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Reunion [2-CD SET] | ![Reunion [2-CD SET]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416LtSU3buL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Black Sabbath
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 20538
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 69115
UPC: 074646911525
EAN: 0074646911525
ASIN: B00000DFTG
Release Date: October 20, 1998
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Condition: heavily skuffed believed to work
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | War Pigs | | • | Behind the Wall of Sleep - Black Sabbath, Butler, Geezer | | • | N.I.B. | | • | Fairies Wear Boots | | • | Electric Funeral | | • | Sweet Leaf | | • | Spiral Architect | | • | Into the Void | | • | Snowblind |
Disc 2
| • | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | | • | Orchid/Lord of This World | | • | Dirty Women | | • | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Butler, Geezer | | • | Iron Man | | • | Children of the Grave | | • | Paranoid - Black Sabbath, Butler, Geezer | | • | Psycho Man | | • | Selling My Soul |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Nobody does Black Sabbath songs justice like the original four. With Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward all relatively sound of mind and body, Reunion finds them finally backed by a juggernaut of smart businesspeople and producers who realize what's at stake. The mix is crisp and eye-watering, and the four legends rumble like one thick cloud of doom. Trackwise, it's all the hits plus a few stray wanderings off-kilter ("Dirty Women"). The much-anticipated pair of new studio tracks are a mixed lot: "Psycho Man" is a Kiss-grade metal lurch with an atrocious B-movie lyric that somehow escaped Osbourne's usually reliable cheese radar. "Selling My Soul," however, is convincingly ominous, with Iommi creating piles of dark chords. --Martin Popoff
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| Customer Reviews:
 Rocks October 6, 2008
Louis E. Negrette
Though it was conceived as a mere cash-in for the long-awaited return of the original Black Sabbath, 1998's Reunion is as close to an official live album as the band has had in their historic 30-year career. 1980's Live at Last was released without their permission, and 1982's Live Evil featured then-singer Ronnie James Dio. With this in mind, the band must be commended on the excellent quality of the recordings, which include their most enduring classics ("War Pigs," "Paranoid," "Iron Man"), as well as a few surprises ("Dirty Women," "Behind the Wall of Sleep"), and were culled from a series of concerts in their native Birmingham in December 1997. The real key to this album, however, is the band's ability to avoid the most common pitfall of live recordings: speeding up the songs. This patience is crucial, since such Sabbath staples as "Sweet Leaf," "Black Sabbath," and "Snowblind" owe much of their unique personality and somber atmospherics to the band's trademark "snail's pace." "Children of the Grave" proves itself once again as one of the band's most dependable live favorites, and the massive riffs of "Into the Void" are simply timeless. The two brand new studio tracks are another treat for longtime fans, and while "Selling My Soul" is rather mundane, "Psycho Man" is absolutely incredible thanks to its slow intro and raging final riff.
 Best Live Album I Have Ever Heard! June 11, 2008
kevin griffith (Columbus, OH United States)
This album was the best! All their greatest songs put into one cd without any lousy songs! It's great for cranking in the car. When I first heard it, "War Pigs" just shocked me. I personly thought "Paranoid" was their best song. But Ozzie really needs to put a sock in it because he talks too much. I thought it was a great album.
 Great Instrumentation......Totally ruined by Ozzy January 29, 2008
Hal C. Robertson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first real live album from the original four members .....Tony, Geezer and Bill really lay it down heavy, sounding as tight as ever... WAR PIGS, the opener, is terrific and spine-tingling until Ozzy opens his mouth....."F"-bomb after "F"-bomb, seems like every 4th measure, Ozzy shows how light-weight and totally vacuous this guy's head is....Believe me, folks , he was not like this in the 70's....Where for aught thou, friend Ozzy???
I was really looking forward to this release, originally, but one listen and it went on Ebay......
I have heard that there was going to be a cleaned up version because of all the complaints the label execs received...But I've yet to hear anymore about this. Be warned...Profanity galore, and way off key vocals completely ruin this noble effort from 3 of the 4 members.
The overdue reunion album, still waiting for more. March 9, 2007
Wiseguy 945 (Omaha, NE)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a great disc I picked up on the day of release, new black sabbath with the original line up, unthought of for so long. All the classics with Ozzy. Now I keep waiting and hoping someday they will get together and do a new full album, but hope is shrinking. The two new songs are OK, Pscyhoman sounding more like recent Ozzy songs, but Selling my Soul sounds more like the Iommi riffs of past. Must have CD for the sabbath fan, the first official live release endorsed by the group with Ozzy on vocals...20 years after his leaving. Live at Last has been around for years, but was never endorsed by the band, and Live Evil, although good in its own right for DIO fans, just is not Ozzy. So Get this, its Sabbath at its best.
 It's SABBATH! August 30, 2006
Zachary V. Sunderman (Youngstown, OH United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of those releases with some serious disappointments and some serious pluses, that make it confusing to judge as a whole.
First of all, just the thought of these four guys being together again, and playing the songs they wrote before Tony dragged Sabbath out over decades of bad power metal---some of the greatest songs ever made, and no less---is incredible. Can they live up to that hype, though? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Ozzy usually sounds great, although sadly he can no longer hit the high notes on "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." Bill Ward is solid, but he's stripped a lot of the jazziness and busy-work out of his drumming, and sounds a little too streamlined for me at times. Tony and Geezer, however, are consistently jaw-dropping: Iommi's guitar carries all the bulldozer power of the original records, Butler pounds his bass with all the fury he's known for, and both of them play with all the fire and inspiration one could hope for. (And, in fact, more than I hoped for or expected!)
I embarrassed myself by going to Ozzfest in 2005 just to catch these guys before they hung it up again. The real satisfaction was just knowing I'd seen the almighty SABBATH. The performance was exactly like this record: Occassionally breathtaking, and at other times, slightly disappointing. For example, Ozzy and Bill's inability to keep time with each other during the vocal breaks in "War Pigs."
There are, however, some very strong points to this album that make it, in my opinion, essential for any fan of the original Sabbath. "Electric Funeral" is one. I always thought that was the weakest track on "Paranoid," but when I saw them, and on this disc, the song sounds positively apocalyptic, at least twice as ominous and heavy as it was originally. "Dirty Women" is the same deal---the "Technical Ecstasy" version is so-so, but live, it becomes one of my favorite Sabbath songs, a juggernaut of a song that plows through with massive force before giving way to one of the most gorgeous and emotional guitar passages ever performed.
Another quick highlight is the braekdown after the solo in "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" - Ozzy doesn't even ATTEMPT to sing it, but the band nails it with a force unapproached by the studio original.
I do recommend buying this, just for its historical importance, and for those highlights. Just don't expect perfection throughout.
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