Summary: Heavy metal band Black Sabbath had the number one album in the country last week with their new release, called 13. But before today, singer-songwriter and guest host Erin McKeown had never heard Black Sabbath. "I grew up in a pop culture hole," McKeown says. "Anything before 1996 I didn't hear. So first it was out of ignorance that I never heard Black Sabbath. Now it's out of will!" Time Out New York music editor and so-called "Sabbathologist" Steve Smith gets McKeown up to speed. McKeown on the song "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath from the 1970 record Black Sabbath: Honestly, listening to it, I'm surprised by how much space there is. When I expect heavy metal I think of [riffs] that never stop. McKeown on "Iron Man" from 1970 album Paranoid: My impression of that is of a thousand young men in their basements practicing that drum entry. And certainly, in all of the guitar shops I've been to in my lifetime I've heard that guitar riff before. This is one of those songs that's in the pop culture air...
