Paranoid

Memory revisited

black sabbath at their best and the only way to begin listening to them

Not much to say apart from this is the classic Black Sabbath albums of

great

Rock 'n Roll is so unpredictable. This is a great album if you're a Black Sabbath fan. If not, it's a good rock album. You can't lose. When the band presented the material that would become 'Paranoid' to their production company, the company handed it back saying it needed 'a filler'. That is when Paranoid was written; in about fifteen minutes. Source: I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography. I recommend it as a good read. Hilarious, enlightening, occasionally sad, but mainly hilarious.

Listening to it now, really like digital downloads and their immediacy. In the old days it was a trip to the shops to get a disk, then it was by snail mail as a CD or a trip to the shops. now you just think "I need some Sabbath" 2 minutes later you've paid for it and listening to it!