Recorded at Regent Sound and Island Studios.Īll songs by Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward. 4" (1972).Ī Classic Albums documentary has been made for Paranoid, chronicling its inception, recording process, and legacy.
This would be repeated on his albums "Master of Reality" (1971) and "Black Sabbath Vol. This is because in those years Black Sabbath had to have at least 10 songs on their records to be able to please the American record companies, and they decided to separate 2 long song titles in order to believe those record companies that there was more music. On the North American edition of the album, the songs "War Pigs" and "Fairies Wear Boots" were titled "War Pigs/Luke's Wall" and "Jack The Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots," respectively. "Fairies Wear Boots" was inspired by a time when Ozzy and Geezer were hassled by skinheads, thus an insult to the boot-wearing "fairy" skinheads. "Iron Man" is based on a fictional character thought up by Ozzy and Geezer, not the Marvel comics hero of the same name. "Paranoid" was the last song composed and recorded for the album at the behest of the producer, who thought they needed an extra track. Album DescriptionThe album was originally supposed to be titled War Pigs and the cover art was designed with that title in mind, but the record company objected (presumably due to the Vietnam War), so it was re-titled Paranoid. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history.
Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in their path, including their own limitations.
Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect - the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary, the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness, the lack of subtlety, and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Yet Sabbath make it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). During a GibsonTV conversation with Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner, Black Sabbath guitarist/co-founder Tony Iommi discussed how Black Sabbath's occult influences contributed to its worldwide acclaim. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound - crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock - and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. If you've ever wondered what Black Sabbath was trying to convey with the album cover for its iconic 1970 LP, Paranoid, the answer is incongruous.
charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S.
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