The First Six
JOIN US after you’ve finished your bowl (of breakfast cereal) as we discuss our favorite “deep cuts” from our favorite first 6 albums by our favorite First Godfathers of Metal, Black Sabbath.
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Back before corporations acquired (and systematically destroyed) rock radio by playing the same 10 songs on perpetual repeat into the dirt, radio disc jockeys used to actually have some control over their “playlists” and would sometimes throw on a song that wasn’t a normal rock radio favorite: maybe something that wasn’t a “hit single”, or something for which there was no “music video”; something longer, something unusual, something off the beaten path: we call these Deep Cuts.
That’s what us Metal Nerds call “The Good Stuff”.
And when it comes to Black Sabbath, it’s ALL Good Stuff!!!
There’s just one problem: because WE THE NERDS here at Metal Nerdery are already so intimately familiar with what shall be henceforth known as “The First Six”, it was kind of a challenge for us to each pick our favorite 6 deep cuts from The First Six Black Sabbath albums.
There were a few that overlapped on our respective listicles but we tried to go as deeply as we could to give those of you who are only familiar with side 1 of ‘Paranoid’ a nice sampling of what we call “That GOOD Sabbath”.
JOIN US after you’ve finished your bowl (of breakfast cereal) as we discuss our favorite “deep cuts” from our favorite first 6 albums by our favorite First Godfathers of Metal, Black Sabbath.
Also check out our live stream of this episode on our Facebook page and find out whether or not Russ will show his “Man Tetons” on Facebook.
Show Notes
00.00: Goin’ down…#crunchyballriffs/***BTW check out our Facebook LIVE version of this episode***/The deep Black Sabbath Cuts from the 1st 6 Albums (from the Metal Nerdery perspective)/#thefirstsix/The “definition” of Deep Cuts
04.30: Sleeping Village (with the WHOLE finger, not just A Bit of Finger)/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Electric Funeral/Rat Salad/The Wizard/Supernaut/Solitude (#relaxer)/Supernaut AND Cornucopia (A little high, a little low)/The Thrill of It All (Is Sabotage “underrated”? ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com and give us your perspective***)/Supertzar (Evil Disney)/Megalomania (STING ME!)/National Acrobat/Spiral Architect (Remember the intro from Spiral Architect being on the commercial for C.A.R.E. back in the 80’s?)/Lord of This World/Hand of Doom/#gold/Sorry I looked at you…
15.15: check out our Man Tetons on Facebook/Hole in the Sky (#mattsaid)/Billy’s List: Sleeping Village, Behind the Wall of Sleep, Into the Void, Supernaut/Cornucopia (tie), Thrill of it All, Megalomania/Russell’s List: Hole in the Sky, Snowblind (that’s not a #deepcut), The Writ, Symptom of The Universe (***Have a drink on behalf of Russell’s birthday***), Changes, Killing Yourself to Live, Supernaut, Behind the Wall of Sleep/Wheeler’s List: Sleeping Village (where’s the finger?), Electric Funeral (#suicidepaneling & #shagcarpeting), Solitude/After Forever (tie), St. Vitus’ Dance, St. Wheels of Confusion, Spiral Architect (EMAIL US re: C.A.R.E. commercial soundtrack at metalnerdery@gmail.com), Supertzar, The Writ
27.00: The influence of other bands on Sabbath’s sound (specifically regarding the change in their sound with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage; particularly Sabotage) and the departure from the mostly bluesy sound/***FACEBOOK SHOUT OUTS***/Ridiculous memories and “high” fashion.
30.16: NOW is where you sync up with Facebook: A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village (***listen with headphones***)/Russell’s birthday pledge and the transition to The Warning/Electric Funeral (#takeitoff #cantbeloudenough): It’s fair to say that Electric Funeral was a bit… #thrashish
38.11: Master of Reality (NOT Puppets): Wrong Master (and also NOT a deep cut…#foreshadowing)/After Forever and/or Solitude (because After Forever #rocksballs)/Thank you Russ for putting that thought in our brains LOL!/ After Forever = Happy Thrash/Our pledge…and a request (or a challenge) and a SHOUT OUT (and a tangentionally related bit regarding Storm Corrosion related to #bolth Opeth and Porcupine Tree, and ultimately: Black Sabbath)/WTF is in YOUR breakfast cereal!? BBQ’d Parrot (on the next #bigdaddysbbqpit)
46.46: A question from a long time listener (CHECK OUT #episode1)/HAIL to Mille Petrozza and Kreator with a ‘K’ /***BACK TO THE SHOW***/A 3-way tie for Supernaut (and some notable fun factoids)/#KISS is definitely #notBillysfavoriteband)/A bit of #bolthree: National Acrobat (#readthoselyrics): definitely a lot of space in the mix/The development of Ozzy’s voice over time.
1.01.01: Killing Yourself to Live (the creepy overchorused tremolo) and the impact of confidence on a performance/#multipreprobrems/Spiral Architect (and C.A.R.E….if you remember this, PLEASE EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com if you remember the 80’s commercial for C.A.R.E.)
1.08.30: Hole in the Sky (Sabotage: GO BUY IT!)/Megalomania (Black Sabbath Mushroom Night, COMING SOON to Metal Nerdery!): going from creepy & heavy to fast & thrashy in one song and the definition of megalomania (#stingme)/The Birth of NWOBHM (Listen with headphones: you’ll find new things!!!)/#notitsforyou and more on-mic burps and burp shaming/Thrill of it All (#cantbeloudenough so make it #louder): ‘Mr. Geezer’? Or ‘Mr. Jesus’? /More Foreshadowing
1.19.43: Happy Anniversary to BOLTH Vol. 4 (1972) and Technical Ecstasy (1976): Honorable Mentions: She’s Gone/Technical Extersy/Never Say Die/The Writ (or Am I Going Insane Radio?) No Writ, but The Symptom of The Universe (a love that never dies) will do: definitely an early THRASH song/***TANGENTIONALLY TANGENTIAL TANGENT Alert: Beatles vs Stones and Zeppelin vs Sabbath***/Future Metal Nerdery Episode #backshadowing and #foreshadowing for Vol.3/***Check us out on the Socials, The Book, and The Gram: Nerd OUT!***/Hand of Doom