i used to skate my ramp to a lot of black sabbath.... whenever -changes- came on there would be a sort of lull in the session, or as soon as it came on an uncomfortable silence. i got pretty good at launching a skateboard wheel from the top of the ramp into the front of the CD player and making it skip a song or two.... sometimes hitting the eject button that opened the cd drawer and spit out the CD, this was extra funny because my CD player looked like a face and where the disc went was the mouth. So it was kind of like the Ramps CD player was saying "yuck" to Changes and brought on a good laugh.
Many times when Sabbath's changes came on and i was alone i'd listen to it the whole way through. As a teen it was relevant, after any breakup it was relevant, i mean shit we're changing everyday. Sometimes my mind would wander thinking about if any trannys were listening to it, pre op, post op.... what have you. Imagine that man.... or woman.... or man/woman, woman/man. Oh man. But really it's a simple love song about a man losing a woman, which there are millions of. But there is something more significant about this one because it's Black Sabbaths break up song. Ozzy's tossed brain salad saying he so sad that he can't stop crying. What a pussy. But me too right. Crying on my Mom's front steps after getting dumped for the first time almost dry heaving from sadness. What a pussy. Here's to being a giant pussy, getting dumped, crying, and going though "changes".
this guy absolutely kills this song. amazing job.
I've always had a similar relationship with "Changes". I always had the opinion that Volume 4 was perfect with the exception of "changes" when in reality its probably perfect because of it. I mean that and "Wheels of confusion" "supernaut" "snowblind" and "st vitus dance" are all fucking rippers.
ReplyDeleteSpring Fever strikes! pussys and cocks, stigma and stamen, changes, ever changes... Charles dun got it... being a pussy is highly underrated in this day and age... that samba breakdown in Supernaught...pow! onwards, backwards & sidewards.
ReplyDeleteMr. Bradley is a truly amazing performer...he's playing the Fillmore on May 17th! Double date!!
ReplyDeleteMight be a little "TMI" but I just heard this track today. At first I saw the album title and scoffed and thought to myself, Damn You Charles and then Damn You Backing Band... Changes WTF!? But then I let it play and in the second verse I teared up, literally split out the back of the shop and sat down to text Noelle to let her know I Loved Her.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Iron Man will always suck...
Just saw this guy at Treefort Festival here in Boise. So nuts!
ReplyDeletehe's playing the night before my bday & just got tickets . you should join in .
ReplyDeleteCharles flipped this track and made it about the death of his mother and made a supremely moving, soulful rendition. If you've ever seen Charles Bradley live you know how much his mother meant to him. Thanks to Ozzie and to Charles, two larger than life singers, and a beautiful song.
ReplyDeleteBlack Sabbath everyday
ReplyDeleteBlack Sabbath everyday
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