BLACK SABBATH - BLACCK SABBATH, ABSOLUTE MINT, A1 B1

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May 19, 2012 Sold Date

May 12, 2012 Start Date

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YOU ARE BIDDING FOR black sabbaths FIRST studio ALBUM FROM 1970. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS ALBUM IS IN ABSOLUTE PRISTINE CONDITION THROUGHOUT AND PLAYS LIKE A DREAM. I DOUBT YOU WILL FIND SUCH A PERFECT SPECIMEN FOR ITS AGE (42 YEARS OLD). THE MATRICES ARE NEL 6002 – A – 1 AND NEL 6002 – B - 2.

VINYL THE PLAYING SURFACE GRADES VISUALLY AS NEAR MINT. EVEN IN STRONG ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND BRIGHT DAYLIGHT I CAN BEARLY MAKE OUT ANY FAINT SLEEVE INSERTION WISPS. ALSO, BY SIGHT AND ROTATION ON AN AUDIO TURNTABLE, THE VINYL SHOWS NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF WARPING. AUDIBLY THE ALBUM IS POSSIBLY ONE OF THE BEST SPECIMENS I HAVE COME ACCROSS. TRY AS I MIGHT WITH FULL VOLUME, I CANNOT MAKE OUT MUCH SURFACE NOISE AT ALL EXCEPTING SLIGHT STATIC IN QUIET PASSAGES AND BETWEEN TRACKS THAT WILL LESSEN WITH PLAYING AND THE SOUND IS CRISP, CLEAR, VIBRANT AND DYNAMIC from this robust, heavy piece of vinyl. I WOULD SAY NEAR MINT. LABELS NEAR MINT. THE LABELS ARE CLEAN, UNFADED AND DISPLAY MINIMAL PLAYS WITH JUST A HANDFUL OF FAINT SPINDLE LINES. LABEL 2 HAS SOME RAISED BUBBLING ACROSS 20% OF THE SURFACE AS PER THE PHOTOGRAPH SLEEVES THE OUTER, GATEFOLD COVER IS near mint WITH NO FADING, DISCOLOURING, INDENTS (SLIGHT SPHERICAL DENT ABOUT 2MM ACROSS TO THE TOP, FRONT) AND ONLY very light, infrequent SCUFFING TO THE CORNERS AND EDGES AND JUST A FEW CREASES AROUND THE EDGES. THE SPINE IS fully IN TACT WITH WRITING FULLY LEGIBLE AND the whole sleeve is square and robust. THE INNER SLEEVE IS AS NEW WITH slight yellowing to the edges due to age AND SLIGHT CREASING TO ONE CORNER FROM INSERTING TO OUTER SLEEVE (AS PER PHOTO). PACKAGING IT IS MY DUTY AS A CONSCIENTIOUS SELLER, TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE PACKAGING AVAILABLE IN ORDER TO PROETCT YOUR VALUABLE INVESTMENT ITEM. AS SUCH, THE ITEM WILL BE ENCLOSED IN A CUSTOM CARD MAILER WITH CARD STIFFENER INSERTS TO FURTHER PROTECT FROM DAMAGE. A FURTHER STIFFENER WILL BE INSERTED INTO THE OUTER SLEEVE (IN PLACE OF THE VINYL) TO PREVENT CRUSHING OF THE SPINE. THE PACKAGE WILL BE CLEARLY MARKED AND DISPLAY FRAGILE STICKERS AND A RETURN ADDRESS IN CASE OF LOSS. REPRESENTATION AS I AM OFFERING GUARANTEED QUALITY WITH A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE, SHOULD THE ITEM NOT BE AS DESCRIBED, I ENDEAVOUR TO REPRESENT THE ITEM AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE SO AS TO PRESERVE MY REPUTATION AND MY 100% FEEDBACK RATING. aS SUCH, I ENDEAVOUR TO DESCRIBE THE ITEM 100% ACCURATELY BOTH VERBALLY AND VISUALLY. THIS BEEN THE REASON I HAVE INVESTED IN A STATE OF THE ART DIGITAL SLR CAMERA (18 MEGAPIXEL) AND STUDIO LIGHTING. THAT SAID, IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR IMAGES WHILST THE AUCTION IS STILL IN PROGRESS, EMAIL ME AND I WILL RESPOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND AS HONESTLY AS POSSIBLE. POSTAGE COSTS 2ND CLASS - £2.95 WITH INSURANCE UP TO £50. PLEASE NOTE: AS I AM SELLING SEVERAL ALBUMS AT THE MOMENT, I WILL COMBINE UK POSTAGE FOR TWO ALBUMS. THATS TWO ALBUMS FOR THE SAME POSTAGE COST AS ONE (£2.95). EUROPE - £5.00 rEST OF WORLD - £7.50 ALBUM NOTES Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released on 13 February 1970 in the United Kingdom, and later on 1 June 1970 in the United States, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and has been recognised as the first major album to be credited with the development of the heavy metal genre. Recording In August 1969 the band, who were then known as Earth, decided to change their name to Black Sabbath. This was because there was another band also known as Earth, and also as homage to the 1963 classic Mario Bava terror film starring Boris Karloff. Around the same time they recorded and distributed a demo version of their eponymous song. In November 1969 they recorded their debut single, "Evil Woman", released in January 1970, and recorded and mixed the remaining seven songs that would appear on their debut album. According to guitarist Tony Iommi, "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland." Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff." Music and lyrics Musically and lyrically the album was considered quite "dark" for the time. The first song on the album is based almost entirely on a tritone interval played at slow tempo on the electric guitar. The song's lyrics concern a "figure in black" which bass player Geezer Butler claims to have seen after waking up from a nightmare. Similarly, the lyrics of the song "N.I.B." are written from the point of view of Lucifer. Contrary to popular belief, the name of that song is not an abbreviation for "Nativity in Black". Osbourne said in his autobiography that it is merely a reference to drummer Bill Ward's pointed goatee at the time, which was shaped as a pen-nib. Lyrics of two other songs on the album were written about mythical themed stories. "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is a reference to the H. P. Lovecraft short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep, while "The Wizard" was inspired by the character of Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings. The latter includes harmonica performed by vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. Both the songs "Warning" and "Evil Woman" are covers of blues rock songs, with lyrics regarding relationships. The first was written and performed by Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation, and the second was written and performed by the band Crow. Artwork The album cover features a depiction of Mapledurham Watermill, situated on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. Standing in front of the watermill is a figure dressed in black. The silhouette of a raven is visible among the trees on the back cover. On the original release, the inner gate-fold sleeve featured an inverted cross with a poem written inside of it. Allegedly, the band were upset when they discovered this, as it fueled allegations that they were Satanists or Occultists; however, in Osbourne's recent biography, "I Am Ozzy", he says that to the best of his knowledge nobody was upset with the inclusion. The album was not packaged with a gate-fold cover in the U.S. Release Released on Friday the 13th February 1970 by Vertigo Records, Black Sabbath reached number eight on the UK Album Chart. Following its US release in June 1970 by Warner Bros. Records, the album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for over a year, selling a million copies. Legacy The album has been credited for pioneering heavy metal, stoner rock, doom metal, and goth. In 1989, Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. 31 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". In 2003, the album was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Critical reception While the album was a commercial success and is now lauded as perhaps the first true heavy metal album, upon its release it was widely panned by critics. In a review for Rolling Stone magazine, rock critic Lester Bangs felt Sabbath was "just like Cream! But worse". Bangs dismissed Black Sabbath as "a shuck—despite the murky songtitles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés". Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice that the album was "the worst of the counterculture on a plastic platter". With the passage of time, reviews have become more positive. Steve Huey, for example, wrote for Allmusic that "Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness", commenting that the album featured "plenty of metal classics". Mike Stagno of Sputnikmusic stated that "both fans of blues influenced hard rock and heavy metal of all sorts should find something they like on the album". Track listing All songs credited to Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, except "Evil Woman" (Larry Weigand, Dick Weigand and David Wagner) and "Warning" (Dunbar/Dmochowski/Hickling/Moorshead). 1. "Black Sabbath" 6:20 2. "The Wizard" 4:24 3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep" 3:37 4. "N.I.B." 6:08 5. "Evil Woman" (Crow cover) 3:25 6. "Sleeping Village" 3:46 7. "The Warning" (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation cover) 10:28 8. "Wicked World" (1996 reissue bonus track) 4:47

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