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Originally Posted by pepper_green
are you guys forgetting about the getting sucked into a blackhole tunes of Master of Reality or the heavy jazz fusion of Paranoid? what about the 'doing Cream better than Cream' first album? all this and the fact that Sabotage kicks SBS up and down the street while having hands long enough to bitch slap it too?
Sabotage all the way!!
btw, without Zep, Black Sabbath has no foundation.
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Agreed about Paranoid. It's almost insulting that Sabbath has been so strictly categorized as "heavy metal." What about "Planet Caravan"? That song is as musically adventurous as the genre-bending space jams that were met with critical praise when released by more "serious" artists like Santana, Jimi Hendrix Experience (even Can!). There were elements of free Jazz and fusion throughout their run with Ozzy. "Air Dance" on Never Say Die! for example.
Same goes for that fucking great riffing on "Rat Salad". The drumming on that song is ungodly. Sure, Zeppelin opened the door for that, but I find the lyrical and musical content of Paranoid over that of Led Zeppelin II.