That 70's Post

I thought it'd be fun to continue the theme of era-specific posts and do one on the groovy times that were the 70's. Little did I know how little of 70's music I actually know. It's a poorly represented section of my music library, but I'd still like to share some of my favorite albums from the decade (... a number of which I was introduced to in the past month).

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1970 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Ah, the 60's... a time when psychedelic drugs, flower power and The Beatles ruled the world. So how do you usher in a new decade in music? Well, you back-track a bit to when blues was the genre of choice, then you read some books and watch the news. Follow up with forming a four-piece band and voila! You have "War Pigs." British rockers Black Sabbath released Paranoid in November 1970 in the U.K. (January 1971 in the U.S.), founding heavy metal in the process. Despite their name, most of the band's songs deal with themes of the psychological and social nature, as their staples "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" make evident. And although the only thing Ozzy Osbourne has learned since the 70's is how become more of a pansy, deep down he's still that pivotal frontman whose name we can't escape.

"Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath