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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
- Type:
- Full-length
- Release date:
- February 13th, 1970
- Catalog ID:
- VO 6 / 847 903 VTY
| Side A | |||
| 1. | Black Sabbath | 06:16 | Show lyrics |
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| 2. | The Wizard | 04:24 | Show lyrics |
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| 3. | Behind the Wall of Sleep | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
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| 4. | N.I.B. | 06:06 | Show lyrics |
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| Side B | |||
| 5. | Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games with Me (Crow cover) | 03:25 | Show lyrics |
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| 6. | Sleeping Village | 03:46 | Show lyrics |
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| 7. | Warning (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation cover) | 10:32 | Show lyrics |
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| 38:07 | |||
| Band members | |
| Tony Iommi | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Geezer Butler | Bass, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Bill Ward | Drums, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Vocals, Harmonica (track 2), Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Guest/Session | |
| Rodger Bain | Jew's harp (track 6) |
| Miscellaneous staff | |
| Marcus Keef (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
| Rodger Bain | Producer |
| Louisa Livingstone | Cover model |
| Tom Allom | Engineering |
| Barry Sheffield | Engineering |
| Tony Iommi | Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Geezer Butler | Bass, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Bill Ward | Drums, Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Vocals, Harmonica (track 2), Songwriting (tracks 1-4, 6) |
| Rodger Bain | Jew's harp (track 6) |
| Marcus Keef (R.I.P. 2012) | Photography |
| Rodger Bain | Producer |
| Louisa Livingstone | Cover model |
| Tom Allom | Engineering |
| Barry Sheffield | Engineering |
| Respected, But Not Quite... | 60% | TheHumanChair | February 20th, 2020 | |
| Heavy Metal in its... | 85% | EvilAllen | June 6th, 2019 | |
| An unlikely story | 70% | gasmask_colostomy | October 23rd, 2018 | |
| "Like Cream but worse." | 86% | TrooperEd | January 31st, 2018 | |
| A timeless classic | 100% | ResidentHillSilentEvil | August 27th, 2017 | |
| Black Sabbath | 100% | Liontime | September 1st, 2016 | |
| Highly influential and... | 77% | The_Wandering_Mage | March 27th, 2015 | |
| The one that started it all... | 85% | Brainded Binky | December 22nd, 2014 | |
| Where it all begins | 82% | Cosmic_Equilibrium | August 30th, 2014 | |
| What is this that stands... | 96% | Doominance | May 24th, 2014 | |
| What is this so called... | 99% | TheZombieXecutioner | December 28th, 2012 | |
| The raw, primordial origins... | 70% | ConorFynes | June 22nd, 2012 | |
| What is this that stands... | 92% | autothrall | October 30th, 2011 | |
| Ground zero for true metal. | 100% | Warthur | June 17th, 2011 | |
| The Greatest Genre Of Music... | 94% | Luvers | July 6th, 2007 | |
| Ahhhhh, Metal. | 96% | erickg13 | December 25th, 2006 | |
| The first draft of heavy... | 89% | hells_unicorn | October 29th, 2006 | |
| Black Sabbath | 90% | Stachu | September 22nd, 2006 | |
| Come To The Sabbath | 85% | brocashelm | April 21st, 2006 | |
| Genesis 1:1 | 84% | NeonKarma | December 29th, 2004 | |
| Setting The Standard | 90% | Carnelian | September 8th, 2004 | |
| Quite the album | 80% | Shadow0fDeath | August 24th, 2004 | |
| Let There Be Heavy Metal | 97% | Reaper | August 11th, 2004 | |
| What Is This...!? | 84% | westknife | July 23rd, 2004 | |
| Inconsistent...but... | 83% | OlympicSharpshooter | March 16th, 2004 | |
| Where it all began | 94% | radiohater | January 16th, 2004 | |
| Oh so heavy! | 94% | langstondrive | October 8th, 2003 | |
| Even the first wheel was... | 76% | UltraBoris | August 21st, 2002 |
Issued in a gatefold sleeve.
Widely regarded as the first ever heavy metal album.
The cover photo was taken in front of Mapledurham Watermill in Oxfordshire, England.
The original gatefold vinyl cover displays an inverted cross on the inside. The band members have always maintained that this was done by the record label, without their knowledge or permission.
This got the band some (unwanted) attention by occult groups, so they all started wearing crucifixes around their necks to avoid being labelled as Satanists.
"N.I.B." does not stand for "Nativity in Black". It was referring to Bill Ward's facial hair, which looked like a pen nib.
"Evil Woman" and "Warning" are both blues covers, "Evil Woman" originally by the American band Crow (which was why publishing rights prohibited it from being on the American release), while "Warning" was originally by the short lived Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, in a much shorter form. Ironically enough, Ozzy Osbourne misheard the song and sings "I was born without you baby" instead of "I was warned about you baby", which was the entire basis for the song and reason it was called "Warning".
The tracklist of the more common American release (June, 1970) combines several tracks into one and incorrectly switches the titles around, as well substitutes "Evil Woman" for "Wicked World", the b-Side to the original Evil Woman single, resulting in:
1. Black Sabbath (6:21)
2. The Wizard (4:25)
3. Wasp / Behind the Wall of Sleep / Basically / N.I.B. (9:44)
4. Wicked World (4:47)
5. A Bit of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning (14:19)
Castle Communications '80s version of the album contains a live version of "Tomorrows Dream" (3:04) as track eight taken from the Live at Last live album.
The '96 Castle Communications remaster uses the original track listing, plus "Wicked World" as track 8, being the first release with both songs on one disc.
Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 1): V0 6 1Y * 1 420 14
Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 1): V0 6 2Y * 1 420 13 JOHN
Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 2): V0 6 1Y * 1 420 13
Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 2): V0 6 2Y * 1 420 19 19
Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 3): VO6 1Y * 1 420 14
Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 3): VO6 2Y * 1 420 13
Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 4): VO 6 1Y * 1 420 12 12
Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 4): VO 6 2Y * 1 420 12 4
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