Black sabbath paranoid album8/5/2023 ![]() “War Pigs” is a pretty amazing song all the way around, goofy apocalyptic lyrics and all, with its cool melody, crunchy guitar riff and heavy metal boogie backing. And this is at the very dawn of the genre, mind you, it’s not like Black Sabbath had a whole lot of other bands to look to so they could see how it is done. Most albums would be lucky to have one undisputed heavy metal classic on it. In terms of mere physics and biology, it is impossible to explain the power music holds over us, and even impossibler to explain a band like Black Sabbath creating that power.īut then life is a pretty mysterious thing all the way around, and literally nothing on this whole damn planet makes any sense anyway, so why not? After all, Paranoid does actually have some pretty strong things going for it: That’s part of the mystery of music though – why does a series of compressed sound waves in sequence have such an effect on us? How is it that an instrument or a vocal cord triggers vibrations in the air that enter the auditory canal, cause the tympanic membrane to vibrate, transmitting those vibrations through three small bones in the inner ear, the last of which strikes a membrane on the cochlea causing movement in the fluid and little hair cells on the basilar nerve to vibrate, stimulating transduction of auditory energy into a neural signal that is sent to the primary auditory cortex among other parts of the brain, creating an experience so pleasing we spend hundreds of hours of our lives seeking that kind of aural stimulation. How is it even possible that I like Paranoid so much? On paper, Black Sabbath is a band nobody over 15 should ever be caught dead listening to, stoned or not. So why is Paranoid so damned irresistible? This is music for stoned loser teenagers. Does an album with a song as ridiculous as “Electric Funeral” deserve a decent review? With its dumbo lyrics and that goofy voice repeating “Electric Funeral” over and over in the middle? The whole song has a real “21 st Century Schizoid Man” vibe to it without being 1/10 as interesting as the song it rips off. Those are the kind of lyrics 14 year old wanna be hair metal band singers write in the back pages of their math notebooks (and no, I, ahem, don’t know that from experience). Those are some really, really awful lyrics. For example, take a song that everybody knows and loves, “Iron Man”: Who listens to this stuff? I mean, have you ever taken a look at any of the lyrics for the songs on this album? Geezer Butler must have thought he was in some kind of bad lyrics contest with Pete Sinfield. Phony gloom and doom, infantile apocalypsism, and comic book Satanism. Why does anyone like Black Sabbath’s Paranoid? What a bunch of sophomoric, idiotic songs.
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