il disco consigliato è : SABOTAGE DEI BLACK SABBATH-----------------------------------
memorabilia.
dopo i 5 gioielli usciti precedentemente con cui avevano creato le fondamenta della loro leggenda i black sabbath sfornano un disco differente dai primi. sopratutto nei suoni qui piu vicini all heavy metal che nel passato , un disco meno grezzo dei precedenti , piu studiato ma che pero' non sgarra un attimo sul piano compositivo, il disco è pieno di canzoni esaltanti dalla prima, hole in the sky, all' ultima - the writ. per me l' ennesimo capolavoro , ne uscissero ora di dischi cosi'.
tra l' altro credo che fu' il primo disco che ascoltai al momento della sua reale uscita , al tempo lo mettevo a tutto volume ogni santo giorno e il mio vicinato lo imparo a memoria tanto che in molti mi chiesero chi fossero ( all' epoca andavano Drupi, i collage , viola valentino etc. ) e se lo comprarono , è si' anche io nel mio piccolo ha " rovinato " i gusti musicali di vari sorcini e affini.
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breve recensione via web in cui mi ci ritrovo
Black Sabbath - Sabotage (1975)
Il disco più progressivo dei Sabbath, nonostante la presenza di graniti inossidabili come Hole in the sky e Sympton of the universe. Già dal finale di quest'ultima si capisce bene come poteva essere la voglia di divagare di Iommi; lo zolfo si dissolve, l'ex baffo imbraccia l'acustica e si lancia in un rilassatissimo assolo su una piattaforma che ha sapori quasi brasileiri. Ma la complessità abita nello splendido proseguio: Megalomania è in pratica una suite black-prog, in cui i cambi di tempo e spazio sono indovinati alla perfezione (dal vivo Ozzy la cannerà clamorosamente su un famoso bootleg dell'anno). The thrill of it all ne segue le tracce riducendo i minuti e calcando la mano sulla melodia. Il lavoro di produzione richiese un sacco di tempo, si dice a causa della mania di perfezione di Iommi. La pompa di Supertzar, per chitarra e cori operistici, diventerà la sigla dei concerti. Am I going insane invece diventerà una specie di hit, con il chorus a presa diretta e un testo esilarante in cui l'ex macellaio Osbourne anticipa di parecchi anni la sua figura di auto-macchietta che costituirà la sua fortuna.
Ma la vera perla del disco è la chiusura, The Writ, un po' il contraltare sul lato B di Megalomania.
Per nove minuti tutta l'imponenza del Sab-sound, le soluzioni alternative, la loro personale visione di un prog-core che non disdegna ariosi break acustici, glockenspiel sgranati e quant'altro, rendono questo pezzo realmente speciale.
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notizie , testi etc
Released July 28, 1975
Re-Released February 28, 1996
Re-Released April 27, 2004 (Black Box - Disc 6)
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Track Listing
Hole in the Sky (4:00)
Don't Start (Too Late) (0:49)
Symptom of the Universe (6:28)
Megalomania (9:40)
The Thrill of it All (5:52)
Supertzar (3:42)
Am I Going Insane (Radio) (4:15)
The Writ (8:09)
Blow on a Jug (0:23) - See Notes
CREDITI COMPOSIIONE:
All songs written and arranged by Black Sabbath
ALTRI CREDITI
Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar
Geezer Butler - Bass
Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
Bill Ward - Drums
Gerald Woodruffe - Keyboards
Produced by Black Sabbath with Mike Butcher
Engineered by Mike Butcher/Robin Black
Tape Operator and saboteur: David Harris
Recorded at Morgan Studios London and Brussels
Mastered at Sterling Sound New York
English Chamber Choir arranged by Will Malone
numero di catalogo
LP Vertigo 9119 001 (UK Jul 1975)
LP Vertigo 6366 115 (?? 1975)
LP Warner Bros BS 2822 (US)
LP WWA WWA 6366 (1975)
LP NEMS NEL 6018 (UK, Holland Jun 1980)
LP Ariston ARM42010 (Italy)
LP Vertigo 832706-1
LP NEMS SP18-50150 (Japan)
MC RCA MC F7422 (1980)
MC Vertigo 832706-4
CD Vertigo 832706-2
CD Castle NELCD 6018 (1986)
CD Essential/Castle ESMCD306 (UK - Mar 1996) - Remastered
CD Sanctuary SMRCD036 (UK 2004)
CD Warner/Rhino R2 72923-F (US 2004) - Black Box
note
Secondo il cantante Ozzy Osbourne, questo album segnò l'inizio di quello che lui descrisse come l'ossessione del chitarrista Tony Iommi per la produzione in studio. Richiese in effetti molto più tempo sia per la produzione che per la registrazione di qualsiasi disco precedente del gruppo, diventando l'album dei Black Sabbath più costoso al tempo (il primo album richiese solo seicento sterline e tre giorni[1]).
Questo lavoro diede inizio ad una serie di disaccordi tra i fans della band sul cambiamento musicale intrapreso dalla band. Sabotage segue infatti la scia dell'album precedente aggiugendo un ulteriore uso di tastiere, di arrangiamenti orchestrali, e di altre sperimentazioni come gli arrangiamenti corali nel brano Supertzar.
Tuttavia, all'interno dell'album non mancano alcuni brani dalle sonorità heavy metal dei primi tempi, come Hole in the Sky o Symptom of the Universe, quest'ultimo considerato come un vero e proprio brano heavy metal.
I fan del gruppo sono divisi a metà riguardo all'importanza dell'album nella discografia del gruppo, ma Sabotage si è comunque guadagnato l'essere considerato un disco "cult" da molti fan hard rock o heavy metal.
Su alcune delle prime stampe su vinile e cassetta, e su tutte le versioni cd rimasterizzate, vi è una breve traccia nascosta di 23 secondi, registrata a basso volume, intitolata Blow on a jug dopo la fine dell'ultimo pezzo (The Writ), nella quale si possono ascoltare Ozzy Osbourne e Bill Ward canticchiare una parodia accompagnati da un pianoforte.
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NOTa: queste liriche sono verificate , sono lew stesse che trovate stampate nel libretto del "Black Box" ( cofanetto contenente i primi dischi dei black sabbath con la formazione classica )
Hole in the Sky
I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonym of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky
Gateway to heaven
Window in time
Through it I fly
I've seen the stars that disappear in the sun
But shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in cars
Hole in the sky
Gateway to heaven
Window in time
Through it I fly
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now I'm living on the profits of crime
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Don't Start (Too Late)
Instrumental
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Symptom of the Universe
Take me through the centuries to supersonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Mother Moon, she's calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seventh Advent unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Take my hand, my child of love, come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
With our love we'll ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Woman child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
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Megalomania
I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
It started something that I could not control
Where can I run to now, the joke is on me
No sympathizing God, its insanity yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, now
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, now
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah
Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes
I mixed reality with pseudo god dreams
The ghost of violence was something I'd seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be the dream of my soul
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Well I feel something's taking me I don't know where
It's like a trip inside a separate mind
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
Is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness
Want no more of sorrow
Realized when to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Now am I right if I fight
That I might just get away from you now
Sting me!
Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Pictures of demigod are fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow
Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now
Is there a way that I could pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right in my fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!
I'm really digging schizophrenia, the best of the earth
I've chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me but now it's all mine
I simply try but he wants me to fail
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, providence of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you yeah
Now I'm free let me see
That now instead, I won't be led by you now
Free!
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The Thrill of it All
Inclination of direction, walk and turn and twist adrift
With the children of creation, futuristic dreams we sift
Clutching violently we whisper with a liquefying cry
Any deadly final answers that are surely doomed to die
Won't you help me Mr. Jesus
Won't you tell me if you can
When you see this world we live in
Do you still believe in Man?
If my songs become my freedom
And my freedom turns to gold
Then I'll ask the final question
If the answer could be sold
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it
'Cause I've got no reason to lie
Forget your problems that don't even exist
And I'll show you a way to get high, oh yeah
Oh yeah
So come alive, you know you're magic to me
Remember freedom is not hard to find
Time to stop all your messing around
Don't you think that I know my own mind, oh yeah
Oh yeah
Why can't you believe, I'm not here to deceive
Do you always have to be told
For you and your problem you can never give up
Long before the answer was sold, oh yeah
Oh yeah
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Supertzar
Instrumental
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Am I Going Insane? (Radio)
Everybody's looking at me
Feeling paranoid inside
When I step outside I feel free
Think I'll find a place to hide
Tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
Tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
Every day I sit and wonder
How my life it used to be
Now I feel like going under
Now my life is hard to see
So tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
Tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
So I'm telling all you people
Listen while I sing again
If I don't sound very cheerful
I think that I'm a schizophrene
So tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
Tell me people
Am I going insane, insane
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The Writ
The way I feel is the way I am
I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you
Just to you
What kind of people do you think we are?
Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you
Just for you
The faithful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you
Yeah, for you
The shock troopers laying down on the floor
I wish they'd fallen into my private war with you
Yeah, with you
Are you metal, are you man
You've changed a lot since you began
Yeah, began
Ladies digging gold from you
Will they still dig now you're through
Yeah you're through
You bought and sold me with your lying words
The voices in the dark that you never heard came true
Yeah came true
Your fallen phallic god dismembered and gone
A poison father with his poisonous son, that's you
Yeah, that's you
I beg you please don't let it get any worse
The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you
Yeah, curse you
All of the promises that never came true
You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true
Ah, that's true
Are you Satan are you man
You've changed in life since it began
It began
Vultures sucking gold from you
Will they still suck now you're through
(Cats, Rats)
The search is on so you just better run
And find yourself another way
Rob the dead, they don't feel a thing
Leave the living for another day
(Rats, Rat)
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a figment of a thing unknown
A mental picture of a stolen soul
The fornication of your golden throne
A smiling face it means the world to me
So tired of sadness and of misery
My life it started some time ago
Where it will end, I don't know
I thought I was so good
I thought I was so smart
I feel my world is torn apart
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't, I think I'll lose my mind
I know, I know, I know, yeah yeah I know
Listen to me while I sing this song
You might just think the words are wrong
Too many people advising me
But they don't know what my eyes see
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't I'm gonna blow my mind
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Blow on a Jug
Blow on a Jug
Everybody come on - blow on a jug
Be like me and blow on a jug
I want you to blow on a jug
Everybody begin - blow on a jug
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Black Sabbath - Hole In the Sky
Black Sabbath - Megalomania (Live)
Hole In The Sky
Black Sabbath - Don't Start (Too Late)
Symptom Of The Universe
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath - Megalomania
Black Sabbath - Thrill of It All
Black Sabbath - Supertzar
Black Sabbath - Am I Going Insane (Radio)
Black Sabbath - The Writ
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