I'm a fan, but he should've stopped after "No More Tears".

strangeguitar: I'm a fan, but he should've stopped after before "No More Tears".

Mainly because of Mama, I'm Coming Home. I mean, wtf?

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Arguably his best performance EVAR!

I'd like to see him in concert at least once, just to say I did before he dies.

Great Metal Jesus: strangeguitar: I'm a fan, but he should've stopped after before "No More Tears".

Mainly because of Mama, I'm Coming Home. I mean, wtf?
I kinda agree with you, but I enjoyed a coupe tracks like "Perry Mason" and the title track. Nothing with ever beat the first two, and I did really enjoy Bark at the Moon.

Sorry guys, using that logic he should have stopped after "Diary", or perhaps "Blizzard"? The three Sabbath albums before that?

Ozzy is one of those rare guys that can make suck or gold until he's 110 and get away with it. I hope he never stops.

Much more than three, subby.

As long as people are buying, more power to ya, Oz, but I stopped listening years ago...

I thought they stopped after,
"number of the Beast".

what can I say,
they were great,
the first album wonderful.
then next three or four,great..
they should have stopped then.

He should of stopped before he started. Can you imagine an artist suceeding now with that little talent? Product of perfect timing is all I can figure.

/opinions are like assholes

Definitely should have stopped before "No More Tears".

Ozzy's not an artist who lends himself well to overproduction..and that was just bombastic at times. Not to mention, I can't help but think of baby shampoo whenever I hear it.

Techniccal: I'd like to see him in concert at least once, just to say I did before he dies.

i got to see em in 02 as black sabbath. yes, a reunion tour. was awsome to see those 4 guys.

Stop before No More Tears? You guys are insane.

The last two were less-than-amazing but they were still decent and have some good tracks. Ozzmosis was severely underrated; it's a very solid album. No More Tears was up there with Blizzard.

/go to see Ozzy (or Sab, if that's the case )2x a year, at least when Ozzfest was still around.
//no Ozzfest for me this year, but caught him on a winter tour w/Rob Zombie
///Ozzy rules, and always will

I dunno, I think if he's having fun and he's not losing a great amount of money I say more power to him.

This is the guy who toured under the name 'No More Tours', the first in a long line of acts that said they were quitting/retiring, only to come back 3 years later. So, I'd take his comment with a full salt shaker. He's also putting out albums once every five years. That means he'll be perhaps 70 on that 2nd tour of his. Plus there'll be a greatest hits or a box set and he'll probably tour on that. I expect him to hit 70 before he stops touring, and how much longer after 70 will he be able to tour? He beat up his organs pretty bad in this lifetime. He'll pass on before he makes good on this statement. I gotta say, though, he's had the best facial plastic surgery I've ever seen on a dude. So maybe at 70 it won't look so bad.

That said, there are 3 songs from that last album which kick ass: the first two and 'Almighty Dollar'. I love that song. Post-NMT, he has 'Back on Earth', 'Facing Hell', 'Running Out', 'SYotOS'... these are easily among my favorite songs of his, plus a couple more. He hasn't changed his style since 'Blizzard' at all, so I wonder if people have tuned out because they got bored or just grew out of 80s metal. The quality of Ozzy's stuff certainly hasn't lowered. Imo.

/just sayin'
//slashie

I mean, wtf, he looks and moves here like most 40y.o.s I know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xqsIpA8mac&NR=1

Neurochemist: He should of stopped before he started. Can you imagine an artist suceeding now with that little talent? Product of perfect timing is all I can figure.

/opinions are like assholes

Most of the time they're full of shiat. He has a great voice for metal and he can sing. Then you say that someone with as little talent as him couldn't succeed now. He succeeeded in 2003 with the song called changes. It went on to become a number one hit in the UK. I hate the song but the fact remains that it was a hit.

Eh, I don't care what Ozzy does anymore.
Somebody wake me when the Heaven And Hell album comes out.

the first time i saw ozzy i was surprised at how much water he threw around. even more surprised when he did it with sabbath. i heard somewhere he throws water all over the place because he pisses himself during shows. has anyone else heard this?

/ozzy loves you all
//ozzy wants to see your hands in the air

madhonib: I thought they stopped after,
"number of the Beast".

what can I say,
they were great,
the first album wonderful.
then next three or four,great..
they should have stopped then.

Uh, WTF? You're dead wrong about Maiden. Besides the horrendous Blaze years, they've been pretty consistent. Yeah, there are some BAD tracks from Fear of the Dark, Brave New World & Dance of Death (...I danced and I pranced!), but their latest one is a truly kick ass album, and as a live band they've never been better.

As for Ozzy, I really wish he would have stayed retired when he stopped back in '95/96. I thought Ozzmosis was extremely weak and that tour was pretty boring. Everything I've heard since then has hurt to listen to.

The songwriting on his albums declined after No More Tears because Bob Daisley (his lyricist for everything from Blizzard to NMT) stopped working with him.

/Ozzy doesn't write music OR lyrics, he just comes up with the vocal melodies
//ya'rly

Shoulda had him some more plastic water...

strangeguitar
I'm a fan, but he should've stopped after "The Ultimate Sin".

FTFY.

His solo career has sucked donkey balls ever since that album. I've seen him live seven times as a solo artist and three times with Sabbath. The Sabbath shows were by far the best.

/zakk wylde sucks, too. squealy pinch harmonics every third note gets old quickly.

fruitloop: i heard somewhere he throws water all over the place because he pisses himself during shows. has anyone else heard this?

That's bullshiat. Ozzy doesn't piss himself. Whoever told you that is a asshole.

Anyhow, I don't think he'll retire. He may quit for a couple of years, but Ozzy is metal. He can't let it go. He has to tour, he feeds on being in front of the crowd and making them go crazy. He's almost 60 and can still hold his own with the younger bands out there.

Fark the Ozzy haters.

/continue with the Sharron hate though. I can't stand that biatch.

Why do people come out of retirement?

Because retirement is effing boring?

Great Metal Jesus strangeguitar: I'm a fan, but he should've stopped after before "No More Tears".

Mainly because of Mama, I'm Coming Home. I mean, wtf?

Mama, I'm Coming Home, along with 3 other songs on that album, were co-written by the metal God Fark seems to fellate the most: LEMMY!

/so I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies

Thread useless without pics of Sharon Osbourne's MILFy goodness, but yeah, his retirement is already overdue.

Well, it should be easy for him, as Ozzy's been recording the same album for the last 12 years or so. Just copy 'n paste the last effort and rearrange some lyrics and voila!

MCStymie: Thread useless without pics of Sharon Osbourne's MILFy goodness, but yeah, his retirement is already overdue.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

MCStymie: Thread useless without pics of Sharon Osbourne's MILFy goodness

ewwww.

I think someone is unfamiliar with the "I'd like to" component of the term MILF.

/Ozzy is dead to me
//he can tour all he wants
///just don't care anymore

Neurochemist: Can you imagine an artist suceeding now with that little talent?

I can name about 40 of them...the current top 40

Was at the "bit the head off a bat" show in Des Moines 1982. Always enjoyed Ozzy---kinda like the goofy uncle who shows flashes of brilliance occasionally to remind you why you think he's so cool. I'll always give him credit for giving the guys who fired him a break by playing with Sabbath again.

Meh. Ozzy's healthier now than he was between 50 - 60, since they took care of his Parkin Syndrome. (Y'know the incoherent mess he was during their reality show? Not Parkinson's after all.)

The Allan Ball:
Uh, WTF? You're dead wrong about Maiden. Besides the horrendous Blaze years, they've been pretty consistent.

Blaze wasn't that bad in Maiden, he just wasn't the best fit because he came at a time when metal was changing and he had to replace Dickinson (who then replaced him). Seriously, Blaze w/ Maiden had some good songs (Futureal, Angel and the Gambler, Virus, Lord Of The Flies, Man On The Edge, The Unbeliever) and Blaze solo is pretty good.

The Allan Ball,

WTF Dude,I was talking about,
"Black Sabbath" .
one of the last albums I bought,
by Black Sabbath was just after,
"Maters of Reality" I thought it was,
666 number of the beast,
but. I was wrong,
it was "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
I bought one more " Vol.4"
now, this was 34 or so years ago.
I guess I am saying is don't get so bent.
it was only a comment.

Techniccal: I'd like to see him in concert at least once, just to say I did before he dies.

You sure he ain't already dead?

Captain_Creampuff: I dunno, I think if he's having fun and he's not losing a great amount of money I say more power to him.

He HAS to keep touring. His wife spends money like it's going out of style. I used to feel sorry for him on his show. He was so obviously out of it, but she kept him working to keep the money rolling in. He seemed to have zero control of what he did.

I saw him at Ozzfest once. He sang fine, but shuffled around like an old man when he walked. Not a lot of energy. Kind of sad, really.

Didn't he already do this once? I swear I remember seeing him on his big 'farewell tour' in '92 or '93. He was decrepit and feeble even then.

He can do whatever the hell he wants for all I care. "Holy In The Sky" gives him permission.

DontBeSoDigital: He can do whatever the hell he wants for all I care.

Agreed

Arguably his best performance EVAR!

Denied. Here is his best performance.

Late to this thread.. but FTA:

"But when you have somebody who knows what they are doing, it's so easy to make records now, it's not even funny. The art of making records is somewhat diminishing. It's taking the passion out of it. But I will try to give it as much real me as I can."

Noone's forcing you to pitch correct and quantize your way through another disc like so much of the industry seems more than happy to. Toss that shiat out the window, you'll find recording can truly be no different than going to tape was (with none of the drawbacks)

Ozzy continues to outdo himself with every new release. Black Rain is like the best album ever.

Rev. Skarekroe: Eh, I don't care what Ozzy does anymore.
Somebody wake me when the Heaven And Hell album comes out.

This.

Jon iz teh kewl: Ozzy continues to outdo himself with every new release. Black Rain is like the best album ever.

Lol.

I will say, I did enjoy "I don't wanna stop". The guitar work was pretty good.