Ozzy Osbourne vs. Robert Plant vs. Ian Brown

OK I'll get this out of the way now - "Big Log"! Ha ha ha ha ha! Isn't that a FUNNY title! "Exactly what it sounds like, I had one this morning! Heh!" Whoever was squeezing Bob's lemon that day sure gave him some bad advice. I think his firstt three solo albums sounded great...at the time. Dunno why they've dated so badly, although that 'transparent' gtr tone sure got old fast. As for Ozzy, some OK throwaways and some almost-Sab slabs ("Flying High Again", "Over the Mountain") and the incredibly great "No Bone Movies" (Howcum there isn't more Calvinistic-disgust songs outside of straight-edge? "I shouldn't do it, the guilt tells me why. Just can't stop it, I try and I try. Voyeur straining, in love with his hand - a purple passion, a pulsating gland..." Why they didn't use this as the theme for 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' I'll never know!)

BTW, ALL of Ian Brown's solo stuff is way better than any note ever recorded by the Squier Roses so there!

ian browns solo stuff isn't bad at all, surprisingly

"ALL of Ian Brown's solo stuff is way better than any note ever recorded by the Squier Roses so there!"

If by the above statement, you mean that Ian Brown's solo albums are better than the two Stone Roses studio albums, then you, sir, are quite high.

Always hoped they'd release a compilation of Robert Plant's solo stuff...as I'd hate to have to buy each of the albums in order to get the one or two listenable tracks on each. "Little By Little," "Heaven Knows," "In the Mood," "Big Log" (never thought it was that bad, actually). At least Plant tried to do something different from the fare he managed with Zep (unlike, say, Ozzy, who continued to mine the same territory in his solo incarnation as the Sabs).

The Randy Rhoads stuff sounds nothing like Sabbath at all, and I think it's pretty good. Actually none of it does, it's all so much more top heavy (lite?). Plant's solo stuff is ridiculous and I don't know who Ian Brown is.

"The Randy Rhoads stuff sounds nothing like Sabbath at all..."

Yeah, but it's still heavy, guitar-driven 'metal,' ala Sabbath.

".....and I think it's pretty good."

I didn't say it was bad.

"Plant's solo stuff is ridiculous"

Some of it assuredly is ("Tall Cool One" springs to mind), but some of it's fine. Lots -- if not most -- of Ozzy's stuff is ridiculous too.

"....and I don't know who Ian Brown is."

The former lead singer of the Stone Roses.

I quite liked a number of Plant's late 80s/early 90s singles and still sometimes enjoy them when I hear them. I especially liked "Tie Dye On the Highway" and enjoyed "Hurting Kind" and "Tall Cool One". "Heaven Knows" wasn't bad either. Even some of the album tracks from Manic Nirvana weren't bad though neither that nor Now and Zen was all that satisfying. (On an album basis, they still might have been a better that-era tribute to Zeppelin's legacy than The Cult's Sonic Temple. On a singles basis, I don't know who'd win.) I also generally like that Plant was able to reinvent himself as precious gentleman artiste (or at least that's sort of how I remember his persona). His patronage of Alannah Myles counts against him though. "Crazy Train" was good but the only other solo Ozzy songs I know are the godawful ballads. "Dreamer" is far worse than anything with Plant on it and it's the only one of any of these I need to deal with these days so I'll give the nod to Plant. (I'm assuming that Ian Brown is just a made-up person.)