Black Sabbath - The Best of Black Sabbath (32 tracks) +Album Reviews

Always the same songs, but it's good.

Jean-Pierre Larouche | Canada | 06/11/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"All greatests hits or compilation of (Best of) Black Sabbath have all times the same old tunes.This one is the same of We Sold Our Soul For Rock And Roll with more songs.By luck, the house disc of this compilation put 5 songs on the disc 2 of the 80 to 83 years, but it's not enough to discover very well Black Sabbath.First, the disc 1 have 15 good choosed songs;Black Sabbath,Wizard,N.I.B.,War Pigs,Iron Man,Paranoid,Children Of The Grave,etc.The disc 2 is good but some songs don't supposed to be here because these songs are not a hits;Don't Start(Too Late) and Am I Going Insane (Radio),these songs are not the (Best of) Black Sabbath! But, some great hits are on the disc 2;Supernaut,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,Symptom Of The Universe,Dirty Women,etc...and only 5 songs of the others years.If I was the creator of this compilation of Best of Black Sabbath, I would put 2 or 3 others cd's for complete the 3 decades of Black Sabbath.I'm not a fan who be stopped only on the 70's years, I listen the 80's and the 90's also, because these decades show the real talent of Tony Iommi.With the years, the experience grow and with the years, Tony Iommi have given the most impressive music that I never heard in my life! For the beginner fans of Black Sabbath, the 3 albums that I suggest to you are; Paranoid, Heaven And Hell and Headless Cross.But if you just want to discover Black Sabbath only one time and say: I have a greatest hits of them, buy this compilation, you won't regret it, but for the old fans, it's not a complete view of Black Sabbath."

A great career overview

Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 08/20/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you just want the classic songs from Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne era, go for the superb Rhino collection "Symptom Of The Universe - The Orginal Black Sabbath 1970-1978".

But if you want the best of Sabbath's later releases as well, "The Best Of Black Sabbath" is an excellent choice, and at an extremely fair price as well. It doesn't delve deep into Sabbath's 80s and 90s material, but there is enough here to satisfy the casual fan, and besides, the 70s albums were really where the legend of Black Sabbath was forged, and the emphasis should be on those first eight years.

With 32 tracks, including virtually every 70s album track of note, this collection can't be beat. It may not be better than the more impressively packaged "Symptom Of The Universe" (which has a superb booklet, too), but musically it is quite as good.

Highly recommended."

Great album but could be better

Stuart Hartley | 03/31/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I suppose when most fans think of Black Sabbath, they think of the years when Ozzy Osborne was lead singer; so it's only fitting that the vast majority of this set features songs from that period. In that respect, this set is great for beginners who are unaware that Black Sabbath had quite a successful career without Osborne handling vocals.

For those of us (like me) who were keen to hear some of Black Sabbath's work without Osborne, however, it was a bit of a letdown because only a few post-Osborne songs are featured here.

If you prefer Black Sabbath's work from the 'Osborne era', then this set is for you. It features all of the band's big songs from 1970-1978 and is well worth a look. There are all the songs you would expect to hear from that era and some you would not.

This is a very good place to start for people who are just discovering the band all people who prefer the material from the Osborne era. Well worth checking out."

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