Tony Iommi is the original riff Lord and I feel he out-did even himself on Supernaut. The intro/main riff is one of my favorite of all time. The verse riff is also super interesting with the upward slide (I think that is Geezer's bass combined with Iommi palm muting? Hard to tell.) Then there are Ozzy's vocals.. "I wanna reach out, and touch the sky, I wanna touch the sun but I don't need to fly. I'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon, and find a distant man waving his spoon." Wonder what he is talking about? This Rolling Stone article might shed some light on it.
***There’s no way to precisely quantify the colossal amount of drugs Black Sabbath inhaled in 1972 while making their fourth album, which they’d hoped to title Snowblind, in tribute to their favorite powdered narcotic. All they have to go on is the bill their manager presented to them when they were done with it. “Whether you can believe him or not, the record cost, I think, $65,000,” bassist Geezer Butler says drolly, “and the cocaine bill was $75,000.”
“At that time, [the cocaine] was good stuff, and we used to have it flown in on a private plane,” guitarist Tony Iommi recalls, sounding lighthearted. “That’s why we used to have all the musicians turning up at our house at the time, pretending they’re coming to visit us. We were all bloody smugglers if you think about it."
“We had a lot of late nights,” says frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who now regrets his coke indulgences. “We’d stay up all night.”***
A comment on the YouTube lyric video says "If you listen to this while driving you're getting a speeding ticket."
If this song were just verse/chorus standard format I would still love it... but... these guys don't really do 'standard' songs. Around 2:35 in the song it breaks into an acoustic section with one of the coolest drum pieces from Bill Ward. Below is a reaction video that focuses on the breakdown.
Bill Ward is one of my favorite drummers. Look at this performance of War Pigs from early on in Sabbath's history. The whole band sounds so frickin awesome in this clip, but Bill Ward stands out. So intense!
There will be many many more Black Sabbath posts on this site, but I just wanted to break the ice talking about one single song. (Well, two.... War Pigs snuck in there also). Keep those horns up!!!
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