The Contrarians: Sabotage

[Jack the Stripper]

The Contrarians: Episode 18 - Sabotage

[Zzzptm]

Popoff says Sabotage is the best Sabbath album... He's right, you know, for the Ozzy years.

[Jack the Stripper]

He actually goes a bit further than that and says it’s one of the best albums of all time

[Zzzptm]

I still prefer Mob Rules as the best Sabbath album of all. I do agree that Sabotage is one of the best of all time, up there with Mob Rules.

And he's definitely right about Eternal Idol: all the best songs of the Martin era landed on that album. There's good songs on other albums, but the best are on EI.

[Jack the Stripper]

Mob Rules is a classic no doubt but it’s a little more of a streamlined 80’s metal sound where’s Heaven and Hell has that variation with a Rainbow meets Sabbath or a 70’s meets 80’s vibe to it

[Zzzptm]

Mob Rules is definitely the heavier of the two, thanks in large part to Voodoo, Sign of the Southern Cross, and Falling Off the Edge of the World