Fave Sabbath with Ozzy Album

Guldbamsen wrote: So dr prog, are you always this cheerful? Seems no matter the subject, you always find something to bitch about. I don't think I have ever witnessed you posting without either looking down your nose or belittleling other people's taste in music. You must be a sheer delight to shoot the breeze with

I just don't get how master and bloody are the last 2 in the first 5 albums 😜
My fave 2 Sab albums. They have the most strong compositions of all Sab albums. Same with most bands in here. All the wrong albums get the high ratings and more smartly composed albums get the low ratings. The simply thought out melodies should take back seat to a bit of complex playing which has 1/100th of the staying power :)

The 2 weakest albums of the 1970-75 period are winning. What else would you expect at PE

I'll never forget the first time I heard Vol. 4, it was a musical epiphany like no other. I just felt: "this is it, this is what I've been looking for all along". Most prog records take time to grown on you, they never produced this kind of giant wave that engulfs you all of a sudden.

Interesting how Bloody Sabbath is so low in this poll. They really tried to make a prog LP out of this one, Tony plays flute, Geezer tried synthesisers for the first time, Bill played bass and there's even Rick Wakeman in Sabra Cadabra.

Only one vote on Never Say Die is also a bit surprising, since the B side is mostly fusion. But I imagine most folk do not know this particular record.

In the end it's all good, if you're really into rock music.

The debut and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. A dead heat so I can't vote!

I hate to be cliché, but I have to give it to Paranoid. It's what got me into Black Sabbath in the first place. However, Sabotage houses my favorite song by the group with "Symptom Of The Universe". 

For me it's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Proggest and "happiest".

Am I going Insane?  I voted for Sabotage over all the others I love so much!

Love the atmosphere the first album sets.....sluggish raunchy blooze; none of their albums came close to laying down such stoner brilliance.  The next two contain better "songs" but I don't put them on nearly as often as the first.  Personally, I don't go beyond the first three with the Sabbs; I've heard them all over the years and like cuts from each, but none are as Sabbathy (good adjective) as the first.

Probably shouod have voted for Vol 4 just for the awesome Wheels Of Confusion but mine is the vote for the under rated Technical Ecstasy. Fascinating numbers there, really this is a metal band (beginning with SBS striving for new teritories and getting knocked back. Bill Ward made a great ballad singer. Here he is more listenable than Ozzy who is best pitting his vocal against the giant structures Iommi  creates.

It's not perfect, She's Gone sags under it's soggy string arrangements but the variety of hard and heavy rock they created made for an interesting listen. Dirty Women and the riff at the peak of that number puts that on par with Wheels. Quality motifs are always welcome. Bill Ward shines on the drums at the end of that number as well. It's his ability to lift the Sabbath riffs and use his drums to change the rhythms that give Sabbath such an interesting foundation. Shame they couldn't get him in the studio for 13 and get the session guys to fill in like they've been doing for the past 30 years that Bill Ward has not been part of Sabbath.

Volume IV - 1972