feeling like im older than i am ,,dont we all get better with age
my two cents

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gimpnoid
http://www.metalofoz.com/

I think it gets better with age, and I personally enjoyed it more so than black rain.

Jus my 2 cents.... \m/

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Peace

Scape

Ozzy:"I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane." (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)

you know, in some ways it is so heavy, it has a life of its own. i kind of like No Rest and Ozzmosis. I need to get his first releases again...it's been years and I don't have them anymore.

I think it is the best one since No Rest For The Wicked. My favorite is No Place For Angels.

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No Rest for the Wicked has some pretty good songs on it too, though you can definitely hear the 80's in some of the songs sound. I have the bonus tracks including The Liar. yep. really love that tune and how Ozzy's voice sounds in it.

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I can't seem to see you baby ... although my eyes are open wide ... but I know I'll see you once more ... when I see you, I'll see you on the other side

it's a good album i like it

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I like Ozzmosis too. I've been kinda stuck on it lately and have to slap myself to slip another CD in the player when it's time to hear Ozzy.

and gimp? I know you said things grow on you when you listen to his music...but that CD (Under Cover)...the only things that grow are amazement that Sharon or whomever was his acting manager did not say "Ozzy? This stuff, I know you feel passionate about it, but...ummmm...let's talk about this."

Perhaps honoring Ozzy wasn't a priority during that recording. Seems like promotion has been lacking on the CDs somewhat for the last few, not Black Rain so much but prior.

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I can't seem to see you baby ... although my eyes are open wide ... but I know I'll see you once more ... when I see you, I'll see you on the other side

hard to believe he'd say that. in fact, that's amazing that he did. not to diss the man but certainly Under Cover is the one I personally like least. I mean, there are some songs I love that he sings on it, and it's fantastic to know the songs that Ozzy loves - but in general? Yuck. I just don't like the songs when he sings them. (sorry Ozzy, you're my main man and that's the truth, but damn, I am just being honest here). maybe he said that before he made the cover cd.

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From this very album I began listening to Ozzy's music..Actually, I like this album...clear heavy sounds, clear inimitable vocals...needles to say evident musical masterpiece...but you Iknow I can't recollect what interview it was Ozzy said something like that DTE was his most unseccussesfull album (just that Ozz didn't like himself)...But I listen to the greatest GETS ME THROUGH, FACING HELL, CAN YOU HEAR THEM and can''t understand what Ozz meant...
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The darkest

i really love everything about this CD, from beginning to end. and i am wondering if Ozzys new CD coming out next will be like this one. i really really really hope the style is similar, because it's just so way beyond spectacular.

i think about the evolution of Ozzy over the years since I first heard him singing, and am so amazed. i mean, he lost me for a bit in the 80s b/c he just seemed too far out with gore, although i still loved his music. what i was thinking about, though, is how his music has just always been this amazing constant, very bad@ss fantastic part of my life, for 30 plus years. i was looking at his pictures, starting as a child, going into a young man and travelling time up to the man that he is today. and how different he seems at different phases of his life. yet, there is the one constant of the kind heart that just shines out of his music, you know?

A Rollingstone review of the album...with a track list of the album you can play/listen to.

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ozzyosbourne/albums/album/106706/review/5946398/down_to_earth

By the way? Nobody has rated the album at the end of the article :-)

not sure what you mean...what really puzzles me is the lack of airtime that this CD got out here in southern Arizona. not sure what it was like in the rest of the world (or for that matter in the state), but only a song or two were featured, the rest was not. the whole CD has got rocking songs. of course if you look at the one station that is in the city down here, it's not surprising. there's a station 300 miles away i can get signal to that plays hard rock and metal thank god.

such a beautiful album...was there ever a 'part 2' to 'you know part 1'??
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You're my religion, you're my reason to live.
You are the heaven in my hell.
We've been together for a long long time,
And i just can't live without you.
No matter what you do, i'm here for you......

yes cool read,thanx LD

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gimpnoid
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that is a cool read. you ought to post that in the scan place too for those who don't come here. i think people would like that... :o) what a lucky duck to be able to do something like that. that must've been fun.

i really like the CD too LD. i went on a buying spree for mothers day and treated myself to a bunch of music that I lost over time. and am rediscovering stuff i haven't heard for years. it's driving my kids nuts. my son thinks i need a lobotomy - he thinks i've lost it for good this time, lol. maybe i am reliving my teen years - but so what!! lol.

people at work know i listen and love Ozzy's songs, i've shared a YouTube more than once with different friends. so yesterday one of my good friends came in and started talking about this Ozzy picture she had from the days (when she was in her 20's). she said she had made this shrine of it and was quite seriously devoted to Ozzy then. she said this weekend when she'd gotten it out of the box her daughter asked who that cute guy was (her daughter is 14). she explained it was Ozzy and her daughter said "no way! he was seriously cute mom." lol.

my daughter on the other hand knows exactly who Ozzy is, she's 8. we discussed at length one day how he was >>really cute,<< especially his hair, in the video's circa 1970 :o).

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I can't seem to see you baby ... although my eyes are open wide ... but I know I'll see you once more ... when I see you, I'll see you on the other side

I was listening to DTE in my car the whole last week. I admit I still love it too death. Was my first Ozzy CD and made me a fan.
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I absolutly adore the cover of this CD. I think its a fine peace of art.

I found this statement of the photographer (very funny ending, please read):

In the words of the photographer, Nitin Vadukul (interviewed Nov./Dec. 2007) –

“I was very pleased to get a call from Sharon Osbourne asking me to come up with ideas for Ozzy’s upcoming record, which was going to be called Down to Earth. I had never photographed Ozzy before, but was always a huge Black Sabbath fan. Sony Records had actually recommended me for the shoot, as I had worked with them many times. The ideas I was to develop would create an image that would possibly be used for the cover, but there was no guarantee. I would have 3 days to work with Ozzy and develop several ideas.
The label and arist management people who were involved with the project were truly amazing - they gave me total freedom to create , and then just picked the ideas they liked that I came up with. I feel that this is the best kind of working relationship because you get to use all of your creativity, and the input from the featured subjects will often go on to inspire your final designs and, ultimately, the final product. The only specific direction I got was from Sharon , who said, ‘think dark’.
The initial inspiration came from my first meeting with Ozzy, because I had never seen a human being with so many tattoos and amazing gothic jewelry in my entire life!! That introduction made me think of the person behind all that – I wanted to know what was inside him.
I submitted 5-6 different ideas before my clients chose the ‘X-rayed Ozzy’ one. One of the ideas was to make up Ozzy as Nosferatu, who was the first Dracula in the movies. As you can see on the accompanying photo, the make up by Screaming Mad George was amazing. We both liked this idea as it allowed Ozzy to play someone truly dark in broad daylight and get away with it. Another image we shot in New York’s Meatpacking district – we seemed to have found the stairway to Hell. Some of these shots were also used in the booklet as well.

The entire process - from project approval to the delivery of the final image - took about 8 weeks. I used only a 10×8 PLATE camera, sheet film and my own eyes to shoot the initial images. The only other equipment we used was an X-ray machine and then Photoshop. Sharon had really let me do my thing and suggested some tweaks in the final image - let’s not forget, she did OK the ideas to begin with.
I know that they were very happy with the results. I should say they were completely shocked in a good way, because no-one expected what they finally saw. They must have liked my work during this session as they came back to me to license another image for use on the cover of 2003’s Essential Ozzy Osbourne, which was part of Sony Music’s ‘Essential’ series of limited-edition two-disc compilations of major artists.

I have to tell you that Ozzy is an amazing professional. He was on time, did everything I asked of him and at the same time taught me a great deal about believing in yourself and being the best you can be. I also think that, in my life so far anyway, he is the only person that has managed to keep me laughing for 72 hours non-stop (yes, even in my sleep)!

On top of that, he’s ‘fit as a fiddle’. I know that because before anyone showed up for the second day of shooting, I found him doing 100 push ups in the studio. He was up for just about anything, but on the day we were going to use the X-ray machine he was in the x-ray room and as he started to take his clothes off I burst out laughing. He then asked me if the procedure was going to be harmful and I said ‘no’, but then told him that I needed to leave the room while they did the x-ray. He looked at me and smiled -’Not bloody dangerous, eh?!?!?’”

awww :0) Ozzy was so very adorable as a young master. you're making me very jealous now Andy J, for the info you're compiling. yea, i think the Down to Earth CD rocks big time...

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I can't seem to see you baby ... although my eyes are open wide ... but I know I'll see you once more ... when I see you, I'll see you on the other side

As I sort out and tag lost track how many photo's I have just re listened to Down to Earth. I had forgotten how good it actually is. On the whole, Ozzy does not make C rap records. There may be a few questionable ones, but then after several or more listens to and they are technically sound, and they grow on you.

I think that from the initial LP Black Sabbath to Ozzy's Latest, THEY ALL seem Fresh as the day they were put out, unlike some bands who seem to age, gracefully, or dis gracefully as the case may be!

Last Night while copying some VHS to DVD I cringed as the Osbournes were on the English Christmas show for Dame Edna Everidge. YES I had to cringe. However, it is now on the old DVD. There was also a Royal Variety Show 2004(?) where Slash was on Guitar with Ozzy, as he did an Old Beatles Number. Pity we could not see the moving Image back drop of the life of Ozzy. I did notice a picture of School boy Ozzy, at I Guess of the age between 5 and 8! The girls might find this really Cute! I guess that I will have to find the CD at some stage.

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i usually dont like covers ,but i love everything ozzy does--- so say the GIMP--im an ozzy fan

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gimpnoid
http://www.metalofoz.com/

except for some of his cover songs in Under Cover. i have to say i'm stretched to like some of them.

yes it has,,but i cant pick anybad oz albums--- hey ozznoids do we agree that anything ozzy does is fukkin cool,, and it does ring my rot ha ha ha ha ha ha

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but seriously folks, don't you think this album just has an incredible groove in it's entirety, as a sum and as individual parts? it's just really happening with the bass, damn!

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I can't seem to see you baby ... although my eyes are open wide ... but I know I'll see you once more ... when I see you, I'll see you on the other side

yes once again im chiming in ,,,i reckon all ozzy's songs ring my rot ,,,ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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gimpnoid
http://www.metalofoz.com/

its a f***ing great. i think all ozzy songs is ok. ozzy i love you.

i really like You Know and Junkie too. i think it's one of the best compilations of songs - in heavy metal and melodic metal style - that i've heard, and if the new stuff he puts out soon is like this, hell yeah! only one question ... if Zakk is writing - will this be the same sound we get? (see Wiki copy/paste below, last sentence)

Ozzy, Zakk Wylde, Robert Trujillo, and Mike Bordin made incredible magic together on this, don't you think? it completely blows me away. way exceeds Ozzy's old songs with Sabbath (big time, imho, but then maybe i'm a wee bit tired of hearing the usual ones played so often over the years).

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actually, i'm shocked that these songs are not classics getting more airtime, honestly. this CD is badass. in it's entirety, much like Godsmack IV, Metallica's Black Album - surely this is their equal, and it was released 7 or 8 years ago. i wonder what happened - seems like it wasn't promoted much...

this is from Wikipedia:

Down to Earth the eighth album by Ozzy Osbourne, released on October 16, 2001 (see 2001 in music). Released as an Enhanced CD, it was the long awaited follow-up to his 1995 studio release Ozzmosis. It is the only studio album to feature former Suicidal Tendencies bassist Robert Trujillo, who would then go on to join Metallica in 2003. This was also the first studio album Osbourne had ever done without the writing or performance of either Bob Daisley or Geezer Butler. Guitarist Zakk Wylde did not write any of the songs for this album.

it's very heavy metal and i absolutely hands-down love that about it, that's for sure. i personally think it is one of the best Ozzy albums i have heard. but i agree, all of them are cool.

It's a great album, as all Ozzy's

arh some good thoughts there scapes,,you are right but i still cant pick a bad ozzy album--love em all

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gimpnoid
http://www.metalofoz.com/

Very good album, & in my opinion down to earth and ozzmosis were the most genuine, and sincere albums he has ever made after his lost of Randy..

Again jus my thoughts, to each his own....

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Peace

Scape

Ozzy:"I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane." (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)

i think its great,,as good as every other album of his

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gimpnoid
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