War Pigs (track) by Black Sabbath
War Pigs appears on the following album(s) by Black Sabbath:
- Paranoid (track #1) (this album) (1970)
- We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll (track #4) (compilation) (1975)
- Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (track #4) (compilation) (2006)
- Past Lives (track #7) (compilation) (2002)
- Iron Man (track #14) (1994)
- Greatest Hits (track #7) (compilation) (1977)
- Live Evil (track #7) (1982)
- Symptom Of The Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978 (track #8) (compilation) (2002)
- Live At Last (track #7) (1980)
- The Best Of Black Sabbath (track #6) (compilation) (2000)
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75/100  | 11/13/2024 08:02 |  II | | 69/100 |
85/100 | 09/01/2024 04:51 | BurndenAce | | 83/100 |
85/100 | 08/06/2024 19:11 | jrbaker | | 83/100 |
95/100 | 05/20/2024 06:24 | SUPERJEFF6 | | 89/100 |
100/100 | 05/13/2024 09:51 | Tomaek6 | | 92/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 92.4/100, a mean average of 91.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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AAL2014 03/18/2023 01:09
This might be it, the most important 7 minutes of heavy music ever released.
Toward the end, many of instrumental melodies become as anthemic as any vocal melody in their catalog.
As a metal song, as a jam, as an anti-war elegy, this song is a triumph in all regards.
Squonk007 04/14/2022 16:14
Came to this late but it's a great track.
pjohnsongolf 12/06/2020 17:43
The guitar towards the end is some of my favorite music ever created
VictorVale 04/20/2019 11:53
Aquele peso!
Arguably the definitive Black Sabbath track, built by power riffs, Heavy solos, and politically charged lyrics. Love it.
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A metal classic. Still the best Black Sabbath song in my opinion, but I certainly don't agree with some other comments here that this was the 'real' end of the sixties, and, peace and love. The Stones had already done that with their apocalyptic, Gimme shelter, and Hendrix's astonishing version of Dylan's, all along the watchtower, also spoke of a darker time to come, both musically and lyrically, with race riots, the disaster at Altamont, and Vietnam exploding all around them. Still, War pigs, is a great track, absolutely brilliant.
Romanelli 05/24/2013 21:48
The real end to the 60's right here. This announced that Black Sabbath had nothing to do with peace and love and sunshine and hippies. This is heavy music. War Pigs is genius of a song. Great riff, great lyrics, and Ozzy was just the man to sing it. A perfect storm.
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Jasonconfused 12/05/2012 07:56
One of the best antiwar songs ever. The lyrics are not shy and the music is incredible. The riff is an instant classic. This is truly an epic for Sabbath.
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