Black Sabbath - Master of Reality｜Vinyl Monday

Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection and the ’60s/’70s music I love. My thoughts on one of the heavy metal heavyweights, Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality (released 1971.) Subscribe for Vinyl Monday and more vinyl/vintage fashion!

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Timestamps:

intro – 0:00
Master Of Reality – 2:30
heavy metal pre-sabbath? – 12:58
my thoughts – 19:10
thanks for watching! – 26:08

Music:
Excerpts from Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire (1968,) Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970,) Power of Zeus – Death Trip and It Couldn’t Be Me (1970) all protected under fair use.

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[juanjosegutierrezmerchan]

"You can only trust yourself and the first six Black Sabbath albums"

-Henry Rollins

[tremelo]

For such a heavy doom and gloom band, Sabbath had beautiful instrumentals, Laguna Sunrise, and Fluff are incredible.

[raulmacias]

It's great to see a young lady such as yourself immersed in the music of the 60s and the 70s.
I was born in 1957 and it was an incredible ride living through a time of such innovative sounds!
I fondly remember the impact Black Sabbath had on us Pacoima Junior High School kids!
Master Of Reality was released in 1971 my last year in Junior High School. My late brother Anthony and I bought the album and were blown away!
Those were good times.

[foursail]

I saw Black Sabbath perform at the Fillmore East on February 20th 1971. J.Geils opened for them.

[konowd]

And Tony Iommi has always been a criminally underrated guitar player.

[tommorris]

Master of Reality is my 2nd favorite Sabbath record. Sabotage is my favorite, and Paranoid is in 3rd place. In fact, their first 6 albums are masterpieces.

[TheLyleB]

When psychedelic rock left home and got a job, it turned into prog rock and metal. It's not hard to imagine Black Sabbath opening a show with White Rabbit or Jefferson Airplane playing Rat Salad.

[philipwren]

One of the finest heavy rock albums of all time and my favourite sabbath lp

[konowd]

Arguably Sabbath’s heaviest album in the Ozzy era.

[malcolmsmith]

Had the good fortune to meet both Ozzy and Geezer over the years as they were ‘local’ lads. A genre defining band who’s music has stood the test of time. Another illuminating show, nice one Abi.

[Claes_Isacson]

As both a male Sagittarius and an avid Black Sabbath fan I would like to thank you for this terrific birthday gift. Thank you. 😊 // Claes from Sweden

[justindevoe]

I’m a simple guy, I see someone in a cool outfit with the same last name as me talking about Black Sabbath, I click

[shaynebarr]

My late cousin James carried this album (on cassette) around with him all the time. We listened to this constantly when we were kids, it was my introduction to Black Sabbath. The songs somehow stayed with me and i've always had it in my collection since then. It never loses the power of those songs even after 35 years of listening to them. Great, great album! Nice choice Abigail :)

[stereo]

Oh and I gotta say, the people who have no knowledge, uninformed opinions and talk down to their audience... THEY'RE the ones with the hubris lol.
You've done your homework and the love you have for this music really comes through. What you're doing is awesome.

[kiprandom]

The greatest heavy metal album ever and til the end of time

[iamgodbringmecake]

I love BS. My Favorite band. Don’t really listen to anything outside of the Ozzy and Dio eras. Gotta love ‘em both for what they’re good at. The Ozzy years are great. Geezer’s lyrics are amazing. Volume 4 is a roadmap to life and my Favorite album ever written lyrically and probably at all really. Their softer sides are of few, but they are so well performed. Sabbath totally has psych in their blood. They totally appreciated a lot of good artists back then anyways, just like many other bands did at the time. Really dug this take on the record. And thank you for showing me another great Detroit band. It’s crazy that I still don’t know of all of these underground but awesome acts from South East Michigan. Much appreciated

[Pepper]

I remember getting this LP in the mail back in 1971. I had joined a record club back then (Columbia record club) and bought all of the Sabbath LP's upon release through the club. In those days albums like this didn't get much exposure at all until they were well entrenched in the culture. Sabbath was too heavy for mainstream play so I really thank the record club for my getting into Sabbath before any of my friends had heard of them.
I got their self titled album as one of the group of LP's the record club sent me and I was hooked on their music after that so every Sabbath LP that came out, came to me in the mail after that. I still have the first 4 Sabbath LP's I got while in the record club, over 50 years ago, wow, long time ago.

[Drforrester]

Was smoking at a friend's place many years ago, and I pulled this from her collection to listen to as I hadn't heard much Sabbath beyond the hits. The cough scared me but then the Sweet Leaf riff blasted in and I knew I'd be listening to a lot more Sabbath soon enough. This was my favorite of theirs for a while but it's been overtaken by Vol 4 and Sabotage

[barrygroenewald]

Master of Reality remains Black Sabbath's best album, it is the album where music got heavier and is the album that inspired a lot of other bands. Salute!!

[humanbeing]

This album literally invented every form of metal. Black Sabbath is arguably the most important band from that era in terms of their influence.