BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID - VERTIGO SWIRLY ITALY 6360.011 1970

	£		25
	$		33

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           TYPE SINGLE LP - STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

VERTIGO BIG "SWIRLY" with MADE IN ITALY printed on the B side label.

CATALOGUE NUMBER 6360 011 YEAR OF RELEASE 1970 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. (SLEEVE) RECORD (ITALY) SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD INSERTS/EXTRAS

NONE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        GRADING/CONDITION                   DISC(s) EXCELLENT- NICE AND CLEAN  with VERY LIGHT playwear and LIGHT overall storage and handling wear/marking, and just 1 noticable scuff on side 2 which is quite prominent but only an inaudible surface mark .PLAYS  WELL WITH A GREAT STEREO REPRODUCTION LABELS EXCELLENT                  

(CLEAN   LABELS  with  NO      Writing rips tears  stickers with LIGHT spindleusage and  LIGHT overall handling  storage and ageing marks

                  SLEEVE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Front board/Inner gatefold EX-

CLEAN SLEEVE with  NO writing rips or tears stickers.. FRONT board is unworn with no ringmarking, and what looks like a small white paint mark in the centre. INNER GATEFOLD is clean with light overall ageing handling and storage.

Rear Board EX Rear   board is  clean with LIGHT storage wear Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine VG Spine is complete and uncrushed with quite a lot of rubbing wear Top   & bottom edges VG Top edge and bottom has quite a bit of storage rubbing with card along its length Opening EX Openings have LIGHT usage and  LIGHT wear Corners VG Corners have wear in keeping with the condition of the spine and top and bottom edges.   INNER /EXTRAS                                 

N/A

                                                                                                                                                   DETAILS

Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time.                                   

Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history).                                    

The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music.                                     

Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations.                                    

Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history.                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Postal Shipping & Handling charges Region SINGLE ITEM EXTRAS UK (2ND CLASS) FOR A SINGLE LP/12" SINGLE £4.20 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP FREE - 3 TO 4 SINGLE LP'S ANOTHER £3.00 - 5 UPWARDS PLEASE ASK AS ITS GETTING COMPLICATED. Europe FOR 1 SINGLE LP £8.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP - £1.50 , 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE EMAIL FOR A POSTAGE PRICE USA Canada and Japan FOR 1  SINGLE LP £12.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP - £2.50, 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE EMAIL FOR A POSTAGE PRICE Australia and New Zealand FOR 1  SINGLE LP £13.00 FOR 1 EXTRA SINGLE LP £3.50, 3 ITEMS & ABOVE PLEASE ASK FOR A POSTAGE PRICE Recorded Delivery (U.K.) £1.10 N/A International Signed for £5.30 OVER £50 - 7.90 per package PLEASE READ: Unfortunately due to ongoing problems with buyers in certain countries any item or combination of items that exceed £25.00 in total will be invoiced with a charge for trackable shipping (International signed for). There are no exceptions to this rule. Thanks                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Terms and Conditions Guarantee I like to believe that I have an inkling about these things and accurately describe the item I am selling,but I along with everyone else am only human,and there might be an occasion where my assessment differs from yours,in this instance please contact me,and I will without question accept your criticism and arrange a full refund + your return costs if we need to go down that route. Communication and Feedback I have always been a great believer that feedback is a mutual thing between parties,and should be recognised upon the satisfactory completion of a sale .I know that these days it really matter when it is left as there is no recriminatory comments allowable for a buyer no matter how despicable they behave,but non the less I still prefer to leave feedback once I know that the buyer has received and is happy with the item,and have set my feedback profile to automatically reply to feedback given -So you will get your feedback minutes after you send yours,alternately I could do it manually and with my memory you could be waiting a loooong time. Payment We accept the following payment types - UK Customers - Paypal Cheque or Postal Order. Overseas Customers - Paypal Only