What are you listening to now? : The Guardians Edition

Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi - Seventh Star

I bought this when it came out, listened to it once or twice then turned my back on it in disgust and didn't return to it... not until now anyway. I dug it out of the back of the cupboard and put it on this morning and, you know what, it ain't anything like as bad as I originally thought. Iommi's guitar playing is still top-knotch and I don't know if I've softened over the years, but I even quite enjoyed Glenn Hughes' vocals. I vaguely remember being disgusted with this, considering it no better than an effin' Foreigner album, but in fact, it is much better than that, as I guess is inevitable because no matter what, a Sabbath album will always have Tone's incomparable guitar skills on show and he is one guy who could genuinely write riffs in his sleep.

I've always had time for "Seventh Star" & feel that it's been unfairly treated by people that were unable to think of it as the Tony Iommi solo album that it was always intended to be. In fact, I'd take it our records like "Never Say Die!", "Technical Ecstasy", "Forbidden" or "Tyr" these days.

3.5/5

I would probably agree on all but Technical Ecstacy, but I don't think we need to go over that conversation again! 😉