BLACK SABBATH - SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH, ABSOLUTE MINT,

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May 19, 2012 Sold Date

May 12, 2012 Start Date

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YOU ARE BIDDING FOR black sabbaths fifth studio ALBUM FROM 1973. 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 (39 YEARS OLD). THE MATRICES ARE 1//2, 2//4 and the cat number wwa 005.

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. SLEEVES THE OUTER, GATEFOLD COVER IS near mint WITH NO FADING, DISCOLOURING, INDENTS 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 lyric SLEEVE IS AS NEW WITH slight yellowing to the edges due to age. 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 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in December 1973. With this album, the band expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music by strings, keyboards and more complex orchestral arrangements. Recording Following the 1972–1973 world tour in support of their Volume 4 album, Black Sabbath again returned to Los Angeles, California to begin work on its successor. Pleased with Volume 4, the band sought to recreate the recording atmosphere, and returned to the Record Plant Studios with new producer and engineer Tom Allom. Although the album credits the band's manager Patrick Meehan as producer, guitarist Tony Iommi said "Meehan's ego got involved, and he stuck his name down as producer".[1] With new musical innovations of the era, the band were surprised to find the room they had used previously at the Record Plant was replaced by a "giant synthesizer". The band rented a house in Bel Air and began writing in the summer of 1973, but due in part to substance abuse and fatigue, were unable to complete any songs. "Ideas weren't coming out the way they were on Volume 4 and we really got discontent" Iommi said. "Everybody was sitting there waiting for me to come up with something. I just couldn't think of anything. And if I didn't come up with anything, nobody would do anything." After a month in Los Angeles with no results, the band opted to return to the UK, where they rented Clearwell Castle in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. "We rehearsed in the dungeons and it was really creepy but it had some atmosphere, it conjured up things, and stuff started coming out again". While working in the dungeon, Iommi stumbled onto the main riff of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", which set the tone for the new material. Recording was completed at Morgan Studios in Willesden, North London in 1973. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of the band Yes (who was recording Tales from Topographic Oceans with Yes in the next studio) was brought in as a session player, appearing on "Sabbra Cadabra". Music and lyrics Building off the stylistic changes introduced on Volume 4, new songs incorporated synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex arrangements. In particular, "Sabbra Cadabra" and "Who Are You?" utilise a Moog synthesizer, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Lyrics of some songs on the album were written about problems within the band at the time. "Killing Yourself to Live" was written by bassist Geezer Butler while in hospital for kidney problems caused by heavy drinking. Drummer Bill Ward was also suffering from binge drinking, and the song reflects the problems caused by their "extreme" lifestyles. An earlier incarnation of the song can be heard on the records Live at Last and Past Lives. Artwork Drew Struzan was the artist requested to do the cover painting, under the direction of Ernie Cefalu. It depicts a man on a bed, seemingly having a nightmare or a vision of being attacked by demons in human form. At the top of the bed is a large skull with long, outstretched arms and 666 (the Number of the Beast) written below it. The other side of the album features the opposite of the front cover, as shown here. Inside the gatefold sleeve there is a photo of the band members shown over a photo of a bedroom. Release and receptionProfessional ratings Black Sabbath released Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on 1 December 1973. For the first time in their career, the band began to receive favourable reviews in the mainstream press, with Rolling Stone calling the album "an extraordinarily gripping affair", and "nothing less than a complete success". Later reviewers such as All Music's Eduardo Rivadavia cite the album as "a masterpiece, essential to any heavy metal collection", while also displaying "a newfound sense of finesse and maturity". The album marked the band's fifth consecutive platinum selling album in the United States. It reached number four on the UK charts, and number eleven in the US. In the UK, it was the first Black Sabbath album to attain Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in February 1975. The band began a world tour in January 1974, which culminated at the California Jam festival in Ontario, California on 6 April 1974. Attracting over 200,000 fans, Black Sabbath appeared alongside other '70s rock giants, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Earth, Wind & Fire and The Eagles. Portions of the show were telecast on ABC Television in the US, exposing the band to a wider American audience. Track listing All songs by Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. Side 1 1. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" 5:45 2. "A National Acrobat" 6:16 3. "Fluff" (instrumental) 4:11 4. "Sabbra Cadabra" 5:59 Side 2 1. "Killing Yourself to Live *" 5:41 2. "Who Are You?" 4:11 3. "Looking for Today" 5:06 4. "Spiral Architect" 5:29

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