Cataloguing My Metal Collection Pt. 34

ARTIST:  Black Sabbath
ORIGIN:  Birmingham, England
TITLE:  Live at Last
LABEL:  NEMS Enterprises
YEAR:  1980
GENRE:  Heavy Metal
FAVORITE SONG:  "Children of the Grave"
NOTES:  The first live album I ever bought was by the great Black Sabbath.  This was a very cheap buy as I recall.  A couple of bucks maybe.  It did a pretty decent job of capturing most of the great Black Sabbath songs from the first five albums, even though "Iron Man" is conspicuously absent.  "Wicked World" turned into an extended jam session, complete with drum solo, pretty boring.  They make up for it with an absolutely ripping version of "Paranoid" though.

Cataloguing My Metal Collection Pt. 27

ARTIST:  Black Sabbath
ORIGIN:  Birmingham, England
TITLE:  Greatest Hits
LABEL:  NEMS Enterprises
YEAR:  1977
GENRE:  Heavy Metal
FAVORITE SONG:  "Iron Man"
NOTES:  My first album with the original Black Sabbath lineup was a Greatest Hits package.  This has a lot of the big songs, such as "Iron Man", "Paranoid", "War Pigs", and of course "Black Sabbath".  So it was a decent introduction to the pioneering metal band.  I could have done without "Laguna Sunrise" and "Changes" personally, as I do not care as much for those tracks.  This was just a taste of the band though and I definitely had to get more.