Black Sabbath - your favourite 2 albums.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell... Headless Cross a very close 3rd.

Funnily, the Ozzy era stuff never resonated with me beyond the usual big tunes.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Take the money, Tony!

Oh Tony....

[Sworntothecans]

<Sharon Voice>"IF YOU WANT TO PUT THE BLACK SABBATH NAME ON STUFF THEN YOU'LL WORK WITH THIS CUNT"

[The Heretic]

Mob Rules and Headless Cross

[Eoin McLove]

Skimming through this thread it seems I never actually answered the question. I enjoy a lot of the Ozzy stuff but all the 70s albums are littered with parts of songs that don't really appeal to me- the more upbeat hippy dippy bits. But when they hit they hit hard. I think though, on balance, and given the sheer amount of time spent with them over the past couple of years my picks would be Tyr and Headless Cross, in that order.

[Trev]

Just finished a run through of the discography, apart from Seventh Star, Headless Cross, and Tyr which I don't have and need to remedy

The absolute quality Iommi kept up is ridiculous, amazing riff after amazing riff for decades. Even the maligned Forbidden sounded much better than I remember, especially when listening to it straight after some of the other Martin albums

I'd say the only real dud they have is 13, and I'd lay the blame for that on Rick Rubin, I think Iommi and Geezer have both said he was the wrong choice. And I always found it odd that three of the best songs were bonus tracks and not on the main album. The Devil You Know would've been a much better sign-off

[Eoin McLove]

Just finished a run through of the discography, apart from Seventh Star, Headless Cross, and Tyr which I don't have and need to remedy

The absolute quality Iommi kept up is ridiculous, amazing riff after amazing riff for decades. Even the maligned Forbidden sounded much better than I remember, especially when listening to it straight after some of the other Martin albums

I'd say the only real dud they have is 13, and I'd lay the blame for that on Rick Rubin, I think Iommi and Geezer have both said he was the wrong choice. And I always found it odd that three of the best songs were bonus tracks and not on the main album. The Devil You Know would've been a much better sign-off

The two new Iommi tracks that I've heard on YouTube are deadly. The dude on vocals is fucking great.

[open face surgery]

Checked out one of the tunes. Thought it was terrible, Wacken metal shite. Video was hilariously bad though.

[Floss]

The 70s stuff is untouchable - some of my fav albums ever, up to tech ecstasy - all are great. H&H is far better tan Mob Rules (which definitely has its moments) for me - Dehumanizer is also incredible. I love the Tony Martin albums mostly (Forbidden aside) - Eternal Idol and Tyr are outstanding Headless Cross is a masterpiece, right up there with the best Sabbath, so atmospheric. I liked the new Iommi stuff too, sounds great. 13 was so-so, no staying power in it really for me.

[The Great Cull]

Checked out one of the tunes. Thought it was terrible, Wacken metal shite. Video was hilariously bad though.

I thought the singer sounded just like Andi Deris from Helloween. Totally get the Wacken comment.

[Barrytron]

My faves are
Tyr - Surely one of the best heavy metal albums ever.
Never Say Die - not really massively gone on Ozzy Sabbath on a daily basis, think I got tired of it. PLay this a good bit though, the change in Johnny Blade blows my mind. Swinging the chain is great as well. EDIT forgot about Junior's Eyes, one of my fave sabbath songs ever
Heaven & Hell - first Sabbath album I got, sure it's amazing.
Born Again - What can you say, it's so good. The wooly reverby production I love, the opening scream on Trashed, some of the riffs are incredible.

[Polaris]

Probably Sabotage and Black Sabbath, in an artistic sense; yet I mostly throw on Born Again or Mob Rules when I think about the band

[CorkonianHunger]

Picked up the Seventh Star vinyl reissue, been listening to it a lot lately. Totally underrated in my eyes.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

And your ears..? 

[Barrytron]

Yes! It's excellent and what a vocal performance and drum production on it. Keep forgetting about Seventh Star. Whenever I think of it all that jumps into my mind is yer one from Star Trek The Next Generation that was in the video to No Stranger to Love. Acting must be such a mental career