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This one actually hurts. I know some tryhard will probably say it's lame to cry at a death for someone you never met, but Ozzy and Black Sabbath's music has been a mainstay in my life since I was a teenager. I remember getting into them, and my mom told me she had seen Black Sabbath in the early 70s when she was a teenager. So I asked if I could go to Ozzfest 2001, and she said yes. Not only that, but she joined me and we watched Sabbath together. Now she's gone too. Even when people are going downhill, you never stop to think it'll finally happen, but it does.

Black Sabbath remain my all-time favorite band. A band that seems like it created metal almost on accident. Ozzy was no trained singer, and got in the band because he was the only one with a PA. Geezer played guitar before going to bass. Tony lost two finger tips in an accident, and downtuned his guitar to make playing easier. Bill was a straight up jazz drummer. And yet every part came together into what is the definitive heavy metal sound. The song Black Sabbath is still one of the heaviest songs recorded in my opinion. There are bands who can admit to spawning imitators, but not many can boast starting a whole genre. They had only been around for two, maybe three years at this point, and yet they were at the top of their game here. Ozzy is on point and unhinged at the same time, and you get to see what a monster Bill is behind the drums.

Rest in fucking Power, Ozzy, and thanks for the music and memories. I hope you spend the afterlife travelling the universe.
 
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AprilRains said:
Not that I know of. Even the critics hated them. Not easy to pigeonhole.
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I blame specifically Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau, or as I prefer to call him, Robert Douchegau. Both of their reviews basically completely missed the point, thought BS were imitating something previously done poorly, and didn't get they were doing something actually new.
 
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AnOminous said:
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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There's quite few metal musicians who would agree with this, so you aren't completely out of left field. Dave Brockie (dressed up as Oderus Urungus, of course) said as much in one video. A lot of people credit Blue Cheer, specifically the Vincebus Eruptum album, as proto-metal too. But I feel like Black Sabbath were the first true, 100% heavy metal band. From the name (taken from the movie, of course), to the album cover, to the guitar tone and the opening of the album with a thunderstorm and a bell tolling, to the lyrics, it all screamed metal.
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I always felt like this was a straight ahead early punk song, all the way down to the lyrical content.

Also, Eddie Hazel did a pretty good cover of I Want You (She's So Heavy). Crazy to think he was only 19 when he wrote Maggot Brain for Funkadelic.
 
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