BLACK SABBATH

I can only give this album 5 stars, since it forms the carpet of my yought music experience. Especially the songs NIB and Warning are important in this, the rest a bit less. I remember listening to Warning deep in the night with my headphone (one ear!) from my little mono cassete deck, and being completely happy. The guitar riffs are incredible, the bass is thunderous, and Ozzy sings "I was born without you baby, but my feelings were a little bit too strong". This song, together with "Child in Time" of Deep Purple, is the most important ever in creating my musical background. The album in hindsight shurely has it's flaws, but to me this is the birth of self- conciousness in music. The roots of Black Sabbath, blues rock, are very clear on this album and influences of eg. The Cream cannot be denied. But they brought it to another level. A groundbreaking album, and because NIB and Warning, 5 stars.