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Paranoid Black Sabbath CD
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  • Artist: Black Sabbath
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1987, 1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • UPC: 4988005543233
  • Item Number: MSI554323
  • Release date: 12/24/2008
  • 1. War Pigs
  • 2. Paranoid
  • 3. Planet Caravan
  • 4. Iron Man
  • 5. Electric Funeral
  • 6. Hand of Doom
  • 7. Rat Salad
  • 8. Fairies Wear Boots
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Paranoid by Black Sabbath on CD


Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Black Sabbath
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1987, 1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • UPC: 4988005543233
  • Item Number: MSI554323
  • Release date: 12/24/2008
  • Label: Bertus Distribution, Castle Music Ltd., Earmark, Essential Records, Gestrichen, JVC Compact Discs, Nems, Rhino, Sanctuary, Universal Distribution, Universal Japan, Warner Bros.
  • Genre: Rock
  • Style: Album Rock, British Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
  • Album Time: 42:13
  • Album Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Group Member: Bev Bevan, Bill Ward, Bob Daisley, Bob Rondinelli, Cozy Powell, Dave Donato, Dave Spitz, Dave Walker, Don Airey, Donna Donato, Eric Singer, Geezer Butler, Geoff Nicholls, Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillan, Jo Burt, Laurence Cottle, Neil Murray, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Gillen, Ronnie James Dio, Steve Redvers, Terry Chimes, Tony Iommi, Tony Martin, Vinny Appice
  • Group Formed: 1969 in Birmingham, England

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  • Paranoid Black Sabbath CD
Paranoid Black Sabbath CD