LEX: Oh my God, I'm in the back of a vehicle, with some , like thing tied to my eyes...ya know what I'm saying? Some duct tape on my mouth, like I'm blindfolded and like WHERE ARE THEY TAKING ME??? BRAD: I'm just thinkin' this song is in slow motion. LEX: yeah

@albertgein3082

2 жыл бұрын

She on another level.. Some kinda kink lol Love lex

@ericnavarre4255

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@mikenastasi8927

2 жыл бұрын

Brad: I started it on the couch and ending it on the couch

@esellanta

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@emdiar6588

2 жыл бұрын

It's kinda cute when a girl is so obviously much smarter than a guy, but puts up with his Forest Gump ass to spare his feelings.

You have to remember what this song represents. Before that rain started, the world had never heard metal.

@DominiqueVanheusden

2 жыл бұрын

Except for MC 5

@knightni73

2 жыл бұрын

Or Steppenwolf

@crimsongaming3986

2 жыл бұрын

Or helter skelter being pretty damn close to metal

@wilhelmfink7633

2 жыл бұрын

Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf and MC5 had flashes of Metal in some songs, but were mainly hard rock bands. Black Sabbath established the Heavy Metal genre and Tony Iommy started the use of power chords and lower tunes on the guitar to gain more weight.

@AgentOrange921

2 жыл бұрын

@@DominiqueVanheusdenthough they had a pretty heavy sound, id argue theyre more on the proto punk side. sure they were heavy, but they also had that punk rock "fuck you" mentality with "kick up the jams" and were the influence of a lot of early punk bands back then like the stooges

Brad: "It's bypassing all my defenses." Finally!!!

@vladtheinhaler93

2 жыл бұрын

We got a head-bob AND the side-sway, clearly his mind was blown!

@nickcrisp7252

2 жыл бұрын

Was the Bradbot finally short-circuited by Black Sabbath?!

@Will_Wel

2 жыл бұрын

I was like, yes, that's what it's supposed to do :))

@PHILLY214

2 жыл бұрын

The devils interval will grab anyone

@ericschmidt5510

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickcrisp7252 LMAO

This song alone created a whole genre of metal. It’s a classic.

@bashbarti

2 жыл бұрын

fact

@Grobut81

2 жыл бұрын

Debatable, but it was this song that tipped the scales and made the media go "We have to come up with a new name for this sound, calling it Rock just doesen't seem fitting anymore".

@Easy_Skanking

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grobut81 I think he was talking about Doom Metal instead of metal itself.

@Grobut81

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Easy_Skanking Today we'd probably considder Sabbath "doom", this song especially, but back then they didn't have these labels yet, this was the first time the label "metal" was even used.

@Easy_Skanking

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grobut81 Sabbath was one of the fathers of metal. There are specific songs of theirs that spawned sub-genres of metal. Doom Metal for this song. Stoner metal for "Sweet Leaf" and so on. Actually, the first time the "metal" label was used was for "Born to Be Wild" from Steppenwolf.

Black Sabbath used to be a bluesy band called Earth. When they became Black Sabbath and played this song at a show, all the Earth fans were freaking out because it was so dark and heavy. Nice! This is the birth of heavy metal.

Not only did Sabbath "invent" Metal but while they were at it, they also invented Doom Metal! :D

@GregNickoloff

2 жыл бұрын

...and nobody has figured out how to beat them at it yet.

@kosjeyr

Жыл бұрын

They actually invented several sub genres of metal...: 01) Progressive Metal - The Writ 02) Funk Metal - Behind the Wall of Sleep 03) Stoner Metal - Sweet Leaf 04) Hair Metal - Changes 05) Christian/White Metal - After Forever 06) Black Metal - Black Sabbath / Electric Funeral 07) Death Metal - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 08) Thrash Metal - Symptom of the Universe 09) Power Metal - War Pigs 10) Doom Metal - Into the Void

@jackhuffman9313

Жыл бұрын

11) stoner metal… planet caravan

@shaebryant1916

Жыл бұрын

It’s just metal. Forget the stupid sub genres. It’s either metal or it isn’t. How can they do a sub genre when they invented the original genre.

@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek

Жыл бұрын

​@@shaebryant1916false

Black Sabbath forever!!!!

@masterofsparkshwy6974

2 жыл бұрын

I still got my "Black Sabbath ruined my life !" Concert t shirt from 99

@MrManfly

2 жыл бұрын

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Brad: "What is going on?" Lex: "Music."

@elbruces

2 жыл бұрын

Literally every reaction, LOL.

@markmelody682

2 жыл бұрын

Has no idea what’s going on. Another airhead

I heard this as a kid in mid 1970s over at a friend's house and it scared the livin' shit out of me! Yep, this is definitely the origins of metal, THIS SONG kicks it off.

@alrivers2297

2 жыл бұрын

This song doom metal

@monicajean37

2 жыл бұрын

@@alrivers2297 NO, THEY ARE GRANDFATHERS OF THE ORIGIN OF HEAVY METAL.

@Reno_Slim

2 жыл бұрын

@@alrivers2297 Back in the day, there were no subgenres of metal. Metal was essentially considered a subgenre of rock.

@alrivers2297

2 жыл бұрын

@@monicajean37 yes they are, but this song is specifically doom metal. Look it up

@bigyodatheman

2 жыл бұрын

You realize doom metal is heavy metal, right?

This came out in 1970, when the beatles were still at the top of the charts, imagine that, and then you hear this.

That "trance" you feel is the minor key that the song is written. The key if E Minor does a trick inside a person's head. It activates a primal place deep down inside! Lots of rock songs are written in a minor key

@bobbybobbatunday9959

2 жыл бұрын

Since modern chord structure was written down by Ba"h and his contemporaries, that particular chord has been known as the devil,'s triad. Specifically in that key, but it can have a similar effect in other ones.

@tonysimmons5729

2 жыл бұрын

Or as the blokes meant for it to be, based in the blues.

@innosanto

2 жыл бұрын

It's more than that. You know how many songs in minor key?

@PHILLY214

2 жыл бұрын

The real reason is this song being in a tritone just as it's main influence

@ZEPnALE

2 жыл бұрын

It's a versatile key, but also kind of consistent. "For Your Love" by the Yardbirds, and "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers are both in Em. They remind me of a Mr. Miyagi line from Karate Kid: "Different, but same."

Imagine writing this type of song in '69? What a classic piece.

@princegiles9309

Жыл бұрын

It was written in 69 as a matter of fact the whole entire album was recorded in 69 LOL

@korfrag6865

Жыл бұрын

They also performed it live in Scotland on November 16th, 1969. Imagine being in the audience hearing that for the first time!

@seanhanratty9494

Жыл бұрын

I was just looking at the top artists in terms of album sales and they are no where near the top groups. I was amazed to see that since they’ve been so influential to metal. Everyone I know had all their albums. Such awesome music and so different and no one bought it like they should have? I feel like in a bubble. How could they not have sold over 100 million albums. I dont think they passed 50 million. WTF. They definitely have their place as rock royalty though and are far from over looked.

Brad "This song is in slow motion". All of the Sabbath fans...just wait a little longer... Great reaction guys, a genuine classic song and that word is overused, not for this one. Really enjoying your reactions and warming to Brad's considered style, honest thoughts on what he feels which is what we want. Lex never disappoints, always some fantastic statement from deep within her imagination!

The riff in this song is based on a tritone, traditionally known as the Devil's interval! And the whole idea behind Black Sabbath was to create the musical equivalent of a horror movie.

@westym8935

2 жыл бұрын

you mean the song or album?

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

Жыл бұрын

It’s based on Holsts “The Planet” which Geezer Butler had been using in the rehearsal studio to warm up. Tony Iommi heard it and tried playing it the next day in a slightly simpler way and the song “Black Sabbath” was born.

Black Sabbath was a Boris Karloff film. That is where the band got their name and inspiration for the song. The guitar player Tony Iommi lost two of his finger tips in a accident at work before him and Burt Ward (drummer) put this band together.

@masterofsparkshwy6974

2 жыл бұрын

Bill.... Burt Ward was Robin, Batman's sidekick.

The birth of True Real Metal.

@alrivers2297

2 жыл бұрын

The first doom metal song

This was definitely the beginning of heavy metal. Black Sabbath was amazing.

The mental images Lex comes up with are simply astounding sometimes. Just like, wow I can't believe anyone thought of that! But it's still almost always appropriate!

@elbruces

2 жыл бұрын

She's got a creative mind, she really should get into some kind of art.

@scottsager440

2 жыл бұрын

And that outfit! 😮

"By passing all my defenses" is what music does. If you go to a symphony orchestra it'll take you away too. Not a huge fan of the song, but some great riffs in it. There are a whole lot of songs I've listened to over the years that I couldn't understand first time and it took me several times to understand. If you close your eyes and let the music roll over you first time you listen, at least you can allow the musical presentation to move you. Some songs lyrics are overt and others covert.

You guys should react to… Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave 🎸🤘

@Mr05Chuck

2 жыл бұрын

My fave

@joepaskowski9091

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yea…that song genuinely fucked my mind up first time I heard it. The whispering at the end is just plain creepy

@metalmark1214

2 жыл бұрын

Must definitely, great recommendation.

@jester3xt720

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see Lex's reaction to Fairies Wear Boots...those drums..damn....

@aichinagoya3486

2 жыл бұрын

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath too.

The song is about an evil book in Latin that Ozzy gave Geezer Butler their bass player to help him with any scary ideas - well after he gave the book to Geezer that night he woke up and saw this figure in black at the foot of his bed pointing at him - and this is what the bass player wrote- oh and Geezer threw the book away after his encounter ' bless you both

@michaelledford4751

2 жыл бұрын

A bit wrong bro,after geezer saw the figure in black he went to the cupboard he left the book in & the book wasn't there,geezer never saw the book again

@algrudenich1827

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought Ozzy wrote the words after Geezer Butler told him about a dream he had after reading the book

@antonballard2212

2 жыл бұрын

@@algrudenich1827 no Geezer did my friend

@antonballard2212

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelledford4751 I've heard 2 versions of this story - thanks for your input

@antonballard2212

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelledford4751 if that book disappeared in the cupboard Geezer would have left - I really don't believe that version - cheers mate

The trance is the tritone, which was "banned" in the medieval era for being evil, or said to summon the devil. The lyrics are about bassist Geezer Butler seeing a black figure above an occult book given to him by Ozzy.

@mikephillips8810

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently from all the stuff I've read, it wasn't actually banned, was just known as being associated with the devil. Still, the musical effect is there!

@footnotedrummer

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikephillips8810 ... Adam Neely has a good video on this.

@bove2k918

2 жыл бұрын

Diabolus in musica

@waltk420

2 жыл бұрын

Those 3 chords devils trio it was called was banned in classical music because the Catholic church deemed it as evil

@Silenceeify

2 жыл бұрын

It was never banned.

OUR MAIN COUPLE IS LOOKING MAJOR FREEKY IN THIS VIDEO!!! Lovin' it! But Lex's eyes are gonna give me nightmares tonight, instead of my usual sweet dreams about her!

the most underrated song they ever put out. i wish more people knew this.

One of my goals in life is to release a song that makes Lex start dancing and swaying and they say Ooooooohh. That would be awesome. If Brad got into it as well, that would be icing on the cake.

The Tritone, "Diabolus in Musica" aka "The Devil's Interval" in Western music theory

@PHILLY214

2 жыл бұрын

First comment I seen point it out! Good shit!

LISTENING TO THIS AT 12 YEARS OLD BACK IN 1970 53 YEARS AGO BEING THE FIRST TO EXPERIENCE METAL WAS A LIFE CHANGING JOURNEY. I SAW THEM FOR THE 1ST OF 4 TIMES IN HOUSTON TEXAS in 1972

Never thought I'd see you two reacting to this one. Love Lex's impression of Ozzy's singing toward the end. It's "chill" in its own way, I guess. The guitarist, Tony Iommi, had accidentally sliced off the tips of his fingers on his left hand on his last day at a metal working plant and had to figure out how to keep playing, so he tuned the guitar down so the strings were looser, and he made wax tips to cover the ends of his fingers. That's part of what makes that guitar sound.

This was based on the Mars section of Holst’s planet suite. The album is by many considered to be the beginning of metal

@tonysimmons5729

2 жыл бұрын

Good observation about Holst but if this isn’t the seminal moment in the history of Metal, what was?

@Grobut81

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonysimmons5729 That's a matter of much debate, and i've seen people make many good arguments for this band/song or the other. Thing is, this all came about at the tail end of Hippy music, and a lot of bands at this time were nolnger writing about peace and love, but about bad acid trips and the like, so a lot of this music was taking on a darker and heavier tone than before. So where do you draw the line? How heavy must the first heavy song be, before we deem it heavy enough to be the first? Not so cut and dried, which is why people still debate it to this day. This, however, was the song that tipped the scales for the media, this is where they said "Ok, we can't call this Rock music anymore, we have to come up with a new term for this", and that term was Metal.

@tonysimmons5729

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grobut81 I understand that. Point taken but this track has all the elements of what a Metal song should be. Sabbath didn’t copy anyone or actually give a shit about what others were doing. As Geezer said, “when we recorded the first record, we just wanted to print enough copies of it for each of us to take one home to mom and dad and say, look I made a record!” It was the music but so much more. It was not just dark but scary. It was by design, made to scare people. Ozzy said they wanted something the opposite of flower power music. It’s the guitar sound. It’s an excellent rhythm section based in jazz and the blues. It’s a loud and clear vocalist singing of fear and the unspeakable as an art form. Others had shades of what Metal would be. IronB, Steppw, Zep, purple, Hendrix, Cream, and some pretty obscure bands like Coven where on the back of their first release, band members are seen throwing horns🤘. They were all missing something though and heavy was just part of what they did. The guys in Sabbath grew up playing in bombed out buildings from WW2. They went to schools that were next to Metal founderies and the shards of metal probably was being inhaled into their lungs. It was an essence. A presence. A statement. Sabbath was really a loud blues band in those days but they had the lyrical content and imagery to create a new genre. Pretty much every track on their first four records would eventually spawn a new sub-genre of Metal. They were the real deal.

@tonysimmons5729

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grobut81 oh and just an aside, I feel like Hendrix tune PURPLE HAZE is really the first tune that could be called Metal but the term wasn’t connected to Jimi or the track.

@Grobut81

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonysimmons5729 You're not alone in pointing the finger at Hendrix, other popular picks are The Beatles, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly and many more. I've seen people debate this topic many times, and i have seen many good arguments made for a lot of different songs and bands. Personally, i think it was simply a natural evolution, build upon the work of many pioneers who all had some part to play.

The live version of this song ,when you hear Ozzy smiling/laughing as the Satan is awesome

Black Sabbath is a rabbit hole you cannot escape from, but it will be one you will not regret!

"Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, written in 1969 and released on their self titled debut album. The main riff of "Black Sabbath", one of the most famous examples of harmonic progressions with the tritone, was created when bassist Geezer Butler began playing a fragment of "Mars" from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite. Inspired, guitarist Tony Iommi returned the next day with the famously dark tritone.

I envy Brad and Lex hearing this song for the first time, thinking: "WTF?" I also envy people back in 1969 who heard this song for the first time and must've thunk to themselves: "WTF?" Unfortunately, I'm old but not old enough. My first introduction to "heavy metal" was Motley Crue. Nothing against The Crue, I'm just saying...

@JohnVanRuiten

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was me. First song I heard of theirs, cranked to the max. Today, give me some Jesus.

@TrisTT-qe4em

2 жыл бұрын

I’m with ya, Me and cousins, parents make up, leather belts and straps with spiked bracelets and collars air playing our fathers electric guitars and basses, we other the music blasting.. we’d play the whole album, drive our parents crazy..

@mopar546

2 жыл бұрын

the only Motley Crew album i would consider as heavy metal would be Shout at the Devil. One of the reasons i love reaction videos is for the reminder of how awesome it felt the first time i heard it.

@BenLapke

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, especially since the album came out in 1970.

@korfrag6865

Жыл бұрын

@@BenLapke Black Sabbath performed the song live before they released the album.

Lex looks like she should be in a movie with those blue eyes. Too pretty!

Metal had been around for a couple years, but this is the start of metal sub-genres, being a distinct particular kind of metal. Doom Metal to be exact.

The birth of metal you've gotta appreciate the role that Sabbath played in the movement of metal they where and are still are the godfathers of metal fantastic choice

Iommi said, we used to go to the pictures to watch horror movies and thought, if you can make movies to scare people, why can't you make music to scare people. The rest......

@1936DodgeBrothers

2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone explained why they created music like this. Hopefully other people read your message and stop saying that they were Satan worshipers and look at their music as a scary story.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Children of the Grave, Snowblind - Sabbath has so many

@wezacker6482

2 жыл бұрын

You just listed my 3 favorites. You, Good Sir, obviously have excellent taste!

Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe is an absolute must!!!!!

Brad, "this song's trancin' me". Black Sabbath, "mission accomplished, MWOOOHAHAHAHA!"

Glad you got to listen to that song one of my favorites in the 60's. You have to listen to Grand Funk Railroad so many great songs. you'll love that Rock.

@philpennington826

2 жыл бұрын

LOL Glad you like Sabbath but your memory's a tiny bit fuzzy. You didn't like this song in the 60s. This album was released in 1970. 😏

@danieltiener944

2 жыл бұрын

Yea not really in the 60s but the song was still written in 1969 and preformed before the first album was released on February 13 1970 .

@czmax7652

2 жыл бұрын

@@philpennington826 your petty Pennington

While Sabbath may have influenced the sound that became heavy metal, it was Steppenwolf that termed the phrase "Heavy metal thunder......", He was describing the sound of a Harley Davidson engine. Which ironically had its pistons set on a 72' angle. That divides 360 into 5. That's how you draw a pentagram ;) Hail Satan lol

Love the intro, the way Lex said "so creepy" an INSTANT before the music kicked in & the REAL Creepy-ness set in...

Black Sabbath was gotten from the Movie Black Sabbath starring Christopher Lee. Black Sabbath created heavy metal. Years later Christopher Lee started his own heavy metal band and claimed the band Black Sabbath inspired him to do so. Homage for a homage.

Such an "evil" sounding riff. Love it 🤘🏼

@Tat2Dragons

2 жыл бұрын

For the piece of music that inspired that riff listen to The Planets: Mars, the bringer of War by Gustav Holst. Geezer Butler mentioned this in a fairly recent interview.

Fun fact. The three note Guitar arrangement (tritone) was banned in the Middle Ages, because it was thought to summon the Devil.😳😳😳

Brad: "I need to pay attention because this song is doing something." Exactly what Sabbath wanted from their listeners!!

Black Sabbath is one of my favorite bands ever and this is my favorite song by them.

The story I've heard is that the bass player, Geezer Butler, had a nightmare about a figure in black looking down on him while he slept. He told Ozzy about it, and Ozzy wrote the lyrics to the song. They showed them to the guitarist Tony Iommi who said that their music wouldn't fit lyrics like that. And he created heavy metal music to fit the lyrics. Their audience loved the song when they played it, so they wrote more songs like this. And so we get the first real heavy metal song. Interesting you just reacted to "Born to be Wild" an older song that refers to "Heavy metal thunder" an expression that I think comes from the beat poet William Burroughs. So at the time people were looking for something to call heavy metal music. And it wound up being applied to a number of bands that don't seem like heavy metal music today (like Grand Funk Railroad). But this is where today's heavy metal starts. Also note that far from worshipping the devil, here and in Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast the singer is afraid of the devil. In Black Sabbath in particular the devil plays a very Christian role of punishing the guilty. In the early Ozzy Black Sabbath, the singer is generally overwhelmed by forces that seem out of his control (like the war pigs, the government, the church) and he gets some solace from the idea that the devil will punish them in the end.

@michaelledford4751

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry bro but Ozzy didn't write lyrics ,his entire time in Sabbath Geezer Butler wrote all lyrics,not until Ronnie James Dio replaced Ozzy did anybody but Geezer write lyrics.

@vicenteraira

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelledford4751 Yes, Ozzy can barely write his own name. 😂

@CharlesEMurphy

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelledford4751 It's generally ackowledged that Ozzy wrote "The Writ" from Sabotage. It's to their former manager Patrick Meehan, who was suing the band and Ozzy truly despised.

@Nightbreed82

2 жыл бұрын

Geezer didn't have a nightmare about the black figure, he claimed it actually happened because he was studying Black Magic and the Occult at the time (note: studying out of curiosity, he was not a Satanist). I've heard Ozzy say it was a dream of Geezer's and I've also heard Ozzy claim that he himself dreamt it. I don't think Ozzy intends to misrepresent the truth, but he sometimes gets details about the early days wrong, for obvious reasons.

@ryanedwards4512

2 жыл бұрын

I heard George Harrison wrote this song while he was sitting in Eric Claptons garden...I'm sorry that was Fearless who he later sold to Pink Floyd..No,that was Gilmore and Waters.

This song is the metal vibe, scary, dark, dramatic. It evolved from this, but Sabbath were going for a horror movie type feeling. That’s where they also got the name. The band was called Earth, and they were a blues band. They were good, but England at that time was full of blues bands. They went to the movies one night to see a horror movie called Black Sabbath and were inspired. They took the horror theme, the sound of their environment (they were all from Birmingham, a city full of steel factories) and along with Tony Iommi’s recent injury where he cut off the fingertips of his hand while working at one of those factories which caused him to change the way he played guitar and you got metal

@innosanto

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the horror movie of music. In contemporary since in classical it was also before, there are classical pieces with horror

@kevinsteadman7215

2 жыл бұрын

Birmingham wasn't a city full of steel works far from it that was Sheffield it was known as the city with a thousand trade's

@ianmarshall9144

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinsteadman7215 the heart of Birmingham was a grey miserable place , once you start to move to the outskirts , which were once rural villages before Birmingham came into existence it got a bit better , Birmingham screwdriver ( Hammer )

Song still Kicks ass still no matter how many times I hear it! remember being a teen tripping and listening too this.

This song is actually about the bassist Geezer Butler witnessing a demon or even the devil in his house. And it scared the shit out if him! And they made a scary song out of it. Brad and Lex, love your meteoritic rize to reaction superstardom! BLAST OFF!!

Back in the day I am remember listening to Black Sabbath on the way to the beach. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

This band is all in COSTUME as part of their theatrics and music. Not to mention scary! If you’re going for Halloween theme later, then you’ve have to check out Ghost BC? The music is amazing! Here’s their song Ritual: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKBmqKeBosK_qso.html. ENJOY, and Happy Halloween!! 👻🎃☠️ 😈 I WONT LET YOU DOWN! 🤘🏻

@ronaldmorgan7632

2 жыл бұрын

Spinal Tap was the parody for Black Sabbath. So funny.

@SeeJayPlayGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldmorgan7632 I thought Spinal Tap was more of a parody of Judas Priest than Black Sabbath, but OK.

Which definitely is the birth of heavy-metal the first song first album, self titled debut, another one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs

An older Sophomore kid played this song for us in his car on 8 track Stereo. I remember laughing but secretly being FRIGHTENED! 😅

you guys should react to symptoms of the universe - black sabbath love you guys😀

The slow tempo is inexorable... something is going is to happen, and there's no stopping it, and maybe you can outrun it... but don't bet on it. Also,I love how fearless the two of you are. This seems new to you, and you experience it, eyes open and facing forward. Finally, I would recommend a similar precursor to death metal - a band called "Bloodrock", playing a song titled "DOA"

You both look so awesome. Congrats Brad the trance you were feeling was the music transporting you to Ozzy's world of rock. Black Sabbath rules 🤘

One of several songs written while on LSD and enjoyed while we were high on LSD… allegedly. 😳The 70’s were special. From what I remember!✌️

Black Sabbath are awesome story tellers with just a touch 👌 of metal.

When this album came out nobody had ever heard anything like this before. What is going on? Black Saboth doing Black Sabbath. When the song speeds up, I see bat wings.

@vicprovost2561

2 жыл бұрын

It had a shocking, profound effect on all of us in my orbit in 1970 and all our parents hated it, one of my friends father broke it over his knee and threw us out for listening to it. Music did not play it safe in those days, they made music to last forever.

This song scared the shit out of me when my older brother used to play it when I was really young. It still kinda does

2 years and a baby later and I hope your child has heard the first six Black Sabbath albums like my daughter, who teaches high school now, had by the time she was six months. Chuck Berry created Rock and Black Sabbath created metal one year to the day of my best friends Booze Day. Live for every breath.

Brad, it's the repetitive tritone riff that trances us. Fun fact: That tritone progression is known as "Diabolus in Musica" in music theory.

You have to listen to the 1970 paris live version of War Pigs. Since you're at it, listen to Children of the Grave from their Master of the Universe album Supernaut from their Black Sabbath Vol. $ (great riff and drums in it) and my favorite Black Sabbath song, Symptom of the universe, a precursor to Thrash metal.

This song was the birth of heavy metal. You need to do Fairies wear Boots by Sabbath…unbelievably funky…you will love it.

The legend I heard was that they saw an ad for a Boris Karloff horror movie called "Black Sabbath". The name just fit the vibe they were going for.

Brad likes stuff with less notes because the music he's used to has less notes in it, after all modern music is getting more and more simplistic and uses less and less chords and that is even more the case with rap and hip hop. To be fair to him most of this older music requires a 2nd or 3rd listen to get familiarized with the melody and the style. At least you need to listen to it a few times again to be sure whether you like it or simply respect it for what it is. Lex on the other is pretty quick to pick up the vibe and get immersed in the song's atmosphere unless it's something with so many stylistic chances and tempos in it where she can't really sway to it and that is confusing her ( see Opeth ).

@inphanta

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure you didn’t mean to sound as condescending as this reads…

I would credit "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles as the origin of metal music. It was the very first rock song with a harder feel to it

@jamesredman1263

2 жыл бұрын

Around the seven minute mark plus here, I hear some riffs that sound a lot like guitar runs in Helter Skelter and I think even "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

@kapohimura8721

2 жыл бұрын

Then you better watch Metal Evolution documentary

@cincity076

2 жыл бұрын

Any documentary on this subject would be based on someone's opinion. Helter Skelter from The Beatles is my personal opinion as one laying some roots in Heavy Metal. If you noticed I said "I would credit" that song. The history tab of Wikipedia on "Heavy Metal" also mentions Helter Skelter, although among many others. So I'm not alone in my opinion.

@kapohimura8721

2 жыл бұрын

@@cincity076 correct but that documentary is awesome very informative and unbiased, since it was made by a metalhead, and they go deep in the origin of metal music, even starting from before helter skelter, but one thing is a song with a harder feel, and the there is Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, the whole album was the birth of metal

@cincity076

2 жыл бұрын

@@kapohimura8721 I guess we have a difference of opinion on the definition of "birth." By your own explanation of the documentary, they trace the history back even before Helter Skelter...but yet you call Black Sabbath as the birth?

Lex has a good grasp of these songs. She seems more 'in tune' to the songs they react to.

First song off their first album, welcome to the birth of heavy metal 🤘🏻

Sabbath's very first song on their very first album which debuted on February Friday the 13th 1970. Groundbreaking!

A lot of people thought Sabbath was pro satan, pro evil, truly they had one of the most Christian messages. "if you do it you go to Hell" is the theme of many of their songs from their career

@faithcat7675

2 жыл бұрын

After Forever

@mickdarcy3063

2 жыл бұрын

@@faithcat7675 I will go back and listen to it again!

@mickdarcy3063

2 жыл бұрын

What I appreciate about Sabbath as moral content is that they go after ideological hypocrisy, mostly but not solely through a Christian lens. I am a humanist and appreciate that what their stand seems to be is; they are against really bad people trying to take advantage of most other people, dividing them from one another and ruining them for the pleasure of spite, under the guise of a moral or legal authority. No valid creed, religion, philosophy or practice promotes bad behavior. A mass of individuals practice bad behavior. Perhaps I project too much, and yes, it is more complex than that, apologies.

@jamesredman1263

2 жыл бұрын

If you look at what Ozzy wore during this period, you're more likely to see Christian symbols than otherwise. Later when Dio popularized the sign of the horns (symbolically a sign of power over something else), he explained this was a sign that his Christian Grandmother made whenever she was going out of the house. My understanding of that is it would have been a projection of protection, i.e. claiming power over all evil. So, Black Sabbath remained a voice calling out the evil in the world, and small minded people continued to assume THEY were evil because they dared to do that.

The music to this was used by Ice-T to open his 1988 'Iceberg/ Freedom of Speech' album. The track is called "Shut Up Be Happy" and features vocals from Dead Kennedy's front man Jello Biafra. WELL worth a listen!!!

@asaprabbit8305

Жыл бұрын

Cypress hill black Sunday uses sample of the album through the entirety of the album 🙂

the genesis code of heavy metal. in musical term the riff uses the tritone, which was nicknamed the devils interval.

Black Sabbath weren’t devil worshiping at all. It’s just so ironic how the created a whole music genre that some people didn’t like.

@furiogiunta7886

2 жыл бұрын

Are you being serious Mike?

@rick5908

2 жыл бұрын

In fact when ozzy was asked were the band name came from and what it means his response was what does the Beatles mean? They just thought it sounded cool

@aulduronsmith5577

2 жыл бұрын

The name came from a movie

@spyretto

2 жыл бұрын

Tonny Iommi has said they were not even metal so go figure. For me it's like heavy pop Paranoid definitely is.

@ECxTheMaster

2 жыл бұрын

@@spyretto dark blues! lol

I love that "What's going on?" - "Music!" Yeah, I mostly pay more attention to the music and often don't know the lyrics. But it is a good question, because sometimes we get the wrong impression like when the stalker song 'Every Breath You Take" was being played at weddings. It was years before I really listened to that one.

16 years old in 71 . heard this. FIRST METAL LP> Still gives me chill bumps.

A cinema across the street from the band's rehearsal room was showing the 1963 horror film Black Sabbath starring Boris Karloff and directed by Mario Bava. While watching people line up to see the film, Butler noted that it was "strange that people spend so much money to see scary movies".[18] Following that, Osbourne and Butler wrote the lyrics for a song called "Black Sabbath", which was inspired by the work of horror and adventure-story writer Dennis Wheatley,[19][20] along with a vision that Butler had of a black silhouetted figure standing at the foot of his bed.[21] Making use of the musical tritone, also known as "the Devil's Interval",[22] the song's ominous sound and dark lyrics pushed the band in a darker direction,[23][24] a stark contrast to the popular music of the late 1960s, which was dominated by flower power, folk music, and hippie culture.

First track on the first absolute classic album. If God listens to music, He/She listens to Sabbath. Next try Children of the grave with lyrics. I think God whispered them into Ozzy's ear 👂

@nonserviam751

2 жыл бұрын

" . . . God, or whatever it is" - Georg Chistoph Lichtenberg.

Black Sabbath” is still powerful now; as iconic as the opening of ‘'Anarchy in the UK'’, ‘'Whole Lotta Love'’ or even ‘'A Love Supreme'’. God knows what it must have sounded like to a generation of lank haired teenagers back in 1970. As the band bite down on Tony Iommi’s monstrous riff it’s immediately clear that Sabbath were taking heavy rock in a direction that owed little to its blues roots (in fact, the riff was based around the interval of a tritone, known commonly as the ‘diabolus in musica’ due to its supposedly devilish qualities). This wasn’t good time music.

@johnlundy6665

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 70, I was a long haired teenager back then, and I can assure you, it was awesome. Thing is, we knew it was good, but we didn't know how good, we kinda took it for granted. We didn't know it was a passing epoch and figured it would just keep rolling along and evolving. Unfortunately, music has been rolling downhill ever since. It's heartwarming to see younger people rediscovering this timeless gold ✌️💖🙏

@ernestortiz4555

2 жыл бұрын

As a former long haired, and current rock fan I absolutely loved this whole album. I believe this song was written about a nightmare Geezer Butler had that really freaked him out. For a look into Butlers religious beliefs you should listen to After Forever, you will definitely be pleasantly surprised.

It’s one of my favorite Sabbath songs. It’s like watching a scary movie in your head. I love the feeling of being chased when the tempo picks up. SUCH a classic!!!

This band just created the a genre that literally changed everything. There wouldn't be the any grunge, nu metal, modern metal and prog without them. Even Eddie said he was inspired by Tony's sound. Tony wrote some of the heaviest riffs known to mankind back in the day.

You guys should check out “Over the Mountain”, from when Ozzy went solo. It’s a song about astral projection. 🔥

This was the first really Heavy rock song! This was the late 60's so years ahead of its time.

@angelone1839

2 жыл бұрын

What came first BS or the movie The Exorcist?

@masterofsparkshwy6974

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelone1839 Sabbath did

@seanbarker4610

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelone1839 the album was released in1968

Back in 1969 I was 9 and damn THIS changed my Life 4ever !!!!!

They were in the studio. they took a lunch break. across the street was a movie theater and on the marquee was the movie Black Sabbath and right then and there they changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath. True story 😎

Yall should have done this reaction on Halloween night. It has a dark wicked vibe to it. I grew up to all of ozzy's music growing up. My dad was an ozzy head.. still is. Lol

My take on most of their lyrics: "Oh, no! Watch out! Satan is gonna get you if you're not careful!" They mostly use christian symbols and expressions to sing about how you should stay away from bad stuff. Especially their first album where this is from, so I use to call Black Sabbath a christian rock band.

@davidvasquez8658

2 жыл бұрын

There are quite a few lyrics saying God is the only way.Master of Reality has quite a few.Geezer writes them,Ozzy gives them life. You got the right idea brother.

Black Sabbath is a very old horror movie and they loved horror movies so they named thire band Black Sabbath Such a good band OG metal

“Where are they taking us?😃” Hell lol

Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin...the holy trinity of Metal!!!

@charleslatora5750

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@johnlundy6665

2 жыл бұрын

And all three British bands

@spitxfire99

2 жыл бұрын

*Proto-metal

That's not only heavy metal, that's doom metal!

@TomvdVeen

2 жыл бұрын

maybe? the origin of doom-metal aswell ? song came out in the '70 i think

@nortons7040

2 жыл бұрын

@@TomvdVeen sure it is

@asaprabbit8305

Жыл бұрын

Agree, definitely doom mett

Awesome. Also, “the one with Ozzy on harmonica“ is the song right after this (The Wizard”). Love your instincts.

As a right-handed left-handed guitarist myself who's been playing since age 7 Tony iommi is one of my biggest guitarist inspirations alongside with Jimi Hendrix Randy Rhoads and Kerry King and Angus young

I think Mob Rules, with Dio singing is something you guys would like much more.

Remembering at the age of 15 when this LP and song came out and being a young guitar player I knew this song and band was for me. This song was along the lines of my favorite movie sound track of the 1951 movie The day the earth stood still . This is for real look into it and hear the feeling of the opening of the movie . I was a instant Sabbath fan after hearing that song and new guitar player that felt what I felt ,but he knew how to put it and projected it into the guitar. At 15 it set my whole world on fire ,that at the age of 16 I met Sabbath and over the years became a acquainted friend of Black Sabbath 's guitar player Tony Iommi and what's meant to be just like that was meant to be. YOU TUBE check my story out BLACK SABBATH PIZZA STORY

This was my first sabbath album so dang long ago. Almost a concept like some rush albums were. I never listened to “a song” always a side (album). Back then it was a way of life. I never even had a tv til I was like 35 and that wasn’t mine, it came with the girl🙄 music rules! This album never gets old!🔥🤘😎🤘🔥

The GOAT's of heavy metal! Long live Black Sabbath!🤘