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Good solid overview of the making of the first (and definitive, imo) Black Sabbath album. The band members talking about putting the songs together is the best of it. Watching and listening to Toni Iommi play those eternally classic riffs and solo bits is great. Ozzy, Bill and Geezer all give honest, plain spoken break downs of the songs, especially the lyrical content and thier origins and how they basically thrashed out the songs through extensive extended jamming.
What's weaker is all the prattle and such by other people trying to make general assessments on Sabbath at the time and the album. There's some real stretches among their comments. The one goob saying five British rock bands built the basis for American music that came after, apparently ignoring or being to myopic to think of American country music, funk, soul/r&b, jazz, rap, reggae, new wave/postrock genres and subgenres that were present then and still are now or would come later.
It's a true classic album and is a founding work for a great deal of heavy rock that followed. Glad this one was on the Coda channel. 3.7 stars
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Classic Albums Black Sabbath Paranoid is a great documentary about the making of the album that set the blueprint for heavy metal music, and ultimately cemented Black Sabbath's reputation as one of the most defining acts in the genre. Featuring interviews with the band, fellow rock stars and music journalists, Classic albums documents the making of this legendary album. Paranoid is the record that elevated Sabbath into the public eye. If you're a fan of the band, give this one a view. Paranoid is a legendary album in the history of Heavy Metal. In this documentary, this is a very interesting documentary, one that fans will surely love. Classic Albums tend to give in depth looks at the making of a phenomenal classic. This documentary is most certainly that. Like I said, this is must see viewing for Black Sabbath fans, not only that, but fans of the genre as well. This is a masterwork of heavy metal, the album that set Sabbath apart from other British rock bands. Black Sabbath released their self titled debut a year before Paranoid, an album that defined the sound of Metal. However, it was Paranoid that set the standards of what was going to be the defining sound of what metal is. Black Sabbath are the fathers of Heavy Metal music. With Paranoid they created the defining Metal record, an album that is regarded as an absolute classic by fans of Metal. If you love the genre, then watch this documentary. This is a definite must watch.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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A retrospective on the creation of Black Sabbath's breakthrough album 'Paranoid'. The 'Classic Albums' series has always enlightened music lovers on the creation of the worlds great albums and this chapter is no exception. Being one of my personal favourite albums, I was captivated by information delivered (although I had read a fair amount of it before). Ozzy as usual was barely intelligible, but we wouldnt have him any other way. A must for Metal/Rock fans.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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