- Turn Up the Night (3:42)
- Voodoo (4:32)
- The Sign of the Southern Cross (7:46)
- E5150 (2:54)
- The Mob Rules (3:14)
- Country Girl (4:02)
- Slipping Away (3:45)
- Falling off the Edge of the World (5:02)
- Over & Over (5:28)
- All songs written & arranged by Geezer Butler / Ronnie James Dio / Tony Iommi
- Lyrics by Ronnie James Dio
- Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar
- Geezer Butler - Bass
- Ronnie James Dio - Vocals
- Vinnie Appice - Drums
- Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards
- Produced & Engineered by Martin Birch
- Assistant Engineers: Eddie DeLena & Angelo Arcuri
- Recorded at the Record Plant, Los Angeles
- Cover Art by Greg Hildebrandt
LP Vertigo 6302 119 (UK 1981)
LP Vertigo 1144 119 (NL 1981)
MC Vertigo 7144 119 (UK 1981)
CD Vertigo 8307 777-2 (UK 1981)
CD Warner Bros 3605-2 (US 1981)
CD Essential/Castle ESMCD332 (UK - Feb 1996) - Remastered
- No known (to me, anyway) music videos for this album.
- E5150 and Mob Rules from this album also appear on the sountrack to the movie Heavy
Metal with a slightly different mix.
This was the
first Black Sabbath album I ever bought. Before this, I only owned one metal album, that
being AC/DC's Back in Black. I was thumbing through a Circus Magazine, and saw the cover
art for this album, which totally kicks ass. There was a remark in there about "See
Black Sabbath on tour at a venue near you" or something like that. I thought I'd
check out what kind of band would have cool cover art like that. The first Black Sabbath
song I ever listened to was "Turn Up the Night". I was totally blown away.
Unfortunately, Sabbath had just left Philadelphia (I was living there then), so I
had to wait until Born Again to see 'em for the first time. The week after this, I bought
Paranoid (totally at random), and I was hooked forever. I credit this album for getting me
into Black Sabbath.