BLACK SABBATH Paranoid 1970 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS "JIM SIMPSON/BIG BEAR" CREDIT
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BLACK SABBATH Paranoid 1970 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS "JIM SIMPSON/BIG BEAR" CREDIT
BLACK SABBATHParanoid
UK VERTIGO (2401 001) FIRST PRESSING (September 1970)
WITH "JIM SIMPSON/BIG BEAR" MANAGEMENT CREDIT INSIDE GATEFOLD
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE VERTIGO SWIRL LABELS
MATRIX: 6360011 1Y//1 ▽ 420 1 2 5 / 6360011 2Y//1 ▽420 11 11
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD COVER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED VERTIGO SWIRL INNER SLEEVE DATED APRIL 1970 ('470')
Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time.
Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history).
The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music.
Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations.
Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history
Side A:
War Pigs
Paranoid
Planet Caravan
Iron Man
Side B:
Electric Funeral
Hand Of Doom
Rat Salad
Fairies Wear Boots
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean, unmarked labels with moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: VERY GOOD
Marks and scuffs are visible under bright light but looks pretty good under normal light
VINYL Audio: VERY GOOD
Plays really well throughout.
Some notable surface on the run-ins and on the quieter moments but still a great listen.
No scrtches or loud clicks or pops and all-in-all a pretty decent copy of this very first pressing
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
General light wear and rub to the edges/corners/surfaces but clean, unmarked and structurally sound
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 856 (GS 7.0.20 (856))
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