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Black Sabbath - Never Say Die! (1978) [2010, Japanese Paper Sleeve Mini-LP SHM-CD]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 2 May 2021 10:54:07

"Never Say Die!" is the 8th studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in September 1978. It was the last studio album with the band's original lineup and the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album 13. It was certified Gold in the U.S. on 7 November 1997 and as of November 2011 sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era. The album received mixed reviews, with critics calling it "unbalanced" and insisting its energy was scattered in too many directions.

~Wikipedia

After going their separate ways for a brief period following the emotionally taxing and drug-infested Technical Ecstasy tour, Black Sabbath and singer Ozzy Osbourne reconciled long enough to record 1978's Never Say Die! an album whose varied but often unfocused songs perfectly reflected the band's uneasy state of affairs at the time. Even the surprisingly energetic title track, which seemed to kick things off with a promising bang, couldn't entirely mask the group's fading enthusiasm just beneath the surface after a few repeated listens. The same was true of half-hearted performances like "Shock Wave" and "Over to You," and there were several songs on the record that sound strangely disjointed, specifically "Junior's Eyes" and the synthesizer-doused "Johnny Blade" as though their creation came in fits and starts, rather than through cohesive band interaction. But when it came to wild, stylistic departures, one's disappointing realization that the lurching, saxophone-led "Breakout" came from and then went back to absolutely nowhere was easily offset by the stunningly successful oddity that was "Air Dance." Arguably the most experimental song in Black Sabbath's entire canon, this uncharacteristically mild-mannered and effortlessly evocative ballad saw Tony Iommi's normally bullish guitar giving way to simply mesmerizing piano flourishes performed by leading session keyboardist Don Airey. If only it had represented a bold new direction (albeit one that die-hard fans would never have accepted) rather than just another sign of the band's quickly fraying sense of identity, Black Sabbath's original lineup may have found a way to save itself -- but Never Say Die!'s incoherent musical aggregate in fact betrayed the harsh reality that it was indeed too late. So even though those same die-hard Black Sabbath fans and completists will likely find some redeeming value in Never Say Die! after all these years, the original lineup's final gasp will hold little interest to the average heavy metal fan.

~Review by Eduardo Rivadavia

Release of the album: 1978, September, 28 [LP Vertigo, Cat.# 9102 751, UK]
Release of this CD: 2010, April, 21 [CD Sanctuary/Universal International (Japan), Cat.# UICY-94471 / EAN: 4988005606211]
℗&© 1978 The copyright in this album is owned by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
Universal International, a Universal Music Company.
Marketed & Distributed by Universal Music LLC.
Made in Japan

Notes: Remastered Reissue, Paper Sleeve. Comes in a CD sized papersleeve album replica, with OBI-strip, photo of original labels, promo insert, lyric sheet and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.

Credits:

Arranged By [Brass] – Will Malone
Coordinator – Mark Forster
Coordinator [Artwork] – Chihiro Nozaki, Takeshi Doke
Coordinator [Re-issue Project Consultant] – Hugh Gilmour, Steve Hammonds
Design [Reissue] – Hugh Gilmour
Design [Sleeve Design] – Hipgnosis
Engineer – Dave Harris
Engineer [Special Assistant] – Spock Wall
Harmonica – John Elstar
Keyboards – Don Airey
Liner Notes – Jerry Ewing
Management [Product Manager] – Minoru Harada
Management [Product] – Jon Richards
Performer – Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi
Producer, Written-By – Black Sabbath
Remastered By – Andy Pearce
Remastered By [Assistant] – Matt Wortham
Research [Artwork] – Masahiro Funahashi, Naoya Kuromasa, Shinjiro Kawashima
Written-By, Producer – Black Sabbath

Tracklist:

01. Never Say Die (03:51)
02. Johnny Blade (06:28)
03. Juniors Eyes (06:42)
04. Hard Road (06:05)
05. Shock Wave (05:15)
06. Air Dance (05:17)
07. Over To You (05:23)
08. Break Out (02:35)
09. Swinging The Chain (04:08)

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EAC extraction logfile from 27. January 2015, 21:45

Black Sabbath / Never Say Die!

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Dynamic Range Meter log

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See also:
Master Of Reality (1971) [2009, Japan] {Deluxe Edition}
Sabotage (1975) [2007, Japan]

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