Description:Paranoid is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, the album was the only one by the band to top the UK Albums Chart, and as a result is commonly identified as the band's magnum opus. Paranoid has been certified seven times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and contaiParanoid is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, the album was the only one by the band to top the UK Albums Chart, and as a result is commonly identified as the band's magnum opus. Paranoid has been certified seven times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and contains some of the band's best-known signature songs, including the title track, "Iron Man" and "War Pigs".... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Vertigo Release date : 18 September 1970 EAN: 0075992732727 UPC: 075992732727
"By: Black Sabbath
Release date: 1970
Standing track: Paranoid
It's a fact: more than 75% of rock music that came from the early 80's wouldn't have had been possible if this album weren't there. Paranoid forever changed British rock music and laid down the blueprints of true heavy metal and a new legend was born in Tony Iommi and his heavy guitar riffs. Oozing out tracks like Ironman, War Pigs and the title track, it's no wonder this album is considered the Godfather of Heavy Metal"
Happy Vader added this to a list 4 months, 1 week ago
"
Year: 1970!
Long before Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth or even Motorhead - who took Metal to a higher level - there was Paranoid by the most haunting, most daring and most metal-esque band, Black Sabbath - the Citizen Kane of Heavy Metal!
Anyways, It's hard to label out one song which can be considered the greatest... Whether you like all or not, your jaw is gonna drop 30 feet deep inside the ground when you listen to any song from this album!
Tracks listing:
War Pigs
Ironman
Paran"
""You think the massive idiot-box success of The Osbournes was a fluke? Try taking a time machine back to the early 1970s and telling rock critics they'll still be writing about Paranoid in 2005. But Sabbath ruled for bummed-out kids in the Seventies, and early every heavy-metal and extreme rock band of the last three decades - from Metallica and Nirvana to Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and every one of those acts lining up year after year to play Ozzfest - owes a debt of worship to Tony Iommi's crush"
"“Thanks to This is Spinal Tap and The Osbournes, it is now impossible to think of this band as anything other than a bunch of hysterical wankers. At the time of Paranoid's release, though, the world was convinced that these working class chums from Birmingham, England (originally called the Polka Tulk Blues Band) were either satanists or an incredible facsimile. Some of that owed to Ozzy Osbourne's declaration that he had sat through The Exorcist a gazillion times (bat-biting would come later)"
Adriano Lopes added this to a list 2 years, 7 months ago