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Black Sabbath didn't found heavy metal at all. The genre was literally named after Led Zeppelin - lead being a heavy metal, get it? When the first Led Zep album came out, it was the absolute heaviest thing anyone had ever heard. The Sabbaths and all the others came later, and followed Zeppelin; in Black Sabbath's case, their first album was released around the same time as Led Zeppelin's third album.
And "heavy metal" was a fairly derisive term at first, the critics (especially Rolling Stone) HATED Zep. It was meant to lump all the heavy bands together dismissively.
Black Sabbath was hardly taken seriously when they came out. I remember we used to laugh at their lyrics. It reminded me (and my circle of college friends) of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown-devil-novelty music. Which to me was akin to stuff like "The Monster Mash," and "Flying Purple People Eater."
Compared to Zep (I was not all that much of a Zep fan, though I liked their work) it seemed like bad imitation and was preposterously amateurish. It got better later on. I will go so far as to say that. But original? No. Intelligent? Only in a making-money from the I'm-bad-ass-in-middle-school-kids sense.
Okay, Les...your rants about metal have to stop. You seem like an intelligent guy but what you know about metal couldn't fill a thimble. Most musicians who listen to, like, and play metal credit Sabbath, Zeppelin, and Purple as the genre's collective starting point. However, most credit Sabbath's decisively darker material as being metal's flash point. Their music was heavier and their subject material was more ominous. Zeppelin sang about scoring chicks and The Lord of the Rings (not that there's anything wrong with that...I love Zeppelin). But Led Zeppelin doesn't even like to be called 'heavy metal' and got their "lead" naming when Keith Moon told them, "You'll go over like a lead balloon." Sabbath embrace their metal ancestry. I don't even know why you comment on metal because this is the second time you've referred to it as "middle school music". Remember when you posted this?
Unfortunately, however, none of the albums you listed was among them...
I mean, 80s metal? OK, I guess, if you're stuck in a middle school time warp (kidding, sorta ).
Seriously, "What You Need" by INXS, a classic. "Higher Love," Winwood. Good stuff. Bruce Hornsby's first hit. Elegant music for a more civilized age.
If you're into INXS, Steve Winwood, and Bruce Hornsby...maybe you should comment about Hall & Oates being on the list. Feel free to discuss their vast impact on the civilized and enlightened. Leave the heavy music tutelage to those to like it and know it.
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