July 24, 2025 • 57 mins
The haunting final notes of "Diary of a Madman" still echo through metal history four decades after its release. Ozzy Osbourne's second solo album wasn't just eight tracks of heavy metal – it was a musical testament that would forever be shadowed by tragedy.
We dive deep into this 1981 masterpiece that captured lightning in a bottle: the supernatural collaboration between Ozzy and guitar prodigy Randy Rhoads. The album stands as both triumphant achievement and poignant farewell, with Rhoads' death in a plane crash just months after its release leaving fans forever wondering what might have been. His classical-influenced solos on tracks like "Flying High Again" and "Over the Mountain" revolutionized metal guitar playing, setting standards guitarists still aspire to today.
Beyond the radio hits lies a treasure trove of overlooked gems. The orchestral complexity of the title track reveals Ozzy's artistic ambitions extending far beyond his shock-rock persona. "Little Dolls" transforms from gritty rocker to something more melodically complex. "Tonight" showcases Randy's versatility with one of his most expansive solos – a bittersweet reminder of a talent taken too soon.
The album's creation wasn't without drama – bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake's contributions were later erased from reissues amid royalty disputes. Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne was beginning to take control of Ozzy's career, a partnership that would reshape metal's commercial landscape for decades.
Whether you're a lifelong metalhead or discovering Ozzy beyond "Crazy Train," join us for an album that balances technical brilliance with raw emotion, inspired by horror films and exploring the nature of madness itself. Share your favorite overlooked track from this classic album in the comments below – we might feature your pick in an upcoming episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Be the biggest lunatic that you've ever met in
your life, guys, but I'm herefor you, guys.
I'm here for people.
I'm here for enjoyment.
I'm here for giving people mylife, my soul, my everything.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing hisrendition of Flying High Again
is my co-host, tim, and thesubject matter of today's
podcast episode is the albumOzzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman.
First of all, rest in peace,ozzy.
(00:50):
My sympathies and my heart goesout to the fans who lost a
legendary.
Legendary doesn't do it injustice.
All of society knew who OzzyOsbourne was, all cultures.
He was a showman.
He was starting off at an earlyage, 19, lead singer of Black
(01:15):
Sabbath.
I mean, can you imagine?
You look back on what heaccomplished?
It's incredible.
This album is from October 1981,second studio album as a solo
artist, and leading up to thisalbum there's just a ton of
drama around him, as there kindof always was with Ozzy.
(01:37):
Like I said, a true entertainerin every sense of the word.
On this album, crazy Train hadcome out.
The album before from Blizzardof Oz, pretty sure, yeah.
And then this one has FlyingHigh Again Over the Mountain.
(01:59):
Those are the two big hits Iwould say.
Tonight came out as a single.
I don't remember it being a bigone.
So um, uh, you can't kill rockand rolls.
On this one too, I would sayfine, high again over the
mountain Can't kill rock androll.
(02:19):
Three hits, um, everything else.
We're going to leave open forthe non hits.
So we're as we always do.
We're going to leave open forthe non-hits.
So, as we always do, we'regoing to listen to all the songs
, we're going to yuck it up,we're going to play clips, we're
going to have a good time andat the very end, we're going to
rank the three top non-hits thatwe feel are overlooked.
(02:40):
And there's some good ones here.
There's actually only eightsongs on this album, so there's
gonna be a few to to choose from.
All the songs are great and thebest thing about this album, I
for my opinion, is um, theguitar playing the guitar solos.
Um, ozzy's got a killer voice.
(03:01):
Uh, the drummers you knowformer Uriah Heep drummer.
What's the guy's name?
Again, lee Kurtz Lake.
Yeah, and Randy Rhodes, guitarplayer extraordinaire, died
tragically after this album cameout in August 8th of 1982.
(03:24):
I'm familiar with like the backstory of it.
They were on tour and, yes,they had like two trips and I
don't know they were.
The draw is the the.
Oh yeah, you can look this uponline.
It was the, the bus driver whohad formerly had a commercial um
(03:47):
, a flying license, and so hetook the plane, I guess uh
unauthorized, and was doing somestunts and cleared Uh, I guess
they were driving like they'reflying low over the bus and he
flew too low and wing hit, uhhit the bus and he flew too low
and wing hit hit the bus, the.
It crashed shortly after tragicstory.
(04:11):
But yeah, we lost a greatguitar player and Randy Rhodes
that you know, shortly afterthis was made.
So you're going to listen tosome epic guitar playing and we
(04:32):
can only imagine what would havecome if he hadn't died in that
accident and what the trajectoryof Ozzy Osbourne's career would
have been Coming off of.
Another topic, though, anothercontroversy of this album was
how the bass player, what's hisname?
Daisley and Kerslake, leeKerslake, bob Daisley.
(04:53):
Bob Daisley was the bass playerwho did all the bass playing on
the album, but they werereplaced like most or shortly,
or once it was done.
Most or shortly or once it wasdone.
He and nick or lee curse lake,the drummer, uh, were replaced,
uh by a couple other people, Ithink not don airy, he did.
(05:14):
I don't know there was thiswhole change over.
We'll get to it later, butbasically I think uh, it was
around also this time thatSharon Osbourne became the
manager of the band.
So I guess Don Arden is SharonOsbourne's dad.
He was the label executive andSharon was his daughter.
(05:38):
The son was involved in thebusiness.
I think Management of Ozzy wentfrom the sun to Sharon and uh,
and I was kind of like it'ssimilar to like Janine from a
spinal tap, you know, I thinkthat was sort of the, the, the
Baxter or the, the.
That story of Janine in spinaltap I think may have been uh
(05:59):
inspired by the whole Sharontakeover.
Who later I ended up uh,getting edgy with some of the
other band members, and that waswhen they were, you know,
replaced, um, so anyway, um, sothere was this also guy, don
Airy, keyboardist on the album.
(06:20):
It was actually a guy namedJohnny cook who, um, actually
recorded the keyboard parts onit.
But anyway, don Airy, up tothat point, was a member of
Rainbow at the time and touringwith them.
So anyway, there's greatmusicians like, and Curse Lake
(06:41):
does a hell of a job on thedrums and even like his
replacement I think it was uhaldridge, um, anyway, yeah,
tommy aldridge uh.
And rudy sarzo uh replaced uh,bob daisley, so on on base.
But tommy aldridge, you know,gives him all the credit in the
world.
I'm just reading for wikipedia.
Yeah, so anyway for Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, so anyway, Wikipedia, Wikipedia all right.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So I'm thinking, I'm thinking Tim is gonna come, he's
going to join us in a moment.
You know, now I remember thisalbum.
This is like in 12th, you know,when you're in like seventh
grade and this is.
You know, everybody's like ohgee, your Ozzy, your diary of a
(07:36):
madman.
You know, it's like the, theOzzy fans were diehard and uh,
yeah, they still are.
We still my old classmates.
Shout out to Murph he'sdisappointed.
He was on another podcast withus earlier.
I think it was U2 War.
Yeah, shout out to Murph mycondolences.
(08:00):
I think it was the firstconcert that he went to 1984,
something like that.
They were touring with what'shis name?
Motley Crue.
The whole Snorting Ants thing,I think, was from that tour on
Ozzy's end.
But anyway, tim is with us.
Tim, how you doing bud?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Excellente.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, yes, what was your?
Yeah, what's your?
Do you what was?
Your uh yeah, what's your?
I brought my rosary, I broughtmy rosary with me.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yes, Uh yeah.
I mean, ozzy was always, youknow, an outlet of you know,
just uh, how should I put this?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I don't know it just just good male testosterone, you
know yeah it would also like afascination with darkness.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know it's like heaven and hell, you know like
all these diaries of madman,it's about uh you know evil, you
know embracing the other end,right, and the dark world.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I hate to believe, though, that he went to some
nasty place, man, because heseems like a good guy.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He turned himself into like a philanthropist.
You know, At the very end hegot up, performed for the crowd
and he did it for charity.
You know, yeah, so it.
You know it's it's a far placefrom what he's singing about,
but you know he was.
He's being real.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's very authentic yeah, in the current world,
right now nightmare continuesyeah, and then he had, yeah, he
had a show, yeah, what he had a.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Good evening, ozzy.
Hello there, right.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, check out all his stuff on YouTube.
It's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So anyway, oh man.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Are we ready to go?
You have any you?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
don't think so we have more to talk about.
Okay, yeah, this is.
You know, this is ozzy herewhat are we missing?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let me see what do you think there's over the
mountain?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
over the mountain is number one.
Yeah, should we, just, should,just dive right in.
What do we?
Do let's do it All right.
All right, here we go.
We're getting busted.
We're just getting so busted.
Why is that you get busted?
I love Ozzy, yeah.
(10:44):
I love Randy Rose too CrazyTrain.
I meanzy, yeah, I love RandyRhoads too Crazy Train.
I mean, this is CrazyTrain-esque.
Yes, it is that guitar, Verydeep, it's hard.
There he goes.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He's drumming too Cursely, because it's just all
over the place, wow, wow.
And when I noticed the airlineticket, I put two and two
together.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's only a dream.
Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
What is this?
Where am I man?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I miss Oz.
Happy dreams, Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, you're a star.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I'm for Clint Pepper.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Clinton.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, it's free.
Whoa this part.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's spice, that shit .
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Ups and downs here, overs and unders.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Yeah, just saying let it out, give it some air.
Man Play with it.
Well isn't?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
that special?
Yes, it is.
Yeah, the way the drums and theguitar at that end are Like a
(13:56):
triplet Vast amounts ofmarijuana.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Magic carpet ride.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Fishing silver inlaid clouds and watch out with that
other crowd you're running with.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Don't think I haven't noticed.
Don't sign the paper.
All right, whatever you do, youcan hang out with whoever you
want.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you can go to the Aerosmith concert yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Simple lines intertwining Turn it.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh yeah, Got to end on a strong note oh, come on,
sharon, I'm fucking OzzyOsbourne, the prince of fucking
darkness.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's right, all right, yeah, so we're off.
That was a good one, okay.
This next one is Flying HighAgain.
Oh, tim's favorite song on thealbum.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh, oh, oh, you know what?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I'm talking about that's a good lyric, man.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, it is Mama, mama, mommy Hi.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Hi Stewie, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Mom, mommy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Hi, hi, and watch out with that other crowd you're
running with oh.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Swallowing colors.
Am I a crazy guy?
Yeah, that's such a funny line,yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's titillating at multiple levels.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Is it flying?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It titillates with multiple senses.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
How much more black could this be?
And the answer is none, nonemore black.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You see, the black and red is white.
Also, you have like like reallybig eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Simple lines intertwining.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Oh, this is like opera-esque, like Mozart.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, this part, oh my gosh, see, this is the chords
slapping.
Think about what he would comeup with in subsequent albums if
he hadn't died in this thing.
It's just so senseless.
I know Rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Isn't that?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
special.
Rock and roll Isn't thatspecial.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I love that part.
What about?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
mommy, mom, mommy, mommy, mommy.
I'm a man.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I'm a man.
I'm a man now boy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh, Personally I think they're it's.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Spice Age shit.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I can run.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Alright, Asp.
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Should we have a little little moment of zen here
?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
All that shit is fucking bullshit.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Was that a palate cleanser you wanted?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, do another one.
I mean, that's all I have,really Okay, uh best leave it
unsolved yeah just best leave itall right okay, we're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You can't kill rock and roll.
This is, this is a hit to medeeper and deeper way down.
I'm up with the lies, alright,how many times can they?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
fill us with those lies.
Ozzy wants the lies to stop.
How many?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
times can they fill me with lies and I listen again.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's just a nightmare .
For ten years it does.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
It's too much.
Are you crying?
What's reason?
Today, are you crying?
What's that?
Are you crying?
Am I crying?
No, I'm not crying Even whatthey're talking about.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
What empty hands can I take?
Leave me alone to watch thepromises come alive.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I am fire.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Light up those lighters, let's go.
Okay, I love this.
(21:40):
I do too.
It's got an open feel to it andit's right off the bat.
The pull offs, the sort of liketempo changes.
It's right off the bat, thepull-offs, the sort of like
Tempo changes.
It's.
The harmonics are very welldone.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
This is a hit.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
For me it's a find, I would say.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know this is yeah , but it's a cut above the other
songs.
Okay, wow, Maybe not FlyingHigh Again and Over the Bound.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
They start really strong with this album.
I think is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Oh yeah, of course, but I mean this gets a lot of
this album.
I think is what you're saying.
Oh yeah, of course, but I meanthis gets a lot of airplay, I
think, or at least in somecircumstances, maybe Back in the
day it's on rotation.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Maybe not yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
And the riff goes with Ozzy's intonation as well,
which is cool it is.
It's not strange, maybe it is.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Isn't that special.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Here comes just another, yeah, and here comes
just another.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The spikes don't shoot.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, that's just smooth.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Play with it, just let it out.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yeah, even the rhymes that they give me In times of
confession, ain't true.
Our song is obvious, althoughthey're not for us Meaning you
too.
The things they will do and thethings they will say when they
don't really understand Fear ofrejection.
(24:17):
I need their protection.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm making a stand, Fear of rejection.
I need their protection.
I'm making a stand.
I don't even want to talk aboutyou and I can't imagine
protection and making a standDeeper and deeper Way down Cause
(24:39):
.
Rock and roll is my religionand my love.
It's like I don't want to ruinit.
This is such a good song I knowit is you can hear rock and
(25:00):
roll here it stands.
I feel like it's been dying.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is rock and roll dead .
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, I mean for the future.
I think a lot of people stilllisten to this, you know, even,
like you know, later generations, but there aren't very many
popular rock bands that arecontemporary like right now,
maybe aside from Greta Van Fleet, but maybe they haven't come
(25:39):
out with anything in a second.
I don't know.
From my hometown, by the way,you know my morning jacket gets
metal.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You know, you know, sometimes, yeah, incantation,
yeah there's, yeah, there'sother derivatives, I know
derivatives I mean, but not notclassic.
Yeah, everything is this getsmetal sometimes yeah, some jams
yeah, my morning jacket um fivefinger death punch, I don't know
(26:09):
.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't know me either.
That's a thing, no there'sreally not.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Can we get the rock and roll numbers up, please?
Where are the garage rock bands?
What's going on?
Close the app and get in thegarage, that's right.
An alleyway, who knows?
Okay, it's not rock and rollunless you get the cops called
it, that's right, you know, allright, this is believer.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's that bass line.
This would actually be a goodtour to go to Before Randy
Rhoades died.
Some of those shows must havebeen incredible With him just
shredding it High energy.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
This one is called the Believers.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
That was his intro in the Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads
live 81.
81.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
He does have a good voice too.
I mean like yeah, it's distinct.
Mean like yeah, it's distinct,it's his Sure, his own.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He's just got a way of His voice like blending in
the right way to this kind ofmusic.
It just goes really well.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm doing some weird effects in the background here,
some editing we that have yet tomay not have met us.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I'm doing some weird effects in the background here
Some editing.
Who's the producer here?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Max and Norman.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Shout out to.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Max yeah, they have a Max Norman.
Shout out to Max.
Yeah, they have the voice, thedouble voice.
It's like an overdub.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Right Like Ozzy harmonizing with himself Some
truck effects in the background.
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's a way to fight the traps.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
You know what it costs to dress the band in
animals, sharon, alright, you,it's your fucking wife.
You manage the band.
I'm done, I quit.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I think mine would look better in doubly.
It's a little harsh.
I love Sharon, though Shout outto Sharon?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Don't think so, Tommy .
Who's the BSC?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You.
He doesn't believe that hedrank those beers.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, you were talking about this earlier.
It's a mystery.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Shout out to Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, he's got room beers.
Shout out to room beers.
Yeah, Shout out to everybodyout there who's got bedroom
beers whether you've got beersin your bedroom.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I want to be in my room and taking my beers away
from my room.
How much more black could thisbe?
The answer is none.
None more black this could beMore black.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
This could be more black.
I ain't no deceiver.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
A Birmingham boy saying ain't, yeah, I love it
Destiny planned out, shout outto Birmingham.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I got me planned out.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Regulation of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I guess if Ozzy was from Annapolis, oh my God.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
We'd just be like do the dead bird, I'm the one, I'm
the one, I'm the one, I'm theone, I'm the one, I'm the one,
I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm the one.
I'm the one.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one,
I'm the one, I'm the one.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I'm the one.
Iucy Jack, you're a naughty one.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Saucy.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Jack, jack can always help them use the television,
you know?
Alright, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If you get busted, I'll fucking bust your ass, okay
, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It takes it so Believer we're putting I like it
.
Yeah, I like it.
It's got a good vibe to it.
Yeah, I like it, it might.
It's close, it's up there, thisis.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Little Dolls Work it, work it, baby Work it.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Work it, own it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yes, you can handle this.
First is here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Put your hands together for the lovely Jasmine.
This is like a little dollstrip club song.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
A little bit, especially if the strip club's
name was Little Dolls.
Strip club song A little bit,yeah, especially if the strip
club's name was Little Dolls.
Oh yeah, they would play thisevery day.
Yeah, shout out Probably like10, 30.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Shout out to the Dow House in Tampa.
I can't remember if that was onI, if that was on Lois or West
Shore, anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Nightmare continued.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Okay, more drugs.
Oh, shout out to the Bronners,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shout out to those Wikipediawriters out there.
That's right.
Shout out to those hamenthusiasts.
(33:25):
It's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It is Best leave it.
It's not uns, it is Best leaveit unsolved.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Really, that's the way to fight the traps Good call
.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I am fire Whoa.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, guys, let's kick it down Deeper and deeper.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Way down.
You broke the rule.
You've been removed.
I need to die with you Way down, killer Hugh, I love this.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
This is like I wanted you, but was the end to come
again?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
The whole reason to be Killer who I love this.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
This is like the lyrics are pretty, you know
intricate.
They used to put more effortinto it, Ripping and screaming.
The pain just won't go.
He'll show you no mercy.
(35:14):
Your image is in his hands.
There's a lot of religioussymbolism or undertones,
References, Right.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
That's an ozypedia.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh yeah, I'm sure there's all kinds of stuff.
We've only scratched thesurface on this, yeah this is
about booty dolls and blackmagic.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Isn't that special.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Oh yes, pins and needles prick the skin of a
little doll Like a Right.
It's a booty doll, yeah, like abooty doll.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh, I thought it was a drug.
I mean it could be a doublemeaning though Drug reference, I
don't know.
No, maybe not.
Maybe it's just only about thedial, that's it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Best leave it.
It's not unsolved really.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's a bit deeper.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Way down.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It turns into not a stripper song.
Yes, yeah, it goes fromstripper to like Like a yacht
rock.
Like a yacht rock.
Yeah, it's like a pop song itdoes yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Who do we black magic ?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, that was all over the place yeah, but uh take
us on a take us to a happyplace, yeah, but uh pick us on a
pick us to a happy place.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
All right.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
All right, very 80s.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yes, we regressed, you know we went, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
What does Ozopedia say about this?
Well, this is called Tonightand it would be interesting to
(37:53):
hear what Ozzapedia has to say.
Shout out to Daisley Kerslake,it's like a woodwind Tributes.
Yeah, Not much on this one.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, this sounds like 1981.
Right, what year was this?
I thought it was 86.
No, no, no, this is 1981.
It's 81.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Second album, blizzard of Oz, Ithink, came out first, and then
that had a crazy train of it,and then there was this one
(38:37):
right after that.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Oh, oh, that was a nice little, very 80s yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Shout out to Don Harry or Cook.
No, it was.
Was it Brian Cook?
This is Johnny Cook.
(39:19):
He's such a good guitar player.
(39:41):
Yeah, all of his littlevignettes or whatever, I mean
all these semi-solos yeah, henever disappoints.
He always does somethingdifferent at will.
Very versatile in the genre ofmetal yeah, you just wonder what
(40:06):
would have happened he wasyoung In the genre of metal.
Yeah, you just wonder whatwould have happened he was young
.
If you were living to this day,you'd have probably a whole
different body of work.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Ozzy said about Randy .
If I had to say which one ofthe guitarists I'd rather work
with, it was him.
He was the most musicallytrained, he could write and
could read, he could play taughtat his mother's school and he
(40:43):
would work with me, as opposedto having to work on top of what
I put down interesting.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
yeah, yeah, we picked the right album.
I was saying Blizzard of Oz.
Tim was like I like Flying Highagain, let's do that.
I was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I think Flying High again, you know, fits a
different purpose now these past, you know, just flying high in
the ether in the next round.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I don't know.
I think I'm going to startgetting into Ozzy again.
I'm just going to start likecomparing, just to listen to
Blizzard of Oz and this one,just to see how his guitar
playing evolves, like the oneversus the other.
(41:39):
Crazy Train was great, thatwhole solo there.
Maybe he's a little bit morerefined, I think, on the sound.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
It's just taking it to 11.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Oh yeah, Out at the top.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Out the top.
Now I'm starting to hear somegood bass playing too.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
I'm taking it up there.
Whoa, that's cool.
I love when they yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Whoa.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Keep going and going, and going yeah, well, we can
move it along.
What do we got left?
We got sato, I think is next.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, the guitarplaying is still good.
They phase out of that, likeafter he's this is like a jam
yeah, like right in the middleof a jam, it just kind of fades
out.
Yeah, so anyway, all right,moving on, all right, s-a-t-o.
(42:55):
That's an acronym Sharon, notArden, and Thelma Ozzie,
something like that.
That's the acronym Sharon andher old boyfriend Ozzy, and his
(43:18):
first wife.
First letters are their names.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Sharon Arden, Belmont , Osby.
Okay, Arden is Sharon's maidenname.
She's the daughter of recordmogul.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Don Arden yeah, it's her dad.
Yeah, her dad is like therecord guy.
Yeah, he's the record guy.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
What yeah?
No way, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
That's how they met.
You know, he was like a totalmess.
I mean, if you read hisbackstory she was kind of like
after he was dumped by BlackSabbath, you know, he went to a
dark place.
She kind of thought he was ateddy bear and took him under
her wing, kind of a thing.
(44:10):
So she was like a good Jeanine.
I think it's interesting.
She was a hard-nosed businessperson.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
I'm a shop vlogger.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
You got to have some way to fight the traps.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
How are you feeling about this song?
Oh wouldn't you.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
It's a little harsh.
Yeah, it is a little harsh.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
I just yeah, I like it.
I like it's high energy.
I guess In theory, yeah, I likeit.
I like it's higher energy.
I just In theory.
But the executions Tonight it'sgood, it's just.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
That's something I find.
I put my return to it.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
I know Sato what, but they're playing a lot of notes.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I kind of like this.
Speaker 5 (45:30):
Finally, the bass player is ripping it too.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
It's riptastic Qualifier.
It's getting too fast.
Call the fire department here.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
It's getting too fast .
I'll get you a bal balladconcert for you after this All
the brighter than the sunlight.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Sail away, see the day Going on a new horizon.
Hold in sight shining bright,Brighter than the sun that's
rising.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Three thousand sails of light are straining in the
wind.
This wind is high, and so am I.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Vow cement of marijuana oh, come on, sean, wow
(46:50):
, okay, wow, okay, okay, yeah,you know what?
I want to give that song achance at that ending.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
It's a little much.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
It is a little much, okay, this is the last.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
This is the title track.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
This is it Simple lines, simple, lines, simple
lines intertwining.
(47:36):
Very beautiful, very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I wonder what this is called well, this piece is
called I Lick my Love Punk yeah,but seriously, this is Diary of
a Madman.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
This is like the last one.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
I'm a chavraga.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
Yeah, I like playing like a haphazardly kind of
painting mood Hopeless.
Situation.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Endless price I have to pay, telling me, telling me,
oh, I'm a madman.
Yeah, before we forget, I thinkthere's Diary of a Madman, is a
Vincent Price kind of a thing.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
Diary Diaries Of a madman Walk the line.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Again and again.
Yeah.
1963 horror film starringVincent Price as Simon Cordier,
A magistrate who becomespossessed by a malevolent entity
Known as the Gloria Orla.
Isn't that special?
Possessed by a malevolent?
Speaker 6 (48:57):
entity known as the Horia Orla.
Isn't that special.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
So Cordier reads his diary after his death, revealing
his descent into madness, theHorla, an invisible entity,
takes control of him, compellinghim to commit the attack.
So as he struggles against, thenature of evil.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
Yeah, it's exploring the nature of evil here.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
The influence of the Horla, he becomes increasingly
paranoid and isolated, fearingfor his life and sanity.
That's like Ozzy in a nutshell,jesus.
That's tripped out.
Yeah, so, like the film notedfor its exploration of
psychological horror,particularly the fear of losing
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control of everyone's mind andactions.
Mirror.
(50:40):
Will he escape my soul or willhe live in me?
Is he trying to get to me?
This is an interesting badstory.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
Or trying to get to me.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, it's sort of like a song about the demons
within us, kind of a thingYou're your own worst enemy A
little violin here.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
I wonder who's playing.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
It's very ominous.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Lewis Clark oh yeah, lewis Clark string out.
Oh yeah, lewis Clark stringarrangements on Diary of a Bad
man.
We never got to the fact thatthere's like a 2002 reissue
where Robert Trujillo, from likethe current Metallica bassist,
(51:56):
plays the bass part for thereissue, and then Mike Gordon on
drums.
I guess there was a thing overroyalties.
Curse Lake and Daisley sued andgot royalties, so maybe they
did a remix to take theirplaying off of it or something.
Speaker 5 (52:19):
Oh, sounds petty, take him, set me free.
Speaker 6 (52:42):
Oh, oh, and watch out with that other crowd you're
running with.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Where am I man?
Yeah, they have like singers.
Wow, this is cool.
They're all kinds of rumorsabout him worshiping Satan and
all that stuff, so I think thatwas playing to that.
(53:28):
But anyway, that was a goodending I like how they wrapped
that up, so we're getting intothe top three.
You want to start?
Let's go with your number threeum, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (53:41):
Little dolls number three good choice.
You know it pulled it off atthe end.
It really had some, you knowyeah that was the one Threat
work and weird most classicalthemes to it.
(54:03):
At the end, A lot of thesesolos even have classical
elements to them.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah, exactly yeah, so that's a good choice.
Yeah, that was the one that hasit goes from strip club to like
regular yacht rock Strip club,to yacht rock kind of a song.
Speaker 4 (54:19):
It made you feel good at the end.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
You didn't feel as dirty.
You feel like you've becomemore voodoo-y.
Speaker 4 (54:27):
Yeah, exactly, you've got the do of the voodoo all
over you.
Gotta shake it loose, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna say, believer is my number three okay
yeah, do, do, do, do that wasthe yeah that's the best opening
of a song okay, so uh, yeahit's my number three, all right
uh, I did like tonight honestly.
Speaker 4 (54:47):
So number two tonight , good tune, it's wonderfully
done and it did jam and he couldkeep going and going the roads.
For that road the guitar solocould just keep going on that
one yeah, that was a good guitarsolo, I agree.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Um, uh, mine is gonna be little dolls, you know, I'd
say there we go yeah, it was agreat.
Uh, yeah, just the.
I like the way it ended too.
It it ended strong to quitestrong.
But I like the beginning too.
It was like dirty, it was inyour face.
It would just get you going and, you know, brings you back to
(55:26):
the day where girls had theirhair teased and that whole thing
.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Tease.
Well, not to tease you anymore,my number one is Diary of a man
.
All right, yeah, um, justoverall, you know, under the
first three, obviously, I thinkit's really is the fourth
strongest song on the album.
I do too.
(55:54):
Yeah, it might.
It might be better than Overthe Mountain.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
Kill Rock and Roll was amazing.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Over the Mountain has that really good guitar solo If
that hadn't been in there, Iwould agree with you.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Well, yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
But you make a good point though.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
I like the novel reference and the literature,
the literature that's right nodright, so that's why and it's my
number one as well.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Um, for all those reasons and I'll just tack on
another one, I will say it'slike the strings, the, the choir
at the end, that strong ending,that whole thing.
That seemed kind of cool.
There was, uh, somethingdifferent oh, oh yeah, and the
song evolved over time and endedstrong, ended the album.
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Very strong.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, very strong to quite strong, all right, and
another strong podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:50):
Yes, be here for the people.
Be a do-gooder out there LikeOzzy yeah yeah, one moreoder out
there like Ozzy yeah yeah, Onemore shout-out to Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
We loved him and.
God rest his soul.
Speaker 4 (57:09):
All right, there's no guy.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
I don't know.
I didn't say that Exactly Forthe believers, All right later.
Bye.
Be the biggest lunatic that you've ever met in
your life, guys, but I'm herefor you, guys.
I'm here for people.
I'm here for enjoyment.
I'm here for giving people mylife, my soul, my everything.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest
Non-Hits.
I'm Chris, and playing hisrendition of Flying High Again
is my co-host, tim, and thesubject matter of today's
podcast episode is the albumOzzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman.
First of all, rest in peace,ozzy.
(00:50):
My sympathies and my heart goesout to the fans who lost a
legendary.
Legendary doesn't do it injustice.
All of society knew who OzzyOsbourne was, all cultures.
He was a showman.
He was starting off at an earlyage, 19, lead singer of Black
(01:15):
Sabbath.
I mean, can you imagine?
You look back on what heaccomplished?
It's incredible.
This album is from October 1981,second studio album as a solo
artist, and leading up to thisalbum there's just a ton of
drama around him, as there kindof always was with Ozzy.
(01:37):
Like I said, a true entertainerin every sense of the word.
On this album, crazy Train hadcome out.
The album before from Blizzardof Oz, pretty sure, yeah.
And then this one has FlyingHigh Again Over the Mountain.
(01:59):
Those are the two big hits Iwould say.
Tonight came out as a single.
I don't remember it being a bigone.
So um, uh, you can't kill rockand rolls.
On this one too, I would sayfine, high again over the
mountain Can't kill rock androll.
(02:19):
Three hits, um, everything else.
We're going to leave open forthe non hits.
So we're as we always do.
We're going to leave open forthe non-hits.
So, as we always do, we'regoing to listen to all the songs
, we're going to yuck it up,we're going to play clips, we're
going to have a good time andat the very end, we're going to
rank the three top non-hits thatwe feel are overlooked.
(02:40):
And there's some good ones here.
There's actually only eightsongs on this album, so there's
gonna be a few to to choose from.
All the songs are great and thebest thing about this album, I
for my opinion, is um, theguitar playing the guitar solos.
Um, ozzy's got a killer voice.
(03:01):
Uh, the drummers you knowformer Uriah Heep drummer.
What's the guy's name?
Again, lee Kurtz Lake.
Yeah, and Randy Rhodes, guitarplayer extraordinaire, died
tragically after this album cameout in August 8th of 1982.
(03:24):
I'm familiar with like the backstory of it.
They were on tour and, yes,they had like two trips and I
don't know they were.
The draw is the the.
Oh yeah, you can look this uponline.
It was the, the bus driver whohad formerly had a commercial um
(03:47):
, a flying license, and so hetook the plane, I guess uh
unauthorized, and was doing somestunts and cleared Uh, I guess
they were driving like they'reflying low over the bus and he
flew too low and wing hit, uhhit the bus and he flew too low
and wing hit hit the bus, the.
It crashed shortly after tragicstory.
(04:11):
But yeah, we lost a greatguitar player and Randy Rhodes
that you know, shortly afterthis was made.
So you're going to listen tosome epic guitar playing and we
(04:32):
can only imagine what would havecome if he hadn't died in that
accident and what the trajectoryof Ozzy Osbourne's career would
have been Coming off of.
Another topic, though, anothercontroversy of this album was
how the bass player, what's hisname?
Daisley and Kerslake, leeKerslake, bob Daisley.
(04:53):
Bob Daisley was the bass playerwho did all the bass playing on
the album, but they werereplaced like most or shortly,
or once it was done.
Most or shortly or once it wasdone.
He and nick or lee curse lake,the drummer, uh, were replaced,
uh by a couple other people, Ithink not don airy, he did.
(05:14):
I don't know there was thiswhole change over.
We'll get to it later, butbasically I think uh, it was
around also this time thatSharon Osbourne became the
manager of the band.
So I guess Don Arden is SharonOsbourne's dad.
He was the label executive andSharon was his daughter.
(05:38):
The son was involved in thebusiness.
I think Management of Ozzy wentfrom the sun to Sharon and uh,
and I was kind of like it'ssimilar to like Janine from a
spinal tap, you know, I thinkthat was sort of the, the, the
Baxter or the, the.
That story of Janine in spinaltap I think may have been uh
(05:59):
inspired by the whole Sharontakeover.
Who later I ended up uh,getting edgy with some of the
other band members, and that waswhen they were, you know,
replaced, um, so anyway, um, sothere was this also guy, don
Airy, keyboardist on the album.
(06:20):
It was actually a guy namedJohnny cook who, um, actually
recorded the keyboard parts onit.
But anyway, don Airy, up tothat point, was a member of
Rainbow at the time and touringwith them.
So anyway, there's greatmusicians like, and Curse Lake
(06:41):
does a hell of a job on thedrums and even like his
replacement I think it was uhaldridge, um, anyway, yeah,
tommy aldridge uh.
And rudy sarzo uh replaced uh,bob daisley, so on on base.
But tommy aldridge, you know,gives him all the credit in the
world.
I'm just reading for wikipedia.
Yeah, so anyway for Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, so anyway, Wikipedia, Wikipedia all right.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So I'm thinking, I'm thinking Tim is gonna come, he's
going to join us in a moment.
You know, now I remember thisalbum.
This is like in 12th, you know,when you're in like seventh
grade and this is.
You know, everybody's like ohgee, your Ozzy, your diary of a
(07:36):
madman.
You know, it's like the, theOzzy fans were diehard and uh,
yeah, they still are.
We still my old classmates.
Shout out to Murph he'sdisappointed.
He was on another podcast withus earlier.
I think it was U2 War.
Yeah, shout out to Murph mycondolences.
(08:00):
I think it was the firstconcert that he went to 1984,
something like that.
They were touring with what'shis name?
Motley Crue.
The whole Snorting Ants thing,I think, was from that tour on
Ozzy's end.
But anyway, tim is with us.
Tim, how you doing bud?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Excellente.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, yes, what was your?
Yeah, what's your?
Do you what was?
Your uh yeah, what's your?
I brought my rosary, I broughtmy rosary with me.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yes, Uh yeah.
I mean, ozzy was always, youknow, an outlet of you know,
just uh, how should I put this?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I don't know it just just good male testosterone, you
know yeah it would also like afascination with darkness.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know it's like heaven and hell, you know like
all these diaries of madman,it's about uh you know evil, you
know embracing the other end,right, and the dark world.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I hate to believe, though, that he went to some
nasty place, man, because heseems like a good guy.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He turned himself into like a philanthropist.
You know, At the very end hegot up, performed for the crowd
and he did it for charity.
You know, yeah, so it.
You know it's it's a far placefrom what he's singing about,
but you know he was.
He's being real.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It's very authentic yeah, in the current world,
right now nightmare continuesyeah, and then he had, yeah, he
had a show, yeah, what he had a.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Good evening, ozzy.
Hello there, right.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, check out all his stuff on YouTube.
It's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So anyway, oh man.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Are we ready to go?
You have any you?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
don't think so we have more to talk about.
Okay, yeah, this is.
You know, this is ozzy herewhat are we missing?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let me see what do you think there's over the
mountain?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
over the mountain is number one.
Yeah, should we, just, should,just dive right in.
What do we?
Do let's do it All right.
All right, here we go.
We're getting busted.
We're just getting so busted.
Why is that you get busted?
I love Ozzy, yeah.
(10:44):
I love Randy Rose too CrazyTrain.
I meanzy, yeah, I love RandyRhoads too Crazy Train.
I mean, this is CrazyTrain-esque.
Yes, it is that guitar, Verydeep, it's hard.
There he goes.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He's drumming too Cursely, because it's just all
over the place, wow, wow.
And when I noticed the airlineticket, I put two and two
together.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's only a dream.
Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
What is this?
Where am I man?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I miss Oz.
Happy dreams, Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, you're a star.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I'm for Clint Pepper.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Clinton.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Oh man, it's free.
Whoa this part.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's spice, that shit .
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Ups and downs here, overs and unders.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Yeah, just saying let it out, give it some air.
Man Play with it.
Well isn't?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
that special?
Yes, it is.
Yeah, the way the drums and theguitar at that end are Like a
(13:56):
triplet Vast amounts ofmarijuana.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Magic carpet ride.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Fishing silver inlaid clouds and watch out with that
other crowd you're running with.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Don't think I haven't noticed.
Don't sign the paper.
All right, whatever you do, youcan hang out with whoever you
want.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, you can go to the Aerosmith concert yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Simple lines intertwining Turn it.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh yeah, Got to end on a strong note oh, come on,
sharon, I'm fucking OzzyOsbourne, the prince of fucking
darkness.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's right, all right, yeah, so we're off.
That was a good one, okay.
This next one is Flying HighAgain.
Oh, tim's favorite song on thealbum.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh, oh, oh, you know what?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I'm talking about that's a good lyric, man.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah, it is Mama, mama, mommy Hi.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Hi Stewie, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Mom, mommy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Hi, hi, and watch out with that other crowd you're
running with oh.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Swallowing colors.
Am I a crazy guy?
Yeah, that's such a funny line,yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's titillating at multiple levels.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Is it flying?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It titillates with multiple senses.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
How much more black could this be?
And the answer is none, nonemore black.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You see, the black and red is white.
Also, you have like like reallybig eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Simple lines intertwining.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Oh, this is like opera-esque, like Mozart.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, this part, oh my gosh, see, this is the chords
slapping.
Think about what he would comeup with in subsequent albums if
he hadn't died in this thing.
It's just so senseless.
I know Rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Isn't that?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
special.
Rock and roll Isn't thatspecial.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I love that part.
What about?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
mommy, mom, mommy, mommy, mommy.
I'm a man.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
I'm a man.
I'm a man now boy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh, Personally I think they're it's.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Spice Age shit.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I can run.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Alright, Asp.
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Should we have a little little moment of zen here
?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
All that shit is fucking bullshit.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Was that a palate cleanser you wanted?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, do another one.
I mean, that's all I have,really Okay, uh best leave it
unsolved yeah just best leave itall right okay, we're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You can't kill rock and roll.
This is, this is a hit to medeeper and deeper way down.
I'm up with the lies, alright,how many times can they?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
fill us with those lies.
Ozzy wants the lies to stop.
How many?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
times can they fill me with lies and I listen again.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's just a nightmare .
For ten years it does.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
It's too much.
Are you crying?
What's reason?
Today, are you crying?
What's that?
Are you crying?
Am I crying?
No, I'm not crying Even whatthey're talking about.
What the fuck is he talkingabout?
What empty hands can I take?
Leave me alone to watch thepromises come alive.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I am fire.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Light up those lighters, let's go.
Okay, I love this.
(21:40):
I do too.
It's got an open feel to it andit's right off the bat.
The pull offs, the sort of liketempo changes.
It's right off the bat, thepull-offs, the sort of like
Tempo changes.
It's.
The harmonics are very welldone.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
This is a hit.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
For me it's a find, I would say.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know this is yeah , but it's a cut above the other
songs.
Okay, wow, Maybe not FlyingHigh Again and Over the Bound.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
They start really strong with this album.
I think is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Oh yeah, of course, but I mean this gets a lot of
this album.
I think is what you're saying.
Oh yeah, of course, but I meanthis gets a lot of airplay, I
think, or at least in somecircumstances, maybe Back in the
day it's on rotation.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Maybe not yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
And the riff goes with Ozzy's intonation as well,
which is cool it is.
It's not strange, maybe it is.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Isn't that special.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Here comes just another, yeah, and here comes
just another.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, whoa.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The spikes don't shoot.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, that's just smooth.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Play with it, just let it out.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Yeah, even the rhymes that they give me In times of
confession, ain't true.
Our song is obvious, althoughthey're not for us Meaning you
too.
The things they will do and thethings they will say when they
don't really understand Fear ofrejection.
(24:17):
I need their protection.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm making a stand, Fear of rejection.
I need their protection.
I'm making a stand.
I don't even want to talk aboutyou and I can't imagine
protection and making a standDeeper and deeper Way down Cause
(24:39):
.
Rock and roll is my religionand my love.
It's like I don't want to ruinit.
This is such a good song I knowit is you can hear rock and
(25:00):
roll here it stands.
I feel like it's been dying.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Is rock and roll dead .
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, I mean for the future.
I think a lot of people stilllisten to this, you know, even,
like you know, later generations, but there aren't very many
popular rock bands that arecontemporary like right now,
maybe aside from Greta Van Fleet, but maybe they haven't come
(25:39):
out with anything in a second.
I don't know.
From my hometown, by the way,you know my morning jacket gets
metal.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You know, you know, sometimes, yeah, incantation,
yeah there's, yeah, there'sother derivatives, I know
derivatives I mean, but not notclassic.
Yeah, everything is this getsmetal sometimes yeah, some jams
yeah, my morning jacket um fivefinger death punch, I don't know
(26:09):
.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't know me either.
That's a thing, no there'sreally not.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Can we get the rock and roll numbers up, please?
Where are the garage rock bands?
What's going on?
Close the app and get in thegarage, that's right.
An alleyway, who knows?
Okay, it's not rock and rollunless you get the cops called
it, that's right, you know, allright, this is believer.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's that bass line.
This would actually be a goodtour to go to Before Randy
Rhoades died.
Some of those shows must havebeen incredible With him just
shredding it High energy.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
This one is called the Believers.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
That was his intro in the Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads
live 81.
81.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
He does have a good voice too.
I mean like yeah, it's distinct.
Mean like yeah, it's distinct,it's his Sure, his own.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He's just got a way of His voice like blending in
the right way to this kind ofmusic.
It just goes really well.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm doing some weird effects in the background here,
some editing we that have yet tomay not have met us.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I'm doing some weird effects in the background here
Some editing.
Who's the producer here?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Max and Norman.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Shout out to.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Max yeah, they have a Max Norman.
Shout out to Max.
Yeah, they have the voice, thedouble voice.
It's like an overdub.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Right Like Ozzy harmonizing with himself Some
truck effects in the background.
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's a way to fight the traps.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
You know what it costs to dress the band in
animals, sharon, alright, you,it's your fucking wife.
You manage the band.
I'm done, I quit.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I think mine would look better in doubly.
It's a little harsh.
I love Sharon, though Shout outto Sharon?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Don't think so, Tommy .
Who's the BSC?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You.
He doesn't believe that hedrank those beers.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, you were talking about this earlier.
It's a mystery.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Shout out to Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, he's got room beers.
Shout out to room beers.
Yeah, Shout out to everybodyout there who's got bedroom
beers whether you've got beersin your bedroom.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I want to be in my room and taking my beers away
from my room.
How much more black could thisbe?
The answer is none.
None more black this could beMore black.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
This could be more black.
I ain't no deceiver.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
A Birmingham boy saying ain't, yeah, I love it
Destiny planned out, shout outto Birmingham.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I got me planned out.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Regulation of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I guess if Ozzy was from Annapolis, oh my God.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
We'd just be like do the dead bird, I'm the one, I'm
the one, I'm the one, I'm theone, I'm the one, I'm the one,
I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm the one.
I'm the one.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one,
I'm the one, I'm the one.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I'm the one.
Iucy Jack, you're a naughty one.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Saucy.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Jack, jack can always help them use the television,
you know?
Alright, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
If you get busted, I'll fucking bust your ass, okay
, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It takes it so Believer we're putting I like it
.
Yeah, I like it.
It's got a good vibe to it.
Yeah, I like it, it might.
It's close, it's up there, thisis.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Little Dolls Work it, work it, baby Work it.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Work it, own it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yes, you can handle this.
First is here somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Put your hands together for the lovely Jasmine.
This is like a little dollstrip club song.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
A little bit, especially if the strip club's
name was Little Dolls.
Strip club song A little bit,yeah, especially if the strip
club's name was Little Dolls.
Oh yeah, they would play thisevery day.
Yeah, shout out Probably like10, 30.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Shout out to the Dow House in Tampa.
I can't remember if that was onI, if that was on Lois or West
Shore, anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Nightmare continued.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Okay, more drugs.
Oh, shout out to the Bronners,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shout out to those Wikipediawriters out there.
That's right.
Shout out to those hamenthusiasts.
(33:25):
It's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It is Best leave it.
It's not uns, it is Best leaveit unsolved.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Really, that's the way to fight the traps Good call
.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I am fire Whoa.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, guys, let's kick it down Deeper and deeper.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Way down.
You broke the rule.
You've been removed.
I need to die with you Way down, killer Hugh, I love this.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
This is like I wanted you, but was the end to come
again?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
The whole reason to be Killer who I love this.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
This is like the lyrics are pretty, you know
intricate.
They used to put more effortinto it, Ripping and screaming.
The pain just won't go.
He'll show you no mercy.
(35:14):
Your image is in his hands.
There's a lot of religioussymbolism or undertones,
References, Right.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
That's an ozypedia.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh yeah, I'm sure there's all kinds of stuff.
We've only scratched thesurface on this, yeah this is
about booty dolls and blackmagic.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Isn't that special.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Oh yes, pins and needles prick the skin of a
little doll Like a Right.
It's a booty doll, yeah, like abooty doll.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh, I thought it was a drug.
I mean it could be a doublemeaning though Drug reference, I
don't know.
No, maybe not.
Maybe it's just only about thedial, that's it.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Best leave it.
It's not unsolved really.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's a bit deeper.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Way down.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
It turns into not a stripper song.
Yes, yeah, it goes fromstripper to like Like a yacht
rock.
Like a yacht rock.
Yeah, it's like a pop song itdoes yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Who do we black magic ?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, that was all over the place yeah, but uh take
us on a take us to a happyplace, yeah, but uh pick us on a
pick us to a happy place.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
All right.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
All right, very 80s.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yes, we regressed, you know we went, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
What does Ozopedia say about this?
Well, this is called Tonightand it would be interesting to
(37:53):
hear what Ozzapedia has to say.
Shout out to Daisley Kerslake,it's like a woodwind Tributes.
Yeah, Not much on this one.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, this sounds like 1981.
Right, what year was this?
I thought it was 86.
No, no, no, this is 1981.
It's 81.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Second album, blizzard of Oz, Ithink, came out first, and then
that had a crazy train of it,and then there was this one
(38:37):
right after that.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Oh, oh, that was a nice little, very 80s yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Shout out to Don Harry or Cook.
No, it was.
Was it Brian Cook?
This is Johnny Cook.
(39:19):
He's such a good guitar player.
(39:41):
Yeah, all of his littlevignettes or whatever, I mean
all these semi-solos yeah, henever disappoints.
He always does somethingdifferent at will.
Very versatile in the genre ofmetal yeah, you just wonder what
(40:06):
would have happened he wasyoung In the genre of metal.
Yeah, you just wonder whatwould have happened he was young
.
If you were living to this day,you'd have probably a whole
different body of work.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Ozzy said about Randy .
If I had to say which one ofthe guitarists I'd rather work
with, it was him.
He was the most musicallytrained, he could write and
could read, he could play taughtat his mother's school and he
(40:43):
would work with me, as opposedto having to work on top of what
I put down interesting.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
yeah, yeah, we picked the right album.
I was saying Blizzard of Oz.
Tim was like I like Flying Highagain, let's do that.
I was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I think Flying High again, you know, fits a
different purpose now these past, you know, just flying high in
the ether in the next round.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I don't know.
I think I'm going to startgetting into Ozzy again.
I'm just going to start likecomparing, just to listen to
Blizzard of Oz and this one,just to see how his guitar
playing evolves, like the oneversus the other.
(41:39):
Crazy Train was great, thatwhole solo there.
Maybe he's a little bit morerefined, I think, on the sound.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
It's just taking it to 11.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Oh yeah, Out at the top.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Out the top.
Now I'm starting to hear somegood bass playing too.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
I'm taking it up there.
Whoa, that's cool.
I love when they yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Whoa.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
That's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Keep going and going, and going yeah, well, we can
move it along.
What do we got left?
We got sato, I think is next.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, the guitarplaying is still good.
They phase out of that, likeafter he's this is like a jam
yeah, like right in the middleof a jam, it just kind of fades
out.
Yeah, so anyway, all right,moving on, all right, s-a-t-o.
(42:55):
That's an acronym Sharon, notArden, and Thelma Ozzie,
something like that.
That's the acronym Sharon andher old boyfriend Ozzy, and his
(43:18):
first wife.
First letters are their names.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Sharon Arden, Belmont , Osby.
Okay, Arden is Sharon's maidenname.
She's the daughter of recordmogul.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Don Arden yeah, it's her dad.
Yeah, her dad is like therecord guy.
Yeah, he's the record guy.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
What yeah?
No way, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
That's how they met.
You know, he was like a totalmess.
I mean, if you read hisbackstory she was kind of like
after he was dumped by BlackSabbath, you know, he went to a
dark place.
She kind of thought he was ateddy bear and took him under
her wing, kind of a thing.
(44:10):
So she was like a good Jeanine.
I think it's interesting.
She was a hard-nosed businessperson.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
I'm a shop vlogger.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
You got to have some way to fight the traps.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
How are you feeling about this song?
Oh wouldn't you.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
It's a little harsh.
Yeah, it is a little harsh.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
I just yeah, I like it.
I like it's high energy.
I guess In theory, yeah, I likeit.
I like it's higher energy.
I just In theory.
But the executions Tonight it'sgood, it's just.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
That's something I find.
I put my return to it.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
I know Sato what, but they're playing a lot of notes.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I kind of like this.
Speaker 5 (45:30):
Finally, the bass player is ripping it too.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
It's riptastic Qualifier.
It's getting too fast.
Call the fire department here.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
It's getting too fast .
I'll get you a bal balladconcert for you after this All
the brighter than the sunlight.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Sail away, see the day Going on a new horizon.
Hold in sight shining bright,Brighter than the sun that's
rising.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Three thousand sails of light are straining in the
wind.
This wind is high, and so am I.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Vow cement of marijuana oh, come on, sean, wow
(46:50):
, okay, wow, okay, okay, yeah,you know what?
I want to give that song achance at that ending.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
It's a little much.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
It is a little much, okay, this is the last.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
This is the title track.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
This is it Simple lines, simple, lines, simple
lines intertwining.
(47:36):
Very beautiful, very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I wonder what this is called well, this piece is
called I Lick my Love Punk yeah,but seriously, this is Diary of
a Madman.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
This is like the last one.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
I'm a chavraga.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
Yeah, I like playing like a haphazardly kind of
painting mood Hopeless.
Situation.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Endless price I have to pay, telling me, telling me,
oh, I'm a madman.
Yeah, before we forget, I thinkthere's Diary of a Madman, is a
Vincent Price kind of a thing.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
Diary Diaries Of a madman Walk the line.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Again and again.
Yeah.
1963 horror film starringVincent Price as Simon Cordier,
A magistrate who becomespossessed by a malevolent entity
Known as the Gloria Orla.
Isn't that special?
Possessed by a malevolent?
Speaker 6 (48:57):
entity known as the Horia Orla.
Isn't that special.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
So Cordier reads his diary after his death, revealing
his descent into madness, theHorla, an invisible entity,
takes control of him, compellinghim to commit the attack.
So as he struggles against, thenature of evil.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
Yeah, it's exploring the nature of evil here.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
The influence of the Horla, he becomes increasingly
paranoid and isolated, fearingfor his life and sanity.
That's like Ozzy in a nutshell,jesus.
That's tripped out.
Yeah, so, like the film notedfor its exploration of
psychological horror,particularly the fear of losing
(50:10):
control of everyone's mind andactions.
Mirror.
(50:40):
Will he escape my soul or willhe live in me?
Is he trying to get to me?
This is an interesting badstory.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
Or trying to get to me.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, it's sort of like a song about the demons
within us, kind of a thingYou're your own worst enemy A
little violin here.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
I wonder who's playing.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
It's very ominous.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Lewis Clark oh yeah, lewis Clark string out.
Oh yeah, lewis Clark stringarrangements on Diary of a Bad
man.
We never got to the fact thatthere's like a 2002 reissue
where Robert Trujillo, from likethe current Metallica bassist,
(51:56):
plays the bass part for thereissue, and then Mike Gordon on
drums.
I guess there was a thing overroyalties.
Curse Lake and Daisley sued andgot royalties, so maybe they
did a remix to take theirplaying off of it or something.
Speaker 5 (52:19):
Oh, sounds petty, take him, set me free.
Speaker 6 (52:42):
Oh, oh, and watch out with that other crowd you're
running with.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Where am I man?
Yeah, they have like singers.
Wow, this is cool.
They're all kinds of rumorsabout him worshiping Satan and
all that stuff, so I think thatwas playing to that.
(53:28):
But anyway, that was a goodending I like how they wrapped
that up, so we're getting intothe top three.
You want to start?
Let's go with your number threeum, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (53:41):
Little dolls number three good choice.
You know it pulled it off atthe end.
It really had some, you knowyeah that was the one Threat
work and weird most classicalthemes to it.
(54:03):
At the end, A lot of thesesolos even have classical
elements to them.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah, exactly yeah, so that's a good choice.
Yeah, that was the one that hasit goes from strip club to like
regular yacht rock Strip club,to yacht rock kind of a song.
Speaker 4 (54:19):
It made you feel good at the end.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
You didn't feel as dirty.
You feel like you've becomemore voodoo-y.
Speaker 4 (54:27):
Yeah, exactly, you've got the do of the voodoo all
over you.
Gotta shake it loose, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna say, believer is my number three okay
yeah, do, do, do, do that wasthe yeah that's the best opening
of a song okay, so uh, yeahit's my number three, all right
uh, I did like tonight honestly.
Speaker 4 (54:47):
So number two tonight , good tune, it's wonderfully
done and it did jam and he couldkeep going and going the roads.
For that road the guitar solocould just keep going on that
one yeah, that was a good guitarsolo, I agree.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
Um, uh, mine is gonna be little dolls, you know, I'd
say there we go yeah, it was agreat.
Uh, yeah, just the.
I like the way it ended too.
It it ended strong to quitestrong.
But I like the beginning too.
It was like dirty, it was inyour face.
It would just get you going and, you know, brings you back to
(55:26):
the day where girls had theirhair teased and that whole thing
.
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Tease.
Well, not to tease you anymore,my number one is Diary of a man
.
All right, yeah, um, justoverall, you know, under the
first three, obviously, I thinkit's really is the fourth
strongest song on the album.
I do too.
(55:54):
Yeah, it might.
It might be better than Overthe Mountain.
Speaker 2 (55:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
Kill Rock and Roll was amazing.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Over the Mountain has that really good guitar solo If
that hadn't been in there, Iwould agree with you.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
Well, yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
But you make a good point though.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
I like the novel reference and the literature,
the literature that's right nodright, so that's why and it's my
number one as well.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Um, for all those reasons and I'll just tack on
another one, I will say it'slike the strings, the, the choir
at the end, that strong ending,that whole thing.
That seemed kind of cool.
There was, uh, somethingdifferent oh, oh yeah, and the
song evolved over time and endedstrong, ended the album.
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Very strong.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yeah, very strong to quite strong, all right, and
another strong podcast.
Speaker 4 (56:50):
Yes, be here for the people.
Be a do-gooder out there LikeOzzy yeah yeah, one moreoder out
there like Ozzy yeah yeah, Onemore shout-out to Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
We loved him and.
God rest his soul.
Speaker 4 (57:09):
All right, there's no guy.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
I don't know.
I didn't say that Exactly Forthe believers, All right later.
Bye.
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