Live Evil (live album)
by Black Sabbath

Live Evil by Black Sabbath
(Live album)
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 19,015th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 56 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1982 (275th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,528th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,015th)

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Black Sabbath bestography

Live Evil is ranked 17th 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 18,914.

Black Sabbath album bestography « Higher ranked (18,075th)
The Best Of Black Sabbath
This album (19,015th)
Live Evil
Lower ranked (20,127th) »
The Eternal Idol

(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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Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Jane's Addiction, STP, Black Sabbath Tributes - Riot & Chaos Tribute Fest
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Mistress of Reality: All Female Black Sabbath Tribute
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Live Evil track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Live Evil rankings

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Live Evil ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 56 votes)
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10/16/2025 08:22 platus  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,71074/100
 
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02/25/2025 04:07 dougcummings  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,02772/100
 
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09/14/2024 17:48 saltysurprise  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,76384/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.2/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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75/100
From 02/24/2019 16:47
Ronnie James Dio performs at least one league above Ozzy Osbourne and raises each and every of the classic tracks on a higher Level. Emotion and technique beats the original. Well, and Black Sabbath also have the songs from "Heaven & Hell" and "Mob Rules" in their catalogue, and they are much better than everything the heavy metal pioneers have composed in the seventies. Only the divine "Die Young" is terribly missing...
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I really wanted to like this album, but it just doesn't cut it. Dio is my favorite vocalist, but I have to admit, he doesn't deliver the Ozzy-era songs very well. Add to that some very poor production, and this one is a definite disappointment.
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From 12/22/2014 23:01
Quite a good live show with a rousing N.I.B. and Neon Knights. Contains all their other major hits too. It's worth a listen if you wanted a few more songs which weren't on 'Past Lives'.
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Best Albums of 1982
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2. The Dreaming by Kate Bush
3. The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
4. Pornography by The Cure
5. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
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