Ozzy Osbourne

No More Tears

Big Album, but a little too polished

Review Score:

(8/10)
I love this album, as everyone else seems to do, and I would really like to give it 5 Stars. But somehow, this isn't my favorite Ozzy album. There are tons of brilliant Songs here, really : "Mr. Tinkertrain", "I don't want to change the World", "Mama, I'm coming home", "No more Tears", "S.I.N.", "Time after Time" and "Road to Nowhere" are my personal favorites. These songs are some of the best Ozzy ever produced, right up there with "Mr. Crowley", "Bark at the Moon" or, if you push away the historical meaning "Paranoid", "Black Sabbath", "Changes"... You get the Idea. But, I still think that this album could have been better. Overall, it's too long. If you look closer, not all the songs are brilliant. "Hellraiser" would be great if there was no Motörhead Version of it, which is by far better. "Zombie Stomp" and "A.V.H." are very medicore, but maybe that is due to the fact that all they got the company of absolutely amazing songs. My biggest complaint about the Album is it's production: It just doesn't kick. It sounds like Ozzy shared the producer with Bon Jovi (Hate 'em). Too polished for Ozzy's music. In the end I think that this is one of the best Rock-Albums of the nineties. But - my favorite Ozzy Album is still "No Rest for the Wicked". Still recommended for everyone who likes Ozzy, and it's also a great place to start if you just get to know him. Buy it, if you don't already have, you can't go wrong.

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