As a music lover from brum, I'm disappointed that I have never listened to a Black Sabbath album. After watching their final show last weekend, I'm making it my mission to listen through every single one of them. Do I start from the beginning? Or is there a better entry point?

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Start from the beginning yeah

As a bass player too, I've got a new found appreciation for Geezer. He was a machine on Saturday!

Album Rating: 4.0

dude do the whole discog, fun as hell to go through and see the evolution of metal over time. incredibly rewarding, even the lesser ones.

Album Rating: 3.5

I did their whole discog last week without even knowing their last show was happening, it was fun-ish. The post-Dio stuff can be a slog but it's interesting to hear the transitions from vocalist to vocalist. Definitely just go chronologically, watching the Ozzy era change and find their groove (and play around with weird psyche and space rock) is really cool.

Album Rating: 4.0

martin at least is a solid vocalist and a good enough replacement for a legend who followed another legend lol. and they also had ian gillen on born again who was great. insane run of vocalists. plus iommi always brings da riffz, best in the game.

Album Rating: 4.5

The first riff on the first song of the first album and it's the most evil twisted shit ever put to record thus far. Fucking hell these guys were channeling some demon shit.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah that song honestly is terrifying still to this day. Friggin love it lol.

Album Rating: 5.0

love the medleys here. bit of finger/sleeping village/warning is stellar.

Album Rating: 4.5

“Wicked world” is my fave on here, so groovy

Album Rating: 4.5

Warning is fucking amazing. Don't usually go back to it but it's very groovy.

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"e standard sabbath is best sabbath"



None of the songs here are in e standard though...

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they in fact are. sabbath didn’t start downtuning until after paranoid. first two albums are all e standard.

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"they in fact are. sabbath didn’t start downtuning until after paranoid. first two albums are all e standard"



nope, I have played the entirety of the first two albums, some of their songs are tuned between e standard and e flat ;)

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What I say is a fact



If you play guitar try playing the following songs in e standard and you'll figure out what i'm saying:



Black Sabbath

Evil Woman

*Sleeping Village

*Warning



* these songs are actually closer to e flat than e standard



Planet Caravan

Hand of Doom

Rat Salad

*Fairies Wear Boots



* this song is a weird case cause of multiple guitar dubbing, some of the guitar parts are actually tuned a bit lower than standard





The rest of the material is indeed in e standard

Album Rating: 5.0

i get what you’re saying in the sense that the guitars on many of the songs on the first two albums sound either slightly flat or slightly sharp. my guess is that was due to either them tuning completely by ear in a very rushed recording process or something to do with tape speed issues. so yeah while most of the tracks aren’t tuned to perfect eadgbe 440hz, e standard was likely the intended tuning for those albums.

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I like the idea of overlaying e-standard with a lower tuning. I guess nowadays that's what the detune pitch effect pedal is for. but that's a cool idea

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I think it’s amazing that they managed to record this entire thing including overdubs in 12 hours. honestly one of the most incredible achievements in music.

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"I think it’s amazing that they managed to record this entire thing including overdubs in 12 hours"



Courtesy of Rodger Bain, the producer. He was the mastermind behind all this, it was his decision to trim "Warning" to 10 minutes, the original cut was closer to 20'. he played the harp on "Sleeping Village". He worked on the first three black sabbath albums, then the band decided to fire him. Iommi had this to say on the matter:



Previously we had Rodger Bain as a producer – and, although he's very good, he didn't really feel what the band was doing. It was a matter of communication.



I have also read somewhere that Iommi felt that although Bain was a good producer and a professional, the band didn't learn anything from him plus they wanted more creative control over their finished products, which they didn't had with Bain.

Album Rating: 5.0

Man I wish I could have seen their last live performance. So sad these legends have to get old, they still sound absolutely incredible. I’m so glad they had Bill Ward for the reunion, would have been blasphemy not to include him ( like on the album 13). What a historic band