Black Sabbath Findings For You!

1. There's not a single Black Sabbath album that's great from start to finish, mostly due to the proggy or jazzy or ballady cuts.

2. Someone on ILM made a mix of nothing but those proggy, jazzy, ballady cuts. It was awful. 

3. Technical Ecstasy is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. Here's bassist Geezer Butler looking back on the album in 2004: "Back then, you had to at least try to be modern and keep up. Punk was massive then and we felt that our time had come and gone." Ok so then holy funk y'all should have kept up and sold your souls to punk!

4.  Qua album, Never Say Die! may be their very best. I prefer it to Vol. 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It makes up in loopy, try-anything desperation what it lacks in archetypal rockers. And the title track can stand with any of their archetypal rockers. Don't believe me? Check out John Darnielle's Last Plane to Jakarta flowchart proving the album's greatness. 

5. Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, and Born Again are NOT good albums or even all that heavy. If you're going to go for one of these, try Born Again. It's the campiest.

6. I couldn't care less about anything after Born Again.