Dehumanizer - Song By Song

[Charger]

Sins Of The Father has a great chorus and very clever lyrics all around but it just quite doesn't match to the songs before it. It's not a weak song by any means but it just doesn't fully grab me as the others before it did.

[Typhon]

Sins Of The Father sounds like bits and pieces of 5 different songs all thrown together.  It's like they couldn't decide what direction they wanted to take.  A terrible track.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Now we come to my favourite track on the album Too Late. It has a very similar vibe to Sign of the Southern Cross, which I also love. A quiet start, builds in atmosphere and volume as the protangonist meddles with things he doesn't understand. Effective use of keyboards to heighten the tension, great vocals, love the solo and the alround musicianship... sublime!

[Charger]

Too Late is about as close to a ballad as you could get on an album as heavy as Dehumanizer. Lyrically this is the only song that is closer to the stuff Ronnie's most known of, with some traces of Magic and good and evil and so on, but it is still quite far away from dragons and kings of the earlier albums. Which is yet another proof at just how brilliant of a lyricist Ronnie was. He could take the metaphors he loved so much and modernize them and still make a great metaphorical piece of lyric.

Musically this is tad bit softer but it does have some great tempo changes and a wonderful solo from Tony.

This might not be the most memorable track on the album but that doesn't mean it's a bad song...not by a country mile.

[Typhon]

Too Late is one of only two songs that I look forward to hearing on this album.  Now this is how a slower paced song is suppose to sound, unlike the closer on MR.  Ear pleasing melodies, strong riffs, very nicely balanced.  It is easier for Ronnie to over-scream things in a slower paced tune, but his performance here is spot on.  I think this song could have been used as this album's closer.

[Charger]

^^^
I have to agree that Too Late would have indeed been a perfect closer...much better than Buried Alive which would have fitted better in the middle of the album.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

We move on with I, which is a great song and which I think many consider the best on the album (It's up there for me but not quite top!).

It's quite a simple song with soft and fast parts and another great solo from Tony. The lyrics work well (on the whole, there's a couple of iffy lines!), and Ronnie does a good job.

[Charger]

I is quite much like Falling Off The Edge Of The World an incredible epic of a song done in just over 5 minutes.

The slow intro leading into a super heavy monster of a song. Ronnie's soaring vocals are what really make this song so great. He inserts again so much aggression and emotion into the song that it is almost unreal.

This is such a great aggression song too...being about the little guy against impossible odds and still standing up and fight and prevailing. Powerful message in a powerful song.

Without a doubt one of the best tracks on this suberb album.

[Tyr66]

When I discovered the back of the CD, I read the titles quickly without noticing this 9th  almost invisible track in this graphic arc. It was only at the first listening while reading the lyrics in the booklet that I actually got it. And what a killer song ! I 've always enjoyed this Purple Haze intro with the Wah Wah pedal which then gives way to the devastating riff.

[Typhon]

I is the second of the two songs that I look forward to hearing on the release.  Great all around contributions from the entire band.  One question - is that Ronnie doing the "no-no-no" background vocals?

[Scott]

I is the second of the two songs that I look forward to hearing on the release.  Great all around contributions from the entire band.  One question - is that Ronnie doing the "no-no-no" background vocals?

Sounds like him to me.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

The album closer is Buried Alive. A bit of a marmite song in that people either love it or hate it, not much opinion in between. Pesonally I love it, I've got used to it being the final song, but yes it might have worked better elsewhere on the album.

I'm curious, is this the heaviest song Sabbath ever did? It's damn close if it isn't, but I love the guitar work, the vocals the lyrics... everything about the song!

[Charger]

Buried Alive starts with a heavy yet kind of groovy riff and Ronnie's very angry sounding vocals soar through out the song. The heavy tempo does give in a bit during the chorus which I suppose it the weak part of the song. The bluesy sounding solo however seems bit out of place on an otherwise heavy and fast song.

I have to say I don't really espcially love the song but I most certainly don't hate it...it might be my least favourite on the album though. The main riff and Ronnie's vocals are brilliant though, but it just doesn't get me going as much as the other songs on the album.

[Zzzptm]

I like Too Late and Buried Alive, but I... I is the towering giant on the album. I came for the Time Machine, I stayed for the I.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'll rank the songs as:

1. Too Late
2. Computer God
3. I
4. Buried Alive
5. Afer All (The Dead)
6. TV Crimes
7. Time Machine
8. Master on Insanity
9= Sins of the Father
9= Letters From Earth

Do we want to do The Devil You Know next, or move onto Born Again?