Reviews (page 14 of 15)
Normally love Black Sabbath, obvi nothing beats paranoid but this album wasn’t the best the first half but really nailed it at the end. Almost like ozzys attempt at zeppelin??
A very good effort from these absolute legends. Features all the hallmarks we’ve become accustomed to. Sharp, simple writing. Enjoyable but flawed. Not this bands best effort but really really good.
Et af de bedre hard rock/metal albums, varieret, mens slår rimeligt hård alligevel
Heavy. Really fucking heavy
I’m not super familiar with Black Sabbath. But, this album is solid with some really tight and inspired playing.
A great album cover. Simple and to the point, just like the rekid!
Another sound album from Black Sabbath - does what it says on the box.
Overall good, not sure Ozzy can hear the rest of the band and I'll never enjoy Changes.
Good album from a good band. Not their best album but it definitely is a top tier metal album
It's okay, few songs still have that Black Sabbath essence I so crave (Supernaut & Snowblind). Feels like Geezer Butler is doing less of the lyrics creation so it doesn't have that sense of doom and gloom against the system combined with general evil that really give Black Sabbath that iconic founding start to Heavy Metal. 5/10 stick to the good stuff 1972 Black Sabbath members (Fuck Dio)
I dig this Black Sabbath album. It wasn’t as intense as I assume their albums would be and more lyrical.
It was fine. It bet in person it would blow me away, but at normal volumes it just wasn't that interesting
Not a bad album but honestly it missed so many of their best songs.
Prefer their previous album but can hear the influence this album had.
I've never really been a metal-head so this album is new to me. Is it ever heavy and dark. But in a good way. Ozzie has always come across as a bit of a flake to me since I only know him from the Osbornes reality show, but I can see that he and his band actually had real talent. If I'm ever in the mood for some head banging music this would fit the bill nicely. Thank you 1,001 for introducing me to something that I would have never think of playing.
Not bad, evolved but lost some of the charm of the first 3 records
Strong, heavy rock LP. Not as immediate or powerful as their other output but a great, chugging listen nonetheless.
Brighter than paranoid. Maybe laid foundations for later Zeppelin?
Intro to Cornucopia is everything. The rest of the album is a bit up and down. I don't really care for the instrumentals, 'FX' is entirely pointless and 'Changes' is just mawkish.
dark sludge rock with the weightiness of a legendary classic album. like Led Zeppelin, but with less LoTR and probably a similar amount of drugs. 3.5/5
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to - some really nice light and shade.
When I think of Black Sabbath, images of Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat come to mind, and "crazy train" is the standard song I think of. This album took me by surprise with how soft and gentle most of it was. I didn't recognize the band until "St. Vitus Dance" at the end of the album.
Best Song: Supernaut. That perfect Sabbath mix of ethereal vocals and deep, proto-metal grooves. Worst Song: Changes. Don't get me wrong, this is a great song. It just isn't a great Black Sabbath song. Nearly every cover I've heard feels better and more natural than this version. Overall: Pretty solid album. Ozzy is in near-perfect form, and that kind of pitchy shout-singing contrasts well against the instrumentals. Conversely, the pacing/track order is a bit bizarre: "Laguna Sunrise" seems better suited as an opener or closer, and as it is sits really awkwardly in the middle of the album. Also, and maybe this is just my more modern sensibilities pushing in, but I often find myself wishing Black Sabbath played at 1.25x their default speed (more like the latter half of Snowblind) to drive the intensity and pace further forward. Alas, baseline slow Sabbath is alright.
Some good stuff, especially the instrumental. But some that I didn't like.
Pleasurable
Changes is a great song. Well done album with big hits and gives breathing room on the off tracks. Just not my cup of tea.
Changes Snowblind Under the sun / Every day comes and goes
Прослушано! Громко, напористо, но как то не заводит.
3.5/5 I have to try more albums of Black Sabbath. It’s a great Dad rock band and I don’t know enough about them. Favourite songs: - Changes - Supernaut
I got a sense recording this album was chaotic times. Never listened to it straight though, not upset I did
This album takes a little while to get rolling. "Supernaut" is a crushing track, and from there they kind of get their feet under them. I like the experimentation on the 2nd half, "Laguna Sunrise" in particular is a nice change of pace. And boy this one is heavy.
Not their best.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Pretty good stuff
Solid. This is my second listen, and I enjoyed it a lot more this time. I missed the rock sound on 'Changes', despite it having 55 million listens on spotify, I didn't fw it. Snowblind and tomorrow's dream were my favs. I'm not blown away enough to give it anything higher than 3, still a reasonable listen. Love the energy of Supernaut. Also, wtf is "FX" doing on there?
not bad
I couldn't really get into Ozzy's voice, but what a group of expert rockers.
Oh, well. Ça me rappelle les party en secondaire 4
I enjoyed it, generally a softer sound than I expected. Not overwhelming so an average 3*
Liked it. Probably not as much as I was expecting though.
I guess there’s more to Black Sabbath than I’d give them credit for. Unexpectedly diverse. I do feel like when they sound “different” it’s a pretty straight “homage” to someone else - that sounds like Hendrix, this sounds like Led Zep, that sounds like late Beatles. OK but not what I’m in to.
Not a huge fan but it was OK
Not quite as many memorable songs as on Paranoid.
Has some good tunes, I prefer some of their other albums though
Never listened to a black Sabbath album before... Pretty much exactly what I expected. Got some cool riffs
Well, they're no Zeppelin. Riffs aplenty, but songs? Nah.
Black crappath
T3B 1. Snowblind 2. Supernaut 3. Cornucopia
Having heard a lot about Black Sabbath and Ozzy's famous bat biting incident, I've never listened to an album in full. Vol. 4 is full of hard hitting metal, yet with one surprising ballad in "Changes" helps give the album a little nuance. And despite Iommi calling "FX" a total joke, created whilst they were high, it worked pretty well as part of the album. Best: Changes Worst: St. Vitus Dance
12th September 2022 Listened throughout the day while working from home. Seb came to stay and ate out in Stroud at the Japanese place. Lovely mix of heavy and light, Ozzy’s vocals are iconic. Sabbath are a true great. 3.5 if I could.
Not something I would listen to otherwise but it is well done. Some tracks were a bit boring to me.
Guitar heavy songs, pretty alright, some interesting melodies
It was a pretty good album. I knew a couple of the songs. This was album was on par with the first Black Sabbath album. Better than a 3, not really a 4.
This album is brought to you by cocaine. This was where Sabbath moved from the proto-metal sludge into trying to be the Pink Floyd of metal. Still, some great songs on here.
I am a person who barely knows Black Sabbath, I know who they are, I heard them around me growing up...didn't own anything from them but when I hear Changes, I know the tune... This is an album that starts big, stays big...and is one of the more fun listens to I have had recently. And then you read the wiki about the cocaine used and think... They were THAT functional on coke? Jeebus.
was okay but wouldnt go back to it
Has a few high notes but some filler too.
Pretty classic rock. Not bad, not my favorite of all time either.
Was expecting more being a fan of Paranoid and the self-titled album. I am not loving the stoner metal sound and I feel like “Changes” doesn’t really fit in this track list. Favorite songs: Supernaut Laguna Sunrise
Black Sabbath has their influence on so much of what is coming out of metal, and pretty much every sub-genre of hard rock, these days. While that's interesting, the influence doesn't do much for me. I'm not a huge fan of Ozzy's voice and their is too much redundancy for me in the guitar riffs.
3.0
I am always surprised by how unfamiliar I am with Black Sabbath's music. They were still super-popular in my tween, early teen, and teen years, even though I don't think they were putting out new stuff by the time my peers were into them -- I think Ozzy was already off and running with solo career by then -- and given how into rock and hard rock I was at the time, it would've made sense for me to deep into Sabbath. Oh, well, for whatever reason, I missed them for the most part. Nice to hear them now. This is some great music and as with the other Sabbath albums served up by this project, it makes total sense to me how often I hear this band referenced as a major influence on countless bands that followed.
without this album, the world would not have heard charles bradley's sublime recording of "changes"
Innocence and faerie tales vs. reality and disillusion. This whole album is the diary of a young man’s coming of age, with all its attendant rebellion against the systems under which he was reared. This is all about the internal changes that come with the cold confrontations a young person must reckon with when becoming an adult. “FX” feels like some kind of calibration, a preparation for the quest that subsequently unfolds, a search to recapture the magic of youth. Serenity follows madness.
The album opens extremely strong with great giutar riffs in the opener and a real momentum is created over the first two tracks. Unfortunately this momentum is killed by some of the most criminal track sequencing I've ever heard. The one two punch of Changes and FX drags on and kills the energy of the album just as it is getting started. I actually think changes is a nice, introspective track but it's a bit too long and seriously should be a closer or a mid-album break and not the third track. Snowblind is a very epic midpoint with a great guitar solo. It's well placed as this grand ceterpoint of the album with more excellent guitar work. The back half of the album drags a little with a slight lack of energy although I did like the way Cornocopia evolved over the course of the song. I thought the instrumental outro at the end of the closing song was a good way to end the album. The 2nd Black Sabbath album I've listened to and it was another pretty good one. Some great tracks like Wheels of Confusion / The Straightener and Snowblind but the track sequencing was unforgivable and really hurt the album experience for me. 3.5
Pretty standard Sabbath album. Have heard this a few times before. Handful of decent songs, Supernaught being the highlight. I think a few more listenes would help, but after one nonstop listen 3.2/5
3, changes
Pretty good.
Interesting album, felt "all filler, no killer" - Changes and Snowblind came close - but strangely still found it overall very listenable.
Best Tracks: Changes, Supernaut, Snowblind and Tomorrow's Dream.
I feel about the same about this album as the other Black Sabbath album...music was good but the vocals weren't for me. I do think it was more interesting as they were obviously trying some different stuff, but still just not super impressive to me
Love the instrumentals but the vocals get tiring after a while. 5/5 for instrumentals but Ozzy's vocals really don't do it for me.
Like the music, don't like the singing
I'm new to Black Sabbath - for some reason I missed them when I was a kid despite loving Zeppelin, the Stooges etc. I found this album surprisingly good. Will probably go back to it
The doomiest of the classic era Sabbath albums - you can almost hear a whole new genre being birthed - but probably the least sticky in terms of riffs. I love the 1970s inasmuch as you could put some rammell like 'Laguna Sunrise' on an album like this, and you can even get away with 'FX', which sounds like some aimless noodling. You know what though? Slightly clunky piano aside, 'Changes' ain't half bad, even though the late Charles Bradley made it his own. Pioneering in terms of head-crushing doom; emblematic in the 'anything goes' way a lot of rock from this era was. Which I find charming.
I've heard this album before, but none of the songs were anything I had heard on the radio before so I didn't give it much credit. But, after listening to it now, I really think I enjoyed it and need to keep listening to it. My favorite track is Changes, followed by Supernaut and FX. 3.5 / 5
My introduction to metal. I put it on while I’m completing some tasks for the day. And I swear I wasn’t even halfway through the album and when I checked the last song was already playing. It’s not the longest album out there, but time passed by quickly. For the most part, I liked bits and pieces. I’m not the type who really likes the harder rock and metal sound. So it’s not something I like enough to save, but still decent. Highlights: Changes, Supernaut, Laguna Sunrise, St. Vitus Dance
not bad
Honestly one of my least favorite Black Sabbath records. The production is a bit lackluster, disappointing being their 4th release. The 2021 remaster sounds slightly better. The riffs are less memorable but more creative, "Wheels of Confusion" and to an extent "Tomorrow's Dream" definitely sound progressive. I was not expecting a dull pop ballad with "Changes" and I honestly do not like it, and I can't understand how it's so popular. Album picks up with "Supernaut." It's raw and heavy with awesome moments, and a strange Latino percussion in the middle. "Snowblind" is the best track on the album. The buildup reminds me of their s/t. "Cornucopia" has my favorite doom sound, but I didn't care for the middle bit. I enjoyed the "Laguna Sunrise" interlude; it didn't disrupt the flow the same way that "Changes" and "FX" did earlier. "St Vitus Dance" sounds like a polka dance at a satanic temple. We end with the heavy, progressive "Under the Sun," probably my second favorite song. There are moments where the guitar, drums, and vocals independently grab my attention. Those last 2 minutes are an epic way to close to the album. 3 stars for the poor production (compared to their other albums), the bad track ordering, and the tracks being less memorable and (for most) filled with weak moments or choices. Still, it's Black Sabbath at their most creative and cocaine-fuelled, and their prog spin makes for remarkable dark highlights that no one else could live up to until the 90s.
im calling this a 2.5, rounding up because i didnt really dislike anything
Enjoyed more than I expected
A ne loše samo nije više moj đir. Snowblind mi je najbolja pjesma.
An a-ok rock album
Liked it!
enjoyed more than i thought i would
Flow style, vibed to the bside? tracks, listened to the 2021 remaster
Enjoyable and interesting ting, with a few odd tracks here and there. 6/10.
I didn’t enjoy this record much not because it isn’t good but because it’s not what my taste in music gravitates against. For fans of the rock genre I can see how good of a record this would be for them but for me it’s really nothing special.
Solid three. Not as good as Paranoid.
Fine. Bit annoying after a while. Should have eaten a bat or something.
Not my favourite Sabbath
Changes was my favorite.
There are albums by Black Sabbath that I find more interesting than this one!
Good album. Hardcore
Yllättävän melodinen paketti taas. Ihan ok.
I wonder if Black Sabbath is something people listen to *in spite of* Ozzy's voice. Musically, there's interesting stuff going on and I imagine he's an excellent live frontman but I can't get totally on board with the vocals.
I liked it and I really did NOT see that one coming
bit miserable
Better than expected
Ihan ok pläjäys ilman suurempia ihastuksia tai vihastuksia.
Although I did not enjoy this Black Sabbath album as much as the first on our 1001 journey, it wasn’t bad at all. It’s heavy, but not too hard, still quite listenable for me with variety in melodies and tempos. I doubt that I will have the urge to go back for a full album listen in the future though.
I can’t say I was thrilled to have to listen to Black Sabbath today. I liked their last album well enough, but I didn’t recognize any of the songs on here and wasn’t really in the mood… While they still aren’t really my preferred listening choice, they are really good at what they do and I found the album often enjoyable. But then I also often found it tedious. I get tired of Ozzy’s delivery at times and long for more variety, and like a lot of heavy metal some songs just seem to grind along. But the band is really talented and there are things I really like. Turns out I did know the song “Changes” and have heard it many times. It’s a piano-driven ballad that is pretty good. Other highlights for me included the instrumental second half of the first track “The Straightener”. I like “Supernaut” - great guitar riff and drums! “Laguna Sunrise” is an acoustic guitar/orchestra song that seems out of place here, but was a nice change of pace in the middle of side B. It would seem more at home on a movie soundtrack… “FX” was annoying to me… after reading the wikipedia article it was clearly an idea born out of way too many drugs. Can’t imagine not hitting skip if this were to come up again in the future. BLACK SABBATH VOL. 4 is a decent listening experience with moments that I really like, but it isn’t something I want to listen to start to finish.
This was pretty good; however, not THE best Sabbath album and there weren't a lot of tracks that obviously stood out from the rest.
Just really average. Nothing really stands out, but nothing is bad per se, except for "FX" which is basically a meme track (they said it themselves, apparently).
Interesting choice of albums from Black Sabbath. Starts out slow and steady, sounding just like Black Sabbath with sinister guitar, straight ahead drums, and plenty of bass, plus Ozzie's somewhat nasal slightly otherworldy tone which is the perfect match to the music. The piano ballad "Changes" was a pretty surprise and Supernaut has some very catchy riffs. I very much like the best of Sabbath, and am fine with the rest. I'd call this album fine.
Was not expecting a cover of "Changes" here. Overall though, to me this is not their best album. FX is a surprising experimental piece. Definitely preferred their debut (the only one I've rated at this point). Still good though. 3.5 to 3.
An excellent effort by an average band.
Pretty solid album again from Black Sabbath. Changes is a surprisingly good ballad. The rest of the album does what sabbath is known for. This one is a bit better than the other one too. 7.3/10
A bit too old school for me, but easy to listen. I like it.
A few bobs, but nothing stuck out
Sloppy and unfocused, but ozzy's voice is still startling (in a good way) on virtually every song. Changes is my favourite track
Early metal with a dash of psych and very melodic with plenty of unexpected hooks.
I have probably never listened to Black Sabbath yet, at least not to their full albums. To be honest I was afraid it would be too hard, but it's perfectly listenable. It's not necessarily my cup of tea, but I also don't think it's a bad album. "Changes" made me realize where that sample originally came from (thanks Eminem, I guess). :)
Enjoyed this album quite a bit, just felt it wasn't very cohesive. I especially didn't really see how the instrumental track in the first half really fit with the rest of the album. Some great tracks though. Favourite Tracks: Changes, Supernaut, Cornucopia
It certainly brings the iconic sabbath sound and presents a straightforward heavy, gritty metal sound, if you’re looking to rock out and not much else, this will do. I don’t think it holds up to something like paranoid, not many memorable tracks or super interesting sections in songs apart from a few nasty guitar solos. 3 stars since I gave paranoid 5 and I think some other sabbath albums would fit better in the 4 star slot.
Changes and FX was duds
Not as good as earlier Sabbath albums.
Two Sabbath albums back to back, but very disappointing - I didn't need to hear Ozzy singing a piano ballad. Only a couple of good tracks.
Cool and electric album, easy for listening
This is decent, but it doesn’t blow me away. 3 stars is harsh but 4 is too many. 3.5!!
Classic rock hits. Fun listening
Not bad
Nothing to write home about, but a fairly enjoyable album with moderate filler.
October 4, 2021 Not bad - a little forgettable. I enjoyed "Snowblind".
Meh... won't be looking for Vol. 5.
I guess maybe I had an incorrect assumption about Black Sabbath but this is not very hard at all.
The fourth album by the popular Black Sabbath band almost caused their downfall, with how often they were "arsing around" (doing drugs & not recording enough). But that goofing off also let the band experiment with new sounds, as well as staying true to their heavy-style roots. Released to dismissive critics, the album still went on to perform well and is a great example of Black Sabbath's musical range. I enjoyed the album!
Always struggled with this one.
boring apart from the last track.
Un bon album de black Sabbath.
Obviously I know who Black Sabbath is but have never listened to a full record. This was better than I expected it to be and there are a couple bangers on here.
Decidedly not for me, but good! I enjoyed 'Wheels of Confusion' and 'Changes'.
i liked it!
I've heard a few tracks from Black Sabbath many times, and two of their albums all the way through at least once. This album was new music to me. The album was good, but nothing stood out as iconic as their other works. I'm not sure if 'iconic' is a measure of the quality of the music, or if 'iconic' is just a sum of the pop-culture weight that has accumulated over time to some of Black Sabbath's music.
Volume four, is not quite a 4
Hmm loved some f it, meh about the rest. 3.5
Lesser sabbath
A highly listenable chunk of quite proggy metal from the inventors of the genre themselves. However, at times I found the songs rather self-indulgent without being memorable and inspiring. There are riffs and hooks spread throughout but none really grabbed me. Except, that is, for the standout track on this album, "Changes", which really stands apart from the rest of the tracks. A solid 3/5 from me!
Changes Snowblind Cornucopia
Changes, Supernaut
2,7 Stem is precies vaak op achtergrond ofzo. Changes is van hun oké ik heb weer iets bijgeleerd.
Maintaining my opinion that Ozzy was the weak link in Sabbath.
The album has a lot of different songs not your normal rock heavy metal album however not many songs that make me want to go back for more 3/5
Shit rocks! Never listened to a full Sabbath album before but it was pretty good. More soft parts than I though there would be, kind of a nice surprise.
Definitely not my favourite black Sabbath album, still ozzy though do still decent. 3/5
Very good, just not my favorite Sabbath.
Zang van Ozzy trek ik slecht, maar de gitaarriffs zijn echt geweldig. Cool om eens een hele plaat van ze te luisteren.
Viel best mee, dacht dat het afschuwelijk zou zijn.
I really like Black Sabbath, but have generally stuck to 'greatest hits' stuff to this point. This album was softer and more varied than imagined. Some departures from the classic Black Sabbath sound are more successful than others. Overall, about half of the stuff on here is great (Wheels of Confusion, Tomorrows Dream, Changes, Supertnaught, Snowblind), but some of is a bit pointless (FX, Laguna Sunrise), and the rest is forgettable (Cornucopia, St. Vitus' Day, Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes). I really want to give it a 4, but on that balance of the above, it has to be s a 3/5.
Inspirational of all the riddly diddlys out there, this was a fun hard rock and metal album.
Not a bad album. "Changes" is the best song on the album and it's great. 6/10.
not my bag
it's metal
Good, but not unforgettable
Ozzy and Sabbath, a great rocking pair. A good album.
-4
Edgy for the time, but a bit boring.
no me gusta el aire que da
Yes it’s Sabbath. No it’s not any of the Sabbath songs you want to hear.
Yeea not bad
Ok
Ok
**an ok album. A lot of banging instruments
Snowblind
It was okay. Good background music for working but nothing much else. 2.5
I didn’t really enjoy this. Trying too hard.
#375/1001. Black Sabbath runs out of hits and goes melodic. Boring.
It was more melodic in places than I initially thought it would be and I understand the importance of the band and their influence but it did nothing for me
i was sort of expecting this to be a little better…… i was a bit disappointed actually
Annoying
album 59 it's fine! changes bangs but otherwise its whatever ꩜ album rating: ★★☆☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 1,030 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 31 ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 12 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 47
Boy, these guys really do like snow, huh? Me personally I prefer the warmer seasons but hey to each their own!
Unmemorable.
muy cool
changes i know ? this one is cute the rest maybe a bit too classic-rocky for me
Couple of decent tracks like Supernaut & Cornocopia but overall not really my thing 2/5
never listened to them but i've always heard the name. coming from someone who knows literally zero things about them i was a little... let down? i don't know maybe i just expected something in a heavier direction. it was okay! fave track: supernaut
It was fine enough, but not my thing.
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Ozzy does tend to slur his words together though
Listen I know they're supposed to be revolutionary pioneers of metal and I respect that, but this just ISNT my thing. At all.
objetivamente está bien pero yo no vibre nada, capaz no era el momento para escucharlo y me pareció medio pesado
Tracks: 1 Wheels of Confusion / The Straightener I like the beat and the instrumental a lot but I wasn’t a fan of the singing and the lyrics. Also too long. 2 Tomorrow’s Dream Better than the last but I’m still not a fan. 3 Changes Bro this is the song they got i’m going through changes from in big mouth; already makes me have a bad association with it. I don’t like it anyways it’s too slow. 4 FX It’s just some strange drum banging? 5 Supernaut Meh 6 Snowblind I actually like this one a good amount. The rhythm and singing and beat is really good. 👍 7 Cornucopia I don’t like the way he sings it- it’s too cut off. I’m not really sure how to describe it. 8 Laguna Sunrise This was a nice little instrumental. I didn’t like it that much though. 9 St. Vitus Dance Another meh instrumental 10 Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes It was okay not enough for me to like it though.(?) Overall: Mehhhhhh
I liked the bits with the instruments but i did not like the bits with the man. Mostly by the end i was neutral but the beginning put me off enough to round down.
There were some moments that really surprised me and I enjoyed and they were usually when they were doing sick guitar riffs but Ozzy was a little too earnest here for my liking and they were a little too jammy and I just don’t feel like they have the instrumental props to pull that off.
#bernwoche Viel zu poppig, Lyrics besonders belanglos, erfolgreiches Schema zu oft wiederholt. Dennoch funktioniert es für mich auf einer bestimmten Wbene (die des Eiffsounds in Kombi mit den Srums). Auf den meisten anderen aber gar nicht.
Not
Different, some songs just ok
Fell asleep. Some manic drum fills woke me up.
I never liked Black Sabbath or Ozzy much since I don’t vibe with metal. Not really a fan of Ozzy’s vocals either. Though, some of the guitar parts can be catchy - it’s not the worst, definitely leads more toward stoner rock which I can appreciate. I guess this is would technically be coke rock.
When it comes to books, movies, and TV shows I really love sci-fi and fantasy. Most of my favorite works in all forms of media are of the fantastical sort. But when it comes to music I am learning that I prefer works that are more grounded in reality. All of my favorite artists write, for lack of a better term, story songs. So when it comes to bands like Black Sabbath that write about the occult or prog rock bands like Rush with their concept albums, it just feels to cheesy to me and it's hard to take it seriously.
just not into it
meh
Good
Непоганий альбом, декілька композицій сподобалися
Toujours autant de mal avec le gros son hard rock.
Not a huuuge fan tbh
Underwhelming. A few interesting riffs with the signature Iommi tone, but a weak album overall
Ummm, they’re ok…but I’ve never been a big fan. They’re hit and miss for me.
It’s fine, just pretty blah outside of Changes.
Liked more than expected but still unlikely to revisit
classic rock that i don't realy like. Guitar tone is not too good. Great piano sound
sympa mais sans plus fin je savais à quoi m'attendre quoi
boring
Not my thing. Didn’t like the metronome-y woodblock sound in the back of a few of the tracks
weird mix of tempos, not incredible
I thought it was pretty mid, I will not be listening to this again.
Average album, not my type. Best song: Changes
All the songs kinda sounded the same
I kinda only needed to hear one Black Sabbath album before death
2.4 Way lower tempo and less metal than I thought. Idk, honestly it was just kinda boring to me.
Good as heavy rock goes, but it’s not really my kind of music. Power ballad “Changes” seems totally out of place and the lyrics don’t buoy it at all. “St. Vitus Dance” is like an inverse Neil Young song, where the intro is way preferable to the groove it settles into. A few good moments, but otherwise a long 42 minutes. Here’s going to be the meaning of the stars for me: 5: Perfection, would hold up for me across decades and dozens of listens. 4: Great, would listen again and again, but a couple songs either don’t hold the same standard, or the high points don’t reach high enough. 3: Solid, would listen again in a certain mood, but probably won’t revisit it again much. 2: Either just bad with a couple highlights, or not my style and does not make a convert of me at all. 1: Sucks.
I know I'm meant to like this more than I do, it has all the things I usually love about music. I have to say though, this album is actually quite dull. Sure it has some fantastic riffery going on, but aside from that the songs aren't great. I really had to resist rating this higher just out of habit because, ya know, it's Sabbath! There are much better Sabbath albums.
I was surprised to like this enough to listen all the way through (couldn't finish Paranoid, iirc).
laguna sunrise was very pleasant
When it boils down to it, I can’t really be arsed with heavy metal. But of course that’s a blanket statement whereas in reality it’s a spectrum, and for me Black Sabbath are at the end that isn’t too far removed from good blues-rock. They do have their Spinal Tap moments but Ozzy Osbourne’s lyrics and vocal stylings are relatively grounded and thus more engaging for me than heavy metal of a more grandiose stamp. Some of the riffs are pretty cool too. And the ballad Changes is Stones-ish and a nice song. Plus I have affection for BS songs like Paranoid and War Pigs (not from this album of course) that were part of the journey to punk rock in the 70s. And Supernaut on this album is a bit Hendrix-y, in a good way. Not really my thing though.
Ich wirde nöd warm mit black sabbath. isch mir zu rockig - alt gebacken. Darum schlah ich es album rebranding for Sta. 2
- I don't support Zionists and SAers. - Lucikly, I also find the music pretty boring - it just doesn’t move me, except for small parts like the sudden melody in Snowblind, and Laguna Sunrize is a pretty break from the aggro vibe throughout. I honestly don’t remember any of the album after listening to it (other than Changes, I guess, which is pretty enough, but the "cat-hat-sat" style lyrics take me out of the vibe). I wouldn’t reach for this album again, even if it wasn’t off the table because of Ozzy. - The solo guitar work is pretty great, though.
A couple of good songs, but not my style
70s metal about cocane use. Not my bag.
Easy listening but not for me. 2
Why? If you have it on this setting, you can barely hear the music.
Le métal c’est vraiment pas mon truc
Ok ….
Haven't ever listened to Black Sabbath before. Didn't hate it. Thought it would be more aggressive. Changes was downright sweet, but whoever approved FX should be fired.
not as metal as you'd think, mostly just gothic, honestly not that exciting of an album.
Boomer metal was so soft core.
Pas vraiment mon style de musique!
not my fave sabbath
changes fav song FX song is crazy to think a band could release that
FX was cool for me, and it is way better than so many other things in this realm of music, but i still am not so into it for listening in my apple product air pod pros in my ear
Guitars speak louder than words. Hard rock / guitars over lyrical complexity has this as meh for me. Prefer their other hits like iron man and war pigs. 5/10
Very good. The one metal band I actually enjoy consistently.
Cool core rock band stuff, but I'm just tired of classic rock
Vocals are too quiet, compared to the guitar. The album has a fairly consistent sound. Would have liked more and louder vocals. I would only bother with this again if I wanted to listen to some electric guitar. Changes is a notable outlier, in that the vocals stand front and centre.
So much raw power in this album. Sabbath is a lot of fun to listen to for basically anything, but wasn’t particularly floored. Really loved the contrast between the tracks though, going from heavy to heartfelt to ambient noise to an almost Zeppelin-like rock track with Wheels of Confusion/Changes/FX/St. Vitus’ Dance shows some really sick range that I don’t know could be found through a single Sabbath album. Fav Track: Changes
I know Ozzy just passed away, so this may be sacrilegious, but I've always felt kinda "meh" about Black Sabbath. This one didn't change my mind.
The cocaine album.
How timely with Ozzy's death. Never was into him or Black Sabbath so I appreciate the intro to a great album. Supernaut is a killer track.
Glorious rock and roll in that pouty, ladish style and wanker attitude. Love it
Strong instrumantals, but sorry to say it, the voice from Ozzy is not mine R.I.P
overrated, 4/10, I get that it was a pioneering moment but not my jam
Sorry Ozzy. Not for me.
Album as a whole is okay but lacks the energy associated with Black Sabbath and especially that of Ozzy himself.
For early hard rock I prefer Cream; they earn a three. This is low rent.
Good Sabbath album. Mix of heavy blues, hard rock and heavy metal. Good but no obvious standouts.
Very ground breaking for its time and type of music. But I found boring as it progressed and the hype surrounding it and ozzy very undeserved.
Meh
Variety of songs. Less familiar with these songs.
Knew this one was coming rip
Maybe it’s because I’m exhausted by the sort of people who think hard rock/metal is the only genre worth listening to, but this really doesn’t do it for me.
not my genre changes was nice shoutout big mouth solid 2.5
Black sabbath - vol.4 Жанр - хеви метал Мнение: этот альбом убил меня, я не понял его вообще, но вчера вокалист данный группы скончался, и ничего плохого по этому поводу сказать не могу, единственное я НЕ ЛЮБЛЮ ХЕВИ МЕТАЛ, и если на прошлом хеви метал альбоме были хоть какие-то интересные песни, то тут... ничего интересного, вообще. Музыкально ставлю ему 1/5 Продакшн: максимально скучный, только прикольный звук гитарки в окончании первого трека. Влияние: считается одним из главных хеви метал альбомов всех времен. Влияние на 2,5/5 Смысл: хз я слушая альбом играл в ROR 2, мне некогда было гуглить про смысл альбома. Плюсы: культурное наследие. Минусы: максимально скучный альбом, я умудрился заскучать параллельно играя в плойку, никогда такого не было чтобы альбом ухудшал настроение так; скучный и ленивый продакшн; однотипные треки. Итоговое впечатление: Самый слабый альбом который пока что мне попался из книги, Оззи, ты легенда, но прости, твоя музыка не для меня. Итоговая оценка: 2/5
Not my cup of tea personally.
Would this have been the album I’d pick? No. But it doesn’t really matter. RIP Ozzy 🖤
Pre-listening thoughts: I know we only got this cause Ozzy Osbourne died but man we literally JUST got Black Sabbath. Ugh Post/during listening thoughts: hmmm. I'm not the biggest fan of this but I certainly don't hate it as much as I thought I would. As with most metal, most songs are a little too long for my tastes. I also don't love the singing style here, I just can't do so much high pitched yelling. Sometimes when it slows down it's good though. 4/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: Changes Least fav tracks: FX (????? what was this)
damn no1gaf if hes dead
I just not much into this type of music
OK. 2/5
This one didn't grab me very much. Can see them exploring the more darker tones on this album, but nothing exceptional as far as songs go. Pity
Still so tedious.
Not really my flavour
not my favorite Sabbath album but still good.
Not really my thing. Glad Ozzy got his tribute while alive.
rip OZWALD
I don’t particularly want to be drawn into eulogising Ozzy Osbourne, although he was obviously a character - a showman, a strangely effective and affecting singer. It’s probably fair to call him a shaman, in the limited, superficial way we mean it when we say Jim Morrison was a shaman, but Elton John isn’t. Just accurate enough to explain the magic of the music. Last night, after the announcement of his death, I put on Black Sabbath, Master of Reality, and Blizzard of Ozz. Proof positive that Ozzy with the rest of Sabbath is better than Ozzy without. The shaman needs his drum circle, his magic book, his eternal drone. Okay, I don’t really know anything about shamanry, but Ozzy Osbourne benefits from Ward and Butler’s elastic rhythm section - so distinct and sensual compared to everything that metal would later offer. He communicates through Geezer’s bizarrely flat yet cosmic lyrics; he is staged by Iommi’s slow, powerful, dumb riffs. They are a group held together by their childhoods together - therefore timeless - and the work is held together by childish concerns: monsters, fairies, God, the devil. And, as childhood friendship becomes stronger if it endures into adulthood, so too do the themes: the devils become warmongering industrialists; the evils are capitalism and politics. With perverse intent - showing that there is no randomness with this generator - we are asked to think about Vol. 4 today, the first album where the bonds of the band come under strain. Iommi takes over production. As director of the music, he starts to stretch himself: some faster riffs, some piano, some mellotron. The structure is weird - “Changes” slots in nicely as a surprise third track, but “FX” is preposterous at four. Later, maybe, it would work as an exercise, but at four, it’s a cul-de-sac. Towards the end of the album, he returns to the slow murkiness of Master of Reality in “Cornucopia,” “St. Vitus Dance” (no wonder the Seattle sludge band took the name), and “Under the Sun.” But what is happening with that chaotic, atonal run in the last song? It’s less like Vol. 4 than a slate of options for Vol. 5 - Iommi dragging the rest of the band to several uncertain destinations. It could just be the cocaine, though - the drug of confidence without clarity. And while there are shamans somewhere who sniff coke, it’s not so magickal or penetrative as booze, dope, acid - the drugs that influenced their earlier albums. Thus, the lyrics are less of an invocation. Some of the horror elements remain - “Snowblind,” a horrible description of addiction as intense as The Revenant; the black wizard on “Under the Sun” - but it’s a work of gnosticism, a demystifying. Illusions and delusions are torn away in “Wheels of Confusion” and “Cornucopia,” revealing the world as evil - even on the tender “Changes,” “the world will have its evil way.” Faith is lost in wizards and priests both, because the world is a corruption, a trick, a trap. This is true on the metaphysical level, but also on the material - we are slaves to the boss, eating “frozen food in a concrete maze.” Working-class gnosticism. The system isn’t broken - it was built this way. You don’t transcend it; you crawl out of it, blinking, half-broken. Things are made no better by success. Ozzy certainly had his battles with success. And life was not easy for him. If you had told me that he would be the first member of Black Sabbath to die, I wouldn’t have been surprised. That he was the first to die at the age of 76 - well, that’s the surprise. Vol. 4 is the disenchantment of Black Sabbath. Breaking up their trademark mood, pulling in different directions, dispelling the magic that made a world of the first three records. It succeeds from time to time - “Tomorrow’s Dream,” “Supernaut.” It surprises - “Changes,” “Laguna Sunrise.” “Change” may not have drums or guitar, but it has the band altogether: Iommi's music, Butler's lyrics, Ozzy's performance, and Bill Ward's grief – it's about the dissolution of his marriage It's all falling apart though. And it’s a little disappointing to hear them so human. Similarly, it’s disappointing to see Ozzy humanised by death. Unnecessary, even. Thankfully, they played their final show together only weeks ago, not far from the childhood streets where they grew up together - mythologising and reenchanting the band and their music before the humanising could take it away forever. 2.5 Rest in peace Ozzy Osbourne. I have never listened to a Black Sabbath album before, to my recollection. No particular encounter with any of their big songs has driven me to investigate further. There are things I like about them - the loose, groovy drumming; the warm, fuzzy double-tracked guitar sound; Ozzy’s trebly voice cuts through nicely. In the last day or so it has been moving to read the many testimonials from fans in the wake of Ozzy’s death (including those from musicians I admire) about how much Sabbath has meant to them. I would like to have had a revelation today about all I’ve been missing with Sabbath and join the chorus of rapturous celebration about this musician. Alas, it didn’t happen for me. The warm fuzzy guitar sound is cool, but the riffs are naff and the solos instantly forgettable. The lyrics…I know a lyricist never really has apologies to make in the metal genre but really, the stream of bastardised common-metre nonsense and laughable nursery rhyming never lets up on this album. ‘Mary had a little lamb’ would slot seamlessly into Cornucopia, notwithstanding the literary superiority of Mary’s story. There is nothing even to offend a delicate sensibility here; the criticisms of religion and materialism are mealy-mouthed at best. Whatever poignancy ‘Changes’, a sweet little tune, took on today, it remains an awkward, rather dry account of loss. Credit to that track, all the same, for sticking out like a sore thumb amid all the fuzzy nothingness. 1.5/5
A well timed album in honor of Ozzy and a fun listen. Not familiar with any of the songs, strong finish with St Vitus and Under the Sun. L = (2.4*s) J = (2.7*s)
Not too surprised to get this one today since Ozzy died yesterday*, but I am a little surprised since it means that there are 3 (or more) Black Sabbath albums on here! The first one had a lot of hits, the second one was about wizards, so I wonder what's the vibe on No.3 (aka Vol. 4)? Good album cover, anyway. Nice font decisions; fight on, Halloween Ozzy! Well, I find the vibe kind of boring. Not actively unpleasant to listen to like your Led Zeppelins, but still a lot of Guitar Time. The very sleepy 'Changes' rhymes "way" with "way", one of my greatest music pet peeves. I also vaguely remember this song from Kelly Osbourne's album, lol. (A father-daughter duet is cute though; you don't get a lot of those, other than in rap when the daughter is like, 3.) This is probably a 2.5 for me, but since I'm mentally in knots about not wanting to be biased, I'll round down. *Here's my favorite of the Ozzy stories going around social media: ❝I thought America was fabulous. Take pizza for example. For years I’d been thinking, I wish someone would invent a new kind of food. In England it was always egg and chips, sausage and chips, pie and chips … anything and chips. After a while it just got boring, y’know? But you couldn’t exactly order a shaved Parmesan and rocket salad in Birmingham in the early ’70s. If it didn’t come out of a deep-fat fryer, no one knew what the fuck it was. But then, in New York, I discovered pizza. It blew my mind wide fucking open. I would buy ten or twenty slices a day. And then, when I realized you could buy a great big pizza all for yourself, I started ordering them wherever we went. I couldn’t wait to get back home and tell all my mates: ‘There’s this incredible new thing. It’s American and it’s called pizza. It’s like bread, but it’s better than any bread you’ve tasted in your life.’ I even tried to recreate a New York pizza for Thelma once. I made some dough, then I got all these cans of beans and pilchards and olives and shit and put them on top—it must have been about 15 quid’s worth of gear—but after ten minutes it just came dribbling out of the oven. It was like someone had been sick in there. Thelma just looked at it and went, ‘I don’t think I like pizza, John.’ She never called me Ozzy, my first wife.❞ —Ozzy Osbourne, from ‘I Am Ozzy’ (Grand Central Publishing, 2010)
My roomie had this album and played it constantly. At least the band didn't seem to take their image too seriously. Thump thump chunk chunk, but in a fun sorta way
I just never got into this. Not for me.
quite good, but not a classic like the previous albums.
I expected a heavier sound! I don’t really care for the vocals or lyrics but there’s definitely more interesting guitar riffs here than I’ve heard from most of the 70s rock on this list. 5/10
Нет, не моё
I can appreciate ozzy Osborne, but this album was just ok.
Same feelings as the last Black Sabbath album I got (Paranoid). I love the guitar work, but I don't really like Ozzy's voice. Wheels Of Confusion had really good shredding. Changes had nice piano work. Supernaut and Snowblind were kinda fun. Laguna Sunrise was a good instrumental. Best song: Supernaut
Not a fan. Deep Purple and Led Zep did it better. Laguna Sunrise the best track. 2
not bad, quiet , great for overthinking in a away
Not for me
Listened to the 2008 and 2021 remaster and vastly preferred the 2021. Even so, this wasn’t really my thing.
Could not do it. This album ground me down.
Nah I couldn’t get into it, instrumentals and vocals were both meh. I hope this isn’t their best work. Wasn’t a huge ear sore though.
This is a struggle to get through, and honestly, nothing really stuck with me.
I might not get it. I hope I don't get it. I think I get it.
-1 star for "Changes" which is a sack of shit.
Not for me
Very ok, older metal album. Very few tracks stood out. Not their most interesting work. 2/5
This was a lot better than I expected, Metal isn't one of my things. Maybe that was the reason it was ok as it wasn't really metallic. I didn't realise 'Changes' was a Sabbath song either. So I shall put this listening as a reasonably enjoyable learning experience for me, rather than the usual chore.
Yleissivistys kasvoi, tyhmät sanat
Not much of a fan of Black Sabbath, either. They're not as bad as other classic rock groups, but still not something I'd seek out to listen to.
Credit for pioneering hard rock. This is way crunchier than the Stones or Zeppelin, but it's a bit of a snooze i'nit? As for catchy riffs or hooks, nothing really stuck with me.
Metal is not my thing and I'm not a fan of Black Sabbath, the image they cultivated or of Ozzy's over-processed vocals. That aside, I can understand how this might be appealing to some but it's nothing I would pursue or want to listen to again.
Decent
Pretty good just not my cup of tea
Not my cup of tea. I (grudgingly) acknowledge their commercial and reputational success, but it is a music I do not enjoy.
Certainly is a cool sound, but I really didn’t find myself all that invested. Pretty much all of Black Sabbath’s classic songs don’t appear here, either. Crazy to think the original 4 are playing Villa Park this summer for a final show.
I’m beginning to learn that the tried & true Sabbath formula was some galavanting guitar licks paired with the most agonizing cry for help lyrics you can think of. “Changes” got its flowers with how it’s been covered over the years and I’m glad it did, the song is worth the attention. “FX” might be the musical marker for when the drugs started to kick in for Ozzy. The more this record progresses, the stranger it gets! “Supernaut” has such an interesting little percussion passage midway through. Then there’s “Laguna Sunrise” which just mellows everything out with am acousting guitar and some accompanying soaring strings. Then BOOM it’s back to some dudes rock guitar licks on “st. Vitus Dance”. It’s all a little flip-floppy and hectic, one of the more irritating instances of song sequencing/ track listing. Even with its peculiar moments or fun production choices, this album doesn’t really warrant a spot on here IMO, especially considering there’s at least one other Sabbath record on the list.
It was okay, but i liked the songs i knew
Black Sabbath is way more inoffensive to me than most metal, early or otherwise, so this is just kind of whatever. No real big hits here
How can I understand Ozzie's singing but not his talking? I don't typically enjoy metal but this wasn't terrible maybe because it's a little more blues based than others? I would give it 2.5 ⭐
It was alright
Listen. Ozzy is a legend and Tony is a phenomenal guitar player who made great impressions on me but as my tastes have matured I've fallen out of love with this hard and don't see myself revisiting it any time in the near future.