Trashed

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Trashed
Black Sabbath
publication 1983
length 4:16
Genre (s) Heavy metal
album Born again

Trashed is a song by British metal band Black Sabbath . It appeared on their album Born Again in 1983 and was the first single from the album. Singer Ian Gillan recorded the song again for Gillan's Inn , with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi also performing.

music

Joel McIver sees parallels between Speed ​​King from Gillan's other band Deep Purple and Trashed in mood and tempo and describes the piece, which is fast for Black Sabbath standards, as an "explosion from beginning to end". Greg Moffitt of Decibel magazine describes the song as the “daring” beginning of the album and compares it to Neon Knights and Turn Up the Night , but with a clear break from the Dio era.

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The song is about an actual incident in which Gillan drove drunk in Bill Ward's car (which he thought was his own at the moment) and destroyed it in the process. McIver also sees parallels to Speed ​​King lyrically . The Parents Music Resource Center took Trashed in his 1985 published list of Filthy Fifteen on, bear the inscription D / A for alleged glorification of alcohol or other drug use.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joel McIver: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath . London: Omnibus Press 2009.
  2. ^ A b Greg Moffitt: Justify Your Shitty Taste - Black Sabbath's “Born Again” .
  3. Steven Rosen: Black Sabbath . Uncensored on the record . Henley-in-Arden: Coda Books 2011.
  4. Ian Gillan : 64 Trashed .
  5. ^ Jonathon Green, Nicholas J. Karolides: Encyclopedia of Censorship . New Edition. New York: Facts on File 2005, p. 625.
  6. Barry Miles: Zappa: A Biography . New York: Grove Press 2004, pp. 332f.
  7. Wes Orshoski: Classic Metal . In: Billboard , May 25, 2002, p. 76.