Album Rating: 4.0
I agree that Diary is not as good as Blizzard of Ozz, but I totally disagree about other things:
Believer is an excellent heavy metal song, maybe the bass guitar sound could've been better (it needed to be deeper and bigger, such as the bass sound in albums like Dio's Strange Highways for example, but considering the 13 years time difference), but the guitar riff is amazing, and it's not totally accurate that you can't tell the verse from the chorus, simply because the song has no chorus. The bridge is typically Ozzy, the melancholic melody and the drums breaks, this bridge gives a way to a fiery guitar solo which Randy completely nailed it. And it's a pure heavy metal song, not a progressive metal, which is the factor that seems the writer of this review effects to feel the song is "going somewhere", like time changing. For me, Believer is a masterpiece and one of Ozzy's best works.
I agree about Little Dolls, the song starts well until Ozzy's vocals come in and it turns the song into a whole different area.
About the title track, I mean come on man, the song is an epic. It begins with a classical guitar intro, with a dark mood that leads to the loud and heavy guitar riff while the rhythm section is orchestrating, then to the first verse, with its complex time signature, when the music gets back moving a space for Ozzy to do his vocals, which is very unique how the lyrics come with the melody. The the chorus, which although it's short, but it goes with the song just as high to end the section and to start with the second verse. After the second verse and chorus Randy takes over and play with the main riff, goes up and down with it until he reaches an intermission (which I think it should've been little shorter) where Ozzy takes over from him, does some vocals then the music trippily repeated until Randy take over with a very heavy and amazingly crafted heavy bridge, leading to his solo and ending up with Ozzy repeating a verse, then the main riff is repeated with a very dark and Gothic mood with choirs to be the closer of the song .... musically the song structure is a classical structure, the guitar riffs is so heavy metal with medieval and Gothic feel.
The song Tonight is out of all the album mood, and it was better suited with some of Ozzy's 2000's albums.
S.A.T.O, a very simple song, not a masterpiece, but it rocks enough, maybe it could've been better.
For me, I give the album 4 out of 5 stars, and it would've taken 4.5 if it was with a better mixing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
diary then blizzard I always thought, although Blizzard is great, diary had some cooler funkier songs more like his BS output, Bark is descent, but goes dramatically downhill from there,
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Album Rating: 4.0
I can blame them ha ha with songs like Over The Mountain, Flying, and Diary here. Smokin' if you ask me. Even the stuff with Zakk is mostly rock solid. I'd say Ozz had a pretty good-great solo career if you can excuse the 2000's. @Manosg 'ozzmosis' spot on, criminally underrated.. man!
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