Rock, Metal

Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer (2014)

2014-03-05T16:50:26Z

Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer (2014)


01.You Won't Change Me (06:30)
02.See You On The Other Side (06:04)
03.You're No Different (04:59)
04.She's Gone (04:56)
05.Goodbye To Romance (05:32)
06.Mama, I'm Coming Home (04:15)
07.I Just Want You (04:06)
08.Time After Time (04:22)
09.Old L.A. Tonight (04:49)
10.Ghost Behind My Eyes (05:13)
11.Road To Nowhere (05:10)
12.So Tired (04:00)
13.Killer Of Giants (05:45)
14.Changes (04:43)
15.Dreamer (04:49)

Rounding out an otherwise endless stream of hypnotic modern groove metal on “Down To Earth” is this one little ballad caprice “Dreamer”, a modern acoustic take on John Lennon’s gooey idealism, but with a little less of an overt leftwing propaganda message. The music video actually features Ozzy sporting a pair of sunglasses identical to the sort that all of those Lennon t-shirts always have pasted on his face. It’s basically easy listening fodder for radio, repetitive, loaded with Beatles piano chord drones and a primitive straight rock beat and a comical chorus with an orchestral backdrop, complete with a stereotypical organ lifted right out of “Let It Be”. The only thing that pulls this out of the “desperately trying to relive the past” department is Zakk Wylde’s wildly out of place guitar solo. Hey Zakk! This is a ballad, so please go a bit easier on the vibrato next time.

The two b-sides that round out this silly little single exhibit a peculiar sense of bipolar disorder on the past of the Ozzman. On one hand, we have a shorter version of the 2 note groove abomination from beyond the shores of hell “Gets Me Through”, a song that essentially elevated the act of hypnotizing people via music to an art form. On the other, we have an odd little semi-speed metal song with loads of sludgy underpinnings in “Black Skies”. The riffs listen like a Black Label Society take on “I Don’t Know”, loaded with way too many pinch harmonics and a lot of noisy guitar mud, but fairly enjoyable nonetheless. This single is basically the only reason why I can’t throw this completely under the bus, and why this got stuck on a single and crud like “Junkie” and “Facing Hell” made it onto “Down To Earth”.

For those who like older Ozzy and who might not be aware of “Black Skies”, this is the only reason why one would ever be possessed to buy something like this unless their dancing to Ozzy’s newfound groove music. The best route would be to skip the other nonsense on here and go straight for a direct download mp3 style, if you are able to find a site that carries this song. It’s about the quality of the better songs heard on “Ozzmosis”, but a little bit more organized and better produced. Ozzy is definitely no John Lennon, though I don’t see why anyone would want to be, but he definitely can still occasionally rock when he feels like it. ---metal-archives.com

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Ozzy Osbourne - Heavy Metal Holocaust (1981)

2015-05-23T15:26:18Z

Ozzy Osbourne - Heavy Metal Holocaust (1981)


01. Flying High again
02. Dont Know
03. Crazy train
04. Believer
05. Poranoia
06. Suicide solution
07. Revelation mother earth
08. Steal away 9 the night

Ozzy Osbourne - vocals 
Randy Rhoads - guitar 
Rudy Sarzo - bass 
Tommy Aldridge – drums

It was a sweltering hot day in 1981 when North Staffordshire hosted its equivalent of the Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock Festival. Although heavy rock and metal had existed since the beginning of the 1970s it had now become almost fashionable. The charts were regularly peppered with Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon (whose lead singer Biff Bifford had been born in Hanley) and Motorhead (with Burslem-born Lemmy).

But the ‘Heavy Metal Holocaust’ festival, held at Vale Park on August 1st, almost did not take place. After the council granted permission for the event some local residents took out an injunction to have the show stopped. It was only with the intervention of the promoters by providing a free day-trip to Blackpool (on the same day as the event) for those residents concerned that the injunction was dropped.

Originally Ozzy was not billed to appear at the event. The festival was to be co-headlined by Black Sabbath and Motorhead. However, less than a month before the event Sabbath cancelled due to ‘recording commitments’, provoking the promoter to announce that their next UK appearance would be in court! Ozzy stepped in to fill the gap left by his former band which must have brought a few wry smiles to those Sabbath fans who now had an opportunity to see the singer who the band had sacked a couple of years earlier.

Lemmy introduced Ozzy as “a good friend of mine who tells a good joke and sings a good song.” After a set composed of songs from his first two solo albums Ozzy asked the audience “I understand that Black Sabbath promised to make this gig but then ****** you people over by not turning up, is that true? Well I’m going to give you my part of Black Sabbath” before introducing “a little sentimental song I wrote many years ago called ‘Iron Man.’” His set ended with the Sabbath classic ‘Children of The Grave’ before returning for an encore of his trademark ‘Paranoid.’

Ozzy was not a stranger to North Staffordshire. During the 1970s he, along with his first wife Thelma, lived at Ranton near to Eccleshall. His neighbour at this time was Noddy Holder, singer with seventies glam rockers Slade. An often-recited tale is that of Ozzy blasting some chickens belonging to his wife with a shotgun in his garden. Noddy lent on the fence to find out what was happening to which Ozzy replied that he was just rewinding after touring! Until the mid-1980s there were two framed gold Black Sabbath discs on the wall of Ozzy’s local, the Red Lion at Sutton.

At the time of the Port Vale festival Ozzy had separated from his first wife and was already in a relationship with Sharon Arden, who he would marry the following year. At this time Ozzy set up home on the other side of Eccleshall at The outlands near to Bishops Offley. Also living in close proximity was Glen Tipton, guitarist with Judas Priest. Although Ozzy spent most of the early 1980s touring, when he was at home he would regularly patronise the Brown Jug at Bishops Offley. North Staffordshire appears to have been attractive for some heavy metal heroes, both on- and off stage. --- englishlocalhistory.wordpress.com

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Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (1991)

2017-06-23T13:34:47Z

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (1991)


1 	Mr. Tinkertrain 	
2 	I Don't Want To Change The World 	
3 	Mama, I'm Coming Home 	
4 	Desire 	
5 	No More Tears 	
6 	S.I.N. 	
7 	Hellraiser 	
8 	Time After Time 	
9 	Zombie Stomp 	
10 	A.V.H. 	
11 	Road To Nowhere

Bass – Bob Daisley, Michael Inez (5)
Drums – Randy Castillo
Guitar – Zakk Wylde
Keyboards – John Sinclair
Vocals – Ozzy Osbourne

Having been cleared earlier in the year in another lawsuit concerning the supposedly suicide-inducing subject matter of his music, Ozzy Osbourne reinvigorated his sound and expanded his following with his sixth studio album, No More Tears, in the fall of 1991. Finding more sympathetic producers in Duane Baron and John Purdell to replace Roy Thomas Baker (who had helmed his last effort, 1988's No Rest for the Wicked), collaborating with Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead on four songs, and retaining the services of guitarist Zakk Wylde, Osbourne brought his music into the '90s. Songs like "Desire" and "S.I.N." had an energetic, contemporary metal sound, and Osbourne effectively changed gears to turn out gentle ballads like "Mama, I'm Coming Home," which gave him his first U.S. Top 40 hit on his own. Not cowed by his court cases, he wrote songs about child abuse ("Mr. Tinkertrain") and serial murder ("No More Tears") from the point of view of the criminals. But he also considered his own place in the general scheme of things in the tribute to the rock & roll lifestyle "Hellraiser" and the reflective "Road to Nowhere." It all made for an unusually broad range of material, and the album returned him to the Top Ten and multi-platinum status. ---William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Review

Od razu na początku: płyta jest niesamowita. Wreszcie Ozzy znalazł złoty środek na sukces w sensie artystycznym i komercyjnym. Dzięki tej płycie widać, że jest muzykiem wszechstronnym.

Zacznijmy od początku. Okładka, jak i całe wydanie krążka, są bardzo dobre. Wszystkie teksty, adres internetowy strony Ozzy'ego, telefony, pod którymi można zamówić gadżety, czyli wszystko, czym powinno charakteryzować się porządne wydawnictwo muzyczne.

Teraz o muzyce. Płytę otwiera "Mr. Tinkertrain", kompozycja z doskonałym podkładem rytmicznym perkusji i basu. Tekst niezły, może trochę zbyt erotyczny, ale w końcu czyż muzyka to nie szaleństwo? W drugiej kolejności "I don't want to change the world". Ukazuje ona wysokie umiejętności gitarzysty, który udowadnia swoją klasę. Trzecia kompozycja "Mama I'm Coming Home" jest przepiękną balladą o podłożu folkowym. Rozpoczyna się delikatną partią na akustyku, wprowadzającą w odpowiedni nastrój - słowem rewelacja. Następny jest "Desire". Ozzy tutaj starał się stworzyć kawałek trashowy i udało mu się! Może on zadowolić niejednego "mocnego" metala. Dochodzimy w końcu do kompozycji tytułowej. Dla mnie po prostu perła. Jest pełna ekspresji, rozwijając się aż do kulminacji, czyli niebywałego refrenu. Zdecydowanie najlepszy numer na płycie. Dalej można wsłuchać się w "S.I.N". Ozzy dość dobrze starał się tutaj naśladować Alice'a Coopera, co wyraźnie słychać. Siódmym numerem jest "Hellraiser". Jest to mocna piosenka z doskonałymi partiami solowymi - coś dla miłośników dobrej gitary. Natomiast "Zombie stomp" ma zupełnie inny charakter. Rozpoczyna ją dwuminutowe Intro na basie i perkusji - coś niebywałego. Fakt, jest ona może trochę przydługa, ale za to wykonana z klasą. Następna kompozycja "A.V.H" znowu ma inny charakter. Ma podłoże bluesowe, dodatek na gitarze akustycznej; jest nietypowa. Dzięki temu mamy wszechstronność. Ostatni jest numer "Road To Nowhere". Typowa ballada o niebanalnym tekście w doskonałej aranżacji. Jest czego posłuchać.

Teraz słowo podsumowania. Po tej krótkiej charakterystyce można się zorientować, że mamy się do czynienia z czymś wyjątkowym. Jest to szczera prawda. Nie ma bowiem jak dla mnie wielu płyt, wydanych w pierwszej połowie lat 90-tych, o takiej klasie. Dlatego daję jej 10. (Na marginesie dodam że współtwórcą 4 utworów był Ian Kilmister czyli Lemmy). ---Marcin Targosz, rockmetal.pl

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Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz & Diary of a Madman [30th Anniversary Box Set] (2011)

2011-07-13T09:11:37Z

Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz & Diary of a Madman [30th Anniversary Box Set] (2011)

CD1 Blizzard of Ozz:
01 – I Don’t Know
02 – Crazy Train
03 – Goodbye To Romance
04 – Dee
05 – Suicide Solution
06 – Mr. Crowley
07 – No Bone Movies
08 – Revelation (Mother Earth)
09 – Steal Away (The Night)			play
10 – You Looking At Me, Looking At You 
11 – Goodbye To Romance (2010 Guitar & Vocal mix)
12 – RR (Previously Unreleased – Randy Rhoads guitar solo)

Musicians:
• Ozzy Osbourne - lead vocals/harmony vocals
• Randy Rhoads - all guitars
• Bob Daisley - bass guitar/harmony vocals & songs
• Lee Kerslake – drums

CD2 Live:
01 – I Don’t Know
02 – Crazy Train
03 – Believer
04 – Mr. Crowley
05 – Flying High Again
06 – Revelation (Mother Earth)
07 – Steal Away (the Night)
08 – Suicide Solution
09 – Iron Man
10 – Children Of The Grave
11 – Paranoid			play

Musicians:
• Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
• Randy Rhoads - guitars
• Rudy Sarzo - bass
• Tommy Aldridge - drums

CD3 Diary of a Madman:
01 – Over The Mountain
02 – Flying High Again
03 – You Can’t Kill Rock And Roll
04 – Believer
05 – Little Dolls
06 – Tonight
07 – S.A.T.O.			play
08 – Diary Of A Madman

Musicians:
• Ozzy Osbourne - lead vocals, harmony vocals
• Randy Rhoads - all guitars
• Bob Daisley - bass guitar, harmony vocals & songs
• Lee Kerslake – drums

On May 31, music fans will have their first taste of re-issues from rock icon OZZY OSBOURNE's catalog of work with the releases of two albums which form the cornerstone of Ozzy Osbourne's career as a solo artist: Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman (Epic Records/Legacy Recordings). Long revered by rock fans around the world, these two albums created a template for hard rock in the 1980's and beyond as they were marked by the ground-breaking and historic union of Ozzy and the late guitar hero Randy Rhoads. These definitive versions of 1980's Blizzard of Ozz (with previously unreleased bonus tracks) and 1981's Diary of a Madman are available individually on vinyl or CD, or together in a deluxe collector's box. All versions were restored and remastered from the original analog sources by George Marino.

The 30th Anniversary Edition of Blizzard of Ozz CD includes the original album in its entirety, restored and remastered for this edition, with bonus tracks, while the new Legacy Edition of Diary of a Madman includes the original album in its entirety, restored and remastered for this edition, with a bonus second CD of previously unreleased live performances featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads with rhythm section Rudy Sarzo (bass) and Tommy Aldridge (drums). A single disc version of the remastered Diary of a Madman will also be available.

For serious fans and collectors, the limited edition 30th Anniversary deluxe boxed set houses the restored and remastered vinyl and CD editions of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, the "Ozzy Live" compact disc. Beyond the music, the box set is highlighted by a variety of exclusives including an expansive 100-page coffee table book, a two-sided wall-size poster, a precise and detailed full-size replica of Ozzy's iconic gold cross that he has worn for 30 years, and "Thirty Years After The Blizzard" DVD.

This new "Thirty Years After The Blizzard" DVD chronicles Ozzy's years with Randy Rhoads features previously unseen footage of Ozzy and Randy filmed in 1981 & 1982; it incorporates rare archival photos and films; along with new and revelatory interviews with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Lemmy (Motorhead), Steve Vai, Nikki Sixx, Rob Halford, Zakk Wylde, Bill Ward and more. The DVD also contains over 70 minutes of additional rare live performances and interviews; included is the premiere of more than 30 minutes of newly-discovered never-bootlegged footage of Ozzy and Randy from the Blizzard of Ozz tour shot from the front of the stage at New York's fabled Palladium on May 2, 1981. This new feature is a must-see for aficionados of Ozzy's epic release, Blizzard of Ozz and its pivotal effect on rock & roll history.

Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman are landmark albums that took metal in a new direction in the early 1980's, inspiring whole new generations of rock bands and fans. "Crazy Train," the first single from Blizzard of Ozz, has become one of Ozzy's musical signatures, a perennial on the rock playlists and as part of Ozzy's live performances.

With combined worldwide sales of more than 10 million copies, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman have been awarded gold, platinum and multi-platinum certifications in a variety of countries including Canada, Korea, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States, where Blizzard of Ozz has been certified RIAA 4x platinum and Diary of a Madman is RIAA triple platinum.

One of the most iconic figures in pop culture, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy winner Ozzy Osbourne has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, approximately 50 million with his seminal metal band Black Sabbath and the rest as a solo artist.

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Ozzy Osbourne – Greatest Hits (2009)

2009-12-27T11:06:39Z

Ozzy Osbourne – Greatest Hits (2009)

CD1:
01. I Don’t Wanna Stop
02. Perry Mason
03. Can?t Save You – Bonus Japanes
04. Dreamer
05. Thunder Underground
06. Not Going Away
07. Mama, I’m Coming Home
08. I Just Want You
09. No Easy Way Out
10. No More Tears
11. Back on Earth
12. 21st Century Schizoid Man
13. Walk on Water
14. In My Life
15. I Don’t Want to Change the World
16. I Don’t Know [Live]
17. Paranoid [Live]

CD2:
01. Nightmare
02. Gets Me Through
03. See You on the Other Side
04. Mississippi Queen
05. Mr. Tinkertrain
06. Shot in the Dark
07. Breakin’ All the Rules
08. Time After Time
09. Crazy Train
10. Bark at the Moon
11. Over the Mountain
12. Miracle Man
13. Mr. Crowley
14. Flying High Again
15. Crazy Babies
16. Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne, byname of John Michael Osbourne, (born December 3, 1948, Birmingham, England), British musician who gained a loyal following as the vocalist for the heavy metal group Black Sabbath before embarking on a successful solo career.

Raised in a working-class family, Osbourne dropped out of school at age 15 and held several low-paying jobs. He also engaged in petty crime and at 17 was imprisoned for two months for burglary. After his release, he sang in a number of local rock groups, eventually forming the rock band Earth with guitarist Tony Iommi. To avoid confusion with another band of the same name, the group changed its name to Black Sabbath—after an old Boris Karloff movie. The group developed a grinding, ominous sound, based on the blues but intensely amplified, and drew attention with its tendency to reference the occult in its lyrics. In February 1970 Black Sabbath released its eponymous first album and quickly developed a following in both Britain and the United States.

The band released albums each year through the mid-1970s, except 1974. After the tour for Never Say Die (1978), Osbourne left the band. A period of despair and drug abuse led to Osbourne’s divorce from his first wife, Thelma Mayfair. He then met and married Sharon Arden, who encouraged him to start a career as a solo artist. His first effort, achieved with the primary help of guitarist Randy Rhoads, was Blizzard of Ozz (1980). A multiplatinum success, thanks in part to the standout single “Crazy Train,” it was followed by the equally popular Diary of a Madman (1981), which sold more than five million copies. A defining moment in Osbourne’s career came on the tour for the album, when, thinking that someone in the audience had thrown him a rubber toy, Osbourne bit off the head of a live bat.

Osbourne found his first solo Top 40 hit with “Mama, I’m Coming Home” from the album No More Tears (1991), and in 1993 he won a Grammy Award for best metal performance for the song “I Don’t Want to Change the World.” Despite announcing his retirement in 1992, he continued recording through the decade. Ozzfest, an annual summer music festival featuring heavy metal acts organized by Osbourne and his wife, began in 1996 and toured throughout the United States and, in some years, parts of Europe. By the end of the 1990s, Osbourne had reunited the original members of Black Sabbath for a new album and tour, and in 1999 the band won a Grammy for best metal performance for the song “Iron Man.” In 2013 Osbourne made his first studio record, 13, with Black Sabbath after a 35-year absence.

In 2001 the reality television show The Osbournes, which focused on the life of Osbourne and his family, premiered on MTV, and within two months it had become the third highest-rated offering on cable television. The hugely popular show ran until 2005. In March 2006 Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2007 he released his first solo studio album in six years, Black Rain, and he followed with Scream (2010). ---britannica.com

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Ozzy Osbourne – Phoenix Rising, Arizona 1996

2009-10-12T14:28:33Z

Ozzy Osbourne – Phoenix Rising, Arizona 1996

Disc 1
01 - Flying High Again
02 - GoodBye To Romance
03 - Perry Mason
04 - No More Tears
05 - I Just Want You
06 - I Dont Want To Change The World
07 - Suicide Solution


Disc 2
01 - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
02 - Iron Man
03 - Sweet Leaf
04 - Children Of The Grave
05 - Mr. Crowley
06 - War Pigs
07 - Crazy Train
08 - Mama Im Coming Home
09 - Bark at the Moon

Live at Desert Skies Pavillion, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 13, 1996

Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
Joe Holmes - guitar
Robert Trujillio - bass
Mike Bordin - drums
John Sinclair - keyboards

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Ozzy Osbourne – Scream (2010)

2010-07-24T11:02:25Z

Ozzy Osbourne – Scream (2010)


01. Let It Die
02. Let Me Hear You Scream
03. Soul Sucker
04. Life Won't Wait
05. Diggin' Me Down
06. Crucify the dead (Feat Slash)
07. Fearless
08. Time
09. I Want It More
10. Latimer's Mercy
11. I Love You All

Bass – Blasco
Drums – Tommy Clufetos
Guitar [Guitars] – Gus G.
Keyboards – Adam Wakeman
Vocals – Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne's tenth studio album was originally called Soul Sucka before fans shut the working title down. The resulting Scream may not win any awards for brain cell power as far as titles go, but the 11 tracks contained within find the Prince of Darkness in fine form. People who only know the metal legend from watching him mumble and baby step around his house in sunglasses and a track suit on reality television can hardly be blamed for steering away from his music, but it only takes one chorus of opener “Let It Die” to suggest otherwise. Like 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz (Randy Rhoads), 1983’s Bark at the Moon (Jake E. Lee), and 1988’s No Rest for the Wicked (Zakk Wylde), Scream features a changing of the guard. Enter Greek power metal guitarist Gus G., a progressive, tech-heavy shredder who can pound out drop-D, Lamb of God-inspired doom riffs (“Latimer’s Mercy”) on one hand while paying respects to Rhoads' peerless “Diary of a Madman” intro on the other (“Diggin’ Me Down”). His enthusiasm for the material acts like a charging dock for Osbourne, who co-wrote the record with producer Kevin Churko, and while Scream suffers from the same “a handful of songs are great and the rest are OK” curse that has plagued everything since 1981's Diary of a Madman, the songs that are great are indeed great. Ozzy Osbourne may be more product than man these days, but for every uncomfortable TV commercial there’s a “Time” or a “Let Me Hear You Scream” to help remind people that the man behind the machine still has at least one hand on the wheel. ---James Christopher Monger, AllMusic Review

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