Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy flac

Black Sabbath Vertigo Hard Rock Heavy Metal 1976

Genre:	Rock
Performer:	Black Sabbath
Title:	Technical Ecstasy
Style:	Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Date of release:	08 Oct 1976
Label:	Vertigo
Catalog Number:	9102 750
Country:	UK
FLAC album size:	1545 mb
MP3 album size:	1154 mb

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Tracklist

1	You Won't Change Me
2	It's Alright
3	All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
4	Rock 'N' Roll Doctor
5	She's Gone
6	Back Street Kids
7	Gypsy
8	Dirty Women

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
9102 750	Black Sabbath	Technical Ecstasy ‎(LP, Album)	Vertigo	9102 750	UK	1976
SMRCD037	Black Sabbath	Technical Ecstasy ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Sanctuary, Sanctuary Midline	SMRCD037	Europe	Unknown
2969-2	Black Sabbath	Technical Ecstasy ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Warner Bros. Records	2969-2	US	Unknown
CWX-2969	Black Sabbath	Technical Ecstasy ‎(Cass, Album, RE)	Warner Bros. Records	CWX-2969	Canada	Unknown
9124 100	Black Sabbath	Technical Ecstasy ‎(LP, Album)	Vertigo	9124 100	Singapore	1976

Credits

Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Conducted By] – Mike Lewis
Design [Robots] – George Hardie
Engineer – Robin Black
Engineer [Assisted By] – Spock Wall
Illustration [Robots Drawn By] – Colin Elgie
Keyboards, Arranged By [Additional Arrangements] – Gerald Woodruffe
Lacquer Cut By – MELYS
Mastered By – Bob Hata, Tony Iommi
Mixed By – Robin Black, Tony Iommi
Performer – Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi
Producer – Black Sabbath
Sleeve, Design – Hipgnosis
Vocals – Bill Ward (tracks: A3)
Written-By – Ward, Butler, Osbourne, Iommi
Written-By, Arranged By – Black Sabbath

Notes

Loose lyric sheet (in red and black) in album which also has cat no 9102 750 printed on it (see images).
The catalog no on the sleeve is 9102 750 BE, but on the records labels it is 9102 750 only.
The UK release has 'Marketed by Phonogram' on the back of the sleeve as well as on the loose lyric sheet and 'Printed in England by Robert Stace' at bottom right on the back of the sleeve.
℗ 1976.
© 1976 TRO-Essex Music International, Inc. ASCAP.
Special thanks to Mark Forster and Stan Diamond for all their help and advice.
Location (cover photo): Britannic House, courtesy of British Petroleum.different backside and on swirl label ???

Barcodes

Barcode: AA 9124100 2y 1 ℗ 1976 670 03

Rights Society: ASCAP
Other (Rear cover): BE
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 9102 750.1
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 9102 750.2
Matrix / Runout (A-side variant 1): 9102750 1 //5 IB
Matrix / Runout (B-side variant 1): 9102750 2 //6 IB
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped variant 2): 9102750 1Y//6 IB 1 2 8
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped variant 2): 9102750 2Y//6 IB 1 2 3
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped variant 3): 9102750 1Y//5 IB 12 4
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped variant 3): 9102750 2Y//5 IB 12 5
Matrix / Runout (Sides A+B runout etched, all variants): MELYS

Companies

Marketed By – Phonogram
Printed By – Robert Stace
Published By – Essex Music International Ltd.
Recorded At – Criteria Recording Studios
Mixed At – Criteria Recording Studios
Mastered At – Warner Bros. Recording Studios
Copyright (c) – Tro-Essex Music International, Inc.
Pressed By – Phonodisc Ltd.
Lacquer Cut At – I.B.C. Studios

Video

Zulkishicage

Is this a later issue than the UK release at the top of the page? Or were they put out at the same time? Is this considered a first pressing? Is one better sounding than the other? Lots of??????’s

Milleynti

A look at the cover doesn't tell us anything about the music. No rock nor Heavy Rock motives! Hipgnosis only transformed "Technical Ecstasy" into an image. A male robot and a female robot (what an idea!) on an escalator. One up, one down. Both heads are linked to each other with a - beam. Hipgnosis liked the idea of things without any known form or meaning in covers; like in Presence by Led Zeppelin. Do they fight? Do they beget? The answers not given."Technical Ecstasy" is absolutely not the best album by the heavy metal founders from Birmingham. Too many average rock songs like "Rock'n'Roll Doctor". Therefore I really like the 'popsongs' on this release. As there is to name "It's Alright" - sung by Bill Ward. A song that reminds me pretty much to the Beatles. Even the big tear-jerker "She's Gone" is a great ballad.But you can also find some strong rockers on this album from 1976. "Back Street Kids" is a song about the attitude being a rocker for lifetime. But my highlight is the scarcely progressive "Dirty Women" about a guy losing himself in the night. He's looking for a woman for a night. A woman to make him feel good. He finds 'take away women' are not the badest solution. A wonderful song about punters and their motives.All in all an album I don't want to miss.

Chinon

The sleeve of the UK release in my collection differs from the one shown in the image which appears with this release. The Vertigo logo appears at bottom right. Is this a variant or is the image shown with this release wrong? My LP also contains a lyric sheet which was not initially indicated with this release but which I have now added (with images). Did every LP of this release come with that lyric sheet or only the early editions?

Livina

Mine came with a lyric sheet but it is an early edition anyway.