Mob Rules is the tenth studio album by Black Sabbath. It was recorded at Record Plant, Los Angeles, California and released on November 4, 1981.
Tracklist[]
All tracks are written by Tony Iommi, Ronnie James Dio, and Geezer Butler.
| Side One | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Turn Up the Night" | 3:42 |
| 2. | "Voodoo" | 4:32 |
| 3. | "The Sign of the Southern Cross" | 7:46 |
| 4. | "E5150" | 2:54 |
| 5. | "The Mob Rules" | 3:14 |
| Side Two | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 6. | "Country Girl" | 4:02 |
| 7. | "Slipping Away" | 3:45 |
| 8. | "Falling Off the Edge of the World" | 5:02 |
| 9. | "Over and Over" | 5:28 |
Total length: |
40:25 | |
2010 deluxe edition[]
Disc 2 is a repackaging of the previously released Limited Edition CD Live at Hammersmith Odeon.
| Disc one | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Turn Up the Night" | 3:42 |
| 2. | "Voodoo" | 4:32 |
| 3. | "The Sign of the Southern Cross" | 7:44 |
| 4. | "E5150" | 2:54 |
| 5. | "The Mob Rules" | 3:15 |
| 6. | "Country Girl" | 4:02 |
| 7. | "Slipping Away" | 3:42 |
| 8. | "Falling Off the Edge of the World" | 5:03 |
| 9. | "Over and Over" | 5:28 |
| 10. | "Die Young" (Live, 12" Single B-Side of Mob Rules) | 4:04 |
| 11. | "The Mob Rules" (Heavy Metal OMPS/ Original demo version) | 3:14 |
Total length: |
47:40 | |
| Disc two | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Recording date | Length |
| 1. | "E5150" | January 2, 1982 | 1:18 |
| 2. | "Neon Knights" (Dio, Iommi, Butler, Bill Ward) | January 2, 1982 | 4:37 |
| 3. | "N.I.B." (Ozzy Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | January 1, 1982 | 5:16 |
| 4. | "Children of the Sea" (Dio, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | January 1, 1982 | 6:07 |
| 5. | "Country Girl" | January 1, 1982 | 3:53 |
| 6. | "Black Sabbath" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | December 31, 1981 | 8:24 |
| 7. | "War Pigs" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | January 1, 1982 | 7:40 |
| 8. | "Slipping Away" | December 31, 1981 | 3:18 |
| 9. | "Iron Man" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | January 1, 1982 | 7:04 |
| 10. | "The Mob Rules" | December 31, 1981 | 3:35 |
| 11. | "Heaven and Hell" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | January 1, 1982 | 14:24 |
| 12. | "Paranoid" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | December 31, 1981 | 3:21 |
| 13. | "Voodoo" | January 2, 1982 | 5:45 |
| 14. | "Children of the Grave" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) | December 31, 1981 | 5:05 |
Total length: |
1:19:47 | ||
Personnel[]
- Ronnie James Dio: Vocals
- Tony Iommi: Guitar
- Geezer Butler: Bass
- Vinny Appice: Drums
Aditional musicians[]
- Geoff Nicholls: Keyboards
Production[]
- Martin Birch: producer and engineer
- Eddie DeLena and Angelo Arcuri: assistant engineers
- Ian Ferguson, Michael Howse, Les Martin, and Peter Resty: technicians
- Dan Hersch: remastered (2008 reissue)
- Greg Hildebrandt: cover illustration
- Richard Seireeni: art direction
References[]
| Black Sabbath studio albums | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Sabbath • Paranoid • Master of Reality • Vol. 4 • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath • Sabotage • Technical Ecstasy • Never Say Die! • Heaven and Hell • Mob Rules • Born Again • Seventh Star • The Eternal Idol • Headless Cross • Tyr • Dehumanizer • Cross Purposes • Forbidden • 13 | |||