Tuesday, October 29, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin

Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin


#54/1221
February 22 1986
Ozzy Osbourne
The Ultimate Sin 
Genre: Radio Friendly Metal
2.75 out of 5


Highlights:
Thank God for the Bomb
Shot in the Dark


Why would you put the single at the end of the record? Is it because it kind of doesn’t sound like anything that would appeal to the heavy metal parking lot denizens? 
I like Ozzy’s voice. But, it’s a great metal voice cuz he can actually, you know, sing, but he seems so divorced from the material that the entire thing feels like a Ratt album with Ozzy singing lead. 
Killer of Giants gets a bit majestically epic but it’s supposed to. Like it was convicted in a studio with execs saying, “we gotta appeal to the D&D mullet heads.”


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