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Live Evil | 
 enlarge | Artist: Black Sabbath
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 85539
Format: Enhanced, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 1
MPN: 23742
UPC: 759923742244
EAN: 0075992374224
ASIN: B000002KYF
Release Date: May 8, 1989
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Condition: Brand New. Factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | E5150 | | • | Neon Knights | | • | N.I.B. | | • | Children of the Sea | | • | Voodoo | | • | Black Sabbath | | • | War Pigs | | • | Iron Man |
Disc 2
| • | The Mob Rules | | • | Heaven and Hell | | • | Sign of the Southern Cross/Heaven and Hell (Cont.) | | • | Paranoid | | • | Children of the Grave | | • | Fluff |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 "There's a big black shape lookin' up at me..." October 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Here we go. This CD captures a great night out with the second incarnation of Black Sabbath. Taken from 1982's Mob Rules Tour, with singer Ronnie James Dio, this recording compiles a great set list of favorites taken from the short lived Dio era, covering the albums 'Mob Rules', and the immortal 'Heaven and Hell.' Of course, there are Ozzy tunes in the set, which leave us realizing that Ozzy's tunes are best left to Ozzy. But it does'nt take away from the greatness of the CD.
The recording is rough and raw, but keeps it sounding honest and genuine, and there are a couple of jewels in the set-- Dio's vocals on 'Children of the Sea,' are outstanding, and the extended version of 'Heaven and Hell' is truly anthemic and historic. This is a great dark dream back in time, and this CD brings you to that fateful night when 25,000 devil horns pounded defiantly towards the sky...
 I like Sabbath, I like Ozzy and I like Dio -- I don't like Dio doing Ozzy October 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dio's renditions of the classic Ozzy-era Sabbath Songs sounds wrong. His arching vocal style, which sounds fine on Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell just does not fit with hard rockin' tunes like Iron Man and Paranoid. Worse yet, on several songs he resorts to "talking" the lyrics like a bad Vegas act. I say skip it.
 Sabbath's first sanctioned live album is still one of the best live discs recorded July 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In December of 1982 (and a month later in January of 1983 in Europe), metal forefathers Black Sabbath released the double live album fittingly titled Live Evil.
During Black Sabbath's 1981/82 Mob Rules tour, the band recorded shows in hopes to release its first proper live album (the album Live at Last from 1980 was released as a cash in from one of their old British record labels and was recorded when Ozzy Osbourne was lead singer and was not sanctioned by the band). Live Evil, on the other hand, was sanctioned by Sabbath. However, this would be the last recorded work for a decade of the Tony Iommi/Geezer Butler/Ronnie James Dio/Vinny Appice lineup due to tensions brewing between Iommi/Butler and Dio.
We kick things off as the band walks on to the stage with "E5150" to set the mood. Next is a stellar version of "Neon Knights" which rocks very hard. We follow with "N.I.B." with Dio singing the song in a more sinister way than Ozzy did before or since. We follow with "Children of the Sea" which is as good, if not better than its studio counterpart. We follow on from there with a killer rendition of "Voodoo" which just burns.
Then the album's second quarter begins with the band's theme song "Black Sabbath" which starts with a haunting guitar intro by Iommi, who then busts loose into the famously slow, brooding riff with some manic drumming by Appice and a great rendition. Next is an excellent version of "War Pigs" complete with a superb Appice drum solo. The first disc ends with a haunting rendition of "Iron Man" which rocks as well.
The album's second disc kicks off with a rocking version of The Mob Rules' title cut which is as good, if not better than the studio counterpart. Next, we have a lengthy 12 minute version of "Heaven and Hell" which actually stretched out over two half sides of the original record as Iommi performs a lengthy guitar solo showing why he is metal's riff and solo master.
The last quarter starts with the medley of "The Sign Of The Southern Cross/Heaven and Hell (Reprise)" and is a very excellent readig of those two aforementioned tracks. We close the regular set with a fiery version of "Paranoid" with a final reprise of Heaven and Hell's riff before finishing majestically. The final encore was a killer "Children of the Grave" where Dio does a great job with the track. We end with the studio version of "Fluff" being played over the loudspeakers after the band has left the stage and fans are filing out of the arena.
Live Evil is still one of the best live rock records 25 plus years after its release and hit the US Top 40. Chart aside, it still holds up well (especially the remastered version on the new Rules of Hell box set).
RECOMMENDED!
A great piece of history March 30, 2008
Like it or not, Black Sabbath dropped Ozzy Osbourne from their line up and replaced him former Rainbow singer, Ronnie James Dio. They had 2 very successful studio albums and subsiquent live tours with Dio. They followed that with this live collection. Unfortunatly for me, I didn't see the band until this line up hit the road, so this is the Black Sabbath that I saw in concert. You can argue about whether the songs belong to Ozzy or Dio, but I am a fan of both. When it comes down to it, Dio is a much more technically strong vocalist, but then it is Ozzy's unique sound that adds to the Black Sabbath sound we all know and love.
It is easy to accept the Dio vocals on songs that came from "Heaven and Hell" and "The Mob Rules" albums, while you may cringe a lttle at his takes on some of the classics like "Paranoid", "Iron Man", "War Pigs" and the others, he does them the proper justice without tryig to replace Ozzy.
Meanwhile the technical instrumentation of Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler is every bit as strong as it ever was, or is for that matter today. Since this album came out, the runited original Sabbath unit has realeased a live album, "Reunion", which is by far a better Live album anyway, and I have seen the reunited group at Ozzfest. For that matter the band on this CD under the Heaven and Hell name have done a live recording of the Dio fronted songs "Live at Radio City Music Hall", that is better then this.
However, this remastered recording improves on the original vinyl release, and this is a very good, honest and powerful look at the band as it stood in those early years when the conflicts with Ozzy forced them into realingment, and well worth being included in a collection of anyone who appriciates the full history of Black Sabbath.
 Great, But Big Flaws March 24, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Fantastic material, but thanks to Tony Iommi's childish temper tantrum, it's the garbage recording and mixing of this album that ruin it.
Ronnie James Dio made no bones about what happened when he got booted from Sabbath. Tony Iommi and Dio were having arguments over the final mixing for this album. The obvious end result: Dio got the boot, his vocals were turned down and the guitar track for this live album is so over-cranked that it's totally insulting to the rest of the band. The guitar track is about all you can hear on this album, and goes a long way to ruining an otherwise fine performance.
As for the Dio vs. Ozzy argument: Ozzy couldn't sing his way out of a wet paper bag to save his life, and never could. It has ALWAYS taken him countless outtakes to get it right in the studio. Ozzy has never been able to sing live, he has always yelled like the drunk he's always been. There are MANY reasons why Ozzy got FIRED - I repeat, FIRED - from Sabbath. His vocals on the "Speak Of The Devil" album (of live sabbath material) were completely reworked in the studio. NEVER form the opinion that Ozzy has ever actually "sang" live, there is no video taped recording ever produced to prove it. There are, however, countless examples of footage on YouTube and file sharing networks that show he's never been able to sing live. Ever.
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