Blizzard of Ozz

This is my favorite Ozzy album...and its still pretty damn bad. We have three good tracks on this album, then a bunch of garbage. The album is very inconsistent and impossible to listen to from the beginning to end. The 3 tracks on this album do offer 3 different great things and are worth a listen, but I wouldn't buy the album over them.

After a boring intro song, Crazy Train offers this album hope, which disapears after this track. Crazy Train has a great opening riff done in an 80's style metal but without having a hair metal feel to it that pulls you right into some good vocals by Ozzy. The highlight of this album is the amazing solo Randy Rhodes does. Its lengthy, intense, and very enjoyable hitting many different and pleasant sounding notes. The solo totaly blows away anything on the rest of this album, or anything Ozzy has done with his solo career, its that damn good. After a boring ballad and an unispired instrumental track the ablum goes into the song with the best riff on it. Here the song has a great opening riff that streches throughout the entire song and manages not to get boring or annoying, but in fact stay good and enjoyable. The bass line here is also pretty good, its flowing with the riff and has volume. After this delightful track the album hits its last good song. Mr. Crowly has the best song structure of any song on this album. It has good solo's, good riffs, good basslines and drums, and some pretty good vocals. The song is very well written abd put together. The album then ends in a trio of garbage.

So aside from 3 great tracks the album totaly blows and is boring. Not even these three great tracks are convincing enough to make anyone want to buy this ablum. This album prooves that Ozzy at his best, is at best medeocre. Stay away from Ozzy in General