Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath (Warner Bros., 1970) The worst of the counterculture on a plastic platter--bullshit necromancy, drug-impaired reaction time, long solos, everything. They claim to oppose war, but if I don't believe in loving my enemies I don't believe in loving my allies either, and I've been worried something like this was going to happen since the first time I saw a numerology column in an underground newspaper. C-Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Warner Bros., 1970) They do take heavy to undreamt-of extremes, and I suppose I could enjoy them as camp, like a horror movie--the title cut is definitely screamworthy. After all, their audience can't take that Lucifer bit seriously, right? Well, depends on what you mean by serious. Personally, I've always suspected that horror movies catharsized stuff I was too rational to care about in the first place. C-Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (Warner Bros., 1971) As an increasingly regretful spearhead of the great Grand Funk switch, in which critics redefined GFR as a 1971 good old-fashioned rock and roll band even though I've never met a critic (myself included) who actually played the records, I feel entitled to put this in its place. Grand Funk is like an American white blues band of three years ago--dull. Black Sabbath is English--dull and decadent. I don't care how many rebels and incipient groovies are buying. I don't even care if the band members believe in their own Christian/satanist/liberal murk. This is a dim-witted, amoral exploitation. C-
at least his consistent
>>129846102seethe
>>129846102imagine choosing an ideology that doesnt let you like black sabbathmorally weak.
>>129846102it's probably hard for those who grew up post-internet to even imagine how much mainstream media tried to discredit any white Christian working class expression in the 70s and 80s.
>>129851310wait, black sabbath is a christian band?
>>129851321yeah, i'm not an expert on bs, but from what I've seen, they were pretty upfront about how Christianity informed much of their stuff (despite, of course, their being thought of as satanists, etc).
>>129851310thats not even slightly accurate. how do i know? i was there. fuck you.>>129851321sabbath is a hippie funk band, but in reverse. there is the occasional lyric that seems god-fearing however..>>129851353ok, fake news.
>>129851377
imagine ever disliking Sabbath at their peak...i'd kill myself desu
>>129851615kek guy like that proves anythinghe may as well have a flaming pedo dildo hat onyou are out of your league
>>129851979>you are out of your leaguewait till this guy finds out Jimi Hendrix was christian too
>>129851377https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXplbBJRAM
>>129851979You make bad jokes like an AI
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>>129854016ahem, i believe i said, and i quote there is the occasional lyric that seems god-fearing however."dumb cunt>>129854026ok meme christ bot
I assumed Robert Christgau was dead, apparently he is alive, but no longer reviewing anything contemporary for whatever reason.
>tfw too rational for marital fidelity
Can you be both KVLT and christian?
>>129851310This is something the kids on Tiktok will never comprehend. Like trying to explain the fourth spatial dimension.
>>129846102hiding this thread
fuck reddit sabbath
>>129860924Well he is in his 80s.
>>129846102His reviews are like stinky little farts and I bet he huffed them for all he could get out of them after he wrote them.
>>129860924see>>129857545
>>129871917I wrote those with ChatGPT, heh.
>>129869054His way of writing is fine. Hes far knowledgeable than the mu critic knowledgeable
>>129846102Which no fun idiot wannabe critic wrote that? Total cock sucker.
