Spectralmusic

For me it's:

Master Of Reality(as perfect as metal can possibly get in 1971 IMO, and complete stoned tracks too! Sleep/Kyuss all over this sexy bitch)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (even for just the title track, but Spiral Architect is one of the best songs of all time IMO)
Sabotage
Paranoid
Black Sabbath


> Then everything else


btw, do we have a specifically Sabbath-related thread here?

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Mondo Bungle

Yeah right

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OccultHawk

Does anyone rank Heaven and Hell in the top 3?

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Chula Vista

Love the RJD era but it's like a completely different band for me. I almost don't even think of it as Sabbath.

Ozzy is to Sabbath what Gillan was to Purple, and Plant was to Zeppelin.

Each, an incredibly unique and individual instrument that helped 'make' the classic sound of the bands that created the foundation of popular heavy metal IMO.

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*Gillan

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Spectralmusic

Same, it's a great record but Sabbath? it's practically a Dio album with special guests

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Yeah except those special guests were founding members of Black Sabbath.

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Spectralmusic

....which makes it all that more confusing

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MicShazam

My top 3 is:

1. Heaven & Hell
2. Mob Rules
3. Never Say Die

... then some of those 80's albums no one cares about. Seventh Star is especially nice in my opinion.

I do like the pre-Never Say Die Ozzy albums to some extent, but they're very uneven to me. I could assemble one killer album out of those discs though.
Take You Won't Change Me, for example. Killer song, but overall, I find Technical Ecstasy to be sort of meh.

Spectralmusic

I don't know about anyone else but this riff from Iron Man gets me every time:



Also the outro!

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