With its textured sleeve, Sabotage very much feels like a relic of its time. The 7”, meanwhile, offers little in the way of enticement, save for a single edit of Am I Going Insane (Radio), but the rarely seen Japanese cover looks cool, and it’s more something to keep within the box than play regularly. Thirteen of the sixteen tracks in the set are previously unreleased and, despite some commonality with Vol 4., seven tracks (nine if you include the jam tracks), are not found in that release, making the set something of a must for collectors. Instead, this box set opts for a triple vinyl offering up a complete 1975 show. This is a shame but, perhaps, there was nothing worth salvaging from the notoriously febrile sessions. The album is newly remastered, but otherwise stands alone in this set. As with all of these things, how much fans will care for the included ephemera is very much a matter of personal taste, but the quality of the production (especially when compared to the flimsy, paper-back booklets disappointingly included with the Pink Floyd Immersion sets) is second to none.Īudio Content: Unlike Vol 4, there are no illuminating studio snippets included with Sabotage and the set is correspondingly shorter.
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There’s also a handsome, 40-page hardback book (60 in the CD edition) packed full of period detail, contemporary reviews and archival images a glossy replica tour booklet (the majority of which is reproduced in the book, but it’s still a nice touch) a replica 7” single of Am I Going Insane (Radio) a massive poster and, the icing on the cake, a beautifully embossed, triple-gatefold live album capturing a complete show from 1975. Inside, the original album (remastered) is presented in its original textured sleeve. The Package As with Vol 4 and Paranoid, Sabotage is packaged in a rigid, lift-top box with the artwork printed on the front and the full track-listing on the reverse. Despite the fact that Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has been ignominiously ignored (another album long overdue a feature-stuffed reissue), there is no doubting the care that has gone into this box set, offering up a definitive take on a powerful record. The extra-stuffed reissue of Vol 4 did an exemplary job of correcting the lamentable treatment of an underrated album and now a similar effort has been made on behalf of Sabotage. As noted in the review for the recent Super Deluxe Edition of Vol 4, Black Sabbath’s catalogue may have been well-served in parts (the first four albums in particular), but there have been significant gaps, most notably the period from 1972 – 1978.
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