Mellow Sabbath
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Topic: Mellow Sabbath
Posted By: Jozef
Subject: Mellow Sabbath
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 00:30
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I was wondering what everyone's favorite mellower Black Sabbath song was. These songs stood out to me to me the most as being the most representative of their more subdued side.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 00:35
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Planet Caravan is top 5 Sabbath for me. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 12:42
| "Stonehenge" for me. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 12:58
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Planet Caravan (Panteater version) ------------- What? |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 13:19
| Fluff, one of my favourite Sabbath songs. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 13:42
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Planet Caravan. Out there man ! Doesn't even sound like the Sabs. Sounds like Ozzy took too much valium. Sensual. Lofty. Atmospheric. Love Iommi's jazzy guitar. A have sex song. ------------- |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 22:24
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Sign of the Southern Cross? Really?...... Subdued? That thing rocks hard.
Another vote for Planet Caravan. Despite the awful Pantera cover. Hey, at least it's better than their version of Hole in the Sky..... ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 01 2009 at 02:05
Yet another for Planet Caravan - fits in well when I play chill sets at clubs too  ------------- 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: December 01 2009 at 08:01
Surprised no votes for Laguna Sunrise - beautiful track, sends shivers..
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 01 2009 at 14:36
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Have to say "Planet Caravan", but all the first 6 on your list, except "Changes", are really really fantastic! AND YOU FORGOT "SHE'S GONE"!  |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: December 01 2009 at 15:00
| Orchid |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 02 2009 at 16:11
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^^^^ That one's really beautiful! Makes me think of a forest in springtime
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 02 2009 at 16:22
| Planet Caravan is one exceptional song! |
Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: December 03 2009 at 08:28
| Yep, Planet Caravan, my only complaint is that it's too short...... |
Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: December 03 2009 at 23:16
| NO VOTE...... can't decide between Laguna Sunrise and Changes. |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: December 06 2009 at 05:39
Definitely the awesomely trippy, sci-fi-hippie Planet Caravan, with Solitiude second ... I did once spend a depressing period being consoled by Bill Ward's lead vocals on It's Alright though! 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 27 2009 at 15:32
Agreed 100%. I absolutely LOVE "The Sign...", which is one of the best things the Sabs have ever done, but to call it mellow is stretching things more than a little bit. Anyway, though I don't know if it would qualify as mellow, I'd like to mention another very unconventional Sabs piece - "Supertzar" from Sabotage. |
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: December 27 2009 at 16:29
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Perhaps not highly mellow, but one of my most played Sabbath songs ever is called "In Memory". From an album I personally think is a tad too underrated ;-)
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 27 2009 at 17:57
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Gonna have to go with Planet Caravan myself. One of my favorite early Sabbath songs. Although I recently purchased the three-CD version of Paranoid with an early Planet Caravan lyric and "it was dreadful". ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 22:33
| 'Planet Caravan' is psychedelic bliss. However, in my mind Sabbath can do no wrong anyway so really, they're all good. Was anybody else surprised that Bill Ward was getting a chance to sing on 'It's Alright'? |
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: December 31 2009 at 21:26
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Oh, I love mellow Sabbath. It's as essential a part of the band as their more famous heavy stuff is. Many, many metal bands have followed the Sabs, but few have recognised the importance of including mellow stuff alongside the anvil-heavy side. Metallica understand this, as do Opeth. I voted for Solitude. I really love that song. Planet Caravan is way up there, though. It really breaks up the flow of the Paranoid album (in a good way). Every Sab album (in the original lineup) that followed Paranoid included one of Iommi's instrumentals and at least one chillout song. I also like It's Alright, a nice Beatles-esque ballad sung by Bill Ward, I believe. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: whydontyoueatcarrots
Date Posted: January 07 2010 at 22:29
| Solitude all the way, that's actually in the running for my favorite Sabbath song ever. It's so minimal, yet so powerful. The lyrics and the somber delivery, every time I listen to it, truthfully it bums me out a bit, it's even got me teary eyed from time to time. But it's so beautifully sad... cryin' and thinkin' is all that I do. |