what is the deepest black sabbath song?

I thought SBS was some sort of revenge deal. I have no idea what Cornucopia is about.

they don't know what he hides

not the "deepest" but "sign of the southern cross" is pretty deep

For me, Planet Caravan, followed by Solitude

but it's a "slow jam"!

not really 'deep' but I like the lyrics to "Hole in the Sky"

What is the blackest Deep Purple song?

Bloodsucker

Black Night

sweet leaf

Megalomania

side 1, song 1, first album, you know the damn song it's called "Black Sabbath," that riff right there is the heaviness from which all heavinesses spring, give it the fuck up for that jam, it is as heavy as fuck.

hearing that shit live last year was like an erotic ear massage \m/

the deeper you go the lighter the heaviness becomes *tokes*

I actually think "Paranoid" is pretty insightful about depression! "All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy" is kind of an amazing statement imo. Also "finished with my woman 'cause she could not help me with my mind", self-aware in its selfishness.

the answer is the one where he shouts: "i'm gooooing through change-eh-eh-ehsss" with the melotron in the background

all I know is that the opening riff of Electric Funeral is sick as fuck, and for that it's a contender

deepest, blackest, my hand is like a "sweet leaf"

Dont know about deepest, but I stick by my plug for "Spiral Architect". Some of the coolest imagery ever in a Black Sabbath song.

"into the void" w/o question for me

Underrate aero otm. First song is the heaviest. Even the bells are dark as hell.

Never got into Sabbath. Just now a fucking incredible Black Sabbath song came on my shuffle thingy. I Googled the lyrics, turned out it was Electric Wizard.

Electric Wizard fucking destroy Sabbath. I don't give a fuck who came first, who inspired whom

Sometimes it's fun to be wrong.

Brilliant post.

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mods pls 86 that post for sanctity of the thread

Please 86 the poster while you're at it

:D

Last time a Sabbath song came on my shuffle, I lasted until some poor fucker rhymed 'masses' with 'masses' and I skipped out of sheer embarrassment

nice to chat with the only human being in the world that likes electric wizard but not black sabbath o_O

I lasted until some poor fucker rhymed 'masses' with 'masses'

^ a heinous sin and certainly a great reason to disregard the entirety of a band's catalog

otm, how EMBARRASSING

lj do you keep a file somewhere with clippings of your past embarrassments to remind you of how far you've come, and if not, may i make a suggestion

Last time a Sabbath song came on my shuffle, I lasted until some poor fucker rhymed 'masses' with 'masses' and I skipped out of sheer embarrassment

What a disaster for Black Sabbath.

FPing Jagger for his sins
Gottpunch, laughing, spreads his zings

I mean, I love "War Pigs" but "masses/masses" is admittedly a bit weak tbf.

Yea but LJ is like the 93,087,456th person to point it out. Tho perhaps the first to conjoin that statement w/ "and thus i turned it off"

oh come on now, the entirety of that lyric sequence makes any dig at "masses/masses" totally pointless and stupid

That too.

"masses" and "masses" is actually a good rhyme given that it's two different uses of the same word

talking shit about war pigs, man. about WAR fuckin PIGS.

what a world

Electric Wizard would bitchslap thee if they knew.

lol @ imago gettin tripped up at the 'black masses' line; you do realize that was the name of EW's last album, right?

"War Pigs" is mighty and undeserving of your condescension, but if I were recommending Sabbath albums to you, I would probably go with Vol. 4 instead of Paranoid because a) it's one of my favorite albums of all time, b) it's one of the great rock records of all time, a fact that ILM has repeatedly affirmed, and c) Supernaut -> Snowblind -> Cornucopia has to be one of the great sequences of classic rock, each song bringing the expansiveness that is their essence into a new context: Supernaut's space-rock bolero, Snowblind's cocaine-fed dysphoria, Cornucopia's enigmatic maze of riffs and almost hallucinatory imagery("too much inner truth they say...")

if only Ozzy could match the poetic skills of Justin 'Jus' Osborn.

I mean, I love "War Pigs" but "masses/masses" is admittedly a bit weak tbf.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is like dismissing Yeats for having a sloppy guitar solo on a live album.

listening to Celtic Frost's very peculiar To Mega Therion for the first time, I submit my fave Sab recording: "super-tzar."

easily the most eccentric thing they ever done, it's like my secret sabbath tune…probly only tony and bill are present,; he's accompanied by a bunch of men singing wordless chorales alongside a chamber ensemble of some shit…

at the sabbath shows I went to in the 90s early 00s, this tune would be the fanfare to them taking the stage…really quite magical…

Cornucopia > Megalomania

fwiw

i just listened to the album 'sabbath bloody sabbath' in its entirety and found it to be a rather lovely rock album in the main. standouts 'a national acrobat', 'killing yourself to live' and above all 'spiral architect' which is dare i say beautiful.

not really 'heavy' in the same way EW is but then it isn't trying to be

looool reading up on that album, of course it'd be the one I like

aero otm, the word being in two different senses saves it. this is actually one of my favorite opening lines ever tbh. the special kind of laughter that's both at and with.

i just sang it twice cuz i thought of it.

"Bad news on the doorstep. I couldn't take one more step." has bothered me for years so I get imago's grip

"Children of the Sea" (can't believe nobody got to this obvious pun before me)

Dont know about deepest, but I stick by my plug for "Spiral Architect". Some of the coolest imagery ever in a Black Sabbath song.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill)

First time encountering this thread... I thought of this immediately. But I'm not sure it actually makes sense. It could be their "Bewlay Brothers," AFAICT.
I'm also thinking National Acrobat is a strong contender. Maybe Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is their deepest album. Or possibly just the one with the most spaghetti lyrics.

Wizard is their funkiest, repetitive as it is

Oh shit
I just scrolled up and read the words "spiral architect"
Now I must go listen ;)

Children of the Sea" (can't believe nobody got to this obvious pun before me)

I just really like this song. The pun went over my head.

The opening of the writ gets closest to my state of mind these days

WAS IT ILLUSION?

THE ANSWER TO THIS THREAD IS INTO THE VOID
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thank u to chaki 12 years ago for posting correctly