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“Am I Going Insane” by Black Sabbath
From the album Sabotage (1975)
“Am I Going Insane” by Black Sabbath appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1975 on the album Sabotage. Its best result is #613 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,715 hard rock song of all time.
"Am I Going Insane (Radio)" went out as a single from Sabotage, Black Sabbath's 1975 album, and that bracketed word isn't a nod to airplay, whatever people assumed. Bill Ward explained it as Cockney rhyming slang: radio-rental, meaning mental. Ozzy Osbourne sings it, Tony Iommi plays guitar, Geezer Butler bass and Ward drums, and all four share the writing credit; Mike Butcher produced and engineered with the band as co-producers, and Robin Black engineered too.
The fade-out holds the creepiest moment: a deranged-sounding cry that some took to be Ozzy's daughter Jessica, a theory a 1975 interview with him seems to rule out. The album's engineer said it came off an unmarked cassette someone found at the studio.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 613 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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