Luca-LJ

I accidentally deleted part of my review and just realized it now! Well, in summary: the beat I mentioned is blended with a folk-rock vibe reminiscent of Bob Dylan. I also went a bit overboard with the whole "revolutionary" and "reactionary" groups thing, but the gist is that de Groot is better than the Beatles and holds his own next to the Byrds (just a name at random).

Now I try, thank you!

Yes, but put it on eMule! You don't want us to buy it, come on!

It will be as you say, but I want it!

Now it is also present on Wikipedia and on Scaruffi's website, as it should be!

Yes, they are strong, but they didn't awaken in me a love for progressive. Probably if I had heard them a year ago, they would have become one of my main listens, but now is no longer the time. I really don’t know what score to give, so I abstain. The review, on the other hand, deserves a rating because it managed to pique my curiosity and because it seems to describe the album quite well, even though it might be a bit too concise.

I hope so with all my heart, and also a little with my spleen!

I've been looking for something with the characteristics you've described for at least two years. Now I'm searching for it, but if it’s not how I expect it to be, I'll kill you! You don't deceive people like that!

One of my worst purchases ever. Well, I guess I should stop buying CDs blindly, but the cover looked promising!
I just don’t get it; not only do I find this music boring, old, and ridiculous, but I can't even comprehend how it could come about: to me, and I'm not being ironic, it seems that a group of kids coming together to make music, no matter how untalented they are, should be able to come up with something better than this stuff! And yet...
And then I also find out that there are people who like it! At this point, I want to hear from you what it is that you like about this album! I'm not trying to provoke or be controversial; I’m just curious.

It seems to me that you are trying to give Sabbath a remarkable cultural background that they don't have, and you also strive to believe that they were an experimental band. I really like their first two albums, and I have a fondness for "Paranoid" because I played almost the entire tracklist back in high school with my band. However, Black Sabbath were not very artistically gifted, and their intentions didn't go beyond mimicking the Cream (with perhaps a bit more psychedelic flavor, which was fashionable a few years earlier). Their uniqueness is precisely due to their technical limitations: the heavy metal riff was born (I am obviously ignoring the predecessors who didn't set a precedent but arrived at this result earlier) because Iommi was a hack on the guitar, that's all. It's true that they anticipated doom metal, but, as has already been said, "Planet Caravan" has nothing to do with it. The lyrics are interesting for the dark themes they tackle, not certainly for any social commitment (we’re in the early '70s, there had already been plenty of anti-war songs, you know!). In conclusion: a fantastic record that made history, but it came out by pure chance, the Sabbath are mediocre musicians, and their subsequent albums (variations on "Paranoid") prove it. A fortunate coincidence of events, not a group of great musical talents.