they don't know what he hides
― Plunge Protection Team, Monday, 20 April 2009 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
not the "deepest" but "sign of the southern cross" is pretty deep
― 4,000 hoes in blackburn, lancashire (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 20 April 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
For me, Planet Caravan, followed by Solitude
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
but it's a "slow jam"!
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
not really 'deep' but I like the lyrics to "Hole in the Sky"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
What is the blackest Deep Purple song?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
Bloodsucker
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
Black Night
― charlie h, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
sweet leaf
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
Megalomania
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
hearing that shit live last year was like an erotic ear massage \m/
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
the deeper you go the lighter the heaviness becomes *tokes*
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
the answer is the one where he shouts: "i'm gooooing through change-eh-eh-ehsss" with the melotron in the background
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 April 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
all I know is that the opening riff of Electric Funeral is sick as fuck, and for that it's a contender
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 17 April 2014 06:01 (ten years ago) link
deepest, blackest, my hand is like a "sweet leaf"
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
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), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
"into the void" w/o question for me
― marcos, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
Underrate aero otm. First song is the heaviest. Even the bells are dark as hell.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Sometimes it's fun to be wrong.
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Brilliant post.
xpost
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
mods pls 86 that post for sanctity of the thread
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Please 86 the poster while you're at it
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
:D
― imago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
nice to chat with the only human being in the world that likes electric wizard but not black sabbath o_O
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
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
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
otm, how EMBARRASSING
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
What a disaster for Black Sabbath.
― Assholes on Boats: A Billy Zane Retrospective (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 April 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
FPing Jagger for his sinsGottpunch, laughing, spreads his zings
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I love "War Pigs" but "masses/masses" is admittedly a bit weak tbf.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
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"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
oh come on now, the entirety of that lyric sequence makes any dig at "masses/masses" totally pointless and stupid
― marcos, Friday, 18 April 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
That too.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
"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
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
Electric Wizard would bitchslap thee if they knew.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
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...")
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 18 April 2014 10:39 (ten years ago) link
if only Ozzy could match the poetic skills of Justin 'Jus' Osborn.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 18 April 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Friday, 18 April 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Cornucopia > Megalomania
― calstars, Friday, 18 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 18 April 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
looool reading up on that album, of course it'd be the one I like
― imago, Saturday, 19 April 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 19 April 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
i just sang it twice cuz i thought of it.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 19 April 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
"Bad news on the doorstep. I couldn't take one more step." has bothered me for years so I get imago's grip
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 19 April 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
i really need SBS on vinyl, even the remastered CD in the black box sounds all digital harsh and brittle
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 April 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Frobisher, Sunday, 8 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Wizard is their funkiest, repetitive as it is
― calstars, Thursday, 25 May 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Oh shitI just scrolled up and read the words "spiral architect"Now I must go listen ;)
― calstars, Thursday, 25 May 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 25 May 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
The opening of the writ gets closest to my state of mind these days
― calstars, Monday, 14 October 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
WAS IT ILLUSION?
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
THE ANSWER TO THIS THREAD IS INTO THE VOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:39 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
thank u to chaki 12 years ago for posting correctly
― brought a kiss to the knife fight (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link