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It seems that Black Sabbath and their record label
are having a jolly good time at the moment, at the
start of April they started to re-release all of
the bands albums in deluxe expanded editions which
featured a re-mastered version of each album and
a bonus disc with demos, live tracks and much more,
these releases were defiantly intended with the
true hard core Black Sabbath fans in mind knowing
that if they are true collectors they would have
to add the re-mastered albums to their collection.
On June 14th Black Sabbath and their label are
taking things one step version and releasing ‘The
Best Of Black Sabbath’ which is a 14 track
album that features a collection of classic Black
Sabbath tracks from across the bands first eight
albums, which includes four tracks from ‘Paranoid’,
two tracks from ‘Volume 4’, one track
from ‘Never Say Die’, two tracks from
‘Master Of Reality’, four tracks from
‘Black Sabbath’ and one tracks from
‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’, in all honesty
the collection is the true Black Sabbath CD for
someone who has always wanted to get into Black
Sabbath but didn’t know where to start,
you can’t go wrong here and it will be the
only Black Sabbath CD you will ever need to buy.
‘The Best Of’ starts with ‘Paranoid’
one of the most loved Black Sabbath songs ever,
it’s hard to believe how good the song sounds
considering that it is now 39 years old, it is
still as listenable and loveable as it was all
those years ago, it’s the kind of you need
to blast out of your stereo as loud as you can
and practice your air guitaring skills in the
comfort of your own bedroom.
Other classic songs on the album are the rifftastic
‘Iron Man’, the big experimental tracks
that are ‘The Wizard’ and ‘Black
Sabbath’, the lengthy masterpiece that is
‘War Pigs’, and also the original
version of ‘Changes’, everyone best
knows the song these days for when it topped the
charts in 2003 when Ozzy Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne
re-recorded it for an Christmas single, the original
version is a bit slower than the re-release but
in my opinion and many other Black Sabbath fan’s
opinion it is a much better version.
There isn’t really much I can say about
‘The Best Of Black Sabbath’ that you
don’t already know, the album is exactly
what it says on the cover a collection of some
of the best songs Black Sabbath have ever created,
and I believe that everyone should have at least
one Black Sabbath album in their collection and
this should be it, as after all if it wasn’t
for Black Sabbath so many bands wouldn’t
be here now.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Tony Iommi
Geezer Butler
Bill Ward |
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1. Paranoid
2. Iron Man
3. Changes
4. Fairies Wear Boots
5. War Pigs
6. Never Say Die
7. Children Of The Grave
8. The Wizard
9. Snow Blind
10. Sweet Leaf
11. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me
12. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
13. Black Sabbath
14. N.I.B. |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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