BLACK SABBATH – Newcastle 1982 (2CD)

Newcastle Audience 8.7 – A fairly bombastic recording that insists you pay attention to it. Thundering, massive, and thankfully listenable. It’s not winning any awards for clarity, but it makes up for a lot of that with a representative recording of what you probably heard from the front row at this show. That leads me to say that while you would think there should be distortion, you can’t really tell, but yes there just a bit of saturation deep in the bowels somewhere but I don’t find it disturbing because it’s low enough that you don’t focus too much there.
London Audience 8.6 – Dropping down one notch here, but there actually might be more mid-upper mid clarity with this recording. I think overall, this recording is a little less forceful, and there is no distortion at all on this. My ears rate this slightly below the Newcastle not because it is inferior quality, but because it is not quite as ballsy, and the trade-off is you have to give up a but of the balls in order to achieve more clarity, but sometimes ballsy is not a bad thing if it isn’t too muddy.

Black Sabbath
Newcastle City Hall
Newcastle, UK
1982-01-06

Disc 1

101 Introduction – E5150
102 Neon Knights
103 N.I.B.
104 Children Of The Sea
105 Country Girl
106 Black Sabbath
107 War Pigs
108 Slipping Away
109 Vinnie Appice Drum Solo
110 Iron Man

Disc 2

201 The Mob Rules
202 Heaven And Hell
203 Paranoid – Heaven And Hell (Reprise)
204 Children Of The Grave

Hammersmith Odeon
London, UK
1982-01-03

205 Introduction – E5150
206 Neon Knights
207 Country Girl
208 Slipping Away
209 The Mob Rules