#BLACK SABBATH WAR PIGS FULL#
At the very least, imagine “Planet Caravan” taking to the height channels, or getting the full range of the ebb and flow of volume and power in both “Iron Man” and “Hand of Doom.” The best bet would be to have the original quad restored plus new 5.1 and Atmos mixes housed together in one release. As a consummate surround advocate, I’d rather hear things go the other way into 5.1 or even Dolby Atmos territory, if only to remedy the 2009 quad DVD snafu. Sometimes, it’s just too quiet, especially when it comes to some of Ozzy’s vocals. That said, there’s also a downmixed stereo version of 1974’s quad mix on CD2 (and LP2). Note that a 2019 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition 5LP box set from Warner Records/Rhino is a digital transfer of the CD box’s contents, so be forewarned if that’s a deal-breaker. In fact, if you listen closely, you’ll find Ozzy’s vocal approach to the verses on “Paranoid” is a direct descendent of the way Paul McCartney attacks the verses on The Beatles’ “Get Back.” (Help me with my mind, Loretta.)Ģ019 Warner Records/Rhino 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition 5LP set.Ī 2016 4CD box set from Warner Bros./Rhino in a 6x8-inch rectangular format more common to European boxes contains fine upgrades of a pair of well-bootlegged 1970 live gigs from Montreux and Brussels, showing how the performance bond between Ozzy, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward was only getting stronger. My other thing is, if a song still sounds as good now as it did when you first heard it, it’s gotta be good.” If that’s the case, then Paranoid is quite bloody good indeed. The Beatles did give me the gift of melody, you know. “They had great harmonies and great melodies, and I always got a great feeling listening to them. “I wanted to be in The Beatles,” Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne told me during our in-person interview a decade ago. And where might that come from, you ask? Two words - The Beatles. Actually, the secret sauce can be found via something you may not have even considered - Black Sabbath’s inherent sense of melody. The key to the enduring appeal of Black Sabbath’s career-making second album, September 1970’s Paranoid, doesn’t only reside within its fist-pumping, headbanging, metal-genre-establishing bonafides.
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