Originally Posted by
Seshmeister
Even No More Tears was a Motley Crue level of song writing in that you have 2 or 3 songs and 7 fillers.
My point for what it's worth is that Ozzy is portrayed as having a 50 year career but as far as I'm concerned Bob Daisley, Randy and Jake E Lee created his whole career over a 3 year period at the start of the 80s and he and his unpleasant wife managed to spin those plates for his whole solo career.
I say this as a huge fan of those first 3 albums and appreciate the influence of Sabbath on everything.
Also there is the random inexplicable factor of it all.
For example he seems to be doing 'I Don't Want to Change the World' almost as a closer and setlist.com says he's done it 330+ times over the years.
Taking a step back it's difficult to work out why that song is any better or worse than another 30 other Ozzy songs. Which leads us to Paranoid, written and recorded in a few hours as an emergency filler. You don't say. I so don't like that song, I haven't for my whole musical life. Back in the 80s when Ozzy's band was at it's peak even if he wasn't, it was like adding insult to injury as after doing the absolute minimum length of show he could get away with 70 minutes or so, he would wheel out that dirge and fuck off asap.
The tired rolling out of Paranoid makes Jump look good. It has all the class of getting out a vacuum cleaner at a party to make people absolutely sure they know they are no longer welcome and should get to fuck.
I don't know who made the always always end on those rule but it's a dumb one particularly when it comes to Paranoid. At least in the case of Jump some of the audience were there when it was a hit.
If they had one iota of class the Osbournes would have taken Bob Daisley out on this last tour as a tiny thank you for making them.