Solitude (track)
by Black Sabbath
Solitude appears on the following album(s) by Black Sabbath:
- Master Of Reality (track #7) (this album) (1971)
- Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978) (track #23) (compilation) (2004)
- The Ten Year War (track #22) (compilation) (2017)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/04/2025 16:52 | Exist-en-ciel | 57,424 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2025 13:39 |  II | 4,089 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2025 17:55 | FlapJackJoey | 1,064 | 89/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2025 19:08 | steve397 | 4,976 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/19/2025 14:11 | stareaterogni0n | 2,952 | 72/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.2/100, a mean average of 82.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.1.
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AAL2014 05/14/2023 03:21 | #296934
Sabbath never gets enough credit for how good they were at making this type of track. The recording of Iommi’s guitar sounds so amazing with the reverb added to it, not to mention Geezer’s bass. Superb.
Solitude is the perfect calm before the storm of Into The Void and it provides some great structure to the back half of Master of Reality.
teague 07/07/2020 00:22 | #255141
One of those songs that completely and perfectly encapsulates a feeling: loneliness.
Goliath 10/02/2019 08:36 | #243300
Greatly under-rated very atmospheric track.
Lovely Bass line. Great vocals (they sound a little different) and great but very minimal arrangements.
Grouse 07/29/2018 12:54 | #218927
What an underrated track. This song is just so slow and great. Really reminds me of Planet Caravan, more people should hear this song!
Jasonconfused 12/31/2012 23:14 | #59647
Softest Ozzy vocals I've ever heard. So great! He should do a whole album like this.
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