Track Listing

1. Black Sabbath
2. Wizard
3. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
4. NIB
5. Evil Woman
6. Sleeping Village
7. Warning
8. War Pigs
9. Paranoid
10. Planet Caravan
11. Iron Man
12. Electric Funeral
13. Hand Of Doom
14. Rat Salad
15. Fairies Wear Boots
16. Sweet Leaf
17. After Forever
18. Embryo
19. Children Of The Grave
20. Orchid
21. Lord Of This World
22. Solitude
23. Into The Void
24. Wheels Of Confusion
25. Tomorrow's Dream
26. Changes
27. FX
28. Supernaut
29. Snowblind
30. Cornucopia
31. Laguna Sunrise
32. St Vitus Dance
33. Under The Sun
34. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
35. National Acrobat
36. Fluff
37. Sabbra Cadabra
38. Killing Yourself To Live
39. Who Are You
40. Looking For Today
41. Spiral Architect
42. Hole In The Sky
43. Don't Start (Too Late)
44. Symptom Of The Universe
45. Megalomania
46. Thrill Of It All
47. Supertzar
48. Am I Going Insane (Radio)
49. Writ
50. Backstreet Kids
51. You Won't Change Me
52. It's Alright
53. Gypsy
54. All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
55. Rock 'n' Roll Doctor
56. She's Gone
57. Dirty Women
58. Never Say Die
59. Johnny Blade
60. Junior's Eyes
61. Hard Road
62. Shock Wave
63. Air Dance
64. Over To You
65. Breakout
66. Swinging The Chain
67. Tomorrow's Dream
68. Sweet Leaf
69. Killing Yourself To Live
70. Cornucopia
71. War Pigs
72. Laguna Sunrise
73. Paranoid
74. Wicked World

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131856 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-22
• Number of discs: 8
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Pure Genius
This Box set is an essential for any one who like Ozzy or Black Sabbath. It is even worth buying if you already own one or two of the albums in it as it will still be cheaper than buying them separatley. All the albums are in cardboard cover sleives that are exact replicas of the original vinyl release. I'll now give my views on each indevidual album.

BLACK SABBATH: The debut album of the first and best heavy metal band ever. This album is full of gloomy riffs and minor keys and just sets a wonderful dark atmosphere.
PARANOID: Arguably (by me) the best ever Heavy Metal album. This album set the standards for metal/rock and still sounds fresh and new today.
MASTER OF REALITY:Keeping up the standards of there other works this album is just full of heaviness (except 'Changes' which is still amazing)
VOL 4: Wheels of Confusion starts you off well and as the albums continues you can only like this album and its creators more and more.
SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: Full of amazing tracks that just can't age and you can't help but listen to the title track again and again.
SABOTAGE: 'Hole in the Sky' is a big bang to bring you into the album and you have a brief respite with 'Don't Start (Too Late)' before the sheer heaviness of 'Symptom of the Universe' hits you. As good as the rest of this album it is none of the following tracks are quite as good as Sabbath's previous genious but still a good listen.
TECHNICAL ECSTACY: IMO the worst album Sabbath made but it has a couple of good tracks. The band looses it power here and this makes it my least listened to of these albums.
NEVER SAY DIE!: The most ironically named album ever but still a good listen. Sabbath picks up its standards again here but still not up to even the standard of the first four albums. The title track is a great rocker and the rest of the album is full of good songs but the bands more than apparent lack of entusiasm is very visable and lowers the quality a tad (but not much)

Overall this boxed set is good for any fan of Heavy Metal who wants to know where it all started. With a large number of the track becoming classics in their genre. I would recommend you get this if you want the music but don't expect any background of the band as all you get is a book of pictures of the band.
This boxed set is a must for everyone who has ears.

Great sound, nice packaging, great albums but NO extras
This item contains a repackaging for the first eight Black Sabbath Studio Albuns (the ones made in the 70's withh Ozzy fronting the band)

What I like: the package, the sound and the albums
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THE PACKAGE: Very nice
_Black Sabbath: Cardboard foldout cover, white paper inner sleeve
_Paranoid: Cardboard foldout cover, white paper inner sleeve
_Master Of Reality: Cardboard box cover, white paper inner sleeve, includes poster
_Vol 4: Cardboard foldout cover (includes 4 page booklet), white paper inner sleeve
_Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Cardboard foldout cover, paper inner sleeve with printed lirics
_Sabotage: Cardboard sinple sleeve, white paper inner sleeve
_Technical Ecstasy: Cardboard simple cover, white paper inner sleeve, lirics insert
_Never Say Die: Cardboard simple cover, paper inner sleeve with artwork
_16 page photo (only photos, no text) booklet
_Box to hold the releases
the CDs themselves are printed resembling LPs

(if you have seen the original LPs covers you know what this CDs look like)

THE SOUND
Much like the remasters (I think it's the same) and I didn't notice the faults that some of the remasters have.... (Fairies Wear Boots, Sabra Cadabra..)

THE ALBUMS
Well, the first Black Sabbath Albums should already be known by everyone, shouldn't they? Although I prefer the late (Tony Martin era) or the Dio ones these ones are great as well
Black Sabbath is the european version (that means the track Wicked World is missing)

What I don't like
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Absolutely no extras, No booklet other than the photo booklet, No unreleased demos, No unreleased tracks, No live tracks. The album Live At Last is missing

Conclusion
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If you like Black Sabbath and don't have the remasters BUY THIS SET NOW, the packaging is much nicer (in my opinion), it would require less space in your shelves, you won't get the faults that some of the remasters have and you'll only miss wicked world. Plus the package is cheaper than buying the remasters alone

If you like Black Sabbath and you already have the remasters I've already told you what this package has and has not, so you can decide for yourself

If you don't like Black Sabbath what are you doing reading this review?

I world have given the 5th star should the pacakge contain extra material

Black Sabbath - The Ozzy Years. The Best!
There are times in my life when there have been defining moments in my love of music - the first time I played the Jimi Hendrix albums, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland. The emergence of overdriven guitars in the 60's, screaming feedback - I loved it. It was an exciting time.

Then in April 1970 I heard Black Sabbath play on John Peel's Sunday Show. They sounded so different to anything that I'd heard before. During the following week I visited my local record shop in the hope they'd have this new band's album - they did. I remember that day so well - so sunny and bright - in stark contrast to the doom laden vinyl I was carrying in my sweaty, teenage palms! I got home, put the record on my newly-bought, teak veneered (very fashionable at the time!) radiogram and waited expectantly. The sounds of thunder and heavy rain filled the cheery sunlight room. Then the first crashing chord hit and I was hooked. I sat totally amazed at what I was hearing. When it ended I just played it again - and again. This has always been my favourite Black Sabbath album. Whenever I play it, I'm back in April 1970 and I'm 18 again.

I bought each new album as they were released in the 70's and loved them all, but that first one is special. After Ozzy left, I stopped buying the albums - it just wasn't the same for me.

I recently, and very reluctantly, sold my entire vinyl collection to fund the purchase of another guitar and to make room for the new furniture my wife decided we needed - the latter being the prime directive (of course!). I'm now replacing the special albums with CD's and have started with this boxed set that contains all eight of the albums I had on vinyl - perfect! The fact that they are packaged in mini replicas of the originals is just right. The sound is fantastic.

To review the musical content of this collection is pointless - you either love them or loathe them. If you want a collection of Black Sabbath during the Ozzy years, this is the one to buy.

When the boxed set arrived, I just had to play the debut album first and in a different sun-filled room I sat and heard the rumblings of thunder, the rain, the first crashing chord. I was 18 again...