Album List, Led Zep, Black Sabbath,1970

Lets start this list of our favourite albums of each year since 1970/71 the years when me, this humble Vagabond here present and GreenEyedPixie were born, respectively..
It won't be an easy task to decide which albums are to represent each year. Hopefully we'll be able to pick not the most acclaimed by the specialized critics but the ones we liked the most, the more emblematic and perhaps original, also the more influential for future generations.
Influential but not in the vast sense of the musical landscape, here we are only concerned with most sorts of Metal, Punk Rock and all the derivatives like Hardcore and Stoner Rock.
Don't expect many mainstream albums, though some will figure on this list due to their exceptional quality but also due to their importance and impact to certain youth movements started since 1970, i.e Heavy Metal, Punk Rock and New Wave.

With no further delay let's kickstart this sonic onslaught from what your record collection will never recover.

The first choice of 1970 is without a shadow of a doubt the biggest and most original band to grace the stadiums of this planet, too small for such talent, they deserved not world tours but Milky Way tours where they could land their now remastered Mothership, letting loose John Bonham ready to beat the natives into submission with what was thought to be drumsticks but after much research we are convinced that were hammers from the Rock Gods that once also spawned Page and his hypnotic axe shaped weapon and Plant with his banshee like qualities.

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (1970)

1. “Immigrant Song” (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 2:25
2. “Friends” (Page, Plant) – 3:54
3. “Celebration Day” (Page, Plant, John Paul Jones) – 3:29
4. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” (Page, Plant, Jones) – 7:23
5. “Out on the Tiles” (Page, Plant, John Bonham) – 4:08
6. “Gallows Pole” (trad. arr. Page, Plant) – 4:58
7. “Tangerine” (Page) – 3:12
8. “That’s the Way” (Page, Plant) – 5:39
9. “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” (Page, Plant, Jones) – 4:18
10. “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper” (traditional) – 3:42

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Formed in 1968 with the name Earth and after successive changes in the bands line up, Black Sabbath finally delivered their self titled first album in 1970.
Here in Confessions of a Vagabond we believe that in the near future little children will learn the classic formation of this seminal band in the classrooms and will be able to say in chorus and with their angel voices: Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums & percussion)
Hopefully it will be also the same near future where talent shows were eradicated from public memory and Sharon Osbourne, 92 but still job hunting offers to fight in the public arena anyone that talks about her family. Bitch fights substitutes talent shows, we're all for that, brother!
But in 1970/71 before the Osbourne's were turned into the favourite pets of the MTV generation, before all the gold and platinum records and before countless bands cloned the Sabbath trade mark sound which was in part due to a work related accident suffered by Toni Iommi, which left him with the tips of the fingers on his left hand shorter, but capable of a unique sound.
To that macabre incident the band added lyrics about the occult and witchcraft though the dark side didn't help when in January 1970 the single "Evil Woman" failed to chart in the U.K.
Sabbath were then given two days to record their debut album, Iommi remembers: "We thought 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff."

The self titled album came out in the U.K on Friday the 13th February 1970. The album reached number 8 in the UK, and following its US release in May 1970 by Warner Bros Records got to 23rd place of the Billboard 200, where it remained for a year selling millions of copies.
Sabbath were young but obviously not daft as the got into the studio in order to milk their commercial success in the States. Next album was Paranoid originally meant to be called War Pigs, a critic to the Vietnam War but fearing repercussions from the American fascists the title was changed to Paranoid (no pun intended, we assume at Confessions of a Vagabond).
Paranoid the single came out in September in the U.K. and reached number 4 this time with help from the legions of doom at the service of Satan and countless subliminal messages about their love from the Prince of Darkness, we were told by an American church goer with the important role of Reverend in his community. The unknown but well informed Rev.Bubba Ray Cletus III.

Paranoid the album came out in October and reached number 1 in the U.K but was upheld in the U.S till January 1971 due to their first album still being in the charts.
Again more evidence of foul play by the Devil worshippers a.k.a. Black Sabbath is still being uncovered by Rev. Bubba Ray Cletus III who now lives in semi hiding at his hometown in West Virginia, where he married his cousin. Rev Cletus III wants to know how it was possible to Black Sabbath were awarded a Grammy for Iron Man 30 years after the song came out...

*All data from Wikipedia (except the parts concerning Rev. Cletus III).




Black Sabbath ~ Black Sabbath

1. Black Sabbath
2. The Wizard
3. Behind the Wall of Sleep
4. N.I.B.
5. Evil Woman
6. Sleeping Village
7. Warning

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Black Sabbath ~ Paranoid

1 Luke's Wall/War Pigs (7:55) *
2 Paranoid (2:47)
3 Planet Caravan (4:24)
4 Iron Man (5:53)
5 Electric Funeral (4:47)
6 Hand of Doom (7:07)
7 Rat Salad (2:29)
8 Fairies Wear Boots/Jack the Stripper (6:13)

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