Yes, there were earlier proto-metal bands and songs, but this here is the true birth of metal.

@johncrocker-nh7ey

16 күн бұрын

Yes I agree even though it was not true metal I believe blue cheers cover of Summertime Blues has been accepted as the first experiment into Proto metal

@jamesleyda365

16 күн бұрын

​@@johncrocker-nh7eyI totally agree with you🤘

@davidgibbs2109

16 күн бұрын

How is it possible to get black Sabbath into a one line sentence three times The charismatic voice: hold my cup😂

@user-mp3eh8fk8q

16 күн бұрын

You say that now because you have not listened to Deep Purple In Rock...

@ferox965

16 күн бұрын

​@@user-mp3eh8fk8q Sabbath put the face and name to metal. The evil sound, the thick and heavy tone. In Rock is one of my fave records and one of the greatest hard rock records of all time-but this song crystallized metal as we know it.

This song was the first song on the first Black Sabbath album. It probably scared quite a few parents.

@ChrisLegner-qp1yh

17 күн бұрын

I was just a kid with a cool uncle who owned the album. It scared me, but also hooked me for life.

@MaxineWatt-jd8ho

17 күн бұрын

Lol my mum said "what is that "get that off. That's the devil's music. 😮🤘🤘🤘🖤

@kilsestoffel3690

16 күн бұрын

My mum used this to annoy my dad...

@germantoenglish898

16 күн бұрын

Satanic Panic era lol

@johncrocker-nh7ey

16 күн бұрын

My parents never heard this album until I left to go to the Marines I kept it hidden with my Playboy magazine and my can of Copenhagen😉

When Ozzy was asked about their debut, he said, "It's not as if we were angry. We just wanted to scare everybody."

@mjm5081

14 күн бұрын

IT WORKED!!! 😨

@BarbarraBay

13 күн бұрын

one good song. the rest of the album sounds like Cream. LZ, Animals, etc

@Cashcrop54

13 күн бұрын

Scared the crap out of me first time I listened to the album, in the dark, with headphones at about 2 am. Glad it wasn't storming at the time.

@micmac274

12 күн бұрын

@@BarbarraBay The Wizard is a good song even if sounds like The Animals. And Beyond the Wall of Sleep is pretty terrifying if you know the source material (Cthulhu Mythos.)

@BarbarraBay

12 күн бұрын

@@micmac274 Wall Of Sleep sounds like a recitation of poetry at a social convention.

Remember this album was released February 13, 1970, less than 6 months after Woodstock. And Altamont happened 2 months prior to the release. Swinging London was 1966, the Summer of Love was 1967, by 1968 the wheels were starting to come off. The hippie utopian dream was dying. In 1968 (the year of Black Sabbath’s formation) the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre, MLK and Bobby Kennedy both were associated, massive campus protests violently put down, and Richard Nixon gets elected. Can you imagine how hard this opening track hit against that backdrop? Could there be a bigger contrast to the John and Yoko bed in? The world felt like it was descending into madness and hell, and those opening bell chimes heralded the open of the gates (of hell). Black Sabbath were from tough working class Birmingham, the newly affluent middle class hippie ideal had left them behind, and the hang over from the 60’s parties, drugs, and idealism had come. As a piece of art, perfectly encapsulating the zeitgeist, this Album and song are simply stunning.

The bassist Geezer Butler said that the riff was inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars opening theme, where it's 1 to 5 to diminished 5, which Geezer played in rehearsal one day. Toni Iommi came to rehearsal the next day with the Black Sabbath riff that goes from 1 to 8 to dim5. As a band, they had felt they lacked a concept, so noticed that, "it's weird that people go to the cinema and pay for movies to get scared, why don't we play scary music?"

@nondescriptcat5620

16 күн бұрын

casually inventing Metal. why am i not surprised Holst had some part in it?

@davidsthubbins176

16 күн бұрын

If I remember correctly, they got their name from the marquee of the movie theater where Boris Karloff's "Black Sabbath" was playing.

@WLNLW

16 күн бұрын

Worth noting that Geezer meant for this song to be SPECIFICALLY anti-Satanic, as he's blatantly clear that this was a very, very bad encounter with Satan.

@bluetopguitar1104

14 күн бұрын

I would say, Geezer and Tony probably had some classical music knowledge and training. Also, Bill Ward does not get enough credit. The man can swing as well as play heavy.

@bengrunzel5393

12 күн бұрын

I hadn't heard that bit about writing the riff, that's awesome.

Back in 1970, my friend Bob and I cut school, went to the record store and the ddude told us to grab the Black Sabbath album. We'd never heard of them so we drop our 2 bucks on the counter, grab a pizza and a couple of quarts of Colt 45 and back to his house. Put the record on and holy crap. Not a word spoken by either of us. He gets up to flip the record and we are both moaning oh my god and after the record ends, he jumps up and we're both exclaiming how awesome it was and we play it again immediately. Dead silence through both playings. I'll never forget that. I still play this album regularly and remember that first listen like it was yesterday.

@lucypoopies

14 күн бұрын

Great story. I bet that had to be a "life changing" experience back then.

@FoolsAmongUs

12 күн бұрын

I was just a kid in '70. But by '77 I was able to buy this Album. We walked to this new invention called a "mall". Very up-to-date, and people actually dressed up to go. Colt would have helped, but when you have no facial hair, and are as thin as a shovel handle, you can't get no satisfaction. But, you know the '70's better than I, so a left-handed cigarette was always in someone's back pocket.

@axeman03

10 күн бұрын

Music holds many magical powers. Near the top of the list is its ability to seamlessly transport us through time.

@daveapple205

8 күн бұрын

Cool man. I bought the album when it first came out. I was 11 years old. My big brother turned me on to it.

@TheCrusaderBin

5 күн бұрын

cool story!

Hand of Doom is another Sabbath masterpiece , describes drug taking and resultant death , it’s so well done

@timholt78

2 күн бұрын

Good call! "Hand of Doom" is one of my favorite Sabbath songs.

Everyone thinks of Ozzy and Tony Iommi , but Geezer Butler is a great Bass player and Bill Ward is a beast on the drums. 4 dudes just killing it in the early 70’s. True Godfathers of heavy metal. (and my all time favorite band) Appreciate the analysis!

@johnathanmichaud867

9 күн бұрын

Plus Geezer was the main lyricist until Dio joined.

Dear Elizabeth Not only was this the very first song on the very first Black Sabbath album. By most heavy-metal fans it is even considered the VERY FIRST HEAVY METAL track.

@Cohac

16 күн бұрын

About it being first is heavily contested, I like to use Blue Cheers cover of Summertime Blues as an earlier example. But Sabbath is the earliest example we all can agree on is definitely Metal.

@spacemanspiff8837

15 күн бұрын

@@Cohac oh stop nalready

@richardgale5369

14 күн бұрын

there are many songs that are clearly proto-metal. Crimson's 21st century schizoid man certainly being one that blew Hendrix away as well. I would even include Jimi's Voodoo Chile that has a deep metal heaviness. MC5 is another band

@andrewdavis9483

13 күн бұрын

Those who have never listened to or heard of coven.

@paulprovenzano3755

12 күн бұрын

@@andrewdavis9483 Witchcraft: Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls. Those guys? Ozzy’s in their credits, you know.

Yesterday was the drummer's 76th birthday. Happy Birthday Bill Ward!

@memphismick7010

16 күн бұрын

Bill Ward never got his due beside the other amazing 'classic' drummers from the 60s to 70s. Black Sabbath is known world wide, but not Bill or Geezer.

@skinicus

15 күн бұрын

I fuckin love Bill! My fave all time

@ejohnson3837

15 күн бұрын

@@skinicus mine also. if I played drums this is how I would play,

@mojobag01

14 күн бұрын

@@memphismick7010 Musicians know. Bill and Geezer are respected, admired and loved.

@lewe666

14 күн бұрын

Underrated drummer!

Imagine how this song hit in 1970 -- a year after the Beatles split up, and only a few months after the Manson murders and Altamont. The very first song on the first album from an unknown band, with a creepy album cover (not the one shown in your video). It freaked people out! Prior to this, most everything loud and heavy was blues based (other than Deep Purple's classical influence). It was based on Holst, The Planets, but set up with the rain and the bell, then played with heavy guitars, amazing dynamics, Ozzy's haunting voice (the first time you ever hear it) singing with really dark lyrical imagery. DRAMATIC! THEMATIC! CINEMATIC! This is your birth of Heavy Metal, right here. This song! Everything heavy before this was arguably more blues rock and proto-metal. There was plenty of LOUD before this, but Tony Iommi became the first guy to really lean into the flat 5 devil's note and add that dark, harmonic flavor to the loud.

@jeffdempsey6478

12 күн бұрын

Absolutely!!

I was born in '71 and my older brother would play Sabbath for me. This song scared the bejesus out of me, but I LOVED IT! Sabbath fan since I was 3. 🤘🤘

Ozzy...totally unique, totally anguished, totally haunting. Not the perfect singer, but the perfect singer for Black Sabbath. Amazingly brilliant chemistry.

@joegillam1497

16 күн бұрын

Yes, the four of them made a perfect whole. Wouldn't have been the same if any of the four had not been in the band. Magical chemistry@@vodkaa1

@pollywhite244

16 күн бұрын

​@@vodkaa1I've seen him live, solo and with Sabbath. Aside from swearing a lot, repeatedly failing to speak with a cringeworthy American accent, and boring me with his tiresome cries of being 'crazy' (didn't that go out of fashion with wooden eight inch clogs?) there wasn't much else to it. As far as Sabbath goes, Dio, Martin, Hughes, Halford... even Iommi coughing on Sweet Leaf sounded light years better

@KevinQ1989

16 күн бұрын

@@pollywhite244 Ozzy's voice was great on Sabbath's 70s albums and on his 80s solo albums. He reached his highest range on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage, and when it comes to coming up with vocal melodies, there's no one better than him. Every single reaction by a vocal coach or other musicians has been positive on Ozzy's voice, so you can take your hate somewhere else.

@user-mz3px1xs2l

16 күн бұрын

A reaction to Tony Martin era Black Sabbath would be great! I love Tony’s vocals. Ideas: Headless Cross, Anno Mundi, Psychophobia

@pollywhite244

16 күн бұрын

@@user-mz3px1xs2l I'd go with either Feels Good To Me or Jerusalem

Bill Ward was a perfect drummer for Sabbath. All four original members were perfection.

@bennettk90

12 күн бұрын

His drum chops are amazing. Fn rudimentary and perfect for this sound. Some of my favorite drum fills of any band.

@FoolsAmongUs

12 күн бұрын

Zepplin is another line up that worked perfectly. Made In England, and both are ahead of their time

@Lunacyk

7 күн бұрын

Bill WAS and IS Black Sabbath's best drummer. The only one to come close is Appice in the DIO years after Ozzy was sacked.

My dad told me that his friend from down the road bought this album when it came out, put it on, then came running to my dad's house and shouted 'come to mine now, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS!' My dad was a teenager at the time and said he'd never heard anything like it before, and he always remembered that moment. Iconic.

The best way to describe Ozzys voice is he pulls u in and leaves you mesmerized

I met Mr Iommi when I was working at a big British supermarket. He is the most humble person I have ever met.

@Timt666

14 күн бұрын

Thank you for referring to him as Mr. Iommi. He deserves everybody's respect I wouldn't have picked up a guitar without him. And he is the most humble person I have ever met myself.

@LibertyDIY

12 күн бұрын

I spend many nights just playing Sabbath songs on guitar. Endlessly fascinating to me

@FoolsAmongUs

12 күн бұрын

This was My first Metal Album -circa '77. I did own Kiss Alive........both were My Parents target for punishment (I had to give up My stereo, and records). But as revenge, My Child played "rap".

@JavierMartinez-um1uo

11 күн бұрын

Fuck ! you got lucky !😊🍺👍

@gregthomas1346

10 күн бұрын

He's a Brummie and ,as rob halford and Jeff Lynne also show they are the most down to earth people

This song was inspired by an experience that bassist Geezer Butler had with an old book of black magic hat Ozzy Osbourne had stolen and gave to him. In the middle of the night, he saw the "figure in black" at the foot of his bed. He said he went to throw the book out, but it had disappeared. Also, imagine being there in 1970 and everyone at the time is singing about flowers, love and peace, then this drops and melts everyone's face. I wish I was alive to see everyone's reaction because this whole album is a masterpiece!

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

17 күн бұрын

Well, it obviously came at the right time at the right moment because the album became a smash hit. One that the band managed to follow up with 4 more classics. It is said that a movie franchise gets born with a minimum of 2 smash hits. Like Alien and Aliens. Or 3 like with Star Wars. Giving us 5 classic albums in a row did more then just create a successful franchise, slash band career, it created a musical movement.

@BirdTalk13

17 күн бұрын

It was glorious!! I immediately fell in love with Black Sabbath.

@durangodave

17 күн бұрын

flowers, love and peace, reminds me of the song Flowers And Beads by Iron Butterfly 😁😁

@culwin

16 күн бұрын

"everyone at the time is singing about flowers, love and peace" Ironically, Sabbath was singing about the same thing. Well, maybe not flowers. But War Pigs has the same message. Just a different angle. Bad news for the fashRepubs who try to co-opt all music to support their propaganda.

@richardgale5369

16 күн бұрын

saw them in 1970 supporting the headline -- Jethro Tull. I thought Sabbath sucked.

I went to Sabbath's last ever UK gig (unless they ever announce a comeback). Ozzy tottered onto stage, then started singing with no volume, no attitude & no emotion. He was like an old infirm man who might need a nurse to wheel him off at the end, but he was just playing on peoples expectations of his senior years because he soon started belting out the hits in his same old style & blowing the roof off!

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When you’re a 15 year old schoolboy in early 1970 and you hear this, you’re hooked for life. Very perceptive as always Elizabeth. I can promise you that Ozzy always managed to get his vocals to cut through on stage, despite the murderously loud instrumentation around him! I would suggest “ N. I. B. “ from the same album would be interesting for you and all of us out here. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

@pollywhite244

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, but then, unfortunately, people could hear Osbourne singing. The usual one note tedium, intersected with asinine cries to "Go F'ing crayyyzeee!". Biting mammals, defecating, swearing and existing solely off if the talents of better men.

@pauladeitch3739

16 күн бұрын

I upvote N.I.B.

@mikedo6

15 күн бұрын

I was eight. :)

@pauladeitch3739

15 күн бұрын

@@mikedo6 I wasn't even born yet,lol.76 for me

@jdbly5934

15 күн бұрын

@@pollywhite244 You sound like a lot of fun at parties.

Ozzy in his Sabbath prime had one of the most powerful unique distinct haunting voices in rock history.

@dmoore0079

16 күн бұрын

So true. No one sounded quite like him. Paul Stanley had some "Ozzy like" character to his voice, and I'd say their vocal ranges are pretty similar. Paul was much more chest voice though - much thicker sounding, while Ozzy had much more flexibility in his voice and came up with much more interesting vocal melodies.

@hatempire

16 күн бұрын

People might say he lacked technical skill, but he had the perfect "flavor" Black Sabbath needed at the time.

@spiralskies1279

16 күн бұрын

​@@dmoore0079Ozzy and Paul Stanley have no similarities at all.

@shspurs1342

16 күн бұрын

Na Osborne prime vocals was the Mid 70’s.

@dmoore0079

16 күн бұрын

@@spiralskies1279 It's a subtle quality. I wouldn't expect everyone to hear it.

The sound of thunder and falling rain accented by church bells was the first sounds we heard on the first song of Black Sabbath's first album. In 2013, the original lineup recorded their final studio album together titled "13". The very last song of that album ("Dear Father") closed with the sound of thunder and falling rain accented by church bells. A nice bookend for the fans who had been with them for over 40 years at that point

Oh my God, I’m in love with you! Even after 54 years of hearing that song, I still get chills and my stomach churns from the hellish music and Ozzy’s vocals. Your facial expressions were very much like mine when I first heard the song in 1970. It literally changed my life, and I thank God for Black Sabbath. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your super cool musical knowledge!!!

When I was a kid, I was over at my friends house. We turned out all the lights and listen to this album all the way through then I had to walk home at night through my neighborhood and I was scared shitless.

@pinehawk9600

16 күн бұрын

Understandable 😂

@travisneal3389

16 күн бұрын

It was a long time ago, but was similar to my first time listening to this. Very young and scared walking home after hearing this as well.

@FoolsAmongUs

12 күн бұрын

Little different story, I bought this album in the summer of '77. My cousin and I were home alone, we may have had a "cigarette" or two, then blasted it in his room in the basement, thunder and lightning included. We were "paranoid" as this sound kicked out. We kept opening the door to see if anyone was home. Those were the days.

An inflection point in the history of rock music - the birth of a genre right there. Four guys from humble backgrounds combined to create something never heard before.

@remanns6661

16 күн бұрын

Well . . .The first album by the American rock band Blue Cheer is titled Vincebus Eruptum. It was released on January 16, 1968, and is known for its heavy-thunderous blues sound that would later be recognized as one of the earliest examples of heavy metal. - - - it had company Black Sabbath’s debut studio album, titled Black Sabbath, was released on February 13, 1970, by Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was released later on June 1, 1970, by Warner Bros. Records

@Annonymous0283745

16 күн бұрын

@@remanns6661 blah blah blah blah someone always has to bring up some other nobodies that nobody ever heard of or cares and claims that they, in fact, are the first. just shut up already.

@VanezBane

16 күн бұрын

@@Annonymous0283745 and someone always has to deny the accomplishments of others. he did not say they were the first, that is always hard to prove. he simply stated, that they were pioneers in that genre, and that is a fact. just because you don't know them, does not mean others don't know them. also Blue Cheer were influential to other genres like stoner rock, doom metal and grunge so people certainly cared about them. TL;DR just shut up already

@m007mm

16 күн бұрын

@@remanns6661 on first look, they sound more like happy led zeppelin tunes, with a bit more distortion and drumming.

@lcpholman

16 күн бұрын

@@remanns6661 Heavy thunderous blues indeed - but, importantly, blues. That's what Sabbath brought - the doom, the musical and lyrical shifts away from blues as is beautifully evident in this particular piece.

Elizabeth Black Sabbath gotten their band name from 1963's Italian Horror movie named Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath's original name was Earth. Then they realize that another band had the name, Earth. Band wanted to change the name. But in 1969, during rehearsals, across from the rehearsal room was a movie theater showing Black Sabbath. Butler and Ozzy seeing people lining up to see this horror movie, and they wrote the lyrics for this classic. With more dark and haunting sound, band officially change the name to Black Sabbath

Elizabeth, Fun fact for you. The whole album was recorded in one day. If I remember correctly it was recorded in a room behind an Instrument shop in London and the tracks were recorded live (no auto tune or gimmicks in them days). There is a video of Tony returning to the shop many years later and he was amazed at how small it was.

@grahambatchelor3576

13 күн бұрын

And another interesting fact.... Terry 'Geezer' Butler went to the same school as I did.

The charismatic voice using a charismatic voice to analyse a charismatic voice

@mblasterful

15 күн бұрын

VoiceCeption!

Next Black Sabbath song should definitely be Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The overall sound is so different from Black Sabbath that I think the 2 songs effectively demonstrate the band's range in their early years.

@OLDSCHOOLROGUE

16 күн бұрын

Absolutely Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, possibly one of the best and my all time favorite! Only National Acrobat and Symptom of the Universe are even close❤️🥰😍

@xenephon7620

15 күн бұрын

And if Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a chosen track it absolutely needs the context of both sides of the album cover...

@wyldhowl2821

10 күн бұрын

Yeah. My favourite Sabbath song.

The band Black Sabbath, the album is Black Sabbath, the first song on the album is Black Sabbath. I think that you would find the story about how Tony Ionmi developed his guitar sound, he accidentally cut the tips of his fingers off at work. He made plastic tips with leather glued on so he could grip the strings. The guitar was strung with light gauge strings and detuned so he could bend the strings easily, also broke the the strings in well so they would be tiny bit flat. I agree about Ozzy's voice is unique, thank you for mentioning the drums, big thank you for doing this song! So cool and awesome! The rest of the album will blow your mind! Patito 🦆

The best description that I have ever read of Ozzy’s voice is a “disaffected wail”. There are certainly better technical singers, but for me, Ozzy is undeniably THE VOICE of metal! ✌🏻✌🏻I’m glad you get what Sabbath is trying to accomplish here. The song is definitely very effective.

This song is one reason Black Sabbath was my favorite band for nearly 50 years.

This woman is a national music treasure.

@jacksprat9172

14 күн бұрын

One of the few people I've come across who 'shine'.

@geekay4703

14 күн бұрын

@@jacksprat9172 Shining. This isn't Jack Torrence from the Overlook hotel is it?

@MartenHemstrom

12 күн бұрын

No, international! /Greetings from Sweden

@adrianschurch2182

12 күн бұрын

@@geekay4703no, i believe shes rose the hat

quite possibly the greatest debut album by any band

This album was recorded and mixed in one 12 hour session, and it was done on a very tight budget. It's incredible just how well it turned out. Not much overdubbing. Basically, the band was recorded live in the studio and then they mixed.

Ive heard this a thousand times and I get chills EVERY time the line "oh no, no, please god help me!"

Was watching for Elizabeth's face when Ozzy starts singing, not dissapointed.

Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill were absolutely huge Beatles fans and figured out the importance of well-crafted songs with themes, storylines, and messages. Geezer(bass player) wrote most of the lyrics and he was going into the ministry before he figured that he could make music as a living. Very deep band…

People don't pay enough attention to drummers.. The way the drums built tension in this song is awesome. This whole album was, I think, an exercise in improvisation, but still a classic masterpiece.

YEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Finally! I haven't been this excited for a reaction in a long time! Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath, the reason we're all here, whether they know it or not!

@thomasjones2377

16 күн бұрын

Absolutely! The birth of the "gods" of doom metal and metal.

@duncanmaclean811

16 күн бұрын

You should have been in the guitar shops in the 70s and 80s telling young copy cats what they were playing.

This song is the genesis of heavy metal as we know it today. From this archetypal song, endless forms of metal most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. It's enduring influence cannot be overstated. It is the one true source.

@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.

16 күн бұрын

Not the one source, but one of. Zeppelin can not be overlooked. Or the Yarbirds obviously.

@Annonymous0283745

16 күн бұрын

@@Dr.Claw_M.A.D. blah blah blah every effing time, someone has to inject their silly opinions into what is already established fact. zeppelin and the yarbirds can absolutely be ignored when talking about metal. they have NOTHING to do with it.

@muylae

16 күн бұрын

Darwin, cough :D

@mordrid11man15

16 күн бұрын

Love the nod to Nightwish 😂😂😂

@SvenTviking

16 күн бұрын

I always go for “Symptom of the Universe”, same chord structure, but fast, with a chug!

Black Sabbath is the birth of heavy metal, this song is the first one, and Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill changed music forever. Also changed my life, for better. Thanks for the review. Love Sabbath. Btw the coolest part is that the analysis is perfect but at the time, 1970, they had no idea of what they were doing, also they recorded all the songs in one day and Geezer was originally a guitar player so this was one of the first times he was properly playing bass.

This is, in my opinion, your most spot on analysis… and I know with generalizations it might be lost, but this piece is the birth of “heavy metal” of the flavor dissonance which you so accurately described. Long time fan, I just have to say… you not only got this one on the head, but I learned some technically interesting things from you open candor. I honestly didn’t know going down was called diminished vs augmented because nobody looks at metal for what it is musically with such an open mind and appreciation that you just displayed in this video. I’m a musician, I play metal doomy guitar, you basically explained to me what I play by feel and ear that no one has been able to teach me why. Thank you. You are part of our metal family, with deep respect and love ❤. This dissonant music is therapy to many of us, the respect you give it brings tears of joy to my eyes. I play and write this music, with even more dissonance, and push to new levels of it…. Why, I have no idea but I am compelled and it brings me joy so no answer is needed, it is in the now and feels… I dare not ask the magic beneath. Thank you 🖤🤘

Insane how this track was arguably the birth of Heavy Metal as we know it, yet somehow still feels so unique all these years later. It's impossible to express the impact Ozzy's one-of-a-kind-screams had on me as a young teen. I'd never heard such vocals in a musical context. It felt more like an opera or a film soundtrack than a song. The haunting intro bell. The Tri-chord of Doom. It was so easy to imagine all the churchgoers fleeing the courtyard while the Devil goes after Ozzy. The cadence of "Oh No, No, Please God Help Me" is etched into my brain forever. Run for it, Oz-man! He's right at your heels!

@catman2629

15 күн бұрын

When Sabbath first played this track the crowd went wild they loved it . Another aspect of the live performances is that the bands used to play much louder than what you could achieve through headphones , the music would drive through your friend next to you wouldn’t be able to understand anything you were saying . Sabbath at the time used Laney amplification and produced a very clear sound at concerts . I’ve just bought a new boat and have named her Fallen Angel as a tribute to metal music

@tommydeamon7657

4 күн бұрын

Right like a piece of music that was at the exact right time but some how stands outside of time unaffected unless maybe it's drawn even more MOJO over the years

Metal Church's "Metal Church" on the Album Metal Church is another triple titled song. Definitely worth checking out.

@misterwirez7731

14 күн бұрын

Hell yeah. I forgot about MC.. Thanks I'm going to go dig it out.. 👍

@jesseriah

13 күн бұрын

You got that right! And talk about a unique vocalist to analyze…🔥🔥🔥

@jameshodgin3660

12 күн бұрын

Ronnie munroe was their best singer

@alajononon

12 күн бұрын

I saw Metal church and instantly thought of Mike and got bummed. And then I saw you were talking about the titular (heh) one and remembered David Wayne passed away as well. I swear Ozzy feeds off their souls to stay alive 😭

@MikeMesser-in2eg

10 күн бұрын

Bad Co, Bad Co, Bad Co.

I have been lessening to this song for over 40 years and that analysis just brings even MORE to my appreciation of that masterpiece.

I don't know if anyone mentioned in chat or comments but I just noticed that, in the first part of the song, while the guitar on solo is doing the thrills, once once Ozzy kicks in, the riff get smoother and it is his voice that does the "thrills". It's not just "Meeeeee", it's "MeeEEee..."

Not having the picture on the original album cover leaves you missing a lot with the opening of this song.

@Cashcrop54

13 күн бұрын

You are right. That pic creeped me way out before the first note.

@jeffdempsey6478

12 күн бұрын

Loved it..chilling, scary...perfect 😂

This is the kind of song my friends and I would listen to while driving around or parked in a car because we wouldn't want our parents to hear us listening to it. Some of my friends spent big money to buy very high quality speakers for their cars because car-culture was our very liberating way to get away from our parents.

@christopherwhite1648

16 күн бұрын

My Dad would have flipped his wig if he heard me listening to this. It was 1973 and was in 9th grade. I would go to a friend's house with a few friends and hang out in the partially finished second floor of the detached 2 car garage and liste to an eclectic mix of music. Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Traffic, Blind Faith, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, and many more. We listened to some top 40, but always tended to go back to 1968 to 1973 Rock. Happy to report no weed was never around my group.

It was great to think about this with you and immediately I was saying it was a diminished Fifth and a tritone, but the way you worked your way around to it and then delivered an absolutely incredible descriptive explanation of what's going on here and in general with harmonics, that's why I love your channel. That and demonstrating things on the piano or sometimes demonstrating things singing. I really really love that about your channel.

Elizabeth, I really appreciate that you use the studio version of the song. There are so many details in the studio versions that you don´t get in the live versions and also in respect of the time it was made in, where videos weren´t common as now. It gives a much more intense experience to use your ears only and looking down on the album cover in the same time. No distractions!

Masterpiece is DEFINITELY the correct word to describe this song. Birth of a genre for sure.

@OLDSCHOOLROGUE

16 күн бұрын

Without a doubt!!!❤️❤️❤️

This album was recorded several weeks before Ozzy's 21st birthday. He was a young man when he sang this.

I bought the original album when it was released. This still gives me chills 55 years later

Hello to you, Elizabeth! 👋🏻 I LOVE it when you nerd out! 🥰 I learn so much from you. This band has been part of me since my early teens. Watching you listen to this was 23:20 of pure joy! Thank you! 🙏🏼 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🙏🏼

Keep in mind that at the time this came out the number 1 song was Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Listening to this song now you think "wow, this is dark and heavy", but back then... it was just stunning. There's a reason this one has a permanent place on my Halloween Metal playlist. :)

@FoolsAmongUs

12 күн бұрын

Good Call. I should have checked the charts and heard what else was playing. I bought the Album in the summer of '77, and it was played over and over. You know when you are younger and your parents dislike it, that you are on to something.

@liberatoreZ

11 күн бұрын

I listened to this the first time in the mid-80's and I was used to Metallica and Anthrax and stuff like that. But even at that time I thought "wow, that's dark...".

@mojobag01

11 күн бұрын

In Britain the album Paranoid knocked Bridge Over Troubled Waters off the number one spot. I bet nobody expected that.

Holy Fuck!!! You've just made this cranky bastard's, old heart smile! Always glad to see you get back to the origins (and, yes, good music!) Best! J

I was 12 years old when I heard this record for the first time. Doors to a whole new world have been opened. This also happened with other records. Adventures.Every time. Music is what educates, connects us.

Bill's drumming is so beautiful on this track. BTW Ozzy was just getting over a heavy cold when they recorded this in October 1969.

Back in 78 I will never forget going through my mother's albums to find Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Hooked and sold at 9

If you want to see the impressive range of Ozzy you should check out “sabbath bloody sabbath” or “killing yourself to live” I would also recommend checking out “supernaught” which is probably my favourite black sabbath song one of there most underated tracks, it was frank zappas favourite black sabbath song after all. As for other bands to check out I highly recommend looking into more of the white stripes stuff, songs like blue orchid and icky thump

I love the eerieness of the whole thing: music, vocals, tempo, etc.

Excellent reaction and analysis! Finally you, Elizabeth, you arrived at the biggest band in the history of Heavy Metal, the band that effectively created Heavy Metal, with its "definitive", "classic" formation, that of the 70s, with Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass), Bill Ward (drums), Tony Iommi (for me, the greatest guitarist in history, considering that Jimi Hendrix is ​​a separate case, in addition to being one of the greatest composers in the history of popular music in general, a true immortal genius, a living legend). The magnitude of Black Sabbath's musical influence, on Rock, and more specifically, on Heavy Metal, is unparalleled and immeasurable...Greetings from Brazil!!!

22:51 'What a masterpiece. What a great song to teach anybody about musical theory..." After 50+ years of listening to this, it blows my mind and brings a smile to hear you say it. We've known that for decades. I'm gratified you can see it, too. And you have just scratched the surface, with Master of Reality and Vol. 4 in your future...

So glad your first listen was the original studio track.... masterpiece, indeed!

My very first concert was in '86 (I think) it was Ozzy Ultimate Sin tour and Metallica opened for him. I was lucky enough to see Cliff Burton play. Great concert! Years later I got to see Black Sabbath at Ozzfest. They were great live. One thing that always struck me about Ozzy was the sheer joy on his face while he was onstage.

@misterwirez7731

14 күн бұрын

I saw Sabbath many times too. The Black & Blue tour with BÖC. I think 79 or 80. Wow

Absolutely incredible to think recorded in 69 released in 70! Pioneers created an entire genre! Peerless, without rival

Fun fact: The very last song (Dear Father) on Black Sabbath's very last album (13) ends with the same rain, thunder, and church bells that this song starts with. A perfect bookend to an amazing metal journey!! And btw, that last album is REALLY good!

So glad you did the studio version!

@chrisoakley5830

16 күн бұрын

Yes.

@marknova9918

6 күн бұрын

I definitely agree

@TheCrusaderBin

5 күн бұрын

Me too!

Excellent reactive analysis. I love your nerdy approach to things musical Elizabeth. Yes! Impressed I am that you recognized the devil's interval there. The infamous tritone, so appropriately dissonant and scary, dark and ominous. This is indeed the first song on the album. This was my introduction to Black Sabbath; I was in 7th grade and heard this at a party. Immediately I noticed the rain, thunder and church bells. Then when those power chords hit and they played that tritone I was hooked. Changed my life. Right away I bought the album and proceeded to learn every song by ear and formed a band and we played Black Sabbath at the middle school talent show. People were surprised! Also amazed that you are in Arizona- awesome. I am in Phoenix. We do get occasional monsoons, though not as many as we used to. Love your channel!

The main riff was "stolen" from "Mars", from Gustav Holsts suite "The Planets". Listen to it, instantly recognizable (and you can hear a lot of Star Wars - Imperial music has its inspiration there as well). kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKGfl8iroJmTY7Q.html at aprox 4:20 is the most obvious. Bassist Terry Butler (Geezer) had been at a concert the day before a rehearsal and tried to replicate the notes when guitarist Tony Iommi arrived, joined inn and held the notes longer. Thus one of metals most iconic riff and greatest song was born, playing "The Devils Interval". The lyrics came from the description one of the band members told of a nightmare, "seeing" a dark figure at the end of his bed pointing at him ("What is this that stands before me. Figure in black which points at me") etc. Such an iconic song, great background story, and built on classical music (as much of Heavy Metal is), which is probably why it still resonates, it's the quality of the music! Then again, the old classics, Host, Beethoven, Paganini, they were the heavy metalist of their day, they just didn't have a Marshall stack, so they created 100+ men orchestras instead, making a massive wall of sound. :-)

I love black sabbath by black sabbath on black sabbath specially when Black Sabbath played Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath

@lewyocom4724

16 күн бұрын

Black Sabbath right meow

@darindelegal1102

16 күн бұрын

@@lewyocom4724 How much more black can it be? None, none more black!

@FloridaRocks

16 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@user-lz1jw4pr7p

16 күн бұрын

Got to play it on the Sabbath, too?

@gamleskalle1

16 күн бұрын

While drinking black coffee wearing black clothes, having black hair and a black soul. Also living in Blackpool and having a Jack Black poster on the Wall..... Overkill?! 😂

The chilling birth of a musical genre.

The birth of an entire musical genre in one song. Can’t be topped.

Your enthusiasm is infectious! There are many classic 1st track off the 1st record songs, like "Keep Yourself Alive" by Queen.

This album I bought the first day it came out and the music changed my musical taste for the rest of my life. At 71 I am still a die hard metal fan. Saw them live on their first US tour and it was incredible. There was nothing like this back in 1970 and I mean nothing Black Sabbath created the metal genre at this time. Doing this song live is such a treat and the trill is followed by a descending drag down the big E string ending in the final note. I always enjoyed doing that and feeling the amp thunder and push a wave of air at my back. Just a really fun song to play.

All my friends who played guitar learned Smoke on the water. I learned this. Nice choice.

I always love how complete Sabbath at their best sounded. Every member in the band is doing such phenomenal work here. This song is the big bang event that all of metal sprawled out from.

This was the first song I ever heard of Black Sabbath. I bought a greatest hits album out of curiosity. Popped it into my CD player and this was what I was greeted with. It was perfect.

Love how you keep explaining the musical science behind why a particular song has the emotional effect it does 🙂

This album was released in the winter of my first year in middle school, 1970. It created quite a stir, all the kids were talking about it on Friday the 13th the day it was released. The previous year 1969 Christmas my parents gave me an eight track tape player. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath was the first eight track tape I bought Don’t ask what eight track tapes my parents put in the Christmas stocking a few months earlier.😊 That year was the first year I was able to play in the orchestra, the bassoon -an instrument my parents could not afford. So I had been a classical musician for about four months before this album was released. It was somewhere in late February, when I discovered fondness for the tri-tone. Locrian mode, etc. Plus it made my folks worry Big Time. Awesome! The bassoon, an instrument that will get you banished to hell, kind of like, opera singer.. Not, so awesome.😢

@SixStringSteve

16 күн бұрын

Opera singers are awesome, especially the ones who love Dio and Sabbath 🤘

@stoggsherfnik4569

16 күн бұрын

@@SixStringSteve Unfortunately, mine didn’t 😪, she liked Steeleye Span ie Mandy Prior and “enya” (M. P.’s sister). She avoided Rock, hated Frank Zappa😥. She got me to like Opera. Kiri Tekanawa , Fridrich Fischer-Dieskau were our favs. I like modern music, lyric singers so Dawn Upshaw is my favorite opera singer.

I wish I could have experienced this fresh in 70 when this came out. I can't imagine the reactions to something so new and different.

My friend and I went to see Sabbath at the BOK Center in Tulsa for our 30th birthdays. It was so exciting when that rain sound started, even from the nosebleeds.

This song is how you start a genre. And it still remains a killer track to this day.

One of the best examples of the range of Ozzys voice and singing style is "Changes ", love to hear your opinion on that one!

@backstabbath2690

14 күн бұрын

His best vocal moments are from Sabbath bloody sabbath and sabotage though

I was eight when this came out and my older brother used to crank it through a pair of Bose 501s with only a black light on in the room. Scared the crap out of me. One of the greatest vocals of all time and those lyrics! There’s a live version out there from 1970 that will surely give you nightmares.

Also cool to note that Bill Ward was a jazz drummer, and early Sabbath showed many jazz influences. Dark, moody jazz.

"What a frickin' way to enter." Damn straight. THAT is why this is the beginning of metal. Other bands (Zeppelin, Purple, etc.) had nudged up to it, but this was metal's first true statement of intent. As far as live performances go: Paris 1970. It's even got an extra verse.

@BlooMKunKy

9 күн бұрын

Blues metal

@aldersmoke1

9 күн бұрын

@@BlooMKunKy Metal.

Fun fact... If you've ever seen the Michael Caine film 'The Eagle has Landed' , the Mill that features when the girl falls in and is rescued by one of the paratroopers, is the Mill on the cover of Black Sabbath

@misterwirez7731

14 күн бұрын

Awesome. I'm going to look for it.

The original album (with the creepy witch on the cover!) rocked my world. All the band's spot on performance, plus- Tony Iommi's Gibson SG (played with 2-fingers covered from an accident years prior) will forever remain in my brain ;)

Great review Elizabeth on my #1 favorite band. Black Sabbath got its start from the band seeing a movie poster for the movie "Black Sabbath" and thought it would be a good idea to compose and perform music with dark subject matter - which was a first for the time period. Geezer's dark lyrics and phenominal bass playing, the "riff master" Tony Iommi laying down sinister riffs, Bill Wards absolutely stunning blues inspired drumming, and Ozzys unique and evil sounding vocals made for a first of its kind, dark subject matter, and evil sound that nobody had ever heard before. This band is truly the epicenter of dark, heavy music. If you want to check out some other great songs on this album then you should think about doing "The Wizard" or "NIB" next.

Can’t wait for another of your exuberant reactions with your infectious laughter and unbridled joy of music!!!

You are looking at the cover of a compilation album. Check out the original cover and greet the future as it was in the day!

Elizabeth, your nerdy moments are the reason why I love your channel!!! The cool thing is that I am beginning to anticipate some of the things you say in your reactions. I guess some of your music nerd is rubbing off!

saw Sabbath at Ozzfest 04 Indianapolis, outdoor amphitheater, as they started this song, a thunder storm rolled up in the distance behind the stage, real thunder and lightning filled the sky as Black Sabbath played this song, surreal moment.

Bill Wards birthday was yesterday..FYI. Top 3 best drummers of the '70's-80's. My favourite of them all.

Ozzy is often under rated even by people who love him. His ballads are also great (like Momma I'm Comming Home or his duet with Lita Ford, Close My Eyes Forever). In his balads there is something sweet, or at least emotional contained in his singing. These are worth checking out.

I got to see them perform this at Download festival a few years back. In the open air, the sun almost completely set, it was genuinely unnerving. And amazing.

Oh Elizabeth, you have taken me back to when I first became possessed by the powers of darkness! By that I mean that this was the first time and the first track that I ever heard from Black Sabbath, who were, and still are my favourite heavy metal/rock band. And I only lived 5 miles from where they were based so they were a local phenomenon too. The way you broke down this track was amazing and you would think that they were a type of band who spent many studio hours writing and perfecting this unique material of it's era. But the band members all say in documentaries, that most of their best work was done on the spot, starting with a Tony Iommi riff, and then bass and drums added, ad lib so to speak, with Ozzie singing along with any nonsensicle lyrics to find a melody. The main lyrics would be added last. They all put it down to a unique chemistry rather than music mastery. I hope you have seen the original album cover too Elizabeth, for that truly sets the scene for this debut album.