Black Sabbath - Never Say Die! (1978) (W.B.Rhino Rem. 2004) [EAC

Extractor: EAC 0.99 prebeta 4 Read Mode: Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Codec: Flac 1.2.1; Level 8 Source: Found (Ripped by Necromandus) Artwork: Full scans + 80 Pages Booklet (600 dpi). General Info: Album: Never Say Die! Label Warner Bros/Rhino (2004) Tracklist: 1. "Never Say Die!" ? 3:49 2. "Johnny Blade" ? 6:28 3. "Junior's Eyes" ? 6:42 4. "A Hard Road" ? 6:04 5. "Shock Wave" ? 5:15 6. "Air Dance" ? 5:17 7. "Over to You" ? 5:22 8. "Breakout" ? 2:35 9. "Swinging the Chain" ? 4:17 LINE UP: * Ozzy Osbourne ? lead vocals * Tony Iommi ? guitar, backing vocals on "A Hard Road" * Geezer Butler ? bass guitar, backing vocals on "A Hard Road" * Bill Ward ? drums, lead vocals on "Swinging the Chain", backing vocals on "A Hard Road" * Don Airey ? keyboards * John Elstar ? harmonica * Will Malone ? brass arrangements *Dan Hersch, Bill Inglot ? remastering (2004) Review taken from metal-observer.com: The first six BLACK SABBATH albums laid out the Ten Commandments of Heavy Metal, or depending on whom you ask, it might just have been the first four. Either way, it?s undeniable ? SABBATH had a huge impact on the Metal world, arguably the largest and most forceful impact any band has ever had and most likely will have. After those albums, though, the fan base is split deeper and wider than the American public is when it comes to politics. Some fans renounce anything after ?Sabotage,? discrediting any SABBATH fronted by Dio, Tony Martin, Ian Gillan, or Glenn Hughes as, well, not BLACK SABBATH. On the other hand, there are some who sing the praises of the first six albums and accept the band?s later works as solid efforts. Rare are the fans in either camp, however, that acknowledge the existence of the in-between albums, ?Technical Ecstasy? and ?Never Say Die!? These albums are much maligned by many casual and die-hard SABBATH fans alike. Now, I?ll go on the record and say that while I think that the hatred of these two records is a bit exaggerated, I pretty much agree when it comes to ?Technical Ecstasy.? On the other hand, I do not have the same feelings about ?Never Say Die!? This album is a lot more Hard Rock-oriented than other BLACK SABBATH, less riff-driven and more focused on Tony Iommi?s musical experimentations. The band had been incorporating new ideas into their songs ever since ?Vol. 4,? and each album found an increasing amount of pianos, synths, and other surprises. On ?Technical Ecstasy,? the band sounded bogged down by these experiments, which, coupled with Ozzy?s poor vocal delivery and the frail production, seriously wounded the record. On ?Never Say Die!? the experimentation fits in perfectly alongside the hard riffage, resulting in a record with both variety and flow. Sure, ?A Hard Road? and ?Shock Wave? are pretty nondescript rockers lacking the usual quality of Tony Iommi?s trademarked riffs, but the other songs more than make up for it. The title track starts the album out in upbeat fashion, and though the song is slightly weak sounding, it?s fun and very catchy. ?Johnny Blade? sounds the most like classic SABBATH here, though with futuristic synth worked into the song ? and it actually sounds good, not forced! ?Junior?s Eyes? is a down-tempo emotional rocker, written by Geezer about Ozzy?s (at the time) recently deceased father, and is tied with ?Johnny Blade? for best song on here. So far, that makes three great tracks and two somewhat boring ones. The second half of the record gets pretty weird, and is probably the reason most people despise this record. It is hardly recognizable as BLACK SABBATH at all. ?Air Dance? is a bass-driven, jazzy song featuring mostly acoustic guitars and pianos underneath Ozzy?s vocals ? in the end, it sounds a lot like the mellow breaks worked into the songs of ?Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? and ?Sabotage,? but expanded into a full track. ?Over To You? is another pretty good song, with a nice angular riff and lots of piano flourishes and an emotional delivery by Ozzy. ?Breakout? reminds me of the distant cousin of ?Supertzar? from ?Sabotage,? featuring a nice Iommi riff accompanied by a horn section and guitar soloing, which acts as a sort of an into track to ?Swinging The Chain,? a heavy bluesy number sung by Bill Ward with Ozzy on harmonica. This half of the album has nothing in the vein of ?Iron Man? or ?Children Of The Grave,? but it definitely has its merits. BLACK SABBATH tried a lot of new things on ?Never Say Die!?, and for the most part, I?d say that they worked. Ozzy sounds MUCH better than he did on ?Technical Ecstasy,? though still a little flat compared to ?Sabotage? and the earlier records. I really think that this album would have been better received had it come directly after ?Sabotage? ? ?Technical Ecstasy? spelled the doom (no pun intended) of the Ozzy-era SABBATH. If ?Technical Ecstasy? had never existed, I?d bet that people would be talking instead about the classic first seven SABBATH albums, rather than just the first six. Then again, most people would probably disagree with a lot of what I?ve said in this review, so maybe I?m just insane.

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Sworduigi (2008-06-22)

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