Black Sabbath

Terrapin Station wrote: I'm surprised the first three albums are winning on progarchives.  In my opinion the second three have heavier prog influences.  Hell, Rick Wakeman is even on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that album and Sabotage have strings and a choir, etc.

doesn't really matter really does it... the highest rated Rush album is .. Moving Pictures isn't it.... an AOR /arena rock album.

even though this is PA's....  progressive/prog content really only matters in band evaluations for adding them.. as far as what people like...be it polls like this or the damned rating based review system here... all bets are off.  Just like Genesis... there were bands did their best albums either prior to .. or more often once they moved past being prog.


Edited by micky - September 27 2016 at 14:45

doompaul wrote: I think Vol4 is a great album that is really held back by the track "changes." Just my opinion. My favorite Sab record is SBS.

Yeah Ozzy does Elton John sort of thing. Still it's easily counterbalanced - obscured really... ok, obliterated by the magnificence of Wheels Of Confusion.

I'm surprised the first three albums are winning on progarchives.  In my opinion the second three have heavier prog influences.  Hell, Rick Wakeman is even on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that album and Sabotage have strings and a choir, etc.

I enjoy the others, but Paranoid is the only Sabbath album that blows my mind. So I go for the one that has it in it.

Pastmaster wrote: hieronymous wrote: <span style="line-height: 1.4;">Born Again is still one of my favorites</span> I'm glad there's someone else who loves Born Again, it's one of my favorites as well. I know many complain about the production, but I can get past it when the music is just really good.

Me too !! Love Gillan's voice, love the songs (Disturbing The Priest couldn't get more epic) and it was one of the first Sabbath albums I heard (along with Heaven And Hell and Live Evil). Then came the Ozzy albums (was late-'88 / early '89 for me). Super special, and the debut was a strong obsession for a stoner

To me, the first three albums are magical - the playing and the songs - Vol. 4 is kind of transitional, sounds patched together - then Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are brilliant, but much more polished and constructed - not necessarily a bad thing, but overall I have to vote for the first three.

Terrapin Station wrote: Just chiming in that I also love Never Say Die and Technical Ecstasy.  Never Say Die is actually my #3 Sabbath album. Anyway, I picked option #2 in the poll.  My top two Sabbath albums are Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage.  Then Never Say Die is 3, and Vol. 4 is 4 appropriately enough.

AEProgman wrote: BS=3 + Paranoid=4 + MoR=4 = 11 Vol4=3 + SBS=4 + Sabotage=4 = 11   I can't decide as both groupings hold different emotions and memories for me and love them all, I will not vote and leave it tied at 29.

Was a huge Black Sabbath fan. For me Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage takes it easily although I love all of their Ozzy albums.

Too hard to decide for me