and the finest vocal performance of my entire career!" ![]() "I coughed my head off, they taped that and we used it on the beginning of 'Sweet Leaf.' How appropriate: coughing your way into a song about marijuana. "It bloody choked me," he wrote in his book. "Until you took me, showed me around/ My life is free now, my life is clear/ I love you sweet leaf, though you can't hear." Right before they recorded it, Tony Iommi took a bit hit of weed. "My life was empty, forever on a down," Ozzy sings. They wrote this song about the incident, referring to the attackers as "fairies." It was a brilliant form of revenge.īefore the group spent their days getting snowblind, they liked to smoke a little "Sweet Leaf." They really, really liked it. The band was attacked one afternoon and Tony Iommi injured his arm in the melee. However, not everyone in town loved the four guys with long hair who were suddenly making money and getting girls, especially a group of skinheads. He needs to think of some better pick-up lines.īlack Sabbath were minor celebrities when they began writing the songs for Paranoid in 1970. ![]() "Leaving the life you led before we met/ You are the first to have this love of mine/ Forever with me 'til the end of time." An eternity with Satan in hell doesn't seem like a great deal for this woman. "Follow me now and you will not regret," Satan says to his love. They never reveal the name of the lucky lady who gets to take Lucifer's hand, though. The song is about the devil, but in a nice twist, it's about Satan changing his ways and falling in love. The fans didn't wait all these years for a partial reunion his absence sullies the whole thing.Ĭontrary to widespread belief, "N.I.B." doesn't stand for "Nativity in Black." It simply refers to Bill Ward's goatee in 1969 the band joked it was shaped like a pen nib. It's a crime he isn't on this new album or tour. Sabbath drummer Bill Ward is a monster on this track, and it's a vivid reminder of how huge a role he played in their sound. When the group met up with Led Zeppelin a few years later, this is the song John Bonham wanted to play with them. It begins with one of Iommi's sharpest riffs and doesn't let up for five minutes. On the album sleeve, the band even wrote, "We wish to thank the great COKE-Cola Company."īlack Sabbath's 1972 song "Supernaut" is far from the band's most famous composition and it wasn't even a single, but the hardcore fans know it's an absolute masterpiece. "Icicles within my brain/ Cocaine." The song is ostensibly about the dangers of the drug, but nobody in the band had any intention of stopping for quite some time. Many fans feel it was the band's last moment of true greatness until Ronnie James Dio joined the band seven years later.Ī lot of rock bands snorted insane amounts of cocaine in the 1970s, but none of them wrote a song about the drug that was as brilliant (and as blatant) as Black Sabbath's 1972 track "Snowblind." "Feeling happy in my vein," Ozzy sang. ![]() "As soon as we started working, the first song I came up with 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.' First day we were there, bang! I went, 'Bloody hell!'" The nearly-six-minute song kicks off the disc. "The vibe did lift my writer's block," Iommi wrote in his memoir, Iron Man. The locals felt the place was haunted, and it had an actual dungeon. They rented a giant castle in Gloucestershire, England to see if it would inspire them. The group had released four amazing albums over the previous four years, all built around his riffs. Five decades later, "Black Sabbath" remains a high point of their live show.īlack Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi was going through a rough case of writer's block when the group began recording Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973. There was nothing like it on the charts, and the group quickly began writing similar songs. The track is an absolute masterpiece and does feel like a mini audio-horror movie. The group wrote a song called "Black Sabbath" and changed their name from Earth to the same. This was also the peak of the hippie era and the four working-class kids from Birmingham, England were sick of songs about peace and love. Bassist Geezer Butler observed that people loved seeing scary movies, but there wasn't much scary music out there. The band was inspired to write the song when they saw a movie theater playing the 1963 Boris Karloff film Black Sabbath. ![]() It's difficult to overstate the importance of this song to both Black Sabbath and heavy metal in general.
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