Symptom of the Universe

I view this album as sort of an expanded edition of 'We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll'. It includes all the material on WSOSfR&R, plus about an albums worth of Black Sabbath's lesser known material.

One thing that i was dissapointed in, however, was that the bass solo "Bassicaly" used as an intro to NIB (which apeared on the WSOSfR&R album) did not appear on this compilation.

The first disk was awsome featuring most of the classics which i shouldn't have to mention to any one familiar with Sabbath.

The second disk contains a few fairly well known songs, such as 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' and 'Snowblind'. It also contains a few lesser know greats like 'Sabbra Cadabra', 'Symptom of the Universe', 'After Forever', and 'Hole In the Sky'.

The booklet was much better than I expected, it was really informative, full of interesting facts (including some somewhat humorus trivia) about the band, and all of it extremly well written.

For any long time Sabbath fans I wouldn't recommend buying this because you've probably heard it all before. However I would strongly recomend this album for anyone who is interested in getting into Black Sabbath, it contains most of the must have Sabbath material, and enough of the lesser known greats to make you feel a bit superior to the people who only know of the songs that they play on the radio. Just don't go around pretending that you know everything about Sabbath just because you've read the booklet. Some long time fans might find that irritating.