Top 5 Sab Albums

[Sabotage7]

1. Never Say Die! Simply awesome. No one else gets it, I guess.
2. Sabotage. Awesome, too, and heavy
3. Technical Ecstasy
4. Paranoid. No matter how much people bash this album, it's definitely one of their best works ever.
5. Headless Cross

I get it!

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Ok Folks,

I would like to know what´s your favorite Black Sabbath album is/why and wich one was the first record you bought/hear/or get from other.

I start:

1. Headless Cross - I started my musical "being" as a drummer
RIP Cozy
2. Paranoid - this was the first record I hear
3. Technical Ecstasy
4. Cross Purposes
5. Tyr

1 Sabotage-Heavy riffing and Ozzy spot on. And Megalomania..
2 SBS-Cause it's the first album I heard, when it was released. And for A National Acrobat
3 The first one-You can't go wrong with that, can you..?
4 Never Say Die-Because I love it. People just don't get it, right?
5 Vol 4-It's kinda dirty and Under the Sun is there

[Monster Boy]

Let's seeeee...

1. Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath
3. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Master of Reality
5. Sabotage

Pretty pedestrian I know. As a side note, I have listened to all of the Sabbath albums.

[Soul Sucker]

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath -- Ozzy's vocal work is superb and I really like the sounds the band were experimenting with
2. The Devil You Know -- It's heavy, gloomy and it has some amazing guitar solos
3. Sabotage -- Almost equally as good as Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, but some of the songs are too experimental for my liking
4. Heaven and Hell -- Fantastic debut album. Ronnie's vocal work is superb
5. Dehumanizer -- Heavy and angry, although the album's production is a little weak

[OZZYIRONMAN]

1.vol 4-cocaine triumphs for once
2.master of reality- doom on the loose
3.sabbath bloody sabbath-so trippy!
4. never say die- jrs eyes... nuff said
5.sabotage - what swagger! ozzy in his prime... plus The Writ is one of the best F.U songs ever written

no disrespect to dio but it wasn't the same band without Ozzy.

[Charger]

This list might be in totally different order tomorrow, but the albums most likely would not change.

1. The Mob Rules
2. Dehumanizer
3. Master Of Reality
4. Heaven And Hell
5. Black Sabbath

Dehumanizer and The Mob Rules battle for #1 and Master Of Reality and Heaven And Hell battle for #2....Black Sabbath will always be #5.

[Totentanz]

1. Mob Rules
2. Sabotage
3. Vol4
4. Heaven & Hell
5. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath... or Born Again (can't choose today)

My top 4 are fairly static, but any of the Ozzy-fronted albums or Born Again could vie for 5th.

[justme1]

I want to recreate the concert experience at home (CD or DVD)

So for me:

1) Neon Nights (#1 for me: best mood, show, tightness, etc)
2) Live Evil (Dear Santa, please find a perfect film/audio copy somewhere for a DVD)
3) Radio City
4) Cross Purposes (Live)
5) Born Again (Live) Mine is an import, though to die hards not considered a "true release" and need an EQ for volume

And rate Savotage instrumentally as their "concept" album and my "turn people onto Sabs album" for years. Born Again is overall the heaviest. Gillian had a serious scream and voice that tour but EQ/sound at show I saw was bad (overly bass and muddy).

But play any of the catalog and you'd have to quote Dudley Moore: "It doesn't suck"

[IommiRules]

#1) Sabotage
#2) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
#3) The Devil You Know- (it's Sabbath)
#4) Dehumanizer
#5) Cross Purposes

Insomnia sucks.

Found my post from 15 months ago. Opinion is different today than back then.

#1) Sabotage- Probably will be forever
#2) Mob Rules
#3) Master of Reality
#4) Born Again
#5) Cross Purposes

Dehumanizer, SBS and Vol4 are always in heavy rotation also. I was WAY into all things Ronnie after his death but a year later, TDYK suffers too much from the opener and closer to be Top 5 material. The middle 8 just rock though.

Again, insomnia sux.

http://youtu.be/bCKdtBWT0Bs

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I used to have a top 6, then at the end of last year I listened to Cross Purposes properly for the first time in 10 (or more) years and it became a top 7. The top 3 will always be

1) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2) Sabotage
3) Heaven & Hell

At the moment I would say 4) is Dehumaniser (might even be close to challenging Heaven & Hell) and 5-7 are equals with Mob Rules, Never Say Die and Cross Purposes.


@Iommi Rules
The time stamp on your post is 9:23 AM (UK time), and I presume you're about 5-6 hours behind ... that makes it about 3-4 in the morning, Yup, you have insomnia, and you have my sympathies. One of my work colleagues has similar issues and he often looks a wreck.

[Josef_K]

wooow, a "top sabbath album list" I haven't contributed to :O

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Heaven and Hell
3. Black Sabbath
4. TYR (this one is really hard to place... sometimes it's in the top 5 sometimes below top 10, for the moment though it's here)
5. Sabotage

At the moment though, it feels like I love all 18 sabbath albums equally... but these five are marginally stronger than the others I guess... for now...

[DISCMAN1969]

1) Heaven And Hell
2) Never Say Die
3) The Mob Rules
4) Vol. 4
5) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath


At least thats the order for today. Could change tomorrow

What do you know over a year old and I would say this would still be my order.

[-E5150 StarWanderer-]

Hard task. Few albums have to settle for a tie

1) Mob Rules - full of classics and fan favorites and doesn't have a single weak track on it
2) Heaven & Hell - loses to Mob Rules just by and inch
3) Dehumanizer/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4) TDYK/Master Of Reality
5) Black Sabbath

Hmmm...I see my old list had quite a many ties. And some changes have occured over course of a year, so I'll make a new one:

1) Mob Rules
2) Heaven & Hell
3) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4) Black Sabbath
5) Master Of Reality/Dehumanizer/The Devil You Know

I just couldn't decide between Master Of Reality, TDYK and Dehumanizer. Paranoid is pretty much on the same line with them too. It's hard to make listings when the differences between the albums are so marginal.

[VVMMvvmm]

1. Headless Cross (I am big fan of the albums with Tony Martin.)
2. Born Again
3. Dehumanizer
4. Tyr (I think 1990 was the best year in the Hard Rock and Metal history for example:Tyr,Judas Priest-Painkiller,Vicious Rumors-Vicious Rumors,
Sanctuary-Into The Mirror Black albums and others...)
5.Sabotage (Because it contains "Symptom Of The Universe","Supertzar","Megalomania" songs.)

Aniway I like every Black Sabbath album.

[KazolOrajia]

Top 5 Ozzy-era albums
1. Sabotage
2. Black Sabbath Vol 4
3. Black Sabbath
4. Master of Reality
5. Paranoid

Top 5 post-Ozzy albums.
1. The Eternal Idol
2. Cross Purposes
3. Dehumanizer
4. Heaven and Hell
5. The Devil You Know

I love them all - these are more in order of what I think are the best quality albums overall than personal preference, because it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, for me to choose that way.

[Ochlocracy]

In no order:
Paranoid
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabotage
The Mob Rules
Heaven and Hell

[Soul Sucker]

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. The Devil You Know
3. Sabotage
4. Heaven and Hell
5. Dehumanizer

Currently:

1. Sabotage
2. Never Say Die
3. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Heaven and Hell
5. The Eternal Idol

The Eternal Idol would probably be at the top of the list if Ray Gillen played on the final mix.

[Josef_K]

It varies some, but at the moment it's these:

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Master of Reality
3. TYR
4. Mob Rules
5. Sabotage

[crispyvenom]

Black Sabbath
Master of Reality
Dehumanizer
Tyr
Never Say Die

[RichardRG]

This is easy..

Heaven and Hell
Master of Reality
Black Sabbath
Sabotage
Paranoid (first Sabbath album)