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"Master of Rehearsal"

scum stats: 100 copies "starburst" hand-pour, "limited" purple, 39 copies on accidental mispress yellow gold (this is what I grabbed), unlimited number on black...the label website seems to depict at least three other variants, but I don't know...

Featuring Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Angel Deradoorian formerly of Dirty Projectors and a couple other ne'er do wells, this coupling of two Black Sabbath covers lands on my lap approximately 50 years to the day of the release of the "Paranoid" album.

I only know that because NPR's Morning Edition did a piece about "Paranoid" this morning and it was refreshing, if just for once, to hear "War Pigs" first thing in the AM and NOT be the person responsible for playing it. Seriously...at least once a month, my drive to work, that shit powers me through.

A quote that really struck me from that piece came from Henry Rollins, remarking that there's not a lot of music on the "Paranoid" album...saying that there's a lot of space, that the songs have lots of breathing room. And I thought that was a really astute observation and one that's SO obvious, but probably not expressed often...if ever.

Anyways, the highest echelon of Sabbath songs are indestructible, you cannot fuck them up, and these two are of that caliber. Just bulletproof. Worth searching out if you're a fan of the originals or the participants on the covers. I prefer "Sweet Leaf" here, but "Fairies Wear Boots" is just as badass. Unflinchingly recommended.