Technical ecstasy

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Technical ecstasy
Black Sabbath studio album

Publication
(s)

September 25, 1976

Label (s)

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

40:35

occupation

production

Black Sabbath

Studio (s)

Criteria Studios, Miami , Florida

chronology
Sabotage
(1975) 		Technical ecstasy Never Say Die!
(1978)

Technical Ecstasy is the seventh studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath . It was released in September 1976.

Emergence

The album was recorded in June 1976 at Criteria Studios in Miami . The band got bogged down with detailed work, and the exertions of recent years had already driven a wedge between the musicians.

“In the studio everything got out of hand, we fiddled with unimportant details for far too long and tried to get the perfect sound instead of focusing on riffs and melodies. People don't mind if the guitarist makes small mistakes, they want to hear a person and not a machine. It all depressed me immensely. At some point I just wanted to pocket the advance payment from the record company and somehow complete the album. "

- Ozzy Osbourne

Among other things, Osbourne no longer got along with Tony Iommi , and his relationship with Geezer Butler was also changeable. On the subsequent European tour, Black Sabbath were regularly surpassed by an up-and-coming band called AC / DC , who supported them. A bar fight between Butler and Malcolm Young prompted AC / DC to be removed from the tour. In addition, Osbourne got out at short notice in the late summer of 1977 because his father was dying. Dave Walker ( Savoy Brown , Fleetwood Mac ) was briefly a member of the band until Osbourne returned in late January 1978, which the band was happy about because the chemistry was wrong with Walker.

The album cover, which is unusual for Black Sabbath, was designed by the Hipgnosis team.

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
sabotage
  UK 13 11/06/1976 (6 weeks)
  US 51 11/27/1976 (12 weeks)

Allmusic's Greg Prato wrote that the band had deviated "on and on" from their original musical path with Technical Ecstasy . He awarded two out of five stars.

The album reached gold status in the US on June 19, 1997.

Track list

All tracks were written by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler and Bill Ward .

  1. Back Street Kids - 3:46
  2. You Won't Change Me - 6:34
  3. It's Alright (Bill Ward on Vocals) - 3:58
  4. Gypsy - 5:10
  5. All Moving Parts (Stand Still) - 4:59
  6. Rock 'n' Roll Doctor - 3:25
  7. She's Gone - 4:51
  8. Dirty Women - 7:13

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Rensen: The Big Bang of the Metal Universe, the Ozzy Years. Black Sabbath History , in: Rock Hard, No. 297, February 2012, pp. 14-25, p. 24
  2. ↑ British Charts (accessed February 25, 2012)
  3. ↑ Allmusic : Billboard Albums (accessed February 25, 2012)
  4. ^ Greg Prato: Review at Allmusic (accessed February 25, 2012)
  5. ↑ RIAA Gold & Platinum database (accessed June 8, 2010)
Black Sabbath
Bill Ward  • Ronnie James Dio  • Vinny Appice  • Geoff Nicholls • Tony Martin  • Ian Gillan  • Glenn Hughes  • Ray Gillen  • Cozy Powell  • Neil Murray  • Bev Bevan  • Jo Burt • Terry Chimes  • Bob Daisley  • Bobby Rondinelli  • Eric Singer  • Dave Pointed • Dave Walker


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)