What do you feel are the best Black Sabbath albums?
Who was the best singer?
What tracks do you like best?
the reason I started this thread is that I've got 'Born Again' headed my way in December, along with another joint Gillan/Iommi effort, their charity album 'WhoCares'. these will be the first two joint releases of theirs I get to hear. (there are two more I know of)
'Born Again' doesn't have a good rep. I think the cover rocks, but supposedly fans and the critics hated it. the production's supposed to be muddy sounding (?) and the song writing isn't up to snuff - they say. Idk about all that. I only know 'Zero The Hero', which, admittedly, I'm not a fan of
for comparison's sake, I own the first 8 albums and '13' (Ozzy), all the ones with Ronnie James Dio, the one with Glen Hughes (not really a Sab joint effort), only one with Tony Martin ('The Eternal Idol') and an additional 10 track 'Greatest Hits' comp featuring Tony Martin sung tracks only. the Tony Martin albums are out of print, at least round here. I have two official live albums (one w/ Ozzy and one w/ Ronnie) as well
the first six albums are pretty much untouchable to me. Ronnie is a better singer and sometimes a better lyricist but I still prefer Ozzy's voice, especially on the first four albums. as the albums progress his voices gets a bit strained, especially by the time 'Technical Ecstasy' dropped, at least to my ears
'13's song writing is subpar. lyrics of an eight year old
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