IT'S AN END OF AN ERA

era of trash music

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>>70820448
those assholes didn't even invite Bill Ward for the reunion, thus it doesn't count as one
black sabbath is no more for 30 years, what are you talking about
>Iommi plays with 3 other members of black sabbath: it's not sabbath, it's heaven & hell
>Iommi plays with 2 other members of black sabbath and a bunch of session drummers: it's 'original' black sabbath

>>70820529
Actually I recon that Bill Ward and Sharon had yet another falling out. Don't blame the band blame Sharon for being such a bitch. She pisses off a lot of people. Just ask Iron Maiden.

>>70820529
>>70820649
i thought he wasnt there because of his health

Pretty sure 1973 was the end of that era

>>70821165
same. i remember reading he has serious heart issues and wouldn't be able to withstand a tour

>>70820448
i got my dad a black sabbath cd and he and his work partners thought the EP was slow and boring

>not even dads are into dadrock fyi

REST IN PEACE :(

>>70820448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7HJH0IH3dc

>>70821210
F

>>70821210
F

>>70820649
Bill hasn't been able to play in 20 years.

Ozzys solo career was and is much better

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Black Sabbath [Warner Bros., 1970]

The worst of the counterculture on a plastic platter--drug impaired reaction times, bullshit necromancy, lengthy solos. They claim to oppose war, but if I don't believe in loving my enemies, then I don't believe in loving my allies and I've been worried that something like this was going to happen ever since I first saw a numerology column in an underground newspaper. C-

Paranoid [Warner Bros., 1970]

They do take heavy to undreamt-of extremes, and I suppose I could learn to enjoy them as camp--the title cut is certainly screamworthy. After all, their audience can't possibly take that whole Lucifer bit seriously, can they? Anyway, I always suspected that horror movies catharsized things I was too rational to care about in the first place. C-

Master of Reality [Warner Bros., 1971]

As an increasingly regretful spearhead of the great Grand Funk Railroad switch three years ago, in which the critics defined Grand Funk as a good ol' white boy blues band, even though I knew of no critics, myself included, who played the records. Grand Funk are American--dull. Black Sabbath are English--dull and decadent. I don't care how many rebels and incipient groovers are buying, I don't even care if the band actually believes their own Christian/liberal/Satanist muck. This is a dimwitted, amoral exploitation. D+

We Sold Our Souls For Rock'N'Roll [Warner Bros., 1976]

By concentrating on songs (of the 17 cuts here, 11 hail from the band's first three albums) and by omitting such pro-tempo-formula-virtuoso moves like "Rat Salad", this collection makes a fitting mock-nostalgia document. Four cuts are taken from the band's fourth LP, cleverly titled "Black Sabbath Vol. 4", which I never got around to putting on back in 1972. And you know what? I'm still not sure I've heard anything on it. C+

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]

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>>70822120
Christgau really is one hell of a clueless autist

>>70821971
not true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31VHp1TcOz4