Ozzy Osbourne

Blizzard of Ozz

Do NOT feed the greed of Sharon Osbourne!

Review Score:

(2/10)
Do NOT buy this CD! Sure, the sound quality may be better, but it's not the original. Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake's parts were re-recorded. RE RECORDED 20 years later!
You might as well consider the Madonna dance mix of Crazy Train the original if you buy this album.

The sound quality is excelent, and it's excelent music, but re-writing history 20 years later is just not alright. The sorriest thing is that I BOUGHT the CD before I had heard this news. Fa fa FA on me.

And for the bonus track? Did they re-record that one too?
I might as well go to the dollar store and buy the re-recorded muzak as buy this CD.

To finish, I am not putting down Ozzy. Ozzy RULED before Sharon sold him out to MTV. And this album would rule too, if it were the original version! Show the powers that be that remaking music 20 years after the fact is NOT okeedokey with fans! What's next, Led Zeppelin officially re-mixing "Stairway to Heaven" to star Justin Timberlake?

As you can tell, I am very angry about this, especially since I bought it full price when it came out. They don't even tell you on the package that it's been remixed. Believe it or not, totally different drums and base DO make a difference. If you really are an Ozzy fan, and care about what you are buying, and want to buy a true peice of what Ozzy should be, go get the 24-bit remaster from years ago. It may not have the bonus track, but it is the ORIGINAL music. It's the original version. Would you buy the dollar store muzak version of your favorite band's music, or would you want the original? The difference is there. Show Sharon Osbourne that she can't rewrite a critical part of music history and get away with it!

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