Ozzy Osbourne Music:

Diary of a Madman Track Listing:
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

Editorial Review:
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Description of Diary of a Madman:
The second album of Ozzy Osbourne's solo career, Diary of a Madman was his last to feature the talents of guitarist Randy Rhodes, who died in a plane crash soon after the disc's release. While it's not as furious as his first solo album Blizzard of Oz, it still captures Ozzy's maniacal glory. Highlights include "Over the Mountain" and the kinetic "Flying High Again," which benefit as much from Rhodes's blistering musicianship as from Ozzy's heavy, melodic songwriting. Some of the disc is burdened with overly sappy passages and obligatory ballads, but overall, Diary of a Madman is required listening for the well-heeled metalhead. --Jon Wiederhorn

Diary of a Madman Reviews:
Diary of a Madman is an 8 Track Masterpiece
2009-11-18 - Diary Of A Madman is the follow up to the Hugely Succesful Ozzy solo Debut Blizzard of Ozz and it is a Masterpiece! It's hard to follow up Classics but leave it to Ozzy to do just that.Diary opens with "Over the Mountain" a blistering chug a chug drum and guitar heavy track and is followed by the insane "Flying High Again" which who cant mention the late great Randy Rhoads's Amazing Axework on this and other Tracks.Unfortunately this would be his last album with Ozzy as he died in a devastating plane crash."You Cant Kill Rock and Roll" is a catchy guitar driven track with some Amazing vocals.One i would like to see Ozz do live someday."Little Dolls and "Diary of a Madman" to me are Great haunting tracks that make Ozzy's voice take the listener to another world.The Ballad "Tonight" is one of my favorite of his and it fits the Album well.Overall 10/10 again for Ozz.

exactly what was advertised, love it!!!
2009-01-31 - this CD was exactly what the seller told me it was. I am very pleased with the quality and the quickness in which it was shipped to me... would definitely buy from this person again.

Ozzy and Randy Rhoads second, and lastly final, masterpiece still holds up 27 years on
2008-08-17 - Ozzy Osbourne's second solo album Diary of a Madman was released in November of 1981.
When Ozzy Osbourne released his first album after his Black Sabbath ouster called Blizzard Of Ozz (which included a stellar band including bass player Bob Daisley, drummer Lee Kerslake and the late great guitarist Randy Rhoads), he proved he could survive without Sabbath with great success.
In early 1981, Ozzy (plus Rhoads, Kerslake and Daisley) re-entered the recording studio to record his second solo album and pressure was on to deliver an album that was either as good as his debut or better. Would Ozzy and company deliver or would they be written off. Read ahead and find out (as I did when I first acquired the cassette in March of 1984 on recommendation after liking Bark at the Moon so much as a just turned 8 year old).
We kick things off with one of Ozzy's best rockers "Over the Mountain" which had one of the best rock drumming intros and a great solo work from Rhoads. Next was the album's rock radio staple "Flying High Again" which is a great number. Next is the other rock radio staple and the truth about rock music in general "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll". This near seven minute epic is about Ozzy's true love (Rock and Roll). Randy Rhoads' guitar work here was unreal. The first side closed with a great rocker out of "Believer". Great musicianship and vocal work from Ozzy.
The album's second half kicks off with "Little Dolls" which had another stellar Kerslake drum intro which went into a great rocker. Next is another ballad "Tonight" which slows things down a bit but still a stellar song. We follow with the rocker "S.A.T.O." and is another winner. We close with the epic haunting title cut which featured some of Rhoads' best guitar work and superb musicianship from Kerslake and Daisley plus haunting choir and strings.
Diary of a Madman was yet another Top 20 smash for The Ozzman and his first Platinum seller in the US (now at four million in US sales).
This album was sadly the last with Ozzy's first (and best) solo band as Messieurs Kerslake and Daisley were fired upon the album's completion and sadly Randy Rhoads whom would tragically die in a plane crash in March of 1982 whilst touring with Ozzy en route to a show in Orlando, Fla (to play a show with Foreigner).
If you buy this album, make sure you buy the 1980s CD issue or the 1995 remaster (with green border on cover as this review is for) superbly remastered by Bob Ludwig and do not, I REPEAT DO NOT, buy the atrocitious 2002 re-issues which saw Sharon spitefully and coldly delete Daisley and Kerslake's parts and replace them with Robert Trujillo (now Metallica's bass player) and current Ozzy and ex-Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin who slaughtered this masterpiece because she would not pay Daisley and Kerslake their owed royalties for their hard work on the album.


The greatest heavy metal album I've ever heard, bar none
2008-05-07 - That's right folks, this album not Master of Puppets, not Paranoid, not ZOSO, not Machine Head, not Back in Black, is the greatest metal album I've ever heard in my life. Why? Because this is the fullest extent of the heavy metal experiment, an experiment started in the late 1950s to today. It isn't about how heavy the album is, how ridiculously virtuosic the guitar solos are: it is about mood. This album is the epitome of metal; it has both crazy thrash your head metal music and dark oh my I think I'm insane music. The definition of the heavy metal album.

Punked
2008-04-09 - First of all, I had both vinyls (blizzard of ozz, diary of a madman) in the eighties, but sadly I sold, trade and/or lost them.

Tired of having sucky bad-compressed mp3s in my PC, I decided to order them both by Amazon. Let's have both CDs! I saw that these were the 95 reissues (with Lee Kerslake & Bob Daisley in the rythm section). I says here: original CD reissues from 1995. Good deal because you can't find them anywhere.

But - alas! - I received those goddamned 2002 versions with Sharon & Kelly on bass and drums!

Like we say in my good ol'town: Punked!