Black Sabbath First song being called black sabbath on the album black sabbath by the band black sabbath. They ran out of names clearly. 4 minute mark is so sick, the guitars launching pay off Ozzy’s annoying singing. The wizard Ozzy’s voice is significantly less annoying in this song. Guitar tone is really sick in this track. At around 2:20 there’s a singular cowbell, it was almost comedic to me idk why. Behind the Wall of Sleep Intro sounds a lot like something from Fontaines dc’s dogrel, cool to see the influence this band had. N.I.B Main riff is gas, this is iron man before iron man. Tony Iommi’s guitar work is insane. I feel like a recurring theme of this album is Ozzy cramming in as many syllables as possible into each line. Evil Woman, Don’t Play Your Games With Me First song on the album where the bass really stands out to me, the tone is like a Beatle bass but he’s punching the strings for every note. Sleeping Village Drum work on the whole album is sick. The grooves are all really dialled. The spring in the intro is also really comedic, must be a sign of the times. Warning Personally I like a Longer song, this however drags unnecessarily. As opposed to having captivating sequences, it feels like the song was copy and pasted twice over. Wicked World Enjoyable outro to a good album overall. The music may not hold up amazingly however there is no denying the influence this band had on the scene at the time.

Overall solid listen, definitely an influential album in the British scene of the time. Joe strummers vocals are overall good however sometimes they get quite incoherent e.g the squawking on the title track.

Beautiful album. A perfect mesh of funk soul and jazz. Favourites: higher ground, don’t you worry bout a thing, he’s misstra know it all. G

Incredible album. Definitely bias from prior listening however, this album was transformative for the stones. It was also considered their return to a blues and roots sound. What puts this album ahead of their prior records is the experimentation with Latin, Asian and African rhythms that were unseen in western music at the time. The reasoning for these experiments is likely due to mick jagger and Keith Richard’s being behind the wheel as opposed to Brian Jones. Favourites from the record in order are: Jigsaw puzzle Sympathy for the devil Salt of the earth No expectations

Really enjoyed this album. This is my first real exposure to a full length Latin project, I found it really enjoyable. The vocals are great, instrumentals are just as good. If only I spoke Portuguese to understand what she was talking about.