Black Sabbath Albums

Paranoid, because it has all the huge BS classics. 

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for me probably because the song writing had matured i.e. in the past many Sabs songs were at the mercy of how memorable the main riff was. I think I owned every Sabbath album up to Technical Ecstasy and although they all have their merits and contain some brilliant songs, they could be a tad patchy in places.

Paranoid is amazingly awesome.

I unfortunately haven't had experience with too many Sabbath albums, but with the ones I'm familiar with, Paranoid is my favorite. All of the songs are satisfying, and the guitar riffs are just classic.

Paranoid, the first one i got, and still by far my favorite and one of my all time favorite albums by any band.

Jim Garten wrote: Raff wrote: I was much younger, and my tastes were not fully developed I know the feeling - I was there when they played the Reading Festival in 1983, but I still laughed my ass off when the encored with 'Smoke On The Water'

*cue emoticon for Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off*

Raff wrote: I was much younger, and my tastes were not fully developed

I know the feeling - I was there when they played the Reading Festival in 1983, but I still laughed my ass off when the encored with 'Smoke On The Water'

Jim Garten wrote: I can't believe 'Born Again' has so many votes, yet so little written endorsement within the thread; personally, apart from a couple of decent tracks, to me, it represents a real nadir in Sabbath's history (although maybe not so much as Technical Ecstacy' ) Favorites for me? 1 - Sabotage 2 - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 3 - Heaven & Hell 4 - Masters Of Reality ...plus an honourable mention for 'Live At Last'; never an official album, I understand (released by NEMS without the band's consent), but shows them at their live peak

Great to see that we share almost the same tastes! As regards Born Again, I remember I used to like it a lot when it came out - but then, I was much younger, and my tastes were not fully developed. However, as you said, there are a couple of decent tracks on the album, or possibly three. Personally, I like "Trashed", "Disturbing the Priest" and the title-track.

That first Sabbath album which I first heard upon it's release gave a very strange vibe to all kids everywhere. Many kids in high school 1971 were interested in the occult side that is presented on the album. Every kid in the school was calling it hard rock. It's really strange to think of Sabbath not only in that term but, how the music grew on fans of rock as they entered the music scene. They were for many years classified as a dark band and based on a self indulgent mood swing, people would wait for a moment in time to play their records. Usually on a dark and windy night a friend would put on the first album. I kind of got the impression that hippies disregarded them as a leftover of something or the other. So it was mostly kids from my age group that indulged.

Paranoid.................I liked em' with Ozzy