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The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (CD)

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Ozzy Osbourne Artist Snapshot:

Getting his start with heavy metal monolith Black Sabbath, singer Ozzy Osbourne split from the band in 1979, and forged a highly successful solo career that quickly matched his former outfit. While Osbourne's strange antics sometimes overshadow the music, he helped introduce one of metal's greatest guitarists in Randy Rhoads, creating numerous metal classics in the process. Rhoads died in a plane crash in 1982, ending the first great era of Osbourne's solo career, but Ozzy soldiered on to continued success. In the '90s, the Ozzfest was inaugurated, a heavy-metal package tour that helped introduce some of the biggest nu-metal bands of the late '90s/early '00s. Ironically, Ozzy's greatest stardom came in 2002 with MTV's reality show THE OSBOURNES, focusing on the amusing foibles of Ozzy's family life.

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DISC 1 for The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (CD) Album By Ozzy Osbourne (Artist)
1   Crazy Train
2   Mr. Crowley
3   I Don't Know - (live, with Randy Rhoads)
4   Suicide Solution
5   Goodbye To Romance
6   Over The Mountain
7   Flying High Again
8   Diary Of A Madman
9   Paranoid - (live, with Randy Rhoads)
10   Bark At The Moon
11   You're No Different
12   Rock 'N' Roll Rebel
13   Crazy Babies
14   Miracle Man
15   Fire In The Sky
16   Breakin' All The Rules
 
DISC 2 for The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (CD) Album By Ozzy Osbourne (Artist)
1   Mama, I'm Coming Home
2   Desire
3   No More Tears
4   Time After Time
5   Road To Nowhere
6   I Don't Want To Change The World - (live)
7   Perry Mason
8   I Just Want You
9   Thunder Underground
10   See You On The Other Side
11   Gets Me Through
12   Dreamer
13   No Easy Way Out
 

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Uncut (5/03, p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This should help reaffirm him as one of metal's finer songsmiths..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Ozzy Osbourne (vocals); Randy Rhoads (guitar).

Producers include: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, Randy Rhoads, Max Norman.

Compilation producers: Sharon Osbourne, Michael Guarracino, Bruce Dickinson.

Includes liner notes by Eddie Williamson.

While the parting of ways between a charismatic lead singer and a popular band is always a dicey proposition (David Lee Roth anyone?), many observers undoubtedly thought that when a depressed, drug-addled, Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, a particularly dark day was at hand. Incredibly, however, Sabbath soldiered on, and Ozzy became a bigger superstar than even he himself could have imagined. Beginning with 1980's classic BLIZZARD OF OZZ and its equally classic single "Crazy Train," the Godfather Of Metal released a string of uniformly excellent albums the equal of anything in heavy music. Needless to say, along the way he consistently made the papers with his outrageous antics, headlined the biggest-grossing concert tour of all time, became a television star, and depending on who's telling the story, either sold his soul to Satan or became an average family man.

The two-disc THE ESSENTIAL OZZY OSBOURNE is essentially as advertised: a comprehensive 29-track collection of Ozzy's best-known solo material. Whereas Black Sabbath was all about the biggest monster riffs humanly possible, hammered into the listener's brain until he or she had either a spiritual awakening or a seizure, these discs display a much greater pop sensibility. The Oz-man easily straddles both furious Iron Maiden-style Brit metal and gorgeously melancholy ballads. All of Osbourne's best solo albums are represented (with the notable exception of 1982's essential SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, an album of live Black Sabbath covers), so one might be tempted to consider this the last word on Ozzy's career. Considering his tendency to surprise, however, it might be wiser to consider this set as simply Volume One.

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5 out of 5 stars A good sum, May 9, 2008
By ApeKnows
I wasted my high school years collecting movies with my best friend and so never got to any rock or metal. The only songs we heard were at the ends of or movies such as Scream and Scream 2. So I never got to rock and metal until the age of 23 or 24. Ozzys cds are the first ones which I bought. I thought they were as good as our movies and I wanted more than. This is the best collection he has but its missing his two best songs demon alcohol and Tattooed dancer. But dont miss this one.

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