{"id":424,"date":"2012-11-23T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:56:14","slug":"song-of-the-week-iron-man-by-black-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; by Black Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This week, &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; by Black Sabbath:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MII3ns2KTBc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t understand why people think (or rather, know) Black Sabbath is the greatest band ever, just listen to this performance of &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; from 1970. \u00a0Sabbath has awesome riffs. \u00a0Sabbath has awesome lyrics. \u00a0And you know what the awesomest thing about this song is? The whole band&#8211;bass, drums, guitar, vocals, the whole band!&#8211; is playing the same thing, in unison, pretty much all the way through; yeah, that&#8217;s right: just straight-up smashing your brains out with awesomeness and a couple kick-ass riffs for six minutes. \u00a0It&#8217;s so awesome I had to use ornate punctuation in the penultimate sentence of this post.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Iron%20Man%22%20by%20Black%20Sabbath\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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