My pleasure... I might do Tull next

@@classicalbum Please do King Crimson

@@classicalbum thick as a brick was definitely Jethro Tull's all time best album.

Please do Beatles

Love your reviews top tens etc One observation, not a complaint, man, do you like the word topography. I'd describe your style as somehow like a Guardian review without the being wrong about everything trait. Great stuff. More power to your channel.

Yes! I thought I was the only one, sabbaths most underrated song easily. I'd call vol 4 a perfect album

It is a great album but that is the point where the drugs set in(the point of no return) and it still doesn't have the power and force of Master of Reality.

@@jonesy2111 A great album also. First 4 records are absolute classics.

Volume 4 is a great choice! Supernaut and St. Vitus Dance remain some of my absolute favorites from the band.

@@thedinkster5772 those 2 and snowblind are my personal favorites

Yep, followed closely by Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. But Sabotage has moments that I have come to recognise the brilliance of in the 35+ years of listening to it

Symptom of the universe 🤘🤘 nuff said

It's all diminuendo , instead of the typical crescendo approach to so many ballads . It is one of the few , if not the only album recorded that featured so many songs that kind of get mellower as they progress, quite an achievement but I believe that the album probably would have sold better if songs like the Writ, would have been just straight-up traditional songs ending at the heavy part. Technically they're only 2 cracks that could truly be defined as diminuendos , nose would be the aforementioned the Writ , and the Thrill of it All.this album definitely features some of the only screaming vocals done through Ozzy's entire career. Hole in the sky is arguably iron maiden's entire career put into one song

I almost agree. Sabotage...is my 2nd pick, with only Master Of Reality topping it. Sabotage...is a true masterpiece. Though I prefer Master Of Reality over Sabotage...I probably listen to Sabotage way more. Master...is just so ingrained in my head...it sometimes gets old. But yes...Sabotage, is greatly underrated in the Black Sabbath catolog, by even the hardest core Sabbath fans. Sabotage...is true grit.

Sabotage is THE s***. The riff to Symptom is enough on its own. Just that one riff is enough. Not to mention insane tempo and theme changes in most of the songs, the dramatic choir in Supertzar. The thrill of Thrill of it All. Best album by Sabs, Top 10 (metal) album overall!!!

I love those 2 songs!!

To be honest, I have trouble deciding a favourite out of their first 6 albums...agree their following albums are patchy, Heaven and Hell is decent in its own right but it's not Sabbath to me, it's Dio.

@@harryirene1 Yes it was not easy trying to listen to them when they released that first album with Dio and I only learned to appreciate it over the years because there is some good stuff on it and the band was playing excellent. I liked about half of the album to be honest and didn't like the next one at all and believe me I tried... and after that it was that horrible album with Ian Gillan which should have been aborted. I never listened to much after that even the ine when Dio came back or the great reunion with Ozzy... it just isn't the same

@@jonesy2111 Born again is underrated imho.

@@andrejz8954 The album certainly has it's cult fans and good points

me too!

This

Excellent album that for my money needs a higher place in the list

In a vacuum this is a very good album.... What Dehumanizer suffers from is Painkiller. Thats what this album should have been.

Totally agree with you, "Never Say Die" for me ranks higher than TE, MOR, and Sabbotage. It gets a bad rap because the band was having issues with Ozzy.

It was all a marketing screwup or it would be a legend

I got into Sabbath when the Eternal Idol album was released. So, I started with the Martin albums, then worked back to the Dio and Gillan albums. Ozzy era was the last and my least favorites.

Martin-era absolutely crushes Dio era.

@@hmpz36911 never 🤔😣

I skip skipping it by not getting to it, it saves a lot of pain and heartache 😅

Yeah, weird. Sure you are a Sabbath fan?

@@plciferpffer3048 Actually, more of a Carpenters/ Donny Osmond fan.

Me too !!

Don't ever say "maybe weird" for that. Understand? Weird are fake Sabbath fans whose musically limited brains don't understand artistic perfection of Technical Ecstasy.

“It’s Alright “ is a beautiful song.

It was voted far into Martin Popoffs top 500 metal album (224 i think. Definitely 200s). It is not as underrated as people think. Headless Cross too

@@integrity101 I've just seen really low ratings of it by a lot of Sabbath fans and authors.

I think a lot of people were expecting "Heaven and Hell Part Two.".. and Dehumanizer was definetly not Heaven and Hell Part Two.

CymaticSand Production is pretty bad, and too little lyrical finesse

​@@hermanhelmich That's funny, one of things I like about this album is the production! Oh well, to each his own. I definitely wish Dio would have come up with a better lyric than" what do you say to the dead' for example. It does come off as a little cheesy, but I still love After All.

Great song!

Barrie Strong The whole album is woefully underrated

Love Johnny Blade. One of the few great songs on that album. Cover art is cool though!

Ward and Oz killed it on this tune!

A great song... an absolute killer

steve tobin - Apparently that was the idea for the 2011 reissue, but they couldn’t find/access the master tapes. A shame since it’s one of the worst sounding albums around.

It should be aborted.... the album cover for certain

Rick Jones that album cover had always “irked me” its weird and unsettling like some child devil baby yelling like wtf is that

I heard they lost the masters in a fire.

It bores me to tears to be honest....

It's an overlooked disc for sure. Hard to believe it was followed by the disjointed Forbidden. Eye Witness, Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Cardynal Sin, Virtual Death, Evil Eye. It was a cool album.

@Kevin Badger Subjective things. I love Eternal Idol and Headless Cross though. Those are one of my favorites.

@Kevin Badger I am as turned off by Ozzy only Sabbath listeners, or Blackmore only Deep Purple, David Byron era Uriah Heep, etc, but Mr.Truxton DID comment above that he enjoys Eternal Idol and Headless Cross. Granted, I don't quite understand how one could find Cross Purposes boring, from the careening, break neck pace of opener Eye Witness on through to Hand that Rocks the Cradle and Cardynal Syn, to the closing number Evil Eye, the fact remains that a narrow minded Ozzy fanboy would never accept Eternal Idol (my favorite Martin era album) or Headless Cross. I'm not quite moved by Headless Cross or Tyr the way I am by the other 2 Martin albums (I pretend that Forbidden never was recorded), but I listen to the 3 (4 counting The Devil You Know) Dio fronted Sabbath albums, Born Again with Ian Gillan, and Seventh Star with Glenn Hughes as much or more than I do the 8 albums Ozz and the original lineup produced (Sabotage and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath being their peak). I don't think finding two Martin albums to be a bit generic and another to be an abortion makes me an Ozzy fanboy. As a matter of fact, I love listening to the early 80s Dio interview where Dio responds to Ozzys earlier comments about Sabbath not being worthy of carrying the Sabbath trademark , RJD smoked Ozzy like he did his traditional half of a joint before taking the stage for a show. I've saw the classic lineup in concert, the Dio/Appice H&H lineup in concert, and was also fortunate enough to catch Dio solo in concert and Ozzy solo.

@@Mr.Truxton There's a Forbidden fan out there somewhere, there's always one 😅

I'd have to listen to them but I will try

Go for it! Thank you for watching

Thank you!

Welcome aboard....

Those are all great albums.

Bahahaha now I cant stop seeing it...guarantee mike was jammin' sabbath

Great album

It's just an opinion.

@@classicalbum I know. And I don't know how you arrived at it. For one, SABOTAGE takes EVERYTHING they had been doing from that first album right up until SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH, and puts it all on one album. So in the middle of "The Writ" you get moments of a "Hand of Doom" coupled with "Laguna Sunrise." It is an amalgamation of everything they had been doing in the world of "heavy metal." Which was groundbreaking, because NO ONE sounded like them in 1969/1970. They were making a genre of their own. SABOTAGE takes that genre, and pushes it past what they had done before; which leads you to : SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE. The pundits who go to Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" and say they got there first, are so "off" it's like they never listened to music before. The opening of Symptom TELLS you this is something absolutely new and unheard of previous. If "Children of the Grave" made "The Immigrant Song" sound like the boys from Led Zeppelin were going on a Viking picnic, "Symptom of the Universe" makes every "hard rock" band of the time sound like they barely maintained erections, let alone knew what "hard" meant. Symptom is groundbreaking. And Black Sabbath from 1970 right up until 1975 were creating an entire genre unto themselves, but would influence countless numbers of bands that followed. Lyrically, whether Geezer or Ozzy were writing the contents of SABOTAGE (both did) , Black Sabbath in the 1970's lyrically makes every Dio rainbow, wheel, dragon, king, mountain look incredibly redundant. How you can pass by lyrics such as these (which are Ozzy written) You are nonentity, you have no destiny You are a figment of a thing unknown A mental picture of a stolen soul The fornication of your golden throne And go for Dio's fascination with rainbows, I have no idea. Sabbath lyrics in the Ozzy era were close to poetry. And both SABOTAGE and SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH reach lyrical plateaus that Dio never could reach. And not because he was tiny. He was just fascinated with the words that easily rhyme. OZZY! Between 1973 - 1975, Ozzy was a vocalist to be reckoned with. And his performance on SABOTAGE is the performance of his career. He is singing his ass off on that album. And i cannot think of any other singer that was attempting to even do what he was doing in 1973 - 1975. Not even a Rob Halford. Not a Plant. Not a Gillan. What Ozzy's doing on SABOTAGE is singing his heart out. And half the time you can hear him singing til he has no breath left (SEE SYMPTOM'S VERSES). He was on fire between 1973 - 1975. THE THRILL OF IT ALL is one of the best vocals he ever did for Black Sabbath. I don't know why he is so down on this album, when it's the one he should be the proudest of. SABOTAGE is a reason why he still had a career AFTER Black sabbath. He couldn't sing like that anymore, but what he could do cemented a reputation as a singer with some serious power. And his range had increased since that first album. They kept down tuning. He kept going higher. Listen to Ozzy on that first album, and then listen to SABOTAGE. He had developed so far beyond how he had started, it should eclipse anything Dio did. Because Dio always sounds the same. A great vocalist. Technically superior. But he's singing about goddamn rainbows half the time. I just don't know how you put The Mob Rules before Black Sabbath's masterpiece, Sabotage. How did you get there???? I don't mean to imply your opinion is wrong, because it's yours. But goddamn. Have you not listened to Sabotage lately? If I say anything here that makes you go back to that album and realise that's their masterpiece, or at least listen to the thing and say, goddamn, Ozzy is kicking ass on this, goddamn the lyrics are awesome, goddamn they took everything they had been doing and put it on one album, sometimes in one song, then I've helped you! ;)

Different albums can mean different things for different people. 'Mob Rules' has a special place in my heart. Don't get me wrong, I love 'Sabotage'... but if you look at the comments to this video everyone's ranking is different not definitive. Therefore let's just agree Sabbath were a great band that made some truly great music.

@@classicalbum Ok we can agree to that ;) BUT SABOTAGE IS THEIR MASTERPIECE!!!!!

@@DrTomoculus it is certainly a great album.

Top one for me too

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my favorite as well.

@@lordslothrop365 Same here.

Thank you for dropping by. Hope your own channel is coming along nicely.

Classic Album Review Its going ok. Slowly but surely building subscribers. Thanks for asking, Barry.

The Dio stuff is great

John Mole - sadly no longer with us for some while now. Saw them live in the mid 70s, they were great. Of course, GM and JH also sadly departed.

Awesome troll job there, pal.

Weevil woman wasn’t it originally?

I've been called Ian Anderson before but never Rob Halford...

Underrated!

@@andrejz8954 Real Black Sabbath fans usually love Never Say Die album.

Thank you

Glad you think so!

This is an old video

True..thats a Sabbath album..

I want to see a re-issuing and remastering campaign for this era of Sabbath.

@@classicalbum I could dig that. Tony Martin deserves more love than he gets.

So true bro

Especially with his liberal use of describing "the topography" Still best reviews on KZfaq imho

Thanks