Paranoid
| Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Paranoid is the second studio album by the English rock band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, it was the band's only LPto top the UK Albums Chart until the release of 13 in 2013. Paranoid contains several of the band's signature songs, including "Iron Man", "War Pigs" and the title track, which was the band's only Top 20 hit, reaching number 4 in the UK charts. It is often cited as an influential album in the development of heavy metal music.-"Wikipedia"
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Pitchfork
Paranoid, a record whose technophobe fears and atomic anxieties are as salient in this age of brash politicians and international blunder as they were in that one.
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Sound Blab
aranoid is not just the highpoint of Black Sabbath’s long and storied recording career; it’s a watershed moment in rock and roll. Taking the guitar-bass-drums three-piece blues concept and adding a flailing, grinning, frantic, braying, screaming, mad-man of a singer in Ozzy Osbourne, the band opened the floodgates for millions of acts, whether they acknowledge it or not.
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All Music
Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics.
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BBC
Sabbath may not have been the most musically adventurous group of their generation but they did one thing and did it exceptionally well. If you want proof just take a look at the world of heavy metal. Without this album there wouldn’t be one. Simple as that.
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Louder Sound
From the ubiquitous magic of its title track to the monumental sprawl of its more epic tracks, Paranoid is simply a metal benchmark and a record that continues to exert its influence over the entire heavy music world.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Nothing has changed since Paranoid's release. Heavy metal continues to seduce generation after generation of rebellious kids seeking music they can relate to, and vent their pent-up frustrations and aggression to — all of it facilitated by the thousands of subsequent albums that can trace this fundamental purpose and usefulness to Black Sabbath and their most important career’s achievement, Paranoid.
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Metal Archives
Paranoid is a strong collection of material which has spawned many imitators to this day, but no one has ever managed to replicate this raw unbridled stoner rock doom and gloom.
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Immortal Reviews
Paranoid brings huge energy in larger than life ways from start to finish.
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Rock Music Raider
The record features some of the best tracks the band ever produced, together with some of the most dismal. Good and bad in giddy coexistence. But the album nonetheless went ahead and became one of the stepping-stones of the history of this band’s illustrious career. A portent of great things still to come in future with this band, chaotic and painful as they may turn out to be.
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Amino
Black Sabbath's Paranoid have some of the best dramatic lyrics with infused intensity that is one morbid storytelling examples and a natural distinctive narrative beginning to finish is what a true Heavy Metal pioneer establishment needs to be redeemed. The album has eerie, cathartic atmosphere to own shortcomings beyond the members typical songwriting just stands the masterpiece imperfections known to mankind.
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Drowned in Sound
Paranoid erupts with the same youthful energy as its predecessor, but marks their evolution in two distinct ways: dynamically it goes far higher and lower than anything on Black Sabbath, plus the group’s blues roots almost disappear entirely into the background.
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Classic Rock History
Paranoid is without any doubt the best Black Sabbath albums ever, but more importantly one of the most important heavy metal albums of all time. From the signature riffs and melodies to the lyrics which go beyond their time and age, Paranoid is truly the landmark in the history of heavy metal.
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