Black Sabbath-Mob Rules (1981)
Artist: Black Sabbath
Title: Mob Rules
Label: Warner Bros.
Format: CD
Cat #: 3605-2
Year of Release: 1981
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's master
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 5/14/25
Sell Price: $6.56
Discogs Last Sold: 11/4/24 NM/NM $8.00
Low: $4.00
Median: $6.28
Average: $6.28
High: $8.95
Current low price: $6.66
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5
Have/Want: 88/95
Where Sold: Wood River, IL
Time it took to sell: 2 years
Where and When Bought: facebook $2 lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
The second Black Sabbath album with Dio came in 1981. For many years I liked this one ever so a bit more than Heaven & Hell, but the end of side two tails off for me ever so slightly. I mean, you can't argue with perfection, and these are two great albums.
Side One of Mob Rules is a thing of beauty. Harking back to the intros of yore, E5150 meanders in an F/X sort of way with a "modern keyboard" approach that disintegrates into prog horror before "The Mob Rules" kicks in. When Sabbath first reformed with Dio, I was broke and had to hang outside the Orpheum in Boston as I could hear this open the show. I finally got to witness this with the Heaven & Hell tour a couple times on.
Can't go wrong with "The Sign of the Southern Cross," the opening "Turn Up The Night" or the stranger calling "Voodoo." "Country Girl" was an early favorite of mine opening side 2. This leaves us with "Slipping Away," "Falling Off The Edge of the Word" and "Over and Over." Those three plod a little bit but ultimately, I like them all.
If you listen to fools...
ED NOTE: I plum forgot 15 years ago today Dio passed! It's a sign.......................
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