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The character Tony Stark, alter-ego of Iron Man, also wears a Black Sabbath t-shirt in the 2012 film The Avengers. The song won spot number 317 in Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time as of 2004, and number 7 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" list in March 2023.
Paranoid 's chart success allowed the band to tour the US for the first time in October 1970, which spawned the release of the album's second single "Iron Man". Although it failed to reach the top 40, "Iron Man" remains one of Black Sabbath's most popular songs, as well as the band's highest charting US single. [30]
Melissa Auf der Maur, known for her work with Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, was the leader of a Black Sabbath cover band named after this song. [2]The song was used in a scene in the fourteenth episode of the first season of Elementary, originally aired on February 3, 2013.
'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath ... The band's second album, named for the speedily written song, also includes "Iron Man" and "War Pigs," each with lyrics renowned for their rich symbolism.
Cancer Bats covered Iron Man on their EP "Bat Sabbath Bastard of Reality". Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'Rautamies'. Electroclash group Add N To (X) performed a cover version as the B side of their 7-inch single "Revenge Of The Black Regent".
The album reached number eleven on the Billboard 200, [40] went platinum in the U.S. [44] and spawned the single "Iron Man", which won Sabbath their first Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Metal Performance, 30 years after the song was originally released.
1. “Spooky” By Lydia Lunch. We think you’ll agree that Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks gives Dusty Springfield’s classic a considerably spookier edge.
(sung to tune of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, except the last ten notes on the prominent guitar riff are replaced with five notes from Jingle Bells.) [5] A music video was made for the title track, in which Rivers, playing a father of two, inexplicably transforms into a heavy-metal Santa Claus riding in a reindeer-pulled limousine on Christmas Eve.