Album Review
Black Sabbath - The Best Of Black SabbathBlack Sabbath – The Best Of Black Sabbath

It seems that Black Sabbath and their record label are having a jolly good time at the moment, at the start of April they started to re-release all of the bands albums in deluxe expanded editions which featured a re-mastered version of each album and a bonus disc with demos, live tracks and much more, these releases were defiantly intended with the true hard core Black Sabbath fans in mind knowing that if they are true collectors they would have to add the re-mastered albums to their collection.

On June 14th Black Sabbath and their label are taking things one step version and releasing ‘The Best Of Black Sabbath’ which is a 14 track album that features a collection of classic Black Sabbath tracks from across the bands first eight albums, which includes four tracks from ‘Paranoid’, two tracks from ‘Volume 4’, one track from ‘Never Say Die’, two tracks from ‘Master Of Reality’, four tracks from ‘Black Sabbath’ and one tracks from ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’, in all honesty the collection is the true Black Sabbath CD for someone who has always wanted to get into Black Sabbath but didn’t know where to start, you can’t go wrong here and it will be the only Black Sabbath CD you will ever need to buy.

‘The Best Of’ starts with ‘Paranoid’ one of the most loved Black Sabbath songs ever, it’s hard to believe how good the song sounds considering that it is now 39 years old, it is still as listenable and loveable as it was all those years ago, it’s the kind of you need to blast out of your stereo as loud as you can and practice your air guitaring skills in the comfort of your own bedroom.

Other classic songs on the album are the rifftastic ‘Iron Man’, the big experimental tracks that are ‘The Wizard’ and ‘Black Sabbath’, the lengthy masterpiece that is ‘War Pigs’, and also the original version of ‘Changes’, everyone best knows the song these days for when it topped the charts in 2003 when Ozzy Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne re-recorded it for an Christmas single, the original version is a bit slower than the re-release but in my opinion and many other Black Sabbath fan’s opinion it is a much better version.

There isn’t really much I can say about ‘The Best Of Black Sabbath’ that you don’t already know, the album is exactly what it says on the cover a collection of some of the best songs Black Sabbath have ever created, and I believe that everyone should have at least one Black Sabbath album in their collection and this should be it, as after all if it wasn’t for Black Sabbath so many bands wouldn’t be here now.

5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Black Sabbath - Band
Ozzy Osbourne
Tony Iommi
Geezer Butler
Bill Ward
 Track Listing
1. Paranoid
2. Iron Man
3. Changes
4. Fairies Wear Boots
5. War Pigs
6. Never Say Die
7. Children Of The Grave
8. The Wizard
9. Snow Blind
10. Sweet Leaf
11. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me
12. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
13. Black Sabbath
14. N.I.B.
 Band Related Links
Black Sabbath Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?