10 Terrible Songs By Perfect Rock Bands

10. Rock and Roll Doctor - Black Sabbath

No one is going to dispute Black Sabbath’s influence on the world of hard rock. Even if they never really identified with metal, the scary edge that they infused into their sound is what turned the genre into the giant everyone knows today, from Ozzy Osbourne’s bellowing voice to Tony Iommi’s terrifying riffs.

That was the early days of Paranoid, and the later Ozzy years get more than a little bit spotty. Although Ozzy usually has a lot of unkind words to say about his final album Never Say Die, Technical Ecstasy is where things really started to go haywire, with Rock and Roll Doctor being a contender for one of Sabbath’s corniest songs.

While the guitar work is still great (I mean, it’s Iommi), the lyrics are nowhere near the menacing stuff we expect from Sabbath, sounding like some parody of old school rock and roll. It also doesn’t help that Ozzy cannot sell this for the life of him, trying to play it straight but coming off like he doesn’t understand what he’s saying half the time. Sabbath might be one of the best hard rock bands in the world, but if Spinal Tap played this song, no one would have batted an eye.