black sabbath - sabotage

label: warner brothers
released: 1975

"you can't trust anyone that doesn't like the first 6 black sabbath albums." -someone

sure.
i'll agree with that as this is the last album i have any sort of interest in when it comes to any of the incarnations of the band.
and yes.
that's includes any of the dio era.
just go on ahead and wipe that look off of your face.
yeah.
that's right.
i said it.
accept that shit,kid.
but with all of that being said i do enjoy the song "hard road" from the NEVER SAY DIE! album.

my interest in the black sabbath arts started in the 5th grade when the PARANOID album entered my radar. all i'd really known about them was that ozzy osbourne sang for them once upon a time. i'd already been into the BLIZZARD OF OZZ/DIARY OF A MADMAN/BARK AT THE MOON/THE ULTIMATE SIN albums so i figured "why not?"....

and seeing as how we're on the subject of ozzy albums i'd like to mention that the only reason to listen to the NO REST FOR THE WICKED album is the song "fire in the sky".
yeah.
it was pretty decent when i'd first started listening to it.
but the more i listened to it the more i started to lose interest.
"d-d-d-devil's daughter/i'm watching you/watching you"
"i am the demon alcohol/i'll get you (insert evil laugh here)"*
and then there's "crazy babies".
there's just something lacking in the lyrics department on this album.
and then there's all of zakk wylde's "dun dun dundundun weeeee whiddly weeee" guitars.
i know.
i'm rambling.
i could've just said "no,sir. i just don't enjoy that album." and called it a day.
sure.
but sometimes i just say things.
if you still dig the album....
good for you.
someone has to.
though you're probably the type of person that still talks about all of the parties you went to back in high school with a glazed look in your eyes.
yeah.
i'm looking at you,brad.
and if you happen to be of the female persuasion and dig this album you probably still talk about all of those parties back in high school where you wished that you could've scored with brad but just watched him from across the room while becky rubbed up against him like a cat in heat.
that slut!

but i digress.....

i'd become aware of black sabbath via the PARANOID album back in grade school. my parents didn't really know what to make of my choices in music then. i was bringing slayer and metallica and the like into the house. though i do remember one time when i'd been listening to PARANOID out in the garage on my boom box while i was trying to practice some sweet skateboard moves and my dad walked by while the song "paranoid" was on and i was getting ready for him to be all like "get that shit outta my garage!" but he just walked by and looked over and gave me a look that said "yeah. i totally used to listen to this stuff when i was over there in nam."

after PARANOID i started trying to get my hands on anything black sabbath. and all of that practically happened in a day because i'd found most of their stuff on cassette at a store and somehow convinced my grandmother to get them for me because "all they cost is $3.99,gramma."

SABOTAGE is like black sabbath listening to an album by yes and being all like "hey,man. we can do that,man."

and i'm just going to assume that you've already given this album a listen at sometime during your life so i'm not going to have to say things like "at the time there wasn't another song out there like "symptom of the universe". that song was pretty much the first thrash metal song,bro." or "the fucking riffs are all over this album,bro!" or "geezer butler,bro. fucking "the writ",bro." or "yeah. SABOTAGE perfectly melds their SELF-TITLED album and the VOL. 4 album together."

and there you have it.
my ramblings on SABOTAGE.
thanks for playing along.

one last thing: the one thing that bothers me about this album is the fact that the band didn't call it SABBOTAGE. just think. someone could've smoked alot of pot the day they'd went out and bought the record and then brought it home and then put it on the turntable and dropped the needle and then "hole in the sky" hit and they would've been all like "whoa!" while staring that the album cover trying to figure it all out and then they would've stared at the album's title and then it would've hit him and he would've said something like "fuckin' black fuckin' sabbath,man. i see what you did there and fuckin' dig it! and then he would've placed the album cover on the table next to the stereo and started to play some air guitar and then there'd be a BAM! BAM! BAM! on his bedroom door and his stepdad telling him to "turn that shit down! i gotta work tonight and i need to sleep!" and then he would've been all like "fuck you,man." under his breath as he turns the volume knob on the stereo to the left and then sits on the foot of his bed just spacing out and then he thinks to himself "sleep? sleep. that would be a pretty kick-ass name for a band,man."

DL