{"id":1933,"date":"2013-02-14T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2013-02-16T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T04:23:41","slug":"song-of-the-day-anno-mundi-by-black-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Anno Mundi” by Black Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat.<\/p>\n

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\nIf you’re a fan of classic Sab, then no doubt you’re scratching your head and saying to yourself in an outlandish mock cockney accent “Oi sure don’t wumembah dis one, gubbnah!”<\/p>\n

And to that I say “of course not!\u00a0 You damned fool!\u00a0 Have you any idea the process that you have started by seeking out the Emerald of…”<\/p>\n

Hang on… sorry.\u00a0 I was getting way off topic there.\u00a0 Fuck, I was making up some kind of story or something.\u00a0 My point is that this song<\/a> was not recorded in those classic days when Ozzy Osbourne manned the mic.\u00a0 No friend, this comes from 1990.\u00a0 A time in which Black Sabbath was basically just Tony Iommi and whoever he wanted to be in his band at the time.<\/p>\n

Recently, I listened to my collection of post-Ozzy Sabbath albums.\u00a0 This is what I felt like after listening to them all:<\/p>\n

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\nNow this might sound kind of unfair to Mr. Iommi, because there are some fucking awesome songs on those 11 albums.\u00a0 But most of them aren’t so hot.<\/p>\n

And “Anno Mundi” is one of the songs I used to think was not so hot.\u00a0 When I first heard it, I thought it was kind of typical of the rest of that late 80s Sabbath mediocrity.\u00a0 The production, sadly, is.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0 all reverbed-the fuck right up.\u00a0 And that’s a shame, because it’s a damn fine song.<\/p>\n

The lyrics are even great, which took me a long time to realize too.\u00a0 I can’t seem to find the page now, but I read a snippet of an interview with either Toni Iommi or Toni Martin.\u00a0 And when asked about the meaning of this song, they said that it’s packed with meaning, and that most of the lines are questions without answers.\u00a0 And time is running out.<\/p>\n

So after a few listens… yeah.\u00a0 Heavy.\u00a0 Just way too fucking bad about that shitty 80s metal production sound. There needs to be some remixing on those 80s and 90s Sabbath albums.<\/p>\n

But that’s all I wanted to say.\u00a0 Sorry it’s not packed full of funny jokes or anything more interesting.\u00a0 I have the flu again, and I actually started writing this blog post last freaking week.\u00a0 Bleh.<\/p>\n

So here’s something funny and not in any way related to what I was just talking about:<\/p>\n

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\nHappy Valentine’s Day Sarah!\u00a0 I love you :-*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat. If you’re a fan of classic Sab, then no doubt you’re scratching your head and saying to yourself in an outlandish mock cockney accent “Oi sure don’t wumembah dis one, gubbnah!” And to that I say “of course not!\u00a0 You damned fool!\u00a0 Have you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,12],"tags":[80,293,85],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-song-of-the-day","tag-90s","tag-black-sabbath","tag-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}