Ozzy Osbourne music discussion

[Don Gately]

We all know about Ozzy's TV shenanigans , his wife and kids and bat heads nonsense but can we squint past the embarrassing side of all that and have a discussion about Ozzy's albums.
For me his first two are metal classics yet its Bark at the moon I return to the most now. I've also a soft spot for the Ultimate Sin. Tribute is fantastic.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tribute is fantastic.

Oh the irony! 

[Bürggermeister]

The first two are 100% classics, without question. I think the Jake albums are patchy. Some bangers but some duds too. I've a lot of time for No Rest... I think it's really good. No More Tears misses Daisley's lyrics. Ozzmosis is where me and Ozz part ways. It's ok every few years. Everything after is utter shite.

[The Great Cull]

First 2, Ultimate Sin and No More Tears with a few tracks from Ozzmosis.

Seeing just how flat Maynard Keenan was at the recent rock hall thjng while doing Crazy Train shows just how charismatic Ozzys voice is/was.

[Ducky]

Sure the music has been just as laughable as the TV shows for around three decades now.

First two are obvious classics, but that's got fuck all to do with Ozzy Osbourne.

[Carnage]

Bar the odd song here and there I never thought much of his solo stuff. I could probably go through his discography and put together a CD's worth of listenable tracks.

[Sworntothecans]

Love the Bark At The Moon to No More Tears run of albums.
Ozzmosis has a few decent songs but it was truly a case of his missus flogging the dead horse (and fucking over the classic lineups) for the last 30 years.

[Anvil]

Blizzard of Ozz is definitely one of my all time favourite albums. I do like Dairy and No Rest plus a few songs of Ozzmosis.  Tribute is great as well. Anything I have owned I have sold one as it did nothing for me. 

[Anvil]

Blizzard of Ozz is definitely one of my all time favourite albums. I do like Dairy and No Rest plus a few songs of Ozzmosis.  Tribute is great as well. Anything else I have owned I have sold on as they did nothing for me.

[The Heretic]

50/50

Up to and including "No More Tears" = Some really good stuff across the board
Everything after "No More Tears" = Fairly shite

[Polaris]

The only album of his I fully and totally connected with was Bark at the Moon, which was the first I heard. I love them American string sections in particular, e.g. on Spiders. Everything else, which I'm not super familiar with, I found patchy enough that I never went back. I think the problem with his solo work, especially as it went on, was that it always felt like a manufactured band, which, of course, it was.

[The Great Cull]

Saw a recent interview with Alex Scolnick that he lost a spot in Ozzys band because he played his guitar up too high. Sharon didn't like that he didn't look like Zakk!

[Polaris]

Just remembered: Rob Halford did a cool little homage to Ozzy on Invincible Shield. He even had the rhyming really shitty n' all. 

[The Great Cull]

What do you mean shitty rhyming? Nothing on this earth rhymes as closely with "Masses" as "Masses" does 

[Jward]

The 1st Ozzy album I taped off a buddy was the Randy Rhoads Tribute
I had heard a handful of Sabbath songs by that stage – Paranoid, Iron Man, something else

Tribute was incredible

Then got hold of Speak of the Devil
That was my 1st intro to Sabbath (besides the early hits)

2 completely different styles
I couldn't get over how a singer, even though in 2 different bands, could sound so different! (oh the innocence. I was 15)

I was drawn to both of them naturally enough!


My favourite Ozzy would be, in no order:
Blizzard / Diary / Bark (atm Bark would edge the other 2, slightly; it was Diary for a good few years; I've overplayed Blizzard - need a break!)

Then No More / Ultimate / No Rest (Ultimate might edge the other 2)

Never bothered with the rest of it

I will eventually 😊