Black Sabbath Vol.4 - Black Sabbath

Advantages: 8/10 hardcore thumping tracks
Disadvantages: Hmmm, tracks 3 and 4!

...interestingly entitled Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath, supposedly called so because the initial title, Snowblind, is the name of track 6 of the album which is all about cocaine and thus had to be changed! A common thing for Sabbath after album 2, due to be called War Pigs was changed to Paranoid (hence non-sensical album cover) due to sensitivites over the on-going Vietnam war. Anyway, Vol. 4 is a collection of great tracks bar the usual Iommi fiddling ...
...acousticish version with his band Black Label Society. 7 - Cornucopia - very heavy track that whizzes along at breakneck speed leading to a strong contrast to track 8... 8 - Laguna sunrise - a couple of miuntes of tranquil guitar playing, beatiful song, no lyrics. 9 - St. Vitus dance - heavy riff-laden song about guy splitting with girl when perhaps he shouldn't, great cover by Cathedral a while back incidently. 10 - Under the sun (also known ... Read review

Advantages: sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures
Disadvantages: lots of instrumental

...BLACK SABBATH VOL.4 1: Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener (8:14) 2: Tomorrow's Dream (3:12) 3: Changes (4:46) 4: FX (1:43) 5: Supernaut (4:45) 6: Snowblind (5:31) 7: Cornucopia (3:54) 8: Laguna Sunrise (2:52) 9: St. Vitus Dance (2:29) 10: Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes (5:50) Yet another groundbreaking powerhouse recording featuring some excellent guitar work. This includes great classics like Tomorrow's Dream, Changes, Supernaut, Snowblind, and Laguna Sunrise Black Sabbath VOL. 4 is a must have addition to any Black Sabbath collection released: early september 1972 the album features some of Sabbaths most memorble tracks and sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures such as strings, piano, orchestration and multi-part songs.. Yet the classic Sabbath sound is still very much in evidence... Read review

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Advantages: It rocks, overdosis of great guitarplay.
Disadvantages: 3/11 tracks are not that good, which leaves 8 songs.

...for the actions of his listeners. In 1988 he spoke his famous words: "sobriety fucking sucks." Stopping with touring in 1995, but soon ( also in 1995 ) he decided to go on, with a tour called 'Retirement sucks' Under influence of alchohol and drugs way to much, he could not control himself anymore. "My wife found me under the piano in a white suit, a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other" He had then shot all 17 cats. in 1989 he got to the top of his trouble, when he became violently drunk and tried to strangle his wife Sharon. ----Artists Discography---- -- With Black Sabbath 1970 Black Sabbath 1970 Paranoid 1971 Master of Reality 1972 Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 1973 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 1975 Sabotage 1976 Technical Ecstasy 1978 Never Say Die! 1998 Reunion 2002 Past Lives -- Solo 1980 Blizzard of Ozz 1981 Diary... Read review

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