-- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Vol.4 | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 11.98 Amazon Price $ 10.99 Savings $ 0.99 | |  Release Date: 25 October, 1990, Warner Bros / Wea
TRACK LISTING - Wheels Of Confusion/The Straightener
- Tomorrow`s Dream
- Changes
- FX
- Supernaut
- Snowblind
- Cornucopia
- Laguna Sunrise
- St. Vitus` Dance
- Under The Sun/Everyday Comes & Goes
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | vol.4 the best Sab album | | This is the best Black sabbath album of the Ozzy years. Bloody, Sabotage, are close.Ever since I was six years old listening to my dads copy of this record in the basement, I`ve been hooked.The best songs are; Wheels of Confusion, a slow sludgy rocker with a nice break into mid paced solo insanity. Next comes Tomorrows Dream,my favorite,a straight ahead rocker with a beautiful mid song break down.Then Changes, a ballad which is very emotional. Twenty four years of listening to this album, it is now a once in a while song.FX is nothing. Supernaut is a killer tune. Side 2- Snowblind, if you have not heard this song then you suck! Cornucopia is a very dark song, but very catchy, another fave. Laguna Sunrise is a very nice acoustic instrumental, not out of place. St. Vitus` Dance is a very sunny happy song which is another personal fave. Last is Under the sun which is a great song but its wierd, the middle part of this song and Deep Purples-Flight of the Rat from In Rock sound very similar(from around the same time to).The prodution of this album is very murky, which I find adds atmosphere to the whole thing which makes happy songs such as St. Vitus` Dance keep there edge.All in all one of the best albums ever recorded. | | | | Possibly Sabbath`s best and most down to earth | | While not as raw and heavy and depressing as Master Of Reality, Vol.4 is possibly the best album Black Sabbath ever released. Every song seems to represent every possible human emotion and never let up. From The Wheels Of Confusion to Under The Sun, this album reads as somewhat of a commentary on the ups and downs of life from naive childhood to the state of young adulthood where you struggle to find your own way in life with every other influence cracking at your skull, trying to manipulate you into conforming to it`s standard. I don`t think this is just an album for metal heads, musically and ideal-wise it goes way beyond certain boundaries of metal. I certainly can`t find anything about Judas Priests` British Steel that is anywhere as remarkable or thought-provoking as this album. My biggest musical loves are punk, and other forms of alternative music and I think that anyone who has a musical taste even slightly like mine can truly enjoy and appreciate Vol. 4. I think that this album could suit the tastes of anybody who`s into the Beatles and Pink Floyd just the same as those who`d prefer Black Flag and The Circle Jerks. I`ve owned this album in cd and vinyl form for almost seven years and it is still important to me. Hell, I personally think this beats the hell out of overrated release like Dark Side Of the Moon. I could be over-analyzing but I strongly suggest that any lover of true music at least give this one a listen. | | | | Black Sabbath struck fear into my heart. | When I first listened to Black Sabbath as a kid, I was afraid. I was afraid that some adult was going to figure it out. I could tell Ozzy Osbourne was singing about some pretty intense things. He was telling me about a world that I had never encountered. I thought that just by listening to this, I was going to Hell.
How fun it all was! That first taste of rebellion and fear, the breaking free, the still vibrating inspiration all alive in this music. When I listen now, I can still revisit that feeling of fear that struck my heart in youth. Still, I would listen again and again. While I have long since abandoned other music from that era, Sabbath stayed with me. Somehow there was always a place for them waiting in the annals of rock music history. A branch of rock-n-roll became hard rock, and it is very clear now what was clear early on, that the hardrock genre would evolve a great deal as a result of the contributions that were coming from Black Sabbath. A genre of razor clear blues riffs, with grate and dirt, spit, and confusion, all taken into directions, angles, and awkward spaces that we had never gone before.
Rhythm and bass that flows like a warm, rolling river, sometimes rapid, unpredictable, and choppy, sometimes heavy, thick, and melodic, but always moving forward, always driving the train toward some certainty that only Black Sabbath heard before us. These albums are laden with vocals that can haunt, entrance, inspire, or enrage, and all of it emanated from a young man with an old soul, a clear original, John "Ozzy" Osbourne. Be afraid again, be in awe again. Black Sabbath is a journey worth taking. | | |
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