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Cover of black sabbath changes2/14/2024 ![]() While the song “Changes” is clearly about losing someone dear, a lover originally, and now arguably a friend in Randy Rhoads, that does not matter too much to me. ![]() ![]() Unlike “Sabbra Cadabra,” there is some depth in “Changes,” at least emotions more complicated than lustful/loving joy. That moment, as unimportant as it was for me, is permanently imprinted on my memory and whenever I hear “Changes” now, I think of that conversation, that girl, and my friend. In fact my ignorance of Black Sabbath really was something to be ashamed of. I did not want to admit it at the time, but I had never heard the song “Changes” before then. My friend was right about himself too, he was going through changes. It is true that for the longest time the only version of “Changes,” you heard on the radio was a live version of Ozzy performing in memory of Randy Rhoads. The history of the song “Changes,” was true, the song experienced a huge resurgence of popularity after the death of Randy Rhoads. My friend was right about everything he said. My friend too had lost someone close to him, and he too was going through changes. Ozzy lost his guitarist and best friend when Randy died, and it seemed so appropriate to sing “Changes,” since after all that was what Ozzy was going through. He told me about how Ozzy sang it in tribute to Randy Rhoads after he died. The metaphor of his choice was a song, Black Sabbath – “Changes.” He told me about how Ozzy Osbourne’s live version of the song is the much more popular version and how that live version got a lot more radio play than the original studio version. The night did not seem unique at the time, we treated it like any other, but there was one thing my friend said that stood out to me.Īs if to sum up the evening’s purpose my friend gave me a quick synopsis of his situation. That something was beer, that someone was me. This was the night that my friend's first love had left him, and he wanted something to distract him and someone to talk to. I believe the year was 2003 I got a phone call from my friend who was looking for someone to drink with. Songs can take on radical new meanings if they come into your life at unique times, and speaking of Black Sabbath whenever I hear “Changes,” I think about a very specific moment in time. Up until a then I only possessed two Black Sabbath CDs, the self titled “Black Sabbath,” and “Paranoid,” I have since rectified that situation by purchasing “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” and “Black Sabbath Volume 4.” It is a wonderful thing that after so many years I can still look deeper into bands I have known for years and learn so much more about them. Here’s a clip of me performing “changes” by black sabbath with the video quality of a snuff film few months back that Craig Kemery told me to dig deeper into Black Sabbath. Below, watch the video and listen to the Sabbath original. It’s the sort of short video that makes you really, really want to hear a longer version. In the clip, which comes from a live performance, Nika Roza Danilova sings the song unaccompanied, while playing piano, and she puts every bit of her monster voice into that chorus. The clip is only a minute long, but it is worth your minute. Yesterday, Zola Jesus shared a stark, flickering black-and-white clip - which she says has “the video quality of a snuff film” - on Twitter. If “Changes” stands as a landmark moment for a heavy band showing vulnerability, Zola Jesus has spent a whole career combining heaviness with vulnerability, proving that the two belong together. And now Zola Jesus has put her own spin on it. Eminem sampled “Changes” on his 2018 track “ Going Through Changes,” and the late soul singer Charles Bradley memorably covered “Changes” in 2015. Drummer Bill Ward wrote the song about bassist Geezer Butler’s divorce, and it’s proven to be one of Sabbath’s most enduring songs, while also being one of their least characteristic. Over an echoing mellotron and a florid piano, Ozzy Osbourne sang about a soul-shattering breakup. 4, the metal inventors briefly halted their bottomless doom-crunch for a moment of tender, fragile beauty. “Changes” represented a drastic change for Black Sabbath.
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