[chris37]

I like Iron Man, Paranoid, War Pigs and Planet Caravan.

That’s about it from them as far as I am concerned.

Metallica, in my opinion, is far better.

[Olog-hai]

The later albums have some real highlights; even turkeys like Never Say Die (the era when Van Halen as their opening act showed them up, per legend) have songs like Johnny Blade that are underrated.

Sabbath of course had problems with hard drugs like cocaine along with their usual abuse of alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol.

One time, Ozzy recounted in an interview that people used to say things like this during his first solo tours: “Okay, Ozzy’s here; just fill up the bathtub and give him a straw.”

[Olog-hai]

BTW, the first time I saw Metallica was during Ozzy’s “Ultimate Sin” tour, at the Meadowlands in New Jersey; it was the “Master of Puppets” album for them (with Cliff), and there was some talk about how Metallica almost upstaged Ozzy, with people defending either performance. A friend of mine is insistent that Ozzy won that one with his opening move of descending from the top of the stage in the throne built into his Ozzy automaton. (Ozzy opened with “Bark At The Moon”, which was unexpected since he usually opened with “I Don’t Know” up until that time.)