Sabotage Songs Ranked

Sabotage is the sixth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in July 1975. It was recorded in the midst of litigation with their former manager Patrick Meehan. The stress that resulted from the band’s ongoing legal woes infiltrated the recording process, inspiring the album’s title. It was co-produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and Mike Butcher. Black Sabbath began work on their sixth album in February 1975, again in England at Morgan Studios in Willesden, London. The title Sabotage was chosen because the band were at the time being sued by their former management and felt they were being “sabotaged all the way along the line and getting punched from all sides”, according to Iommi. “It was probably the only album ever made with lawyers in the studio,” said drummer Bill Ward.  Iommi credits those legal troubles for the album’s angry, heavier sound. Here are all of Sabotage songs ranked.

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8. Don’t Start (Too Late)

“Don’t start (too late) – a nice sounding instrumental coming in at 0:49 seconds long. The Spanish sounding accoustic guitar is what makes this track sound so nice. There seems to be bad separation between the first track and this, the second track. You hear the riff from the first track, “Hole in the sky”, leak into the start of this track. Not sure if that is just a bad division, or whether it is meant to sound that way.”

7. Supertzar

“This could be THE most surprising Black Sabbath track ever…and that’s saying a lot…pretty much every album, from Paranoid, perhaps, to this, feature one quirky, very un-rock track. Has choral music with strings/string section. There are also some heavy electric guitar riffs on this instrumental.”

6. Am I Going Insane

“Am I going insane has a cheesy sounding synthesiser. Ozzy’s vocals are cool on this song. It sounds like Axl Rose, of Guns’n’Roses is doing the backing vocals on this song…so, perhaps now we know what Axl was influenced by as a kid? In trying to decipher what my notes are referring to, I think that they are saying that the transition between this song and “The writ” is great…a scene from Hell, a nightmare. Not fresh in my memory, this album, so I can’t expand on that any further.”

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5. The Writ

“I like the mood at the start of this song. It’s mellow and eerie, then turns rock. Ozzy’s vocals are good here…shrill. When the song turns rock, it’s initially good, but I’m not as captivated by the later rock part. There is a pretty sounding string instrument part and also the harpsichord, I think. Nice in any case. There is a short, nonsense outro, which may be a bonus track…or just a weird way to end the album.”

4. The Thrill of It All

“The first part of this song is especially good. It’s grungy and I really like the texture of the guitar sound. The drums get thumped on this track, but later on they sound spaced out. The last part of the song is is synth pop/rock. This is what I mean by them changing the tone of the song. Really, I would much rather have had the first part of the song extended and stopped right there.”

3. Megalomania

“The first part of this song is especially interesting. It has a mournful quality to it. Later it turns into a rock song and Ozzy sounds like Davros here (that’s a Dr.Who pop culture reference!). The riff sounds familiar in this song, but I can’t place it.”

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2. Hole In the Sky

“Hole in the Sky” has such a wicked, fun, groovy flow to it, which is only enhanced by Ozzy’s lyrics that he probably wrote when he was out of his mind. It still means a lot though. I’ve had fever dreams like that.”

1. Symptom of the Universe

“The most focussing on this album is track “Symptom Of The Universe”, which is the fastest ever played in band’s studio history song. After many years of Ozzy Osbourne described the album as the beginning of the end of the band, Tony Iommi perform its study the ideas that consume large amounts of cash, among others. expanded orchestral whether, as in the song “Supertzar” use of the choir.”