Paranoid remains the diabolical wellspring from which innumerable bands-and many metal subgenres-have sprung. Within just over two years, Black Sabbath released four albums and birthed something much bigger than themselves: heavy metal. It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot. Many critics found the songs overly theatrical, but the public was ravenous for them. While the meaning of the song has been heavily discussed over the years, 'Fairies Wear Boots' is one of Sabbaths grooviest tunes. 'Paranoid' is a song by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid (1970). This is heavy subject matter, and the band developed a musical vocabulary to match it, with ponderous drums and scowling guitars that felt light-years away from, say, CSN&Y. “Hand of Doom” deals with heroin addiction among soldiers, while “Paranoid” traffics in depression. “Iron Man,” bearing one of the most recognizable guitar riffs on the planet, is told from the perspective of a man who, after being blasted into space, has seen humanity’s grim future but is unable to communicate it upon his return. “War Pigs”-meant at one point to be the album’s title track-opens with air-raid sirens and ultimately envisions the evisceration of warmongering politicians. Despite critics’ misreading of the album as a Satanic screed (a perception Sabbath played up), the album in fact contained searing indictments of the elite. Out of that despair came this furious, uncompromising record. Black Sabbath originally released Paranoid written by Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward and Black Sabbath released it on the single. But by the late ’60s, the death toll in Vietnam was rising, the band’s native Birmingham remained studded with World War II bomb sites, and these blue-collar boys saw only mind-dulling factory work ahead of them. It wasn’t always this way, of course: Confirmed Beatles fans, Sabbath’s members had their psychedelic period. Paranoid Black Sabbath not really set out 100percent but the chords are right intro: B reapeted verse Efinished with my women coz she coDuldnt help me wiGth myD minEd Epeople think im insane coz im Dfrowning aGll tDhe tEime E C D E strum once only EAll day long i think of things but Dnothing seems toG satDisfyE Ethinkll lose my mind if i dont Dfind somthing. Gone were the flower children, peace chants, and Day-Glo paint in came monumental, vicious guitar riffs, Ozzy Osbourne’s snarling twist of a voice, and stories of doom, drug addiction, and death. If any album signaled the definitive end of the ’60s, it was Paranoid.
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