Rock Icons! Black Sabbath Top 10 songs as voted by listeners!

[Charger]

Okay so last year Finland's RADIO ROCK held a massive poll about the biggest icons in Rock and Metal. The idea was to have 12 of the best bands in the metal world listed and then represented each month of the year.

Well Black Sabbath made it on to the list at position #12. Which to me is a travesty. They should have been higher. But considering the overwhelming love Finland has for bands like Maiden and Metallica and such it's not a real surprise really...

Anyways once it was revealed earlier this month that Black Sabbath was gonna be the featured band of the month, people could vote for their favourite Black Sabbath track.
The idea was to make a top 10 list.

The trick in this vote was that people could only vote for ONE song out the entire Sabbath catalogue.

And it seems that that tactic provided a very interesting listing.

I'm gonna be updating that list as days go on, as only one song per day is revealed. This started on Monday.

10. Children Of The Sea
9. Headless Cross
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
7. N.I.B.
6. Black Sabbath
5. War Pigs
4. Iron Man
3. Children Of The Grave
2. Heaven And Hell
1. Paranoid

I am eager to see what's coming next. I am fairly certain that War Pigs/Iron Man/Paranoid are gonna top the list, but I am also hoping for Heaven And Hell reaching close to the top...that song by the way was my pick for the vote.
But so far the songs 10 and 9 have been real surprises to me...
Lets see what's to come in the following days. I'll be adding the songs here as soon as I hear them on the radio.

[Jack the Stripper]

Children Of The Sea doesn't surprise me at all. It's a great song for starters, but was also a set staple of the Dio era and was also often played in Dio's solo band performances.
Headless Cross is a surprise though. Not only making the top 10 but beating out Children Of The Sea. But given its probably one of the most popular if not the most popular song of the Martin era I can't see another Martin era track making it in.

Lists like these rarely throw up many surprises though so I'll take a stab and say the remaining 8 songs will be, in no particular order.

Children of the Grave
War Pigs
Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Paranoid
Iron Man
Heaven and Hell

And yep, Sabbath coming in at #12 ranking raises eyebrows indeed.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^ You've got Iron Man twice, I guess you meant War Pigs? I might have had Symptom of the Universe instead of Sweet Leaf, but just my opinion.

I would be interested in knowing who else was in the top 12, or have they not been announced yet?

[Jack the Stripper]

^^Yep

I'd have Symptom as well but it's just what I think it'll be given history with these type of lists/polls.

[Charger]

I would be interested in knowing who else was in the top 12, or have they not been announced yet?

Don't know yet. We get one icon per month this year...culminating to the #1 icon band in December. Which will be either Metallica or Iron Maiden...of that I am 100% certain.


Jack you got pretty much the same listing as I would have thought...although I wouldn't have included Sweet Leaf under any circumstances...Symptom or even Into The Void is much more likely

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Are there likely to be some bands inthe 12 that might be considered "extreme", or do you think the top 12 will be pretty much the usual suspects? So Metallica, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Judas Priest and so on?

[Charger]

It's hard to say really...

There will be one or two Finnish bands (who also sing in finnish) included for sure...

I'd say

Judas Priest
Motörhead
Nightwish
Kiss
Slayer or Megadeth (perhaps, since both are pretty popular here)
DIO (this is more of my wishful thinking but it is possible)
AC/DC

And like I said the battle of #1 will be between:

Iron Maiden
Metallica (Master Of Puppets won the 500 best rock/metal tracks poll of Radio Rock few years ago)

+ 2 or 3 Finnish bands.

That would be my prediction...

[Jack the Stripper]

My reason for putting Sweet Leaf in was because of its consistency on compilation albums over the years as well being heavily featured in the setlist.

I was thinking this radio station was more of a mainstream top 40 Rock station but seeing a Master Of Puppets won the top 500 greatest albums poll this might actually be interesting with more deeper cuts making the list.

Guns N'' Roses would be a certainty to make the list wouldn't they Charger?

[Charger]

Guns N'' Roses would be a certainty to make the list wouldn't they Charger?

Oh heck...forgot about them as I am really not into them at all...but yeah...most likely they will.


As far as Radio Rock goes they play a lot of deep cut tracks from bigger bands too...not just best ofs which is really nice. In fact talk about Sabbath I've heard songs like Lady Evil, Wishing Well, Turn Up The Night, A National Acrobat among others...the late night jukebox is quite a plethora of obscure songs at times. Which is really nice.

But they do also play a lot of the hits too especially during day time.

[Charger]

Aaaaannnd drum roll...

#8 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I had hoped SBS might be higher, but at least it is in there.

[Charger]

#7 is N.I.B.

[Jack the Stripper]

^^Of coarse   

Don't know how I forgot that one

[Charger]

#6 is Black Sabbath

Next week we'll hear the top 5...

I'm assuming it'll go something like
Children Of The Grave
Iron Man
Heaven And Hell
Paranoid
War Pigs

[Charger]

Bit surprisingly #5 is War Pigs!