130) Paranoid

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You think the massive idiot-box success of The Osbournes was a fluke? Try taking a time machine back to the early 1970s and telling rock critics they'll still be writing about Paranoid in 2003. But nearly every heavy-metal and extreme rock band of the last three decades -- from Metallica and Nirvana to Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and all of those acts lining up each year to play Ozzfest -- owes a debt of worship to Tony Iommi's crushing, granite-fuzz guitar chords, the Visigoth rhythm machine of Bill Ward and Geezer Butler, and Ozzy Osbourne's agonized bray in "Para-noid," "Iron Man" and "War Pigs."

Total album sales: 1 million

Peak chart position: 12

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