First Reaction to BLACK SABBATH - "PARANOID" (Side 1)

[@garya7893]

Planet Caravan was one of my favorite chill tunes as a teen in the late 70s early 80s Get in from i good night of partying and put this tune and Solitude on the headphones and melt away great times With no internet Music was my thing

[@mrtveye6682]

I'm right there with you. Planet Caravan is a great song. So atmospheric, hypnotic, chilling. Perfect song to come down after a party or a concert. I had a mix-tape (in times before there where playlists) with songs like Plante Caravan, Strange World (from the first Maiden record), Across the Universe (even in my pure Metal Head days, I loved the Beatles) esp. for that purpose.

[@billpimentel-vm6cu]

Same here brother , headphones in the dark vegging

[@EchoesDaBear]

Planet Caravan AND Solitude - now there's a trip if I ever heard one!! Can't tell you how many times I listened to those, happily stoned, and just looking for a chill groove!

[@garya7893]

@@EchoesDaBear I woke up to Solitude for years on a cd alarm clock till it broke It almost put me back to sleep a few times I am retired now dont need an alarm clock anymore Peace to ya

[@EchoesDaBear]

@@garya7893 that would be the WORST wake-up alarm song (if one had to get up!) Into The Void would be better! Now for falling asleep...Solitude all the way! Peace to you as well.

[@jerryward3311]

One of the greatest albums of all time. Every song is a classic.

[@cyberpunkgirl7907]

this channel is a true time machine! we love verdy so much!

[@vovindequasahi]

Oh yes here we go!! Great reaction beautiful! Black Sabbath is the REAL DEAL!

[@jollyjakelovell6822]

The drums used are either congas or bongos or a combination of both on 'Planet Caravan'

[@AnthonyP73]

The purity, musicality, grimness and sheer coolness of this first album is monumental. What an album, what a band

[@stonedoummaynardjame]

second album ;)

[@mojobag01]

This is their second album. They took almost an entire week to record this one rather than the 12 hours for the debut.

[@vicprovost2561]

The time frames to make these early masterpieces blows the minds of modern musicians!

[@robvodafone7282]

Guitarist Toni Iommi lost two finger tips in a metal bashing factory accident, so tuned his guitar down to make it more playable for him, and that helped give that low doom type sound.

[@adrianmorris5546]

One of the most amazing Albums ever produced which stands so tall after all these years a masterpiece

[@chrispetrillo9042]

I'm so happy to see you reviewing Black Sabbath. I believe after you listen to their first 4 or 5 albums you may be ready to add a Black Sabbath poster to your wall.😃 Would also love to see you review more Deep Purple albums like "Who do we think we are".

[@davidmeir9348]

Simply told, this is the blueprint of Heavy Metal and undoubtely the most important heavy metal album of all times. Sabbath First 3 albums (Black Sabbath Paranoid and Master of Reality) as Well as Deep Purple's In Rock and Machine Head and while not Metal, extremely influential Led Zeppelin 2 are the foundation stones of Heavy Metal. ALL the subsequent metal genres or albums owe their sound and influence in some way to those albums. Something very special with Black Sabbath is how Ozzy would sing to the tune of the solo, or you could say that the main melody is provided by the lead guitar. Very unusual, but the result is that while Sabbath rocks hard, you can't help but humming their highly melodic solos. The extended end solo of War Pigs is a good example of this. A stone cold classic. Planet Caravan is so trippy and beautiful. ❤ My favorite Black Sabbath song is Symptom of the Universe. Such a great song. Do listen to it. The melody of Iron Man has of course, smartly being used for the closing credits of the movie Iron Man. The song is not related to the Marvel character but it would have been a crime not to use it.

[@joescott8877]

The whole album, as you'll see, is FIRE, but yeah, War Pigs and Paranoid are instant classics. "Fairies Wear Boots," on Side 2, is my favorite, but it's hard to choose! you can hear how Metallica and Iron Maiden and so many other more recent metal bands were influenced by Sabbath! Do yourself a favor and watch the live version of War Pigs, from 1970, in Paris. The energy of the performance is unreal. Sadly, the song is more relevant than ever today. Cheers!

[@eemanuel4655]

Awesome reaction as always.. Believe it or not that music scared me when it came out and was so before its time it was looked down upon by many... There is no way most girls would ever be caught listening to that until maybe the late 80"s

[@dedcowbowee]

Great reaction, can't wait for side 2!✌✌

[@rabbiphilio]

An absolute masterpiece. Ozzy is one of my fav singers

[@mjwaldrep]

Great choice! The Iron Man melody/guitar riff is very famous. College bands play it during football games and it’s featured in movies and other areas of entertainment.

[@vicprovost2561]

Yes, they have been absorbed into Pop Culture! They will never be forgotten.

[@Covenantt666]

Especially the Iron Man movies.

[@summergivens242]

I remember how big of a song War Pigs was back when the Vietnam war was going. ( yes I'm an old geezer that still jams out on this stuff )

[@thesteadingoffranya4423]

Love your show, nice to see authentic people. got a suggestion for you, pick a band that you already know that was introduced to you here but go to the first song on the bands first album. This will put you in the very moment us gen x all heard the band for the first time. Definitely get you some engagement simply as we all reminisce about the first intros. Lol stay well and I hope your days are filled with love, laughter and joy.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Easily one of the greatest bands of all time. 4 geniuses at work. Period.

[@djclabbe88]

Isn't it crazy that this album is 54 years old, but it's still fantastic and don't sound aged? 🥰 Verdy, where's your big/better headphones you used to have??

[@mrloverlover32]

they were one of the first rock bands and it must have been crazy to hear it in 1970, especially with that sound

[@myklegue3968]

many good songs on this album including my all time favorite BS song...Fairies Wear Boots!!

[@longfootbuddy]

my favorite song on that album too

[@shspurs1342]

My favourite Black Sabbath song. Which is also my favourite Metal song is “Junior’s Eyes”

[@Angel-Six]

Hell yeah! Paranoid is a perfect song, and this album is amazing!

[@quicktastic]

Great reaction. They were definitely on their game here.

[@tralph40]

The next album is my favourite. And the heaviest thing ever!!

[@rjart4]

Probably the most misunderstood band of all time.

[@christophermollan1684]

AAn absolutely mounumental masterpiece of an album!!!!!!!

[@funnymanricktwo]

Hi Verdy, great reaction as usual.

[@RITH5150]

Those were bongo drums in Planet Caravan cool song

[@blueh2o575]

Trust us there's no bad song on albums 1-4 or the others after that mostly. You really want to get into albums 1-4, please, you won't regret hearing the greatest hard rock group of all time.

[@longfootbuddy]

yes, i can only blame hipster song requesters and paying prunes for reactors not focusing on early albums of bands, more sensably, starting at the begining and moving foreward, rather than focusing on only the popular songs, or works of old geezers, wink, that were way past their primes.. cough cough acdc at riverplate cough cough

[@blueh2o575]

@longfootbuddy isn't it amazing that this band is still the best even as geezers? Just watch any of the band's KZbin videos from THE END concert tour. I saw it live and the young people in the audience were stunned by performance. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIqYn4yjibqZpLMsi=W-jGp3pPHC82KhO5

[@longfootbuddy]

@@blueh2o575 you can make it look like anything you want, if you filter out everything contrary to it.. and no, it sounds like a very old ozzy trying to sing it like he used to

[@blueh2o575]

Ok your ears...mine hear incredible performance and commitment to their fans in their 70's.

[@longfootbuddy]

@@blueh2o575 yeah, my ears are actually hearing what it sounds like

[@RITH5150]

Great reaction to this powerful side of this album

[@vicprovost2561]

One of the best and most ikonic album sides by anyone, it has only grown in legend after being great right away.

[@vicprovost2561]

This album, the debut album before and Master of Reality after, are the template for all heavy metal that comes after. They were the pioneers and they did it best! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎶🔥

[@christopherwinkler4451]

Was really interested to see your reaction to Planet Caravan. It's different for Black Sabbath, but they had a few songs like that. Changes comes to mind. The effect on Ozzy's voice, if no one mentioned it yet, is a Leslie rotary speaker, initially used on Hammond organs, but adapted by many for other uses. Jimi Hendrix used one for his guitar sound on Little Wing. And the percussion is Conga drums played by Bill Ward. Oh, and what you thought might be a keyboard is a flute, played by Tony onto the reversed master, which was then played forward and a delay was added. Brilliant. But my favorite part of the song is Tony's jazzy solo at the end. He is more than just a riff master.

[@RussellFarina-c7r]

Great album! Wonderful reaction!

[@williamh4172]

You know that you wore out an album when you hear it some 50 years later and you can hear the next song in your head before the track even starts.

[@MLawrence2008]

Hi Verdy, another great reaction. You are back doing what I consider you do better than anyone else, Album reactions! Hugs from your English friends!

[@jaimepapa662]

Hi Verdy, Jack Black teaches Iron Man to the kids in School of Rock...that's why you know the riff 😊

[@philn8122]

The part she was referring to was also used at the start of the first Iron man movie.

[@rudymorganti7155]

Great reaction young lady ❤ from Belgium 🇧🇪 🤘

[@brovold72]

The awesome thing about "Planet Caravan" is how well it sets up "Iron Man" (i.e. OK time to wake up!)

[@guitarman8462]

Planet Caravan - Guitar - Bass - Congos -Drums

[@WolfgangDee72]

I bought this album in 1971 when I was 16, after spending the previous year listening to their first album, along with Led Zeppelin , Deep Purple, ZZ Top, etc. I saw a documentary from Black Sabbath years later where they told of going from rags to riches, with a chauffeur driven limo, living in a castle, evoking Goetic demons and tripping on acid, as these demons chased the screaming band members all over the building. At the time these albums came out, they were the ultimate f/u to the establishment and much too heavy for a lot of my school mates in Texas. At the time, my friends and I thought it was the best music ever made. Over 50 years ago and people are still listening to it. These three bands changed everything.

[@paulfromt.o.7384]

Nice. Lotta memories listening to this on LP in smokey basements with friends.

[@reemsash698]

I want the "VERDY channel" to get the 00K button. C'mon , tell some friends.

[@Sammylu-greenbeatsred]

Great reaction! Now that you have done this album it's a must that you react to their debut album named Black Sabbath. It's an extremely important album as their beginning.

[@guitarman8462]

The thing with Black Sabbath , they do so many changes before coming back the main riff.

[@claudioferraro1652]

War Pigs Is about Vietnam war. Unfortunately Is still fresh today ❤

[@brianboyle3998]

I have to disagree. It's about war in general, not Vietnam, which was an American issue, not British. It just happened to be going on when this song came out.

[@Yewchoobarkontz]

The lads in the band said they knew nothing about the Vietnam War. Britain wasn't involved.

[@vovindequasahi]

It's about war in general and just what they do, creating conflict on purpose to fill those pockets!

[@rojospeckdeckel]

Good Morning VERDY , Ich freue mich zuzusehen dir beim zusehen Zuzusehen 😂ich wünsche mir von ganzen Herzen das du von Reinhard Mey - Nein meine Söhne geb ich nicht bewertest 😊

[@budzeppelin3768]

As we travel the universe

[@tigger3565]

This song was used in the first iron man movie. There is also a Christmas song called ( I’m am Santa Claus). They use the iron man song in it.

[@RedEdgedSavage]

NICE !

[@Andres-mp7jn]

100/100 album🤘

[@bokononbokomaru8156]

Great choice !

[@RedVynil]

I think that was a flute or recorder with an echo on it. "Iron Man" was their biggest hit. "Electric Funeral" was on the flip side.

[@eduardogarate5396]

Hello youn girl... thanks for react to BS... one of my favorites group in the '70s... first I liked for me was Led Zeppelin... It was a pleasures to hear to BS with you... Greetings from Santiago de Chile, South America.

[@jonnyalcantra5445]

E assim nasceu o heavy metal❤

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

On Paranoid, possibly a fuzz involved but with the addition of a ring modulator- quite unusual for a guitar solo! An effect perhaps used more often for voices, such as the intro of Iron Man and a well known sound of the Daleks from UK show Doctor Who 😊 Great to see these music reactions again!

[@Fetfisk]

wow Black Sabbath...... mysigt som fan

[@greatriffishere]

Great reaction Verdy. This album is a classic. Ozzy, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler and Tony Lommi at their prime. Please react to Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath album which is their best in my opinion. Cheers and have a great day Verdy.

[@langdalepaul]

Yeah, that’s a fuzz pedal alright. When I first played this song on my hi-fi I thought I’d buggered the speakers!

[@Cark-r1d]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@protarget1]

What you called a Tambourine, is Bill Ward, actually playing the Toms (Tom Tom's)

[@edwardfuerst1143]

Hello Very, good to see you. Nice selection!

[@tonybaker55]

I can hardly believe I was listening to this when it first came out and I would have been younger than you. Seems only like yesterday. Great that it still sounds fresh and I still know all the words! Iron Man was used in the 2008 movie Iron Man.

[@beriben]

I believe the track "Iron Man" was part of the 2008 Marvel "Iron Man" movie soundtrack.

[@davidscroggins7728]

Hey Verdy !Always good to see you. Don;t forget to react to Lara Fabian, and David Phelps. Even if you do it on your own personal time. Love ya. Peace out. Lara's from Lara with love concert. 1999. Her Caruso, Adagio, Je Sui Malade songs are Master pieces !

[@malcshone4409]

That smile is really beautiful now.

[@geraldarsenault275]

just a shout out i like your channel because you do albums, my preferred method of listening to music

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘

[@JimmyRJump]

According to studio execs, the total running time of the album was too short and the Sabbs were asked to write another song. The song "Paranoid" was written in a couple of hours and added as "filler" to get a more respectable total running time. Also, the album was supposed to be called "War Pigs" but Warner Brothers (the USA distributor for the album) thought the title was inappropriate with the Vietnam war going on and all the protests in the USA. That's also why the cover shows a guy with a shield and a sword because the artwork design was already finished and ready to print. The song "War Pigs" was originally titled "Walpurgis", which is a witches celebration night, and had different lyrics.

[@MegaIronleg]

GREAT REACTIONS VERDY. NOW GO BACK ONE ALBUM, TO THE BEGINNING. THE SONG BLACK SABBATH, ON THE ALBUM BLACK SABBATH, BY BLACK SABBATH. ALSO THE LIVE VERSION OF WAR PIGS, IN PARIS 1970. DRUMMER, BILL WARD…. MASSACRES HIS DRUMS N SONG, SUCH RAW ENERGY N CREATIVE TALENT. THIRD ALBUM, MASTER OF REALITY. THEN, VOLUME 4. THEN SABOTAGE…. ITS GREAT TO SEE NEW SABBATH FANS, 55yrs LATER. I BET THAT 55yrs FROM NOW, YOULL BE STILL ROCKIN TO BLACK SABBATH….. ROCK ON 👊🖖

[@christopherbova8109]

Good reaction

[@princeofpcos9804]

Please do Van Halen's debut!

[@m.b-ee8815]

That effect is Iommi playing flute.

[@Jp421JP]

It’s insane that this is 1970!

[@Espectro8818]

Linda dentadura. Te recuerdo de tu reacción a Terminator 3

[@tpmartinez]

Thank you for being so beautiful ❤

[@Jonathan-d1b3g]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@melvinwren]

his fuzz was a treble booster called "dallas rangemaster" it was a kit, and not exactly like the footpedals guitarists use these days. you built it yourself, and it sat on your amp, and ud probably just keep it on. think only songs he turns it off is "planet caravan" and then the only song he definitely uses a foot pedal, is "electric funeral" with a wah wah pedal.

[@pauldavis2535]

👍❤️

[@djclabbe88]

Maybe you've seen the Iron Man movies? 😎 They use the song for the soundtrack

[@mikeherrmann5360]

You want a good laugh?? Check out Bob Rivers cover... I Am Santa Clause

[@jamesanthony5257]

Jim! "Turn That Down": Flashback. Sorry.

[@vicprovost2561]

Spot On! Their albums were HATED by every parent I knew in 1970!

[@olaspaz3079]

I wish you'd started with the first album but i get that KZbin reactors don't work that way so nevermind.❤️ My old vinyl album had a slightly different version of "Paranoid".❤️ The 3rd album was a little hit and miss but volume 4 has some of my favourites. It's patchy from there, but all pop music artists are like that, and they still had some belters.❤️ Ozzy's voice went years ago 😒.

[@Phylonyous]

Get used to the infamous Sabbath change ups!!!

[@billpimentel-vm6cu]

Bongos on planet caravan.

[@rickeylucero3955]

Good girl 😊😊😊😊

[@CCCowboy]

⚡😎⚡

[@johnthompson6374]

More please,,,,

[@deanroddey2881]

The thing about War Pigs is that it's slower than you feel like it should possibly be, particularly in that very sparse intro. But it has the right effect, of making you feel sort of held down and uncomfortable. Of course that would never pass muster in today's ADHD world. A modern pop song would have already had three choruses before this intro is done (all identical copied and pasted versions of course.)

[@scotfree8363]

Now the time is here for ironman😛 to drink beer

[@davidcarter4247]

This was an album I bought when it was released and I also saw the band around this time. I thought the track order was all wrong and Paranoid should have been the opening track followed by War Pigs, Iron Man and the side ending with Planet Caravan. The intro to War Pigs is too long and slow for an album opening track and so many people back in the day would skip it and go straight to Paranoid. Whole Lotta Love and Highway Star are perfect examples of opening tracks. Planet Caravan is my favourite Sabbath track ever and a perfect invitation to flip to side 2. This was the vinyl era. Great side one enders include Stairway to Heaven, Great Gig in the Sky and Child in Time.

[@toyferBritney]

Maybe you heard the snippet from Iron Man in the movie Iron Man (the first one), my vote for Best Movie

[@shspurs1342]

Yep it wasn’t a tambourine. It sounds like hand drums.

[@BernhardHeiming-pw8xj]

🤝👍🙏👏👏👏

[@ramonacosta2647]

Now that you've heard Iron Man you need to listen to the parody song I Am Santa Claus.

[@christophermollan1684]

An abo

[@blueh2o575]

They are still the GOATs Verdy! Love to see your reaction to their recent live performance of War Pigs. Absolutely amazing at their age. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIqYn4yjibqZpLMsi=W-jGp3pPHC82KhO5

[@JeffreyBrewer-us5io]

React to Blizzard of Oz

[@robertvirago1956]

le premier film Iron man de marvel la final est la bande sonore Iron man de BS

[@danmayberry1185]

Find something better than Planet Caravan during Tony's solo. I can't.

[@RussellFarina-c7r]

Great album! Wonderful reaction!