Mexicola wrote:
12" vinyl. Delivered. £6.19.
Used to own this on cassette years ago.
Cool! I didn't really expect anyone here listening to them. I LOVE Black Sabbath, especially their song Planet Caravan. It's probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard.
I have their debut album on vinyl. I love the cover art and the poem inside the gatefold sleeve:
Still falls the rain,the veils of darkness shroud
the blackened trees,
which, contorted by some unseen violence,shed
their tired leaves,
and bend their boughs toward a gray earth of
severed bird wings.
Among the grasses, poppies bleed before a
gesticulating death,
and young rabbits, born dead in traps,stand
motionless,
as though guarding the silence that surrounds and
threatens to engulf
all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of
repeating yesterdays
terrors,huddle together in the recesses of dark corners,
heads turned from the dead, black swan
that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow.
There emerges from this pool a faint,sensual mist,that traces
its way upwards to caress the feet of the
headless martyr's statue whose only achievement was to die
too soon,and who couldn't wait to loose.
The cataract of darkness forms fully,the long black night begins,
yet still by the lake a young girl waits.
Unseeing she believes herself unseen,
she smiles faintly at the distant tolling bell,
and the still falling rain.
