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Just a sick groove. One of the funkiest bands ever. No Joke.
Oh they definitely groove
rythm section is just on another level, bass is killing it, drums is almost soloing most of the time, what a great song, one I always keep on singing out of the blue
Yeah I think a lot of people miss the funk of Black Sabbath.
I tell you no lie.
My favourite Sabbath song ever. Funky, heavy, and psychedelic all at once.
Absolutely!
couldn't agree more
How can you have a favourite Sabbath song?
There are too many great songs to have just one favourite.
My favourite is the one Iâve just listened to before I listen to the next one.
Fun Fact: On this date in history, Ozzy Osbourne got high.
Lol, pick any date in history and that statement will probably be true
So was l or am.....đ€Łâ
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too!
You are a funny guy ! đâ€â
Haha and I donât even have to know what day you posted this!
"Hand of Doom" is an underrated song of theirs you would LOVE. Dank grooves and a powerful message.
My favorite on the album
GREAT song. Probably should have been dusted off and put into heavy rotation on the radio a few years ago, when that heroin epidemic swept through.
Your picture is fantastic.
Two thumbs up on this post.
Again, great song, but way too fucking long for a reaction channel.
I think you would like Black Sabbath - NIB. Has a really cool chorus, and a interesting story, as they said - ""the song was about the devil falling in love and totally changing, becoming a good person."".
Was born in '71. Babysat by older cousins. I was turned onto Black Sabbath at a very early age. Been a metalhead my whole life because of it.
I was born a year after you but didn't discover Sabbath until I was about 12. LOL we were visiting relatives and I was thumbing through my aunt's record collection. All this "easy-listening" type music...Kenny G, Ann Murray...like that. Well, I get WAAAAY to the back of the box...and there, I found "Paranoid".
Exactly
Same here.
Found uncle's cassette with random metal songs and iron man was first song on there . Hooked since
@@philpennington826 ..same here with baby sitter ,but heard Iron man an with a funny odor..đđ
black sabbath - sweet leaf
Black Sabbath - Snowblind
Black Sabbath - Hole In The Sky
Black Sabbath-All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
You forgot The Wizard.
and Supernaut
@@nickbingo8653 I didn't forget but check there playlist they already done
@@erickingston7756 this just a starter list of some they haven't done yet, but Supernaut is on my long list I got every thing from their first 7 lp on my long list, That's a lot of Sabbath to lay on them, they just scratching the surface
Symptom Of The Universe
Under The Sun
After Forever
A National Acrobat
The story behind the song is funny originally Ozzy came up with the idea after getting into a confrontation with skinheads who called him a fairy couldnât figure out how to write a whole song about it so then just went off about An experience with LSD. In the mid 2000s they asked him what the song is about in an interview he said honestly I donât remember at all. God bless ozzy. Also a gnome in tactical boots? Lmao lex
Yes, thatâs what I read at one time. He had a run in with skin heads, and wrote the song calling them fairies.
I also heard the story that they were walking back to their B&B after a gig in Workington, Cumbria, and the road they were walking on was a tad higher than the houses running alongside. Looking through the windows from that vantage point they could see a load of skinheads partying in one of the houses. Possibly apocryphal, but I like the idea
Yes, I heard this, too. That might be a watered down PC version. I heard that the skin head appeared to be gay, hence "a fairy with boots on."
I think you are right, but i think the skinheads were the fairies rather than calling him a fairy, they wore doc marten boots back then.
@@barrytravis5955 But he clearly went of that topic.
Another classic Black Sabbath song.
Probably based on a pretty wicked LSD trip? đ
@@MrManfly faires wear boots is about skinheads, they got attacked by them .
Drummer Bill Ward and bassist Geezer Butler are stellar here. For even better, try "Supernaut".
Supernaut would be a good one - a sonic feast!
When i was a kid, didn't pay as close attention but now that I'm older and give them a listen I realize, Bill Ward was amazing.
@@billboronkay Yeah, and it's a shame he had all those health problems or he might be considered one of the GOATs. In my book he is but I'm a little partial.
@@supertrexandroidx My favorite Sabbath song.
@@daveminers3404 I don't know anything about drumming, but revisiting their music, I'm shocked that you don't hear his name mentioned among the greats often. Think his fills are awesome and fun to watch. Someone commented that Animal was probably patterned after him, which really cracked me up.
finally need more sabbath, like, into the void, under the sun, children of the grave, a national acrobat, etc. seriously some of their song if it was modern day they would break them down and make like 3-5 great songs from each of their changeups.
Master Of Reality
The song was actually inspired by Tony Iommi's Dislike of the skin head culture at the time. He used to refer to them as Fairies in boots.
I think the PunkRock scene in general and the SkinHead culture in particular that was heavy at the time in England. And yeh the DocMartin boots were an iconic part of the fashion.
@@troy78 This happened well before that era. The original skinhead movement started in England about 68. Punks and the skinhead revival happened almost a decade later. You are correct about the Do Martins though. Fairies was a derogatory term for effeminate guys at the time. Ozzy got attacked by some skinheads , so penned the lyrics as his response
Story is that back in England the skinheads wore the boots, probably Doc Marten's, and it was the hippies, Ozzy types vs. the skinheads cliques. He's calling the skinheads "fairies".
The story is that they were walking back to their B&B after a gig in Workington, Cumbria, and the road they were walking on was a tad higher than the houses running alongside. Looking through the windows from that vantage point they could see a load of skinheads partying in one of the houses. Possibly apocryphal, but I like the idea
Was hoping someone would explain it so I didn't have to. đ
Butler stated the song was a reference to skinheads and LSD. Ozzy has also stated the song was about LSD and at other times saying he can't remember what it was supposed to be about. Iommi said it was about skinheads but the lyrics became more fanciful most likely due to the drugs they were using at the time.
@@Skraeling1000 makes sense, knew the story didn't realise it was down the road. They spent a lot of time in the area in the early days.
@@charliegeorge9393 They spent so much time in Cumbria that folks thought they were a local band! And your name - do you swoop in and steal fish n chips from people at Whitehaven harbour? lol
This came out in 1970 and it still holds up today. Still sounds pretty modern unlike most other music at the time. It's crazy how innovative Black Sabbath was
one of my favorites. it does get better over time. this brought me back to 16 drinking in the woods.
I too , may have enjoyed a kegger or 2 while listening to Sabbath, perhaps even some weed..those were the days!
Thats a 50 year old jam. Still relevant today. Funky, bluesy, and heavier than a neutron star.
âReality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.â â Robin Williams
OR
the DuPont slogan of 1935 - 1982 "Better Living Through Chemistry".
The latter a QOTSA title years later.
"Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible - - - and boring." - - - Some Guy
People just need to face it. Drugs were a huge part of early rock and it influenced how people both created music and how people listened to it. If you didn't 'do' drugs, most of it sounded like noise. Eventually Bands became more proficient at creating that ole 'hippie' music. I don't expect people to 'get it' today - but that's alright.
There was a day long since past when you could turn on the radio and hear real music like this. Sure miss those days
Check out Sweetleaf, you wonât have any problem figuring that one out.đđđ€đ»đ§
Excellent choice!! Ozzy and the crew killed it, as usual... But, if you really want to hear Ozzy sing for real, listen to âOver the Mountainâ. In fact, listen to anything on the first two albums Ozzy put out once he left Black Sabbath. Those two albums, âDiary of a Madmanâ and âBlizzard of Ozzâ are two of the realest ever!! âBelieverâ, âS.A.T.Oâ, âYou Canât Kill Rock and Roll, âCrazy Trainâ... CLASSICS!! One day, youâll hear what Iâm saying and youâll be amazed. I know what Brad and Lex like!!! Long live Randy Rhoads RIP!!Have a great evening...
hey brother ,all well said,but these two don't read comments trust me ,that's why i do..just to see what people are saying...
âDiary of a Madmanâ is such a great album. The best song is "Tonight".
Beleiver yes its fantastic i have those two amazing albums right behind sabbaths heaven and hell and mob rules all 4 albums came out bassicaly the same time i remember neing so upset bout the breakup but in hindsight look what happend as a result 4 of the greatest most influentual metal albu.s of all time so thank you tony iommi for havin the balls to fire the greatest frontman in rock history it was thr best thing for ozzy it was the best thing for the best vocalist in metal history DIO and the best thing us metal fans
By the way ozzys best vocal performace was the sabatage album check out megalamania .
Hardly anyone ever suggests it but since you're doing a lot of early Black Sabbath please consider doing the song "Warning". It's got some of the best guitar work you'll hear from them and it was done, I hear, in one take. It's from their debut album. Thanks.
Tony Iommi's solo in that song is f***in ridiculous. LOL I mean in a GOOD way. He used rock, blues, classical, and jazz styles in that solo. It travels from one style into another and back again and then somewhere else. It's frickin GENIUS.
Love that tune myself, but... It's too goddamned long (and guitar solo indulgent) for a reaction video.
It is an amazing cover! Even though Ozzy gets the lyrics wrong. Their cover of Blue Suede Shoes is pretty good too.
General rule you NEVER mess with the fae, boots or not.
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Actually it is progressive in some ways. It has elements of blues and jazz with a metal sensibility.
This was 1970 and the only place you heard Black Sabbath was on fm, dungeon, radio. No one listened to FM , it was all AM radio. Like WLS from Chicago who in 1970 was still playing the Archie's Sugar,Sugar. The songs on AM were upbeat and less than 3 minutes long. Music was changing, with Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin putting a twist on rock no one had heard. Zep more towards the bluesy mystical rock, while Black Sabbath towards a darker more metal sound.
You could only hear them on underground FM stations where the DJ's were half-stoned and would flip on and play a whole album side. (most record sales in 60's were 45 rpm single songs as opposed to 33 rpm full albums) This was totally different and with FM the quality vs AM was crystal clear.
College radio also. Which the FCC has worked hard to eliminate.
As far back as I can recall, there were two good FM rock stations, the Loop and WMET.
Around the same time I discovered 102.5 WDVE in Pittsburgh. They'd recently changed their call sign and format to AOR. Goodbye AM radio.
I bought first albums by Doors and Hendrix in 68. Definitely LPs were big by then in rock. Although you still had top 40 and lots of 45s, FM stereo was getting popular.
@@kenqb5450 in LA: KNAC, KLOS, KMET, KWST.
Check out their song "Symptom of the Universe".
Love how Bill Ward drops the crash cymbal from a certain part while nothing else changes, and then brings it back in. The man is an unsung genius.
Black Sabbath did alot of awesome songs, this song fairies wear boots,in 1970, when I was 4, great song.đ
Aloha, one of my 3rd graders on the Big Island and I used to sing this song together. She knew every word. I blamed her father, amazing family, sweet memories. Love your reactions ...a hui hou
The story is true, at a show in 1982 in Des Moines Iowa, Ozzy bit the head off a bat. Apparently he was unaware the bat was real. Believing it to be something thrown on stage by a fan, and thinking it would be funny rip up this rubber bat someone threw at him, so he bit the head off, turns out it was a real bat, whoops.
Keep listening it never gets old. I still play Sabbath after 40 years and it sounds just as good as when I was a pre teenager.
Your reviews are fantastic! You both have an excellent ear for music. Love your take on these classics.
Great respect for you guys. Y'all have covered so many great vidoes... Everything from sabbath to Skynyrd, to Rush, to hall and Oats...outstanding variety... I personally love the hard rock/ metal tunes...
Bill Ward the drummer and Geezer Butler the bass player never get on any top 10 lists for drummers or bass players but both are so influential and creative!
Funny story about this song is back in the day before stardom Sabbath had some trouble with some local Skinheads that hated their long hippy hair styles. So skinhead dudes usually wear combat boots and that's the story. Fairies Wear Boots are the skinheads. Another funny story or joke is that Geezer Butler's mom called and asked them tell him to turn his bass guitar down because it's too loud. They were in New York and mom was in England. What I enjoy about this band is that their sound has a blues element with Tony Iommi on lead guitar
In the 70âs, this was the go to vinyl album, many a mind fog evenings jamming to this at ear bleeding levels đđ
One of my hubby's favorite songs. Our daughters could belt out this song at ages 2 and 3. Thanks for reacting to this!
Brad nailed it with his comment, " try-hard darkness" describes so much of the newer metal that comes out. All these singers trying to sing like demons sound like what a 12 year old would find scary, it just comes across immature and put-on. You really want to hear some scary vocals, check out the album Houdini by the Melvins, Buzz Osborne scares the crap out of me sometimes.
jazz influence on this track- bill ward s drums were known for that
Black Sabbath is a jazzy blues band with great riffs from Tony Iommeon guitar Geezer Butler on bass ,Bill Ward doing crazy drums,and Ozzy on vocals
I watch Sabbath Live, since the 70Ăšs and Ozzy Was There! This Has Always been My Favorite Sabbath Tune......BY FAR!
Even Better Live!
this was my killer song when i was 14 and still is
They were so good in concert, saw them many times, they're one of my top three bands of all timeđ
Brad & Lex - I would imagine there is always some pressure to love a song as much as your fans - and this song is well loved by metal fans - but i'm glad that you are being honest in your reactions. I love this song and Black Dog as well - but i love your reactions because I believe they're sincere. And authentic. So i love that you are being honest. Not your favorite Black Sabbath song? That's ok. There's plenty more to choose from. Also - it's worth noting that this is the last song on their 2nd album 'Paranoid.' Listening to it as a stand-alone song is a very different experience than listening to the entire album and finishing with this song. I hope you are willing to do more Black Sabbath. Thank you for your reactions.
I can't blame 'em either. I'm a HUGE Sabbath fan, and "Faeries Wear Boots" isn't my favorite Sabbath song, either. I'll listen to it, sure. But tell me to name my top ten favorite Sabbath songs, and watch it NOT be on the list LOL
...Sabbath was always an acquired taste, it takes a few listens to understand, ...These two are doing a nightly crash coarse on music that was played thru out our youth...I wonder how well we might receive the music that they grew up with?...I know personally, that, I do not like it, and would be less objective to their music than they are to mine...be cause their music is horrible Jedd
@@raymo6795 LOL I dunno what you're talking about. I KNEW I loved Black Sabbath within about the first twelve second of hearing them. đ
@@philpennington826 my first album was â We Sold our Soul For Rock nRollâ, I loved Iron Man and Paranoid, but it took some time to understand what Sabbaths was aboutâŠbut I was only 14 at the time
Yes, totally, but first impressions are merely that. One cannot know or understand most songs after just one listen.
Loved the eureka moment when Brads figured it out that this song was written by someone on psychedelic's. Gave me a good chuckle as I love this song for what it is, a good jam song where the words are funny as all heck. Thanks for the chuckle!!
I think after a couple of listens, you come to appreciate the bass and drum work on this, can pass you by when you're first trying to get a handle on the overall song. My next few Sabbath choices for you guys would be Symptom of the Universe, Snowblind, and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Symptom especially has one of those mellow outros you like so much Lex.
Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener on the other hand has a outro that gets wicked and is best played at full volume.
Probably my favorite Sabbath song
yeah agreed
1970... When Metal Started... The godfathers, Black Sabbath!!! đđđđđ
Jesus Murphy Brad nails one!
And Bill Ward is unf'nbelievable here.
This whole album is Ward's finest hour.
If Master of Reality is the textbook "Riff" album then this is where Metal "Swings".
This song was actually talking about Ozzy's run in with skin heads. Who commonly wore army boots. He's essentially calling skin heads fairies.
Smoking and Tripping is all that you do. IT's the 70' s so yea man, its a vibe. The music was new and so was life. 427 69 SS Chevelle, 525 solid lift cam, Edle Brock High Rise intake manifold, 850 Holly carb, 11.5 to 1 TRW pistons, 4 on the floor.
Bill Ward is the most underrated drummer in rock. What a great band
"It could be a barefoot fairy, don't matter, how else could you see that"
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This song is a combination. Yes, a bit psychedelic but it is also based on an experience the members had with a run-in with skinheads after a show, wearing of course, combat boots, which is being made light of here. Tony Iommi was actually injured in that run-in and the next show had to be cancelled. One of my favorite Sabbath tunes, so hopefully it will grow on you a bit!
Brads tell, looking confused & reaching for the pause đ€Ł when the answer to his question is usually coming right up đ The impatience of the instant gratification cultureââź
You guys are doing great. Like, everyone wants the stuff they like validated. You smoke a blunt, turn on the camera, Lex acts enthusiastic, Brad is just vibing and everyone who already likes this song wants the ' people who don't usualy listen to this' to get enthusiastic so that they can think: See! See! All the stuff I like is gooood :D. I'm a huge Sabbath fan and I think the person who who came up with this concept deserves a medal
This is my fave Sabbath song! Thanks
Geezer Butler the bassist was the one that wrote must of the songs tho, Ozzy only sang it, also the bat incident was when Ozzy was very high and thought that the bat was a toy lol, He got into coke and hard drinking when Randy Rhodes died, there's when he got his nickname Prince of Darkness lol đ€
lol, this is going to rock your socks! Going to watch now and hope you love it!
I just get the feeling that during every instrumental part Brad is thinking "this is boring, get back to the words so I have something to read and not just stare at the screen like a zombie".
First ever real Heavy Metal Band and a game changer in style of music for the times! Look up what was popular when these guys cranked out the raw, gritty first album Black Sabbath!
This is my favorite song of allllll time. So glad to see POC getting into Black Sabbath. They take a lot their inspiration from blues artists and other genres and I love it
"Smokin' and trippin is all you do", Yeah!
Birmingham Boys.
Pioneers of Metal.
The Mic placements and Production on the Drums for 1970 was ground breaking.
Don't forget the faerie was dancing with a dwarf. Saw Sabbath twice in the late seventies.
This is proof that sabbath can sing about anything and it will still sound great
Ozzy said that everybody thought that "the Bat" was a PR gag but he said people would throw things on stage alot back then and when somebody threw the "the Bat" on stage at him, he picked it up an bite it's head off, thinking it was a rubber toy bat. He had to go and get Rabbie shots from the whole deal also.
Memories of driving from San Bernardino to Newport Beach in my cousins (RIP) 65 impala with Black Sabbath in the tape deck. We also had Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. They both died way too young. One in a fire the other of flesh eating bacteria. Thank You for this one.
I'm aging myself here. First piece of music I owned was paranoid the album this song is from on 8 track tape. I currently now own it in vinyl and cd.
This song is my favorite Black Sabbath song.
always loved the instrumental parts of this song!
Children of the grave is the one of their best
Geezer on the solos is magnificent.
Love Black Sabbath with Ozzie. They are very blues oriented. I love blues and jazz. Must be the southern boy in me. There are no bad Sabbath songs with Ozzie. No doubt it was some psychedelic influence here. Brad i love how stoic you are and Lex is always ready to JAM. Enjoy
a lot of their first albums has songs leading into eachother, picking & choosing songs you can miss out
Fantastic jam.
Thx
5 decades rocking.The original rockers of 70s the most authentic band of rock n roll
The perfect blend of blues & heavy â€ïž
this was one of my favorite albums of the time. every song on it was great. another of my favorites from the period was Mountain - Flowers of Evil. some great songs to check out on there, including the title song, Flowers of Evil
You guys are right it is psychedelic rock! And im sure you will grow into them! One of or the greatest metal bands of all time! \m/
Yes! I'm so hype I'm Commenting before watching.
P.S. the Drum groove, the bass groove, the lead guitar!!! Come on!
Thank you for sharing this with me
"I looked out a window..." Ozzy is talking about "window-pane acid" from back then (1970's).
While on acid, Ozzy saw some skin-heads ( shaved-head racists that usually wore big boots - possibly Doc Martins) thus FAIRIES wear boots.
It is a knock the on the racist skin-heads of the time.
BTW Ozzy was a true showman - thus the biting heads off bats was for show - all press is good press as they say - it made him famous.
Also - when ever you see any drawings of fairies, elves and the such, they always have boots on.....hmmm.
I remember seeing the northern lights while walking home as a teen in Seattle. I wasn't listening to this song but I always associate it with that experience. I Got home and pulled my parents/sister outside to see it.
Smoked a lot of weed in the 70's listening to Sabbath, Floyd and Zeppelin. This bring back good memories.
The groove of this tune is rather infectious...
@7:30 "For whom the bell tolls" Metallica. And Guiar solo for Ozzy, "Slow down" in Bark at the moon. Such an epic guitar lick. đž
Lex should be in a rock band..love that BLALALALALA thing she did while 'singing' đ
this one sounds really good ... one of the best
Brad: it could be a barefoot fairy!
Ozzy-Flying High Again and Bark at the Moon. You will love the solos.
"It's a little bit dark" (Lex). Well, they are called BLACK SABBATH! If you're expecting flowers and kittens you've come to the wrong place.
This is Ozzy at his best early sabbeths days still legends ALLLLLL OF THEN U Hear THOSE DRUMS
This is what we (my friends) grew up on. Oh some many stories Quebec Canada 70's
Black Sabbath cemented my early metal rebar foundation
This song is off from the 2nd album, Paranoid , the story behind the song is about kids trying to dress up like skinheads with those boots or something like that. But , the whole groove of the song is so freakin good and tight as a drummer, itâs really fun to play!
This song came out in 1970... 'Black dog' by Led Zeppelin came out in 1971. Late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham was a huge Sabbath fan, apparently. And yes, Geezer Butler (bass) was into weed and dope when he wrote the lyrics đ
great choice
This is probably my fav Sabbath song
More Sabbath!đ€đ€ Electric funeral, into the void, children of the grave, under the sun, supernaut, planet caravan, sweet leaf, hand of doom, NIB, snowblind
Killer bass playing throughout.