Paranoid

And I know this is a personal, personal preference, but what I imagine is the side one closer, Stone Snake, it reminds me of a similar style to Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan.

I think I might've been maybe eight or nine years old when I bought the Paranoid album, and I didn't understand doom at that age.

And as much as I listened to it, I never got into that song, and I, I think somehow the negativity is still affecting me all these years later.

And while there is Sabbath influences all over this, there's some big and heavy grooves too, which reminds me of, uh, some of those echoey, softer parts, uh, maybe the verses of This Love by Pantera.

Then I would have went back and listened to Sabbath.

I think Paranoid might have been on the radio

maybe.

It was probably the only thing I heard of Black Sabbath before I looked into them.

Okay.

So how would you rate this out? What would be your favorite Black Sabbath album? and you say there's one that's your favorite album?

I think this is, of course, the first, and also I like Paranoid, the first two

albums.

We got into everything from Jethro Tull and whatever.

And then one day Tom brings in an album called Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

Okay.

We start doing things like that.

Oh, what? Because on this day, September 18th, 1970, two things happened.

First things first, Black Sabbath released their second album, Paranoid, War Pigs, Iron Man.

Kind of an iconic album.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's do this.

This episode, number 193, Paranoid, by Black Sabbath, 1970.

In only their second album, the plodding, blistering riff machinery of Black Sabbath is humming on all cylinders.

A great deal has been made about the origin of heavy metal, but I offer this loping to cruising monstrosity by the crunch-thud trio of guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, and bassist Geezer Butler as a leading candidate.

Singer and future icon Ozzy Osbourne delivers the distorted plod of misery in these disturbing songs as if a tortured seraphim that floats above the thickening din.

Highlights, War Picks, Paranoid, and Electric Funeral.

Paranoid is the second studio album by Black Sabbath.

a hard rock band from Birmingham, England, who formed in 1968.