Great to see love for Tony Martin. Criminally underappreciated era. The Shining off The Eternal Idol has some of the best Iommi riffs ever. Looking forward to the box set supposedly coming out this year.
Great list, I really like TYR, Headless Cross and Eternal Idol. Very cool to see those. Albums I need to recollect. Heaven and Hell is such a banger. Great Ranking James.
Really refreshing to see a black sabbath ranking video where it's not just the 1st six albums in the top six! I'm with you about the tony martin era being underrated I only have cross purposes in my collection though personally vol 4 is my favourite with mob rules coming in 2nd great content as always james!
Excellent ranking video James, finnaly had the time to properly check it out. Massive discography, I think that "Sabotage" & "Never Say Die" are very underrated! My favorite Sabbath album would probably be "Master of Reality". 🤘 Good to see Headless Cross so high on your list. Also: 15:18 😂👍
I just picked up 3 reissues in an effort to round out my Sabbath Collection. What a band!!!! I love the Dio stuff and the early Ozzy stuff as well. Everything they ever put out is above average though. Cheers Mr. B
I'm still discovering Sabbath's discography. I never got really heavy into them , I've been a fan of the Ozzy/Dio years but my favorite album is actually The Headless Cross (heaven and hell is a close second...._for me) I think I'm gonna dive into born again tonight. I haven't heard it but I was told to avoid it many years ago. But I think now is time to give it a chance!
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my favorite album of theirs as well. It has a sort of subdued magic about it that makes me keep coming back to it. It's definitely their deepest album lyrically and conceptually as well.
Least favourite is 13 Favourite is Master Of Reality. Awesome video. I love Born Again, I get obsessed with that album now and then. Eternal Idol is my favourite with Tony Martin. Got a soft spot for Seventh Star also which a lot of people do hate, Glenn Hughes is absolutely fantastic
Yeah, Born Again is one of the heaviest and psychedelic albums of all time. Insanely dark, and Tony's leads are incredible. So much atmosphere. Eternal Idol is definitely Tony Martin's best and a great Sabbath album all around. I also have a soft spot for Seventh Star. Glenn's vocals are killer as is Tony's playing.
I have a huge soft spot for the Dio era, Mob Rules was the first Sabbath track I ever heard, when it was released as a single. This is a good ranking, well done sir
Very enjoyable video. Yeah, 'The Devil You Know' is a Black Sabbath album in my eyes too. I love the main riff from "The Shining"... might be my favorite Sabbath riff. "No Stranger to Love" is a fantastic AOR track IMO. 'Dehumanizer' rocks!
My all-time favorite band! Great ranking! Dehumanizer got a reissue a couple of years ago. Just looked it up and it’s more affordable than the £60. I got the reissue and it sounds AMAZING!
Excellent ranking mate, my top 10 isn't much different from yours, same as you the Heaven & hell plus Mob rules albums are in there somewhere, I'm sorry you cannot ignore the amazing Dio era of this band. Black Sabbath are so important, they shaped heavy metal for us, massive love & respect. Cheers
Excellent ranking. Great vid. 1) Sabotage, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Vol 4 2) Master of Reality 3) Paranoid 4) Black Sabbath 5) Heaven and Hell 6) Born Again 7) Mob Rules 8) Die In Ecstasy: best songs from the 2, Back Street Kids You Won't Change Me It's Alright Juniors Eyes A Hard Road All Moving Parts (Stand Still) Air Dance Rock N Roll Doctor Breakout Swinging The Chain Damaged Soul (from 13, Really rocks)
Hi James!!! it's always cool to see other VC's member take on Sabbath's catalogue and nice to see you added Heaven & Hell to the list. When i started listening to music in the mid 80's Sabbath was not a "cool band" to listen, so i was kind of late to the party and the stuff they released in that decade. I think you're right about "13" i will listen to it again and also share your thoughts about "Born Again". Now what i really need to do is add the stuff they did with Tony Martin there're some killer songs and great riffs. cheers and be well
Cheers as always Cristian. Yeah I've never understood the dislike for Born Again, great album. The Heaven and Hell album definitely needs to be included.
Interesting to hear your thoughts on these albums James. It's a tough discography to rank as they have a lot of top quality albums, can't argue with your ranking. Ozzy is the classic voice you think of when it comes to Sabbath but Martin does an excellent job on the albums he features on and really enhances them and its a shame Gillan and Hughes only did one album apiece . My favourites are Headless Cross, Master of reality, dehumanizer, sabbath bloody sabbath and the first two Dio was on.
Great video bro and a very tough one as well so many classic albums to cover. From Ozzy to Dio to Tony as well as Ian and Glenn all great singers and with a revolving door of musicians they manage to pump out great albums and some not so great ones your ranking is great and ill include mine. 20. Forbidden 19. Cross Purposes 18. Never Say Die 17. 13 16. Seventh Star(i really like this album too) 15. Technical Ecstasy 14. Tyr 13. Black Sabbath 12. Born Again 11. Sabatoge 10. Dehumanizer 9. Enternal Idol 8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 7. Volume 4 6. The Mob Rules 5. Headless Cross 4. Master of Reality 3. Devil You Know 2. Paranoid 1. Heaven and Hell Keep at it brother your videos are awesome 🤘
@@mrboulder9714 omg it really is! i jammed it last night while doing dishes and im gobsmacked that ive never heard it before haha. Bible Black, Eating the Cannibals just ugh yes!
Alright Mate , your Top Two would have been mine. I remember buying Heaven and Hell on release day wondering what it would be like , got it home and it blew me away. Take Care and be lucky.
Months ago I ask you during your QnA video if you were going to do this and a Judas Priest ranking, and now you have, thank you good sir. Did not disappoint.
Oh wow I have literally just acquired the Black Box so am thinking that I’m gonna listen to them in your ranking order. There’s loads of Sabbath that I haven’t heard hence why I got this box set so this could be really interesting! 🤘 *rummaging for a pen and paper lol*
Awesome Sabbath ranking James! This is a band I've never truly given a proper go to, obviously ive heard songs from it and like them, but never heard full albums. I think next year I'm gonna bite the bullet and finally given them a proper listen! I think I'll go with the early Ozzy albums first because most say those are the best. Plus I'm not a big Dio fan, I prefer Ozzy. The Tony Martin ones might be cool, I'll have to see. Thanks man 😊🤘
@@mrboulder9714 You're welcome mate! Yeah definitely, I've wanted to for a long time but never felt like doing it until now. It's been long enough eh! I think there's some of their music I could really like 😊🤘
Tony Martin era is definitely underrated. Aside from the generally poor Forbidden all his albums hold up really well a a collective body of work and his vocals are amazing.
Great list, and I like to see so much respect for Tony Martin. Headless Cross was my first Album from Sabbath, it was released when I was 15 years old, and therefore I have soft spot for the Tony Martin era. I really appreciate that you mentioned The Devil you know. RJD for me is the best Metal Singer of all Time, and I was soo glad when the album was released. For the rest, I really go along with your list, well with most of it (Dehumanizer is a bit low on the list), but Heaven and Hell for me remains the best Sabbath Album of all Time. Anyway: Well done!
Always good to see rankings of bands I like but have little of to get a feel what albums to look out for as I've only got the first 2 albums but I've recently ordered Eternal Idol which I like what I've sampled. Cheers mate. 🍻🤘🏻
I think if I were to rank these on a whim like this, it's probably gonna be: 1. Paranoid 2. Sabotage 3. Headless Cross 4. Dehumanizer 5. Mob Rules 6. Heaven & Hell 7. Black Sabbath 8. Tyr 9. Vol.4 10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 11. Technical Ecstasy 12. Masters of Reality 13. Cross Purposes 14. Never Say Die Can't really speak on the rest because I'm either forgetting they exist, or haven't heard them in full... so I'm basing this on what I've been going back to the most since first hearing them. Absolutely love Tony Martin and Dio's eras as I'm sure you could tell with these rankings, such a phenomenal revolving door of vocalists they had.
Interesting ranking, it's always interesting to hear other people's takes on the catalogue of bands you love. I personally would have Master of Reality as my favourite, followed by Sabotage. If i remember correctly, Bill is wearing his wife's tights on the cover of Sabotage. I may be in the minority but i have always preferred Mob Rules to Heaven & Hell.
A big and difficult discography to rank but was fun to do. Mob Rules is a beast of an album, Voodoo is my favourite song from that album. Thanks for watching and commenting 👌
This is my current ranking, but I will say that Seventh Star may be moving up in the future. That album is pretty badass actually. 19. Born Again 18. Forbidden 17. Never Say Die 16. 13 15. Cross Purposes 14. Seventh Star 13. Vol. 4 12. Tyr 11. Sabotage 10. The Eternal Idol 9. Paranoid 8. Dehumanizer 7. Black Sabbath 6. Master of Reality 5. Technical Ecstasy 4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 3. Heaven and Hell 2. Headless Cross 1. Mob Rules
Great video me ode, knew you wouldn't follow convention concerning the ozzy albums, never really got on with his singing, i first got in to sabbuff in 78/79, i bought the vol 4 album, listened to a couple of others and then the Dio albums came out. kinnel. So, only doing a top 10. 01- Mob Rules 02- Headless Cross 03- Heaven & Hell 04- Vol 4 05- Master Of Reality 06- Sabbuff Bluddy Sabbuff 07- Born Again 08- Tyr 09- Paranoid (truly never need to hear it again) 10- Sabotage Music On Vinyl have reissued the first two DEFIANCE albums, they sound freakin awesome (california thrash 89/90), well worth checking them out
I've never understood the so-called purists who insist "No Sabbath without Ozzy", when there's such a wealth of great material with other singers in the catalogue. Dio effectively rescued the band from an ignominious slow and painful death, and Heaven and Hell, and Mob Rules are up there with my favourites (Dehumanizer not so much, but everyone's tastes are different). Tony Martin was a great fit, and brought something more akin to Dio than Ozzy, but that was a dark time for old school rock and metal, with grunge being the in thing at the time. What Ozzy lacked in talent, he made up for in charisma, and many of his songs are rightly considered iconic. But in outright singing ability, he was undoubtedly the weakest of them all. However, I do have a soft spot for Technical Ecstasy, the first Sabbath album I bought.
As far as I'm concerned these 'purists' are simply narrow minded. Why deprive yourself of the great music from the Dio/Martin/Gillian era's just because Ozzy isn't involved? Lunacy as far as I'm concerned. Cheers for watching and commenting
@@mrboulder9714 You're welcome, and I absolutely agree. It's all Sabbath, at the end of the day (and in that respect you're absolutely right to include The Devil You Know in this list).
Technical ecstasy and never say die are criminally underated. I love those 2 albums. Heaven and hell is great, but for me can't match any Ozzy era album
I Love The Devil You Know. A dark,HEAVY album. It is almost doom metal. Every track is absolutely great.And I agree with you,it is actually a Black Sabbath album,it would be a number one in my ranking.Number two would be The Headless Cross and number three- Eternal Idol.
I got nothing from Tony Martin,they are very hard to get by. My personal favourite is Sabbath bloody Sabbath. I used to be hiding behind a sofa scared shit less but loved it. Great video sir 👏👍
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that cover art was done by artist Drew Struzan, he did Alice Coopers Welcome to my nightmare cover. Drew is famous for his movie poster art, he did the Star Wars prequels posters, back to the future posters, harry potter, Police Accademy, he's pretty famous. In fact, that's Drew Struzan himself on the cover , as the guy in bed.
I agree regarding the last two tracks on the debut.. I can't get used to that overlong (in my opinion) guitar solo on the Warning. I would have ranked it higher, though! My favourite is Vol 4.
Wow ain’t this ironic lol, just last night I looked on your channel to see if you had any Black Sabbath videos lol, hope your doing good though, great video
Heaven & Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath also my two favorites from the Dio and Ozzy albums. Curious, would you rank Eternal Idol higher when you consider the Ray Gillen demos, released as an official Sabbath album on the deluxe version in 2010? I believe they are spectacular, and the songs were much better suited to Gillen's vocals. Martin would sound excellent on the albums that followed, esp. Headless Cross.
@robertraymond6643 I've not actually heard the Gillen demo's. I really should give them a listen sometime. Headless Cross is a beast and the Tony Martin era is underrated. Thanks for watching and commenting
20. Eternal Idol 19. Forbidden 18. The Headless Cross 17. Tyr 16. Seventh Star 15. Cross Purposes 14. Never Say Die 13. 13 12. Technical Ecstacy 11. The Devil You Know 10. Black Sabbath 9. Dehumanizer 8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 7. Volume Four 6. Born Again 5. Sabotage 4. Paranoid 3. Master of Reality 2. Heaven and Hell 1. Mob Rules
Your list would be very similar to mine. My favourite album is heaven and hell, then sabbath bloody sabbath and mob rules. I really like headless cross and dehumaniser a lot
Great job on the ranking. It’s a hard discography for many ppl to rank, especially if their die hard fans of Oz/Ronnie/Tony and that one Ian Gillian record 🤣. I do like Zero the Hero though I must say. Everyone knows my stance on sabbath so Imma leave it there 😁🤘🏻
Man I really enjoyed 13 all disc 1 played it for months didn’t realize so many people disliked it but then I discovered dio years Ian Gillian Toni Martin and even glen hughes a lot of great great music
a difficult task... such a body of work! Dio Sabbath was an entirely different animal. He really seemed to push Tony and Geezer musically. They were good with Tony Martin. They were decent with Glenn.They were great with Ozz, save 13 which was a huge letdown. Gillian was a good experiment. They were brilliant with Dio! Each key member at key moments carried the music to legendary status.
Technical Ecstasy should DEFINITELY be ranked higher!! Very good and UNDERRATED ALBUM! Also, Never Say Die is a WAYYY better record than most people give it credit for!!
Really great album ranking full of great opinions! My ranking : 1. Heaven and Hell 2. Master of Reality 3. Vol 4 4. Mob Rules 5. Sabotage 6. Paranoid 7. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 8. Headless Cross 9. Black Sabbath 10. Dehumanizer 11. TYR 12. Born Again 13. Eternal Idol 14. Devil You Know 15. Technical Ecstasy 16. Cross Purposes 17. Forbidden 18. Never Say Die 19. Seventh Star 20. 13
1. Paranoid 2. Heaven & Hell 3. Master of Reality 4. The Headless Cross 5. Sabbath bloody Sabbath 6. The Mob Rules 7. The Eternal Idol 8. Tyr 9. Dehumaniser 10. The Devil you know 11. Cross Purposes 12. Volume 4 13. Sabotage 14. Black Sabbath 15. Born Again 16. Seventh Star 17. Never Say Die 18. Technical Ecstacy 19. 13 20. Forbidden
Born Again is awesome, front cover, back side, and the dark songs on it. Ice T and Ernie C make Forbidden worth owning. The Ozzy and Dio albums are all must have for all metal fans.
Great list, here’s mine. 20. Forbidden 19. Never Say Die 18. Cross Purposes 17. 13 16. Technical Ecstasy 15. Seventh Star 14. Born Again 13. The Eternal Idol 12. Sabotage 11. Paranoid 10. Vol 4 9. Headless Cross 8. The Devil You Know 7. Tyr 6. Black Sabbath 5. Dehumanizer 4. Mob Rules 3. Master of Reality 2. Heaven and Hell 1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
My mums mates Husband Played on the Headless cross . Laurence has played with loads of people including van Morrison , Eric Clapton , and the Allan parsons project . Phenomenal bassist and very nice bloke . If you watch the Headless cross video carefully , Laurence is at the back in the corner as he was the only bloke with short hair in the band at the time haha
@@mrboulder9714 he told me even he was a bit unsure why he was in the video as he was only asked to play on the record . Said he loved working with z Iommi but felt well out of place on the video set haha
The truth is, that it's pretty tricky to rank Sabbath albums, because they changed so much over all those decades. Personally I like most of the Tony Martin a LOT more than all the stuff with Ozzy. I can easily accept the impact and role the early Sabbath had, but in terms of the music, well oh well. But of course everybody is welcome to have their own oppinion. And yes in terms of Valhalla from the TYR album.....perfect tune to call you into battle, haha....awesome. Also yes to The headless cross....awesome album. Heaven and Hell and this one are my favs.
Great video! To me the original Black Sabbath of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward will always be the best Black Sabbath! loved all their albums from their debut album in 1970 through to Technical Ecstasy in 1976, not keen on anything that followed. Volume 4 is probably my favourite Black Sabbath album.
When I was in high school around Christmas 1985, my friend & I went to Geezer's house to get my "Sabotage" vinyl signed. He wasn't home but the neighbors all said how nice he was & he had Santa Claus in the yard!!! Not very satanic! lol
Awesome list. We agree on most. My ranking, best to worst; Sabotage Born Again Master Of Reality Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Paranoid Mob Rules Vol. 4 The Devil You Know The Eternal Idol Dehumanizer Cross Purposes Headless Cross Technical Ecstasy TYR Seventh Star Never Say Die 13 Forbidden
@@mrboulder9714 Born Again is such a nasty, dirty record, I love it. Combining the best of Gillan (the band) with Sabbath was brilliant. Keep It Warm is the only power ballad I can think of where the vocalist actually sneers through it. And Zero The Hero might possibly be the heaviest riff of all time.
Thank you for another great video, all though I don't agree with everything (dosen't matter as oppinions are always subjective, the more important is I enjoy your videoes and the way you present them) and keep them comming :) For me personal, I have never been a huge Black Sabbath fan, but I would lie if said I don't like anything, because I really do. However, I do think that a lot of the Ozzy (and despite there are 4 Ozzy albums I do enjoy, I am not a big Ozzy fan either) era are overrated and the only album I love as a whole is Master of Reality, but I don't own it yet, but I will get my hands on it and since I lack an album from that era it feels kind of wrong so I need to get it :) But if we include The Devil you know then I've got six Sabbath albums - all "4" Dio albums plus The Headless Cross and I would Rank them as follows: 1) Dehumanizer (not really surprising for as Strange Highways is my favourite Dio album - not because it is trendy to love something overlooked, but because it has been since I've bought it back in 1994 when I as a Scandinavian saw it for the 1st time and after listening to it just a couple of times) 2) The Devil You Know 3) Mob Rules 4) Headless Cross 5) Heaven and Hell (it's your favourite album, and the best Sabbath song of all time is on it (title track) but there are also some stuff I really don't like such as Lady Evil) 6) Tyr Despite the ranking I like all of those albums otherwise I wouldn't have bought them and almost surpass the limit I am willing to pay for an album (no more than 30£) Overall, Black Sabbath for me is apart from those albums I own and Master of Reality which I intend to buy, a band, where I would go on Qobuz and buy individual tracks to make my own "best of" because there are fantastic stuff as well on most of the albums, and then burn it on CD-R and listen :)
My personal Top 20 Black Sabbath Studio Albums Ranking: 1. Paranoid 2. Black Sabbath 3. Master of Reality 4. Heaven & Hell 😇😈 5. Mob Rules 6. Volume 4 7. Dehumanizer 8. Sabotage 9. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath 10. Headless Cross 11. The Eternal Idol 12. Born Again 13. TYR 14. Cross Purposes 15. Seventh Star 16. “13” 17. The Devil You Know 18. Never Say Die 19. Technical Ecstacy 20. Forbidden Overall, cool ranking offered here! Everyone has their favorites! For me, Black Sabbath and Paranoid are definitive top 5 Albums! Yes, feel the Tony Martin Era was underrated! Cheers!
Good morning Mr B love the ranking I do love a bit of Sabbath I've tried to get Headless cross many times Amazon take the piss with £12 postage lol any other suggestions were I can buy this?
SABOTAGE = Peak of creative studio time and Ozzy's voice.
Agreed on Ozzy's voice sounding the best on this album. Thanks for watching and commenting
Great to see love for Tony Martin. Criminally underappreciated era. The Shining off The Eternal Idol has some of the best Iommi riffs ever. Looking forward to the box set supposedly coming out this year.
Yeah the Tony Martin era definitely gets overlooked. Box set is coming in May apparently, looking forward to it. Thanks for watching
Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. Criminally underrated.
They certainly don't deserve the hate that they receive. Thanks for watching and commenting
Agree!
Great list, I really like TYR, Headless Cross and Eternal Idol. Very cool to see those. Albums I need to recollect. Heaven and Hell is such a banger. Great Ranking James.
Cheers Steve. The Tony Martin era definitely deserves more recognition. Heaven and Hell us an absolute beast
"The Writ" is best Sabbath song of all time
Probably Into The Void for me
Definitely a highlight on Sabotage.
Supposedly Ozzy wrote the lyrics to that song about the Lawsuit with manger Patrick Meehan Jr.
Same here@@mrboulder9714
Really refreshing to see a black sabbath ranking video where it's not just the 1st six albums in the top six! I'm with you about the tony martin era being underrated I only have cross purposes in my collection though personally vol 4 is my favourite with mob rules coming in 2nd great content as always james!
Great top 2 Robert. If you like Tony Martin you gotta hear The Headless Cross, amazing album. Cheers mate 👍
mint vinyl copy of that album can sell for hundreds.
"Master of Reality"" start of Doom Metal as well as Stoner Metal
Definitely agreed on this
Excellent ranking video James, finnaly had the time to properly check it out. Massive discography, I think that "Sabotage" & "Never Say Die" are very underrated! My favorite Sabbath album would probably be "Master of Reality". 🤘
Good to see Headless Cross so high on your list.
Also: 15:18 😂👍
Cheers Kenan, your support is always massively appreciated mate. Cheers
Great ranking! Love to see the Tony Martin albums reissued.🤘
I saw a picture of Tony Iommi and Tony Martin meeting up recently so hopefully reissue's are coming
I just picked up 3 reissues in an effort to round out my Sabbath Collection. What a band!!!! I love the Dio stuff and the early Ozzy stuff as well. Everything they ever put out is above average though. Cheers Mr. B
Agreed mate. No bad albums in this discography but a few are a little bit disappointing. Cheers Anthony
Born Again is brilliant, Ian Gillan never sounded this good again
Yeah,I've never understood the dislike for it. Cheers for watching
I hated the album, when it came out... But mainly because of the shitty mixing - too much Bass...
I'm still discovering Sabbath's discography. I never got really heavy into them , I've been a fan of the Ozzy/Dio years but my favorite album is actually The Headless Cross (heaven and hell is a close second...._for me) I think I'm gonna dive into born again tonight. I haven't heard it but I was told to avoid it many years ago. But I think now is time to give it a chance!
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is my favorite album of theirs as well. It has a sort of subdued magic about it that makes me keep coming back to it. It's definitely their deepest album lyrically and conceptually as well.
Cheers for watching. Yep it's a fantastic album. Killing Yourself To Live and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are 2 of my favourite Sabbath songs
Nice to see Mob Rules rank so highly, its actually my favourite Sabs album, but its pretty underrated usually.
Excellent album. It was always going to be near the top of the list. Thank you for watching
Least favourite is 13
Favourite is Master Of Reality.
Awesome video.
I love Born Again, I get obsessed with that album now and then.
Eternal Idol is my favourite with Tony Martin. Got a soft spot for Seventh Star also which a lot of people do hate, Glenn Hughes is absolutely fantastic
Cheers for watching and commenting. Yeah The Eternal Idol and Seventh Star are underrated albums
Yeah, Born Again is one of the heaviest and psychedelic albums of all time. Insanely dark, and Tony's leads are incredible. So much atmosphere.
Eternal Idol is definitely Tony Martin's best and a great Sabbath album all around.
I also have a soft spot for Seventh Star. Glenn's vocals are killer as is Tony's playing.
I have a huge soft spot for the Dio era, Mob Rules was the first Sabbath track I ever heard, when it was released as a single. This is a good ranking, well done sir
The Dio era is superb and rightfully deserves its place near the top of the list. Thanks for watching and commenting
Very enjoyable video. Yeah, 'The Devil You Know' is a Black Sabbath album in my eyes too. I love the main riff from "The Shining"... might be my favorite Sabbath riff. "No Stranger to Love" is a fantastic AOR track IMO. 'Dehumanizer' rocks!
Had to include The Devil You Know, definitely a Black Sabbath album. Some of the mid to late 80's Sabbath gets overlooked. Cheers mate
Great review.Very fair and balanced assessment of Sabbath discography.
Thanks and thank you for watching
My all-time favorite band! Great ranking! Dehumanizer got a reissue a couple of years ago. Just looked it up and it’s more affordable than the £60. I got the reissue and it sounds AMAZING!
Cheers for the heads up on the reissue. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers for watching and commenting
Great ranking. Tony Martin era was definitely under rated. Vol.4 or Heaven and Hell for me but so many truly great albums its difficult to rank them.
Yeah it's is difficult to rank such a strong discography, and yes the Tony Martin era is definitely underrated. Cheers for watching
Thank you for ranking 'The devil you know' , that's a black sabbath album too, doesn't matter what dumb businessman say.
You're welcome fella, and yes it's definitely a Black Sabbath album. Thanks for watching and commenting
Awesome fun list! Always great stuff, sir.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
I love Black Sabbath i think that all albums are amazing nice video
Their discography is very strong. Thanks for watching and commenting
@@mrboulder9714 thanks man .
Excellent ranking mate, my top 10 isn't much different from yours, same as you the Heaven & hell plus Mob rules albums are in there somewhere, I'm sorry you cannot ignore the amazing Dio era of this band. Black Sabbath are so important, they shaped heavy metal for us, massive love & respect. Cheers
Yeah, the Dio years are essential Sabbath. Thanks for watching fella 👍
Excellent ranking. Great vid.
1) Sabotage, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Vol 4
2) Master of Reality
3) Paranoid
4) Black Sabbath
5) Heaven and Hell
6) Born Again
7) Mob Rules
8) Die In Ecstasy: best songs from the 2,
Back Street Kids
You Won't Change Me
It's Alright
Juniors Eyes
A Hard Road
All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
Air Dance
Rock N Roll Doctor
Breakout
Swinging The Chain
Damaged Soul (from 13, Really rocks)
Great ranking. Thanks for watching
So glad you're not a Sabbath snob and ignore or diss the Martin era or the Dio era for that matter. Good mix of all line ups
All 3 era's are excellent. The Dio and Tony Martin era's of the band definitely deserve their places alongside the Ozzy stuff. Cheers
Hi James!!! it's always cool to see other VC's member take on Sabbath's catalogue and nice to see you added Heaven & Hell to the list. When i started listening to music in the mid 80's Sabbath was not a "cool band" to listen, so i was kind of late to the party and the stuff they released in that decade. I think you're right about "13" i will listen to it again and also share your thoughts about "Born Again". Now what i really need to do is add the stuff they did with Tony Martin there're some killer songs and great riffs. cheers and be well
Cheers as always Cristian. Yeah I've never understood the dislike for Born Again, great album. The Heaven and Hell album definitely needs to be included.
1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Heaven & Hell
3. Sabotage
4. Mob Rules
5. Eternal Idol
6. Vol. 4
7. Seventh Star
8. Paranoid
9. Dehumanizer
10. Born Again
11. TYR
12. Headless Cross
13. Forbidden
14. Cross Purposes
15. Black Sabbath
16. Master of Reality
17. 13
18. Never Say Die
19. Technical Ecstasy
Killer ranking. Thanks for sharing it
Why is master of reality so low on the list? Just curious.
Interesting to hear your thoughts on these albums James. It's a tough discography to rank as they have a lot of top quality albums, can't argue with your ranking. Ozzy is the classic voice you think of when it comes to Sabbath but Martin does an excellent job on the albums he features on and really enhances them and its a shame Gillan and Hughes only did one album apiece . My favourites are Headless Cross, Master of reality, dehumanizer, sabbath bloody sabbath and the first two Dio was on.
Great picks Grant. Tony Martin era is definitely underrated mate. Cheers
Great video bro and a very tough one as well so many classic albums to cover.
From Ozzy to Dio to Tony as well as Ian and Glenn all great singers and with a revolving door of musicians they manage to pump out great albums and some not so great ones your ranking is great and ill include mine.
20. Forbidden
19. Cross Purposes
18. Never Say Die
17. 13
16. Seventh Star(i really like this album too)
15. Technical Ecstasy
14. Tyr
13. Black Sabbath
12. Born Again
11. Sabatoge
10. Dehumanizer
9. Enternal Idol
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
7. Volume 4
6. The Mob Rules
5. Headless Cross
4. Master of Reality
3. Devil You Know
2. Paranoid
1. Heaven and Hell
Keep at it brother your videos are awesome 🤘
Cheers fella. Yeah nit an easy discography to rank at all. Your list is excellent. Thanks for watching and commenting
Good man for taking such a big catalogue for ranking. Legendary doesn't even come close.
Cheers fella, a fair amount of work went into this. Legend's indeed
Believe it or not, I’ve never heard the heaven and hell album! Completely missed it for my ranking and I really must get on to it! Excellent ranking!
You gotta check that album mate, it's an absolute beast. Cheers fella
@@mrboulder9714 omg it really is! i jammed it last night while doing dishes and im gobsmacked that ive never heard it before haha. Bible Black, Eating the Cannibals just ugh yes!
Alright Mate , your Top Two would have been mine. I remember buying Heaven and Hell on release day wondering what it would be like , got it home and it blew me away. Take Care and be lucky.
Cheers fella. Yeah Heaven and Hell is superb, an absolute masterpiece. Thanks for watching and commenting on the video
Black Sabbath is my favorite band. I thoroughly enjoyed your opinion on these records. Some killer tunes from all the era's. Iommi rules!
Rock on 🤘
Cheers for watching fella. Iommi is indeed the man
Months ago I ask you during your QnA video if you were going to do this and a Judas Priest ranking, and now you have, thank you good sir. Did not disappoint.
Yeah I thought someone asked me to do this. You're welcome, hope you enjoy the video
Thanks for sharing. I would like to see Tony & Glenn Hughes get together again. Indeed Glenn still has a fantastic set of pipes. Cheers!
You're welcome. Yeah Glenn Hughes still sounds amazing now. Cheers for watching and commenting
Just listening to new Bruce Dickinson’s solo album.. have you got it yet .. sounds really great 👍
I've listened to a few of the tracks. Looking to pick it up in the next few weeks
Oh wow I have literally just acquired the Black Box so am thinking that I’m gonna listen to them in your ranking order. There’s loads of Sabbath that I haven’t heard hence why I got this box set so this could be really interesting! 🤘
*rummaging for a pen and paper lol*
Haha. Enjoy that box set fella, some great stuff in there. Cheers
Awesome Sabbath ranking James! This is a band I've never truly given a proper go to, obviously ive heard songs from it and like them, but never heard full albums. I think next year I'm gonna bite the bullet and finally given them a proper listen! I think I'll go with the early Ozzy albums first because most say those are the best. Plus I'm not a big Dio fan, I prefer Ozzy. The Tony Martin ones might be cool, I'll have to see. Thanks man 😊🤘
Cheers Josh. Definitely a band you need to do a deep dive into mate
@@mrboulder9714 You're welcome mate! Yeah definitely, I've wanted to for a long time but never felt like doing it until now. It's been long enough eh! I think there's some of their music I could really like 😊🤘
Tony Martin era is definitely underrated. Aside from the generally poor Forbidden all his albums hold up really well a a collective body of work and his vocals are amazing.
Yeah the Tony Martin era is definitely underrated and deserves more recognition. Thanks for watching
Great list, and I like to see so much respect for Tony Martin. Headless Cross was my first Album from Sabbath, it was released when I was 15 years old, and therefore I have soft spot for the Tony Martin era.
I really appreciate that you mentioned The Devil you know. RJD for me is the best Metal Singer of all Time, and I was soo glad when the album was released.
For the rest, I really go along with your list, well with most of it (Dehumanizer is a bit low on the list), but Heaven and Hell for me remains the best Sabbath Album of all Time.
Anyway: Well done!
The Tony Martin era is definitely underrated and deserves more recognition. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
Awesome Black Sabbath ranking, James!
Thanks as always Tony
Always good to see rankings of bands I like but have little of to get a feel what albums to look out for as I've only got the first 2 albums but I've recently ordered Eternal Idol which I like what I've sampled. Cheers mate. 🍻🤘🏻
Hope you discover some albums you really like mate. Cheers Simon
I think if I were to rank these on a whim like this, it's probably gonna be:
1. Paranoid
2. Sabotage
3. Headless Cross
4. Dehumanizer
5. Mob Rules
6. Heaven & Hell
7. Black Sabbath
8. Tyr
9. Vol.4
10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
11. Technical Ecstasy
12. Masters of Reality
13. Cross Purposes
14. Never Say Die
Can't really speak on the rest because I'm either forgetting they exist, or haven't heard them in full... so I'm basing this on what I've been going back to the most since first hearing them.
Absolutely love Tony Martin and Dio's eras as I'm sure you could tell with these rankings, such a phenomenal revolving door of vocalists they had.
Excellent list. The Dio era is amazing the Tony Martin era is definitely underrated I think. Cheers for watching
Kreator albums next?
Good idea. I'll get that done at some point
Rhino did another pressing of Dehumanizer deluxe vinyl recently. Should be able to pick it up fairly cheaply
Cheers for the info on that reissue, and thanks for watching
Interesting ranking, it's always interesting to hear other people's takes on the catalogue of bands you love. I personally would have Master of Reality as my favourite, followed by Sabotage. If i remember correctly, Bill is wearing his wife's tights on the cover of Sabotage. I may be in the minority but i have always preferred Mob Rules to Heaven & Hell.
A big and difficult discography to rank but was fun to do. Mob Rules is a beast of an album, Voodoo is my favourite song from that album. Thanks for watching and commenting 👌
This is my current ranking, but I will say that Seventh Star may be moving up in the future. That album is pretty badass actually.
19. Born Again
18. Forbidden
17. Never Say Die
16. 13
15. Cross Purposes
14. Seventh Star
13. Vol. 4
12. Tyr
11. Sabotage
10. The Eternal Idol
9. Paranoid
8. Dehumanizer
7. Black Sabbath
6. Master of Reality
5. Technical Ecstasy
4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3. Heaven and Hell
2. Headless Cross
1. Mob Rules
Yeah Seventh Star is an underrated album. Your top 4 are all great albums. Cheers for watching and sharing your ranking 👍
Tony iomni plans to release a remix of the born again album
It definitely needs a remix I think. Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers
@@mrboulder9714 yeah tony said he recently found the original tapes of the album so he said it deserves a remix
Oh, a cameo from Ice T, it MUST be good!!! lol
The cameo is totally pointless. If Ernie C wasn't producing I doubt it would be on there
Ernie ruined the album. Possibly the worst Sabbath album. I haven't heard Tony's remix version yet though.
Great video me ode, knew you wouldn't follow convention concerning the ozzy albums, never really got on with his singing, i first got in to sabbuff in 78/79, i bought the vol 4 album, listened to a couple of others and then the Dio albums came out. kinnel. So, only doing a top 10.
01- Mob Rules
02- Headless Cross
03- Heaven & Hell
04- Vol 4
05- Master Of Reality
06- Sabbuff Bluddy Sabbuff
07- Born Again
08- Tyr
09- Paranoid (truly never need to hear it again)
10- Sabotage
Music On Vinyl have reissued the first two DEFIANCE albums, they sound freakin awesome (california thrash 89/90), well worth checking them out
Nice top 10 picks Neil. Cheers for the heads up on those Defiance albums fella
I've never understood the so-called purists who insist "No Sabbath without Ozzy", when there's such a wealth of great material with other singers in the catalogue. Dio effectively rescued the band from an ignominious slow and painful death, and Heaven and Hell, and Mob Rules are up there with my favourites (Dehumanizer not so much, but everyone's tastes are different).
Tony Martin was a great fit, and brought something more akin to Dio than Ozzy, but that was a dark time for old school rock and metal, with grunge being the in thing at the time.
What Ozzy lacked in talent, he made up for in charisma, and many of his songs are rightly considered iconic. But in outright singing ability, he was undoubtedly the weakest of them all.
However, I do have a soft spot for Technical Ecstasy, the first Sabbath album I bought.
As far as I'm concerned these 'purists' are simply narrow minded. Why deprive yourself of the great music from the Dio/Martin/Gillian era's just because Ozzy isn't involved? Lunacy as far as I'm concerned. Cheers for watching and commenting
@@mrboulder9714 You're welcome, and I absolutely agree.
It's all Sabbath, at the end of the day (and in that respect you're absolutely right to include The Devil You Know in this list).
Technical ecstasy and never say die are criminally underated. I love those 2 albums. Heaven and hell is great, but for me can't match any Ozzy era album
I don't think Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die are anywhere near as bad as they are made out to be. Cheers for watching
I Love The Devil You Know. A dark,HEAVY album. It is almost doom metal. Every track is absolutely great.And I agree with you,it is actually a Black Sabbath album,it would be a number one in my ranking.Number two would be The Headless Cross and number three- Eternal Idol.
Some great picks here and yes the excellent The Devil You Know is definitely a Black Sabbath album
Wheels of confusion is my all time fav sabbath song. It’s simply a masterpiece
It's a good song
I got nothing from Tony Martin,they are very hard to get by. My personal favourite is Sabbath bloody Sabbath. I used to be hiding behind a sofa scared shit less but loved it. Great video sir 👏👍
Cheers fella and yes Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a great album. Thanks for watching
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, that cover art was done by artist Drew Struzan, he did Alice Coopers Welcome to my nightmare cover. Drew is famous for his movie poster art, he did the Star Wars prequels posters, back to the future posters, harry potter, Police Accademy, he's pretty famous. In fact, that's Drew Struzan himself on the cover , as the guy in bed.
Oh wow I didn't know any of that. Thanks for the information 👍
I agree regarding the last two tracks on the debut.. I can't get used to that overlong (in my opinion) guitar solo on the Warning. I would have ranked it higher, though!
My favourite is Vol 4.
Took me a while to really click with Vol 4, but I absolutely love it now. Thanks for watching fella 👍
Wow ain’t this ironic lol, just last night I looked on your channel to see if you had any Black Sabbath videos lol, hope your doing good though, great video
Hope you enjoy the video fella. That is indeed ironic. Cheers man, hope you're well too
Heaven & Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath also my two favorites from the Dio and Ozzy albums. Curious, would you rank Eternal Idol higher when you consider the Ray Gillen demos, released as an official Sabbath album on the deluxe version in 2010? I believe they are spectacular, and the songs were much better suited to Gillen's vocals. Martin would sound excellent on the albums that followed, esp. Headless Cross.
@robertraymond6643 I've not actually heard the Gillen demo's. I really should give them a listen sometime. Headless Cross is a beast and the Tony Martin era is underrated. Thanks for watching and commenting
Great video👏🏼
Black sabbath is still the best band🤟🏻
Thanks for watching and commenting
20. Eternal Idol
19. Forbidden
18. The Headless Cross
17. Tyr
16. Seventh Star
15. Cross Purposes
14. Never Say Die
13. 13
12. Technical Ecstacy
11. The Devil You Know
10. Black Sabbath
9. Dehumanizer
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
7. Volume Four
6. Born Again
5. Sabotage
4. Paranoid
3. Master of Reality
2. Heaven and Hell
1. Mob Rules
Great ranking. Can't argue with any of your choices in your top 5. Cheers
Your list would be very similar to mine.
My favourite album is heaven and hell, then sabbath bloody sabbath and mob rules.
I really like headless cross and dehumaniser a lot
Your picks are excellent. Headless Cross flies under the radar a bit I think. Cheers fella as always
Best Sabbath album - Sabotage
Some great tunes on that one. Thanks for watching
My favorite Sabbath album
I found it hard to rank paranoid to sabotage, they are my top 5. All superb, black sabbath is not quite as good as those albums.
The best for me is Black Sabbath Sabotage No. 13 (The End) Otherwise all the LPs with Ozzy as Vocal Black Sabbath are unique 🖤🤘🤘🤘
Great job on the ranking. It’s a hard discography for many ppl to rank, especially if their die hard fans of Oz/Ronnie/Tony and that one Ian Gillian record 🤣. I do like Zero the Hero though I must say. Everyone knows my stance on sabbath so Imma leave it there 😁🤘🏻
Cheers Trevor. Was quite a challenge this one but I'm glad I got it done. 👍
Im not big on Dio so its hard to get into a lot of his solo stuff or with Sabbath, i definitely like Ozzy era Sabbath best
That's fair enough. Cheers for watching
Man I really enjoyed 13 all disc 1 played it for months didn’t realize so many people disliked it but then I discovered dio years Ian Gillian Toni Martin and even glen hughes a lot of great great music
I find 13 to be really hard to get through. Such a disappointment. The Dio years are amazing. Thanks for watching
@@mrboulder9714 yea ever since I discovered dio with Black Sabbath the ozzy stuff ain’t the same for me but I still love ozzy
I am a first album fanatic. Great album.
It's got some absolute classics on there but some filler on Side B. Cheers
Tony Martin era box is finally coming out next month.. are you buying it
Already pre ordered it. Looking forward to it
a difficult task... such a body of work! Dio Sabbath was an entirely different animal. He really seemed to push Tony and Geezer musically. They were good with Tony Martin. They were decent with Glenn.They were great with Ozz, save 13 which was a huge letdown. Gillian was a good experiment. They were brilliant with Dio!
Each key member at key moments carried the music to legendary status.
Was a tough one to do but an enjoyable one at the same time. I love all the era's of the band. Thanks for watching and commenting
love your rankings
Thanks for watching and your kind words. Much appreciated
@@mrboulder9714 welcome I will very watching more
Dave Spitz is Dan Spitz brother from Anthrax
With the samesurname that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the information
Technical Ecstasy should DEFINITELY be ranked higher!! Very good and UNDERRATED ALBUM! Also, Never Say Die is a WAYYY better record than most people give it credit for!!
Those albums definitely don't deserve their bad reputation it must be said. Thanks for watching and commenting
That's EXACTLY my point regarding Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. @@mrboulder9714
I personally enjoy Never Say Die way more than Technical Ecstasy. I think Technical Ecstasy is the worst Ozzy era album by far.
Nahhhhh. TE is actually better than NSD but both are way better than they've been given credit for.@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
I second the opinion that Born Again is a solid record with solid artwork 🤘
It's definitely am album that doesn't deserve the amount of hate it gets. Cheers fella
My favorite will always be Master of reality I was 5 into the void absolutely blew my mind it was deep purple on steroids but so dark
Into The Void is such a great song, and Master of Reality is a superb album. Thanks for watching and commenting
Haaaa~ wow Dio 👌 👏 😍
🤘🤘
Thanks for watching
Really great album ranking full of great opinions!
My ranking :
1. Heaven and Hell
2. Master of Reality
3. Vol 4
4. Mob Rules
5. Sabotage
6. Paranoid
7. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8. Headless Cross
9. Black Sabbath
10. Dehumanizer
11. TYR
12. Born Again
13. Eternal Idol
14. Devil You Know
15. Technical Ecstasy
16. Cross Purposes
17. Forbidden
18. Never Say Die
19. Seventh Star
20. 13
Excellent number 1 pick. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Cheers
1. Paranoid
2. Heaven & Hell
3. Master of Reality
4. The Headless Cross
5. Sabbath bloody Sabbath
6. The Mob Rules
7. The Eternal Idol
8. Tyr
9. Dehumaniser
10. The Devil you know
11. Cross Purposes
12. Volume 4
13. Sabotage
14. Black Sabbath
15. Born Again
16. Seventh Star
17. Never Say Die
18. Technical Ecstacy
19. 13
20. Forbidden
Killer ranking. I agree with a lot of those positions. Cheers for watching
Born Again is awesome, front cover, back side, and the dark songs on it. Ice T and Ernie C make Forbidden worth owning. The Ozzy and Dio albums are all must have for all metal fans.
Yeah ive always liked Born Again, but the production and mix could be better. Cheers for watching fella 👍
Ernie and Ice ruined Forbidden. Tony wishes that he could undue all of the damage that Ernie did to that album.
Ya Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell is my fav too. Cheers mate
Yeah it's an amazing album. Cheers Mark
There is a reason why Tony Iommi wanted Forbidden to be erased from the release list... R.I.P. Geoff Nicholls 🎹🤘👍
I didn't know Geoff had passed away. Thanks for the information 👍
@@mrboulder9714 Geoff passed away in 2017 because of lung cancer...🤓
Great list, here’s mine.
20. Forbidden
19. Never Say Die
18. Cross Purposes
17. 13
16. Technical Ecstasy
15. Seventh Star
14. Born Again
13. The Eternal Idol
12. Sabotage
11. Paranoid
10. Vol 4
9. Headless Cross
8. The Devil You Know
7. Tyr
6. Black Sabbath
5. Dehumanizer
4. Mob Rules
3. Master of Reality
2. Heaven and Hell
1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Great ranking here, I agree with a lot of your choices. Thanks for watching and commenting
My mums mates Husband Played on the Headless cross . Laurence has played with loads of people including van Morrison , Eric Clapton , and the Allan parsons project . Phenomenal bassist and very nice bloke . If you watch the Headless cross video carefully , Laurence is at the back in the corner as he was the only bloke with short hair in the band at the time haha
I did wonder why you don't really see the bass player in The Headless Cross video and now I know. Cheers for the info.
@@mrboulder9714 he told me even he was a bit unsure why he was in the video as he was only asked to play on the record . Said he loved working with z Iommi but felt well out of place on the video set haha
@megaduck7965 Metal was a funny place back in the 80's. Having short hair was a massive no no but its so common now. Cheers fella
The truth is, that it's pretty tricky to rank Sabbath albums, because they changed so much over all those decades. Personally I like most of the Tony Martin a LOT more than all the stuff with Ozzy. I can easily accept the impact and role the early Sabbath had, but in terms of the music, well oh well. But of course everybody is welcome to have their own oppinion. And yes in terms of Valhalla from the TYR album.....perfect tune to call you into battle, haha....awesome. Also yes to The headless cross....awesome album. Heaven and Hell and this one are my favs.
It was a big task. The Tony Martin era definitely deserves more recognition, fantastic vocalist. Cheers for watching
1.Heaven and Hell
2.Sabotage
3.Headless Cross
4.Mob Rules
5.Born Again
6.Vol 4
7.Master of Reality
8.Paranoid
9.Black Sabbath
10.The Devil You Know 😊
Excellent ranking here. Thanks for watching and commenting
Dehumanizer is criminally underrated. Once it hits tv crimes and letters from earth it’s steamrolling
Yeah it definitely starts with some of it's weaker aongs
@@mrboulder9714 yeah never understood that decision. For me letters from earth screams to be an opening track.
@@augustgeary5538 Couldn't agree more
I used to live a mile away from Geezer
Cool
Great video! To me the original Black Sabbath of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward will always be the best Black Sabbath! loved all their albums from their debut album in 1970 through to Technical Ecstasy in 1976, not keen on anything that followed. Volume 4 is probably my favourite Black Sabbath album.
A very important band with for the most part a very strong discography. Cheers for watching and commenting
When I was in high school around Christmas 1985, my friend & I went to Geezer's house to get my "Sabotage" vinyl signed. He wasn't home but the neighbors all said how nice he was & he had Santa Claus in the yard!!! Not very satanic! lol
Excellent story about Geezer. Cheers
Awesome list. We agree on most. My ranking, best to worst;
Sabotage
Born Again
Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath
Heaven And Hell
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Paranoid
Mob Rules
Vol. 4
The Devil You Know
The Eternal Idol
Dehumanizer
Cross Purposes
Headless Cross
Technical Ecstasy
TYR
Seventh Star
Never Say Die
13
Forbidden
Excellent ranking. Good to see the overlooked Born Again placed so high up the list. Cheers fella
@@mrboulder9714 Born Again is such a nasty, dirty record, I love it. Combining the best of Gillan (the band) with Sabbath was brilliant. Keep It Warm is the only power ballad I can think of where the vocalist actually sneers through it. And Zero The Hero might possibly be the heaviest riff of all time.
Thank you for another great video, all though I don't agree with everything (dosen't matter as oppinions are always subjective, the more important is I enjoy your videoes and the way you present them) and keep them comming :) For me personal, I have never been a huge Black Sabbath fan, but I would lie if said I don't like anything, because I really do. However, I do think that a lot of the Ozzy (and despite there are 4 Ozzy albums I do enjoy, I am not a big Ozzy fan either) era are overrated and the only album I love as a whole is Master of Reality, but I don't own it yet, but I will get my hands on it and since I lack an album from that era it feels kind of wrong so I need to get it :) But if we include The Devil you know then I've got six Sabbath albums - all "4" Dio albums plus The Headless Cross and I would Rank them as follows:
1) Dehumanizer (not really surprising for as Strange Highways is my favourite Dio album - not because it is trendy to love something overlooked, but because it has been since I've bought it back in 1994 when I as a Scandinavian saw it for the 1st time and after listening to it just a couple of times)
2) The Devil You Know
3) Mob Rules
4) Headless Cross
5) Heaven and Hell (it's your favourite album, and the best Sabbath song of all time is on it (title track) but there are also some stuff I really don't like such as Lady Evil)
6) Tyr
Despite the ranking I like all of those albums otherwise I wouldn't have bought them and almost surpass the limit I am willing to pay for an album (no more than 30£)
Overall, Black Sabbath for me is apart from those albums I own and Master of Reality which I intend to buy, a band, where I would go on Qobuz and buy individual tracks to make my own "best of" because there are fantastic stuff as well on most of the albums, and then burn it on CD-R and listen :)
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Good ranking. Fair play.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting
My personal Top 20 Black Sabbath Studio Albums Ranking:
1. Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath
3. Master of Reality
4. Heaven & Hell 😇😈
5. Mob Rules
6. Volume 4
7. Dehumanizer
8. Sabotage
9. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
10. Headless Cross
11. The Eternal Idol
12. Born Again
13. TYR
14. Cross Purposes
15. Seventh Star
16. “13”
17. The Devil You Know
18. Never Say Die
19. Technical Ecstacy
20. Forbidden
Overall, cool ranking offered here! Everyone has their favorites! For me, Black Sabbath and Paranoid are definitive top 5 Albums!
Yes, feel the Tony Martin Era was underrated! Cheers!
Great ranking and thanks for sharing it. Yes the Tony Martin era is definitely underrated. Thanks for watching and commenting fella 👍
Super excellent example of British metal music 🤟👍⭐️👍🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟 Forbidden 1995 Tony Martin ufff my respect!!!! Excellent album!!!
Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers
1. Heaven and Hell
2. Mob Rules
3. Tyr
4. Paranoid
5. Headless Cross
6. Black Sabbath
7. Master of Reality
8. Vol. 4
9. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
10. Sabotage
11. Born Again
12. Dehumanizer
13. Cross Purposes
14. The Eternal Idol
15. The Devil You Know
16. 13
17. Technical Ecstasy
18. Never Say Die!
19. Forbidden
20. Seventh Star
Thanks for sharing your ranking fella. Great picks. Cheers
Good morning Mr B love the ranking I do love a bit of Sabbath I've tried to get Headless cross many times Amazon take the piss with £12 postage lol any other suggestions were I can buy this?
Thank you Alan, much appreciated. I'm sorry but no I don't know of anywhere you can grab this as everywhere seems to be expensive
My Ranking
19 13
18 Never Say Die
17 Forbidden
16 Black Sabbath
15 Sabotage
14 Technical Ecstasy
13 Dehumanizer
12 Paranoid
11 Mob Rules
10 Born Again
9 Master of Reality
8 Vol 4
7 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
6 Tyr
5 Cross Purposes
4 Seventh Star
3 The Eternal Idol
2 Headless Cross
1 Heaven & Hell
Great ranking. Thanks for sharing it, and thanks for watching. Cheers
#1 is 3-way tie between debut, "Paranoid" & "Master of Reality."
Cool
Really good ranking James!
Since we're speaking of doom metal, are you known or a fan of Candlemass?
Cheers fella. I have heard of Camdlemass but ive never listened to them
@@mrboulder9714 Recommended! 🤟
Sabbath was at its absolute best during the Dio era!
They definitely put out some of their best stuff when he was in the band. Thanks for watching and commenting
That's why i haven't listened to the radio since 1999 because of overplay
I hear ya fella