Szymanowski: Piano Works, Vol 4

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 While... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Good selection of songs. November Rain stands out.
Disadvantages: That voice again.

...Guns 'N' Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 - Geffen Records Vocals - Axl Rose Guitarists - Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff Mckagan Piano - Dizzy Reed Drummer - Matt Sorum This album was released as the first of two `best of' albums. It really instilled the band as one of the best rock bands of the modern era. Personally, at first I saw it as a slight rip off that you had to buy two separate albums. A double album would have been much better value. It has a similar style to `Appetite For Destruction' although a couple of songs are a bit calmer and less rough. Once again Axl Rose cannot sing for toffee but this is complemented by brilliant guitar work by Slash. For more information about the bands musical style and similarities to other artists etc, then please go to my review for `Appetite For Destruction'. Track listing with rating... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: a good solid album
Disadvantages: a few bad songs

...Vol 4 proved to be Sabbath’s first steps away from their normal sound, and the beginning of their experimenting. It is very much a mixed bag, but almost all the songs are good. The opener, Wheels of Confusion, is truly an epic song, it changes several times throughout, and is musically stunning. Tomorrow Dream is also superb. Next up is Sabbath’s first shocker, an almost ballad, which consists of piano (by Iommi) and Ozzy’s softest vocals yet (although there is still an underlying eeriness surrounding the song). FX is a strange and pointless musical interlude, which was best left out, and is really just a filler, but after that comes the gargantuan rifferama of Supernaut, with some truly amazing drumming by Mr Ward. Snowblind, the tell-tale Coke anthem is next up, underlining the bands apparent drug addiction at that time, and also... Read review

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