Trollheart

Think you can do it? Pick just ONE song --- with accompanying YT --- to show what a band you're into is like. It's harder than you think. To be fair, many bands go through phases, like when they change their singer, or head in a new musical direction, so you can use one song per phase, let's say.

My own idea of how to get someone into Sabbath:

OZZY era
War pigs (from "Paranoid")


DIO era
Heaven and Hell (from "Heaven and Hell")

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Anteater

Lets see...The Rippingtons would be my one-song pick, especially for who doubt the merits of smooth/contemporary jazz. They're real technical and dynamic, but still good for a morning drive.

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Mrd00d

OK I've got a few from across the spectrum:

Prayers For Atheists (recent 80s hardcore/hip-hop)



Ooze (downtempo electronic) This is my SHI-IT:



Ozric Tentacles (psychedelic space-rock jam) THIS is also my jam:


Hour long set:

Guthrie Govan (guitar virtuoso)



Praxis (??? w/ bill laswell, bootsy, buckethead, brain, bernie worrell)


Praxis Live in concert:

El-P (hip-hop; alternative hip-hop)



Aesop Rock (hip-hop; alternative/abstract)

Probably could have picked a 'classic', but this album is about to join the ranks of the classics, so here's the new single/video:

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Nooooooooo, War Pigs is just a boring dirge that seems to go on forever.
Go with Hand of Doom instead.

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Trollheart

Well I like WP but yes it is a dirge. But then, so are a lot of Ozzy-era Sabs songs --- Iron Man, Black Sabbath, Warning, Wizard --- or at least could be taken that way. It does however fit well into the sort of thing Sabbath were doing, at least at the beginning.

It is indeed hard to pick one song that typifies Sabbath in the "first" era; as I mentioned at the beginning this sort of thing is hard to do for any band. How do you represent maybe a lifetime's work in a few minutes and just one song? Which is what makes it so challenging, so frustrating but ultimately so much fun.

Dio Sabbath, no problem. You're definitely looking at "Heaven and Hell" or "Die young", but Ozzy era much harder.

Okay then, how about this, one of my true favourites from "Master"...

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Forward To Death

I'd go with Snow Blind, After Forever or Electric Funeral. Too hard to pick.

Unknown Soldier

Black Sabbath must be one of the hardest bands to choose, because everybody seems to take something different from them.

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Forward To Death

More because they have such a quality for me.. I honestly could have listed 90% of the material they released with Ozzy.

It takes a while to construct a list of the top ten heavy metal songs for me, with no repeat artists even. Because you can spend all day pondering which Sabbath song is #1 on that list.

Norg

this is basically debating which is better SIngles or album tracks .... :P

of course album tracks are more obscure because simply people cant hear them unless they click on the track which takes alot of effort LOL

Mrd00d

Whatever it is you think we're talking about... you've got it wrong. Your response bears little to zero relevance to the thread or the Black Sabbath sub-conversation.

Gogol Bordello (gypsy punk)



Primus (alternative metal)



Beck (alternative)



CAKE (alternative)



Tom Waits (beatnik :P)



Don't know if I would have chosen God's Away On Business if not for this unique video, but there it is. Other great contenders (w/ videos) are Chocolate Jesus, of course, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, etc. and I'm sure someone else will have a different selection, but there it is.l

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