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“The Mob Rules” by Black Sabbath
From the album Mob Rules (1981)
“The Mob Rules” by Black Sabbath appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 1998. It was first released in 1981 on the album Mob Rules. Its best result is #237 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #746 hard rock song of all time.
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Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules" lent its name to Mob Rules, the band's tenth studio album, released on November 4, 1981, but it got out of the gate early: a version of the song, cut for the soundtrack of the film Heavy Metal, was the first new recording the band made after Heaven and Hell.
Ronnie James Dio wrote the words and sings them, sharing the music credit with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, and it hits like a battering ram, with Iommi on guitar, Butler on bass, Geoff Nicholls on keyboards and Vinny Appice making his first Sabbath album appearance on drums. Martin Birch produced and engineered. The album was only Dio's second with the band, and neither he nor Appice would turn up on another Sabbath studio record until Dehumanizer in 1992.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 237 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 379 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 764 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 649 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
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