BLACK SABBATH 1970 LP PARANOID ORIG VERTIGO SWIRL 6360049 GERM PHILIPS EX-

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BLACK SABBATH - 1970 LEGENDARY CLASSIC LP PARANOID - ORIGINAL EARLIER (IF NOT THE FIRST, WHICH IS ARGUABLE) PRESS - MADE IN GERMANY - 6360 011 VERTIGO SWIRL LABELS WITH VERTIGO - A PHILIPS RECORD PRODUCT AT THE BOTTOM  - - GATEFOLD COVER IN EXCELLENT MINUS CONDITION WITH SOME SLIGHT SHELF WEAR NO CUTS NO HOLES NO SPLITS  - RECORD HAS SOME VERY LIGHT SUPERFICIAL MARKS NO SCRATCHES OR SCUFFS LABELS VERY CLEAN EX- (SEE PICTURES) - RARITY SCALE R1
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THIS RELEASE:  Line-up: Geezer Butler, bsgtr/ Toni Iommi, gtr/ Ossie Osborne, voc, harm/ Bill Ward, dr. Production: Rodger Bain for Tony Hall Enterprises.
Cover-design by Marcus Keef.
Photography by Marcus Keef.
Liner notes: none
Recorded at Regent Studios & Island Studios.
Cover manufactured by unknown

Track listing A-side: War Pigs/ Paranoid/ Planet Caravan/ Iron Man.
Track listing B-side: Electric Funeral/ Hand Of Doom/ Rat Salad/ Fairies Wear Boots.
All tracks by Black Sabbath

There are no running time indications.
The Vertigo logo on front is red.

Matrix number A-side
6360011 1Y//1 ?420  1 5 7
Matrix number B-side
6360011 2Y//2 ?420  1 2 1  Rarity scale: SC
It may be self-explanatory that albums like this are not primarily concerned with new musical horizons. This LP does not add much to what we already knew from the first album, but it converted a lot more people and it is undoubtedly better played than the debut. So this became Vertigo's first number 1 LP in Britain. Musically it is only slightly more, well eh, catchy and some tracks survived several decades in live performances like War pigs, Rat salad and, of course, the title track. In retrospect the music isn't quite as dangerous as it would like to be. Most of the riffs are almost shamelessly simple and the playing is not even as heavy as you would think. Naturally, our ears have been schooled by another forty years of heavy riffing, so I guess at the time this was weighing enough to convince. The vague attempts to consider the other side of occultism sound dated and actually embarrassingly comparable to children who talk about the ''dirty'' side of sex, that is without having any inkling. The evil forces will not consider these endeavours as any help at all.

A strange kind of modern day crusaders seems to populate the cover brandishing a sword made out of moonlight. By slyly copying several photographs into each other the impression of a secret army is conveyed. Well-done, but a bit cheap as an image.
The lettering could have been more elaborate, but its chubby letters do not look misplaced, though.
Inside the four gentleman are posing in the grass. They seem actually nice guys. The cross that is dangling from the neck of one of the villains is in fact the right way up! A very meticulous collector found out that there is an indication for a very first pressing of the British release that is to be found at the backside of the sleeve. The very first pressings carry a credit for the management of Black Sabbath ''Jim Simpson, Big Bear'' in Birmingham. These copies are NOT laminated, as are later issues. The credit was deleted from later pressings, so run and check with your copy!

Notes: This was released in the USA on Warner Brothers (WS 1887) in 1971
It even got a quadrophonic USA release on the same label in 1974 (WS4 1887)

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