Advantages: Solid and consistent quality Disadvantages: Ozzy's voice!
"Technical Ecstasy" is (oddly in my opinion) one of Black sabbath's more underrated albums. Coming at the tail-end of the first Ozzy Osbourne period, there is a common idea tha the band were beginning to lose some of their sparkle by this point. However, the music proves otherwise. "Back Street Kids" is intense, driving and straight to the point, and "You Won't Change Me" boasts some classic, monolithic Sabbath riffs.
The only thing that lets this ... ...has never been that great, but on this album it does start to grate a little more than usual. This is most noticeable on the ballad "She's Gone".
There are a couple of poor tracks- "Rock 'n' Roll doctor" is just silly, and "It's Allright", despite featurng Bill Ward on vocals, really sounds less than relevant compared to the rest of the album. However the closing tracks "Gypsy" and "Dirty Women" groove and rock as hard as anything before them and ...
bagoproverbial 28.11.2004
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