The Best Of Black Sabbath

This is a great Sabbath compilation. It focusses mainly on the Ozzy era and cherry picks the best tracks from each album he sang on. Shortly before buying this I listed the tracks I wanted for my own home made compilation and it was so similar to the track listing here that I never bothered, I bought this instead. I love 90% of the tracks and the rest aint bad either, I'm enjoying it so much that since buying I've played this over any individual Sabbath album.

Sabbath at their finest. must have!!

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Black Sabbath are not fine. They are fantastic. In my opinion they are the greatest band that have ever roamed the planet. They are colossal. Some of their songs are better than others as is the case with all bands but the idea of a 'best of' album is to collect the best songs and unite them on one offering. Do songs like 'The Wizard', 'Wicked World', 'Planet Caravan', 'Electric Funeral', 'Lord of this World', 'Am I Going Insane(Radio)', 'Never Say Die' and 'Hard Road' merit their place on a 'best of' opus ahead of 'Wheels of Confusion', 'After Forever', 'Neon Knights', 'Cornucopia', 'St. Vitus Dance', 'Under the Sun', 'Children of the Sea' and 'The Mob Rules'? The contribution Ronnie James Dio made to the band has not been adequately explored and the enormous influence that Vol.4 had on the band's reputation has barely been recognised. For me, a third of the songs on this album could have been replaced with better songs from Black Sabbath's incredible catalogue of headshakers. The Best of Black Sabbath should have been an indisputable 5 out of 5, but with so many classic omissions it doesn't quite get there. Make no mistake this is a very good CD, it just doesn't do true justice to the mighty legend of Black Sabbath.

Get this, Zeppelin's Remasters and Deepest Purple and youll be covering 90% of all that was great about 70s rock/blues/metal. This is the best Sabbath compilation, and could easily have ran to a third disc of equal quality.

Great compilation of Black Sabbath works that could well find its place on die hard (for those lazy Sunday listening sessions) as well as not so seasoned listeners (as a good collection of Black Sabbath works)

Every song you could want from the Ozzy Sabbath line up. Great collection of material from the masters of metal.

What a great album!!!! Simply put evry track is a winner. This album rocks from start to finish. A must for fans who maybe dont have tracks on other albums.

...it isn't perfect. Still, it's the best one if you're looking for a Black Sabbath overview, with it's great sound quality and two packed CD's (79+ minutes) you can't go wrong. This one tops the Rhino two disc set. As for this collection, my only complaint would be a little less material from the 1975-1978 Ozzy period and more from the Dio and Gillan albums. Born Again (with Ian Gillan) for example, is one of the most underrated Sabbath albums and the only song they used wasn't even one of the better ones. I think "Disturbing the Priest" would have been a better choice to close out this collection, not to mention "Trashed" or "Born Again" would have been good if they had given more time for the other singers. Anyway, most people aren't buying this for the Gillan or Dio selections but rather Ozzy, even if it isn't good Ozzy, because the media tells them Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy. Also not good, was the booklet's printing, which was rather small and hard to read. But maybe that was just my copy. If you are looking to have a good overview of Black Sabbath, save money and buy this collection over Rhino's two disc set. Oh, I'd love to see something like this for the classic Deep Purple lineup. After all, they are one of the big three: Purple/Zeppelin/Sabbath. Case closed!

Geile Mucke

È arrivato prima del previsto. Per il contenuto, non si può recensire adeguatamente, non ci sono abbastanza stelle!!! Adoro!

La remastérisation des morceaux leur donne une nouvelle jeunesse. Riffs lourds, paranoïa sous-jacente, cloche d'église au loin et orage tout proche, c'est du hard lourd à l'ancienne. Aujourd'hui cela paraît presque banal. Dans les 70's la voix d'Ozzy et la guitare de Tommy avec la basse omniprésente et la batterie rageuse faisaient un cocktail noir qui marche encore. De nos jours le Métal est plus violent, eux avaient juste un son qui reste intact. A recommander.

Uno de mis mejores CDs