Build the Ultimate Ozzy Osbourne Album: A Fan Draft

Hey y'all, gonna do a little side cast for you today. We're gonna for today we're gonna call it the absentee sidecast, just cause uh Kevin and Dongo had some prior engagements that so they couldn't make it. So I have Mark here with me today. Hello, Brad there. Hey AJ. What we're gonna do is we're gonna make our own uh 10-song Aussie album or mixtape, if you will. We did have a couple rules that we stuck in there just to make it a little more interesting. Anyway, the criteria is we went from Randy through Zack. So Randy, Jake, and Zach, and we had to pick at least three songs from each of those guitarists, and then obviously one more random here. So anyway, Mark, who has the honors today?

I think you have the honors, brother.

All right. Well, this is gonna be very interesting because I think we're gonna have different songs, but I also think that we're gonna lead off with the same song. I don't think I don't know. Let's find out. I'm leading off with I don't know. Love that song. Um, just the way it kicks in, and this obviously is the first thing anyone heard from Ozzy after Sabbath, and it just kicks you in the nuts, and I friggin' love it.

When that record came out, AJ, uh you couldn't go to Hampton Beach. We're in the Northeast, and that's the nearest beach, but it seemed like it one out of every three or four people had Blizzard of Oz t-shirts. It was ridiculous how massive Ozzy was when that uh uh album came out.

So oh, incredible. But anyway, like I said, I didn't get into it till later. But anyway, Mark, what do you got?

All right, well, this one is uh off a diary of a madman. It's over the mountain.

Nice over the mountain, take me across the sky, don't take in my finger, drop me thinking, I want that.

Just an incredible tune that is what's the word I'm looking for, but it's intense, it's intense, it's it's it's got tension built into the song. Yes, you know, it's like a very serious sounding tune, but it's heavy as hell, and I've thought that would be a good song to open up this uh record.

Awesome. All right, that's obviously Randy Rhodes, yes. So number two to me is going to Zach, and it's Miracle Man. Miracle Man. Yes. I love this song. Um, the whole Jimmy Swaggart controversy, and and now this has meaning to me because believe it or not, back in the day, my mom really loved watching Jimmy Swaggart. You know, I think she learned later that he wasn't very truthful, as we kind of know now.

But they're called prosperity uh preachers. Yeah. Well I mean there's a whole bunch of them. I won't get into it, but a lot of people are deceived. And uh, you know, if you have somebody that's just getting super mega filthy rich off its uh quote flock, something isn't quite right there.

Exactly.

And I think a lot of people are duped by that.

But back to the song, same thing as I don't know. This is where, you know, we heard Zach for the first time, and holy F and A, he is on the reel. Still is. He um I always I there's such a toss-up for me between these guitarists, but God, I love Zach. He's just kick-ass, he's super cool, just down-to-earth, dude. Like definitely a guy it would be nice to hang out with, I think. You know what I mean? He's just fucking funny as hell. Yeah, smart ass, same sense of humor, kind of as us, and just yeah, you know, just sarcastic numbs. And he's great, he's smart as hell.

Numb nuts. That pretty much describes us right to a T. Yeah.

He's really smart, though. Really, I mean.

Well, that's something we don't share, but no, kid, just kidding. We're friggin' geniuses, okay?

Number two to you, brother.

All right, we're going with Shot in the Dark, where Jake E. Lee from It's the Ultimate Sin. Probably actually, I it is the biggest hit on this record. Yeah, it's somewhat of a heavy, pleasant song. It's I don't I don't know. It's just what it does to me. It's Ozzy's kind of calm on this song, you know.

Love it. Okay. Number three to me, here's another one that is not a deep cut, but I had to put it in, and that is another Zach song, and it's No More Tears. Now, this song, the reason I love it so much, first of all, I think it's a great tune, obviously, but just the the guitar between each verse that Ozzy sings is just so fucking cool to me. Just yeah, I know you know, just I know exactly what you're saying. Zach plays something different almost between every verse, and it's just ballsy. I friggin' love it. Yeah. So it's obviously gonna be a quick side cast, but number three to you, Mark.

Alright, well, this is from the same record, and it's uh Road to Nowhere, which is pretty much the same road I was on in 1992 when this record came out. I used to listen to this over and over, and I it was probably the darkest year of my life that didn't involve tragedy, you know, right, right, brothers becoming sick or mothers, right? You know what I'm saying? And it I was just in a very dark place.

And that seemed it really reached me.

The road to nowhere leads to me, and that's exactly where I was. I mean, I really don't know how else to say it, but it is.

Oh, and that's why we do this, brother. Right? Because that shit is powerful, and it's great because I hate that fucking song, but I get exactly what you're talking about. I don't hate the song, I don't hate it, but good for you. You know, that's that's what makes it powerful to you, you know. And there's a lot of that on here for me too, so we'll get there. But anyway, where are we? Number four. This that speaking of which, this makes me think of Hinsdale. It's another Jake song off the Ultimate Sin. And it's called Lightning Strikes, and this is fucking badass. Just the riff Jake kicks in with, and I actually uh what's his name? I gotta remember Trevor Enright, kid in my class that was down there. We were trying to get an air band started, you know, a lip syncing card.

What have you got to play, AJ?

I was Aussie. I was Aussie, and we practiced this. I even had the like candelabras built in the basement in Hinsdale because you know, Mom had the gold candle holders, like those, whatever you'd call them. But I built I put some two by fours up and put those at the top with the candles, and we rehearsed this song over and over. I I love this song. That's I think it's it's definitely, in my opinion, the best song on that album.

Alright, well, so you know, it's funny because when I asked you what were you gonna play, AJ, you weren't gonna play anything. It was an air band.

Oh, you numbnuts. I get you.

Wait, was it well? Yeah, you got it.

You got it. It's a mark joke. Yeah, I actually ordered the strings from Gene Simmons. Like, the guy's a fucking genius, you gotta admit it. Like, I'm gonna send these people nothing and they're going to pay me for money off it. Exactly. Jesus. Uh awesome. So do you.

Okay, this is my favorite Aussie song of all time. It's off Diary of a Madman. It's You Can't Kill Rock and Roll. Yep. It's it is a theme song. It is an absolute theme song for basically how we love this genre of music. I mean, it's it's it's my religion and my law. I mean, maybe not my religion or my law, but seriously. I just it goes right to the heart strings of just not bad. Yeah, air heart strings, yeah. No, but I mean the peo, how it starts out, it's really cool, and it I I just this represents everything about us, I think. Yeah. This song. You, I and David and I.

I mean And you've talked about that in previous casts.

Yes, I have. So that that is definitely my favorite Aussie song. It just has so much meaning to me.

So all right. Well, five to me and an outside one of the album is another non-deep cut, but the reason I love this song, and it's another Randy song off Blizzard, is the lyrics to it, and that's Mr. Crowley.

Uncovering things that were sacred, and you can be sacred.

It's kind of a little bit of a cult leader, if you will, but Mr. Crowley is, huh? Yeah, oh yeah.

I never did any research into that. I probably should have.

Alistair Crowley. Yep. Uh-huh. I think it was like 18, 170 or 1800s, but all right. How you end inside one.

I'm going with Bark at the Moon, obviously, the the uh title track of Bark at the Moon. This song to me goes out to Quentin Collins of uh Collinsport, Maine, and also Chris Jennings of Collinsport, Maine, who suffered by lichen theoretic. What is it? How do you call it? I have no idea what the lichen thropy or something. It's the disease of being a werewolf.

Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I don't know what they call it either, brother.

Yes, but I mean, yes, they were they're werewolves, and it just really sucked a couple nights a year because they'd go out, they didn't even remember it. They go out, they're they just destroy everything, they kill people. It was just horrible.

Yeah, terrible. That is for out there who do not know a dark shadows reference, which was it's a it's a heavy song. Yep.

It's it has sinister, and you know, it was Jake E. Lee, obviously. Well, so that's another Jake E. Lee song.

Yes. As is my leader off of side two, is Bark at the Moon, because I find it to be such a great opener.

It's return to the life.

And once again, this song, I mean, by far, in my opinion, the greatest off bark because the whole album, I mean, there's good songs on it, but this to me is the only staple on it. It's fucking incredible.

No question about it.

But that riff kicking in, just God was Ozzy good at finding guitarists. Yes, he was.

Yes, he was.

Unfriggin' real. But anyway, yeah, so Bark the Moon leads off side two for me.

Alright, well, I'm going with I don't know because I wanted it to lead off at least one of the two sides. Yep. And I chose Over the Mountain over it just because I probably figured you were gonna take I Don't Know anyway. But again, this song that is by f I don't want to say by far my favorite song on Blizzard, but Dear Lord. It was just such a massive album. And you know, I'm not gonna really obviously uh um Crazy Train because I I thought this was the biggest hit to me. I mean to me at the time.

Yeah, I was gonna say, because there's nothing bigger than Crazy Train when it comes to Aussie, right?

Yes. It was kind of like Journey with uh Don't Stop Believin when that uh when Escape came out, the biggest song, um, at least with the girls, was Who's Crying Now? So things change over the decades, you know?

They do. Absolutely. But yeah, what a that's an incredible song. All right, where am I? Number seven. All right, now the Zach one, and I'll probably get crucified for this as well. But this is called See You on the Other Side, and it's off of Osmosis, which I love.

Voice Death, voice dead, voice dead, a thousand, thousand voice dead.

Whispering, whispering, whispering. The time is past for joy dead.

Golden days are over yet.

That's a great song, AJ.

It's an incredible song. I'm just saying it's another non-deep cut, if you will. I can't penalize songs here, and well, I actually am being a hypocrite right now because I have penalized a song, which we'll get there. But I love this song. This whole album to me is I love it. Like I it reminds me of ride. The girls used to like a bunch of the songs off of this when I'd be driving around, and yeah. Yeah, we'll get we'll get um, we'll talk about it later. I just don't want to ruin any more picks, you know, coming up.

We have great girls. I they reached out to me for my birthday, and I was very happy.

Lovely, good. You got you're a good dad. Thank you. I wish they felt they felt that way.

Oh well, you raised them, right?

I'm kidding. Yes, I did. I raised them to do nothing that I would ever do. So don't do what I do. Exactly.

All right, seven to you. Okay, this is an extremely, extremely dark song. And it's called Bloodbath in Paradise. It it is all about the night of the Tate and LaBianca murders, the two nights. It is it is really, really intense and just it puts you right there.

Yeah, incredible guitar too on it.

When I saw the movie Helter Skelter for the first time, I was in seventh grade, and I could not sleep for like six months.

I was so terrified of I don't know why mom wouldn't when I was in traction at four years old or three and a half, it was the year I was.

Jimmy Snooker wasn't even like Well, whatever.

You pulled the wrestle and move off the bed and you broke my fucking femur, and my dad wouldn't take me to the hospital until I turned green. But anyway, our dad. But my point being is mom wouldn't watch, let me watch Helter Skelter in the hospital.

That's uh that that was uncalled for.

What a terrible mom.

I know, I know. Well, she wouldn't let me watch it. I couldn't sleep for six months. I could not sleep. So looking out at Corey's trailer park and and seeing the lights, and I could hear the music at the beginning of the movie, and it was just yeah, not good.

Not good. All right, well, my number eight is Bloodbath in Paradise.

When Charlie and the family make our call.

So I will not go into depth with it. Just love the song. I think it's battle axe. And then we'll go to year eight, because you just said all I could.

Okay, well, I went with Mr. Crowley. Apparently, there's stuff about him I didn't know. That's from Blizzard of Oz, Randy Rhodes. And to me, Randy Rhodes, I mean, all three of them were great guitar players.

Still, yeah. Two of them are playing players. They're still out.

Two of them are still playing. Yeah. I I mean, Randy Rhodes was my favorite of the three.

All right. Well, speaking of Randy, my number nine here is Diary of a Madman. A lot of I I this song is underrated to me. I mean, everyone, you know, seems to think it's this massive Aussie song, but listening to things over the years, I feel like a lot of people don't love it. But to me, it has so much meaning. First of all, uh Randy's classical guitar playing, I'm not a musician, and I can pick up on it. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's just his style was so different. I mean, incredible, obviously, but but the the words in this song, and back to Mr. Crowley, real quick, Mark, because I did I forgot to mention it when I picked it. But the lyrics, I'm pretty sure that's all Bob Daisy. Okay, who never got any of the credit. But anyway, back to this one for Diary, is it's just to me, uh it spoke to me, just like you know, songs have spoken to you because manic depression befriends me. You know, like they're just it I was in a place while listening to this. And yeah, you know, if you are one of those people out there, because I know you're out there, some of you, and to be honest, I despise you, not literally, but there's people out there that have never suffered a lick of that in their life, which is very rare nowadays. But people that would just say to you, Oh, you need to get over it, you know snap out of it.

I like to love that one. Snap out of it.

Okay, and that is not something that you can do when you can't get out of bed for days and you are just miserable for no fucking reason whatsoever. And when I heard this song, it's like it spoke to me. And that's that. All right, brother, number nine.

Okay, this is no more tears, and that's obviously the title for.

We do have the same album here, don't we?

Well, kind of in a some ways, yeah, but I mean. Maybe a kiss before I leave you this way. Your lips are so cold, I don't know what else to say. Gosh, talk about what it was time to break up at that point, if that's you know.

All I could think of when you said your lips are so close is our lips are so I know, but I when you said that, it made me think of the David Lee Roth video. Oh our lips are so close.

Oh breath. Our lips are so close. It was the last Anakin Grossa on her honey.

Alright. So here I am finishing my album out with something you've already picked. I couldn't leave it off. Like I said, it's uh close to one of his biggest hits. Obviously, Crazy Train was his biggest of all time. Is his biggest, but shot in the dark. I mean a great friggin' written song, and it really took off on MTV. It put Ozzy back on the map. It really lifted this up a bit. I think the album and I love the ultimate sin is obvious. We've already talked about, but just I thought I I put it here because it ended The Ultimate Sin. You know, it was the last track on it, which is so rare for that to happen and be the biggest hit. But the placement of it I liked, so I put it here. Finish yours out, Mart.

Well, mine uh number 10 is a rebellious song called Rock and Roll Rebel. They say I worship the devil. And what's that? They say worship the devil, you just you know, you're not paying attention. But I find I'm just drawing a blank, but it's you know, rock and roll rebel. Isn't that what rock and roll is all about? Just not worrying about what other people think, and you know what I mean.

I do. I do. Yeah. Alright. Well, anyway, real quick, brother, do you want to just wrap off your album and then I'll do mine?

Okay, well, I went second, but I'll do it first. Okay. We're going side one over the mountain, shot in the dark, road to nowhere. You can't kill rock and roll, which I can't believe you didn't pick. I'm very upset with you on that. But uh Bark at the Moon rounds out side one. Side two is I don't know. Bloodbath in Paradise, Mr. Crowley, no more tears, and rock and roll rebel.

Alright, side one for me, I don't know. Miracle Man, and then that's terrible. I was trying to do the voice box, but it was bad. No more tears, lightning strikes, and Mr. Crowley. Then we go side two with Bark at the Moon, See You on the Other Side, Bloodbath in Paradise, Diary of a Madman, and Shot in the Dark. The ACDC song.

Yeah, well, you also picked an Aerosmith song. I know Lightning Strike.

Yeah. Oh, well, that's a great Aerosmith song, too.

Oh, yeah. It's right towards well, that's when Perry and uh Whitford were not in the band.

The boys and the dudes are ready to rumble. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, mate. Wait a minute. Made me always think of the movie The Warriors.

Yeah.

Come out and play. Yeah, come out and play while we uh all right, brother.

Well, that was fun. Uh, I just want to get a little shout out there quickly to um send us an email at pta80h at gmail.com. You know, we we love when people want to get involved with us instead of yelling at their speakers, so don't be shy. Shoot us an email and maybe participate with us. Also, check out our website which we're working on at past times at 80shigh.com, and that's 80s for 80s. Also on Facebook, we have two there. We have our site, which is past times at 80s high, and then we have past timers at 80s high where all of you can get involved there. All right, brother. Well, that was fun, and yes, it was.

Yeah, that's we're reaching out a little bit there, AJ. It's something different. So that was fun, man.

And we are out.