Vocal ANALYSIS of Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" from Black Sabbath.

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It better be good if the band name's title song is the same as the band name, and the album name is the same as the band name from the title song's name. Black Sabbath. You've done it again!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Black Sabbath performing "Black Sabbath" for the first time.
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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@wuphat Ай бұрын

Yes, there were earlier proto-metal bands and songs, but this here is the true birth of metal.

@johncrocker-nh7ey Ай бұрын

Yes I agree even though it was not true metal I believe blue cheers cover of Summertime Blues has been accepted as the first experiment into Proto metal

@jamesleyda365 Ай бұрын

@@johncrocker-nh7eyI totally agree with you🤘

@davidgibbs2109 Ай бұрын

How is it possible to get black Sabbath into a one line sentence three times The charismatic voice: hold my cup😂

@user-mp3eh8fk8q Ай бұрын

You say that now because you have not listened to Deep Purple In Rock...

@ferox965 Ай бұрын

@@user-mp3eh8fk8q Sabbath put the face and name to metal. The evil sound, the thick and heavy tone. In Rock is one of my fave records and one of the greatest hard rock records of all time-but this song crystallized metal as we know it.

@metalmark1214 Ай бұрын

This song was the first song on the first Black Sabbath album. It probably scared quite a few parents.

@ChrisLegner-qp1yh Ай бұрын

I was just a kid with a cool uncle who owned the album. It scared me, but also hooked me for life.

@MaxineWatt-jd8ho Ай бұрын

Lol my mum said "what is that "get that off. That's the devil's music. 😮🤘🤘🤘🖤

@kilsestoffel3690 Ай бұрын

My mum used this to annoy my dad...

@germantoenglish898 Ай бұрын

Satanic Panic era lol

@johncrocker-nh7ey Ай бұрын

My parents never heard this album until I left to go to the Marines I kept it hidden with my Playboy magazine and my can of Copenhagen😉

@catman2629 Ай бұрын

Hand of Doom is another Sabbath masterpiece , describes drug taking and resultant death , it’s so well done

@timholt78 25 күн бұрын

Good call! "Hand of Doom" is one of my favorite Sabbath songs.

@flyingardilla143 21 күн бұрын

It has great vocal contrasts in it too.

@kadirbeneathmomoteh854 19 күн бұрын

Yeah! I hope she makes a video about it one day, specifically the album version. Hand of Doom is SO GOOD

@roymeadows1708 17 күн бұрын

One of the greatest songs of all time from one of the greatest bands of all time. God bless Black Sabbath.

@MIchigan-Savage Ай бұрын

When Ozzy was asked about their debut, he said, "It's not as if we were angry. We just wanted to scare everybody."

@mjm5081 Ай бұрын

IT WORKED!!! 😨

@BarbarraBay Ай бұрын

one good song. the rest of the album sounds like Cream. LZ, Animals, etc

@Cashcrop54 Ай бұрын

Scared the crap out of me first time I listened to the album, in the dark, with headphones at about 2 am. Glad it wasn't storming at the time.

@micmac274 Ай бұрын

@@BarbarraBay The Wizard is a good song even if sounds like The Animals. And Beyond the Wall of Sleep is pretty terrifying if you know the source material (Cthulhu Mythos.)

@BarbarraBay Ай бұрын

@@micmac274 Wall Of Sleep sounds like a recitation of poetry at a social convention.

@SG710 Ай бұрын

The bassist Geezer Butler said that the riff was inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars opening theme, where it's 1 to 5 to diminished 5, which Geezer played in rehearsal one day. Toni Iommi came to rehearsal the next day with the Black Sabbath riff that goes from 1 to 8 to dim5. As a band, they had felt they lacked a concept, so noticed that, "it's weird that people go to the cinema and pay for movies to get scared, why don't we play scary music?"

@nondescriptcat5620 Ай бұрын

casually inventing Metal. why am i not surprised Holst had some part in it?

@davidsthubbins176 Ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, they got their name from the marquee of the movie theater where Boris Karloff's "Black Sabbath" was playing.

@WLNLW Ай бұрын

Worth noting that Geezer meant for this song to be SPECIFICALLY anti-Satanic, as he's blatantly clear that this was a very, very bad encounter with Satan.

@bluetopguitar1104 Ай бұрын

I would say, Geezer and Tony probably had some classical music knowledge and training. Also, Bill Ward does not get enough credit. The man can swing as well as play heavy.

@bengrunzel5393 Ай бұрын

I hadn't heard that bit about writing the riff, that's awesome.

@landiahillfarm6590 15 күн бұрын

Opening song on debut album... I dont think any other band in HISTORY gave a more powerful intro to who they were and what they could do than his. Priceless.

@libbyjones6356 Ай бұрын

My dad told me that his friend from down the road bought this album when it came out, put it on, then came running to my dad's house and shouted 'come to mine now, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS!' My dad was a teenager at the time and said he'd never heard anything like it before, and he always remembered that moment. Iconic.

@OldTooly Ай бұрын

Back in 1970, my friend Bob and I cut school, went to the record store and the ddude told us to grab the Black Sabbath album. We'd never heard of them so we drop our 2 bucks on the counter, grab a pizza and a couple of quarts of Colt 45 and back to his house. Put the record on and holy crap. Not a word spoken by either of us. He gets up to flip the record and we are both moaning oh my god and after the record ends, he jumps up and we're both exclaiming how awesome it was and we play it again immediately. Dead silence through both playings. I'll never forget that. I still play this album regularly and remember that first listen like it was yesterday.

@lucypoopies Ай бұрын

Great story. I bet that had to be a "life changing" experience back then.

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

I was just a kid in '70. But by '77 I was able to buy this Album. We walked to this new invention called a "mall". Very up-to-date, and people actually dressed up to go. Colt would have helped, but when you have no facial hair, and are as thin as a shovel handle, you can't get no satisfaction. But, you know the '70's better than I, so a left-handed cigarette was always in someone's back pocket.

@axeman03 Ай бұрын

Music holds many magical powers. Near the top of the list is its ability to seamlessly transport us through time.

@daveapple205 Ай бұрын

Cool man. I bought the album when it first came out. I was 11 years old. My big brother turned me on to it.

@TheCrusaderBin 27 күн бұрын

cool story!

@mvfisker Ай бұрын

Dear Elizabeth Not only was this the very first song on the very first Black Sabbath album. By most heavy-metal fans it is even considered the VERY FIRST HEAVY METAL track.

@Cohac Ай бұрын

About it being first is heavily contested, I like to use Blue Cheers cover of Summertime Blues as an earlier example. But Sabbath is the earliest example we all can agree on is definitely Metal.

@spacemanspiff8837 Ай бұрын

@@Cohac oh stop nalready

@richardgale5369 Ай бұрын

there are many songs that are clearly proto-metal. Crimson's 21st century schizoid man certainly being one that blew Hendrix away as well. I would even include Jimi's Voodoo Chile that has a deep metal heaviness. MC5 is another band

@andrewdavis9483 Ай бұрын

Those who have never listened to or heard of coven.

@paulprovenzano3755 Ай бұрын

@@andrewdavis9483 Witchcraft: Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls. Those guys? Ozzy’s in their credits, you know.

@davidmorgan5312 Ай бұрын

Elizabeth, Fun fact for you. The whole album was recorded in one day. If I remember correctly it was recorded in a room behind an Instrument shop in London and the tracks were recorded live (no auto tune or gimmicks in them days). There is a video of Tony returning to the shop many years later and he was amazed at how small it was.

@grahambatchelor3576 Ай бұрын

And another interesting fact.... Terry 'Geezer' Butler went to the same school as I did.

@edwardmunoz7853 22 күн бұрын

@@grahambatchelor3576dude fuck yeah 🤘

@kingcosworth2643 16 күн бұрын

It's a strange phenomena how we remember places to much larger than they are in reality.

@robertgardiner3119 Ай бұрын

The best way to describe Ozzys voice is he pulls u in and leaves you mesmerized

@joegillam1497 Ай бұрын

Ozzy...totally unique, totally anguished, totally haunting. Not the perfect singer, but the perfect singer for Black Sabbath. Amazingly brilliant chemistry.

@joegillam1497 Ай бұрын

Yes, the four of them made a perfect whole. Wouldn't have been the same if any of the four had not been in the band. Magical chemistry@@vodkaa1

@pollywhite244 Ай бұрын

@@vodkaa1I've seen him live, solo and with Sabbath. Aside from swearing a lot, repeatedly failing to speak with a cringeworthy American accent, and boring me with his tiresome cries of being 'crazy' (didn't that go out of fashion with wooden eight inch clogs?) there wasn't much else to it. As far as Sabbath goes, Dio, Martin, Hughes, Halford... even Iommi coughing on Sweet Leaf sounded light years better

@KevinQ1989 Ай бұрын

@@pollywhite244 Ozzy's voice was great on Sabbath's 70s albums and on his 80s solo albums. He reached his highest range on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage, and when it comes to coming up with vocal melodies, there's no one better than him. Every single reaction by a vocal coach or other musicians has been positive on Ozzy's voice, so you can take your hate somewhere else.

@user-mz3px1xs2l Ай бұрын

A reaction to Tony Martin era Black Sabbath would be great! I love Tony’s vocals. Ideas: Headless Cross, Anno Mundi, Psychophobia

@pollywhite244 Ай бұрын

@@user-mz3px1xs2l I'd go with either Feels Good To Me or Jerusalem

@nat90957. Ай бұрын

Bill Ward was a perfect drummer for Sabbath. All four original members were perfection.

@bennettk90 Ай бұрын

His drum chops are amazing. Fn rudimentary and perfect for this sound. Some of my favorite drum fills of any band.

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

Zepplin is another line up that worked perfectly. Made In England, and both are ahead of their time

@Lunacyk 29 күн бұрын

Bill WAS and IS Black Sabbath's best drummer. The only one to come close is Appice in the DIO years after Ozzy was sacked.

@antonfriberg4964 16 күн бұрын

This is my favorite Black Sabbath song. It builds up so much and the solo in the end is so god damn great!

@MrTech226 Ай бұрын

Elizabeth Black Sabbath gotten their band name from 1963's Italian Horror movie named Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath's original name was Earth. Then they realize that another band had the name, Earth. Band wanted to change the name. But in 1969, during rehearsals, across from the rehearsal room was a movie theater showing Black Sabbath. Butler and Ozzy seeing people lining up to see this horror movie, and they wrote the lyrics for this classic. With more dark and haunting sound, band officially change the name to Black Sabbath

@matthewhatherley3020 14 күн бұрын

Actually, before "Earth", they were the "Polka Tulk Blues Band".

@DavidJacobsvo Ай бұрын

When I was a kid, I was over at my friends house. We turned out all the lights and listen to this album all the way through then I had to walk home at night through my neighborhood and I was scared shitless.

@pinehawk9600 Ай бұрын

Understandable 😂

@travisneal3389 Ай бұрын

It was a long time ago, but was similar to my first time listening to this. Very young and scared walking home after hearing this as well.

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

Little different story, I bought this album in the summer of '77. My cousin and I were home alone, we may have had a "cigarette" or two, then blasted it in his room in the basement, thunder and lightning included. We were "paranoid" as this sound kicked out. We kept opening the door to see if anyone was home. Those were the days.

@sprocketmandesigns Ай бұрын

I met Mr Iommi when I was working at a big British supermarket. He is the most humble person I have ever met.

@Timt666 Ай бұрын

Thank you for referring to him as Mr. Iommi. He deserves everybody's respect I wouldn't have picked up a guitar without him. And he is the most humble person I have ever met myself.

@LibertyDIY Ай бұрын

I spend many nights just playing Sabbath songs on guitar. Endlessly fascinating to me

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

This was My first Metal Album -circa '77. I did own Kiss Alive........both were My Parents target for punishment (I had to give up My stereo, and records). But as revenge, My Child played "rap".

@JavierMartinez-um1uo Ай бұрын

Fuck ! you got lucky !😊🍺👍

@gregthomas1346 Ай бұрын

He's a Brummie and ,as rob halford and Jeff Lynne also show they are the most down to earth people

@mickb2009 Ай бұрын

quite possibly the greatest debut album by any band

@KennCramerHanberg Ай бұрын

Elizabeth, I really appreciate that you use the studio version of the song. There are so many details in the studio versions that you don´t get in the live versions and also in respect of the time it was made in, where videos weren´t common as now. It gives a much more intense experience to use your ears only and looking down on the album cover in the same time. No distractions!

@bobpetti4841 Ай бұрын

An inflection point in the history of rock music - the birth of a genre right there. Four guys from humble backgrounds combined to create something never heard before.

@remanns6661 Ай бұрын

Well . . .The first album by the American rock band Blue Cheer is titled Vincebus Eruptum. It was released on January 16, 1968, and is known for its heavy-thunderous blues sound that would later be recognized as one of the earliest examples of heavy metal. - - - it had company Black Sabbath’s debut studio album, titled Black Sabbath, was released on February 13, 1970, by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was released later on June 1, 1970, by Warner Bros. Records

@Annonymous0283745 Ай бұрын

@@remanns6661 blah blah blah blah someone always has to bring up some other nobodies that nobody ever heard of or cares and claims that they, in fact, are the first. just shut up already.

@VanezBane Ай бұрын

@@Annonymous0283745 and someone always has to deny the accomplishments of others. he did not say they were the first, that is always hard to prove. he simply stated, that they were pioneers in that genre, and that is a fact. just because you don't know them, does not mean others don't know them. also Blue Cheer were influential to other genres like stoner rock, doom metal and grunge so people certainly cared about them. TL;DR just shut up already

@m007mm Ай бұрын

@@remanns6661 on first look, they sound more like happy led zeppelin tunes, with a bit more distortion and drumming.

@lcpholman Ай бұрын

@@remanns6661 Heavy thunderous blues indeed - but, importantly, blues. That's what Sabbath brought - the doom, the musical and lyrical shifts away from blues as is beautifully evident in this particular piece.

@malcshone4409 Ай бұрын

When you’re a 15 year old schoolboy in early 1970 and you hear this, you’re hooked for life. Very perceptive as always Elizabeth. I can promise you that Ozzy always managed to get his vocals to cut through on stage, despite the murderously loud instrumentation around him! I would suggest “ N. I. B. “ from the same album would be interesting for you and all of us out here. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

@pollywhite244 Ай бұрын

Yeah, but then, unfortunately, people could hear Osbourne singing. The usual one note tedium, intersected with asinine cries to "Go F'ing crayyyzeee!". Biting mammals, defecating, swearing and existing solely off if the talents of better men.

@pauladeitch3739 Ай бұрын

I upvote N.I.B.

@mikedo6 Ай бұрын

I was eight. :)

@pauladeitch3739 Ай бұрын

@@mikedo6 I wasn't even born yet,lol.76 for me

@jdbly5934 Ай бұрын

@@pollywhite244 You sound like a lot of fun at parties.

@ridley3704 Ай бұрын

This is, in my opinion, your most spot on analysis… and I know with generalizations it might be lost, but this piece is the birth of “heavy metal” of the flavor dissonance which you so accurately described. Long time fan, I just have to say… you not only got this one on the head, but I learned some technically interesting things from you open candor. I honestly didn’t know going down was called diminished vs augmented because nobody looks at metal for what it is musically with such an open mind and appreciation that you just displayed in this video. I’m a musician, I play metal doomy guitar, you basically explained to me what I play by feel and ear that no one has been able to teach me why. Thank you. You are part of our metal family, with deep respect and love ❤. This dissonant music is therapy to many of us, the respect you give it brings tears of joy to my eyes. I play and write this music, with even more dissonance, and push to new levels of it…. Why, I have no idea but I am compelled and it brings me joy so no answer is needed, it is in the now and feels… I dare not ask the magic beneath. Thank you 🖤🤘

@samuelamoser 12 күн бұрын

This Is A Masterpiece of explaning a Masterpiece! Thank you so much, Elizabeth! It's always a great pleasure listening to your analyses - but this one is epic.

@leemires5315 Ай бұрын

Yesterday was the drummer's 76th birthday. Happy Birthday Bill Ward!

@memphismick7010 Ай бұрын

Bill Ward never got his due beside the other amazing 'classic' drummers from the 60s to 70s. Black Sabbath is known world wide, but not Bill or Geezer.

@skinicus Ай бұрын

I fuckin love Bill! My fave all time

@ejohnson3837 Ай бұрын

@@skinicus mine also. if I played drums this is how I would play,

@mojobag01 Ай бұрын

@@memphismick7010 Musicians know. Bill and Geezer are respected, admired and loved.

@lewe666 Ай бұрын

Underrated drummer!

@OlettaLiano Ай бұрын

This song is one reason Black Sabbath was my favorite band for nearly 50 years.

@stevedahlberg8680 24 күн бұрын

It was great to think about this with you and immediately I was saying it was a diminished Fifth and a tritone, but the way you worked your way around to it and then delivered an absolutely incredible descriptive explanation of what's going on here and in general with harmonics, that's why I love your channel. That and demonstrating things on the piano or sometimes demonstrating things singing. I really really love that about your channel.

@davecampbell1321 Ай бұрын

This is now my favorite reaction youve done .Thank you .

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

Ozzy in his Sabbath prime had one of the most powerful unique distinct haunting voices in rock history.

@dmoore0079 Ай бұрын

So true. No one sounded quite like him. Paul Stanley had some "Ozzy like" character to his voice, and I'd say their vocal ranges are pretty similar. Paul was much more chest voice though - much thicker sounding, while Ozzy had much more flexibility in his voice and came up with much more interesting vocal melodies.

@hatempire Ай бұрын

People might say he lacked technical skill, but he had the perfect "flavor" Black Sabbath needed at the time.

@spiralskies1279 Ай бұрын

@@dmoore0079Ozzy and Paul Stanley have no similarities at all.

@shspurs1342 Ай бұрын

Na Osborne prime vocals was the Mid 70’s.

@dmoore0079 Ай бұрын

@@spiralskies1279 It's a subtle quality. I wouldn't expect everyone to hear it.

@Cadinho93 Ай бұрын

This song was inspired by an experience that bassist Geezer Butler had with an old book of black magic hat Ozzy Osbourne had stolen and gave to him. In the middle of the night, he saw the "figure in black" at the foot of his bed. He said he went to throw the book out, but it had disappeared. Also, imagine being there in 1970 and everyone at the time is singing about flowers, love and peace, then this drops and melts everyone's face. I wish I was alive to see everyone's reaction because this whole album is a masterpiece!

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Ай бұрын

Well, it obviously came at the right time at the right moment because the album became a smash hit. One that the band managed to follow up with 4 more classics. It is said that a movie franchise gets born with a minimum of 2 smash hits. Like Alien and Aliens. Or 3 like with Star Wars. Giving us 5 classic albums in a row did more then just create a successful franchise, slash band career, it created a musical movement.

@BirdTalk13 Ай бұрын

It was glorious!! I immediately fell in love with Black Sabbath.

@durangodave Ай бұрын

flowers, love and peace, reminds me of the song Flowers And Beads by Iron Butterfly 😁😁

@culwin Ай бұрын

"everyone at the time is singing about flowers, love and peace" Ironically, Sabbath was singing about the same thing. Well, maybe not flowers. But War Pigs has the same message. Just a different angle. Bad news for the fashRepubs who try to co-opt all music to support their propaganda.

@richardgale5369 Ай бұрын

saw them in 1970 supporting the headline -- Jethro Tull. I thought Sabbath sucked.

@longgrayline8055 Ай бұрын

Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill were absolutely huge Beatles fans and figured out the importance of well-crafted songs with themes, storylines, and messages. Geezer(bass player) wrote most of the lyrics and he was going into the ministry before he figured that he could make music as a living. Very deep band…

@dan.agostino_soundhealing Ай бұрын

Love your whole song analysis. So intense and sensible. More Sabbath please.

@tghagen1967 Ай бұрын

Ive heard this a thousand times and I get chills EVERY time the line "oh no, no, please god help me!"

@Broccoli_Highkicks Ай бұрын

This song is the genesis of heavy metal as we know it today. From this archetypal song, endless forms of metal most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. It's enduring influence cannot be overstated. It is the one true source.

@Dr.Claw_M.A.D. Ай бұрын

Not the one source, but one of. Zeppelin can not be overlooked. Or the Yarbirds obviously.

@Annonymous0283745 Ай бұрын

@@Dr.Claw_M.A.D. blah blah blah every effing time, someone has to inject their silly opinions into what is already established fact. zeppelin and the yarbirds can absolutely be ignored when talking about metal. they have NOTHING to do with it.

@muylae Ай бұрын

Darwin, cough :D

@mordrid11man15 Ай бұрын

Love the nod to Nightwish 😂😂😂

@SvenTviking Ай бұрын

I always go for “Symptom of the Universe”, same chord structure, but fast, with a chug!

@Deam7666 17 күн бұрын

I just adore you and how you appreciate all the different genres you’re willing to check out and your reactions are so genuine as well as insightful and I love learning from your input. Not musically blessed, I love how you point out things that I would never have noticed but when you comment it’s like it was staring me in my face and that makes me love his talent all the more🤯He’s an absolute legend 🖤🥰(At 48 now, I was introduced to this beautiful man’s work at 11🤭)🖤

@Calico_Jack_ Ай бұрын

This has been one of my top songs to fall asleep to, for over 45 years. LOL. Thank you for this look. I need to tell you, that you are amazing in how quickly you can copy the music after only a couple of times hearing it. I have see you over the years, do it, but I have failed in mentioning it. So much talent!

@S.E.Walker Ай бұрын

Insane how this track was arguably the birth of Heavy Metal as we know it, yet somehow still feels so unique all these years later. It's impossible to express the impact Ozzy's one-of-a-kind-screams had on me as a young teen. I'd never heard such vocals in a musical context. It felt more like an opera or a film soundtrack than a song. The haunting intro bell. The Tri-chord of Doom. It was so easy to imagine all the churchgoers fleeing the courtyard while the Devil goes after Ozzy. The cadence of "Oh No, No, Please God Help Me" is etched into my brain forever. Run for it, Oz-man! He's right at your heels!

@catman2629 Ай бұрын

When Sabbath first played this track the crowd went wild they loved it . Another aspect of the live performances is that the bands used to play much louder than what you could achieve through headphones , the music would drive through your friend next to you wouldn’t be able to understand anything you were saying . Sabbath at the time used Laney amplification and produced a very clear sound at concerts . I’ve just bought a new boat and have named her Fallen Angel as a tribute to metal music

@tommydeamon7657 27 күн бұрын

Right like a piece of music that was at the exact right time but some how stands outside of time unaffected unless maybe it's drawn even more MOJO over the years

@wrench8677 Ай бұрын

The charismatic voice using a charismatic voice to analyse a charismatic voice

@mblasterful Ай бұрын

VoiceCeption!

@kingcosworth2643 16 күн бұрын

She is gorgeous, I have never heard the word 'Tambre', it's always been pronounced 'Timbre' where I'm from.

@matthewdixon9956 Ай бұрын

I love your passion for music and all these deep dives into songs I grew up loving. It makes me appreciate them more. Keep being you. Cheers 🎉

@PaulG.x Ай бұрын

I bought the original album when it was released. This still gives me chills 55 years later

@President_Starscream Ай бұрын

Next Black Sabbath song should definitely be Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The overall sound is so different from Black Sabbath that I think the 2 songs effectively demonstrate the band's range in their early years.

@OLDSCHOOLROGUE Ай бұрын

Absolutely Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, possibly one of the best and my all time favorite! Only National Acrobat and Symptom of the Universe are even close❤️🥰😍

@xenephon7620 Ай бұрын

And if Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a chosen track it absolutely needs the context of both sides of the album cover...

@wyldhowl2821 Ай бұрын

Yeah. My favourite Sabbath song.

@MetalPersonJ Ай бұрын

YEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Finally! I haven't been this excited for a reaction in a long time! Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath, the reason we're all here, whether they know it or not!

@thomasjones2377 Ай бұрын

Absolutely! The birth of the "gods" of doom metal and metal.

@duncanmaclean811 Ай бұрын

You should have been in the guitar shops in the 70s and 80s telling young copy cats what they were playing.

@michaelthomas9991 25 күн бұрын

Oh my God, I’m in love with you! Even after 54 years of hearing that song, I still get chills and my stomach churns from the hellish music and Ozzy’s vocals. Your facial expressions were very much like mine when I first heard the song in 1970. It literally changed my life, and I thank God for Black Sabbath. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your super cool musical knowledge!!!

@ianmkeogh 9 күн бұрын

There were stories about Sabbath in their early days, playing live in pubs with scattered audiences. They would start the set with this song, and people would literally stop what they were doing (playing pool, drinking at the bar, smoking a cigarette, hanging around their pals, etc.), just to walk closer to the stage to see where this sound was coming from. They'd just stand there, in silence, mouth agape, unable to process the sound coming these 4 guys on stage. The literal birth of an entire movement.

@gordonmcinnes8328 Ай бұрын

Was watching for Elizabeth's face when Ozzy starts singing, not dissapointed.

@GLSALW 5 күн бұрын

It is that look of fear. She looks uncomfortable which is what the band were trying to achieve . Job done !

@One_Proud_Papa Ай бұрын

Masterpiece is DEFINITELY the correct word to describe this song. Birth of a genre for sure.

@OLDSCHOOLROGUE Ай бұрын

Without a doubt!!!❤️❤️❤️

@lisaannmeawasige-kertesz1976 Ай бұрын

Hello to you, Elizabeth! 👋🏻 I LOVE it when you nerd out! 🥰 I learn so much from you. This band has been part of me since my early teens. Watching you listen to this was 23:20 of pure joy! Thank you! 🙏🏼 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🙏🏼

@atheistconservative6211 Ай бұрын

thank you for the studio version!!!

@geekay4703 Ай бұрын

This woman is a national music treasure.

@jacksprat9172 Ай бұрын

One of the few people I've come across who 'shine'.

@geekay4703 Ай бұрын

@@jacksprat9172 Shining. This isn't Jack Torrence from the Overlook hotel is it?

@MartenHemstrom Ай бұрын

No, international! /Greetings from Sweden

@adrianschurch2182 Ай бұрын

@@geekay4703no, i believe shes rose the hat

@markzima2335 Ай бұрын

This is the kind of song my friends and I would listen to while driving around or parked in a car because we wouldn't want our parents to hear us listening to it. Some of my friends spent big money to buy very high quality speakers for their cars because car-culture was our very liberating way to get away from our parents.

@christopherwhite1648 Ай бұрын

My Dad would have flipped his wig if he heard me listening to this. It was 1973 and was in 9th grade. I would go to a friend's house with a few friends and hang out in the partially finished second floor of the detached 2 car garage and liste to an eclectic mix of music. Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Traffic, Blind Faith, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, and many more. We listened to some top 40, but always tended to go back to 1968 to 1973 Rock. Happy to report no weed was never around my group.

@leonardojensenribeiro7252 Ай бұрын

Black Sabbath is the birth of heavy metal, this song is the first one, and Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill changed music forever. Also changed my life, for better. Thanks for the review. Love Sabbath. Btw the coolest part is that the analysis is perfect but at the time, 1970, they had no idea of what they were doing, also they recorded all the songs in one day and Geezer was originally a guitar player so this was one of the first times he was properly playing bass.

@user-mk5no4ee7k 10 күн бұрын

Wow! That song, wasn't a song that I wanted you to analyze! But after you got started, you did such a great job describing it, that you made it so much fun! I really enjoyed your video! Keep up the good work! You always point out parts in the music, that I would have missed, and have missed all these years! THX!

@maxfowler9476 Ай бұрын

Remember this album was released February 13, 1970, less than 6 months after Woodstock. And Altamont happened 2 months prior to the release. Swinging London was 1966, the Summer of Love was 1967, by 1968 the wheels were starting to come off. The hippie utopian dream was dying. In 1968 (the year of Black Sabbath’s formation) the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre, MLK and Bobby Kennedy both were associated, massive campus protests violently put down, and Richard Nixon gets elected. Can you imagine how hard this opening track hit against that backdrop? Could there be a bigger contrast to the John and Yoko bed in? The world felt like it was descending into madness and hell, and those opening bell chimes heralded the open of the gates (of hell). Black Sabbath were from tough working class Birmingham, the newly affluent middle class hippie ideal had left them behind, and the hang over from the 60’s parties, drugs, and idealism had come. As a piece of art, perfectly encapsulating the zeitgeist, this Album and song are simply stunning.

@jayedwards4787 20 күн бұрын

The rare person that gets it - Sabbath and heavy metal was a reaction to the Peace -Love-Dope idiocy of the 60s and the style of music dominant then . Its why fans of that era hated Sabbath and most still do. Lyrically and musically it was a rejection of the goofy idealism of that era .

@jongoffinet8511 Ай бұрын

Everyone thinks of Ozzy and Tony Iommi , but Geezer Butler is a great Bass player and Bill Ward is a beast on the drums. 4 dudes just killing it in the early 70’s. True Godfathers of heavy metal. (and my all time favorite band) Appreciate the analysis!

@johnathanmichaud867 Ай бұрын

Plus Geezer was the main lyricist until Dio joined.

@daviddiazv17 17 күн бұрын

Bro, Geezer is one of my absolute favorites bassists of all time, he's such an unsung beast, and so is Bill, it was a match made in heaven born to raise hell all 4 of them

@jongoffinet8511 17 күн бұрын

@@daviddiazv17 Very well put!!

@spazimdam Ай бұрын

Excellent reactive analysis. I love your nerdy approach to things musical Elizabeth. Yes! Impressed I am that you recognized the devil's interval there. The infamous tritone, so appropriately dissonant and scary, dark and ominous. This is indeed the first song on the album. This was my introduction to Black Sabbath; I was in 7th grade and heard this at a party. Immediately I noticed the rain, thunder and church bells. Then when those power chords hit and they played that tritone I was hooked. Changed my life. Right away I bought the album and proceeded to learn every song by ear and formed a band and we played Black Sabbath at the middle school talent show. People were surprised! Also amazed that you are in Arizona- awesome. I am in Phoenix. We do get occasional monsoons, though not as many as we used to. Love your channel!

@raulcardenas8115 Ай бұрын

your theoretical analysis of the song is terrific. You are, as always, a joy to watch.

@Hoeech Ай бұрын

The sound of thunder and falling rain accented by church bells was the first sounds we heard on the first song of Black Sabbath's first album. In 2013, the original lineup recorded their final studio album together titled "13". The very last song of that album ("Dear Father") closed with the sound of thunder and falling rain accented by church bells. A nice bookend for the fans who had been with them for over 40 years at that point

@Nebulous_Prowler Ай бұрын

So glad your first listen was the original studio track.... masterpiece, indeed!

@TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner Ай бұрын

Can't say how many times I've heard this song, but I still get goosebumps every time and I have to listen until the end. Soooo good!!

@RussellAlley-tc4iq Ай бұрын

Elizabeth I have followed you for years and your interest and willingness to explore musical songs arrangements and compositions that are unfamiliar and unique to you is why I keep coming back to your all inclusive celebration of music! as soon as I can find housing the first thing I will do is subscribe to your channel! bless you for your insight and content ❤

@JasonSmith-lp6wg Ай бұрын

Holy Fuck!!! You've just made this cranky bastard's, old heart smile! Always glad to see you get back to the origins (and, yes, good music!) Best! J

@Prometheus-Unbound Ай бұрын

Love how you keep explaining the musical science behind why a particular song has the emotional effect it does 🙂

@peterbrickley6041 Ай бұрын

My fave reaction you've done so far!

@johnnynewburgh9745 Ай бұрын

Love your Analysis and excitement

@ilionreactor1079 Ай бұрын

22:51 'What a masterpiece. What a great song to teach anybody about musical theory..." After 50+ years of listening to this, it blows my mind and brings a smile to hear you say it. We've known that for decades. I'm gratified you can see it, too. And you have just scratched the surface, with Master of Reality and Vol. 4 in your future...

@SylviusTheMad Ай бұрын

This album was recorded several weeks before Ozzy's 21st birthday. He was a young man when he sang this.

@GitaarlesHaarlem Ай бұрын

I have never heard anyone explain the contrast between the tritone and the natural overtones so well. Thank you for that!

@mjkrein 23 күн бұрын

You. Are. The. Best. haven't been here in a while... come back... and immediately remember how much fun your channel is.

@Gunderson105 Ай бұрын

Metal Church's "Metal Church" on the Album Metal Church is another triple titled song. Definitely worth checking out.

@misterwirez7731 Ай бұрын

Hell yeah. I forgot about MC.. Thanks I'm going to go dig it out.. 👍

@jesseriah Ай бұрын

You got that right! And talk about a unique vocalist to analyze…🔥🔥🔥

@jameshodgin3660 Ай бұрын

Ronnie munroe was their best singer

@alajononon Ай бұрын

I saw Metal church and instantly thought of Mike and got bummed. And then I saw you were talking about the titular (heh) one and remembered David Wayne passed away as well. I swear Ozzy feeds off their souls to stay alive 😭

@MikeMesser-in2eg Ай бұрын

Bad Co, Bad Co, Bad Co.

@mwfmtnman Ай бұрын

Back in 78 I will never forget going through my mother's albums to find Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Hooked and sold at 9

@terryoneil7128 Ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible to think recorded in 69 released in 70! Pioneers created an entire genre! Peerless, without rival

@WilsonPendarvis-tn3wm 29 күн бұрын

I love how you truly amazement in discovery. just as when I was young and hearing this the first time . Thank you for sharing the same emotions of foreboding doom and disaster as were their intention

@richardturk7162 Ай бұрын

This album I bought the first day it came out and the music changed my musical taste for the rest of my life. At 71 I am still a die hard metal fan. Saw them live on their first US tour and it was incredible. There was nothing like this back in 1970 and I mean nothing Black Sabbath created the metal genre at this time. Doing this song live is such a treat and the trill is followed by a descending drag down the big E string ending in the final note. I always enjoyed doing that and feeling the amp thunder and push a wave of air at my back. Just a really fun song to play.

@davidbaron8330 Ай бұрын

Imagine how this song hit in 1970 -- a year after the Beatles split up, and only a few months after the Manson murders and Altamont. The very first song on the first album from an unknown band, with a creepy album cover (not the one shown in your video). It freaked people out! Prior to this, most everything loud and heavy was blues based (other than Deep Purple's classical influence). It was based on Holst, The Planets, but set up with the rain and the bell, then played with heavy guitars, amazing dynamics, Ozzy's haunting voice (the first time you ever hear it) singing with really dark lyrical imagery. DRAMATIC! THEMATIC! CINEMATIC! This is your birth of Heavy Metal, right here. This song! Everything heavy before this was arguably more blues rock and proto-metal. There was plenty of LOUD before this, but Tony Iommi became the first guy to really lean into the flat 5 devil's note and add that dark, harmonic flavor to the loud.

@jeffdempsey6478 Ай бұрын

Absolutely!!

@maelstrom2594 13 күн бұрын

Definitely one of my favourite Black sabbath songs. I really feel that you should have had the image from the original album cover for that added visual bonus. The cherry on top, as it were. Great video and analysis, really enjoyed watching.

@Nicball505 Ай бұрын

This my favorite reaction I’ve watched you do.

@stevensauer8539 Ай бұрын

Keep in mind that at the time this came out the number 1 song was Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Listening to this song now you think "wow, this is dark and heavy", but back then... it was just stunning. There's a reason this one has a permanent place on my Halloween Metal playlist. :)

@FoolsAmongUs Ай бұрын

Good Call. I should have checked the charts and heard what else was playing. I bought the Album in the summer of '77, and it was played over and over. You know when you are younger and your parents dislike it, that you are on to something.

@liberatoreZ Ай бұрын

I listened to this the first time in the mid-80's and I was used to Metallica and Anthrax and stuff like that. But even at that time I thought "wow, that's dark...".

@mojobag01 Ай бұрын

In Britain the album Paranoid knocked Bridge Over Troubled Waters off the number one spot. I bet nobody expected that.

@modernmedeamedia Ай бұрын

I love Sabbath. My stepdad was a fan and made me a huge fan. Four immensely talented and UNIQUE musicians. Many imitators but none have surpassed their originality and style.

@iroh1048 19 күн бұрын

I was an early teen when this album came out. I loved it then and still do.

@Nikozzyto Ай бұрын

I Love Black Sabbath - Great Analisis

@Moigle1 Ай бұрын

So glad you did the studio version!

@chrisoakley5830 Ай бұрын

Yes.

@marknova9918 28 күн бұрын

I definitely agree

@TheCrusaderBin 27 күн бұрын

Me too!

@tomrocks5367 Ай бұрын

I was born in '71 and my older brother would play Sabbath for me. This song scared the bejesus out of me, but I LOVED IT! Sabbath fan since I was 3. 🤘🤘

@mojobag01 Ай бұрын

Bill's drumming is so beautiful on this track. BTW Ozzy was just getting over a heavy cold when they recorded this in October 1969.

@squidobarnez Ай бұрын

Thank you for the in-depth explanation about overtones and all that jazz, it's awesomely educational! *high-fives*

@chino5555 Ай бұрын

I love black sabbath by black sabbath on black sabbath specially when Black Sabbath played Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath

@lewyocom4724 Ай бұрын

Black Sabbath right meow

@darindelegal1102 Ай бұрын

@@lewyocom4724 How much more black can it be? None, none more black!

@FloridaRocks Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@user-lz1jw4pr7p Ай бұрын

Got to play it on the Sabbath, too?

@gamleskalle1 Ай бұрын

While drinking black coffee wearing black clothes, having black hair and a black soul. Also living in Blackpool and having a Jack Black poster on the Wall..... Overkill?! 😂

@Azhalan Ай бұрын

The chilling birth of a musical genre.

@davejohnston5158 15 күн бұрын

Just imagine the 4 guys creating this in an english working class town as teenagers in the late 1960's . Pure genius creating a musical genre.

@johnhall1262 Ай бұрын

Great analysis thank you

@Slatefield100 Ай бұрын

This song is how you start a genre. And it still remains a killer track to this day.

@kimonoswithkatanas Ай бұрын

Can’t wait for another of your exuberant reactions with your infectious laughter and unbridled joy of music!!!

@FernandoTerra83 Ай бұрын

Loved this!!! Yes, such a great song!!! Grat review as well!

@DanielRWomack Ай бұрын

Last hearing this in a dive bar while Wed Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" played on the TVs behind the bar was absolutely surreal. Hearing it now and thoroughly enjoying your explanation of chord structures and tritones was just a pure delight. Thank you!

@brucesyvertsen2147 Ай бұрын

Not having the picture on the original album cover leaves you missing a lot with the opening of this song.

@Cashcrop54 Ай бұрын

You are right. That pic creeped me way out before the first note.

@jeffdempsey6478 Ай бұрын

Loved it..chilling, scary...perfect 😂

@jkb1O5 8 күн бұрын

Agreed

@brettkenschaft4239 Ай бұрын

Fun fact: The very last song (Dear Father) on Black Sabbath's very last album (13) ends with the same rain, thunder, and church bells that this song starts with. A perfect bookend to an amazing metal journey!! And btw, that last album is REALLY good!

@ForbiddTV 25 күн бұрын

Thanks for doing the original studio version. When I see you are doing a live version of anything, I'm gone.

@HoJu1989 11 күн бұрын

Hey, I recently played Where the Water Tastes like Wine and I wasn't expecting to hear you sing one of the versions of the main theme. Beautiful performance.

@liquidvideoX Ай бұрын

All my friends who played guitar learned Smoke on the water. I learned this. Nice choice.

@NukelarTomatoes Ай бұрын

If you want to see the impressive range of Ozzy you should check out “sabbath bloody sabbath” or “killing yourself to live” I would also recommend checking out “supernaught” which is probably my favourite black sabbath song one of there most underated tracks, it was frank zappas favourite black sabbath song after all. As for other bands to check out I highly recommend looking into more of the white stripes stuff, songs like blue orchid and icky thump