Are you serious, man?Uugh.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree here, I reckon.
I thought Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules were by far the worst Sabbath albums ever released.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big Ronnie James fan as I liked him with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow just fine and I like his solo stuff.
Holy Diver remains one of my fave albums in the genre to this day.
But I liked the feel of Sabbath with Ozzy and without him, obviously, it was a very different vibe and sadly one I didn't at all care for.
I understand your position, it was like when Bruce left Iron Maiden in the
mid 1990's and Blaze came sing. I couldn't stand it because I was so used
to hearing the Bruce vocals.
Five+ years later I really liked those few albums with Blaze when analyzed the
sound for what it was. It was still Iron Maiden style with a different voice. These
couple of 'blaze' albums now are seen as having a few Iron Maiden epic songs
that they play today with Bruce.
But some people won't let go and listen to Blaze with Maiden, lol..
It's easy to listen to Sabbath with Ozzy then when he leaves and Dio enters,
the sound is different. But they really do have some epic songs that rule.
Not every songs rule on any album, but these songs with DIO rule.
* Heaven and Hell [epic song]
* Sign of the Southern Cross
* Mob Rules
* Children of the Sea
* Neon Nights
* Die Young
Live Evil is a great album, an EPIC album.
1. E5150 (2:21)
2. Neon Knights (4:36)
3. N.I.B. (5:09)
4. Children of the Sea (6:08)
5. Voodoo (6:07)
6. Black Sabbath (8:39)
7. War Pigs (9:19)
8. Iron Man (7:29)
9. The Mob Rules (4:10)
10. Heaven & Hell (12:04)
11. The Sign of the Southern Cross/Heaven & Hell (Continued) (7:15)
12. Paranoid (3:46)
13. Children of the Grave (5:25)
14. Fluff (0:59)
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I actually like Dehumanizer, some good songs.
I really think the Sabbath boys like working with DIO better than the drunken ozz man. Dio is ancient, over 60 years old and he puts on a killer show live. He is
consistent is his delivery. This newest DVD, holy diver live is killer.
Not to be a party pooper, but DIO solo ventures got boring, after the 'Last in Line', I could only pick a few songs off the next few albums. But I really like
this live recordings, IMO, DIO does great on putting on the show, but the studio
mixes don't sound right to me.
.. and Ozzy's sound pretty much went downhill after Randy died. He's been
a disappointment when you look at the big picture. Ozzy is great when he
plays those 20+ year old songs.
