Ozzy Osbourne -- Black Rain

[zabu of nΩd]

Book of Shadows

Also, Pride and Glory

 

[Ender Rises]

Well, that depends on whether you like being preached at while you're listening to music. Personally, it annoys the shit out of me. If I want politics, I'd rather read the newspaper than listen to some biased dipshit ranting in the middle of my music.

I couldn't care less what the actual ideas are, or whether it's biased or not. A lot of the time they take the ideas and word them extremely cleverly.

Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.

The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope/The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope/it's when murder is justice that martyrs are made/a one gun salute to the new independent state.

Amazing disgrace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me/better lost if this is found best blind and never to see.

It's not the fact that they are political, it's the fact that when a lyricist sits down to write a political song he wants to sound as clever and educated and intelligent as possible, so as to make it better than just "fuck Bush" or what have you. Political lyrics force the lyricist to push the limit of his abilities so that he can get his point across effectively, and that results in very clever and good lyrics. I could give a fuck less what the idea is most of the time in songs unless the idea or story or whatever resonates with me in some way, so when I listen to lyrics I'm looking for clever and new ways of putting the ideas down. Another excellent example is Islamic calls to prayer. I'm not a Muslim, so I don't care that they are calls to prayer, but they are still beautiful to me. I'm looking more at the form and less at the ideology.

 

[KevenZ]

very boring album.

 

[alonmias]

just heard it, I think it's Ozzy's best for a long long time, probably since No More Tears, it has both the heavy, catchy zakk wylde tracks in there, and the classic Ozzy ballads, he brought in a nice rusty tone to his voice, and the sound is great, modern, yet very heavy.

Ozzy may be destined to sound like BLS these days, but I guess that's a good thing.

and Zakk's solos here are some of his best, ever.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I couldn't care less what the actual ideas are, or whether it's biased or not. A lot of the time they take the ideas and word them extremely cleverly.

It's not the fact that they are political, it's the fact that when a lyricist sits down to write a political song he wants to sound as clever and educated and intelligent as possible, so as to make it better than just "fuck Bush" or what have you. Political lyrics force the lyricist to push the limit of his abilities so that he can get his point across effectively, and that results in very clever and good lyrics. I could give a fuck less what the idea is most of the time in songs unless the idea or story or whatever resonates with me in some way, so when I listen to lyrics I'm looking for clever and new ways of putting the ideas down. Another excellent example is Islamic calls to prayer. I'm not a Muslim, so I don't care that they are calls to prayer, but they are still beautiful to me. I'm looking more at the form and less at the ideology.

Well yeah, I realise that music lyrics can 'beautify' a variety of themes, I just don't see why you're suggesting that political lyrics are inherently superior to other kinds. A good lyricist is going to be interesting and thought-provoking no matter what the subject matter is.

 

[s_a_o]

Yeah, I have the slightest feeling that he didn't write any of those lyrics. And another slight hunch that his voice was 100% doctored by computer enhancement.

Oh, and the songs themselves are terrible.

Agree completely...

Sounds a lot like a pop album.