Black Sabbath Vol 4

[skidder652003]

OK a quick silly rant, Im listening to this right now and its frankly brilliant (not put it on in 20 years) and then I read this review from some plonker from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/x4xm/

He's talking nonsense (apart from the drug abuse!)

 

Its a FAB album, rant over, thanks for reading, I feel much better now

 

[Doctor J]

I think it's the weakest of the first five, to be honest, but it's still a banger.

[DJpullchord]

Great album. For me, the first is the weakest.

[la bam]

I think its a fantastic album!

I can still remeber when i first heard 'changes'. Absolutely phenomenal feeling.

Wheels of confusion, tomorrows dream, snowblind and laguna sunrise also fantastic tracks.

[Dankology]

I think Changes is a bit of a turd and Laguna Sunrise a bit of an under-developed doodle but the rest of it is my favourite Sabbath by a country mile. 

 

Picked it up for £1.99 on the shoddy NEMS vinyl issue when I was 15 and spent many happy hours figuring out Supernaut, Under the Sun et al.

 

Never quite copped FX though. 

[bonzodog]

Great album. My favourites are Supernaut and St Vitus Dance.

[Graham]

A great record, but not as good as the 3 that preceeded it (IMO, YMMV etc etc); Under The Sun is my favourite from this album.

It's a shame that the bass tone sucks compared with BS/Paranoid, but then I guess that's cocaine for you.

[Skybone]

Still one of my favourite Sabbath albums, but I guess that review is coming from "fresh" ears, instead of having grown up with the album.

Maybe not as strong as "Master of Reality" or "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", but still a good album.

[Doctor J]

It is also one of my favourite album covers of all time.

[spectoremg]

15 hours ago, Doctor J said:

I think it's the weakest of the first five, to be honest, but it's still a banger.

My sentiments too, but it's got some of my fave Sabbath songs on it. Snowblind is er... blinding!

[Delberthot]

13 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.” - Leonard Bernstein

Back in 1988 when Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out, all of the critics were going crazy for it saying what a fantastic film it was. I watched it and thought it was utter shite. Despite only being 12 at the time, I have never listened to a critic or "expert" since and whenever anything comes out purporting to be the best thing since sliced bread, I usually wait until all of the hubbub has calmed down before watching/listening to it and instead judge for myself how good I think it is.

 

There are some cracking tunes on this album though

Edited January 27, 2018 by Delberthot

[Sausages]

I should probably hide when I say this, but my favourite is Sabotage 

[Guest]

48 minutes ago, Sausages said:

I should probably hide when I say this, but my favourite is Sabotage 

What's the issue with that? (Apart from Bill Ward's leggings of course, lol) For me Megalomania is probably the best song Sabbath ever did.

Edited January 27, 2018 by Spaced

[Cosmo Valdemar]

45 minutes ago, Sausages said:

I should probably hide when I say this, but my favourite is Sabotage 

Mine too. In fact it's my favourite album ever! 

As for the link in the first post, I think it's a fair review. I don't agree with it all, but it's far from a mindless slagging. And Sid Smith is far from a plonker! 

[thodrik]

Vol 4 is a great album, but you can almost hear the drugs on the album. Also, the guitar is out of tune on Snowblind. 

Wheels of Confusion and Supernaut are class though.

[Graham]

Clearly Volume 4 has had some influence over the years, I love the into to this track "This is one called Losing All". No Phil, I think you'll find it's called Supernaught 😀

[Oopsdabassist]

1 hour ago, Sausages said:

I should probably hide when I say this, but my favourite is Sabotage 

Whyso? Sabotage and Bloody Sabbath are my Faves, then Heaven and Hell and Vol 4 and Master of Reality together.  I always thought Vol 4 was the heaviest sab album for some reason.

[artisan]

It's a great album with a few really excellent tracks on it,my band play four of them in our set 😁

 

[Vinny]

Love Vol 4, do I remember hearing that it was in effect a TI solo album as the rest of them were too out of it to be any use, or am I going happily down mad street?

[ricksterphil]

2nd album I ever bought. 1st was 'Hits 68'

I then acquired Sabbath Bloody Sabbath with all the Satanic imagary on the cover. My Dad (a strict Baptist), was not impressed at all.  I always liked the acoustic intro to Spiral Architect and sometimes play it when I'm noodling and ask people to guess the source....no one ever gets it right (except Sabbath fans obvs).  

No so big into metal these days, but might well give 4 and SBS a re-listen

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Just now, ricksterphil said:

Greatest album cover ever?

[thodrik]

3 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Greatest album cover ever?

Well, better than Born Again anyway!

[skidder652003]

21 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Greatest album cover ever?

possibly the best sab album (to me at least)

[spectoremg]

Please someone tell me there's a Dio period album that's their best. Just for fun like. 

[skidder652003]

19 minutes ago, spectoremg said:

Please someone tell me there's a Dio period album that's their best. Just for fun like. 

Heaven and hell is fantastic, used to be my fave in the 80s, then I "got" Ozzy..