Just face the Master of Reality!

Still awesome and a reminder of why we do this... (that would be the tunage ya dorks).
 
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
 

Ditto about Into the Void.
 
I had a Sabbath kind of week recently and went through a huge segment of their catalog. There isn't much in there that I don't like. Of course, the original line up will always be my favorite, and those first 5 or 6 albums are unrivaled, but I wouldn't be without gems like Born Again and Eternal Idol.
 
Besides Forbidden, the one album I struggle with is Live Evil - I just hate not to be able to enjoy it but it just seems so sub par. Especially when you compare it to Ozzy's Speak of the Devil (which is where I first heard most of those Sabbath songs, so I may be biased, too).

Hi,
 
I was thinking that Steven Wilson might want to re-master that album ... it sounds kinda plain now.
 
Btw, you need to play this as is, listening to it from the tube, and then on a FM Radio station with a great signal ... the FM sound will come off much cleaner and in a stereo format that is actually better than the album shows at this time.
 
In many ways, these things were good, but FM radio really helped make them bigger and better. AND, 1971 was a very good time for FM Radio ... which did not start falling into corporate hands until 5 or 6 years more ...  and things like BS got taken down, or at least played less, in favor of PF's and many other bands. 
 
Reminds me of Jim Ladd in the early days ... he would open his evening show with a BS piece that was "heavy" and "loud" all the way through, and then do the rest of his show, and the softer stuff came later in the show! But every top of the hour had a "NOISE" folks ... here we go! Good old LA ... but I'm not sure KLOS and KMET are actually remembered any more ... the music lives on ... got that "radio"?
 
Back to Popol Vuh ... Hosianna Mantra time!

Beepster
Ha! Howdy, Rain. Sup?
 
I have to admit I'm one of those old school "purists" when it comes to Sabbath... just like I am with AC/DC.
 
Ozzy and Bon, yo!

Doing good my Canadian brother, thanks for asking! Hope all is well with you too!

Rain
 
Doing good my Canadian brother, thanks for asking! Hope all is well with you too!

Right on, man. Listen... if this place goes nipples up I hope we can keep in touch.
 
I haven't done the do yet but I'll be parking my but in the Baps emergency shelter.
 
Anyhoo... don't disappear.
 
Cheers!
 

Coolidge. Can't be losin' track of my home slizzles.
 
Of which you are definitely one.
 
\m/

Incidentally, this gem was released on December 1st 1973.
 

 
 
Since the Shabbat begins tonight, it has to be twice as appropriate as a choice to start off a Black Sabbath marathon, right? ;)

Rain
Incidentally, this gem was released on December 1st 1973.
 

 
 
Since the Shabbat begins tonight, it has to be twice as appropriate as a choice to start off a Black Sabbath marathon, right? ;)

Try to check that special by Rick Wakeman interviewing Tony on his show ... really nice talk and bloke, gives the whole BS thing a completely different look ... and really makes Ozzie, sometimes, look just like ... nutz!
 
Yep, this is a very good album, and in fact, was the first BS album I ever bought. Also got the album right after it, because it had some really nice cuts as well. I think the earlier stuff was just too over played for me, and got boring. But I could see folks not wanting to touch the SBS album, even for the cover itself.