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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 5007
Released: April 2, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Blizzard of Ozz Track Listing:
1. I Don't Know
2. Crazy Train
3. Goodbye To Romance
4. Dee
5. Suicide Solution
6. Mr. Crowley
7. No Bone Movies
8. Revelation (Mother Earth)
9. Steal Away (The Night)
10. You Lookin' At Me Lookin' At You
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: OSBOURNE,OZZY
Title: BLIZZARD OF OZZ
Street Release Date: 04/02/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
Description of Blizzard of Ozz:
Blizzard of Ozz, the first solo effort by the former lead singer of Black Sabbath, became a classic, due in large part to Osbourne's partnership with the late Randy Rhoads. The most immediately recognizable song is "Crazy Train," whose distinctive riff has made it a staple of rock radio. "Mr. Crowley" and "Suicide Solution" generated considerable controversy, which is equivalent to good press when it comes to heavy metal. Other strong tracks include "Revelation (Mother Earth)" and the opening song, "I Don't Know." This 2001 reissue includes the bonus tracks "You Lookin' at Me Looking You." While even heavy-metal listeners haven't always taken Osbourne seriously, his influence on the genre has been considerable. Blizzard of Ozz demonstrates why Ozzy commands lasting respect. Following a spat between band members, the parts played originally by bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake have been recorded over. --Genevieve Williams
Blizzard of Ozz Reviews:
THANK YOU GUYS.... 
2008-06-29 - I had just bought the 2002 version. The cd was still wrapped as I came here to read customers' reviews on it. Thank you guys! As soon as I read them, I got back to the cd store and had it changed. Thank God I hadn't unwrapped it already! I'll be searching for the 1995 version. I'm sooo curious to hear this masterpiece but I'd rather have my hands cut off than to buy this version! I'll wait no matter how long it'll take...You're all right: we must not let Ozzy make money on this outrageous version. He himself must realise what he has done: I hope he will not sell 1 more copy of it!! May it serve him right....:-)
The Destruction of A Classic, Simply To Make A Few MORE $$$
2008-06-08 - I'll be brief. This 2002 re-release is a piece of trash. Rather than re-releasing "Blizzard of Ozz" with a bonus disc of live Randy Rhoades material (anyone who knows anything about Rhoades-era Ozzy knows that there is a killer King Biscuit Flower Hour show from Montreal, Canada recorded in July of 1981 and plenty of other great recordings of the Rhoads-era BESIDES the "Tribute" album) or further working on bringing the sound of the original analog tapes of "Blizzard Of Ozz" to an even higher pinnnacle of clarity (especially considering the technological breakthroughs made since the first 1995 re-release of "Blizzard Of Ozz"), what do SHARON and the OZZY $$$ TRAIN decide to do? RECORD OVER LEE KERSLAKE's drums and BOB DAISELEY's bass!?! Those two guys were legends!!! Lee Kerslake having played on all those BRILLIANT 70's URIAH HEEP albums and Daisley having played with RAINBOW (yes, the RAINBOW started by Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple) as well as WIDOWMAKER in the mid-70's and CHICKEN SHACK in the earlier part of the decade. Kerslake and Daisley were HUGELY competent players whose contributions (especially Daisley's in regards to song writing on "Blizzard Of Ozz") made it possible for OZZY to form a solo band and eventually stumble upon a young guitar prodigy named Randy Rhoads playing in a band famous mainly in L.A. and Japan called Quiet Riot. I'm sorry but EVEN WITH RANDY RHOADES, had veteran musicians Daisley and Kerslake not been there in 1980, there's a good chance Ozzy Osbourne would be nothing more today than BLACK SABBATH's original singer. Whoever made the final decision to remove Daisley and Kerslake's contributions to "Blizzard Of Ozz" and bring in a couple of session musicians to re-record and ultimately destroy a heavy metal fan classic should be either flogged or forced to listen to all of Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley's BRILLIANT pre-Ozzy material for eternity!!! In the end, it probably was Randy Rhoades' musical contribution which propelled Ozzy's solo career to the heights it achieved, but Kerslake and Daisley also without a doubt (just listen to Daisley's "Crazy Train" bass-lines!!!) easily played just as critical a role in reinvigorating a truly burned out and broke Ozzy Osbourne. To simply ERASE their contributions is a tragedy. What's next, get Alexi from CHILDREN OF BODOM to re-record Randy Rhoads' guitar solos!!!
I will NOT buy it!
2008-05-11 - I will NOT buy this CD! - Because it's NOT original - Short and clear - And I ask others do the same - I'm Ozzy fan - Classic and Original Ozzy - NOT Sharon's Ozzy
- Because other reviewers brought enough light on the subject and there is no point to go into details - maybe it's just easier for other reviewers to write one line - I WON'T BUY this BS (CD) - or something like that - that's it! - and maybe this will make Amazon stop getting it from suppliers
- In this stupid fight between Sharon's ego and Music - I'm on original musicians side (I'm wondering - would Randy be dropped from this version too if he'd be alive? - who would play - Zack? - I hope he'd have enough respect not to) - it's another reason not to buy this album - let's try to make them release original version as 24 bit remaster - impossible?
- Money talks? - OK - I think if we - Ozzy Fans - talk the same talk - Ozzy and Sharon will understand us
JUST PLAY ATTENTION TO RANDY!!!!!!! 
2008-05-06 - IF ALL OF YOU WHERE OZZY FANS YOU WOULDN'T GIVE THIS ALBUM BAD REVIEW'S. IT STILL HAS THE SAME DAMN FEEL TO IT. ESPECIALLY IN REVELATION THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY REVELATION. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH IT WAS ALL ABOUT RANDY AT THIS TIME FRAME SO TAKE YOURSELF OUTSIDE WITH THIS ALBUM AND BEAT YOURSELF TO DEATH BECAUSE THIS IS STILL THE BEST ALBUM THAT HAS CAME OUT. ASIDE FROM DIARY OF A MADMAN THIS ALBUM HAS THE BEST SONGS THAT HAS EVER CAME OUT FOR ROCK- CRAZY TRAIN, I DON'T KNOW, MR. CROWLEY, GOODBYE TO ROMANCE, SUICIDE SOLUTION, REVELATION (MOTHER EARTH)!!!! SO IF YOU STILL WANT A METAL ALBUM THAT YOU CAN HEAR FROM THE START TO THE FINISH THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT YOU SHOULD GET. SO FOR THE BAD REVIEWS OF THE ALBUM FROM THESE OTHER CRACK HEADS JUST TAKE YOURSELF OUT!!!! AND LEAVE THE ALBUM ALONE!!!!!!
Don't Mess With A Classic
2008-05-06 - I just heard somebody else's copy of this bastardization of Ozzy's first solo album. I really thought I was going to vomit.
No collection of heavy metal or hard rock is complete without Blizzard Of Ozz, and the album itself is easily worthy of five stars. This "remaster," however, is a joke. I, for one, am not laughing (unless you call dry heaves "laughter").
Listen to all the other reviewers and get a used copy of the 1995 remaster with the small album cover and the big yellow "OZZY" written down the right side. Hell, get a badly warped copy on vinyl that has been treated with a power sander then run over by a bus, or a copy on 8-track that has been sitting in a hot car for 25 years. Either would sound better than this.
