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Reijo Piippula
I love music. I try to review the albums as honest I can. There might be some humor but there is a place for that. These reviews are my opinions, not any mass of critics who have changed their opinion when the fans demanded it.
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I don't see everything with the eyes of critics and I don't definitely hear everything with ears of critics. I have always loved this album. Because of its great lyrics, melodies, riffs, and diversity it is one of the best albums of that time. I was shocked when I saw this album on a list of TOP 10 worst heavy metal albums of all-time. They said that "Lemmy would have fired the keyboardist". I don't care what Lemmy would do. Ozzy made an album with great songs. Some of them get very eerie because of the keyboards. I think it is really stupid to say that keyboards don't belong to metal or hard rock. You don't have to use them but bands and artists like Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, and Rush have used them and when you search TOP 100 Hard Rock albums lists - it is very hard to find a list without having at least five out of six of those bands having at least one album. "Rainbow Rising", "Vol 4", "Machine Head", "Physical Graffiti", "Blizzard of Ozz", and "Moving Pictures" have used keyboards successfully in the sense of inspiration. Denying the importance of keyboards is almost as bad as denying the importance of bass guitars.
The third Ozzy album has really nice package of songs. The title song, "Rock N Roll Rebel", "Center of Eternity" (which was also called "Forever" in some editions), and "Waiting for Darkness" are great moments of hard rock. "So Tired" is a slow song and very emotional, one of Ozzy's most underrated songs. "You're No Different" was in one point my favorite song of this album and it has great sounds.
I would say this album is underrated. Jake E. Lee is a very good guitarist. I know it was sad to lose Randy Rhoads just like it was sad moment to lose Cliff Burton when Metallica was touring with "Master of Puppets". But you can't just expect the new member to do exactly the same thing in similar way. Ozzy needed an album like this one. It gives the perfect feeling of keyboards the way the first two albums didn't give. Yes, Lemmy would have fired Don Airey, just like Jack White would have fired David Ellefson from The White Stripes. some people wanna hear all the metal sounding the same. You should forget this problem and bark at the Moon.
The third Ozzy album has really nice package of songs. The title song, "Rock N Roll Rebel", "Center of Eternity" (which was also called "Forever" in some editions), and "Waiting for Darkness" are great moments of hard rock. "So Tired" is a slow song and very emotional, one of Ozzy's most underrated songs. "You're No Different" was in one point my favorite song of this album and it has great sounds.
I would say this album is underrated. Jake E. Lee is a very good guitarist. I know it was sad to lose Randy Rhoads just like it was sad moment to lose Cliff Burton when Metallica was touring with "Master of Puppets". But you can't just expect the new member to do exactly the same thing in similar way. Ozzy needed an album like this one. It gives the perfect feeling of keyboards the way the first two albums didn't give. Yes, Lemmy would have fired Don Airey, just like Jack White would have fired David Ellefson from The White Stripes. some people wanna hear all the metal sounding the same. You should forget this problem and bark at the Moon.
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