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1970: Paranoid vs. Immigrant Song?


1970: Paranoid vs. Immigrant Song?  

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  1. 1. 1970: Paranoid or Immigrant Song?

    • Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    • Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song


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Close, but Immigrant Song is a tad more groundbreaking, seeing as Sabbath had already invented metal on their last album. Now Zep invents Viking metal! :haz:
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Sabs, though these may be the two best songs from that year (without looking it up, and realizing this was a great year for music).
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Normally I would vote Sabbath, however............in an occurrence I don't think ever happened before or since, Iommi lifted the opening riff of Paranoid from of all people, Page. It's the same riff that Page used in the middle of Dazed and Confused which is on the first Zep album released a year or so earlier. I recently read somewhere an interview with Iommi where he said he did nick the riff from Page. Of course knowing Page it's possible he lifted it from someone else but to my knowledge that's not the case. Anyway, because of that and because Immigrant Song is one of my all-time favorite Zep tunes, I voted for it though very reluctantly.
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Both good songs. But only one of them is by Sabbath.

The Sabbath song has much better production to my ears, so that's what I went with. Immigrant Song's intro is iconic, though.
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Zeppelin as I never got Sabbath, and Immigrant Song is one of the greatest songs ever.
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Zeppelin as I never got Sabbath, and Immigrant Song is one of the greatest songs ever.

Structurally and vocally, it is. I just wish the recording sounded better to me.
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My favorite sabbath tune. One of my first 8 track tapes pre teen years.

 

I also had a white 45 by a punk group called the dickies who covered paranoid

 

I greatly prefer zep over sabbath but not in this case

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My favorite sabbath tune. One of my first 8 track tapes pre teen years.

 

I also had a white 45 by a punk group called the dickies who covered paranoid

 

I greatly prefer zep over sabbath but not in this case

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SABBATH

 

I remember the summer of 1971, Jersey shore boardwalk, riding the Himalya while Paranoid was blasting on the speakers.

 

Priceless

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My favorite sabbath tune.

 

So you have never heard anything else from Sabbath then? Lol

 

Never said it was their best only my fave.

 

I imagine it is one of their more popular songs too. Definitely hear it more on the radio than any other tune here.

 

I am not a huge fan. I like ozzy era and ozzys early solo work. Other faves are sweetleaf, war pigs and fairies wear boots

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