Sabbath's Proggy albums!

Vibrationbaby wrote: Well this album was compiled in 1979.

Yeah, I failed to notice that little important detail. But I can bail myself out by saying that it has to be a double album so Roger Dean can have a full fold out for his art.

Vibrationbaby wrote: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Ozzy started to get pissed of when Iommi started to bring in choirs, horns, strings etc. I'm sure it had something to do with his loss of interest. Here's my immaginary Sabbath Prog Compilation released in 1979 as a stop gap in between Never Say Die and Heaven & Hell entitled                    Black Art - Black Sabbath Side A 1. Orchid 1:30 2. Planet Caravan 4:24 3. Air Dance 5:18 4. Spiral Architect 5:29 Side B 1. Supertzar 3:42 2. Megalomania 9:40 3. Gypsy 5:10 4. Laguna Sunrise 2:53   Compiled by Ian Anderson & Tony Iommi Liner notes by Annie Haslam Cover Art by Roger Dean Remastered by Peter Gabriel

Pretty funny fantasy there. This is the 79 minute cd age though, got to through in a few more. I would throw in Who are you, A National acrobat, Junior's eyes, might even be tempted to throw in Sleeping Village.


Interesting the comment about Ozzy being p'd by the progressive leaning. especially when you consider his first 2 solo albums had a far greater prog slant than the 2 BS albums after he left.

Both albums are good.

Who said that phrase , "I only thrust in god and Sabbath's first 6 albums"?

Sabotage takes it for me, arguably more progressive as a complete album. I love all Ozzy " Sabbtah" era albums....

SBS.   That said, I think all of the Ozzy -era albums are pretty damn proggy. 

CPicard wrote: Abstrakt wrote: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath out of those.Never Say die has some really progressive moments aswell. Why isn't it mentioned here? Yes, that's the kind of thing that would prevent me from voting in any poll: two records "against" each other, without a more complex question.Moreover, for heavy-metal fans, Black Sabbath's "progessive era" rather started with "Sabotage" (hey, they had Rick Wakeman on keyboards!) and ended with "Never Say Die". In other words, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" is seen as the last "classical" album. Well, "classical"... I mean... For Black Sabbath.

You're wrong, Sabotage didn't have Rick Wakeman, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath had on Sabbra Cadabra, so your hipothesis or whatever must be mistaken.

Sabbath started with their first album already with some Prog oriented feel, at least Heavy Prog. Then Paranoid continued with some more, already mentioned War Pigs. Master of Reality was/is Sabbath's heaviest album IMO from Ozzy's era at least, and Vol 4 is rather weak, though some good ideas.
With Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Black Sabbath really moved to a new direction on sound. Adding orchestral arrangements, acoustic guitars on top of electric, diverse tempos, etc.. It went on even further with Sabotage, with the mini "epics" The Writ and Meglomania.

I'll listen to Never Say Die once again, though I remember it to be quite mediocre, even Technical Ectasy(?) was better, having Dirt Women which is killer.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath out of those.
Never Say die has some really progressive moments aswell. Why isn't it mentioned here?

SBS for me.

Their two best albums with Ozzy imo. Sabotage narrowly get the vote, for sentimental reasons more than anything else....oh and of course for 'The Writ'