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The Classic Rock Writers Top 20
Albums of The Year
Excerpt from Classic Rock, January 2001
8. Tony Iommi ‘Iommi’ (Virgin)
Three years in the making, ‘Iommi’ saw the legendary guitarist team up with a
host of contemporary (well, almost) rock stars in an attempt to flesh out the
bones of his songs with different vocalists offering a new spin on his dynamic
song writing skills.
Tradition held with Iommi opting to play to his strengths with a series of
towering riffs around which his respective foil could build a song. The results
were enigmatic and assured, vocalists either opting to ape their traditional day
job approach or branching out to experiment with the music they’d been given.
Results, and almost all were uniformly excellent, ran the range from not
untypical to anything but. Pantera’s Phil Anselmo sang with a grace and passion
few would have guessed he possessed on ‘Time Is Mine’ (one of three songs he
wrote for the album sessions). While Billy Corgan (‘Black Oblivion’) insisted on
chasing the heavily arranged Sabbath dream to its ultimate conclusion in an
eight minute long jam blow out.
Like the album itself, they were both unexpected and welcome.
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