A question not POLITICALLY CORRECT....let's see who agrees with me?!
Question: I love Black Sabbath, but only their work without Ozzy Osbourne. I think they are a great band, have fantastic music... and the Ozz' voice is just horrid when combined with it.
I love them when they worked with Dio, Martin and Gillan. Who of the YA community friends here agrees with me??? Am I alone with my opinion?
Answers: I love Black Sabbath, but only their work without Ozzy Osbourne. I think they are a great band, have fantastic music... and the Ozz' voice is just horrid when combined with it.
I love them when they worked with Dio, Martin and Gillan. Who of the YA community friends here agrees with me??? Am I alone with my opinion?
I have liked Dio better than Ozzy in everything. It just seems to me that Ozzy mumbles through his songs. Dio is just so much powerful listen to "I" or "Ear in the Wall."
I can't figure out what politically correct has to do with that.
Your opinion isn't politically incorrect...taboo maybe. But I never listened to much of Sabbath without Ozzy, I'm not a big Dio fan. I've always assumed that the material they did with Ozzy is the only material worth listening to.
Sorry Deep Floyd but I can't agree with you, I actually like Ozzy's sound, I think all of Sabbath's vocalist have been great but my favorite is Ozzy
Ozzy Osbourne MADE Black Sabbath, w/o him they're just some has-beens.
ozzy is or wuz the man
but i respect your opinion-aint america fantastc?
keep on rockin
You know I love the Ozzman, but unlike many others here I also like Sabbath's work with Gillian, Hughes, Dio, & Martin. So I like all five of Sabbath's Lead Vocalists. I think each one brought their own uniqueness to Sabbath and transfomed the Band in a unique way for every incarnation.
My fave Sabbath Era's in order are:
1 The Ozzy Era
2 The Dio Era
3 Born Again (The Album with Ian Gillian)
4 The Tony Martin Era
5 Seventh Star (The Album with Glenn Hughes)
I disagree... I like Sabbath with both Ozzy and Dio and not particularly with Martin or Gillan. But then, I really like both Ozzy's and Dio's solo works too.
How is that not being politically correct? Anyway, early Sabbath would have never made it without Ozzy. Their early sound fit perfectly with his voice. Having said that, Heaven and Hell is one of my favorite albums ever. Dio, Martin, and Gillan had better, cleaner voices, but Iommi and company also changed their style to fit their voices. One could not have existed without the other.
Can't agree either. Were you introduced to the later work 1st?
But on the other hand, I know very little post-Ozzy Sabb. I'm sure I'd like a lot of it, but in my mind, none of it would ever surpass their golden era.
My feelings on the subject aren't quite as strong as those that are die-hard fans of Black Sabbath. I will say this though. Give them credit for continuing on without Ozzy. However, their greatest success commercially and critically occurred with Ozzy at the helm. He never had the perfect voice, but he was perfect for that group at that time.
Yes DF, you might be sitting at a table for one on this query. :)
I too prefer Black Sabbath with Ozzy. Ozzy and Sabbath go together like 'bread & butter'. Anything else is just...well 'bread & margarine'? With a couple exceptions of course.
When Ozzy left Sabbath, many hard core fans at the time (I was one) really had a difficult time accepting Dio. I was a huge fan of his work with 'Elf' and 'Rainbow', but it really took some getting used to the "new Black Sabbath" back in the spring of 1980.
Eventually I did come to love the 'Heaven & Hell' album, and today consider it to be one of my top 10 favorite Black Sabbath albums.
I really never cared much for 'The Mob Rules' album upon it's release, but have become to appreciate parts of it over the years.
I am also a huge Deep Purple fan, but could never stand Ian Gillan with Black Sabbath. As a matter of fact, three of us walked out on a Black Sabbath concert in around 1983 because Ians voice was so horrid. Around that point in time Ian was having some trouble with his vocal chords. Sadly he really ruined the show...it was that bad. It's nice to see Ians voice has returned to some extent these days though.
Glenn Huges was an incredible vocalist as well, and he was Ian's replacement. I also really enjoyed his previous work with Trapeze, and then Deep Purple. But I could never listen to any Sabbath with Glenn on vocals. Something was a miss there!
But...Tony Martin I could handle. He had a great voice, and seemed to fit perfectly in the roll as front man. 'Headless Cross' also happens to be one of my top 10 favorite Sabbath albums. I think that was Tony's highlight with the band.
In the end, 8 of my top 10 favorite Black Sabbath albums are with Ozzy Osbourne.
But I'm sure you're not alone with your opinion...there has to be a few people out there somewhere with your sentiments.