!! The whole Paranoid album (from which this song is from) blew my mind, I went right out and bought it!! It was under $10 CDN and I still have that album today!!!!
This is what I compared all other music to, it was so amazing that the pop stuff just didn't do it for me anymore, lol! No more Barry Manilow or Donny Osmond for me!
I was not much into Sabbath. I used the heavier stuff like seasoning for food. Just enough to keep things interesting. However, I am a huge Zepplin fan & some may consider them heavy.
If you look at the bass sheet music versus the guitar sheet music, the bassist is doing way more stuff and way more technically complicated as well. But such is the life of a bassist, never gets any credit
Should just listen to the first 6 Sabbath albums. Just accept the fact it is a must. :-) Iron man is mild for Sabbath. :-) But seriously, quit spoiling yourself and just listen to the first 6 albums. It's some of the best music ever made in history, beats much of the Zeppelin ya listened to(Zep are rock gods, so... yea). Sabbath spawned an entire genre of music. So just do it!... Now! 😅
my initial reaction. sabbath was a hendrix ripoff. hendrix was the guitar god from 1967 until his death in 1970. his other worldly guitar licks influenced EVERYBODY, especially british bands, with his psychedilic stretching. nobody had done what hendrix was doing. and his riffs spurred the heavy metal movement. i was 18 in 1970 and when i first heard black sabbath, i dismissed them as just a hendrix wannabe band. none of their riffs could even catch hendrix's mastery. i always say thet jim hendrix is the father of metal because of the outer space heavy riffs he came up with. i was there, i was alive, i saw hendrix in toronto in 1969. and i can say from authority that sabbath was a hendrix ripoff. hell, even zakk wylde named his first born son Hendrix.
I was 10 in 70 and it blew my little mind! Took it to school and the music teacher played it for the class. I took a lot of albums to class and she played every single one! Grand Funk, Sabbath, Mountain etc. She was cool as hell man✌🤘
That’s so badass! I’m 26 and a HUGE fan of all those bands! Early Grand Funk and Mountain is INCREDIBLE! Sabbath will always be my favorite though!
I m 17 Years old and iron Man Is the my best song
Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are the two iconic grandfathers of Heavy Metal
The UnHoly Trinity with Zeppelin
We sparked up a big one 😎
It still astounds me that any of Sabbath's 70s catalog was made that early. They were indeed the inventors of true HEAVY metal. (And yes,I am old enough to have heard this when it was released and I was surprised and captivated by it).
My favorite Black Sabbath line up!! Ozzy On vocals, Tony Iommi lead guitar, Geezer Butler on Bass & the amazing Bill Ward on drums 🔥 When I first heard this I thought WOW 🔥🔥 I need this album!! I still have it. This song is off their 1970 album “Paranoid” Pure fire ♥️
I personally consider it the only Sabbath lineup. I love Dio, but their sound changed so much it was more Rainbow heavy than Black Sabbath
@@coachmikesfilmroom3111 exactly how I feel ♥️
Exactly how I feel as well!
Got a loan of the Paranoid album which Iron Man is on during the school lunch break. Ran home put it on my mums mono record player and she freaked out thinking I had suddenly become a devil worshipper or something. We had never heard music like it- she hated it, I was hooked and still am 53 years later at the age of 67. Great reactions man
My mom same reaction
In the 70's we'd play this in the locker room then go and beat the $#!t out of the opposition team. Haha!
First time I heard this song was after I bought the album, because I liked "Paranoid". "Iron Man", like "Paranoid", was another instant hit with me. It was so heavy but melodic at the same time. The multiple transitions all have their unique hooks. That's something I always liked about Black Sabbath, the way they throw wonderful transitions into their songs, speeding up, slowing down, getting heavy and then light again. Keeps you wondering what they're going to do while you listen. Good job, SalvoG!
It's still heavy to this day. Sure, Metal has gotten "heavier" since then but this is timeless type of heavy. One that set a tone for an entire genre. To me, this will always be heavier than the metal we have today.
When I was a senior in high school we would hang out listening to Black Sabbath and get high!
For me, it went Blue Cheer, then Sabbath's first album, then the second. I was more surprised with Blue Cheer's heavy sound but Sabbath's first album brought heavy to a completely different and more powerful level. Blue Cheer's cover of Summertime Blues was on the Billboard charts in 68.
I love that cover!
I had that album VINCEBUS ERUPTUM. parchman farm was quite a heavy second. Saw them live in California a couple of times. The first drummer that sported tympani drums w/mallets
I was 15 when I started to listen to Black Sabbath music. Now you have to think back, because nobody dissected the story or lyrics, we just listened to the songs, the vibrations and how good we felt with the beat and rhythms. In that time, era there were many types of music like there is now days. Not everybody was listening or digging for this kind of music, far Out Man! Everyone listened to soft rock ( Elton John, Johnny Mathis, Bee Gees, Cher) so on and soul music (Aretha Franklin, Dina Ross). Only a select few listened to this kind of music. You only heard it in pool parties or car show gatherings, parks and beach parties, never anywhere else, and yeah you could smell "Mary Jane" in the air. I was into this and very heavy metal and I'm 68 and still listen to this when I can, when I'm alone from my G'Kids and I also put on my headphones and remember the times, sometime smelling the sweetness of the air! I'm a respectable Man at work, Sr. Equipment Technical Technician, NHRA Safety Safari Drag Racing Official and an accomplish author with a few Motion Picture connections to my stories but you'd never know my Wild Music Selection going back to the 70's - cheek it out bleed bro! Can You Dig It!
I was so ready for these guys! Skipped school to hang in my best friends basement to hear it for the first time . l was 12 and they totally changed my taste in music
this was amazing sound, so different, so exciting, and such good music, we called it Hard Rock, and it became Heavy Metal by mid-70's.
Wow … Iron Man …. I first started listening to metal in about 78 or so at the tender age of 11. I first was listening to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin …. And that got me turned on Sabbath …. And holy shit … Sabbath blew my mind. Once I heard Iron Man and War Pigs, well there was just no turning back. I’ve been a metal head ever since
I got to see Sabbath on The End Tour with my cousin, who is also a crazy metal head. We both agree that it is the greatest of all the old school metal gigs we have ever seen.
In 1970 we were coming out of the Beatles the stones etc. then came Sabbath and zeppelin and wow what is this it's great
My first encounter with BLACK SABBATH i was 13 yrs old I'm now 56 and still loving one of the best bands around try ROCKIN ROL DOCTOR FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS , HAND OF DOOM , AND ONE OF OZZIES LAST BEFORE LEAVING THE BAND JOHNNY BLADE keep up the great work enjoy MATE FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER
And thus, the Metal was born
The tag team the Road Warriors used this as their entrance music in the mid 80s, it was incredible the pop they got when they came out to it, in wrestling a loud pop for wrestlers became known as "The Road Warrior Pop" for this.
Pure 70's metal 🤘🖤😜
I've been on board since 1st album. Paranoid obviously was killer. MASTER OF REALITY really was a game changer in hard rock. Tony tuned down to C# the lyrics went to another level.
The guitar player lost some finger tips on his fret hand. He had to tune down for comfort reasons. Thus the “heavier” sound was born
True! but one thing a lot of people get wrong is they think he tuned down from the beginning when actually he didn't start tuning down until their 3rd album, Master Of Reality, that's when things got really heavy! The debut album and Paranoid were both entirely in Standard E tuning, but Tony used lighter gauge strings to compensate for his finger tips (Still sounded so heavy). He still used relatively light gauge strings after discovering down tuning but not as light as he started off with. The more you know!
awesome, if you want to continue on the Sabbath vein, I suggest "Fairies Wear Boots", I was working in a rock band in the early 80s and we had a jazz drummer, awesome drummer. He was playing rock to make money, Fairies was his suggestion to the band repertoire. Tough song to play.
Killing yourself to live is the Greatest song Black Sabbath ever wrote
This was the birth of true heavy metal , the second album I ever bought
Our parents frownded on this band back in the 70s, calling it "drug" music...promoting sex, drugs and rock and roll...but the lyrics to most of the songs always dealt with events of the time...with the few exceptions...but all in all, our parents didn't look past the album cover for the most part...but we knew great music when we heard it...I'm thrilled to see that they are still being discovered, and appreciated...Rock ON!!
It was cool, that whole album was on my turntable for a few weeks. Saw it live within the year, the entrance for the gig was like 10cents your money (1s 9d my money at the time)! Crazy times, they were the headliners and there were 2 support bands.
Nothing like this existed in 1970. No one was doing anything like this, so I and every other kid I knew were all blown away. Best of all, the critics hated them. I strongly urge you to react to a lyric video of Into the Void, one of Iommi's masterpieces (1971) and Symptom of the Universe (in which Tony Iommi started thrash in 1975).
First reaction was Sabbath are much heavier than any American band at the time
You want to hear ozzys range check out sabbath bloody sabbath from thier album sabbath bloody sabbath or thier song megalomania one of if not ozzys best vocal performances ever recorded
1 of my favourite sabbath tracks
I bought this album when I was 9. With Christmas money. My grandmother took me to The Record Cellar to buy an album. I picked Black Sabbath, "Paranoid". She never took me back to the record store.
Vol4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are heavy as fuck and my favourites,but I love ALL of the first 6 albums.
Try War Pigs live 1970 version in paris i think Bill Ward the drummer will blow you away The drums cringe when they see him walk on stage He is a beast
Drums want Bill Ward for christmas.
70`s where do you think metal came from I was there from the beginning it was wonderful all the talent that destroyed itself parties drugs rock and roll it was great and awful fun had by all God bless
🖐️Me too. So lucky.
There were actually alot of hard tunes during that time. Nothing too shocking. I was a pre-teen. These guys, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, etc. It was a time of explosive experimentation & creativity in music with the Vietnam War going on and social/political turmoil.
If you put Black Sabbath on the turntable back then, you kind of already knew what you would get.
Ozzy Range: Anything from the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973) and "Sabotage" (1975) albums!!! Those 2 albums were the PEAK of Ozzy's vocals in his career!!! Songs such as "A National Acrobat", "Sabracadabra", "Spiral Architect", "Symptom of the Universe", "Megalomania", "Thrill of it All" and "The Writ"
Check out War Pigs by Sabbath, that song has some cool guitaring and it shows more of Ozzys range
If you want some of his range, check out Snowblind, NIB, or Wheels of Confusion.
I was too young when this came out to fully appreciate how incredible and special Black
Sabbath was. I was born in 1955 and was just starting to really collect music (Capital Tape and Record Club) when Black Sabbath came to life. I certainly recognized that it was different but didn't know that it was totally unique.
I was too inexperienced. But NOW, Black Sabbath and especially Tony Iommi is my favorite and has been for a long time. Iron man didn't stand out very much (for me) from all the other awesome music on the "Black Sabbath" and "Paranoid" albums. Soon followed by "Master of Reality". I think just about any song on those first 3 albums is as good or better than Iron Man.
This song is about Jesus. I know it sounds far-fetched but read the lyrics and it will make sense. Love your reaction!
Oh yeah, that story about Jesus turning into metal and then killing everybody, that was my favorite part of the bible!
I am Tin-man. Tin-man was the first Iron-Man.
Y'all, wasn't this a Guitar Hero song?? Rightly so, love this track.
Yeah, that was when music was the best. Just think of the bands that were putting out albums at that time, all the greats : Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Who, Eric Clapton and I know I am leaving out a whole heck of a lot of others, but you get the idea. I turned 10 in 70, and was lucky enough to have an older brother that put me on to music, and I STILL think it is the best music ever!! The whole Paranoid album (from which this song is from) blew my mind, I went right out and bought it!! It was under $10 CDN and I still have that album today!!!!
This is what I compared all other music to, it was so amazing that the pop stuff just didn't do it for me anymore, lol! No more Barry Manilow or Donny Osmond for me!
This song changed rock. Maybe try “Supernaut”
Before I watch, just want to say you should check out the first album track for track. It’s one of their best. ✌️
Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are 2 you need to explore
There was really nothing like this in 1970, there were bands that rocked hard like Zeppelin but nothing this heavy.
made Zep look weak in the power dept
I was not much into Sabbath. I used the heavier stuff like seasoning for food. Just enough to keep things interesting. However, I am a huge Zepplin fan & some may consider them heavy.
Range you say? Crazy Train is where you need tobe!
Revenge on society that's what I thought when I first bought the album then put on the record
Close it wasn’t 1971. It was 1970.
Wiki page says recorded 70 released 71
@@SalvoG FYI, released UK 9/18/70, US 1/7/71. They got heavier in July 1971, with Master of Reality. Peace.
@@kdbadk ahhhh okay! Ty
If you look at the bass sheet music versus the guitar sheet music, the bassist is doing way more stuff and way more technically complicated as well. But such is the life of a bassist, never gets any credit
remastered not the shame , xixon y puxa Asturies
Should just listen to the first 6 Sabbath albums. Just accept the fact it is a must. :-) Iron man is mild for Sabbath. :-) But seriously, quit spoiling yourself and just listen to the first 6 albums. It's some of the best music ever made in history, beats much of the Zeppelin ya listened to(Zep are rock gods, so... yea). Sabbath spawned an entire genre of music. So just do it!... Now! 😅
The first 6 or just We Sold Our Soul has a great cross section
In my next life I will be a 12 year old in 1970..... sabbath....zeppelin...the who....music isn't even close to what the 70s produced...
my initial reaction. sabbath was a hendrix ripoff. hendrix was the guitar god from 1967 until his death in 1970. his other worldly guitar licks influenced EVERYBODY, especially british bands, with his psychedilic stretching. nobody had done what hendrix was doing. and his riffs spurred the heavy metal movement. i was 18 in 1970 and when i first heard black sabbath, i dismissed them as just a hendrix wannabe band. none of their riffs could even catch hendrix's mastery. i always say thet jim hendrix is the father of metal because of the outer space heavy riffs he came up with. i was there, i was alive, i saw hendrix in toronto in 1969. and i can say from authority that sabbath was a hendrix ripoff. hell, even zakk wylde named his first born son Hendrix.
this sounds digitaly remastered to me not as good as the original