"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath - Vocal Analysis and Reaction to Ozzy Osbourne's Expert Delivery
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Sometimes I think singers become "underrated" not because we don't see their talent, but because they make it look so effortless. Ozzy Osbourne is one of those vocalists. Today we're listening to the song "Paranoid" performed by Black Sabbath on Top of the Pops.
Watch the original video uninterrupted: • BLACK SABBATH - "Para...
Website: bethanyhickman...
Join the A-Lyst: / thevocalyst
#ozzyosbourne #reaction #vocalcoach
A couple of words I never thought I’d hear matched with Ozzy Osbourne. Sophisticated and elegant.
clearly not a reference to his off the stage behavior and lowlife proclivities
😂
Yeah, enunciate and articulate are not usually in the same sentence as Ozzy either. To be fair, he IS usually easier to understand when he's singing 😂😂
@@bradpriebe9218 yeah he can hardly stutter his way through a sentence
Same lol
No one talkin about Geezer's Bass slapin Technique.
I don’t know if he’s slapping it as much as knocking the shit out of it
Yeah it’s the sort of thing all the high school kids trying to cover this said… do what now? Same as Leo - 10 Years After. It’s like he got an upright and turned it sideways.
Legendry ... Villa forever! lol
Love Leo Lyons on killer bass, too!
He’s a bass god
As a guitar player, and live-long Black Sabbath fan (I am 57), let me just say: Geezer Butler on bass is awesome.
He and Bill provide a basis reminiscent of Andy and Pete from UFO. Seems necessary if you want to kick ass!
Looks pretty basic to me
"We recorded the whole thing (the album) in about 2 or 3 days, live in the studio. The song "Paranoid" was written as an afterthought. We basically needed a 3 minute filler for the album and Tony came up with the riff. I quickly did the lyrics and Ozzy was reading them as he was singing." - Geezer Butler (bass)
Without a doubt one of the greatest rock songs ever written, especially since it was completely spontaneous.
Why is it great cuz it’s in the last minute? I’d rather ponder over something like TOOL, where everything is thought out.🌿🌸
@@Gabriel_MolineBollocks
Taking this a bit further, after Ozzy had been singing the song for a week or two he asked Geezer "What is that song paranoid about?" That to me seems insane but I watched an interview with Geezer and that's the story he told.
@@Gabriel_Molinei like tool but sabbath shits all over them
I wish I could go back in time to 1970 and tell the band, just after they've spent a few minutes on this 'quickie' to fill an album, that 54 years later highly educated students of music would devote their time to analysing that song on a globally accessible platform ... if only for the privilege of being called a "crazy loon" by Ozzy Osbourne! 😃
Seeing OZZY this young still blows my mind
This is how I think of Ozzie.
Before he blew HIS mind!🤨
The best part of this for me is Bill Ward not even trying to properly pantomime the drum part. Lol
A lot of groups on shows like this were less than enthusiastic about pretending to play it live.
This is a legitimate live recording.
@@hoagsmash4188 youre serious?! Nothing on that show was a live recording. They just pretended to play but the music coming out of the speakers was the album version.
@@thebenc1537 You need to listen to the live version more. I didn't say they were playing it on the show, but that is 100% not the album version.
Thank you for appreciating Ozzie‘s vocal ability. It’s jarring and pleasurable at the same time. It’s so unusual and it’s hard to describe why it’s amazing. But you’ve done a really good job. That baseline is just absolutely filthy. These guys were the best they set the standard and everybody who knows anything knows it.
Geezer Butler (Bass player) wrote this in about 20 minutes as a fill in for the album. Tony Iommi (lead guitarist) wrote the music😂😂 One of their most memorable hits. The album eventually was named Paranoid 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
In the video you get a quick glimpse of Tony's fretting hand. He has 2 prosthetic finger tips. Cut the tips of his fingers of on the last day of work before going on tour with his first band. He is a real legend
Paranoid still sounds good
@@alphooeyI still come to a standstill when I hear it 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥
Got to be one of the best groups put together ever❤🎉
Im here for that smile❤️😃
@@geecee4746 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻Me too
His enunciation is extra impressive if you’ve ever heard him speak! 😝
He could probably speak pretty well back then before he baked his noodle with all those drugs.
@@wesbaumguardner8829 Dude, he's got Parkinson's disease.
@@deathsalad2235 I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. Still, his heavy drug use on his younger years did not help his health any.
@@wesbaumguardner8829 It's actually a little heartbreaking because for a long time (IIRC) his doctors assumed the same thing: that his symptoms were from prolonged drug abuse. Turns out it wasn't just that, so they didn't catch the disease for a long time. I wasn't trying to be a dick, and you made the same assumption that his doctors did. It's just sad. Not only did the drugs damage his body, but they delayed diagnosis on a pretty horrifying degenerative disease.
This is my favorite Black Sabbath song. The driving energy of the band with Ozzy's manic vocal soaring above is an unbeatable combination. Nice analysis, Bethany!
You gotta love the 3-minute long filler song that was written in 20 minutes by Tony, Geezer, and Ozzy.
It turned out to be an iconic tune and one of the best metal songs ever written and played.
And if you have a friend claiming he hates metal ... 🤔 he will realize his error.
Ozzy's best vocal performances come in the mid 70s. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Looking For Today, Symptom Of the Universe, Megalomania, The Writ. Some of these songs have live performances as well.
nah
Geez, I'm old, I remember when this album came out. And I regret NOTHING, ha, ha. That whole album is awesome and stands the test of time.
Great reaction! This has been an absolute favorite of mine since my early teens in the seventies. Thank you! Keep on rockin!!!
Geezer and Bill, one of the greatest rhythm sections ever
Yes you can dance to Black Sabbath! LOL Great Reaction.
Weird to see but... when u are trippin... your body can't help but to move 😵💫🥴BLACK SABBATH🤘🏽😈
Geezer Butler and Bill Ward make up one of the best rhythm sections in all of rock and roll.
When this first came out they said it was trash. Now it is being reacted and praised
Music "Pureists" said it was trash because most of the song was written in 20 minutes as an end-of-the-album filler song.
The part that wasn't written in 20 minutes is the main rift of the song which had been floating around in Tony Iommi's head for quite some time. When they were told they needed a 3-minute song to finish the album Tony said he had this rift he had been screwing around with, he played it, Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics and Ozzy sang/changed them a bit as they were literally being written LOL.
Ironically, once the album debuted, this song was the first single release of it.
The "3-minute filler song" written in 20 minutes was the biggest hit of the album, go figure LOL.
If Black Sabbath had released singles before the album debut, Paranoid would have been a "B-side" song on the single release.
How high were Ozzy and the rest of the guys to not realize Paranoid would be a massive hit once they heard the finished product??? LOL
Take every legendary hard rock band from the 70s, they said the same thing about all of them.
Rolling Stone magazine had this to say about Led Zeppelin :
"The band offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago … to fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer, editor and some material worthy of their collective talents", calling Page a "limited producer" and criticizing his writing skills. It also called Plant "as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near so exciting".
The critics of the day could not have been more wrong.
@@gumballthechewy That rag has always been wrong about music. They were wrong then and would probably still be wrong now if they actually attempted to cover music today instead of the 'authorized agenda items.'
I saw Sabbath in San Diego during their Never Say Die tour in '78. Opening act was a brand new band called Van Halen.
what a life!!!
Saw Sabbath, Boston, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen @ Anaheim Stadium 9/'78, remember fake Van Halen guys parachuting onto backstage,...good times!!
@@ge0fthomas906 whoa, what an awesome lineup!
When you try to sing like him, with the same kind of breathing and energy that he’s putting in, you finish the lines almost breathlessly, gasping for air, almost as if he’s trying to convey his anxiety and agony. It perfectly mirrors the emotions conveyed in the lyrics. Just brilliant.
You have to sing in Birmnghamese
@@johnfry4501 I can´t even imagine how would that be....
Exactly. Ozzie swings on this one -- subtly behind the beat. It sounds cool, but it's also practical as he's not competing so much with the instrumentation. Sometimes it almost sounds like a slap-back.
Excellent reaction! Ozzy Osbourne is a living legend! His voice, the timbre, the vibe, the versatility, the intensity, everything about Ozzy's vocals is impressive, magical, divine, sacred, transcendental, unique...In addition to all this, the 8 albums and songs from the classic lineup (Ozzy Osbourne: vocalist, Geezer Butler: bassist, Bill Ward: drummer and The Grand Master of Masters, Tony Iommi: guitarist) of Black Sabbath from the 70s: sacred, immortal, timeless, impressive, dazzling, dizzying, mesmerizing, masterful, masterpieces...Black Sabbath is the biggest, best band in the history of Heavy Metal, and probably one of the bands, perhaps the band that most influenced people linked to music, especially those linked to Rock and Heavy Metal...I suggest the reaction, analysis of the song "Snowblind", one of Black Sabbath's exceptional, masterful songs...
Tony Iommie wrote this during a lunch break to fill up their record time. And yes Bethany - this is an anthemic piece of music. Parallels with something like Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple - after their experience in Switzerland ) Montereau on the Lake Geneva shore line) Written as a filler for an album and became massive.
On rock/metal, "A lot of singers really try to stay in time exactly on the beat, so it's kind of cool when you can hear someone do something just a little bit different, while the instruments are still maintaining this intensity"
This is one of my favourite songs of all time and I’m not even really an Ozzy fan. I saw him in concert many years ago….definitely iconic
If you wanna check out Black Sabbath, check out their performance of "War Pigs" at the Olympia Theatre in Paris on December 20, 1970. "Firing on all cylinders" is an apt but understated statement that best describes that performance
I saw them in Seattle in '70. Awesome.
Ozzy's voice is never tired or vague or approximate. It is always powerfully precise and crystal clear with exact phrasing. He is the best articulator of lyrics and their meaning that rock music has ever had. After more than 50 years, Black Sabbath remains my favorite band. Not just because of Ozzy. Each member of the band essential in creating the phenomenon that is Black Sabbath.
They are all 22/23 at that time which is insane to see how good and innovative they were.
Live in Paris in 1970 is an awesome actual live performance. The rawness, intensity and brutality is legendary.
Bethany please do an analyses of their live show from Paris in 1970, war pigs, it's incredible!
To this day still my favorite song of all time.
Always Loved how Bill held his drumsticks in reverse. I know why, but still seems just cool ! Lol
Been a Sabbath fan since the summer this album came out. Followed the band and Ozzy both after the breakup. Never disappointed in either. Ozzy and the band both deserve their Hall of Fame positions... for obvious reasons.
Love the Ozzy days of Black Sabbath. Just amazing!
My man, Geezer on that bass! He wrote some epic music and some of the most demanding bass lines in metal history.
just a fantastic dissection of one of the Greatest Bands of all time and yes a (sadly) very underrated Singer in Ozzy... Great Video.
I love watching people dance to "Paranoid."
My favorite Sabbath song! Great reaction and breakdown of vocals and music - thanks!
Oh golly is one of my favorite phrases 😂🤙 always makes me smile….love your reactions
Never seen something like this... never more. Brillante beatifull únique.
Being 60, and a lifelong Ozzy fan, I had no idea that he had such a perfect nose. Never too late to learn something new!
"It's so cool" as yous said. Thats dicribing Black Sabbath very correctly :D
I am way to young to ever experienced theire songs on release (born in 1997) but i think they are one of the most influencial bands ever
He has such a neat voice, I'll always remember it
This is the blueprint for heavy metal. Sabbath are a pillar of English and modern music. Ozzy was a natural.
Ozzy's voice is definitely one of a kind...and I love it...but what made Sabbath stand out were Tony's riffs....VERY simple, VERY powerful, and totally unforgettable.
This is not a live performance but it's nice to see you this morning, Bathany. Have a wonderful day!!
Doesn't sound like the album version either
Not sure of another band that only had one guitar player at that time let alone no keyboard player. Those three musicians really work their A$$ off. The GODS of METAL for sure!! 🤟🏼🎸☮️♾️😎
All time #1 metal song. Period. No debate, no discussion. Move on to #2.
ГОЛОС.....КАКОЙ ГОЛОС ..ФАНТАСТИКА...ПРЯМО В ДУШУ....
The adjective I would use regarding the Bass and Drums is Driving.
🔥 ozzys voice is insanely good
toute ma jeunesse ces groupes de rock. Merveilleux et merci.
I think it's easy to forget because of how much of a circus his life became that Ozzy had a really really strong singing voice.
Great Review Bethany, .. .I have been a Sabbath fan for most of my Life from 10 y/o (now 58 unfortunately lol) , I really hope OzzY gets his wish to play one last time with Sabbath in Birningham (UK 40 miles south of where I am from) God pray that it happens, I will sell my house for that Gig, I've seen OzzY iwith Sabbath many times and in his own rights with Blizzard of Oz PVFC :) (with Randy Rhodes, another legend) ... just one more show would be out of this world, ... bring ot on
wow my fav band
On these old TOTP performances, the band could go in earlier to record a "live" version and then mime to that on the show. Most just mimed to their record but this version does differ from the studio recording enough to be "live"-ish.
Yeah, about 95% of TOTP videos on RUclips are lip-sync performances to a recorded song. They did have a couple of actually live performances during the run of the show, but I don't know which songs/artists did those.
Good pick,and good morning Bethany!
Thanks for the awesome reviews. ❤
Ozzy's vocals are very rhythmic
Born 1965, I discovered Sabbath after the Ozzy days had ceased to be. Heaven and Hell on record and Mob Rules live were my introduction to Sabbath.
As an amateur guitar player myself, I normally position myself in front of the lead guitarist, rather than in front of the singer, because in general the singer doesn’t interest me.
However, if I ever get to see Sabbath again, I will once again position myself in front of Geezer Butler. I have seen many of the great bassists of the rock genre - Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, Jason Newsted, etc - but for me no one comes close to Geezer Butler. It’s like watching someone playing a piano on four strings.
The length of the song is perfect too. Bam! 💥
u can tell hes from england...but you cant tell is this voice is earthern or alien..after all those years still alien to me
Cool just about to go to sleep and saw you’d uploaded ❤️
Geezer's bass really moves the band along. Probably that old Fender under a couch on a porch in the '70s😂
One of my argument & research students just wrote a lengthy researcxh essay about Sabbath's influence on later metal, especially thrash metal. She did a great job overviewing the easy deliniation of Sabbath into the Ozzy era, the Dio era, and other eras, as though the lead singers WERE the band. But, my student argued, the REAL lead of Sabbath was Tony Iommi and his guitar riffs, and that's what you picked up on right away at the beginning of your reaction! So, shoutout to my student!
Selfishly, I would also love you do start doing some comparison videos. I'd be really interested in your take on this version vs. Megadeth's cover, or Sabbath's "War Pigs" vs. Faith No More's "War Pigs."
Much as I love Sabbath, the best version of this song I've ever heard is the one on Ozzy's Tribute to Randy Rhoads. Phenomenal!
I saw sabbath live in 1978 when i was 12 great times
Oh,my Dear..what kind of an air in vocals You talking about..there is no air,This is Black Sabath with Ozzy😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
I think you would fall in love with the amazing voice of the lead singer of Kamelot, Roy Khan. It is so beautiful. The live 2006 version of the song: The Haunting. The poetry of the lyrics in their songs are another wonderful aspect of their music.
Damn, never looked at Ozzy that way lol
I think you'll love to hear Laure Le Prunenec voice in Corpo-Mente - Ort, live at Improve Tone Studios, it's just exquisite !
I too knew the song by sound and always liked it. I didn’t know who performed it, much less the lead vocals. I knew of Black Sabbath, but not their songs.
Ozzy Osborne, registered in my mind as something perhaps like Ozzy and Harriet ( a generation before mine), was the best I could come up with.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. 😊
After this song had been made, nothing was the same...and it's hard to define or elaborate on magic. Magic is simply magical.
Wow you are so nice girl 😍. Ozzy is a power and he can sing really - pure hardrock in the best, "Diary of a madman" and many more - just pure art!
Interesting trivia fact, on the last day Toni Iomi was at work in a sheet metal factory before quiting to play guitar full time he chopped off his finger tips and had to relearn how to play guitar in a way that worked for his damaged hand which is why Black Sabath has the tone that it does.
What, really?! That's crazy! It's almost like that's common knowledge...
Tony Iommi
Oh Man does this bring back memories. When Paranoid hit the streets I was on a US Navy Destroyer off the coast of North Viet Nam running night combat missions against North Vietnamese Mig bases and supply depots. During the day we'd spend all morning along side various supply ships. In the afternoon we had a couple hours of rest time. We'd crank Paranoid up on the bridge and rock out for a while. Paranoid was always on the playlist everyday. It's a great let her rip song !
Glad you made it home safe, bro.
Yes, breadth and width mean the same thing; you were correct in using that word. Great choice of Black Sabbath for today's analysis.
The Birmingham beat. The constant, rhythmic pounding of the steel mills. Ozzy is simply legendary. Imo, Ozzy remains one of the top vocalists of my generation. Just imagine, you could have been a metal head had a different station, been playing, at a pivotal moment in your life. There is still time. Enjoy.
For me Paranoid is kind of vanilla Black Sabbath. Fairies wear boots is an awesome song. So many changes, and different parts to it. Symptom of the Universe, War Pigs and Snowblind are great songs too.
Second vinyl album I bought as an early teen was "Paranoid". I did not stay with that metal then for much after that, but I loved "Iron Man", because I was also kind of a comic nerd, and was already enthralled with that particular character. But then it morphed into CCR, CSN&Y, and ultimately the panoply of the greatness of the rock music in the 1970's.
black sabbaths last live performance with dio "children of the see" is absolute gold!!!! that sound!!!
Thats nice🥴
it is the "enter sandman" of black sabbath in the 70s. like the pop version of black sabbath channeling all what made them great.
ozzy still beeing young here and still actually singing sounds great!!
Yes! I already love this so much
Had the very good fortune to see Black Sabbath in 1999, with all four original members. Of all four the band member who was the most impressive, to me, was Drummer Bill Ward. He had so much energy and attack in his style, and he just kept it up for the entire show. Ozzy, Geezer and Tony were all excellent of course, but Bill just stole the show. I enjoyed what you had to say about all parts of Sabbath. They are very underrated by many.
The amazing thing is that Sabbath wrote this song in 20 minutes to fill the remaining 3 minutes of time left on their upcoming album they were recording in the studio.
You still need to check out Myles Kennedy , Alter Bridge and the song Words Darker than their Wings live at Royal Albert Hall
You should listen the Black Sabbath live bootleg Worcester '83 with Ian Gillan on vocals... awesome performances of "Black Sabbath", "War pigs" and the ending of "Paranoid".
It’s great that you’re exploring the world of heavy metal and the vocal talents within that genre. I’ve really enjoyed your videos. I always recommend Volbeat to friends who ask about contemporary metal bands. I think you’ll find the lead singer’s vocals very unique. I recommend Volbeat - Lola Montez for your next video!
I don't know if you've done this yet, but I think you should watch José José's live performance of El Triste. It's the best live performance of anything I have EVER seen, and seeing you liked Juan Gabriel, you'll love José José
The video is titled "El Triste En Vivo"
Definitely one of the better songs in the movie Dazed and confused. But it does have a good soundtrack, actually there’s two back in the day on CD you could buy one was better than the other.
I love reactions of my favourite songs, similar expression i see in you hehe!
Definitely a great contrast between the music and the vocals. The music is very rhythmic and staccato while Ozzy's vocals are very even in tone and legato. It really adds to the catchiness of the song. I'm glad you enjoyed this.
You really can't react to too much Sabath.
Thank you.
.......Bethany feelin' that bass line.........
Please give "Hand Of Doom" a listen!
He could sing his butt off when he was young
Bethany thanks for the reaction.
Another great reaction, thank you.
These guy's just did it no f*cking around raw, live in a little studio in and out in a few day's where do you think nike got the phrase just do it they did
"Like some sort of anthem almost" oh it was...featured in many movies in the 90s etc. Dazed and Confused etc. When they stormed onto the scene with Deep Purple and Zeppelin nothing sounded like this...they blew the doors open in terms of what was possible with a more aggressive sound.
3:33. I have no doubt that YOU are the best person to speak about any of this!🌿🌸🌺🍀
you should listen to funeral fog by mayhem! it's very different and the vocals are very experimental, but super impressive
One of many great Sabbath songs, the original heavy rock gods.