Taking Sides: Led Zeppelin Vol. 4 vs. Black Sabbath Vol.4

Of the two, I (obviously) prefer Led Zeppelin, but just imagine Black Sabbath's Vol 4 with Led Zeppelin IV's production values...

Supernaut is the best thing BS ever did and the production is perfect

I think it's a shame that they weren't allowed to use their intended title. Snowblind would have been the perfect title for the record.

Were they consciously quoting LZ here?

I've always wondered. I mean Rat Salad is a poor man's Moby Dick so it wouldn't be the first time

I've never really thought about it that way, I just assumed they called it Vol 4 because they weren't allowed to call it Snowblind and didn't have any other last minute idea of what to call it, but now that you've mentioned it, there may have been a little bit of "let's do what Zep do and just number it!"

I mean the album title of course

snowblind is probably my favorite sabbath track these days

"The great COKE-cola etc of LA"

SUPERNAUT

yessum

Was it illusion?

Don’t have a horse in this race, like both bands but for all the virtuosity on display Zep still sounds like Blue Men Singing the Whites, whereas there is some kind of sui generis Horror meets Machine Age thing about Sabbath that reminds me of what I imagine the gizmo that took Tony’s fingertips sounded like, so them.

it's sabbath and it's not even close

With Geezer’s bass being the elastic drive belt.

Sabbath but both bands are kinda laughable when they get off the riffs.