Vinyl Album - Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality - Vertigo

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Black Sabbath
Title:	Master Of Reality
Label:	Vertigo
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	6360 050
Date:	6 Aug 1971
Format:	LP
Genre:	Hard Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	36 Own, 4 Want
Price Guide:	$516
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PRICE GUIDE

$516

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Black Sabbath	Sweet Leaf	Iommi, Ward, Butler, Osbourne	8.6 Rate
A2	Black Sabbath	After Forever	Iommi	8.8 Rate
A3	Black Sabbath	Embryo	Iommi	6.3 Rate
A4	Black Sabbath	Children Of The Grave	Iommi, Ward, Butler, Osbourne	9.0 Rate
B1	Black Sabbath	Orchid	Iommi	6.7 Rate
B2	Black Sabbath	Lord Of This World	Iommi, Ward, Osbourne, Butler	8.7 Rate
B3	Black Sabbath	Solitude	Iommi, Ward, Osbourne, Butler	7.5 Rate
B4	Black Sabbath	Into The Void	Iommi, Ward, Osbourne, Butler	9.5 Rate

Notes

Originally issued in a box like sleeve and with a free poster.
UK Chart Entry: 21 Aug 1971
Highest Position: 5
Total Weeks on Chart: 13
The label is unique in the swirl era in not being white with black text.
No composing credits on the swirl label but present on the spaceship label.
Produced by Rodger Bain.

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Comments and Reviews


Fokeman ● 3rd Mar 2020		The price given is a) opinion and b) predicated on the presence of a poster which in 95% of cases is a repro added to the package in order to bump up the price by about 300%.



Hawkmarty SUBS 10th Dec 2017		Two and a half years later, Record Collector has finally "cleared up" the mess regarding the Sweet Life sleeves by, I suspect, taking a look at this site.



Quad5point1 SUBS 21st Apr 2016		Added July 1971 NME Cutting showing the release date as 6th August 1971 Mod Edit: date fixed.



Hawkmarty SUBS 2nd Jun 2015		June 2015 Record Collector says that early copies of this (possibly review copies) had the track Sweet Leaf listed on the cover as Sweet Life and that they are worth £750. As I point out here it was the last of the Vertigo box sleeves and the early WWA single sleeves that had that misprint. If anyone wants to give me £750 for every WWA issue I can find I'll be a happy man.



robozuc 22nd Nov 2014		Poster and laminated box sleeve details added.



Fokeman ● 25th Jan 2014		Yes Hawkmarty, I think people swapped them over without realising that they actually only belonged to the one LP.



Hawkmarty SUBS 25th Jan 2014		I think you might be right fokeman.I have seen the reverse inner sleeve in other sleeves but they could be either using up spares or transplants.



Fokeman ● 25th Jan 2014		To follow the notes about white on black rather than black on white. They also inverted the colours on the swirl inner sleeve so it was white on black background for the swirl. I think it was only on this album that they did this!



Hawkmarty SUBS 28th Sep 2013		I found it very hard reading. I couldn't really relate to the culture of medicating and institutionalising kids if they step out of the norm coupled with the self-absorbtion and self-analysis. I appreciated the hope/strength the music gave the writer but it was all very bleak.



Auto_Da_Fe 27th Sep 2013		This album is the subject of my very favourite in the excellent 33 1/3 series of books.



Hawkmarty SUBS 27th Sep 2013		More details: Little to report for this one. There may be two different sizes of poster which may or may not be connected to the fact that some of the spaceship label issue, also issued in the box sleeve, also had the poster.



kab2112 SUBS 4th Sep 2013		Cover & label scans uploaded