Three Deep Purple vs Three Black Sabbath
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog Polls
Forum Description: Create polls on topics related to progressive music
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124610
Printed Date: July 26 2025 at 21:09
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Three Deep Purple vs Three Black Sabbath
Posted By: Cristi
Subject: Three Deep Purple vs Three Black Sabbath
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 00:01
|
This is gonna be the easiest poll ever or I'll be surprised and see something totally different. Maybe some will say the poll is unbalanced. Deep Purple's Stormbringer is one of my favorite albums, I think its really solid album. So for the fun of it, vote and discuss.
 |
Replies:
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 00:41
|
Sabbath!!! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 00:53
Purple, as usual  |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 01:17
|
Love the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" album not so much the other two, but i love all three Purple albums ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 04:45
|
Love the SBS and Burn. The latter peaks higher, but SBS is so fricking consistent. Tie. After that, Sabotage is my no. 3, so I take Black Sabbath. ------------- TOP20 Songs https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124211" rel="nofollow - Genesis https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=125999" rel="nofollow - Rush |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 06:03
|
even for me |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 06:46
Yeah, I pretty much agree with that. ------------- Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
thief wrote:Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 06:50
|
Sabbath, even if I tossed Technical Ecstasy in the trash and just went with SBS and Sabotage. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 07:48
|
Purple for me - Burn is my favourite album of theirs, Come Taste The Band was a bit sl*g.ed off at that time but I think it's a good album. Stormbringer I'm not familiar with. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 08:17
|
Having voted for Purple in the previous poll I'll go for Sabbath this time. Two strong albums (SBS and Sabotage) versus one (Burn) for Deep Purple. Having said that Burn is my favourite of all the six albums listed. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 08:18
|
Blackened Saturday. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 08:21
cool band name.
 |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 09:58
| Sabbath, I never enjoyed the gillen less Purps anywhere near as much. Now if it had been Sabs v Rainbow it would have been a different story. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 10:01
you can make a poll then. Especially since there are three Sabbath albums with Ronnie.
|
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 10:02
|
12 people commented, 17 votes not cool guys, not cool.
 |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 10:58
|
The Purple albums are great, but Sabbath, easily. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 11:04
|
Don't really listen to either band these days but SBS is a bloody decent lp. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 16:36
|
Purple: One great album, Burn. One good album, Strombringer. One decent album, Come Taste the Band. Sabbath: One great album, SBS. Another great album, arguably their best, Sabotage. One stinker, TE. The vote goes to the Sabs. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: November 19 2020 at 17:19
|
Tough one! But Deep Purple. I LOOOOOVVE Burn, really really like Come Taste the Band, super Underrated, not crazy about Stormbringer outside of a few tracks. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a masterpiece, like Burn. Sabotage is fantastic as well, not big on technical ecstasy. Purple barely edges it out for me. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Lieutenant_Lan
Date Posted: February 24 2021 at 20:50
| Always go with sabbath |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 05:37
| bump! |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 06:49
This is sound advice and I acted accordingly. SBS is just great. Sabotage has Sabbath's best track Symptom of the Universe on it, but, to be honest, I don't rate the rest of it very high. Nor Technical Ecstacy. Burn is also great but don't know the other two Purple albums. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 07:11
I'll even up the score then by commenting and not voting.
|
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 07:20
|
Burn & Stormbringer are good albums, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath & Sabotage are outstanding, Sabbath trample all over Purple in this one. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 07:22
 |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 07:33
|
I've always preferred Black Sabbath to Deep Purple. The particular albums don't matter in my decision. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 07:55
|
Black Sabbath, even though Technical Ecstasy was a massive let down. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: January 07 2022 at 19:01
Agreed. Gillen less Purple had one or maybe two good tracks per album for me. Besides that, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" stands head and shoulders above the rest of the albums here. ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 03:36
|
Sabbath. I've met a number of folks who place Sabotage as their favorite Black Sabbath album.
|
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 03:37
Gillen? Who's that? His name is Ian Gillan. There was a vocalist named Ray Gillen who was briefly in Black Sabbath, he participated in writing with Iommi but never made it to an official release being replaced by Tony Martin.
|
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 03:38
don't think Stormbringer is any good (IMHO), but the trio albums presented is unfair Sab should've been represented by Sabotage Ecstasy and Never Say Die as to make the last three 70's albums for both bands didn't vote and commented.  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 03:43
The albums in the poll were released around the same time (1973-1976).
|
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 04:37
Really? You're going to climb all over me for that? Just how petty can you be? ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 04:39
how am I petty? You can accuse me of being pedantic (just as bad, but you'd be right), but petty?
 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 04:49
You'd have to be a devoted fan to know that Ray Gillen once sang with Black Sabbath, just as you'd have to be a devoted fan to know that Ron Keel, Dave Walker and David Donato were also briefly singers with Black Sabbath. Then again, you could always look it up on Google, as I just did. 
|
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 05:13
My favourite Black Sabbath album is Technical Ecstasy even though I do recognise the first six albums as THE classic Black Sabbath albums. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 12:28
Exactly. "The Eternal Idol" 2010 deluxe edition disc 2 consists of the earlier recording sessions, with Ray Gillen performing vocals. After Ray Gillen quit Sabbath, Tony Martin recorded "The Eternal Idol" lyrics for his first spin as Sabbath's vocalist. I'm a big fan of Tony Martin's five album Sabbath run. Tony Iommi claims that a Tony Martin era Boxset is in the works. It could be be a fantastic box, if Iommi includes several concert DVD's. Don't be stingy, Tony. Forbidden is oft considered Sabbath's worse album. However; Iommi recently remixed Forbidden. It's in the can.
|
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 12:34
Canadian music Journalist- Martin Popoff's favorite all-time rock album is Sabotage. Martin's second favorite Sabbath album is Technical Ecstasy. Technical Ecstasy has grown on me over the years. I've always loved the cover.
|
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 08 2022 at 13:52
And the name. I have even used "Technical Ecstasy" as a username (not on this site). ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 09:26
I missed this post.
 Technical Ecstasy is not my favorite album from BS, but I've always loved it. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 10:38
| I love both albums, but voted for Deep Purple. |