Black Sabbath vs Deep Purple

Haven't been on here in a long while and I find a discussion on Purple and Sabbath two of the rock bands I grew up with in 1970's onwards. Purple's In Rock for me is the greatest rock album ever it has everything and whilst I love Sabbath's first and Paranoid  nothing touches ' In Rock'  but then again Uriah Heep were better than both of them,ain't that right Mr Easy Living??

Love Purple and have many albums, but Sabbath are my all time favourite band. More original, more exciting, more varied and more progressive. A close contest, but not that close!

The Dark Elf wrote: Sabbath was much more consistent album-wise over that time period. To be honest, if you have Deep Purple's Made in Japan, that's all you really need from that group.

i agree, even though i was a purple fan in the 70s, even MiJ t hasn't aged well.

I gave my vote to Purple but love both, in fact the reason about my vote should be that Purple did more good singles.....

Sabbath. Invented three or four different subgenres of heavy metal with their first few albums, then kicked themselves to the front rank of the NWOBHM during the Dio years. I like some of Purple's stuff, but I've never found any of their albums to be as consistent as Sabbath's best - there always seems to be filler cluttering up the place. (Farmer's Daughter, anyone?)

I'm not mad keen on either, but Purple had more class.

Couldn't listen to Deep Purple for years because of "Smoke On The Water". After abandoning Classic Rock radio, I've made my peace with the song and now I'm a total nut for the band's first two lineups. 

Black Sabbath was a slightly harder nut to crack, due to the whole darkness thing, not to mention that if you've spent your teenage years listening to albums like Sgt. Pepper over and over, songs like "Iron Man" , "Paranoid" and "N.I.B" are going to sound avant-garde in comparison. Still, after looking at this wicked, wciked world, Sabbath's first six albums have aged like a fine wine to my musical tastes.

As for who's better, I'd narrowly have to lean to Deep Purple, mainly because they had a bit more variety.

no band touched me more in my youth than Black Sabbath...

The one that wrote "War Pigs".

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