Shittiest SabbathDome: Never Say Die vs. Technical Ecstasy

[Marsupialized]

Never listened to any past the first five, never will.

Uh, I gotta tell ya, you probably wanna check out number six

[Gary]

I have never understood why some people take pride in not listening to Sabotage. What gives?

[subprime]

From hearing that, I dont really feel the need to listen past the fifth. Even the fifth was a low point for me compared to the previous ones.

[Marsupialized]

From hearing that, I dont really feel the need to listen past the fifth. Even the fifth was a low point for me compared to the previous ones.

Ok, man. Good luck with all that.

[subprime]

somethings just missing for me with that one. My favorite part of sabbath has always been the doomy bits, which that song sorely misses.

[TheMilford]

That riff in the middle of "Johnny Blade" gives the whole record a pass in my book.

This song RULES!... totally awesome... love the synths.

Technical Ecstasy sucks... barely listenable.

[TheMilford]

Never listened to any past the first five, never will.

Uh, I gotta tell ya, you probably wanna check out number six

Sabotage... is prolly their crowning achievement. I have a soft-spot for both the 1st and SBS... but Sabotage is king.

[Arson Smith]

From hearing that, I dont really feel the need to listen past the fifth. Even the fifth was a low point for me compared to the previous ones.

Ok, man. Good luck with all that.

I'm sayin'...

[John George Peppers]

I'm with Sowley.

Never Say Die is a beast of an album...

I have been telling Marsup this for years. I enjoy Never Say Die.

Technical Ecstasy is a pile of garbage...straight up.

Not a single track worth giving a second listen.

[SecondEdition]

Sabotage fucking kills.

I mean, "Hole In The Sky"?

[elisha wiesner]

Sabotage fucking kills.

I mean, "Hole In The Sky"?

One of my favorite Sabbath songs. The whole album is great. I'm not sure how someone could like the first 5 albums and not like Sabotage.

[Arson Smith]

Occasionally I will remember this thread and just be SO ANGRY with some of you.

[J. Burns]

Sabotage is a motherfucker of an album. "Hole In The Sky?" "Symptom Of The Universe?" Ain't nobody frontin' on those shits.

Never Say Die has a couple of jams.

Technical Ecstacy is mega-nasty. It is dog shit.

[Arson Smith]

Sabotage is a motherfucker of an album. "Hole In The Sky?" "Symptom Of The Universe?" Ain't nobody frontin' on those shits.

Never Say Die has a couple of jams.

Technical Ecstacy is mega-nasty. It is dog shit.

Conrgatulations - you have just scored in the 99th percentile on your BSVAB.

(Black Sabbath Vocational Aptitude Battery)

[J. Burns]

Sabotage is a motherfucker of an album. "Hole In The Sky?" "Symptom Of The Universe?" Ain't nobody frontin' on those shits.

Never Say Die has a couple of jams.

Technical Ecstacy is mega-nasty. It is dog shit.

Conrgatulations - you have just scored in the 99th percentile on your BSVAB.

(Black Sabbath Vocational Aptitude Battery)

I take it my fruit cup is in the mail?

[Ptommydski]

Have to agree with JGP.

Never Say Die is okay. Title track is a good song. Technical Ecstacy is poor but still much better than anything that came post-Mob Rules. However, both albums compare very, very badly to the first five or six albums.

The worst Sabbath of this era is still not that bad in the grand scheme of music. If it's Iommi, Butler and Ward playing together around this time - how bad can it be? It's not Coldplay or Crazy Town. It's Sabbath.

[Arson Smith]

Have to agree with JGP.

Never Say Die is okay. Title track is a good song. Technical Ecstacy is poor but still much better than anything that came post-Mob Rules. However, both albums compare very, very badly to the first five or six albums.

Sure. Again, I'd swap in "post-'Born Again'", but we're on about the same page there.
Nobody's listening to 'Eternal Idol' (or whatever shit came after that) for fun.

The worst Sabbath of this era is still not that bad in the grand scheme of music. If it's Iommi, Butler and Ward playing together around this time - how bad can it be? It's not Coldplay or Crazy Town. It's Sabbath.

You know what's actually fucked up? Forget for a minute if it's a "heaviness contest" or whatever - but I could actually hum you a Coldplay or a Crazy Town song, because (God help me here) there was at least some (*some*!) songcraft there, somewhere.

Even if it "rocks harder", there is literally no fucking songmanship on Technical Ecstasy.

I own a copy, don't get me wrong, and about once a year I take it out, listen once, shake my head, put it back away, and then a week later I can't remember one bit of it!

They are bad because they are bad, the songs are not good.

That is really bad rock music.

[Ptommydski]

Yeah, I think there's something to that simply because although I own these records, they've never even made it onto my iPod. I doubt I will ever actually listen to them by choice ever again. They're there, they're not very good.

However, they're not the worst Sabbath albums. A poll on the post-Mob Rules albums would probably be hilarious. I might download them for a laugh one day and try to listen to them.

[prowler]

Born Again is better than either of these two

[madmanmunt]

Ian Gillan singing "Rock 'n Roll Doctor" is actually really good!

Uh... I definitely would not go so far as to say "really good"... maybe just "less bad"?

This song is the funniest thing I've heard all week. Hilarious!