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    Posted: September 04 2010 at 04:42

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Black Sabbath
1970
4.24 | 124 ratings
Paranoid
1970
3.91 | 94 ratings
Master Of Reality
1971
3.69 | 79 ratings
Volume Four
1972
4.01 | 92 ratings
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1973

3.83 | 70 ratings
Sabotage
1975
2.36 | 50 ratings
Technical Ecstasy
1976
2.68 | 48 ratings
Never Say Die
1978
3.87 | 65 ratings
Heaven And Hell
1980
3.20 | 44 ratings
Mob Rules
1981

2.44 | 42 ratings
Born Again
1983
2.39 | 21 ratings
Seventh Star
1986
3.11 | 21 ratings
The Eternal Idol
1987
2.92 | 31 ratings
Headless Cross
1989
2.97 | 23 ratings
Tyr
1990

2.73 | 29 ratings
Dehumanizer
1992
3.31 | 20 ratings
Cross Purposes
1994
1.67 | 16 ratings
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1995


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Notice: only studio albums.
 
My vote, without order:
Nicest, most tasteful covers:
Black Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Heaven And Hell
The Eternal Idol
 
Ugliest covers:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Born Again
Dehumanizer
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The best covers: Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

The worst covers: Paranoid, Sabotage (LOL), Born Again.
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Well, Born Again of course Wink

Sabbath have some very very ugly ones indeed, mostly Seventh Star and Technical Ecstacy, and some that really don't really move me in any way.

I really do like Born Again, but the debut is my favourite, along with Heaven and Hell and perhaps even Master of Reality. It's not really a great looking cover, but I like the simplicity, and for some reason seeing that always makes me want to listen to the album.
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Nicest.

Technical Ecstasy
Vol 4
Sabbath Bloody sabbath
heaven and Hell

Ugliest

Born Again
Paranoid
Master Of Reality
Sabotage
Seventh Star
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The cover art for the debut album for Black Sabbath remains my favorite cover art of all time. It's just... perfect.
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Heaven & Hell remains my favourite piece of Sabbs art and work of art to boot. Close second in both is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
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The cover to Paranoid is a travesty.  Although, a funny one!  A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera.  You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

The cover to Paranoid is a travesty.  Although, a funny one!  A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera.  You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.

It's not a shaky camera it's a long exposure.Smile
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

The cover to Paranoid is a travesty.  Although, a funny one!  A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera.  You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.

It's not a shaky camera it's a long exposure.Smile
 
Ooops.  Sorry.  In which case I am mistaken Snowy.  It is a work of genious.  How could I have not seen that? 
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Oh, Forbidden cover is ugly too. It looks like a very bad comics. The same about Mob Rules.
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

The cover to Paranoid is a travesty.  Although, a funny one!  A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera.  You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.

It's not a shaky camera it's a long exposure.Smile
 
Ooops.  Sorry.  In which case I am mistaken Snowy.  It is a work of genious.  How could I have not seen that? 

No its still sh*t.
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I like the debut album art... very metal!
 
BORN AGAIN's album art looks frankly horrible... along with some others!
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The debut is the best ............Awful covers . They should have shoot the designers for some of them. Surprisling I like Paranoid too but it is sentimental LOL
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Greatest: the debut, no doubt. Though I've always liked the norse-inspired Tyr.
 
Worst: Dehumanizer and Forbidden, both seem like covers from sh*tty metal bands.
 
The Heaven & Hell cover is iconic, though.
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Never thought about it, but looking at those, the debut is the only one that doesn't seem silly and/or cheesy and/or just plain poor. 

There could be a sub-section of PA to rate and review album covers.  For those who wish to burn up more time.LOL
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The debut is their best cover IMHO, the perfectly suited combination of visuals with the music on the record. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Heaven & Hell are also great.

Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

The cover to Paranoid is a travesty.  Although, a funny one!  A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera.  You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.


Paranoid truly is an unbelievably bad album cover that makes Love Beach look like the work of Rembrandt. As you say, the 'concept' appears to involve a fat, bearded bloke in a motorcycle crash helmet, wearing purple underpants over a pair of pink tights, waving a toy sword while hopping around in a forest at midnight. The concept this communicates to me is  'Sad Perv' rather than the 'Paranoid' idea which was presumably intended!

Hard to believe that Marcus Keef, who did the sublime cover for the first album (and lots of other great covers on the Vertigo label), was also responsible for this atrocity just a few months later.


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What the hell is on Sabotage cover? Another kind of travesty?  Especially Ozzy and Bill are straightly awful here. Despite of this, the music on Sabotage is one of the best Black Sabbath stuff ever.

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Ugliest - Sabotage... did we really use to dress like that?!
 
Nicest - Black Sabbath... reminds me of my missus. LOL
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Best-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. 

Worst-Tyr. Incredibly dated, and not in an endearing way either.
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