The Ozzy Item

Jul 21 02:56 UTC 1992

I've borrowed a copy of Ozzy's new album, "No More Tears".  Excellent.  All but
one track are multi-repeatable...that is, you can listen to em over and over
and over, and...

Comments please.

Also include any tidbits concerning Ozzy's Black Sabbath years.  He's got such
a weird and creepy voice, that it makes for interesting listening.  Oh yeah,
the words are usually pretty weird, too.

response 2 of 16:

Jul 21 14:40 UTC 1992

What was the name of that group Paul McCartney was in before Wings?

response 4 of 16:

Aug 1 13:24 UTC 1992

Ozzy was great in his Sabbath Years; such songs as "The Wizard" and "Faeries
Wear Boots" are classic metal. But I can't say I've listened to anything
he's done of late (meaning in the last 5 or more years)- there are a lot
of fresh bands coming out that seem a lot more vibrant and original. I can't
really say I find Ozzy relevant to the current musical scene, although I
have heard from others that the new album is worth a listen.

response 6 of 16:

Aug 18 19:23 UTC 1992

Ozzy is always coming up with a new bunch of boys to play in his band.
It makes for some fairly fresh sounding stuff, but at other times his
guitar players whack off too much.

response 8 of 16:

May 9 15:41 UTC 1993

        Ozzy was in Black Sabbath??

        Aw gee. Ozzy WAS Black Sabbath. As the '60's terminated 
        this strange, quirky, even laughable hard rock band
        drew attention with their 'graveyard rock' shtick.
        We never expected them to go on to be successful or
        ever be taken seriously. Of course, the radio played
        their most banal music, 'Paranoid' and 'Iron Man',
        but their best music was powerful, melodic, and dramatic.
        Try 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' or 'Spiral Architect.'
        The term Heavy Metal didn't exist at this point; we
        just called it hard rock.

        Imagine our surprise when, a decade later, the Iron Man
        himself, lead singer from a comic book band, returned
        as if from the dead and commandeered the nations airwaves.^[[D^[[D^[[D
        Having chosen some wildly hot young musicians . . check
        out the drums and guitar on 'Crazy Train' . . he won over
        a new generation that may have never even heard of
        Black Sabbath, but made the connection with the maniac
        who bites the heads off living animals . . and I still
        like 'You Can't Kill Rock and Roll,' I have a chart for
        it, I play it on my piano.
        
        I understand his wife Sharon has taken over more and
        more of his financial management. Evidently it was she
        who produced the Randy Rhodes tribute album. I heard
        recently that they had some disagreement and he ended
        up in jail for punching her. I can just imagine, "But
        Sharon, all I need is $1000 for a new michrophone," and,
        when he gets bitchy, she says "You don't have to bite
        my head off.' They'll work it out.

        Now another decade has rotted away. Still the Iron Man
        lumbers forward, a comic book Frankenstein character
        stumbling on, singing his new music on MTV, playing
        with midgets and birds, proving he won't bite their
        heads off. The melodic, dramatic intensity of his
        music has only gotten more polished.

response 10 of 16:

Oct 9 00:08 UTC 1993

Gack!  Nobody's even mentioned stuff like "Symptom of the Universe",
or "Sleeping Village"(heavy on the creep vibes)...
What's wierd is when they (Black Sabbath) decided to do a cheezy
rock-love song like "Sabbra Cadabra" on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.  It
almost sounds like Ozzy was going for the whole poster-boy thing...

response 12 of 16:

Nov 9 02:42 UTC 1993

  I just got the album Black Sabbath--pretty nice stuff (listening to it
now :) )....  Sleeping Village is in a mixed thing with a couple of other
songs--although its hard to pick out exactly what's what, I think I've
figured out that part, and its pretty mellow...  I also really like
'Wicked World'--a most cool song...

response 14 of 16:

Jan 28 23:41 UTC 1994

  (you don't want me to go on... :) )

response 16 of 16:

Jun 16 13:55 UTC 1996

i liked crazy train...but ozzy is odd