Why is Black Sabbath every Sup Forumscorebabbie's favorite "dadrock" band and the only one they like?
They are great but they are inferior to peers like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, however Sup Forums puts them on a pedestal and are now basically a hipster band.
In fact many Sup Forumscorebabbies don't even put them under the stupid "dadrock" label for some arbitrary reason when they are less diverse musically and produced lower quality music than the aforementioned bands.
black sabbath essentially started 8 different genres without even trying. the riffs are all creative and the lyrics are evocative. if a band like black sabbath existed at any point since 1970, it would have been praised for reaching the pinnacle of their artistry. instead. all we have is sleep and dopethrone and a bunch of knockoffs
i don't know why it's hard for you to believe if you speed up blues and make it "heavy" two bands will arrive at the same basic thing independently. doesn't make the fact that at a certain point it was highly original. if you listen to a melvins record without vocals there's a good chance you think "sabbath did it first"
Owen Perez
None of that is true though. Sup Forums has about a hundred bands from the 70's they talk about more then Sabbath.
Chase Myers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_(album) >In 2013, Butler told Mojo magazine that the song "Paranoid" was "about depression, because I didn't really know the difference between depression and paranoia. It's a drug thing; when you're smoking a joint you get totally paranoid about people, you can't relate to people. There's that crossover between the paranoia you get when you're smoking dope and the depression afterwards." In 2015 Butler elaborated further to Dave Everly of Classic Rock: "I used to be a cutter. I'd cut my arms, stick pins through my fingers, that kind of thing. I used to get really depressed and it was the only thing that could bring me out of it. If Sabbath hadn't made it, I'd have been long dead. I'd have killed myself." According to Mick Wall's book Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe, Butler was dead set against the song because he thought it too closely resembled Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown", with the bassist admitting, "I thought it was so much like that we couldn't possibly get away with it ... They were our favorite band by that time."
Black Sabbath is the better band overall imo, but still, that song isn't very original.
