Diary Of A Madman Bark At The Moon The Ultimate Sin Box Set by Ozzy Osbourne

Diary Of A Madman Bark At The Moon The Ultimate Sin Box Set

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Diary Of A Madman Bark At The Moon The Ultimate Sin Box Set

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By this time, most people should probably be familiar enough with the man that they don't need me to tell them whether they'll want these albums or not. Since you're here, though, it's a reasonably safe assumption that you do like Ozzy, and that the important question isn't so much how good these albums are, but are they the original albums? To which, I can happily say, yeah, they are. For anyone just straggling in, most of Ozzy's albums were remastered back in 2002. Unfortunately, due to legal litigations and issues with royalties, the decision was made to rerecord the original bass and drum tracks from Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy's newer bandmembers. If George Lucas has taught us anything over the past ten years, it's that purists tend to get upset when you mess around with their beloved classics. Though nothing was rerecorded for Bark at the Moon, many feel the remixing was botched and some of the guitar fills and such seem to be missing from parts of the album. The Ultimate Sin, on the other hand, wasn't even rereleased with the other albums. Apparently Ozzy just doesn't like it very much. However, rejoice, MetalHeads, for this here three-disc set contains the 1995 editions of Diary, Bark, and Sin. The sound quality is as good as you'd expect and none of music you like so much has been tampered with. And, as an extra added bonus, Amazon is currently selling it for about what you could pay for a single CD in some music stores. Since these albums are out of print now, you might want to go ahead and snatch this up if you don't want to make do with the 2002 discs. If only it included Blizzard of Ozz as well, this would be perfect. And since I should probably say something about the actual albums, here, okay ... Diary of a Madman is an honest-to-goodness metal classic and the last album recorded by guitar hero Randy Rhoads before his death in a bizarre plane crash. Flying High Again is one of Ozzy's most famous songs. You've heard it. It's on here. With Bark at the Moon, Ozzy started using more keyboards and synthesizers, a trend that continued in later albums, and that, in itself may turn some people off, but it's still a fine album with some good songs. The title track, in particular, is great. Ultimate Sin is the one Ozz seems to hate so much, nowadays. Some of his fans agree, though I don't quite see why. Not his finest moment, perhaps, but still a solid album with a few standout songs, even if some of the nuclear war pondering is a bit heavy-handed. Ozzy was never really about subtlety. If you're an Ozzy fan and you don't already have these albums, chances are you want this. If you're not an Ozzy fan, what the heck are you reading this for? You're wasting your time. Get out of here.

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