Black Sabbath – Sabotage

Did every vinyl release of Sabotage include the seminal hidden track, "Blow On a Jug?"

I have been listening to this album for 40+ years on vinyl and just purchased the CD, which to my surprise has The Writ as track 7 and Am I Going Insane following it as track 8. Feels out of place. I always liked how they started The Writ during the fade out of AIGI.

Hi !
Sabotage super deluxe box out on June 11 2021 !

Hi guys, I am old enough to recall this when it was first released, I was 12 and just started at Grammar School and getting into heavy and prog music. I heard Hole in the sky and Symptom of the Universe and I had never heard such amazingly powerful emotional music ever before! Sure I had already got albums by Purple, Quo, Nazareth, Wings and so on but this was on another planet.
I recall Sounds the music paper carrying an advert for it and my best mate's sister playing it during its first week of release alongside The Who by Numbers if I recall correctly. My mother would not let me buy it for a long while. She was a lay vicar and the thought of her son owning anything with the name "BLACK SABBATH" on it was horrific for her. She had many talks with the vicar about it !!!
This was the mid 70s folks and it was quite different to today's liberal attitudes, it was still a very religious country here in the northern half of the U.K..
Anyway wait until she heard that I wanted the previous record, she went mental hahaha ?!?! All true I'm afraid.
Come 1978 I saw Sabbath live touring Never Say Die, a poor album imo at St George's Hall in Bradford. The act was an unheard band called .......... yes you've guessed it Van Halen !!!! What a frigging gig that was. VH were awesome as they played most of that amazing debut album, could it get any better ?
Well they only came out playing that huge thrash riff of Symptom of the Universe and Ozzy at stage right carrying a huge cross !!! WTF yes it was one of those nights for a 15 year old rock music fan. Total heaven. Couldn't hear a thing at school the next day but so what !?!?
Paying the price now though with tinnitus in both ears and my high frequency hearing virtually gone!! Saw Motorhead a few times too.
So if anyone should ask you whether Sabotage is worth buying, you know the answer ? A big frigging yes. I even played Supertzar in my school assembly using it as backing to a talk on nuclear war, followed by War Pigs. The heistress was quivering when we'd finished the talk.
Good times indeed folks. BC = before covid
Hope you enjoyed my little nostalgic tale?

I have read so many reviews about this album being the begining of the end for Sabbath and I can not understand why? This to me is Sabbaths best record, its more complex than previous released and with songs like Symptoms of the Universe, in my opinion probably the first thrash metal song ever made, Hole in The Sky, Megalomania, Thrill of it All, the Writ. This album is fantastic. To me this and Vol. 4 were their best released. Now I am not saying that the first 3 releases weren't great either but these were the best in my opinion. I never liked Sabbath Bloody Sabbath though. The song is legendary but none of the other tracks caught my attention.

Hey. absolutely agree with you. about sabotage. all are good. but sabotage. my emotions went wild. and not the best. but it doesn’t matter. the main thing is emotions. But music for emotions

I’m a fan of Saturday, in my opinion SABOTAGE is Sabbath the best Album and one of the best albums in rock history, of course Paranoid, bloody, Heaven and Hell are brilliant albums, like all Sabbath albums, but SABOTAGE is an incredible ALBUM, I can’t imagine how to compose such music is a masterpiece is the best music I've ever heard in my sixty. They are geniuses

My matrix/runout is Side 1: 9119001 1Y//2 ST 11 12 STERLING and Side B: 9119001 2Y//2 ST 11 22 STERLING! Is it safe to assume this first uk press?? The matrix are not listed..another variant?? Can someone confirm!!

This LP list - were is the sound are - a perfect !!!! : Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Warner Bros. Records BS 2822 US 1975, Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo 6366 115 1975, Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Warner Bros. Records BS 2822 Canada 1975,Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) NEMS 9119 001 UK 1975, Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo 6366 115 A Italy 1975, Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo 6366 115 1975, Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo 6366 115 Australia 1975 , Sabotage ‎(LP, Album, Club) Vertigo 64.359 Austria 1975 , Sabotage ‎(LP, Album, Promo) Vertigo, Vertigo RJ-7043, 6366 115 Japan 1975 , Sabotage ‎(LP, Album) Vertigo 6366 115 Scandinavia 1975 ,

I don `t know what happened with the master tape but I can say with 100% certainty what was released in Europe to America and Canada and Australia and Japan - but only in 1975 !!!! is the true sound of this album here is very good cymbals sound especially in the American and Canadian editions (Warner Lab-Alley), What was published in 1980 and later sounds disgusting (cream Warner) and NEMS in europpe except for England — it sounds acceptable but it has poor and light vinyl and very narrow and not muddy paths - saving in 1980 was an economy crisis, all subsequent editions - 1980 and on - rubbish, because the master tape got rid of the first thing that disappears is the high frequency - there are no cymbals, there is no sound transparency, something is pulled out of the CDs only on the black box, so forget about 180 g Remasters - take care of your ears - they are worthy of the first edition - 1975, In my opinion - three greatest albums - paranoid, sabotage and heaven and hell they are gorgeous - this is the pinnacle of heavy music where there is a melody and a heavy sound that is not in the metal ,,, ,,,, they call the Beatles of Heavy Rock - this is true