10 Rock Albums That Artists Want You To Forget About

10. Technical Ecstasy - Black Sabbath

There's always a certain subsect of Black Sabbath fans who seem partial to a particular singer. Even though most of the records end up sounding heavy as hell thanks to Tony Iommi's fantastic guitar riffs, many prefer the time spent with Ozzy Osbourne as the almighty classic period of heavy metal music. Then again, even Ozzy can admit that not everything was at full capacity all the time.

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Coming off of Sabotage, it seemed that the experimentation had started to get a little too out of hand on Technical Ecstasy. With Ozzy threatening to leave the group at the time and every other member getting stoned out of their mind on cocaine, Technical Ecstasy remains one of the more forgettable releases in Sabbath's early days. Though there are some songs like Dirty Women which have held up, even the Prince of Darkness prefers that the this one stay in the past.

Calling himself and his bandmates out for not keeping their eye on the big picture, Ozzy has dismissed the album as only being memorable for the cover itself, which he described as two robots screwing on an escalator. While any band has a right to experiment with their sound from time to time, this delve into artsy territory proved to be a step in the wrong direction for most of the Sabbath camp.

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