Tracks
- Wheels of Confusion
- Tomorrow's Dream
- Changes
- FX
- Supernaut
- Snowblind
- Cornucopia
- Laguna Sunrise
- St. Vitus Dance
- Under The Sun
Black Sabbath Vol. 4 is a ponderous album. The music is heavy metal. Most of the songs work from a simple riff. There is also an odd ballad or two and a couple of short instrumental fillers.
Most of the songs start off with the best of intentions with a really cool and heavy riff, but then quickly transform into lumbering behemoths that prefer to plod on than to lay down and die. Cornucopia is the quintessential example of this and it's not even four minutes long.
While Changes is a good ballad, it's doesn't fit on this album. And FX and Laguna Sunrise get in the way.
The album is decent. It's worth listening to for the riffs, but there's no need for it to be on the 1001 Albums list. And if this is the album that inspired 1000 hair bands from the '80s to include ballads on their albums, then it would have been best that this album had never been made.
Most of the songs on this album are good. The stand outs are Wheels of Confusion, Supernaut, Snowblind, and Under The Sun.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
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