That Metal Thread

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Brenda Holiday said:
I need to know your favorite Sabbath albums (or Ozzy solo albums) fellas.
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First six albums with Ozzy. Never warmed up to Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. Same for the albums with Dio (but I'm also not that much of a Dio fan either) and basically ignored everything after Dio-Sabbath. Also never really warmed up to Ozzy's solo stuff. I don't know why exactly tho. If I'd have to chose one album then it's Master of Reality for me. Easily the one I listened the most to.
 
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Black Rain, despite all it's filler, is when I started really getting into metal and was my first Ozzy album. I'll always remember listening to I Don't Wanna Stop in the car with my mother while going to get my wisdom teeth removed.
GloriousRapeRabbit said:
Yeah. Rumours i see on various forums now is that he ended it in switzerland with assisted suicide.
Somehow that kinda makes it even sader....i dont know. But i have seen nothing confirmed about this so take it with a grain of salt for now.
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Honestly, even if it was true, it's not my business to know. That's between his him and his family.
Ozzy always felt like an ethereal part of life and finding out one morning that he's gone... it really makes you realise how quickly things can change. It's why I always tell those I care about to look after themselves. It doesn't matter if it's for a few minutes, a few days, or a few hours; I've seen what can happen in a few seconds. Have to say, though, that 76 years for a man of his lifestyle is insane.
 
Brenda Holiday said:
I need to know your favorite Sabbath albums (or Ozzy solo albums) fellas. Sabotage is mine. It has a certain moody sound to it that I just really like. I think you can really hear what the band was feeling and thinking at the time of writing the album.
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I have thought about this many times, and I still just don't know. If I had to pick my favorite band ever, Ozzy Sabbath would probably be it. The first six are amazing, the last two are worthwhile.

Never Say Die!

Of his solo albums, it's Blizzard of Ozz for sure. His albums always had at least couple of good songs, but that's the one that's strongest throughout.
 
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Shit man, that was the first bit of news I saw when I checked my phone this morning. Surreal being hit with that in a half-groggy state.
Brenda Holiday said:
I need to know your favorite Sabbath albums (or Ozzy solo albums) fellas. Sabotage is mine. It has a certain moody sound to it that I just really like. I think you can really hear what the band was feeling and thinking at the time of writing the album.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Master of Reality are up there for me. Really that first 5 album run from them are all I listened to in high school for a while there.
 
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Brenda Holiday said:
I need to know your favorite Sabbath albums (or Ozzy solo albums) fellas. Sabotage is mine. It has a certain moody sound to it that I just really like. I think you can really hear what the band was feeling and thinking at the time of writing the album.
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Probably a basic pick, but the debut Black Sabbath album just because of the significance of it. It has some of my favorite Sabbath tunes (title track, NIB, the Wizard), and I can only imagine how many minds were blown back in 1969/1970, dropping the needle on that vinyl, and hearing something that heavy and dark.

Master of Reality is good also cause it has Sweet Leaf, Children of the Grave, Solitude, and the best Christian Metal song ever wrote:
 
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Brenda Holiday said:
I need to know your favorite Sabbath albums (or Ozzy solo albums) fellas. Sabotage is mine. It has a certain moody sound to it that I just really like. I think you can really hear what the band was feeling and thinking at the time of writing the album.
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It's a bit of a cliche to say the first six Sabbath albums, but it's true. It's hard for me to pick a favorite among them, because they all offer something unique. Sabotage has two of the best Sabbath songs ever made though: Megalomania and The Writ. You can just feel how pissed off the band was, and it really comes through in Ozzy's voice especially.
 
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Just to break it up in here a bit.

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Incorrigible Bigotry said:
The fundy reaction to metal back in the day has to be at least partially responsible for the vehemently anti-Christian direction metal went in just due to them signal boosting it as such.
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Which sucks, cause Sabbath had largely moralistic lyrics if you look at them, plus them being anti-fun undermined the bands during those times that were putting out decent music that aligned with the Message (Deliverance, Vengeance Rising, Mortification, etc).
 
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GloriousRapeRabbit said:
Ozzy Osborne is dead!
Never got into sabbath that hard....or his solo stuff, but this still kinda feels in the heart.
Makes me wonder how that farewell consert was planned....they must have known the end was very nigh....but this was still very fast to clock out after that event.
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It's odd to me that he outlasted Lemmy, but that's how it goes sometimes. For a while there, I thought he might have somehow accidentally stumbled upon an elixir of immortality or something similar with all the various substances he was abusing, most people don't make it to seventy nine years of age while doing that.
 
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Ozzy was a complicated man with obvious problems with himself, his bandmates and others, but Heavy Metal would not be the same without him.

Sorcerers of madness selling me their time
Child of God sitting in the sun, giving peace of mind
Fictional seduction on a black-snow sky
Sadness kills the superman, even fathers cry

Of all the things I value most of all
I look inside myself and see
My world and know that it is good
You know that I should

Superstitious century, didn’t time go slow
Separating sanity, watching children grow
Synchronated undertaker, spiral skies
Silver ships on plasmic oceans in disguise

Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories and feel their warmth
And know that they are good
You know that I should

Watching eyes of celluloid tell you how to live
Metaphoric motor-replay, give, give, give!
Laughter kissing love is showing me the way
Spiral city architect, I build, you pay

Of all the things I value most of all
I look upon my earth and feel the warmth
And know that it is good
You know that I should
 
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