Live Evil
by Black Sabbath
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Black Sabbath bestography
Live Evil is ranked 16th best out of 49 albums by Black Sabbath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Black Sabbath is Paranoid which is ranked number 46 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,369.
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Live Evil track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Live Evil rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | svk4ever | Top 50 Music Albums of 1982 | 39/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 81 Music Albums of 1982 | 49/81 | 2 |
| 2026 | svk4ever | Live Killers (1980s) | 53/75 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Brum Rocks | 42/94 | - |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 94 Music Albums of the 1980s | 37/94 | 12 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 54 Music Albums of 1982 | 35/54 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Black Sabbath related albums ranked | 15/20 | - |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Black Sabbath albums ranked best to worst by Classic Rock | 16/24 | - |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 94/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 31 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 52 | |||
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Live Evil ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/10/2026 12:37 | Artem | 872 | 77/100 |
| ! | 02/07/2026 08:14 | PurplePiePete | 1,846 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/16/2025 08:22 | platus | 5,900 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.5/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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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...
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/15/2016 17:02 | #180239
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.
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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