The Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits

The Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits

The Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits
The Ozzman Cometh: Greatest Hits Artist: Ozzy Osbourne (Usually ships in 24 hours) "Greatest Hits"? yeah, right! You call this an ozzy greatest hits CD?! 20 yrs. of music in only 13 tracks?! What is wrong with these people? This has got to be the poorest metal cd compilation ever comprised. Now don't get me wrong, I like ozzy a heck of a lot, but this is just a poorly constructed compilation, and here are some reasosns why:

1.Black Sabbath (Demo) - Low quality, awful vocals, the original was better, need I say more?

2.War Pigs (Demo) - Just Like "Black Sabbath", low quality, messed up lyrics

3.Goodbye to Romance/Crazy Train/Mr.Crowley - good songs, but they needed to focus more on ozzy's other albums. That's all i have to say about these songs

4.Over The Mountain - a good song, probably would not have killed them to put at least 1 more track (Preferrably "Flying High Again") on here.

5.Paranoid (Live) - I like the original better

6.Bark At The Moon - This Is good, I can't really complain about this song, although I would have added "Rock N' Roll Rebel" or "Waiting For Darkness"

7.Shot In The Dark - The Best ozzy song of all, in my opinion. The newer version, sadly does not feature this song. It has been replaced with "Miracle Man" I don't understand why what would happen, that's ridiculous.

8.Crazy Babies - "Breakin' All The Rules" should have been on here instead of this song, enough said.

9. No More Tears (edit) - those awful sabbath demos are the reason this track had to be edited, beacause the original would not fit on here. I would rather see this song off the compilation than have to put up with this awful cut version.

10.Mama I'm Coming Home - No complaints here, this is the best ozzy ballad I have ever heard period.

11.I Don't Want To Change The World (live) - No Complaints here either, pretty good performance.

12.I Just Want You - "Perry Mason"? hello where are you, why aren't you on this CD? This is it? "I Just Want You" is the best the idiot who created this cd could do? Unbelieveable!

13.Back On Earth - This song is the only reason I gave the album 3 stars instead of 1 , not a bad song at all.



You're better off buying the individual albums, Unless you want to hear "Back On Earth", or you are just starting to discover the greatness that is ozzy. Otherwise, DON'T BUY THIS CD! I can't stress that enough. OZZMAN RIPPUS OFFITH When this disc came out in 1998, I purchased it the first day, completely unaware that it was a greatest hits compilation. When I brought it home and realized what I had done I was a little dissapointed. This was the first battle I would lose to the OZZY marketing demons known as Sharon and Kelly Osbourne, and their trained monkies John and Jack.
The thing was, at the time, there was a video on MTV for the at the time new release BACK ON EARTH, which, I think, is actually a pretty good track. Apparently it was an unreleased track from 1995's OZZMOSIS, which, is an album that takes a lot of abuse from Ozzy fans, but I've always considered pretty close to classic status. The song in question here, has that sort of sound to it, a strange electronic metal sound.. I dig, I dig.
But the rest is hits. The basics; CRAZY TRAIN, CRAZY BABIES, and BARK AT THE MOON. A few live cuts (eh) and some edited versions of songs you love. Nothing all that special, other than the two SABBATH demos at the beggining. No DIARY or anything really exciting.
You may find BACK ON EARTH to be a curiosity, thats the only real reason I would pick this one up. Buy For The Sabbath DEMOs !!! The rest of the album is exactly the same as on the full albums with the exeption of no more tears wich the cut, ran-together, shortened the solo, basicaly butchered tyhe song. anyway the demo of black sabbath is the best verion EVER. sabbath added another slow section with some geat lryics,"child calls out for it's mother, mother screaming in the fire" and the music is just so mutch rawer, the Butler's bass is overpowering and Tony's gutiar is a perfict combination, he has more of an edge to his distortion. if the original song was 5 out of 5 the demo is 8 out of 5, I dont lisen to the album version anymore.
as for war pigs this version is known as "Walpurgis" meaning "Witches Sabbath" was supposed to be the version on the paranoid album and the album name but the record label first made sabbath change the name and lyrics of the song to "war pigs" due to the contoversy surrownding the band and having the album releace presided over by the head of the church of satian! next the album name was changed the title of the album to Paranoid without notifing the band, becuse it was thought to be more comerial. that is why on the album cover threr is a pig with a sword. any way . if the album version of war pigs is 5 of 5 the walpurgis version is 15 of 5. buy the this album for the two above mentioned songs both are in the best 5 songs ever recorded- which only the demo verions are the album versions is somewhere around 20 or so.