Here you can check two different pressings of Black Sabbath’s sophomore album from 1970, “Paranoid”. Both reissues made in the US, the first one released in 2006 and mastered by Kevin Gray, and the second one released ten years later on blue vinyl with Sean Magee’s mastering work.

The opening cut of the album is the one chosen for this comparison. Just called “War Pigs” on the British version of the LP, but the track was considered too long in the US and that’s why the instrumental coda of the song received its own name, “Luke’s Wall”, on the US version of “Paranoid”.

You can click on the following time marks to quickly jump between pressings:

(00:00) Video intro

– (00:42) 2006 US reissue 01
– (01:35) 2006 US reissue 02
– (02:29) 2006 US reissue 03
– (02:50) 2006 US reissue 04
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– (05:13) 2006 US reissue 09
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– (06:27) 2006 US reissue 11
– (06:51) 2006 US reissue 12
– (07:18) 2006 US reissue 13
– (08:01) 2006 US reissue 14
– (08:22) 2006 US reissue 15

– (08:46) 2016 US reissue 01
– (09:39) 2016 US reissue 02
– (10:33) 2016 US reissue 03
– (10:54) 2016 US reissue 04
– (11:25) 2016 US reissue 05
– (11:57) 2016 US reissue 06
– (12:17) 2016 US reissue 07
– (12:57) 2016 US reissue 08
– (13:16) 2016 US reissue 09
– (14:09) 2016 US reissue 10
– (14:30) 2016 US reissue 11
– (14:54) 2016 US reissue 12
– (15:21) 2016 US reissue 13
– (16:04) 2016 US reissue 14
– (16:25) 2016 US reissue 15

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