― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 July 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
Lyrically it's like the missing link between Tyrannosaurus Rex-era Marc Bolan and the Ramones or something. Except the impact is like a comet slamming into the earth and setting the atmosphere on fire.
(Yeah, I'm reviving a variety of Sabbath threads, and I care not what you think.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut christ (donut), Monday, 10 January 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
And how come no love for Thrill Of It All? One of my all time faves. Although, it's true that it holds a special place for me because it was the first ever Sab song I heard.
― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― pheNAM (pheNAM), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Been too long since I listened to Sabotage anyway. On it goes!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tooth, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link
(He said, while listening to "Megalomania.")
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― disco violence (disco violence), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
ned listens to this every january, obv.
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
sabotage is radical....yay cokaine!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I just came across a great Ozzy-referencing Monster Magnet review by Ned Raggett in AMG while looking up a particular song ("Superjudge"):
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47D1ADE46A87F20D7933150CCA77BD21FDB51F394112E045BD9A12D51980763E85FFA95CCAEFE6AB679AFF962AC500CD2C0EE53ECBC1B&sql=10:v8420rjar489
My favorite line: "...everything is scaled for the biggest arena in the universe". Sweet.
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, I like me the band Visitations, who I talk about here, and their lead guy Brendan under his Garm moniker included a cover of "Symptom" on The Acid Skull 205 that I now share via YSI:
Garm -- "Symptom of the Universe"
Do enjoy, if enjoy it you do.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 10 March 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
was used as walk on music in recent Sab tours…
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30ET9F0AQK1HE3U7UTPHTIEUDC
I would join the debate over the best Black Sabbath album but unfortunately during adolescence Paranoid was somehow burned into my DNA.
veronica, FYI "Supertzar" has been used as Sabbath's walk-on music for decades...
Anybody ever hear the Born Again demos? They're quite good.
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
ned, it's time to listen to this again
― cutty, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Sabbath had already invented metal, but this song really invented the more modern style of heavy riffing that everyone in the 80s and beyond copied ad nauseum.
There's also a really great Sepultura cover of this on Blood Rooted with a nicely tweaked acoustic outro (that's purposefully less funk AND instrumental).
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, way up thread, people keep saying that the first 5 Sabbath albums are great. This track is from their 6th album. Collect them all people!
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
this is the song of songs
― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I love how the heaviest metal riff of all time morphs into this samba/flamenco noodly thing at the end.
― redmond, Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
this is the krautrockiest sabbath song
well, one of the krautrockiest
― what we do is secrete (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 3 January 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
my "supernaut" allergy is well-established
― Edward III, Monday, 19 January 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
edward...i am not rly qualified to explain the appeal of Vol. 4, but i'll give it my best:
"Supernaut": one of Bill Ward's finest moments. In a band where the "riff" has such supremacy, it's really great to hear a song that centers around the percussion, while also having a great riff to boot. Ward is allowed to set the pace from the beginning, and then Iommi comes in, only adding to the momentum with a very catchy guitar riff--not those huge pile-driving riffs built out of powerchords that Iommi specialized in, but just a nice, little, cyclical figure that manages to maintain the tonal quality of the Sabbath Guitar Sound. This propulsive gallop finally subsides into those crunchy, brutal verses, where Ward drums his fucking ass off, only to finish up, not with a chorus, but a return to the original drums/guitar figure, wihtout any cooling of the song's already-considerable momentum...in the middle of this, as if to emphasize that this is Ward's showcase, there is the tribal-sounding drum solo that is admittedly cribbed from the James Gang's "Funk #49". Nevertheless, the hypnotic momentum created in this song is not quite like anything else in the Sabbath catalogue, and group with "Snowblind" & "Cornucopia" (which you seem to already get) it forms the core of the Vol. 4 album, displaying a band that at their heights was about as powerful as rock music got, easily matching anything that came before or after...
I'll do some other songs here in a sec...
― hey man dont look at me i dont vote (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 January 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
this song is so heavy and perfect
― "Set phasers to thrill!" (latebloomer), Monday, 19 January 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
amen brothers.
have it on loud right now, just for the fucking sake of it.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 19 January 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
January. And once more.
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't heard this in so long (dont' even know where my copy of Sabotage is). it is time to rectify that.
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
My 24 year old housemate just discovered all my Black Sabbath remasters so I've been hearing a lot of this lately. No complaints whatsoever.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 21 January 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, nice Ned!
(throws goat at Ned... The horns, not the animal.)
Vol 4 is the best but this is a great record. Will play it in honor of Ned.
― NYCNative, Friday, 21 January 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
OH MY CHILD OF LOVE'S CREATIONCOME AND STEP INSIDE MY DREAMMSSSS
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 January 2011 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
don't even care if i got the lyrics wrong f off
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 January 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Would like a reason to drive for a week with this and the first Lucifer's Friend album as the soundtrack.
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 January 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"Symptom..." is a truly pummeling song, and is actually improved upon by the funky acoustic jam at the end. When the band comes in right after the initial guitar riff, it sounds like they were shot out of a cannon.
― The Curse of Dennis Stratton (Bill Magill), Friday, 21 January 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Stick around for megalomania cuz it is also awesome.SUCK ME
― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 January 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Megalomania is so great! Aww man I love that song, it's kinda ridiculous but it pulls it off.
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 January 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
It's that time of the year!
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Why thank you for the prompt!
YEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
This is one of my favourite Sabbath songs ever! Ward sounds as if he's about to destroy his drum kit, Ozzy sounds incredibly pissed off and superb riffage throughout. Sabotage remains an underrated piece of work, but some days it's my favourite Sabbath LP.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
Great song, though for a while I was irritated by the end where it gets all groovy/hippified.― Ian John50n (orion)
OMFG I love this part! I used to play bass many incarnations ago and I always got frustrated when covering this in one of the bands I played with, because we never played the acoustic hippie funk coda. Balearic Sabbath is great and I wont hear otherwise.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
all my Black Sabbath remasters
o this has been? my copy sounds like shit compared to the others
― j., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Ditto MokaAnd that “day in the life” style transition from heavy to groovy
― calstars, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Mellow Sabbath is some of the best SabbathThere are worse ways to pass the late afternoon than to put “solitude” on repeat
― calstars, Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
"we sail through endless skies" my mellow sabbath album
https://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/6KAiYTobROEmgOk0uDMQJh
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Veddy nice
― calstars, Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
I still give that one a spin every now and then!(xpost)
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
A month late for the usual revive but
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
*air drums*
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
Valentine's Day="Symptom of the Universe, A LOVE THAT NEVER DIES!!!"
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 February 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
Fan made doc on Sabotagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8c4TKrIOo
― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
Oh that’s right it’s January!YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 January 2022 05:00 (two years ago) link
That was actually quite informative about the band's management troubles, and explaining the cover. I don't hear any Mellotron on "Supertzar", though, just on "Megalomania".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 29 January 2022 05:28 (two years ago) link
Nice to see you Ned!
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 January 2022 09:57 (two years ago) link
Yeah the manager stuff was mad interestingMade me appreciate the wrath of the writ that much more
― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
that was cool - ditto on the management stuff and "the writ"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
Always great to hear north americans attempt to deploy (and explain) British slang.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFfh6FsDws
― calstars, Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Imagine putting on side b and hearing the thrill of it all for the first time
― calstars, Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
the way I feel is the way I am
― calstars, Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
what a killer record this is
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:41 (one month ago) link
every time i think it can't get any better, some new idea comes along and blows me away. it's somehow kaleidoscopic without being eclectic, deeply heavy without being plodding, manages to maintain peaks of airiness and psychedelic mysticism without losing the plot. just an amazing record.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link
\m/
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link