Mixtape: Save It for the Gnostics

Despite my relative comfort in analyzing several genres of music to the point of heated inquisition and friendly insults, it's true that I've never been very conversant in The Metal. There are several reasons for this, including my religious upbringing which theorized that all who create The Metal have a binding agreement with Satan and are expected to pillage at committee-approved rates between encores. Since discovering that belief to be largely a lie borne from distaste and mistrust of intelligence, I've taken corrective measures to at least appreciate The Metal in decades since.

I found that I do have some affinity for music loosely associated with the actual birth of The Metal, around The 1970 or so. That means Black Sabbath, pretty much. I decided last week to do a mixtape I've been putting off for a long time, which is what you have here. It's all from the years surrounding the birth of Sabbath.

Much of the music in this show was directly taken from an outstanding blog called The Day After The Sabbath, and some was procured the hard way. Highlights includes a near-perfect song by Jerusalem, a bagpipe-infused mission statement from Cromagnon, someone from France, an unexpected and unplanned defense of Christianity towards the end, and snippets of amusing things said by the members of Black Sabbath. Let's get heavy. Heavier than normal, that is.

Tracklist:

Bang - Come With Me

Tucky Buzzard - (She's A) Striker

Sir Lord Baltimore - Hard Rain Fallin'

Jerusalem - Primitive Man

Tear Gas - Woman for Sale

Buffalo - Sunrise (Come My Way)

Neil Merryweather - Kryptonite

Cromagnon - Caledonia

Budgie - Drugstore Woman

High Tide - Futilist's Lament

Saint-Preux - L'abime

Randy California - Downer

Lucifer's Friend - Baby You're a Liar

Master's Apprentices - Death of a King

Killing Floor - Out of Uranus

Zior - Entrance of the Devil/Strange Kind of Magic

Flied Egg - Rollin' Down the Broadway

Dark - Zero Time

My Solid Ground - The Executioner

A Foot in Coldwater - How Much Can You Take

Hairy Chapter - There's a Kind of Nothing

Writing on the Wall - Aries

Black Sabbath - After Forever

Stack Waddy - Meat Pies 'Ave Come But Band's Not Here Yet