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| | Black Sabbath : Reunion - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Though it was conceived as a mere cash-in for the long-awaited return of the original Black Sabbath, 1998's Reunion is as close to an official live album as the band has had in their historic 30-year career. |
 | | With this in mind, the band must be commended on the excellent quality of the recordings, which include their most enduring classics ("War Pigs," "Paranoid," "Iron Man"), as well as a few surprises ("Dirty Women," "Behind the Wall of Sleep"), and were culled from a series of concerts in their native Birmingham in December 1997. |
 | | The real key to this album, however, is the band's ability to avoid the most common pitfall of live recordings: speeding up the songs. |
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