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Sabotage by Black Sabbath
Sabotage is an album by Black Sabbath, released in 1975. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Am I Going Insane”, on 1 list with a best position of #613.
Sabotage, Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, landed on 28 July 1975, and it was made while the Birmingham band were locked in a legal war with their former manager, Patrick Meehan. The stress seeped into the sessions so thoroughly that it gave the album its name, and you can hear the pressure in the grooves: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward sound cornered, and cornered Sabbath is a fearsome thing.
"Symptom of the Universe" is one of Iommi's most brutal riffs, pure pile-driver, and "Am I Going Insane" twitches with paranoia. But the band kept pushing past the sludge too, following the experiments of their previous two records with acoustic guitar and choirs threaded through the heaviness. Reviews were good and it sold, though it was their first release that failed to go platinum in the US. It has aged into one of the classics of the original lineup's run.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sabotage on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Am I Going Insane | 1 | #613 | – | 1990 | |
| 2 | Symptom of the Universe | 1 | #770 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.