Blizzard of Polls - Ozzy Osbourne studio albums

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...

No More Tears.

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

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.

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

blizzard by a long way

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.

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

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

Sharon will hunt you down

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

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

Diary, but Blizzard is pretty close

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Alright I am giving Ultimate Sin another spin/chance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Yes, but how to choose only 10?!

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

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.

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.

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).

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?)

Ha! Totally weird.

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

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De-evolution at its finest.

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!

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

That's always nice

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.

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

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

I like Ultimate Sin a lot more than most #jakeeleesbadlandsfan4lyfe

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

"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)

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

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

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

the auto-tune is basically set to 11

The Ultimate Sin is hitting the spot again today.

Thanks Ozzy and Jake E. Lee!!!!

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

such a great album

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."

Holy shit!

https://blabbermouth.net/news/ex-ozzy-osbourne-guitarist-jake-e-lee-shot-multiple-times-in-las-vegas-full-recovery-expected

what the fuck

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

jesus.

xpost OTFM

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

Ozzy trump haircut ww3 vibes

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

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

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

impressive!

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

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

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

do not want

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

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

"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!'

haha omg that is very otm

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

*dynamicism

*vision....not visual. Jesus Chripst

*Christ