Artist:Black Sabbath

Album:Technical Ecstasy
Year:1976
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Notice that Geoff Nicholls doesn't do keyboards on this one,but rather some guy
named Gerald Woodruffe,who is he anyway...?
On this album,as on most of the late Sabbath albums,(Never Say Die),the lyrics
are mostly shit and the music part is the better...
However there are some exeptions,like Dirty Women or She's Gone.
@SONG: Back Street Kids
Description:
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Great music with interesting riffs and instrumental combinations,
the lyrics however are quite generic...
I'm just another back street kid
Rock 'n Roll music is the only thing I really dig
Can't stop the music going round inside my head
I'm a rock 'n roll soldier,gonna play it until I'm dead
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Sitting in the back seat of a shiny limousine
Living in a taxi can't remember where I've been
Playing my music,sitting in my hotel room
Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Living life comes easy if you know which way you're going
Got to see yourself in other's eye's,surprised?
Living like I want to don't come easy,but I'm trying
Sorting out what's true and what are lies,it's wise
Brought up in a back street living with the salt of the land
Seems that now my music's paying off my tax demands
So listen to the music,want to see you get so high
'Cos I'm a back street rocker and I will be till the day I die
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
@SONG: You Won't Change Me
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Music good and enjoyable but not as exciting as the previous song per instance,
the lyrics once again,generic...
I'm just a man and I am what I am
Nobody will ever change my ways
I don't need money and I don't need no lies
I only need to live for today
But I'd like to talk things over with you
I want to hear the things you say,today
Although you won't change my anyway,no no way
I wish you'd come and see me,I'd like to hold you
I want to set my mind all free
You understand me woman,you give me time
But I don't need no sympathy

Still I wonder what it's like to be loved

Instead of hiding in myself
Nobody will change me anyway,no no way
Nobody's gonna change my world
That's something too unreal
Nobody will shange the way I feel
So listen to me now,hear what I say
Please give me time and maybe love
If there's a God up there,well I hope he helps me
I need him now to set me free
'Cos it may be that it's over for me
If you don't hear the things that I say,today
Nobody will change me anyway,no,no way
Nobody's gonna change my world,that's something too unreal
Nobody will change the way I feel
@SONG: It's All Right
Description:
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This is perhaps the worst track on this album. It's sung by Bill Ward,but
unlike Solitude from Master Of Reality,which is total mindblow,amazing trip,
this one is shit... Cheesy words and top 20 ballad music,with a little touch
of Iommy's guitar that saves it from being a total disaster and allows the
listener not to skip over it...
Told you once about your friends and neighbours
They were always seeking but they'll never find it
It's alright,yes it's alright
Where to go and where to see
It's always been this way and it can never be
It's alright,yes it's alright
Give it all and ask no return
And very soon you'll see and you'll begin to learn
That's it's alright,yes it's alright
Don't you know that it's so good for you
You can be making love and see it all go through
But it's alright,yes it's alright
@SONG: Gypsy
Description:
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If you haven't chosen the previous track as the worst on this album you
can choose this one... Music is a bit better,someplaces interesting,not
typical Sabbath,sounding more like SuperTramp. Words generic,if not cheesy...
But don't worry,from now on the album gets better. The quality graph of this
album looks like this:
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Watching the universe at the end of another day

Fatalistic ships froma distant shore
In the back of my mind I could see she was standing there
Like the feeling you have
When you've been there before
She
She
She
And

was a gypsy woman

was as cold as the day
said I'd got it coming
then she took me away

She took me through the shadows of her sunken dream

I thought it's over me,she wasn't all she seemed
She took my hand and then she started to speak
She told me she'd had the call
With eyes of fire that were burning my soul
She looked into her crystal ball
She read my fortune then she read my mind
She didn't like my thoughts at all
She showed me shadows,a spectre of life
My soul just wanted to scream
She stared so deeply into my eyes
That's when I fell into a dream
When I awoke in bed she lay beside me
And she read me with her eyes,she said
So you wanna be a gypsy,come on now
Gypsy woman you're the devil in drag
You are the queen of all hell
You took my body,now you're wasting my soul
You've got me under your spell
And as the sun shines on another day
You're gonna take my mind as well,it's over
So you wanna be a gypsy,come on now.
@SONG: All Moving Parts Stand Still
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Great music,with great riffs,and a short specially electrifying part that
makes all your insides tremble. Good words,not as good as War Pigs,Children
Of The Grave or Wicked World.
Super animation,turning on a nation
And they're saying all moving parts stand still
Since he was elected,adrenalin injected
Hear him saying all moving parts should kill
Just like the hero he's got them all on the run,
yes he's won
Since he passed the motion
They're building in the ocean
And he's saying all men should be free
What a combination,peace and radiation
And he's saying free men should fight for me
Just like his momma,he seems to get his pleasure from pain,
And the rain,ain't that strange? Very strange
I like choking toys
You've got to see me before you meet the boys

Teacher's burnt the school,

He's had enough of sticking to the rules
People stop and see
he's got to be more decadent than me
Just to pass the time
He gets his kicks from licking off the wine
Pretty silly ladies
All Cynthia'd and Sadie's
Call him and he takes their numbers down
Says he is a woman
Should have seen it coming
And she says she's married to a clown
Just like a lady she'll keep you guessing through the night
Not tonight,well I might,oh alright...!
@SONG: Rock'N'Roll Doctor
Description:
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Great rock'n roll music. Just raw energy,lotsa rythm,killer tune,blows you
away...
Well I'm sick and tired of hearing 'bout the world and it's hang ups
Gonna get myself together,
Take a ride downtown
Gotta see my Rock'N'Roll doctor *3
Gotta see him,see him today. He's gonna blow me away
He makes me happy when I'm feeling down
Take away my worry takes away my frown
Gotta see my Rock'N'Roll doctor *3
Gotta see him,see him today
He gonna blow me away
If you wanna feel groovy
Give the doctor a call
Doctor rock will help you anytime at all
Gotta see my Rock'N'Roll doctor *3
Gotta see him,see him today
He gonna blow me away
@SONG: She's Gone
Description:
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Great piece this one. Not as good as Solitude,Changes or Warning but still
fucking superb. Has some strings in it,viloins that is. Gives you the
shivers,great words...
I've been gone a long long time,waiting for you
I din't want to see you go
And now it's hurting so much,what can I do?
I wanted you to be my wife
The days are passing slowly,since you've gone
Your memories are all I have
I sit here waiting but you'll never show
Without you I can't carry on
You said you'd always love me,all of my life

And then you said your last goodbye

Why the sudden change,why all the lies,
I should have seen it in your eyes
The endless hours of heartache,waiting for you
My summer love has turned to rain
The silent emptiness of one sided love
My life means nothing now you're gone...
@SONG: Dirty Women
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This is the best track on this album,no
intence,so gripping,so original in some
The lyrics are great too,kinda make you
I see the lyrics as the continuation of

doubt about it... Amazing music,so

places,simply fucking A+!!!
stop and think (hehehe...),
the previous track...

The neon lights are shining on me again

I walk the lonely streets in search of a friend
I need a lady to help me to get through the night
If I could find one then everything would be alright
The sleepy city is dreaming the nigh time away
Out on the street I watch tomorrow becoming today
I see a man,he's got take away women for sale
Yes for sale
Guess that's the answer
'Cos take away women don't fail...
Oh dirty women,they don't mess around
Oh dirty women,they don't mess around
You've got me coming
You've got me going around
Oh dirty women,
They don't mess around
Walking the streets I wonder will it ever happen
Gotta be good then everyting will be o.k.
if I could score tonight then I will end up happy
A woman for sale is gonna help me save my day...
Summary:
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All in all,this isn't the greatest Sabbath album,it's from it's decline
period,and if you're not Sabbath maniac like some of the people on this list
don't buy it,you'll be dissapointed. However,there are some unique and
original sound combinations on this one,and it may be indeed a technical
ecstasy. No true Sabbath fan can live without this album...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Gosh,I never thought that typing lyrics is so tiresome...
Well,what else have I got on my mind tonight?
WYZ: welcome back,wish I could take a holliday myself,fucking no way...!
*sigh* well,I hope you enjoyed yourself...
Shawn: how old are you? I mean-flaming is ok,ocassionally I like to flame
myself when I'm feeling mean (ask WYZ...),but come on man,you are
obsessed to flame (like that stupid song by tendencies-obsessed to skate),
get a life man...

Sheri: Do you always talk in monosylables (just curious,nothing personal).

Also,beg your pardon for my ignorance (due to geographical reasons...),
but who are evasive action? Are you their singer or what?
Well,that's all folx...


Shimon-the one and only true Sabbath maniac!