Not sure what my favourite album is...
By and large I hate ballads so when otherwise fun rock and metal acts go in for those I usually hit skip, ditto any "thugs need love too" songs. There are many up there (see the pick two artists/desert island discs thread the other month for more there
https://gbatemp.net/threads/if-you-...the-rest-of-your-life-who-would-it-be.532358/ ) but for out and out album as a thing rather than picking songs...
As people generally don't allow me to pick we sold our soul for rock and roll or greatest hits then Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath would have to be my favourite album.
Not sure what I am counting as the album here as various CDs and LPs get confusing. Going with CD.
No. Title Length
1. "Black Sabbath"
2. "The Wizard"
3. "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
4. "N.I.B."
5. "Evil Woman" (Crow cover)
6. "Sleeping Village"
7. "Warning" (The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation cover)
8. "Wicked World"
So widely regarded as one of the best opening tracks ever, and while some argue heavy metal existed in some form before this song it never less forms the "definitely no later than this" answer to that question.
Quite literally the song of my people.
Perhaps not quite up there with the other two and following track but still something I stop and listen to if it comes on.
The favourite song of many and generally pretty legendary in such circles. I like 2 more but this is right up there behind it.
If there is going to be something I skip then A bit of finger/Sleeping village is going to be it. Doesn't mean I dislike it though and I dare say it is instrumental (hah) in the foundation of doom metal so I might be in for a fight over this one.
Might as well have it here then
Make sure to listen up until past 55 seconds, and again 2:15 or so as things change rather a lot.
Equally it makes a nice thing to have the car if this album is on decelerate from "time dilation is a problem in measuring the speed".
Can't quite get it up there with 1,2 and 4 but never the less a track most bands any other time would be thrilled to make something akin to and I think one of those covers that supplanted the original. Not going to find my finger anywhere near skip should this come up in a rotation though.
Not on the UK LP but on the CD, b-side to their first single and on the US release so I am going to count it. Never the less an amazing track.
Not sure what I would pick as an album closer between 7 and 8, both feature some top tier instrumental sections though.
Also yes I did listen to most of that while writing this just to be sure. I don't know that it is necessarily an album in the same way that the pink floyd stuff covered above was actively designed to be listened to all the way through, but I do.