Live Evil [Import, Original recording remastered, Live]

Black Sabbath | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Castle Music UK
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B000005RFP
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,490 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. E5150 [Live]

2. Neon Knights [Live]

3. N.I.B. [Live]

4. Children of the Sea [Live]

5. Voodoo [Live]

6. Black Sabbath [Live]

7. War Pigs [Live]

8. Iron Man [Live]

9. The Mob Rules [Live]

10. Heaven and Hell [Live]

11. The Sign of the Southern Cross/Heaven and Hell [Continued][Live]

12. Paranoid [Live]

13. Children of the Grave [Live]

14. Fluff [Live]

Editorial Reviews

1996 reissue on Castle featuring Sabbath's top 40 1983 livealbum remastered from the original master tapes and withfaithfully restored artwork. First released on WarnerBrothers, it contains all 14 original tracks, inlcuding'Black Sabbath', 'War Pigs', 'Iron Man', 'Paranoid', 'TheMob Rules' and 'Heaven And Hell'. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 5 STAR ALBUM WITH ONE PROBLEM, October 5, 2000

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mason williams (bloomington, in USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Evil (Audio CD)

THE SOUND HERE IS PERFECT , A NICE REMASTERING JOB . PROBLEM IS IT'S CRAMMED ONTO ONE CD . SURE YOU GET 80:05 OF THE HEAVIEST MUSIC ON THE PLANET . BUT ALL CROWD RAPS AND OVER HALF OF THE GUITAR SOLO HAS BEEN CUT . IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE LESSER OF THE EVILS , GO DOMESTIC . THE WB DOMESTIC ISSUE HAS MUDDIER SOUND AND COSTS MORE BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THE GUITAR SOLO . IT IS TRULY SICK AND EVIL , AN ALL OUT DOOM AND GLOOM EFFECTS BLOW OUT THAT WILL STAND EVERY HAIR ON YOUR BODY STRAIGHT UP .

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff!, June 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Live Evil (Audio CD)

Much controversy over just how much post-production (ie. overdubbing) went on for this album. It's fairly obvious a generic, looped audience noise is used throughout, but the sheer power of the recording, especially the thunderous kick drums and guitar tones is wonderful to behold. Even though I devoured all things Sabbath once I discovered them, and adored the songwriting, I always hated the production values on the original Ozzy albums. No matter the producer involved, the early Sab catalog is some of the weakest production put to tape. Strongest case for this is Supernaut, from Vol. 4, with the thinnest sounding drum tracks I've ever heard, and this song even has a drum break! It's surely just a coincidence, but out goes Ozzy, in comes DIO, and Sabbath finally gets a quality producer in Martin Birch, resulting in two of the greatest rock albums from the eighties; Heaven & Hell, and Mob Rules. Live Evil, produced by Iommi & Butler was a perfect closer to what's refered to as the DIO era, and even today I'm amazed at the thunder this recording produces. Gotta agree with others that Dio oversings during guitar solos though, and not the best song selection, but they were trying to offer this as a live 'greatest hits' package. A legendary point about this; at one point Dio tells the crowd, that 'Not only are we filming it...', Man someone needs to find that footage and release this on DVD. Ozzy countered this release with Speak of The Devil, which was a live recording of all Sab song shows he did at The Ritz in NYC. Oddly, these are some of the best produced versions of these tracks and a great set list too!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly great album, buy it today!, January 14, 2000

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"metalbeast" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Evil (Audio CD)

This live album from Black Sabbath is one of the best live albums ever created. With the exceptions of 'E5150' and 'Fluff' every song is a masterpeice in its own right. This album contains some of the best material from Sabbath's first collaboration with Ronnie James Dio such as the amazing 'Mob Rules',the riff-tastic 'Voodoo', 'Neon Knights' and 'Children of the sea'. Sabbath also play some of the old classics like 'Paranoid' and 'Iron Man'. I have to say that Ronnie James Dio's vocals on 'Black Sabbath' and 'Paranoid' are even better than Ozzy's. Dio has a greater range, more power and sounds so very evil. His voice and Black Sabbath's music fit together perfectly. Ozzy is a good singer and an awesome song writer but his voice is nowhere near as evil as that of the evil elf Dio.

One area where Dio is weaker than ozzy is the art of making the crowd 'go crazy' as Ozzy so often puts it. He is a good frontman, and interacts with the crowd very well, but is not as good as Ozzy in this area.

The rest of the band are on top form and play very well.

This is a truly great album and is an abseloute 'Buy or Die' for any fan of Sabbath.