Wednesday, June 1, 2011

We're all PARANOID about entering HEAVEN AND HELL



So, that was my lame attempt at trying to use two well known Black Sabbath Album titles. It's been a while since I've done a post, again, biology is killing me. So, as many of you may know, Black Sabbath has had a LOT of switching members except for the ever faithful Tony Lomni. Instead of looking at all the switches, I'm just going to stick with the vocalist switches. I am not trying to discriminate here, so please, don't hate on me.
Ozzy Osbourne was the first vocalist, and then was fired, to be replaced by Dave Walker, who only lasted for a little bit, only to be replaced by Ozzy again, but then he was fired again, and was replaced by Dio, who lasted for a bit. After a couple years with Dio, and was replaced with Ian Gillan, who lasted for a bit longer than Walker. When Ian was fired, Ron Keel took over for a tiny bit of time, and then David Donato replaced him, only to leave and have Jeff Fenholt as the vocalist. After a year or so, he left and Black Sabbath found Glenn Hughes who didn't stay for very long as well. He was replaced by Ray Gillen, who also did not stay for a very long time and was replaced by Tony Martin who actually lasted quite a bit. After he left, Dio came back and stayed for a couple of years. After he left again, Tony Martin came back and stayed for another couple of years. After him, Ozzy came back again and stayed for the rest of the time. During Ozzy's time, Dio came in until he died. So at a point Black Sabbath had two vocalists. Now, the current lead vocalist is Ozzy Osbourne. WOW that was complicated.
Ozzy is clearly the more well known, so let's start with him. Ozzy did all the releases from the album Black Sabbath to the album Never Say Die!, Reunion, and Past lives.
Dave Walker didn't make any contributions
Gillan did "Born Again"
Keel didn't make any contributions
Donato also didn't make any contributions
Fenholt didn't make any contributions
Hughes participated in "Seventh star"
Gillen didn't make any contributions
Martin was the vocals for "The Eternal Idol", "Headless Cross", "Tyr", "Cross Purposes", "Cross Purposes Live", and "Forbidden"
Dio did "Heaven and Hell", "Mob Rules", "Live Evil", "Dehumanizer", "The Dio Years", and "Live at Hammersmith Odeon".
Dio, personally, is my favorite, but sadly, he died... leaving us with amazing tracks like "Heaven and Hell" and "Turn up the night". One youtuber commented on Raky Maky's video of "Heaven and Hell", "Dio didn't go to heaven, he went to hell and said, "Devil, you're in my seat"". Which, of course, made me crack up.
Well, if you're interested in trying some Black Sabbath, I recommend the tracks "Paranoid", "Iron Man" (I know it's super overplayed, but it's well known and fairly enjoyable), "Fairies Wear Boots", "Heaven and Hell", "Neon Knights", "War Pigs", and "Turn up the night".

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