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10-17-2004, 11:36 AM
Sabotage (1975)
Best Song: Symptom Of The Universe
Worst Song: Am I Going Insane (Radio)?
Rating: 10/10
Tracklist: 1) Hole In The Sky 2) Don’t Start (Too Late) 3) Symptom Of The Universe 4) Megalomania 5) Thrill Of It All 6) Supertzar 7) Am I Going Insane (Radio)? 8) The Writ
Holy ****! The best Sabbath project ever, and by the great God Puffin is it weird. Is it a blues album? A heavy metal album? A prog-rock album? A thrash metal album? A pop-album? A bizarre experiment with a choir? In truth, it’s a peculiar but exceedingly palatable amalgamation of all those qualities, and a bit more. Sabbath sound their best yet; Iommi adds layers of fuzz and crunch that were unfathomable for 1975, Ward makes the drumkit his proverbial bee-hatch, Geezer zips along as per usual and Ozzy’s affected vocals are perfect (he’d just past his droning vocal period, and was about to enter his annoying vocal oozing period). Like a lot of Sab albums, the first half is undeniably superior to the second – Hole In The Sky rocks along like some mad (but doped up) horse, Symptom Of The Universe kicks all manner of glutemus maximi (virtually inventing thrash metal, if you don’t count that lovely acoustic jazz bit at the end), and Megalomania is an intricate, multilayered prog masterpiece. You see, this is what prog should like – a bunch of drugged up boneheads playing their hardest, not a bunch of wanky toffs harping on about their technical proficiency, ala YES (although I am a bit partial to some YES now and again). Oh, and Don’t Start (Too Late) is one of those silly acoustic instrumentals, although it manages to be 99% more interesting than its peers because it only lasts 45 seconds. On side two, there are only two tracks that really stick out as excellent (the crunchy Thrill Of It All and the lengthy, jam encrusted The Writ), and the other tracks suck a rather large phallus – Am I Going Insane (Radio)? sounds like another attempt to write a potential pop hit ala Paranoid and Supertzar is a spooky track that features a choir, but it gets horrendously boring after a few listenings. But anyway, buy the sucker; not only is it heinously underrated but it’s Sabbath’s best album.
Best Song: Symptom Of The Universe
Worst Song: Am I Going Insane (Radio)?
Rating: 10/10
Tracklist: 1) Hole In The Sky 2) Don’t Start (Too Late) 3) Symptom Of The Universe 4) Megalomania 5) Thrill Of It All 6) Supertzar 7) Am I Going Insane (Radio)? 8) The Writ
Holy ****! The best Sabbath project ever, and by the great God Puffin is it weird. Is it a blues album? A heavy metal album? A prog-rock album? A thrash metal album? A pop-album? A bizarre experiment with a choir? In truth, it’s a peculiar but exceedingly palatable amalgamation of all those qualities, and a bit more. Sabbath sound their best yet; Iommi adds layers of fuzz and crunch that were unfathomable for 1975, Ward makes the drumkit his proverbial bee-hatch, Geezer zips along as per usual and Ozzy’s affected vocals are perfect (he’d just past his droning vocal period, and was about to enter his annoying vocal oozing period). Like a lot of Sab albums, the first half is undeniably superior to the second – Hole In The Sky rocks along like some mad (but doped up) horse, Symptom Of The Universe kicks all manner of glutemus maximi (virtually inventing thrash metal, if you don’t count that lovely acoustic jazz bit at the end), and Megalomania is an intricate, multilayered prog masterpiece. You see, this is what prog should like – a bunch of drugged up boneheads playing their hardest, not a bunch of wanky toffs harping on about their technical proficiency, ala YES (although I am a bit partial to some YES now and again). Oh, and Don’t Start (Too Late) is one of those silly acoustic instrumentals, although it manages to be 99% more interesting than its peers because it only lasts 45 seconds. On side two, there are only two tracks that really stick out as excellent (the crunchy Thrill Of It All and the lengthy, jam encrusted The Writ), and the other tracks suck a rather large phallus – Am I Going Insane (Radio)? sounds like another attempt to write a potential pop hit ala Paranoid and Supertzar is a spooky track that features a choir, but it gets horrendously boring after a few listenings. But anyway, buy the sucker; not only is it heinously underrated but it’s Sabbath’s best album.