Reflex in the sky warn you you're gonna die
Storm comin' you better hide from the atomic tide
Flashes in the sky turns houses into sty
Turns people into clay, radiation minds decay

Robot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic (grave/rage/rate)
Plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon
dying world of radiation, victims of (man/mad) frustration,
burning globe of obscene fire, like electric funeral pyre

Buildings crashing down to what's cracking ground
[Rivers turned to wood]**, ice melting to flood
Earth lies in death bed, clouds cry for the dead
Terrifying rain, ease a burning pain

'lectric Fun'ral
'lectric Fun'ral
'lectric Fun'ral
Electric Fun'ral

And so in the sky shines the electric eye
Supernat'ral king, takes earth under his wing
Heaven's golden chorus sings, Hell's angels flap their wings
Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cell

** Reverse damned to ward

am listening to sabbath at the moment.

What song did silverchair rip off the riff to Sweet Leaf too as the introduction?? Was it Greatest View or something else of diorama? Or something else??

but yeah. sabbath are totally awesome.

I like Sabbath alot. Only the first 5 albums though. The rest isn't much chop. I'd go
1st: Parinoid
2nd: Black Sabbath
3rd: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4th: Vol 4
5th:Masters Of reality

Title track of Never Say Die is great!

Pity about the rest of the albums though.

yeah i've become a big fan of the first five albums

but i'd also add "Live at Last"

don't know if I agree with your order though! haha

S/T and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath would be 4 and 5 for me.

BEST.BAND.EVER!

Why is that funny?
Best song is hand of doom. Never get sick of that.

The chuckle was less about your order and more of a "good humour chuckle"

Just finished listening to master of reality

am going to go paranoid now (I have the first 4 records with me at work today)

Masters never get a play in my house. It's a bit too Modern sounding for sabbath. Still good but starts to lose it.

I think NIB is actually my fvaourite Sabbath Song.

also - I may have found someone with a copy of the complete Paris 1970 gig on DVD... so stay tune for news!

If you get it, Send us a copy eh?
Thank

i reckon ronnie james dio is better than ozzy osbourne

I've really been listening to a lot of Sabbath lately...listening HARD!!!

They truly are one of the greatest bands ever!!! EVER!!!

hey junkie.. if i manage to get it and figure out how i can easily copy DVDs I might just do that.. will let ya know.

but having seen a few of the performances on a DVD that Mo lent me.. all I can say is that it is going to be fucking rad to have the whole thing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j0brWS_b0LU

war pigs 1970

I cn't help myself..saorry.

hahaha hey A_L what was the hendrix thing you posted earlier?? you tube is back to being banned here at work :(

I like "electric funeral." That's all.

it was 'I don't live today' at Royal albert hall 1969

its preety cool, and I hadn't seen it before cos its hard to get that show..

yayay!! youtube!!

there's a torrent of the Paris gig up on Pirate Bay - at the Olympia 20/12/70?

Dunno about the quality but I am downloading it now...

that war pigs clip is great - bill ward is smokin'!

Best moment ever is listening to the whole of Paranoid whilst driving in a van low on petrol under a full moon at the stroke of midnight thru the forests of Vancouver Island. Wolves about. Do this.

Iommi has cancer: http://www.nme.com/news/black-sabbath/61325

Bill Ward has already fallen out with the band and it looks like he is off the new album and tour. This reunion tour is shaky as fuck, the guitarist fighting cancer and the drummer has been sacked. At this rate it is gonna be Ozzy touring under the Black Sabbath name to fulfill contractual obligations.

Statement on Black Sabbath Album & Tour:

Los Angeles, CA – February 2, 2012

Dear Sabbath Fans, Fellow Musicians and Interested Parties,

At this time, I would love nothing more than to be able to proceed with the Black Sabbath album and tour. However, I am unable to continue unless a ''signable'' contract is drawn up; a contract that reflects some dignity and respect toward me as an original member of the band. Last year, I worked diligently in good faith with Tony, Ozzy and Geezer. And on 11/11/11, again in good faith, I participated in the L.A. press conference. Several days ago, after nearly a year of trying to negotiate, another “unsignable” contract was handed to me.

Let me say that although this has put me in some kind of holding pattern, I am packed and ready to leave the U.S. for England. More importantly, I definitely want to play on the album, and I definitely want to tour with Black Sabbath.

Since the news of Tony's illness, and the understanding that the band would move production to the U.K., I've spent everyday getting to or living in a place of readiness to leave. That involves something of a task, and as I've tried to find out what's going on with the U.K. sessions, I've realized that I've been getting ''the cold shoulder'' (and, I might add, not for the first time). Feeling somewhat ostracized, my guess is as of today, I will know nothing of what'shappening unless I sign ''the unsignable contract.''

The place I'm in feels lousy and lonely because as much as I want to play and participate, Ialso have to stand for something and not sign on. If I sign as-is, I stand to lose my rights, dignity and respectability as a rock musician. I believe in freedom and freedom of speech. I grew up in a hard rock/metal band. We stood for something then, and we played from the heart with honesty and sincerity. I am in the spirit of integrity, far from the corporate malady, I am real and honest, fair and compassionate.

If I'm replaced, I have to face you, the beloved Sabbath fans. I hope you will not hold me responsible for the failure of an original Black Sabbath lineup as promoted. Without fault finding, I want to assure everyone that my loyalty to Sabbath is intact.

So here I am. I lay my truth down before you. I'm good to go IF I get a “signable” contract. I don't want to let anyone down, especially Black Sabbath and all the Sabbath fans. You know I love you. It would be a sad day in Rock if this current situation fell to the desires of a few.

My position is not greed-driven. I'm not holding out for a ''big piece'' of the action (money) like some kind of blackmail deal. I’d like something that recognizes and is reflective of my contributions to the band, including the reunions that started fourteen years ago. After the last tour I vowed to never again sign on to an unreasonable contract. I want a contract that shows some respect to me and my family, a contract that will honor all that I've brought to Black Sabbath since its beginning.

That's the story so far.

Stay safe and stay strong.

I love every single one of you.

--Bill Ward

fuck, sharon

My position is not greed-driven. I'm not holding out for a ''big piece'' of the action (money) like some kind of blackmail deal

May not be greed driven but he wants more money. Maybe an even spilt?

he's after acknowledgement of his contribution to Sabbath, when you consider Black Sabbath always split 4 ways, even for Ozzy who never wrote a lyric in his life.... it makes sense

it not being an even split would entirely have to do with Sharon

if she deprives me of seeing Sabbath with Bill Ward on drums, i will kill her and eviscerate her overweight, spoilt, tick-like spawn

Surely common sense will prevail. I mean how much more money do she and Ozzie need right?

Sharon has no respect for other musicians barring Ozzy, she just views them as side men, i mean she did get trujillio and bordin to redo the drums and bass on blizzard of ozz and diary of a madman...

Without Bill Ward its not really a reunion album/tour, it is just another incarnation of Black Sabbath. It is sad as it is probably the last chance to do a proper reformation as Tommy sounds like he doesn't have many years (months?) left in him.

BLACK SABBATH RECORDING UPDATE

We were saddened to hear yesterday via Facebook that Bill declined publicly to participate in our current Black Sabbath plans...we have no choice but to continue recording without him although our door is always open... We are still in the UK with Tony. Writing and recording the new album and on a roll... See you at Download!!!

– Tony, Ozzy and Geezer

HORSESHIT!!!!

Black Sabbath always split 4 ways, even for Ozzy who never wrote a lyric in his life.

Now now, Mo. That's not actually true. While Ozzy is far and away the worst lyricist in the band you can recognise his particilar lyrical style across quite a lot of his recorded career.

Ozzy wrote the lyrics for 'Who are you?' and 'Am I going insane'. Geezer has claimed that Ozzy wrote some or all of the lyrics to 'Black Sabbath' and I have read somewhere that he wrote 'The Writ' although I can't seem to find the source for that factoid. Barring the eponymous track you'll note these songs are, as Sabbath lyrics go, shite. The adherence to form is poor, the structure is bad and the general grammar of them is so bad they're generally incomprehensible. The eponymous song works largely because it ignores structure - I presume the lyrics were written without the music. I'm not entirely convinced that Geezer didn't give it a good editing, either. God knows there was very little quality control anywhere in the band by the time Ozzy wrote those others.

The two studio tracks on Reunion were credited to Ozzy. You can see a lot of stylistic and thematic similarities between those and the Bark at the moon tracks that aren't very good and most of the work on *No more tears and Ozzmosis. There tends to be a lot of first-person, descriptive passages of slightly creepy/spooky phenomena that are generally centred around the narrator's visual perception. I figure either he has actually learned to write a song by this point, though, and can manage a kind of comprehensible structure and lyric - or the same someone else has been writing his lyrics for him the whole time. As far as I can work out the only person that could actually be is Sharon because nobody else has been around Ozzy that whole time. Largely because Sharon fires them, or rips them off to where they won't come back. That would explain her motivation - maybe it is her?

I presume most of the solo lyrics are the same as on the above mentioned albums, post-Daisley, but I can't tell you for sure because pretty much everything after Randy died is unlistenable Californian cokehead eighties soft metal MOR shite. Which is not to say Ozzmosis and No more tears aren't - I just had the lapses of judgement that made me buy them when I was a teenager and listen to them ad infinitum hoping they would one day turn into Black Sabbath albums and/or feature Randy Rhodes. Neither of these things happened. Black days, black days.

End procrastination.

From what I understand Tony Iommi owns the Black Sabbath name/brand (hence the Iommi 80s solo albums coming out under the Sabbath name), so surely he would have a bigger say over Bill Wards cut that Sharon Osbourne? Speculation is that Ward's share of the reunion tour/album cash was so slim that he has held out to get a bigger piece of the pie, and so far failed. Pretty lame, I don't think any of them really get along anymore anyway. And a reunion with possibly only two members (Iommi's cancer treatment and illness will no doubt rule him out for the entire tour) isn't really a reunion. They should at least try and crank out one more album together before they croak.

oh noneabove! how i have missed you

great post!

Bill Ward wants back in the band.

Black Sabbath reunion tour now scaled down to ''Ozzy and Friends'' with Slash and Zack Wyld now involved.

This has got to be the worst reunion ever, or maybe the most rock n roll reunion ever. First the drummer quits/wants to rejoin/ is fired. Then the guitarist pulls out and may die. Then Sharon Osbourne hijacks the reunion sentiment and turns it into an Ozzy Osbourne tour starring fucking Slash and Zak Wyld.

ha - great post losgauchos

''Ozzy and Friends'' sounds like a really bad TV show for kiddies under 5.

Daryl Somers and Jackie McDonald? Chinese Superman?

BLACK SABBATH Pissing Match Continues - Bill Ward's ''Response To Geezer’s Statement''