Hot on the heels of his excellent interview with bassist Bob Daisley, Peter Kerr suggested we run through the Top Five Ozzy Osbourne solo songs, and a brilliant idea it was! Ozzy’s solo career is rich, especially in the early years, with beautiful ballads and incendiary metal. There are heavy progressive moments, advanced arrangements, and brilliant lyrics. We gave Ozzy’s career a solid listen this week and extracted our lists, and not without difficulty!
Your panel this week:
- Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation with loads of insight and some great picks.
- John Clauser of My Music Corner, with a guest list from Jake Not-From-State-Farm.
- The “Dude” Mike Slayen, from San Diego, home of Jake E. Lee, and that little bit of extra guitar knowledge we needed.
I bought a guest list from Jex Russell, and the combined six lists covered a lot of ground! Hits, deep cuts, lots of ballads, and almost every lead guitarist who played with Ozzy. Lots of love for Randy and Jake here especially. Besides the first two classic Ozzy records, there was a lot of respect here for No Rest for the Wicked. The Ultimate Sin, Ozzmosis, No More Tears and Scream were mentioned multiple times. There were a number of B-sides mentioned, and one track that almost got me disqualified!
Stay tuned for some cool honourable mentions!
Thank you everyone for watching tonight, and we’ll see you Monday with brand new guest Len Labelle, and a run through the discography of Brighton Rock. See you then!
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Hey all, appreciate the support. My list would have been comprised of five of the below songs had I made it. You can probably tell my experience with his discography is patchy.
Steal Away The Night
I Just Want You
Under The Graveyard
Diary of a Madman
Over The Mountain
Straight to Hell
Bark at the Moon
And yes, I have mentioned Living Loud a couple of times. Check their album out if you see it for sure.
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Enjoyed this show, Mike. Learned a lot. I only know well the first few Ozzy albums (the ones with Randy) so it was interesting to hear from the panel about the other ‘80’s albums and the ones from the ‘90’s which I only know from “The Essential” 2-disc collection. Henry.
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Zakk is the only Ozzy guitarist I’ve met in person (really cool guy), but Jake E. Lee is my personal favorite. Great show, gentlemen!
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