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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 257898
Released: June 30, 1998 |
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| Used Price: $25.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Diary Of A Madman/Bark At The Moon/The Ultimate Sin Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Over the Mountain
2. Flying High Again
3. You Can't Kill Rock & Roll
4. Believer
5. Little Dolls
6. Tonight
7. S.A.T.O.
8. Diary of a Madman
Disc 2:
1. Bark at the Moon
2. You're No Different
3. Now You See It, Now You Don't
4. Rock & Roll Rebel
5. Centre of Eternity
6. So Tired
7. Slow Down
8. Waiting for Darkness
9. Spiders in the Night
Editorial Review:
Import compilation combines three of the shock rocker's albums, 'Diary Of A Madman' (1981), 'Bark At The Moon' (1983), & 'The Ultimate Sin' (1986) (Out-of-print in the US), together in one low-priced package. Each disc features individual standard packaging & come housed together in a slipcase. Sony.
Diary Of A Madman/Bark At The Moon/The Ultimate Sin Reviews:
Great Opportunity to Obtain Unaltered Remasters 
2008-04-10 - This box set is great because you can get the 1995 remasters of "Diary of a Madman" and "Bark at the Moon" together. For the uninitiated, in 2002, Ozzy unfortunately released an altered remaster of "Diary of a Madman" that removed the original bass and drum parts. For many, including myself, this ruined this classic metal recording from the early 80s. The 2002 mastering on "Bark at the Moon" also seems to have been a bit inferior, though no re-recordings were done, apparently. Lastly, this set contains "The Ultimate Sin," which has been deleted from Ozzy's catalog for reasons that are unclear. It is a shame that "Blizzard of Oz" is not also included in this set, as that recording was also remastered in the same unfortunate way as "Diary of a Madman."
It's Ozzy
2006-03-05 - By this time, most people should probably be familiar enough with the man that they don't need me to tell them whether they'll want these albums or not. Since you're here, though, it's a reasonably safe assumption that you do like Ozzy, and that the important question isn't so much how good these albums are, but are they the original albums? To which, I can happily say, yeah, they are.
For anyone just straggling in, most of Ozzy's albums were remastered back in 2002. Unfortunately, due to legal litigations and issues with royalties, the decision was made to rerecord the original bass and drum tracks from Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy's newer bandmembers. If George Lucas has taught us anything over the past ten years, it's that purists tend to get upset when you mess around with their beloved classics. Though nothing was rerecorded for Bark at the Moon, many feel the remixing was botched and some of the guitar fills and such seem to be missing from parts of the album. The Ultimate Sin, on the other hand, wasn't even rereleased with the other albums. Apparently Ozzy just doesn't like it very much.
However, rejoice, MetalHeads, for this here three-disc set contains the 1995 editions of Diary, Bark, and Sin. The sound quality is as good as you'd expect and none of music you like so much has been tampered with. And, as an extra added bonus, Amazon is currently selling it for about what you could pay for a single CD in some music stores. Since these albums are out of print now, you might want to go ahead and snatch this up if you don't want to make do with the 2002 discs. If only it included Blizzard of Ozz as well, this would be perfect.
And since I should probably say something about the actual albums, here, okay ...
Diary of a Madman is an honest-to-goodness metal classic and the last album recorded by guitar hero Randy Rhoads before his death in a bizarre plane crash. Flying High Again is one of Ozzy's most famous songs. You've heard it. It's on here.
With Bark at the Moon, Ozzy started using more keyboards and synthesizers, a trend that continued in later albums, and that, in itself may turn some people off, but it's still a fine album with some good songs. The title track, in particular, is great.
Ultimate Sin is the one Ozz seems to hate so much, nowadays. Some of his fans agree, though I don't quite see why. Not his finest moment, perhaps, but still a solid album with a few standout songs, even if some of the nuclear war pondering is a bit heavy-handed. Ozzy was never really about subtlety.
If you're an Ozzy fan and you don't already have these albums, chances are you want this. If you're not an Ozzy fan, what the heck are you reading this for? You're wasting your time. Get out of here.
5 starts, IF....
2002-10-31 - If these are the orignal recordings with Daisley, Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, etc. I'm NOT interested in purchasing junk "remasters" with the original artists deleted and "improved" solos and backing tracks recorded...I already wasted money on one of the remastered series, and had to wonder why the bass was dragging, the solos sounded as if they had been recorded in Ozzy's basement by those crazy kids from N'Sync, etc. Can anyone shed some light on this dilemma. If these are the originals, then they all rate 5 stars...if not, better save your money for the next (ha, ha) Van Halen album, to be released in 2012!
THE GREATEST DEAL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2002-04-14 - ...
Diary of a Madman: Ozzy's last album with Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.). A very scary booklet, but the music is fantastic! I loved this album I give it 9.5/10!
Bark at the Moon: I am listening to this as I write the review. Okay, but it's kind of slow. 7.5/10
The Ultimate Sin: Ozzy redeemed himself with this CD! 9/10!
So altogether for the box set I give it 10/10! ...
Some people just don't get it!
2002-02-08 - Some of you are missing the point. This isn't really a box set. It's an opportunity to get 3 classic albums for the price of 2. Think about it. Any hardcore Ozzy fan is going to get all that they can, right? Well, here you go! It's like getting a free Ozzy! All three albums ROCK!
