Songs I'd Forgotten Existed, Let Alone Loved (An Occasional Series): Special "You Should Hear His Older Brother Covering Black Sabbath" Edition

Our good friend and proprietor of the invaluable Burning Wood blog Sal Nunziato linked to this the other day and I just couldn't resist putting it up over here.

I mean, my god -- this is freaking great.

I actually had a copy of the album that's from back in the day; I don't remember anything else from it (although a look at the track listing, which includes a lot of other potentially interesting covers, has intrigued me). But I vividly recall playing the shit out of the above at top volume (under heaphones, obviously) at my office at Stereo Review. And thinking then -- as I still do now -- that it may actually improve on The Who's original.

BTW, I should add that the credits on that are Shaun singing lead and Todd Rundgren and the members of Utopia doing everything else.

The bottom line -- power pop heaven.

And thank you, Sal!!! 😎