Despite Osbourne's feeling towards the song and negative reviews its popularity caused it to appear as the only track from Sabotage on Sabbath's greatest hits album We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll. Peter Frampton, Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost cancelled Jul 27 1975. AllMusic reviewers claimed that the song was unrecognizable for Black Sabbath and that it was a reckless attempt to change the band's identity. Disappointments within the band and reception Īlthough happy with most of the songs on Sabotage, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne did not like the responses he got with "Am I Going Insane (Radio)" or "Supertzar." Osbourne felt the two tracks were distractions on what would otherwise be a perfect album. The engineer for Sabotage revealed that it came from an unmarked cassette found at the studio. Also, as the song fades, there is a disturbing cry that sounds like someone going 'mental.' It has been theorized that the recording was of Jessica, Ozzy's daughter, but a 1975 interview with him suggests that it was not Jessica. Critics have noted the coincidence of the title and the fact that all Black Sabbath members except Tony Iommi were later clinically depressed. Although common conception is that the suffix "Radio" was said to be added to the title because it was made for the purpose of being played on the radio, drummer Bill Ward said that it was Cockney rhyming slang for "mental"-radio-rental.
In 2021, Louder Sound 's Paul Brannigan ranked the song number 19 on his list of the 40 best Black Sabbath songs, referring to the track as "a master class in straight-to-the-point metal." Am I Going Insane (Radio)" is a single by the band Black Sabbath from the 1975 album Sabotage. In 2020, Joe DiVita and Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire ranked "Hole in the Sky" number 23 in their ranking of every Black Sabbath song from the era in which Osbourne was the band's vocalist. īassist and songwriter Geezer Butler described "Hole in the Sky" as being about pollution. 1975 1 Hole In the Sky 3:59 2 Don't Start (Too Late) 0:49 3 Symptom of the Universe 6:29 4 Megalomania 9:41 5 Thrill of It All 5:55 6 Supertzar 3:43 7 Am I Going Insane (Radio) 4:16 8 The Writ 8:44 J8 Songs, 43 minutes 2021 Warner Records Inc. Their music sparked one of the few revolutions. '" Philosopher and writer William Irwin characterizes the song as having themes of "cosmic travel" and "apocalyptic warfare". Black Sabbath changed the world, opening the minds of our embryonic cells to the never-ending well that is inspiration, the spirit, and the soul. Author Mick Wall wrote that, in the song, "Ozzy rants and raves about going through a hole in the sky, 'seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie. "Hole in the Sky" features vocals by Ozzy Osbourne. Wall asserts that the abrupt ending of "Hole in the Sky" emphasises "the sheer anger of the song". įollowing the song's sudden cutoff, the album segues immediately into the next track, "Don't Start (Too Late)", an acoustic instrumental that runs for under a minute in length. After the fourth verse, the second riff is recalled, and the main riff is played three-and-a-half times before the song comes to an abrupt end. Stolz notes that the third riff "is based on a one-second-long rhythmic idea played four times, but with the chords changing on the third and fourth times." This is paired with drummer Bill Ward playing a tom drum and cymbal at both about 120 beats per minute (bpm) and 180 bpm, applying "an Afro-Cuban-like feel". Music scholar Nolan Stolz identifies three guitar riffs played by guitarist Tony Iommi in the song: a main riff, a second riff heard at both around 24 seconds and 58 seconds into the track ("similar to-and a logical outgrowth of-the first"), and a third, four-second-long riff present during the song's chorus after the first two verses.
It is the opening track on their sixth studio album, Sabotage, released in 1975.Ĭomposition Musical structure Īuthor Mick Wall wrote that the song features a "door-slamming riff that wouldn't have been out of place on Paranoid" (the band's second album, released in 1970). " Hole in the Sky" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
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