Blizzard of Polls - Ozzy Osbourne studio albums

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I'm tempted to add Speak of the Devil since it was such an influential album to me. I'm really into 4 or 5 of these. Tough to vote against Randy but the other guys are no slouches!

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Blizzard of Ozz 18
Diary of a Madman 7
The Ultimate Sin 2
No More Tears 2
Bark at the Moon 1
Down to Earth 1
Black Rain 1
No Rest for the Wicked 0
Ozzmosis 0


Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

Wow I didn't even know about Black Rain. "Osbourne has stated that this is the first album he has recorded sober."

It's also the only one that hasn't gone platinum...

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

No More Tears.

Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:13 (sixteen years ago)

I love No More Tears too. So much filler but the high-points are high! (Plus bonus points for Lemmy song-writing credits).

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)

I lean toward The Ultimate Sin - Jake E. Lee is awesome; both "Killer of Giants" & "Shot in the Dark" are solo Ozzy POX material in my view. Tough poll, though.

the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:20 (sixteen years ago)

I think Diary is the obvious answer here with Blizzard being a close runner up.

Darin, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

blizzard by a long way

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:52 (sixteen years ago)

Rhodes was a much more melodic and interesting player, IMHO. Lee was cool, but Wilde... bleech... dude needs to seriously chill out on the artificial harmonics.

Darin, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

Diary, but i'm in the process of boycotting this idiot.

Bill Magill, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

I'm sure he's very upset about that.

Bill Magill, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

Sharon will hunt you down

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

Blizzard is (rightly) gonna slaughter all comers in this poll.

unperson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

Blizzard, but I too love Speak of the Devil, despite its contributions from future Night Ranger guitarist, Brad Gillis.

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:00 (sixteen years ago)

Diary, but Blizzard is pretty close

girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

course I haven't bothered to listen to like the last 6 in this list

girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

For me it's Diary. That's Rhodes great and final work. The production is better than Blizzard and the songs are just as good.

But I have huge love for Bark at the Moon and No Rest For the Wicked. The latter stands up so much better than you'd expect...

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

listening to "Flying High Again" right now - what a track, what a smokin band

the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah that's one of their best tunes. And one of Rhodes' best solos!

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

Another vote for Blizzard. Diary is close and the Bark at the Moon tour was the first concert I went to so there's some nostalgia there for that album.

righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

Blizzard all the way too. Randy Rhodes still alive, plus Ozzie also wrote some good songs at the time.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

Diary of a Pollster
Bark at the Poll
The Ultimate Poll
No Polls for the Wicked
No More Polls
Pollmosis
Poll to Earth
Black Poll

( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

I almost did No More Polls. But I knew the sentiments on here would run toward the early catalog and Blizzard is a cool word...

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

I went for Ultimate Sin. Title track is great, as are Shot in the Dark and Killer of Giants. It's unfairly overlooked imo. I'd rather hear Randy Rhodes Tribute than any of the earlier studio stuff.

Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

Alright I am giving Ultimate Sin another spin/chance.

Y'all need to do the same with No Rest For the Wicked. Seriously.

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

I spent much of today thinking about what would be on my Ozzy solo POX, I know we don't really do POX again but man if you made a 10-song mix of your best solo Ozzy that there would be a really kick-ass summer days mix tape I'm tellin you

the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

It's true. A good Ozzy song is pure adrenalin and joy.

I've actually had a theory for 18 years now (proven to myself time and time again) that whenever I'm sick, and I'm done being sick, if I eat a Greek salad and listen to Bark at the Moon, I will be better. This ALWAYS works.

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

Just listened to Little Dolls. Fuck this song is awesome. Satanism never sounded so fun!

Darin, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

I spent much of today thinking about what would be on my Ozzy solo POX, I know we don't really do POX again but man if you made a 10-song mix of your best solo Ozzy that there would be a really kick-ass summer days mix tape I'm tellin you

― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Wednesday, August 5, 2009 9:57 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh, man. I need to do this.

righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, but how to choose only 10?!

Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

What the hell:

I Don't Know
Flying High Again
Journey to the Center of Eternity
Goodbye to Romance
Little Dolls
Over the Mountain
Suicide Solution
Bark at the Moon
Revelation (Mother Earth)
Diary of a Madman

Darin, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know, other than the title track I was severely underwhelmed by Bark at the Moon. Voted No More Tears, just a stunningly great album. Even the filler and b-sides ("Party like an Animal" and "Don't Blame Me") are fun.

If you think drum machines have no soul, you've never met my wife (J3ff T.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

I'm starting to regret my knee-jerk Ultimate Sin vote after listening to some of the songs. It was the first Ozzy studio album I'd ever heard (was still just getting into metal in '86) and the video for Shot in the Dark seemed dark and kick ass to me at the time. Oh well, it's not like it will come close to the first two.

Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

I listened to side one of Ultimate Sin today and it's still a dud. His worst album by far until Ozzmosis (which could have been good if the labels weren't forced by lawyers to scrap all the Steve Vai tracks).

Nate Carson, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

xpost - As for Bark at the Moon, give Centre of Eternity and Waiting for Darkness another spin Jeff.

(hmm cd bonus track Spiders in the Night? What is that?)

Nate Carson, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:21 (sixteen years ago)

Ha! Totally weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYN3NmfIjA

Nate Carson, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 13 August 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

De-evolution at its finest.

Nate Carson, Friday, 14 August 2009 01:14 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

how did it take me so long to listen to Diary? feel like such a poser.

(obv I knew the singles but just never got around to the album). "S.A.T.O." is great!

Neanderthal, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:15 (nine years ago)

and the good thing is I got the non-rerecorded version

Neanderthal, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:20 (nine years ago)

That's always nice

Put Out More Flag Posts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:30 (nine years ago)

No More Tears is the first one I had and I haven't revisited it since high school but I always loved the title track, "Hellraiser", "Mama I'm Coming Home", and a few others.

Neanderthal, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:32 (nine years ago)

I'm on Bark at the Moon right now OMFG WHAT IS THIS "SO TIRED" BULLSHIT?

Neanderthal, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:33 (nine years ago)

so tired is a great fuckin rock ballad and I will fight you

The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:23 (nine years ago)

I like Ultimate Sin a lot more than most #jakeeleesbadlandsfan4lyfe

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:24 (nine years ago)

I like it too. Jake E Lee was no Randy but those were big shoes to fill. He's definitely underrated

Wimmels, Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:33 (nine years ago)

"Secret Loser" sounds like every 80s 'teenagers-running-and-hiding-from-zombies' montage

Man, I wish they'd release Trick Or Treat on DVD. They reissued the soundtrack for chrissakes, but not the movie. Ozzy, Gene, backwards messages, and Skippy from fucking Family Ties?? That shit sells itself, man!!

(full disclosure: I haven't actually seen it in like twenty years)

Wimmels, Saturday, 27 August 2016 16:43 (nine years ago)

Ultimate Sin is fucking great and upper miss is OTM, Jake E. Lee is the business

The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 August 2016 18:44 (nine years ago)

four years pass...

on the most recent album, Ozzy sings I'LL MAKE YOU SCREAM/I'LL MAKE YOU DEFECATE

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:45 (four years ago)

it's pretty good! (not for that reason)

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:45 (four years ago)

the auto-tune is basically set to 11

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:47 (four years ago)

two years pass...

The Ultimate Sin is hitting the spot again today.

Thanks Ozzy and Jake E. Lee!!!!

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:32 (two years ago)

(and Randy Castillo and Phil Soussan the rhythm section is pretty great on this)

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:33 (two years ago)

such a great album

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 17 November 2023 00:23 (two years ago)

Yeah, it really is. I remember how thrilled I was when I saw Ozzy in — I wanna say 2010? The first tour with Gus G. on guitar — and he played "Killer of Giants."

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 17 November 2023 00:33 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

what the fuck

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:33 (one year ago)

it's on sight if I ever catch who shot jake e. lee. fuck that guy

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:34 (one year ago)

jesus.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:35 (one year ago)

xpost OTFM

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:36 (one year ago)

Thankfully he seems like he's going to be ok otherwise I would feel worse about posting this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzyz2egx_0c

chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:45 (one year ago)

Ozzy trump haircut ww3 vibes

calstars, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 21:25 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

I just realized the thing I enjoy the most about "Perry Mason" is that it lyrically sounds like a child's book report

Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 July 2025 16:57 (five months ago)

went out for dinner the other night out of town and cranked Blizzard Of Ozz all the way home in the car, windows down, sun starting to set - fkn epic summer vibes!

I forgot how funny “No Bone Movies” is

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 July 2025 17:27 (five months ago)

short video came up in my YouTube feed of a guy in a sheep mask and a spacesuit playing the solo to crazy train
the sound was off and the title was non-specific but I instantly recognized what it was from 5th or 6th grade guitar class just by watching his left hand

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:00 (five months ago)

impressive!

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:03 (five months ago)

i've played Blizzard through ULtimate Sin, been a fun trip

Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:15 (five months ago)

i relistened to No More Tears today and Mr Tinkertrain. still always forever just the most NOPE lyrically (like it’s not even aged badly, it was a bag of nope even then like whut dude) … but if you could somehow muffle the lyrics it’d be an ok song?
weird opener though

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:30 (five months ago)

uh, the Genius annotations for that song have super fucked up photos

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:34 (five months ago)

do not want

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:36 (five months ago)

oh yeah, hard agree about mr tinkertrain lyrics
that album has some of his very best stuff (especially the title track) but also lots of genre exercises, musically tinkertrain is somewhere in the middle imo

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:44 (five months ago)

like half the songs or more have that horror movie 'metalsploitation' sound (tinkertrain included, especially the "that's why they call me!" part)

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 July 2025 18:50 (five months ago)

"No More Tears" title track rules because it starts out sounding like it's the entrance music for some Tony Robbins motivational speaker dickhead and then the verse lyrics start and the crunchy guitar comes in and you're like 'oh this is serial killer music!'

Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 July 2025 19:01 (five months ago)

haha omg that is very otm

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 July 2025 19:10 (five months ago)

so what's the deal with credit? According to Wiki, Ozzy didn't write the lyrics or am I reading it wrong?

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 July 2025 19:11 (five months ago)

I spun Ultimate Sin, it is good record, great songs, but the production is really flat and I always take artist's complaints about their own records with a grain of NaCl, esp Ozzy & Sharon, but he might have a point with this one

chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 10 July 2025 19:41 (five months ago)

Ozzy's name appears in credits for cowrites from the get go, but it is very very unlikely that he wrote many of the lyrics for which he has been credited throughout his career. Geezer wrote the words in Sabbath (although I believe it if its said that Ozzy wrote the lyrics of "who are you") and then Bob Daisley wrote the words for the canonical early 80s Ozzy shit. It wouldn't do for Ozzy and Sharon to admit that he's not a writer, so surely the real writers would have to sign shit affirming Ozzy's contribution, or else they wouldn't get to contribute to the records, get publishing income etc etc…

Ozzy isn't a writer, in fact he isn't very bright at all, saying so isn't a blindly original insight, but Sharon apparently thought it would be embarrassing in the rock/metal milieu to admit that he's purely a performer…(my interview with him was the most unpleasant interaction with an artist I ever had, it cost me the job for which the interview was conducted—I don't blame anyone other than myself for this, BTW; it was my responsibility to get the goods, and I didn't, case closed).

I think also Sharon was mad at Jake E Lee and Phil Soussan: they contributed a lot, and then weren't content to eat shit when Sharon didn't want to pay them what she should've… she doesn't like to admit that Ozzy, while he's widely beloved, is not a creative wellspring

veronica moser, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:07 (five months ago)

X post

I think also Sharon was mad at Jake E Lee and Phil Soussan, which is why Ultimate Sin was not reissued in 2002 and "Shot in the Dark" was never on compilations

veronica moser, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:09 (five months ago)

"Perry mason" is to me his single greatest recording, partially cuz it's not shoved down yr throat like "Crazy train" or "Mr. Crowley." I really really like "See you on the Other Side" from the same record as well.

veronica moser, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:12 (five months ago)

Didn't Soussan hate Lee as well? I thought Lee said Soussan talked Sharon into firing him.

The Bob Daisley is fascinating to me cuz he's fired, not credited, and then finally erased literally, but keeps writing & recording all the way through No More Tears

chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:22 (five months ago)

Jake E Lee was forced to sign away his writing credits entirely, not just share them.

I think there are enough signature elements in his vocal melodies across decades of albums that like, a technical analysis would probably show that he likely contributed the melody to a bunch of his songs, but not all of them. look, nobody thinks Ozzy is the auteur.

I am also very fond of that Ozzmosis record, the first half especially.

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 July 2025 20:24 (five months ago)

two weeks pass...

two I've finally heard for the first time:

Ozzmosis - sadly, can't join you on this one Deflatormouse. never heard an album start with such a high bar and then coast the rest of the way. "Perry Mason" is still a classic, "I Just Want You" is a hooky power ballad, and unfortunately, this is the tempo they lock into the rest of the way.

giving Ozzy a sea of plodding ballads seems a weird choice when he's not the poster boy for vocal dynamism (his best ballads are the ones that play to his vocal strengths like "Mama I'm Coming Home" or are slathered in vocal effects, like "Solitude"), but makes more sense when I learned that they had to scrap all the Vai tracks. even the heavy tracks are at the same tempo! the previous Zakk albums had more tempo variance. oh well...it's not bad by any means, but I'ma skip half of it next time.

Patient Number 9 - impossible for me to rate this *objectively*, because the robots are working overtime to make Ozzy sound passable here, but the songs themselves are actually pretty good! each guest guitarist more or less plays to their strengths while trying to fit onto a modern Ozzy album, but stylistically it's not too divergent that the visual gets muddled. yeah, SOME of this shit is the crap you'd hear at barbecues hosted by guys with Tapout shirts and crucifix tattoos on their calves, but other than the very robotic autotune-y vocals (even by Ozzy's standards), it's pretty good as a swansong. not least because he got one final go with Iommi.

steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 22:15 (four months ago)

*dynamicism

steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 22:15 (four months ago)

*vision....not visual. Jesus Chripst

steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 22:16 (four months ago)

*Christ

steal the classy spy's gun (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 July 2025 22:16 (four months ago)


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