Black Sabbath Paranoid

Somewhere in every good music fan's basement is a worn-out copy of either the vinyl, eight-track, or cassette of Black Sabbath's We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll. The 1976 compilation captured the darkest and beefiest moments from the Ozzy years and served as a right of passage for millions of aspiring musicians, burnouts, pastor's kids, and closet miscreants. Rhino's 16-track Greatest Hits 1970-1978 anthology only trumps the single-disc We Sold Our Soul CD by two songs, but it offers superior sound and features at least a few cuts from 1976's Technical Ecstasy and 1978's Never Say Die!, the band's last two pre-millennium Ozzy records…

A bootleg for all the collector beyond us who always wanted to have as much as possible obscure and rare recordings on one CD. "Archangel Rides Again" is the "small brother" of the rare and expensive "Archangel" double vinyl bootleg…

Handsome compendium of the Sabs golden moments on seven inch single. Lovingly reproduced original picture sleeves housethe most purely distilled heavy metal ever. Each single is digitally remastered. Includes the singles, 'Wicked World', 'Paranoid', 'Tomorrows Dream', 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', 'Hard Road' and 'Never Say Die'. 5' x 5' numbered box set includes a fold out poster.

We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll is a good single-disc collection of many – but not all – of Black Sabbath's best tracks from the Ozzy Osbourne era, drawing about half of its material from the group's first two albums, Black Sabbath and Paranoid. That makes it ideal for the fan who only wants one Black Sabbath disc, but those who want to dig deeper should be advised that all six LPs from the Osbourne period contain high-quality items not present here, especially the under-represented Master of Reality and Vol. 4. Still, there's no quibbling with what is here.