Black Sabbath The Ultimate Collection

BMG

The music made by Sabbath’s original line-up has been anthologised endlessly over the last four decades, their very first compilation, We Sold Our Souls For Rock’n’Roll, emerging on the NEMS label in 1975, three years before Ozzy was unceremoniously fired from the band. Unlike that exploitative collection (and several others that followed in its wake), this 31-track affair comes with the band’s complete seal of approval, gathering up their most well-known tunes (Paranoid opens the proceedings) alongside deeper cuts (Rat Salad and Dirty Women, both now restored to Sabs’ current setlist on their global swan song). Impressively remastered, they are pressed on four heavyweight LPs housed in a lavish sleeve which folds out into a gigantic crucifix. CP