Black Sabbath - Mob Rules (Mob Rules - Black Sabbath)

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Product:	Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
Date:	06/10/00 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Variation of songs

Disadvantages: Not as good as Heaven and Hell

'Turn Up the Night', 'Mob Rules' and 'Falling Off the Edge of the World' are extremely fast and deadly tracks that really do showcase some of Dio and Iommi's finest moments performing together. 'Voodoo' and 'Country Girl' are both hard rock wonders but slower in tempo, the former track making it onto the Sab's live set on 'Live Evil'. Probably the finest song on the album is 'The Sign of the Southern Cross' which is a long-winded, slower epic piece, the LP's answer to the title track on 'Heaven and Hell'. It's here where Dio's sword and sorcery-laced lyrics play at their best off the rest of the band. This, together with 'Over and Over', represent the last good doom tracks before Black Sabbath succumbed to its creative coma. Overall, 'Mob Rules' is a good buy and you can't go wrong with it. This is really the last true Black Sabbath album before Tony Iommi became the visible father figure and annexed himself into what had been Black Sabbath, the group. The best tracks from 'Born Again', 'Headless Cross', 'Tyr', 'Crossed Purposes' or 'Forbidden' combined can't even get close to the rock value of 'Mob Rules'. Get it as your sixth Black Sabbath album and don't bother looking for best-of CDs to cover the 'prime cuts' of this CD because, number one - they don't exist and number two - the whole album sounds like a greatest hits compilation.

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