Classical Composer Reacts to BLACK SABBATH: KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE | The Daily Doug (Episode 881)

[@allenwalker4703]

This song has more great riffs than some bands entire discography.

[@malcshone4409]

As does “ A National Acrobat”!

[@alexsandrosantin3289]

That was a huge change when Dio became the singer. Ozzy sings on top of the riffs, and Dio sings "normal" on top of cords.

[@mattzeroable]

I agree a lot with what you say. Not many bands has a lot of dynamic changes and riff ideas another band that is similar on that is Mastodon the two guitar players in mastodon are full of ideas too. Hope Doug reach and dive in mastodon discography too soon

[@andrejz8954]

@@malcshone4409 And that's one of the reasons, why SBS is (imo) their best album. They were almost proggy at this point. Wtf is with the Sabbra cadabra riff? I can't even figure it out

[@chrismartin6370]

Yes!

[@kakestube]

Nobody writes songs like Sabbath. Best band ever.

[@DanFre40]

Black Sabbath, packing 35 riffs into 10 songs on every album.

[@kevinz8930]

Every album also had different tones different qualities and was still identifiable as a Sabbath sound but different from each preceding album unlike most metal bands that just sound the same album after album.

[@panmants]

and three songs per song

[@OlettaLiano]

It's because of songs like this, that Black Sabbath was my favorite Metal band for nearly fifty years. I love the way songs start in one place, and finish somewhere else.

[@malcshone4409]

@@OlettaLiano “ Megalomania”!!! Iommi sounds like a swarm of angry electric wasps.

[@OlettaLiano]

@@malcshone4409 Nothing wrong with that.

[@malcshone4409]

@ I love it! Met Tony once, in a bar at Birmingham University in 1977.

[@OlettaLiano]

@@malcshone4409 That must of been awesome. My biggest regret, even though Sabbath was my favorite band, I never got to see them play live.

[@malcshone4409]

@ Oh nooooo! I live in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 so it wasn’t that difficult to see them live as they used to tour the UK every year pretty much. I’ve seen them 4 times in the 1970’s and again in 2014 on the tour for the “ 13” album. They were even better in 2014 than in 1974!!

[@rickandgen]

Undoubtedly the most important Band of the 70’s! First 6 albums are amazing!🤘

[@ethosardour2320]

I think the first 7. Technical Ecstasy has some of Tonys best guitar.

[@Io-Io-Io]

Make that 8 ☝️ Only snobs exclude #TechnicalEcstasy and #NeverSayDie

[@DruEllz]

​@@Io-Io-Iosnobs? 🤣 Maybe it's because they're (include Sabotage too) mediocre, at best, compared to the first 5. Too fucked up, no ideas or direction, churning out 3 records because the record company forced them to.

[@guytalbot9427]

​​@Io-Io-Io Make it 9! Hell,even "13" is better than 98% of the rest of new metal/hard rock 💯FACT

[@shawndudley2027]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the masterpiece from the original lineup.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Geezer’s lyrics are always extra special. They always tickle my brain. He’s brilliant.

[@elvwood]

Totally. For me, losing that was the main downside of the _Heaven_ _and_ _Hell_ album.

[@allenfackler]

They were at their peak during the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage years, IMO.

[@bubbadagger]

And V4

[@malcshone4409]

Sabotage sounds like the end of days.

[@alexandremaireno-ni4ec]

SBS yes, but Sabotage was them starting to go downhill

[@nectarin777]

@@alexandremaireno-ni4ec absolutely no

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

@@alexandremaireno-ni4ec Rubbish. They started going downhill with _"Technical Ecstasy"_ and particularly _"Never Say Die",_ because Iommi insisted on producing them entirely by himself and made such a bad job he blamed Ozzy and kicked him out. But the coward got Bill Ward to tell him. {:o:O:}

[@juergenstange6844]

Three songs for the price of one ! Unbelievable... 🤘😊🎶

[@rmphawk]

Killing Yourself to Live was the first ever Black Sabbath song I've heard. Still remember how I felt at the time. It was the first Black Sabbath album I've purchased and to this day, it is my favourite Black Sabbath album.

[@missiontotransition641]

Havent heard this track in awhile, forgot HOW GREAT and HEAVY it is. Musical Heavy Masterpiece. I was about 15 when i first heard this, blew my little young mind.

[@gag7236]

Geezer Butler such an underrated lyricist.

[@mojopin70]

Brilliant lyricist. The guy was spiritually developed from an early age.

[@Skoora]

5:17 love this transition in the solo’s Tony does. He really made them have a strong musical purpose rather than just, I guess we need a solo here?

[@Unreliablecaptionbot]

This is the most underrated track, thank you for covering it!

[@nsgobbi]

Why insist on this “underrated” theory ?? This gets me mad. I never found it underrated and the simple fact we are here in 2024 listening and enjoying it is a living proof it is a GREAT and recognized song !!

[@sugarymushroom]

Yes. This song has been my favorite since i heard it for the first time.

[@andrewgarin2486]

Really happy you did this one for a Metal Monday Doug. Loved this recording for years. Thank You!!

[@MrTortureneverstops1]

One of their best track !

[@MichaelBrown-x1q]

Black Sabbath changed my life!!! And I love Every Song on this album!!

[@marksawyer6095]

Love this song. So many riffs and different sections. For some bands, enough riffs for two to three songs. This was new music in 73. Compare it to today's offerings.

[@gtarry]

The finest track, from their most complete album, IMO

[@bobby666666]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a fine track, too.

[@maxschubert6]

Please do a whole side listen n' review of this! that would be awesome!

[@75sliver]

Keyboards courtesy of Rick Wakeman, who were good mates with the Sabbath guys. When Yes used to tour with Sabbath he would often travel with the Sabbath guys. Most likely because he didn’t often get along with his Yes band mates.

[@PaulMcGarry-bo3jg]

The story I've heard told is that Yes were recording Tales in an adjacent studio and Rick was that bored he hung out with the Sabs,

[@kevinz8930]

Whole album is a masterpiece!

[@bfulks2001]

Great band, great album, great song. One of my favorite T shirts as a kid was this album cover, it made me feel like a badass.

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘

[@Ken-i8p1d]

Love watching you play the air drums!😂 I bought this LP in 74, took it to show and tell in 9th grade! OMG! Was I a rebel! Love and peace! Ken

[@patguitare]

It's hard to pick a favorite Black Sabbath album as all of the earlier releases were so great! "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' was a huge departure from the previous records. To me, this was their 'Revolver' or 'Sergeant Pepper's' if you know what I mean. Thanks, Dougie!

[@neillenet291]

This was their RUBBER SOUL

[@patguitare]

@@neillenet291 I like that analogy....so, that leaves some room for advancement...what Sabbath records are Revolver and Sgt Pepper's?

[@neillenet291]

@@patguitare I guess Sabotage would be Revolver, but they never had a Sgt. Pepper. their devolved in imagination and quality with the next 2 albums. Heaven and Hell was a return in quality.

[@patguitare]

@@neillenet291 OK, I get it...I was referring to the Ozzy era. The Dio era? Whew....he took Sabbath to a whole other level! I was and am a huge Rainbow/Dio fan. When Dio was announced that he was joining Sabbath? Whew...I could not wait for the new record to come out. And we got a masterpiece in 'Heaven and Hell'...

[@richardwillis6936]

If you're going to do a Sabbath album, you should try Sabotage, probably their most progressive album, and most likely the apex of the Ozzy years.

[@atranfanatic]

One of my favorite Black Sabbath songs along with Hand of Doom! Those two are at the top for me! And what's cool is I have the same birthday as the Godfather of Metal Ozzy Osbourne! December 3rd I'll be 50 and Ozzy will be 76.

[@quinnsmith2955]

I first heard Black Sabbath in the record aisle of JC Penney maybe 1974 it changed my life forever

[@mojopin70]

My favourite sabbath album by far!

[@timg5011]

Love this album; it's one of the few where I like every song on it.

[@chriscoote2690]

Sabbath were at their creative peak with this album.

[@soundsgoodmanrecords]

Always loved Black Sabbath. Those records were played over and over and over by me and the guys I hung out with. You're right, Doug about how the lyrics mean a heck of a lot. Geezer sure knew how to paint a picture with them and a lot of the time they said volumes and then when the 4 guys got to playing it all just fit perfect. Peace.

[@richpeltier9519]

That descending riff always makes me wanna hear 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago afterwards.

[@martinw8845]

I guess Doug didn't notice the "Smoke it.... Get High!"

[@nsgobbi]

Lately Doug doesn’t need any kind of extra motivation for a short one 😂

[@nsgobbi]

Open your eyes, and see the lies. 50 years later and more true impossible.

[@lehtjug]

SBS is one of the finest Black Sabbath albums. I also like Sabotage and Dehumanizer. I always enjoy the moments with Black Sabbath music.

[@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec]

There's a really fantastic quality live bootleg of a concert from the tour for this album, they kick of the show with this number. It's incredible. I think it was from Asbury Park in 1975.

[@wbegnel1]

Doug, I really enjoy your classical composer knowledge regarding the music in your videos. But, I have to say, the research that you've done regarding the artist and song/album is what keeps me coming back. I've learned more about the bands I love from you, than pretty much from any other source. I hope you continue to produce your videos as long as you are able. Thanks, from a loyal listener!

[@jamessharp2725]

My favorite Black Sabbath album. It’s really nothing special, but Rick Wakeman plays on the song Sabbra Cadabra. Apparently, he was bored by the Yes sessions for Tales from Topographic Oceans in the studio next door. So he dropped in on the Sabbath sessions.

[@leechild4655]

i wanted to say, ya, thats not iommi on synth. rick wakeman helped out and is on the back of the album in fine print.

[@candidragon]

Doug, I have been enjoying your channel for about 5 months. You are one great guy, I love your energy. And you seem kind. Thanks for all these great reactions. And SABBATH FOREVER!

[@johnnewcomb5162]

Keep doing more Sabbath, really enjoying this session.

[@jta1973]

This entire album and the one after it, Sabatoge, are 5/5-stars for me. Great bong-smokin' & headphones rock🤘👽

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

Yes, I love this album, but I particularly love _"Sabotage"._ {:o:O:}

[@leechild4655]

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 i agree but i cant say which of the two is better than the other. best two sabbath albums in their catalog to me.

[@winstonhewett6679]

Now retired after 45 years, this songs lyrics occasionally crossed my mind over those 45 years!

[@Io-Io-Io]

😂😂😂😉

[@stoppropaganda2573]

Just think about it Doug, recording two albums a year along with constant touring without a bad song on any of the albums ... incredible!

[@Devypocalypse]

Don't know about a bad song part, there's certainly a few lesser songs on some albums, but the work rate was insane back then for so many bands. What a time it must have been (born in 84)

[@stoppropaganda2573]

​@@Devypocalypse I was born in 58 (no typo) and there was no FM radio until the late 60's so I was raised on AM pop music and then with FM, hard rock, my exposure to music was expanded greatly! So even now I can listen to the albums Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath back to back and love every minute of it! Sometimes its a matter of perspective I guess ...

[@Devypocalypse]

@@stoppropaganda2573 naw that's fair. I get it to a degree for sure, in fact I am probably in synch with you on bands that hit me in my formative rock/metal years (so yeah, I admitting to hypocrisy 🫣 lol on the internet now less 🤣) But I do wish I could have experienced the bands I gravitated to, like Metallica, Megadeth etc in real time, rather than in 1999, even though I had no internet and it was still busy a CD and hope for the best. I would have loved to experience something like 'Master of Puppets' as it came out and the mythology of that band, getting any news clipping I could, scraps of information etc. Something that is impossible to evoke nowadays.

[@Aidan_Wachter]

My favorite sabbath tune! Hell yes!

[@ThrashManDan]

One of my favorite albums.

[@kellieelliott5198]

Excellent analysis. Really like how you applied what they wrote about in 1973 under a completely different set of circumstances to how life is for most folks today. Brilliant. You ain’t wrong either. Happy Metal Monday 🤘🤘🤘

[@robertcussins2807]

It IS one of my faves. Thanks for this.

[@enzolumare5680]

73 was really a great year for music

[@bushibayushi]

one of my fav songs of Black Sabbath ;)

[@jay-remedy-plz]

Bump for Doug! Classic track here from the masters !!

[@Steve-Martin]

You have seen the light Doug. Sabbath just gets better everytime you hear them. Epic m8

[@rocktillyoudrop77]

FINALLY SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH ! 🤘🏽🤘🏽 NOW YOUR TALKING ! RIFFS OUT THE WAZZOO !

[@chrisschmitz597]

I agree with you! One of my fav Black Sabbath songs! You should watch them play it on KZbin at the California Jam! Tony has no moustache!!!

[@garysoar1234]

One of my all time greatest albums. not a bad song on the alum.

[@PeterMcCracken-n3g]

Hi Doug, Black Sabbath were my first love, and part of that reason was because they liked to change riffs and tempo's. Still great and thankyou for your love of music.

[@Cohac]

Its one of the songs that make me cry every time im listening to it. Right now, im sitting and trying to hold it all in. For me, it's a "life sucks" kinda song. We go through it and it all just ends up being disappointing for all the effort we put in. Leading to... nothing. And as its such an amazingly played song, it hits hard.

[@Skoora]

One of my absolute favorite Sabbath songs. Love the way Iommi layers dual solos, playing different things.

[@ImYourOverlord]

First time ever hearing this song. It should have gotten way more attention all this time! 🤘

[@nrotoiti5062]

the song that stands out for me on this album is "Fluff" so unmetal so delicate so unBlack Sabbath , just lovely , has echo`s of Fleetwood Macs "Albatross"

[@coachhannah2403]

Don't remember which album I bought first, but been listening to these guys since High School in 1973...

[@kevinz8930]

You absolutely need to do the whole album. Keyser had some very wise insights even as a very young man!

[@jonathanatkinson5256]

Keyser?

[@Cohac]

If you havent seen it yet, give the California Jam concert a try. There's YT videos that has the entire concert (most of it with video), and its AMAZING. From this tour, but still contains a lot of the older classics. Purple also played that night so go watch the entire thing :).

[@InsideBilderberg]

Great one, hope you do "Sabbra Cadabra" as well, another banger with one of Ozzy´s best vocal deliveries and great input from Rick Wakeman.

[@davidschecter5247]

There are so many separate parts to this masterpiece. It's like "Good Vibrations" for Heavy Metal. You compare what they, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin were doing with song structure will all the simplistic metal bands that tried to follow them and there's not a lot of comparison. Great songwriting!

[@jamescotner2459]

This is a peak for Sabbath!

[@LSqrd1960]

One of my favorite Sabbath albums, behind only Paranoid. Great song! Fun trivia bit: Rick Wakeman (Yes) played piano and mini-moog on the track Sabbra Cadabra.

[@srudine]

Love this album! 5 for 5. The variations in this song and album is a whole are fantastic.

[@samanthony2950]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the best rock album that I’ve come across. It’s Black Sabbath at their peak.

[@ImYourOverlord]

You nailed it about modern times, Doug. The Bad Guys have masterfully and deviously forced many of us into austerity, with few token outlets for relief.

[@mrmegabreath6442]

My favourite track from my favourite Sabbath album.

[@craigbloxham8344]

Yep, it's a masterpiece.

[@remcohoman1011]

2:30 They where staying in L.A. next to the Manon Murders estate in on of the Dupont Family homes. Where they found cans of spraypaint and after an evening of dryugs and heavy drinikng they found drummer Bill Ward naked on a couch sleeping. They thought it was fun to spraypaint him in gold paint.. His body couldn't breathe, couldn't gat rid of its own warmth.. he started hyperventilating.. meanwhile as they where there, all th proppers of coke where around and they had say a fruit dish whetre usually apples and pears and oranges where kept on a table that was filled with coke.. it was brought to the mansion by and in soap boxes. Geezer told in an interview that they'd empty a whole box of coke in the bowl and instead of dicing it on a mirror as yoy see in movies, they just dipped their face in. In the castle in Wales, England Toni got a writersblock..a roadie handed him a copy of Golden Earring - Moontan It sparked Toni's juices and he got riffing again, and they made Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.. In the castle they where ought to sleep, but they would prank eachother so much and nasty and creepy, that no one knew if it was the prank or the haunting of the xcastle, so they drove off and to everyday from a hotel to the castle individiually.

[@Devypocalypse]

That album also has Drew Struzan artwork. One of the GOATS of film poster art.

[@johnnewcomb5162]

40 years I have enjoyed Black Sabbath, first time was a on a great reel system. I saw there last tour in Las Vegas excellent show.

[@witzendoz]

When this album came out I bought the sheet music for the whole album. The different sections of this song had seperate names, I think I still have it somewhere.

[@amirhossein8469]

Please do the Sabotage. You're going to be blown away. When everybody thought they couldn't get any better, they shifted into another gear and made Sabotage.

[@shredder66]

Please take a listen to When Death Calls by Black Sabbath! You're really missing out by not reviewing a song from the Tony Martin era, which was the darkest era of Sabbath. He's an extremely underrated singer and this song features a guest solo from none other than Brian May from Queen!

[@Janokins]

That's some good analysis, it makes sense to me that a band with an industrial working class background would sing about such themes.

[@Mattiasnight]

Hell yea glad you dug this classic gem by sabbath now you have to hear "Air Dance" by Black Sabbath so good of a riff and song\mm/

[@enzolumare5680]

I relistened to this album in full yesterday. Great album

[@JimGramze]

Sabbath songs are often like medalies of ideas.

[@P1pis1990]

Love it every time!

[@thefollandgnat]

Forget Black Friday, this is Black "Three for the Price of One" Sabbath.

[@andrewhall7853]

Totally agree with everything plus this is their greatest album imho.

[@WCSkills]

SBS was such a progressive album. So much going on, so much depth.

[@zappafrank1]

Incredible tune.

[@R2Zmedia]

Great song from my favourite Sabbath album. The most progressive effort they did, even had Rick Wakeman guesting on some tracks.

[@petervandervlies6427]

Can't say this is my favorit song by them. There's too many awesom ones😅 But..I love this one. Great stuff by all four of these guys. Had a big poster of Tony in my bedroom, when I was young. I like his playing and his sound. And I love Gibson SG'S. Thanks again for this one. Cheers 👍💪😁

[@jonathanatkinson5256]

Gloucester-SHIRE - brilliant!

[@Perhotep]

Excellent and thoughtful! Really heavy song this one. (Although I personally would like to hear you take on even more Maiden! Starblind and Isle of Avalon on Final Frontier and Somewhere in Time the title track especially (all those in studio versions)) But Sabbath, as some said, go for Sabotage! - The Writ or Megalomania it should be then 🤘🤘

[@germantoenglish898]

🥁

[@mickpriestley]

I shook hands with Tony Iommi once, in London, about 20 years ago 😁

[@berylman]

I can't believe this is the first time you've heard this. I was 8 years old and introduced to Sabbath. You think I'm crazy and baby I know it's true

[@LAstump]

Great endorsement for the 50th Year Anniversary remix disc set!

[@rickandgen]

When I saw them on The End Tour they couldn’t do anything from this album or Sabotage as Ozzy could no longer sing that high. They did an instrumental medley of a few songs from this era. Vocally stayed with the first four albums.

[@kalter_wind]

Peak Sabbath, most definitely.

[@fokeyjo]

This was a superb album, a lot more of Iommi's jazz/blues influences coming in, rather than the pounding riffs of the previous two albums. You could do the live at last album as a single listen session

[@mora1948]

u gotta do snowblind !