Reviews (page 15 of 15)
Bien rock, bien guitare électrique mais pas trop mon style
Fine, not keen on vocals
Black Sabbath heeft altijd een bijzonder plekje in mijn muziekwereld. Het is eigenlijk de enige band die zich aan het metal-einde van het rockspectrum bevindt, waar ik met plezier naar luister. Ik vind de riffs ingenieus, de drums hypnotiserend en de lead van Ozzy infectious. De dark en gloomy sfeer is vaak raak, waar deze vaak een beetje artificiëel aanvoelt bij andere acts in een soortgelijke scene. Dit is de plaat die de ondankbare taak heeft om het weergaloze openingstrio van de Sabbath's discografie mag opvolgen. Hij doet dit dan ook niet met verve. Losse momenten zijn aardig, met het kalme 'Changes' (laat echt de uitzonderlijke range van de band zien) of het sferische 'Snowblind'. Maar het is lang niet zo consistent, spannend en urgent als hun eerdere werk, en voelt (net zoals als de titel) als een verzamelalbum. Snap niet precies waarom deze er in staat, en mag in ieder geval hopen dat de eerste drie dan ook een plekje hebben bemachtigd. 6/10 Highlights: Changes Snowblind
Snap niet helemaal waarom Vol 4 in deze lijst staat. De rauwe tracks zijn hoe we Sabbath kennen en er is een doordachte afwisseling met rustige songs. Maar heel speciaal of spannend wordt het niet. Maakt me wel nieuwsgierig naar Vol 1 t/m 3. 6/10 Highlights Wheels of Confusion
I've heard a bunch of okay songs from Black Sabbath, like Crazy Train or Iron Man. I assumed the rest of their songs would be on the same level. Is this a legendary band that only has 2 good songs?
I don't really get much out of Black Sabbath, and this isn't much of an exception
They suck, but not as sucky as the “music” kids like these days
I'm not a huge metal fan, but I've liked the few Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne hits I've heard on the radio and such, but dreaded a bit listening to a full album of that. However, that is not what I got. I really enjoyed Supernaut and Under the Sun, but found the rest of the album was quite underwhelming. I really didn't like Changes (why on earth did Black Sabbath write a mopey piano ballad?). FX was a waste of 98 seconds. I hated the lyrics to Snowblind. Not because of the overt drug references, just because the lines sounded so cheesy and forced (e.g. "winds of ice that soon will spread" is an awful line). Laguna Suprise was pretty, but that's about it; a nothingburger of a song. The rest of the songs were messy and forgettable, leaving my head almost immediately after listening. I will say, though, that the solos were consistently pretty great. The instrumental breaks were the best parts of the songs imo. Overall I just found the album really messy and inconsistent. The song structures were a mess, winding from section to section without any rhyme or reason making each song feel like a couple decent but very underdeveloped songs haphazardly strung together. 2/5 feels a little harsh, since there's absolutely some good stuff here, it just feels poorly put together and buried beneath filler and poor structure.
Wasn’t that terrible, but not my jam, uninteresting to me
Eh. Not my typical genre of music. Again, wouldn't be a bad album to have playing in the background while you get work done.
Fairly steep drop-off from their first three albums. They sound bereft of ideas and the album is too well produced to still have an edge.
Was fine but not for me
I don't think this album was written with me in mind. It's not the worst thing I've ever listened to but I didn't quite know what to make of it.
Besides the ambient FX I don't care for this album (I was devastated it did not proceed from inter-tubal-steel-curlicues into a metal-march-in-space). Under the Sun is a fine metal song. I can call on it it to convince metalheads I am down with it, in the case I need to prove to some metal heads that I'm down with it. I will leave the bar promptly before they find out I gave Black Sabbath Vol 4. a 2/5.
I'm tempted to write that, even post covid, I'd rather bite the head off a bat than listen to this album again, but it's not that bad. Just. I'm wavering between giving it a one or a two. I definitely don't want to ever listen to this album again, but I don't think it genuinely annoyed me enough to get a one. A, feeling generous, two.
palatable but boring boomer tunes
Very much Ozzy. Wheels of Confusion was okay, but it eventually devolved into songs that all sounded the same...
I got BS paranoid a couple weeks ago and lived it. Whole album was great. Had high expectations for this one and was let down. It got better as the album progressed but I was expecting a little more fire
Once again this just isn’t my thing. I’m not much of a fan of heavy metal. And this also doesn’t have any of the popular Black Sabbath songs. So I pretty much endured it while totally understanding why others would love it. 2.5/5
It’s too much for me.
best track is changes, lol 1 check
I’m sure it’s great but it’s not my thing
I'm not a fan of heavy metal, so I fully expected to hate this going in, but it was surprisingly... mediocre. The songs didn't go as hard as I expected (a plus for me), but they mostly relied on repetitive guitar hooks which quickly became tiring. The brief interlude in the form of the song 'FX' felt really weird, didn't fit the album at all. Then there's the vocalist's voice—too muted in some sections which made it really hard to understand what he was saying. The two songs I enjoyed and even saved for later were 'Changes' and 'Laguna Sunrise'. Everything else felt really 'samey'. Maybe I'd start to distinguish the tracks more on the third or fourth listen, but I truly have no urge to listen to this album again. This was my first Black Sabbath album and not what I expected at all. I was scared that there was going to be a lot of shouting and heavy-metaling involved, but what I got was just a very uninspiring rock record.
Overall I liked this a lot less than Paranoid. Less stand out tracks, a little muddier mixing. The ballad, Changes, probably led to a slew of Metal Ballad compilation discs. Under the Sun was my favorite track and I walked the ring to Mordor while listening to Laguna Sunrise.
No for me
The two instrumentals and “Changes” keep this from being a 1. Out my cup of tea.
I was a bit disappointed in this to be honest. I really like their tone and the 'Paranoid' album which is a straight 5 for me, but this had none of those catchy riffs at all. Felt more like noodling aimlessly. 'Changes' is quite a different song and shows that Sabbath have another dimension to them than just making heavy metal songs. But it's still not enough to change the outcome of the score on the album. Strong 2 for me, as I like Black Sabbath and their sound, but the album was fairly uninteresting.
hmmm no
2 stars. didn't dazzle me.
I was a little disappointed if I’m honest. Didn’t like much of Ozzy’s vocal and I detest the song Changes.
Not really my style.
Scared the cats. I was surprised at the variety though
Meh
Not my type of music, but it did have some interesting and varied songs.
naja. gitarren schreien, der sänger auch - und kein roter faden.
i would put a 3 but its just not for me AND theyre all. annoying to put it nicely. wild level of animal abuse in here out of fucking nowhere. ozzy osbourne go to hell and stay there
This would have been a 3 but the realization that the “Big Mouth” theme song is a cover of “Changes” made me puke. I really did try to keep an open mind listening to this bc I do like “War Pigs” but nope I don’t like it sorry. Update: The realization that System of the Down did a cover of “Snowblind” that I like infinitely more is adding to how lame I think this album is. Update 2: Reductive comparison: This is just metal The Eagles.
Some of this is solid sludgey trudgey classic heavy metal, but a lot of its just alright
Not as good as their previous album
A little Ozzie goes a long way. I loved Paranoia because it said something. Granted it took forever to decipher what the hell Ozzie was saying. Tipper Gore convinced a ton of mothers that he was recording demonic messages backwards. In her defense, he never made much sense forwards and someone with entirely too much time on her hands might be expected to... I don't know. Point is, unless you're a Black Sabbath fan, skip this one and listen to Paranoia.
Lacks something of the energy that was in "Paranoid".
Hard rock, some good songs, doesn’t make me feel like I need to listen again
Better than I expected.
Not a heavy metal fan. Even classic metal apparently
Klassiker
Might be the most basic Sabbath album there is. It’s a decent enough listen, but there’s no new territory uncovered here and not any Sabbath staples to keep the momentum up.
Changes is the highlight. Great if you are Black Sabbath fan but just OK for the rest.
Geht so. Besser als erwartet, aber auch nach zweimaligem kompletten Durchhören ist bei mir keine Melodie hängen geblieben. Nur vom ersten Lied gefiel mir der zweite Teil gegen Ende ganz gut. Es ändert sich dann komplett. Aber ich habe trotzdem auch hier keine Details merken können. Insgesamt klingen Black Sabbath zumindest hier erstaunlich melodiös und weniger heavy als ich dachte. Ozzys Stimme ist für mich auf Dauer eher schwer zu ertragen.
I'm sure this album was very important but it just kinda feels a bit rudimentary compared to the music it's inspired I guess. Plenty listenable still, just feel like there wasn't a song that was super memorable for me here
This isn't the cool Sabbath. Cover is iconic and Ozzy and Tony can still shine on some of the tracks. But this is a band grappling with the artistic explosion of the early 70s. They try to keep up but lose the edge and songs like changes just fall flat. A couple banger riffs, Supernaut and snowbind try.
pretty ok. liked the instrumental
Vol.4- black Sabbath 4/10 Id rather listen to paranoid. Wheels of confusion 3/10 Tomorrow's dream 4/10 Changes 8/10 FX n/a/10 Supernaut 5/10 Snowblind 7/10 Cornucopia 6/10 Laguna sunrise 2/10 St. Vitus dance 5/10 Under the sun 7/10
If I was introduced to this earlier in my life I would’ve been into it. Was surprised by the variety of emotion and tempo across the songs, and I can see why the record is so acclaimed. I'd need to expand my tastes a little before I can imagine a context where this type of music would hit the spot. Very listenable, but sometimes the singing and rhyme schemes can be a little off-putting. 4.5/10
ozzy is great, guitar sound influential, slow songs surprising and interesting amongst bangers.
I like black sabbath, but this album should not be on this list. Just another generic metal album. Only song that stood out to me was changes. There are plenty of better metal albums out there than this one
I mean changes is of course very good but one hit song cant prop up an entire album..
Pleasantly surprised by how much I actually didn't mind this, given that it's not a genre I usually vibe with.
Ei oo minulle tämä bändi.
boring and nihilistic, which i think is what people like about it, supernaut has a super-cool riff though
It's alright. Forgot how good the drummer is
Não consigo curtir este estilo de música
Never been a fan of Sabbath. This album did not nothing to change my opinion. BUT, every now and then something comes along and surprises. I would bet most fans fans of Sabbath didn't enjoy, but Mary Sweet Jesus, Changes is a wonderful, absolutely beautiful song. I loved it. I downloaded. Charles Bradley did a cover of this song in a more soulful, R&B style. For those that know a little of my musical taste, this statement may comes as a shock, Ozzy's version is the best. Yep, I said it. What a great song. The rest of whatever I heard was OK. I give Changes a 5! I give the overall album a 2. 2 A little trivia for my group on the upcoming RHCP album. Or anyone else who reads this. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was released 9/24/1991. The exact same day as another album, that some say may be one of the greatest, influential albums of it's generation, if not ever. I know most of you idolize this group/album. Think about it. Peace Luke enjoy Blink 182 Saturday! Me and Mom got married 28 years ago, Saturday. Tip one back for us.
I don’t mind a bit of Sabbath and respect their status as rock/metal pioneers, but I’m not sure what this particular album is offering to the list. Don't get me wrong, there are moments where I dig it, but... there aren’t really any standout tunes, it's not cohesive, it doesn't feel groundbreaking like their earlier work, some of the playing is sloppy and the sound quality generally seems a bit muddy. Too much cocaine?
Black Sabath .. what did I expect..
Too many weak parts. Great cover once again.
C+ Wheels of Confusion / The Straightener - 3. Starting an album with an 8 min song is BOLD. And guess what? It doesn't pay off. Tomorrow's Dream - 2. Changes - 5. Obviously. Fun fact - I used this in the first screenplay I ever wrote. FX - 2. Supernaut - 2. Snowblind - 4. nice twist at the end. Cornucopia - 3. Laguna Sunrise - 3. Nice. St. Vitus Dance - 2. Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes - 3. I was gonna give a 2 but they got me by the end. All in all, a pretty good album for the genre. A little repetitive. Changes is a classic. Snowblind is a track that I'd never heard and really liked. Laguna Sunrise was a hoot too. Black Sabbath is so much better than other metal.
doesn't have any single song to latch on to feels like an extension of their other stuff 2.5
If I said this was anything other than boring, I'd be lying. I should enjoy it. But I just don't. Sure, I can see Sabbath's place in musical history, but compare this to Deep Purple or Led Zep and this just seems pedestrian.
meh
While hailed as their best album, I just don't see it.
Don't love Sabbath...hadn't really heard much off this album but it seemed like more of the same for me. 2/5
Riffittelyä, joka edustaa minulle mielihyvän sijasta mielipahan poissaoloa. Changes on kylläkin simplistisyydessään neronleimaus.
Lesser known good songs on there
Har ägt plattan en gång i tiden men sålde den då plattan saknar låtar som sticker ut.
Much better than last album. Good guitars. Better altogether songs.
I’d have gone with Paranoid but this has some interesting stuff.
not really my thing
Love the cover. Not a fan of the music.
Good but not my style
Meh. I do like early ‘Sabs’, and this was okay, but I feel like it is not as focussed as some of their earlier albums. I guess musically they were branching out, but it's the heavy metal thunder that I love about this band andd their early albums.
You can tell by the blatant lyrics that drugs and hedonism heavily influenced the proceedings, which is not always a good thing. There's a bit of a lack of craft just riffs, that quickly get tiresome. There is a change of pace on the piano led ballad 'Changes' (with some interesting mellotron) but even that's nothing special.
Sabbath had collapsed under the weight of their own legend by the time they released this. And their enormous drug and alcohol intake probably didn't help much either
Absoluut niet het beste Black Sabbath album. Zelfs wat saai met momenten
Ik vind het rockmuziek voor oude mannen. Nee, niks voor mij. Vooral de zangstem stoort me.
Skárra en sumt. Ozzy enn leiðinlegur en það er þó allavega einhver tjáning í gangi þarna. Lögin mörg hver alveg ágæt. Ozzy er samt leiðinlegur.
i'm not a rock or heavy metal fan so this is not something i would ever listen to. i get that there's a lot of people that would probably call this the best album ever but it's just not for me. not horrible, but something i would ever return to. favourite track: changes
Not my cup of tea, didn’t get on with it at all
Meh... Ég þurfti ekki að hlusta á þessa plötu. Lögin eru einföld og endurtekningasöm, og mest spilaða lagið, Changes, vekur beinlínis upp kjánahroll. Rödd Ozzy er bæði léleg og leiðinleg. En jæja, sumt rennur þokkalega í gegn þrátt fyrir allt. Ekki botninn, en ég mun ekki hlusta aftur.
ittl be lucky to beat a 1
Where is tony Blair when we need him?
Shite
i don't think i ever knew how maudlin changes is. it feels like it goes on forever. its not the kind of darkness i was expecting form the prince of darkness but it is infinitely more soul crushing and scary than any of the heavier stuff. the album on the whole is fairly uninteresting.
ME ha parecido monótono y aburrido. En 1972 tuvo que ser la caña, pero hoy en día no me interesa. Aunque oírlo una vez tampoco te hará ningún mal.
I really enjoyed the Black Sabbath album "Paranoid." I was hoping to recapture some of that love in this one. While there are moments I appreciate, this just wasn't quite the same. Most of the moments I did appreciate were not really the heavy metal base of the album (those parts all kind of melted together in my mind): the mellow sound of the piano-backed "Changes," the hashish-inspired "FX" sounding very hashish-inspired, the surprise conga line that appeared in the middle of "Supernaut," and "Laguna Sunrise" coming out of nowhere with its guitar and orchestra clearly evoking a sunrise. Also of note is "Snowblind," the jaw-dropping ode to cocaine that really didn't age well with its lyrics, "Don't you think I know what I'm doing? Don't tell me that it's doing me wrong. You're the one that's really the loser." We all know how that turned out. Of the heavy metal proper, I thought that "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" was the closest I felt to pumping my fist, with its classic "I wanna live my life" theme.
Meh.
demasiada distorsión para mi
not my vibe really
Yes, there's tons of nostalgia in there, but then again re-listening reminded me why I haven't been listening this whole time
Just fine but not memorable enough for this list.
I don't understand why we need this band when we have led zeppelin tbh.
2/5 nothing much, it's a pity.
2/5
meh - I expected so much more from them. Especially as they had come out with a banger album a few years before.
Yy
1.5
Not a fan of Black Sabbath
Not for me, bar one track
Yep
hindi talaga siya for me
The way my head fell into my hands when this album came up. <SIGH> This after yesterday's Wu-Tang Clan which I also didn't like. I don't have much to say about this album. I know about Ozzy Osborne from his reality TV show but never was interested in his music. His singing voice sounds whiny which drives me up the wall. <sigh> Whatever.
Je comprends son impact sur le genre mais c’est non
Laguna Sunrise was a welcome surprise on this album, not a fan of the rest of it
Nicht so mein Fall. Zu hektisch!
Ponderous
Not my style but can see how some might like it
Terrible
Not very good
Really bad
As I kid I bought the paranoid single. Brilliant. The B side, the Wizard, was even better. So where did this lump of plodding balance crap come from?
Not a fan, but rest in peace Ozzy
Its loud and that's all there is to it. There is an undue reverance to this bobbins. Changes is a good song but this like all the others of this ilk are instantly forgettable unless you like metal
Not for me
1. confuzion - 1 2. dream - 1.5 3. changez - 2 4. fz - 0 5. zupenaut - 1.5 6. blind - 1.5 7. cornucopia - 1.5 8. laguna - 1 9. dance - 1 10. zun - 1.5
Not for me
Kill yourself
Not my type of music. 1 Star.
Remember Ozzy and Kelly releasing their version of Changes in 2003 and thinking it was one of the worst things I'd ever heard (two people who can't really sing taking on a big ballad?). Turns out the original is just as unlistenable. Not for me. Cool that he managed a final show though. Even if a sex offender was on the lineup.
Lovely to touch giving the timings, but not for me. RIP Ozzy.
Jedinica iz principa. // Bila bi možda dvica ali Changes je najgora pjesma ikad, kako mogu ubiti pjesmu jer doslovno želim da to uradim.
Pass
I felt the maelstrom of despair in the tip of my veiny dih
Meh. Half the songs, were before my time.
No
Hard no. 1
19/1001 Well, if nothing else, I prefer this to Led Zeppelin - it just seems a bit more original to me, if nothing else. Changes stands out like a sore thumb as a piano-led ballad, but kudos to them for attempting to branch out. Acoustic instrumental, Laguna Sunrise also offers a change of pace. Elsewhere though, Ozzy bellows like a demented thing, while Iommi, Butler and Ward create a low, slow metal groove. It's kind of hypnotic, but then they were off their faces most of the time. Sabbath are almost entering into self-parody at this stage in their careers, every riff sounding like an interpolation of something they had already done to better effect on the previous three albums. I can't say I hate it - I gave it a couple of listens, and I'd probably already heard a couple of tracks before, while it is not an album I already owned - but it just kind of drifted by me to be honest.
Not a huge fan of metal
Way past all that angst of a 13 year old. Boring sluge of a recording fueled on Coke and it shows. Keep moving along, folks—nothing new here.
I could have easily died without hearing this one
Not my cup of tea
Black Sabbath just does not to anything for me. It’s not even funny like the later metal bands.
meh
Not my thing
Nope. Utterly boring as is most hard rock for me, Find even bloody Katie Mehlua more interesting.
Not for me.
UGH barbed wire in my ears.
Not my cup of tea
The songs on the album were not available when I tapped on them.
Gave up after two songs, sorry
Not for me-hair band sound One song or two but I’d be sick of it after that
Bit old for my liking I think.
Never been able to get into metal, likely because the hardcore image that I have in my head is betrayed by all the repetitious, indistinguishable crunchy guitar riffs and tepid vocals. This album is no exception
OK, but not super fun
Shite
Mehhhj
Why volume 4? The first three albums are infinitely better. This album is from the decline, including crowd pleasers like "obligitory ballad because we're trying to expand our sound" and "that one song that people kinda recognize".
I guess metal music just isn't for me because I didn't like it very much.
According to a rolling stone article it's a drug fuelled masterpiece from 1972. To me it's a slow version of heavy metal, which I basically don't listen to, except for a bit of Motorhead, and a bit of ACDC (its energising stuff now)kind of ironically for fun.. . gentle even... rock opera? anyway, i saw them live in Sydney 15 years ago and it was history, education, It is funny how this music was so rebellious and harsh and scary to people in the 1970s, compared to how normal and tame it sounds now. they clearly were very influential.. SUMMARY IT belongs ON THE LIST? probaly. imprtant. 3 ish...? Do I love it? no. 1-2
I really wanted to give this an objective listen and try and understand a little more about the music. But it's just not for me. I'm never going to like any metal music. I stopped after the first track and played some Smokey Robinson instead.
Got fed up really quick
Gloriously heavy and inventive in its way, but they're still utter clods. As ever, a drag.
Too many albums by the same artist coming up now
A bit lacklustre for me. I don't think it's aged very well