Black Sabbath- wheels of confusion/ the straightener

[KillTheElder]

Absurdly good!

[Camerameister1]

Bill Ward's thunderous, primal drumming is the feature of this track for me, much as I love the rest of it. From 2:30 > 3:40

[roeik130]

Did anybody know why they album called Volume 4? Because when u hear Volume 4 songs u must put the only Volume 4/ Volume 4 speaker lvl,,,,

[vinnypimentel]

@roeik130 called because it is the fourth Sabbath's album

[baffifinti78]

my favourite track of all time. first time I heard this record I didn't like it... 

[meinefresse94]

@baffifinti78 First time I read your comment, I didn't like it. LOL:)

[wandererlain]

"The World Will Still Be Turning When You're Gone" So goddamn true.

It's Sunday, today, when others are in church, but I listen to Black Sabbath in my own church.

[59mar]

tiiiiiimeless greatness! :-))

the lyrics are not to be disturbed by though:-)

just ignore them ,they're superfluent

the music is too brilliant and wide for negative lyrics.

[59mar]

startin' at 5:15 !:-)

[zeppelin1996]

Yeah there are quite a few mistakes in the lyrics. But it doesn't matter, great song, thanks for the upload.

[scottslovegun]

Great fucking album and song!

[scottslovegun]

Cd sound is recorded at 16 bit 44.1khz per second.that is to slow to capture all the highs and lows of a recording.vinyl is the best.I bet the new blue Ray audio would give vinyl a run for it's money though.

[orphshakti420]

best sabbath song 

[spine4youu]

this persons not to keen on the lyrics

[2WK09]

wheels of confusion is great to get high to...ur a fuken poser if u dont think dats true.....sweet no dislikes:)

[2WK09]

wheels of confusion is great to get high to...ur a fuken poser if u dont think dats true

[pkrwd]

You have they lyrics all fucking wrong,, quite a few anyhow!! but great fucking goddamn song!

[diamondback604]

DA STRAIGHTENER!!!! FUKN LOVE IT LOL

[muzikkraz]

I remember buying Volume 4 and loved the fold-out which showed album-sized concert photos. That was in '72 which would've made me eleven years old.

So many outstanding albums were released in 1972!

[meinefresse94]

@muzikkraz Yes in 1972, but in the whole decade, there were many good releases.

[muzikkraz]

@meinefresse94  Without question, my friend.

[muzikkraz]

@meinefresse94 Truer than blue!

I'm a child of the 70s and my old butt believes that no decade (other than 60s) will ever compare!

I hope that you will have a good one, also. Cheers!

[jezx21]

@muzikkraz i started listening to sabbath in 1992 wich woulda made me about 11 or 12. Almost 40 years later and this album is still great man :)

[felicer]

the guitar solo at the end is beautiful.

[kgkologlu]

They consumed two of the best songs ever into a single song, free from any financial  2nd thoughts. I fuckin love sabbath!

[familiafelizjau]

wo words to express what i feel when i listen to sabbath

[Hughesy16LFC]

@familiafelizjau How about a europhic orgasm of awesomeness?

[pokethunder]

5:19 chills to my spine evry fuking time the most powerfull chrod i have heard in my life that its what hapnes when you put soul in music ist so powerful that a single chord becomes legendary that is power



[lexingtonMO]

I know some will laugh for me saying this, but with Sabbath, musically that is, I can actually sing the guitar parts ! Mentally that is. You feel the music and Iommi is riffmaster extridinare. Ward actually said he follows Iommi instead if Butler.Just something magic about this band. The sum of all parts are Sabbath: Iommi, Ward, Butler and Osbourne ! GODS of Metal!

[Burn0ut0nline]

Thanks. Found it faster on youtube than i would have in my house. ;o)

[belcarn94]

There is no damn way to accurately get all words right on thes albums--but they are great! The cool part is you hear the lyrics as you want to hear them!



[blsamuforeva]

it's all about Supernaut

[vamp2757]

Has Black Sabbath ever been truly appreciated for the depth and substance of their lyrics?

[crunkalac]

@vamp2757 fuck no not enough every thing they say is how i feel its weird lol

[castorres7]

I remember the first time I heard this song 12 years ago i was like "yea, its a pretty good Sabbath song" and then 5:19 hit me as The Straightener starts. No sound had ever struck a chord in my soul like that and no sound has ever since...

[fallspeed]

The lyrics are not correct, especially the profound last verse:

So I found that life is just a game

But you know there's never been a winner

Try your hardest, just to be a loser

The world will still be turning when you're gone

[lucaschallenger]

Great opening song for an incredible album

[69ofdoom]

Just what I like to see on a video like this, 0 dislikes.

[PussyWart855]

Never Say Die and Vol 4!!!!! Fuck yes, who is with me?

[lyon1535]

Is this the first actual "heavy metal" solo in the modern style? I mean, they had solos before this, but they were all kind of bluesy.

[PussyWart855]

oh yeah and dont forget sabotage. those are the best albums

[catfishfountain]

It's great that there are no thumb's down for the jam.

[mamasboy815]

Geezer Butler=Black Sabbath+the rest=ozzy,iommi,ward=THE TITLE BLACK SABBATH=Metal at its BEST!

[TheEs379]

Wheels of confusion is the song that should be the most famous song of Sabbath, not Paranoid!

[MegaRamartin]

how's this for a comment this is the only song i've played air tambourine to

[hellybellybell]

ill ill ill brill brill brill

[teecuzbruh]

this song may have my favorite verse of all time

THE WORLD WILL STILL BE TURNING WHEN YOUR GONE...YEAH WHEN YOUR GONE

[frankvsmaximvs]

I can't hear this tune enough....connects me to those younger years when I was Indestructable and naiive...Thank s a bunch for sharing!!!

[stainlesssteelrat100]

Hard for me to rank sabbath songs and albums while Ozzy was in the band. All are off the hook and just plain smoke. There is no other riffmaster like Iommi, and Ozzy was in his prime to boot. The thunder from the rhythm and the sound made you, the listener,lose control of the vertical and the horizontal. They set the stage for later metal acts, especially with the hint of orchestration, evident on this album and all through their career. Straightened out they are the yard stick of metal.

[meinefresse94]

@stainlesssteelrat100 Exactly. the music does something to your brain. everything they play is like a clash of sound, and it makes you feel awesome.

[jezx21]

@meinefresse94 its called witch craft lol

[ChevKen]

Innocence just isn't "got so easy"?

[gibsongold1970]

i love volume 4!!!!! lost in the wheels of confusion! lite up a number and crank the straightner! i got the Christmas buds! oh yeah!!!

[obbrraa777]

hail from croatia !!!

[allanj777]

Tough call, but #1 Sabbath Song of all time. The jam at the end is icing the on the cake.

[free2bekirk]

is there a kareoke club that features this song, this would be an awesome song to sing to



[malpough32]

I smoked my first joint to BS on this song.

[jimmyb207]

@malpough32

Sabbath and Zeppelin were tailor made for listening to while completely stoned. In the '70's, I was always waiting for the next Sabbath or Zeppelin album to hit the stores. And when they did, I always ended up at some friends house with an awesome stereo and the bowls were being packed and passed around and before I knew it Tony Iommi or jimmy Page was taking me for a ride.

[Claymore2408]

@jimmyb207 You're fucking lucky to live when these guys were proper "BIG" back then, everyone was talking about them and listening to them aswell.

[jimmyb207]

@Claymore2408 I can agree to that. I don't want to come off as pro drug n shit but I don't think people realize how big the pot culture was into Sabbath and Zeppelin during the 70's unless they were part of it. I had a Zeppelin T shirt, it seemed everytime I wore it someone was asking me if I had weed or if I wanted to get stoned with them. The Dead had the acid people.The Allman Brothers had the mushroom people. The crowd I was with believed the proper way to listen to Sabbath was STONED.

[ernesto56052]

im blues man but these song for me really good

[theSamson72]

By Far One Of The Top 5 Ever Sabbath Songs ! Cheers!!

[flathead59]

Very cool never knew the words ,thanks for this,been listening almost 40 years...

[meinefresse94]

@flathead59 Some of them are wrong!!!!

[janemacdonnell1]

@meinefresse94 no they are right on bro-- i cant play this anymore because it was the last tune my band rehearsed before packing up and goin to party.My drummer and I were the last to say g'night-at 5 am-- and our last words were, "ok bro-- i will pick you up tomorrow afternoonHAAA!! today i mean!!" he goes "Cool dude be safe drivin". i got a call at 7 am from his sister- he was dead on the couch of an OD.Great great tune and we had it nailed-- note for note(but i played my own lead-Iommi style

[janemacdonnell1]

@meinefresse94 Young and foolish, livin hard and fast--it was 1986.Miss ya Mike!! See you soon, introduce me to SRV and Dime andBonzo-- and all the others that went way too young.

[mamasboy815]

@meinefresse94 yep!!

[WINSTONZERO1]

''The world will still be turning when your gone'' ! CLASS !

[rocknrollhoochiekoo1]

Vol. 4 was my first Sabbath album. I purchased it when I was seven (thanks Dad). And throughout the years, the music, and the lyrics stuck with me. At seven, I was a little too young to understand the meaning behind the lyrics but man what an eye opener to the realities of life. I believe Geezer wrote these lyrics and what a genius!! "Every day just comes and goes. Life is one big overdose. People try to rule the world but I can't see throught their frustration" (Different song but same album)

[meinefresse94]

@rocknrollhoochiekoo1 It was Geezer who wrote the lyrics, and " Under the sun/every day just comes and goes" Is on my top 2 songs ever.

[robadude32]

@rocknrollhoochiekoo1 Hi

I wish I knew what you knew back then - first album was Van Halen among others on 8 track tape! back in around 1977-78. I know now how much I appreciate BS music through the years.

[drewmcduffee]

I think its "running through valleyes of tears"

sick song one of my all timefovs

[VryDeranged]

This song is Epic. Black Sabbath is the greatest

[jmjulebran]

Heaven...

[gl797]

So I found that life is just a game

But you know there's never been a winner

Try your hardest (but) you'll still be a loser

The world will still be turning when you're gone

Yeah when you're gone!

[r1s1u1t1]

soon the days were passing into years

happiness just didnt come so easy

[r1s1u1t1]

in the land of fairytales and stories

[r1s1u1t1]

running through valleys of tears

[gl797]

imo the best intro to any song ever, the emotion in Iommi's guitar is incredible.

Also, I'll never understand how many people say that Ozzy can't sing. He is not only the best Black Sabbath singer, he's the best singer of all time. Just listen.

[gibsongold1970]

C# I BELIEVE. Volume 4 is sooo druggy!

[Ncharlestun]

The guitar in B sounds incredible.

[msnewbooty79]

This was the first album that they started to tune down! 1 and half steps.So the low E string was in C.that's why the album is so heavy.the cool thing about C tuning is that's it's alot easier to bend and that it sounds real heavy...Dimebag used to tune to C also.

[gl797]

@msnewbooty79 It's C# actually for Sabbath, Dimebag probably did tune down to C idk

[gl797]

@gl797 also, the first album they tuned down on was Master of Reality

[redyossarian]

I used to singalong whole album with Ozzy. Love it, great record, fabolous melodies and guitar riffs. They are gods of metal.

[jnny3000]

the straightener kicks ass!

[stuboyah]

I always loved the outro of this song the best. Classic Iommi riffing!

[cacoca79]

the last jingle of the song sounds like something out of the young guns movie.

[sido7779]

still sounds as good as the first time i played it ,quality never dies,not like the modern trash, where did it all go wrong,

[CoastalPlainMlkSnake]

DUDE...you messed up with some of the lyrics man

[meinefresse94]

@CoastalPlainMlkSnake I just wrote what the inlay of the CD said. not my fault that they wrote some words wrong.:)

[sido7779]

@meinefresse94 still sounds as good as the first time i played it quality never dies,not like modern music where did it all go wrong

[kaioxygen]

@meinefresse94 No, but your fault you copied them :-)

[spernoadversa]

This is a great album but you can just tell that the drugs were taking over.

[redyossarian]

@spernoadversa It didn't matter at the time.

[TheDude8689]

I still have the original 72 vinyl.

[meinefresse94]

@TheDude8689 Cool! Wish I had it...

[ghostwhiskey]

@TheDude8689 very nice your dudeness,i abide

[TheDude8689]

@ghostwhiskey Thanks man. 

[Belit01]

@TheDude8689 >way to rock! I still blaze this on the car & work vehicle stereos - loudly!!!

[Belit01]

@TheDude8689 >Way to rock! I still blaze this on the car & work vehicle stereos - loudly -

[wewillrockyou1986]

@TheDude8689 how much could i buy it for??? cos man thats priceless

[loknloll]

perhaps the greatest sabbath song ever. this song makes me actually FEEL the 70's... the smell of fresh paving, a warm breeze, the shimmer of heat across the road, rolling along in a Ford LTD the size of a boat, 8 track tapes...

[iknowwhathappened1]

the best part is around 0:01-8:15

[Arauss]

great song !

[91rocker]

This is by far my favorite Sabbath song. What a great way to start off a great album. I love the ending.

[1weirdgurl]

good days of music...what happened?

[DrunkenDwarv]

@1weirdgurl

A new generation with a horrible taste in music is what happened.

[user7272]

fav sabbath album by far...just kicks so hard, vol. 4.....luv the rest but this one ...Hmmm? :) . ROCK ON !

[meinefresse94]

@user7272 my fav too. supernaut is my fav. song:)

[redyossarian]

@meinefresse94 Oh yes, Supernaut is just superb. Jesus, those guys were amazingly talented, though they were on dope all the time, they could create such fantastic music.

[Ancientmirrors1]

Thanks for uploading this straightner awesome music which i have lived by for many years

[Ancientmirrors1]

I have lived by this song for countless years thanks for posting it the straightner!this whole album I live by,I used to have every album sabbath recorded(real sabbath)lost em along with over 300 other albums in a trailer fire,

[meinefresse94]

@Ancientmirrors1 you're welcome. that must have been a lot of money, that burned there. how did it happen.

[billeb0b83]

Older vinyl sounds better because the music was recorded for it. It's recorded at a slower pace so, the vinyl picks up more sound. If you buy a new record from most new bands you can not even tell a difference between cd and vinyl.

[craigdamage]

"trees" -- wrong,change to TEARS (rhymes with fears)

"vow" -- wrong,change to FOUND

Some other mistakes too. I blame Ozzy's drunken Birmingham slur.

[CannibaLouiST]

If they play this song at the end of a concert, that will be perfect.Black Sabbath has many many classic songs and this is forever in my top ten list.

[leikeylosh]

"The world wil still be turning when you're gone."

Sad but true.

[meinefresse94]

@leikeylosh If you like this song you might like The song Sad but true from Metallica. You just reminded me of that:)

[demonmom1960]

Iommi one of the best guitarist alive.

[BrEmerican]

the best song no ones ever heard

[TattooedHoodlum]

I still have this on vinyl.

[meinefresse94]

@TattooedHoodlum Nice. I'm trying to find it on vinyl, because it has a better quality. But The problem is that I can't the player with me, mp3 is easyer. I wih they could make a mp3 file with the quality of a vinyl.

[TattooedHoodlum]

@meinefresse94 I bought it new back in '82 or '83 I think. I agree about mp3, it's a lot easier than carrying a turntable around, but it removes a lot of the harmonics of the upper and lower frequencies in order to reduce the file size.

[M60Head]

@meinefresse94 I totally agree with you 100%. I tried explaining this to someone before, but they couldn't grasp the concept. They thought vinyl records had the worst sound quality because of the scratch noises they make, which is true as cds are more clear, but records just seem to have such better sound quality, more deep sounding and better bass and such that you don't get with cds. Cds are more dull sounding, at least with older music such as Black Sabbath.

[meinefresse94]

@M60Head The scratch noises disappear, when you turn the volume up i believe. I have onlz heard vinyl a couple of times in my life, because I am only 16. but you cant compare black sabbath on vinyl with modern music, because you cant find modern music on vinyl. but if you could it would still be better than on CDs or MP3 format.

[hendrix950]

Well im not completely sure but here goes vinyl has all the musical bars and CDs they take the bars and take samples or bits of music every like 3 microsecond or something and thats why vinyl sounds better i think..

[M60Head]

@hendrix950 I don't know what the reason is, whether it's because vinyl was recorded on analog equipment and cds on digital, but whatever the reason, you can tell the difference when you listen to same album on vinyl and cd, and for me it's a hell of a difference.

[ritzbitz00]

@M60Head the reason that vinyl and cds sound different is two reasons. the first is due to the medium itself. because vinyl reproduces sound with physical movement, it does not and cannot reproduce sound in the same way that cds can, hence the difference in sound. the second reason is because of the transition to digital. anytime a recording is transfered from one format to another, there is some quality loss. this combined with the unfamiliarity and awkwardness with mixing and converting to the

[ritzbitz00]

@M60Head new cd format caused the steriotypical 'bad' digital sound. this problem only occured when initially vinyl albums were brought to cd in digital's early stages. the loudness war issue on cds only doesnt exist on vinyl because record makers know that thats the largest complinat vinyl users have about cd, otherwise the vinyl would be loud too

[janemacdonnell1]

@TattooedHoodlum ME TOO Friggin Geezer slammin --hair all over!! my favorite pic. inside(the name is a phone book -shut eyes and put down finger!!!!) my bad . feel like a jerk- but there is a reason. 4 was pretty much my fav . Sabbath- but they had NO songs(w/Ozzy) that i did not like-- Sabatoge was just -- lol depends on your mood.and if you play an instrument-its like ,BOOm without thinking ,you are playin Sab. Bloody Sab.!!!! good man! \>..</ !!!!

[mikexlong]

the opening riff to the straightener is the single heaviest moment in music history.

[Octobersun77]

Everybody ALWAYS gets Sabbath lyrics wrong, ever notice that? There's not one relaible source for them anywhere, I've looked. Thank you for posting this great song.

[meinefresse94]

@Octobersun77 I have this little book inside my Vol. 4 CD cover. the lyrics are in there, and I wrote them as they are written in the book. so I guess they are right.

[6169ss]

...and fuck the people who say that a rom can't play the guitar...

[welbyskinner]

You've got a few words wrong here - should be "Eyes full of ended Illusions" and "Valleys full of tears" (not trees)

[welbyskinner]

best heavy metal track of all time without doubt

[acdcfanforeternaty]

5:20 - HOLY SHIT!!

[demonmom1960]

@acdcfanforeternaty

Yeah, what a way to build up to the Straightener! Would have loved to have seen it live when I was a kid. Did lots of tokin up to Sabbath.

[mikexlong]

thnzx for puttin the full version up dood

[pzn666]

sweet solo

[Nirond]

music this days is a shit

[meinefresse94]

I agree, this is better.

[jnny3000]

(5:16) i love this part of the song

[elight91]

@jnny3000 yea me to!! its the best outro in the world!!!! Black Sabbath!!!

[ACE642642]

@jnny3000 I believe that this is because it's no longer the same song =p. It's the Straightener.

[Jimmy1tooth]

@jnny3000 me 2

[seymouro]

@jnny3000

No doubt there, you are 100% correct.

They are awesome!!

[Innadivibe]

Good stuff thanks