My first Black Sabbath record was Live Evil, with Ronnie James Dio.. But I guess it was because I was into Dio's music, such as Elf, Rainbow and Dio.

^^ Cool, thanks, I had no clue Patterson and DBT had music featured in movies. I will have to check them out.

Hope this helps. Allmusic.com reviews of the first three albums: Black Sabbath - s/t Black Sabbath's debut album is given over to lengthy songs and suite-like pieces where individual songs blur together and riffs pound away one after another, frequently under extended jams. There isn't much variety in tempo, mood, or the band's simple, blues-derived musical vocabulary, but that's not the point; Sabbath's slowed-down, murky guitar rock bludgeons the listener in an almost hallucinatory fashion, reveling in its own dazed, druggy state of consciousness. Songs like the apocalyptic title track, "N.I.B.," and "The Wizard" make their obsessions with evil and black magic seem like more than just stereotypical heavy metal posturing because of the dim, suffocating musical atmosphere the band frames them in. This blueprint would be refined and occasionally elaborated upon over the band's next few albums, but there are plenty of metal classics already here. Black Sabbath - Paranoid Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality With Paranoid, Black Sabbath perfected the formula for their lumbering heavy metal. On its follow-up, Master of Reality, the group merely repeated the formula, setting the stage for a career of recycling the same sounds and riffs. But on Master of Reality Sabbath still were fresh and had a seemingly endless supply of crushingly heavy riffs to bludgeon their audiences into sweet, willing oblivion. If the album is a showcase for anyone, it is Tony Iommi, who keeps the album afloat with a series of slow, loud riffs, the best of which "Sweet Leaf" and "Children of the Grave" among them rank among his finest playing. Taken in tandem with the more consistent Paranoid, Master of Reality forms the core of Sabbath's canon. There are a few stray necessary tracks scattered throughout the group's other early-'70s albums, but Master of Reality is the last time they delivered a consistent album and its influence can be heard throughout the generations of heavy metal bands that followed.

Well, I am probably not the best person to advise you as I still miss a lot of their catalog of records in my collection. BUT, you can never go wrong with their debut album, Black Sabbath. It includes songs like Black Sabbath, The Wizard and N.I.B. I guess Paranoid is another great album to start with. Personally I recently found a nice vinyl copy of Mater Of Reality, which is a great album too.

I love The Band. Of course, The Weight is often the first song people hear by the Band, but there are definitely so much more to them than that one song. Their first two albums is awesome and another album that I highly recomend is the double album they released together with Bob Dylan, "Basement Tapes". About half of the songs are sung by members of The Band while they are backing Bob on the rest. Here are a couple of my fav songs (could not find any from Basement Tapes on youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxOXEN2Vl0I& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgypQUm_qc& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zubzjaL5y9A&

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^^ Nice video and tune, Jahfin.

A couple of brilliant 45's: Dusty Brown - Yes She's Gone / He Don't Love You (Parrot 1955) Really nice heavy rhythm'n'blues!! The youtube link is a 78 rpm, while I got me a 45. Gay Meadows - Ugly Chile / Limbo (Trumpet 1963) Very obscure r'n'b with extremely funny lyrics!! Cool 45!!!! Can't hardly find anything on the net about this one. Joe Liggens (misspelt, should be Liggins) - Yeah Yeah Yeah / They Were Doin' The Mambo (Mercury 1954) Great 50's proto- rocker/r'n'b!! B-side is cool too! Pretty rare! Baby Boy Jennings and The Satellites - Goin' Home / Little Girl (Savoy 1960) Yet another great obscure r'n'b single!! The Esquires - / Big Thing (Alley 1966) Fantastic garage rocker!!! One of my new favourites damn it!!!!!!!!!!

A cool 45 by: The Yo Yo's - Gotta Find a New Love / I've Got Something In My Eye (Goldwax 1966) Great garage band from Memphis TN.

Nice, looking good!

Hey Walter, none of their albums are bad, sure one or two may be less great then their best, but I recomend checking out their whole catalog. After all, they only did five studio albums and a live album. Even the outtakes albums, such as "First And Last" and "Ledgends" are worth seeking out. I'd say you're in for a treat if you haven't heard all of their stuff.

Walter, I got it.. In Sweden most everything but Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird would be concidered obscure, I guess..

As a long time and big fan of Skynyrd, it's difficult to seperate the obscure to the more known songs.. But I suppose I need you, Roll gypsy roll, Lend a helpin' hand and Was I right or wrong counts as pretty obscure, and those are definitely favs of mine. I think Lynyrd Skynyrd are one of few bands that I have listened to regulary ever since I first discovered them.

Thanks for the tip. It didn't really appeal to me though.. I think it's the organ, flute and heavy Sabbath influences that I like with Blood Ceremony. And the girl on vox is cool, she's not the greatest singer, but very 60's psych sounding..

Wow, sure sounds like a busy week! Dungen's first record is great. I would also like to check out their new album, I think the video you posted actually are the titel track of the new album. Cool. The Soledad Brothers made four studio albums and one live album, all of which are great IMO. Unfortunately they broke up a couple of years ago, but Johnny Walker (guitarist and vocalist) formed a new band called Cut In The Hill Gang, which are great too. I highly recomend checking out all their albums, but the first and last might be a good start: From www.allmusic.com Soledad Brothers / s/t (2000) Guitarist/vocalist Johnny Walker presents a faux southern minister's drawl for much of the record, and while some of the tracks become repetitive ("Gospel According to John"), they are saved by Walker's Delta bluesman-derived style of fingerpicking between the bass and treble strings on his guitar. This helps to fill out the bass-less sound of the duo. Drummer Ben Swank keeps his playing straightforward for much of the record, adding fills only where they're needed ("Front St. Front," "Gimme Back My Wig"). Swank also knows where to add feeling and depth, such as on "The Weight of the World," where he only accents the first beat of every measure with his drums for the first half of the song until the tension builds and the full drum kit enters. Walker and Swank also manage to sound like a more threatening and haunting version of the "Play With Fire"-era Rolling Stones on tracks like "Mysterious Ways" and "Handle Song." This is a raw album that should be well liked by fans of the British Invasion and blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and Honeyboy Edwards. Review by Stephen Howell Soledad Brothers / The Hardest Walk (2006) The Soledad Brothers' fifth album, The Hardest Walk, opens with "Truth or Consequences," a solid and gloriously raunchy slice of blues-shot rock & roll that recalls the Rolling Stones in their Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. glory days with its gutsy guitar lines and horn accents. But the Soledad Brothers don't seem to be channeling the sound of the Stones so much as their approach on The Hardest Walk. Like those abovementioned albums, The Hardest Walk isn't afraid to make with the rock, and with the band expanded to a quartet for these sessions with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Dechman, songs like "Crooked Crown" and "Good Feeling" are rich and full bodied without sounding cluttered or losing the spaces around the notes. But just as the Stones found as much hard groove and hard soul in their slow and quiet numbers as the rockers, the Soledad Brothers explore the sense of dynamics they discovered on 2003's Voice of Treason, and "Crying Out Loud (Tears of Joy)," "Let Me Down," "True to Zou Zou," and the title song are late-night numbers that add a potent atmosphere to the disc that straight-up guitar wail couldn't have brought them. The Soledad Brothers have obviously learned that their musical world does not begin and end with the messed-up blues-rock of their early days, and The Hardest Walk sounds like their most satisfying offering to date. Review by Mark Deming

Cool. I've seen The Strange Boys, nice Texan band. Pretty good.

Well, they really doesn't compete in my preferences either.. I'm sorry you missed them. They sure have a great reputation for have been an awesome live act. I have only seen the tribute band, which was great (then), but not by a mile near the original band I can imagine.

LOL, yes I was sarcastic and joking. But truth is, I am probably more of a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan than I am a Zep fan. I need you is one of my favs too! Did you know Ronnie asked them to turn off the lights in the studio and then he did the vocals in one take? All according to Ed King.

I never saw him, but you can tell by the performances which are available on DVD that he definitely was an electrifying performer. First song that got me was his Irish Tour '74 version of "I wonder who" which my dad used to have on an obscure 70's compilation LP.

I am a fan of Rory too. I have the Irish Tour '74 DVD which is pretty damn good, and so is Live at Montreux.

Nice heavy rock with flutes and organs, Blood Ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kBx07tUHes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEjxhn5niU