BLACK SABBATH DISCOGRAPHY RANKING GAME: #15 revealed! RIP OZZY
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15: Technical Ecstasy
16: Seventh Star
17: Cross Purposes (tie)
17: Thirteen (tie)
18: Never Say Die!
19: Forbidden
Total points: 89
highest score: 18 (@The_7th_one )
lowest score: 2 (@MrKnickerbocker )
Wow, what a day to be talking about Technical Ecstasy in the countdown. I definitely felt, given Ozzy's health, that one of these countdown posts would end up being a sort of tribute, although I didn't think it would be for what is easily my least favorite of the Ozzy era Sabbath albums. There's so much cocaine on this album that I feel like it would get confiscated at the airport. To my ears, the band is so dysfunctional and so lost directionally that it's hard to even make out what they were going for on this album, which is something that at the very least Never Say Die and Thirteen DON'T suffer from. There are so many missteps on this album. Bill Ward singing on the awful cocktail ballad It's Alright, the super out of place keyboards... I'm not against synthesizers in Sabbath, but it's just so out of place in pretty much every instance on this album. There are hardly any riffs and everybody just seems completely checked out, except Bill Ward who managed to sneak into the vocal booth for one of the most embarrassing cuts in the Sabbath catalog.
Sabbath is such an interesting band in this period. I think it's really cool how they experimented over the years, but you really get the sense that they didn't realize how innovative they truly were at the time. Some of these albums they are desperately chasing trends despite the fact that they were on the cutting edge of rock music and, evidently unknowingly, were influencing legions of bands to come. Obviously by the time Dio came on board they figured out that they were trailblazers and made appropriate music to match their image, but you get the sense on albums like Technical Ecstasy that they didn't see themselves as much more than a standard grade rock band.
The rating spread on this one was pretty large, I would love to hear from some of this album's vocal defenders as it did place quite high on a few lists, enough that it just managed to squeak out of the bottom 5. As I've mentioned before, I would take every already revealed album besides Forbidden over this one. To me, Forbidden is the only other Sabbath album where the band sounds more confused and all over the place.
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15: Technical Ecstasy
16: Seventh Star
17: Cross Purposes (tie)
17: Thirteen (tie)
18: Never Say Die!
19: Forbidden
Total points: 89
highest score: 18 (@The_7th_one )
lowest score: 2 (@MrKnickerbocker )
Wow, what a day to be talking about Technical Ecstasy in the countdown. I definitely felt, given Ozzy's health, that one of these countdown posts would end up being a sort of tribute, although I didn't think it would be for what is easily my least favorite of the Ozzy era Sabbath albums. There's so much cocaine on this album that I feel like it would get confiscated at the airport. To my ears, the band is so dysfunctional and so lost directionally that it's hard to even make out what they were going for on this album, which is something that at the very least Never Say Die and Thirteen DON'T suffer from. There are so many missteps on this album. Bill Ward singing on the awful cocktail ballad It's Alright, the super out of place keyboards... I'm not against synthesizers in Sabbath, but it's just so out of place in pretty much every instance on this album. There are hardly any riffs and everybody just seems completely checked out, except Bill Ward who managed to sneak into the vocal booth for one of the most embarrassing cuts in the Sabbath catalog.
Sabbath is such an interesting band in this period. I think it's really cool how they experimented over the years, but you really get the sense that they didn't realize how innovative they truly were at the time. Some of these albums they are desperately chasing trends despite the fact that they were on the cutting edge of rock music and, evidently unknowingly, were influencing legions of bands to come. Obviously by the time Dio came on board they figured out that they were trailblazers and made appropriate music to match their image, but you get the sense on albums like Technical Ecstasy that they didn't see themselves as much more than a standard grade rock band.
The rating spread on this one was pretty large, I would love to hear from some of this album's vocal defenders as it did place quite high on a few lists, enough that it just managed to squeak out of the bottom 5. As I've mentioned before, I would take every already revealed album besides Forbidden over this one. To me, Forbidden is the only other Sabbath album where the band sounds more confused and all over the place.
MrKnickerbocker
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It’s a sad day to be reflecting on such a poor album, but “it is what it is innit.”
There is not a single great song here. I don’t think there’s even a single good song here.
There is not a single great song here. I don’t think there’s even a single good song here.
KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
You Won't Change Me and Dirty Women are both killer. I like Gypsy and All Moving Parts as well. The rest isn't good and I still give this album a pretty low ranking.