Never Say Die!
by Black Sabbath
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Never Say Die! is ranked 15th best out of 47 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,773.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 5 days ago | Adhura | 1,308 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2025 02:00 | FrancK | 490 | 83/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 14:05 | platus | 5,804 | 74/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 08:19 | steve397 | 462 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/16/2025 21:54 | Ilor | 251 | 77/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.0/100, a mean average of 64.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Junior's Eyes, Shockwave, and the title track are the best songs. The rest isn't bad, but just not that interesting. Everything here could have benefited from some editing as well. 5-7 minute songs are fine if the songs are great, but when they are just mediocre then they feel like a drag. I've heard worse, and I've heard better. For me, this album is just, meh?
Jboy56 10/31/2023 10:19 | #299709
Not a required listen.
poppmusic 03/06/2021 18:28 | #267026
Big improvement over Technical Ecstasy, it feels like their interest in making innovative metal music has returned. Of course, in various ways some of the songs fail slightly to majorly (the final track) to make that high standard, but this is still a fun listen because there's a lot to discover.
If it wasn't a Black Sabbath album some of the tracks may be considered decent. However when it closes out an era of the band that included those first 6 albums it does not come close to meeting expectations. There is no classic Sabbath song here. It was clearly time for them to part ways with Ozzy as was proven by the new success each had following this release. I would probably only give it a listen while doing a marathon of all the Sabbath albums. Otherwise it is nonessential.
UofTBlues 12/18/2019 19:18 | #245789
The album starts off fine w/ title track however the band doesn't seem enthusiastic. Ozzy's drug/alcohol abuse was now taking it's toll on the band.
I know that this album was always considered by many to be Black Sabbath on the downward slope but personally I don't hear that. I like the slightly less heavy more melodic arrangements and the permanent keyboard addition with some great piano work from Don Airey on 'Air Dance' and I love it when it almost breaks into jazz. I can understand how hardcore Sabbath fans struggled with this but for me it is a definite like. A saxophone even puts In an appearance!
Goliath 04/02/2018 14:43 | #212170
There are 5 good tracks on this album, the first 4 plus the over-looked Air Dance.
Fischman 12/15/2016 16:37 | #180227
You can tell the group was starting to really come apart on this one. Neither the songwriting nor the presentation are up to the standards of the previous seven albums. A good album overall, but not so good by Sabbath standards.
DanielNunes93 03/15/2016 23:19 | #161997
It is a good rock album , but in the world of Black Sabbath is a little disappointment.
Anyway, "Junior's Eyes" is a great song.
The remastering did the album good. I bought this record in the very early eighties and the sound never excited me. The drums always sounded horrible. They sound much better now.
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