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I like Bark at the Moon most, probably. Nothing is as good as the haunting Waiting for Darkness in my book. Killer chorus.
 
Perun said:
Eh. That music was the best part about the series, IMHO.
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I didn't mean anything with that other than to raise a smille from people who got the reference.

For the record, I loved the series, and the fact that a metal album was a major plot point will always get a thumbs up from me.
 
Black Sabbath by a mile.

In Flames have some really good melodic riffs here, even if I don't like the vocals or some of the songs. I'm not very interested in Morbid Angel's thrash.

System of a Down have one of the most crucial albums of my early metalhead years in Toxicity. Yes, they're bizarre and wacky and musically all over the place, but it's still super interesting and has some great singing and songs. I truly don't understand the love for Alter Bridge, and I'm sorry for everyone I've just offended. Great playing + great singing...but nothing I've ever heard from them is memorable in any way. Love it or hate it, SOAD is always memorable.

Priest, by many miles.
 
karljant said:
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"... DO YOU WANNA FRY????"
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Yeah, I was thinking about that one last night as well:
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karljant said:
I for myself think Bark At The Moon is the weakest of Ozzy's albums (at least the ones I've heard, up to Down To Earth). As for The Ultimate Sin Shot In The Dark is far from being my favorite song. Killer Of Giants, Never, Lightning Strikes, Fool Like You and the title track (my favorite) are absurdly good. No Rest For The Wicked has Miracle Man and Breaking All The Rules which are also top notch... but the rest of the album is kinda crappy.
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Fool Like You is my second favorite Ozzy song ever. Followed by Waiting For Darkness. The Ultimate Sin is a great time. Fantasy tinged hair metal with some excellent playing by Jake E Lee. Great hard rock flavor to the whole thing.
 
MindRuler said:
:eek: Why? He might not be the best vocalist but huge respect for the man for the Sabbath classics.
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Why not?

OK, my statement was a bit of a joke, but also a bit of a comment how I find Ozzy as a singer a bit overrated. I'm not denying his work in Sabbath molded the music scene as we know it today, that he is one of the biggest metal personas and having a 50 year music career is also something to admire to. And he even has an unique and recognizable voice. But a great singer? Nah.

I'm not saying that every time he opens his mouth I laugh (although I can't control myself on that middle part of Electric Funeral where he reminds me of that crazy cat lady from The Simpsons) but most of the times he' leagues below from the people he's been compared to. His voice works for some people (apparently a lot of them) and I must admit there are moments where he hits this kind of blues-y undertone that is OK.

But overall, I look at him as an interesting guy who has been at the right place at the right time and has an ability to surroind himself with the right people (Iommi, Sharon, Randy, Zakk etc.)
 
Spambot said:
His voice works for some people (apparently a lot of them) and I must admit there are moments where he hits this kind of blues-y undertone that is OK.
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I think it's just that Ozzy's voice defined heavy metal. I don't think I love Ozzy's voice, but I don't cringe and turn away from him, at least on the classic tracks. It's as part of the roots of metal for me as Julius Caesar is part of the fall of the Roman Republic. It simply is. Ozzy opened metal up to all sorts of vocal experimentation, simply by being different to what was being produced at the same time.

In 1969, the biggest songs in the world were Get Back by the Beatles, Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones, Sugar Sugar by The Archies, and Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley. It's like they picked Ozzy deliberately as a reaction to that, to get wildly away from the sound of popular rock and roll. Much like many people appreciate the early black metal days, with the low-fi production and reactionary sounds vis a vis the traditional metal scene, this must have been a similar break. The production on the first Black Sabbath album wasn't good, the guitar tone is incredibly divergent to the guitar tone used by McCartney, Lennon, and Harrison, the use of bass far more riveting and dynamic, and the voice, yeah, it's sonically different and wails all over the place.

Like, whether or not you like Ozzy's voice, he's part of that break, that huge bold push that created an entire genre of music, and vocal experimentation and the achievement of new forms of extreme? That's part of it too, and whether or not you like Ozzy for it you can thank him for the evolution of non-traditional vocals in metal.
 
Ozzy embodies an ideal heavy metal frontman from the perspective of a hippie. I've seen quite long posts of one serious poster on an audio-techincal forum where he says Ozzy is three classes above Bruce, and his stage presence, even when holding the mic and banging the hair, is way above Maiden's frontman, who are, quoting "an excellent third tier Metal band".

So I thought to myself what kind of a person has this opinion? I have friends who hold Sabbath as #1 and prefer Ozzy to Bruce but who the hell says Maiden is two classes below Sabbath?

A hippie. Half of Sabbath's core audience are not really into metal, they're proto-metal, doom people, if they're not old enough to just be called a hippie.
 
Zare said:
Ozzy embodies an ideal heavy metal frontman from the perspective of a hippie. I've seen quite long posts of one serious poster on an audio-techincal forum where he says Ozzy is three classes above Bruce, and his stage presence, even when holding the mic and banging the hair, is way above Maiden's frontman, who are, quoting "an excellent third tier Metal band".

So I thought to myself what kind of a person has this opinion? I have friends who hold Sabbath as #1 and prefer Ozzy to Bruce but who the hell says Maiden is two classes below Sabbath?

A hippie. Half of Sabbath's core audience are not really into metal, they're proto-metal, doom people, if they're not old enough to just be called a hippie.
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Curiously enough I've never talked to a single metalhead who (to say the least) didn't fancied 70's Sabbath. And to say Sabbath is the #1 metal band ever is not that far fetched. Not that often but I know some cases (and hell... just check the ridiculous number of metal musicians that say it's Sabbath first and then the rest!). NOW... saying Maiden is two classes below Sabbath? That one I've never heard before. But then again I've don't enter mental institutes that often. :p
 
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