Butler explained his intentions to Classic Albums: "I wanted to write a song called 'Walpurgis' – you know, the Satanic version of Christmas – write it about that Satan isn't a spiritual thing, it's warmongers. It was then changed to "War Pigs", which the band intended to name the album until it was changed to Paranoid after the record company became convinced that the song of the same name had potential as a single. The album's opening track "War Pigs" was originally intended to be called "Walpurgis". In the Classic Albums documentary on the making of Paranoid, guitarist Tony Iommi recalls that "War Pigs" came from "one of the clubs" with Butler adding, "During the song "Warning" we used to jam that out and that particular night when we were jamming it out Tony just went da-dum!" In the same documentary, Iommi demonstrates his approach to the guitar solo in the song, explaining that "I always tried to keep the bottom string ringing so it fills it out nicely." On " Planet Caravan", Osbourne sings through a Leslie speaker, with the singer telling Mojo in 2010, "Then Rodger Bain used an oscillator on it – whatever that is. Most of the songs on Paranoid evolved during onstage improvisational jams. It was all done in about two hours." According to Alexander, "Paranoid" "crystallized the band's writing process, with Iommi initiating the ideas with his charred riffs, Ozzy (Osbourne) working on a melody, Geezer providing drive and the majority of the lyrics, and Bill Ward locking into a set of often pounding rhythms beneath Butler's bass rumble." The single was released in August 1970 and reached number four on the UK charts, remaining Black Sabbath's only top ten hit. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom." In the liner notes to the 1998 live album Reunion, bassist Geezer Butler recounts to Phil Alexander that they wrote the song "in five minutes, then I sat down and wrote the lyrics as quickly as I could. As drummer Bill Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony (Iommi) just played the guitar lick and that was it. The album's title track was written as an afterthought. Paranoid was recorded at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London, England. Particularly, the lyric “I tell you to enjoy life” was misheard as “I tell you to end your life”.In an effort to capitalize on the recent UK chart success of their eponymous debut album, Black Sabbath returned to the studio with producer Rodger Bain in June 1970, just four months after the album was released. “Paranoid” drew controversy for apparently encouraging suicide, much like the song “Suicide Solution”. Originally the band had wanted to call the album War Pigs after the song of the same name, but the record company persuaded them to use “Paranoid” instead because it was less offensive.
“Paranoid” eventually became the name of the album, and somewhat unusually, the word paranoid is never mentioned in the lyrics. The guitar solo is a dry signal on the left channel, which is patched through a ring modulator and routed to the right channel this effect was used again on “Johnny Blade”.Īccording to extant lyric sheets, “Paranoid” was at one time titled “The Paranoid.” The song is an E pentatonic and only uses a “root/5th” diad as chords. I quickly did the lyrics, and Ozzy was reading them as he was singing. We basically needed a 3 minute filler for the album, and Tony came up with the riff. The song “Paranoid” was written as an afterthought.
We recorded the whole thing in about 2 or 3 days, live in the studio. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler (from Guitar World magazine, March 2004):Ī lot of the Paranoid album was written around the time of our first album, Black Sabbath. “Paranoid” was the first Black Sabbath single release, coming six months after their self-titled debut album was released. It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song “The Wizard”. “Paranoid” is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid (1970).
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