Paranoid (album)

chronology
Paranoid
Black Sabbath studio album
Publication ; (s)	September 18, 1970 (UK) ; January 7, 1971 (USA)
admission	June 16-21, 1970
Label (s)	Vertigo Records
Format (s)	LP , CD
Genre (s)	Heavy metal , doom metal , hard rock
Title (number)	8th
running time	42:07
occupation	Singing : Ozzy Osbourne ; Electric bass : Geezer Butler ; Electric guitar : Tony Iommi ; Drums : Bill Ward ; Piano (on Planet Caravan): Tom Allom ;
production	Rodger Bain
Studio (s)	Regent Sound Studios, London; Island Studios;

Paranoid is the second studio album by Black Sabbath , which for the heavy metal is considered groundbreaking and was one of the most successful albums of the year 1970th

album

The album was released in Great Britain in September 1970 on the Vertigo Swirl label 6360011 and in the USA in January 1971. It is the band's second album after Black Sabbath (1970). Originally planned under the title Walpurgis , it was initially renamed War Pigs (in German: " War Pigs "). Only later was the decision taken to publish it under the title Paranoid , since otherwise a connection with the Vietnam War could have been suspected. The record cover shows a person with a protective shield and a long sword in hand. The album was recorded at Regent Sound and Island Studios and produced by Rodger Bain. While most of the pieces are musically clearly assigned to the heavy metal genre, the song Planet Caravan with its economical bongo instrumentation and the almost jazzy guitar soloism is out of the ordinary. Ozzy Osbourne's voice was alienated for this with a Leslie loudspeaker cabinet. The album's highest chart prices were number 1 in Great Britain, number 2 in Germany and number 12 in the USA. In total, the album was sold more than four million times.

meaning

In the opinion of many musicians, Paranoid is the most influential album on the development of Heavy Metal: In contrast to the largely bluesy debut album Black Sabbath , Paranoid's compositions are much more rocky .

In the song Iron Man you can recognize the archetype of later heavy metal songs: In addition to the properties mentioned above, there is also the structure in verse form as in rock and the insertion of technically demanding solos .

Numerous musicians name Black Sabbath as one of their main influences and paid tribute to the band on the cover albums NIB and NIB 2, which were released in the 1990s : Ugly Kid Joe , Bruce Dickinson ( Iron Maiden ), Megadeth , Faith No More , Sepultura , Pantera , White Zombie , Biohazard , System of a Down and more. The songs on the cover albums mainly focus on the style-defining early phase of Black Sabbath from 1970 to 1975.

Singles

The singles Paranoid and War Pigs as well as Iron Man were also internationally successful . Probably the most successful title Paranoid entered the German top 20 charts in October 1970 and reached first place in December. The single stayed in the German charts for 17 weeks. In Germany , the Schlager duo Cindy & Bert recorded a cover version entitled Der Hund von Baskerville . The indie pop and alternative rock band The Cardigans covered Iron Man for their album First Band on the Moon (1996). In 1995 The Cardigans released a cover version of the Black Sabbath title Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on the album Life . Also in the 1990s, Aral used the song for a commercial with four long-haired metal fans in an orange Ford Granada , who signaled to the gas station attendant by headbanging that, in addition to refueling, they also wanted to have the oil level, cooling water and tire pressure checked.

Trivia

The title Planet Caravan was used as a wakeup call on NASA's SpX-DM2 mission .

Track list

Was Pigs - 7:55
Paranoid - 2:47
Planet Caravan - 4:24
Iron Man - 5:53
Electric Funeral - 4:47
Hand of Doom - 7:07
Council salad - 2:30
Fairies Wear Boots - 6:13

All of the tracks were composed by Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne.
Luke's Wall is the name of the outro to War Pigs .
Jack the Stripper is the name of the intro to Fairies Wear Boots .

Individual evidence

↑ Tim Eckhorst : Metall macht Musik, TheNextArt Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-939400-18-9 , p. 22.

Web links

Rolling Stone review (English)
Paranoid at Allmusic (English)
Homage to the creation of some of the songs on the Paranoid album

[1] Tim Eckhorst : Metall macht Musik, TheNextArt Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-939400-18-9 , p. 22.


Studio albums	Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)
Live albums	Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)
Compilation albums	We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •
Singles	Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)