HardLore - HardLore's Favorite Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath Songs (Bonus Episode)

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

In loving memory of the greatest of all time, we decided to make an impromptu, audio only, bonus episode talking about our favorite Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne songs of all time. Rest in peace to the prince of darkness. Playlist here:Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2awisGYhNnjq5gwPKNuWHA?si=bacb59e5c7a24608Apple - https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/hardlores-top-10-ozzy-sabbath-songs/pl.u-ajl4tPkEYWk  HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster EnergyEdited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas MarzlufJoin the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes.Join the HARDLORE DISCORD for community discussions and to participate in our future Q&A episodes.FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SPOTIFY, APPLEFOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAMFOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER For sponsorship opportunities, email us! [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

welcome. It is impromptu bonus hardlore time. How are you doing, Bo? I'm doing good. This is kind of a sad one, isn't it? It is a somber occasion, but we figured, you know, we, we owed it to not only

Ozzy, but all of Ozzie's fans to just talk about him for a little bit in this this audio-only bonus hardlore episode. Yeah, this is real quick, throwing it together. We're both ran ragged, but we wanted to, you know, wanted to do something.

And it's fun to be able to just kind of, sometimes an idea is so quick and fun that it's inspiring. I agree. So right now we're going to just talk about, in our little way of memorializing the literal greatest of all time, our top 10 personal favorite musical contributions of his between both Sabbath and Ozzy. Yeah.

Are yours in order? Mine are pretty in order. Okay. But, I mean, like, 10 to 3 is like any given day that they're all number one. I'm with it. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. All right. Why don't you take us away?

Okay. Start her off. In honor, listen, before we get to this list, we really just, none of this exists without Ozzy's work. You know? And that's something that has been. told to us by the people we idolize. Directly. Like,

is that like in our genres, you know. They created it all. But by way of the Beatles somehow. Yeah. Black Sabbath. I don't know how they did it, man. And that's going to be a lot. That's going to be an overarching theme of all 10 picks of mine.

And I'm sure of yours of just like, what inspired this? Yeah. How do you get here? Yeah. Especially with the early Sabbath stuff. Which my number 10, off of paranoid, is electric funeral. Very weird, cool song. Dude.

It's weird, but it's cool. Yeah, the wa's weird. Like, where did the wah come from? You know? Jimmy Hendrix. Straight up? Yeah, straight up. So, and that was what?

Mid the late 60s? Yeah, yeah. So that's right before this. Yeah. So it's cutting out. I only is like, this Andrix bloke is called this wall. I'm going to try it. And something that people talk about with Black Sabbath a lot is, and not necessarily

in this song, because a lot of this song is Ozzy following the riff. Yes. That changes a lot later. But the riffs are the rifts. The riffs are obviously iconic and like literally genre defining, music defining, etc. but a lot of Ozzy's melodies and choices and the tone of his voice is is half of what made this whole thing work. And I can tell you firsthand, singing melodically over heavy music is fucking hard. Hard and like, dude, I don't want to be crucified for this.

Ozzie, in my opinion, he's not a great singer, right? Like he's not... Yeah, I mean, if he was on American... an idol. He wouldn't do great. He might not make it to the top, but he's a great... Distinctive tone of voice is more important. Very distinctive tone of voice. Very good, like, performer, front man.

And then also, yes, carved his, like... There are other singers like that in the world who are like, they're not the best vocalist, but their voice is so ingrained in what it is. That... Like, I mean, you go to Dio and it's not the same. It's a different band. I would say the example is in the... the sleigh bells ring video with Jessica Simpson like trained trained expert vocalist.

Ozzy is Ozzie. He's from Birmingham. Yeah, exactly. But Electric Funeral, I just think the, from the opening with the wah and the like palm muted verse, the awesome chorus into a very unique type of bridge where there's, just like changing the tempo, expanding on everything, uh, into the fucking skank part after. Yeah.

Yeah. Dude. What they, they look at music very similarly to the way I do of like, they could, they could end these songs after two minutes, three minutes. Oh.

They, they, they know the journey isn't over at minute four. And they're like, no, I don't think this feels done yet. Let's get that skank part back. Which is crazy because like,

it's what Metallica wants to do on their last four records. 100%. But just don't... Yeah, it's... You're right. But Black Sabbath didn't just repeat the song four times. No, they would change it.

To get to six minutes. They expanded on things and invented things to get there. And this song's just fucking hard, man. Yeah, it's hard. I think... I think Pantera did this one. They did Planet Caravan and this one at the last show. It's a great cover.

It's a great cover. Good pick, Colin. Thanks, man. My number 10, and I almost left this off the list, and I literally wrote in all caps, shot in the motherfucking dark. Oh, let's go. Off of Ultimate Sin.

Jakey Lee Magic all over the song, and you can tell. But the damn, tica, tica, tica, tica, tica, dica, dica, it's driving. The video is fucking crazy because he's like bewitching a woman from stage. Yeah. And this girl's, like, offstage, like,

oh. And he's like, ah. You can tell there's extra emphasis on all these riffs because Jake's finally getting paid for them. Yeah, dude. The song itself was actually taken from a band called Wildlife, who demoed it. And the Ozzy Osbourne bass player Phil Susan was in Wildlife. And they like restructured it. Jake Ely added some beef, some dope solos.

But dude, just the chorus, the shot in the dark. One step away from you Great kind of power ballad You know like kind of not It's not as hard as Ozzy gets But it is as catchy as anything else And this is like Ultimate Sin the song and Shot in the Dark

Are like kind of the The Dark Horse picks I think Yeah I agree I think this record Is probably at the end of peak Ozzy Until Sure Until.

Yeah. Yeah. Until the new peak. Until the man comes around. I think this is a great example of just the evolution of Ozzy as a in terms of his like overall discography. Yeah. Because it's it's like he he's very Chris Jericho-esque in his good point. In his like, oh, he's out.

Ozzy's down. We don't we don't need any more Ozzy. And then does this new thing. and not only competes with what else is happening in the rest of the world, but kind of does it the best and assembles the best guys to do it. Dude, yeah, his lineups were always insane. Yeah. Yeah, so love this one.

Great pick. Thank you. Thank you. My number nine, one of the most beautiful ballads that the master of ballads has ever been involved with. from the Blizzard of Oz debut album Yep Goodbye to Romance

Dude and you know what the song's about No It's about Black Sabbath It's about saying goodbye To that love that he had I know it's incredible It's crushing And you got

You got Randy flexing On all cylinders here You know And like that's kind of, that seems like it's part of the message is like, hey, I'm going to let Randy write the craziest, most beautiful shit you've ever heard while I memorialize my fallen band, who I'm soon going to be booked to headline over. And that's why Dio will quit. Wow. Yeah. Wow. What a beautiful track. You wouldn't know that peripherally that it was about Black Sabbath. Like, I've never known that. I just think, man, this guy's evil twisted wife has really pulled him out of the wreckage time and time again. He's probably written, he's got another banger about her.

But yeah, this song is so beautiful to establish on your debut, your new debut that this is your vibe. Amongst nine other all-time classics is just a beautiful thing. So great pick, Colin. Thanks, man. Excellent choice. I have a couple that are like this song or this song, anticipating you to pick another one, okay? Smart.

Yeah, so I'm going to pick for my ballad. I'll put in a ballad here. The song that destroyed me yesterday for obvious reasons. Mama, I'm coming home. Absolutely. This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. especially in like the heavy world in like the world of

ballady type metal Lemmy helped him write the fucking lyrics for the whole record for half for five songs on the record an interesting thing about this record too Mike Inez from Allison Change was in all the promotional shit

he was in like band photos and like a video I guess about the upcoming record and then just wasn't in it. Then they went with that Phil Susan guy. Crazy. Yeah, isn't it? Or they, yeah, they reverted back to Phil Susan.

It was like a weird thing. This is, this record is like a miracle, you know? Literally, yeah. He just keeps losing his guys and then finding his new guys that would define him again. and then finding Zach getting access to these songs getting his like edge back do this record is aggressive

and sonically perfect oh it's it's a it's amongst it's probably a top 10 top three maybe production ever for me it sounds perfect like the mix is perfect the guitars are fucking crazy I agree the drum

Zach's voice as a as a background that's right Really lens? They synchronize so perfectly. I really don't fuck with Black Label Society at all. There's just nothing there for me. I like, I really like a couple tracks, dude. For me, banger.

I respect the man quite a bit. I feel the same. He's filled some crazy boots, you know? Oh, big time. The craziest. The craziest. Literally the craziest. Yeah, literally.

Literally Randy Rhodes, Jakey Lee and Dimebag. You filled the, the, the, the boots. You did it. Black Sabbath existing made way for everything to exist. Ozzie existing, existed to somehow topple Black Sabbath and continue the man's trajectory. He loses Randy.

Yeah. You get Jake. You got other guys in the mix. Yeah. It's impossible. Yeah. And then he did it. And then he did it.

And he wrote probably the best record. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. And this song now is different. It's changed forever. This watching, I'm going to get choked up, watching them play it, like him sing it for the last time. Oh my God.

At that concert yesterday was like, I couldn't. Like, we need to talk about the fact that this guy lived the craziest life ever, had one of the biggest impacts on this type of music. I mean, my super right-wing Christian dad texted me to say, hey, Ozzie died. Yeah. That's how you know you're like a generational

iconic. 100%. He's bigger than the music. He got to say goodbye to a bunch of friends all in one place. He watched his daughter get engaged,

then donated $190 million to charities and then died within 11 days. That's the most game. It's like they had to have known. 100%. Absolutely. That was the whole thing.

He got all the Biden drugs just injected into him. He was goased to the nine. And that's why they only did, you know, he did three songs with Ozzy, three songs with Sabbath or whatever, three and four. And that's it. He literally did what he could. What he could. One last time.

And in the moment, watching that was like, oh man, this is really beautiful and devastating. And now just two weeks later, that will be amongst the most iconic live performance. That song in particular is amongst the most iconic singular live performances in the history of music. All time. you're absolutely, absolutely right. And the crowd shots, seeing people, like, because he's not hitting the notes, he sounds old, you know, he sounds wrong. But he's still him.

But he's still him. And it still rocks. And just throwing into like, I love you. It's just like, oh, my God, dude. So that's my pick. My mom coming home number nine. Speaking of right-wing Christian dads, my number eight is perhaps the greatest Christian rock song ever written.

from Master of Reality After Forever Ooh It's a deep pick He deep cut Dude hard fucking song Biohazard covered it And didn't change much

Yeah Because it's just a hard ass song About how Ozzy thinks it's cool To love Christ Which Yeah On paper I would hear And be like

That's disgusting I don't ever want to hear that Again it's just different Coming from this group of guys Yeah I don't know why that is but they do, they're all God fear in men. They're all just, I don't know. Didn't they get cursed by witches?

I don't know. I read a story I think about Sabbath getting cursed by witches and that's why they all wear the crosses. Wow. Like a witch in Birmingham or some shit. I do, yeah, I do know that Tony would forget the cross occasionally and that's why the inlays on his guitar are crosses because he said, well, I can't forget that.

See? Kind of a thing. See, he don't want the curse. But after forever, it's like a bluesy proto hardcore song. Straight up. It's, it's, it's certified doom. But it's also just a hard, it's hard. Can you rank the first, this is hard music?

The first five Sabbath records? Sabotage is my favorite. No shit. Overall. That's my, that's my favorite. Yeah. Wow. And then I would probably go.

self-titled. Yeah. Paranoid. Okay. Volume 4. Master of reality is probably at the bottom overall. What about Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath?

Um, probably above volume four, honestly. Yeah. Yeah. Mine would be self-titled number one. Yeah, that's fair.

And then Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. I love that record. I agree. And then, the others do kind of fluctuate. A Sabbath by Sabbath, I think lyrically across the board,

probably my favorite. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. It's fucking awesome. Do something to point out, too? All six of those records we were talking about? Five years. Six years. Five years. Yeah, five years in a row.

They did the first two records in one year, 19-7. What the fuck? It's not, I mean, it's not possible, and they did it, which makes me believe the witch curse or something, you know? Yeah. Like, maybe after forever is real.

And Black Sabbath was somehow a gift from God. My number eight. I'm realizing this is just not in order at all, but it's fine. Ferries wear boots. Last song I'm paranoid. Come on, brother. Dope-ass song that Metallica just full-on rips off. The...

It's just the whole intro for whom the bell tolls. It's just the end of this song. but it's also just like a cool weird song about about Ozzy like a story about coming home and running into a ferry like a literal fairy who is dressed like they were they were tripping on shit we ain't even heard of yeah yeah i got

I got stories coming up too is it the horse oh the horse is a cool one but no he's like I was I was tripping on acid in a field and I was I was talking to an old for hours.

After three hours, it told me to fuck off. Fuck off. Yeah, that's right. I would love to know how the sequencing for these kind of records went because it's cool to think about

like no one was streaming anything obviously at this time. And this wasn't getting played on the radio. Sure. So it's like whatever a single is in that capacity, I don't really know. You know, so I wonder like, I mean,

some of this might have gotten British airplay. I don't think so. I think later on. I don't know, man. I mean, Warpigs was massive hit. I wonder. Until streaming, the closer was important and intentional and thought about in the writing and tracking process. Now you have to bury it because nobody's getting there.

Crazy. So yeah, it just makes you wonder, like, was this put at the end of the record to to be the send-off of that record. 100%? Yeah. 100,000%. It's probably the longest song on the record, too, right? It might be, yeah. Love it.

Good call. Number seven, baby, coming in hot. Coming in perhaps the hottest anything's ever come. Bark at the moon. Oh, that's my number six. Respect. That's my next pick. We've done an entire episode about this song

and Jakey. Do you want me to do number seven and then we'll talk about Bark in the Moon? Sure, yeah. Does that make sense? Because this might drive you crazy, but no pun intended. Number seven for me is crazy train.

Fuck yeah, dude. Dude, I know you know this riff. And by the way, it's crazy how you play it. I was watching your, no, it's good. You told me to start on two. You absolutely start on two, but you go two oh one, two oh one.

And now you go like, I go two, two, four, two, five, two. Yeah, you slide up. But five is just a open. Two, oh, four, five, two, oh, four, oh. Yeah, you should never hit five. That's just A open. Danana, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Your fingers never really need to move from that one box. Huh. I think the five, I like the five. Yeah. What did Randy know? Crazy Train. I saw someone explain this as like, from the moment they first heard the riff,

it was like, whatever this is, I want to listen to more of. And I actually, I had that experience. I for sure heard Crazy Train as like a 10 year old. Yeah. And was like, oh, this is my favorite. Like, whatever that is, I love.

I, that's an unbelievably well put way to say it. My brother has this classic story of him hearing Metallica on the radio. Yeah. And not knowing how to tell our dad what he liked. Just Junjun. He said Jun Jun. I want to hear Junjun. And I think, you know, there's some Junjun similarities to the emotion of Jun Jun.

I got as a child from Crazy Train. Of knowing, like, this is not the in sync and Backstreet Boys that all my classmates are listening to. This is extreme. Yeah. much more just naturally aligned with what I like. And to this day, dude, put it on any, anywhere I am. If I'm in the grocery store and crazy train comes on, I'm stopping in my train. If I'm in mid-conversation, I'm going, hold on.

Give me, give me about four and a half minutes. And people hate on the verse riff, and I love it. Dude, the verse roof is happy. It's amazing. I totally agree. That's the only Junjun in the whole song, too. I think it's, I think honestly there's intentional. It's crazy.

It's great. The way that it goes from that intro to that verse. And, dude, the drum beat before the solo, the da-da-down, that cool Tom thing is sick. Yeah. The solo is unbelievable. He's doing things. He's bending the whole guitar to hit some of the weird. It was step one, dude.

He was like, all right, here's what we can all do. Yeah. A little note I have. drummer Lee Keece. Keese. I don't know. The drummer Lee is credited for playing the Vibrislapp on this song. And I know you like that.

Dude, I'm obsessed for the Vibersla. And it's all over this song. Yeah. I know that. And then, dude, there's a little laugh at the end of the song. Do you know what I'm talking about? It was like, like, yeah, scared me as a kid, scary. Made me think of like Chuckie little guy.

Everything scared you. But yeah, to this day, this is one of the greatest, heavy metal songs ever written. Probably one of the biggest heavy metal hits ever. Yeah. Has to be top 10, if not top five. I know it has billions of streams, and it is his number one song. And it has transitioned, transcended the genre. Absolutely.

Everybody knows this song. And it is yet to cease in quality to me. It has yet to diminish in enjoyment. No, it definitely has like, it has, the mother, the Danzig mother effect to me where I was like, oh, this is a good song. Oh my God, I'm sick of this song. I hear it all the time. Back to like, the song's pretty good.

Songs fucking good. You know what I mean? Like it definitely came full circle for me. 100%. But you're number seven. Talk about Bark of the Moon. Yeah, let's go back to Bark of the Moon. My number seven, your number six. Jake once, as we said, the same of Zach.

He filled Impossible Shoes. He rose to the task as an uncredited writer. but still a member of the band and wrote six iconic riffs in a row to create this to most amateur guitar players

unplayable rock masterpiece like the trem chorus riff is just like he you know the rent how people say rent was due yeah Jake's fucking rant was due

dude dude Yeah, he was behind. And he said, I'm going to get it, Ozzy. Don't worry. I got this whole record. Redefined an undefinable career once again. Yeah. And this is really where I think Ozzy should have been fucked here.

Yeah, right. Totally. Like time and time again, Ozzie keeps rising from the ashes. And this record is kind of like the last domino. Because this is this is where it's make or break of like, okay, I've done it again. I've lost my guy. Now what the fuck do I do? Anybody else wouldn't have come with this.

Dude. And been able to do this record, which I think would, is what in, when it came time for no more tears and he finds Zach, probably gave the team the confidence of like, oh no, we'll be fine. There's guys out there. True. You're right. Like, ah, we'll find somebody. There's a. Yeah.

I'm Ozzy Osbourne. I'm a husband. Exactly. You know. Yeah, this single was released four years and four days before the day of my birth, obviously on purpose. A crazy thing about Jake Lee was he got done with this and was presented a contract that said, you don't get shit and you can't talk about not getting shit. Yeah. And he probably got paid a flat rate. He did. That's exactly. And probably got like performing royalties. I don't think you can get out of that. Yeah, exactly. Right.

But he doesn't get like writing publishing. So in any movie or TV show that this has ever been in, Ozzy Osbourne collects 100% of the publishing. Yeah. So that's a bummer. Did you know what's funny too is the first Blizzard of Oz, Diary of a Madman, and Bark at the Moon, thematically are almost all the same. Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's a crazy guy. That's the record cover.

It's just like, oh. It's freezing. I'm a wolf now. I'm insane. Now I'm a wolf. And now I'm a wolf. It's really funny. Because like you said, like,

that shouldn't have worked on Blizzard of Oz. Shouldn't have worked ever. Which, by the way, was the name of the band at first. It was not called Ozzy Osmarn. It was called Blizzard of Oz. And everybody in the band, like Randy included,

thought they were going to be Blizzard of Oz. And there was like promotional stuff, kind of like Revenge of the Jedi. Yeah. There's like some promotional stuff that exists and then it got changed. I mean, you think that was a sharing call? Is that information out there?

It was on the Wikipedia that, yeah, I don't think who made the call is out there. I mean. I would imagine it was somebody being like, Ozzy, listen. Or it could have been a label thing because I know Def Jam was the reason Sam Hane became Danzy. Right. And look. You never know.

And look, it's a good way to fill seats. 100%. You know what I mean? And who doesn't want to I'm gonna play guitar for fucking Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, exactly. That's true. Who gives you shit. True.

All right, so now you should do your six. Okay, my number six is the closing track from Sabotage, my favorite Black Sabbath album. It is called the Rit. Oh, yeah. You're a Rithead. I'm a big fucking Rithead. You know I love an eight and a half minute banger. It's so long.

As I discussed earlier, this song is pretty open and airy in terms of riffs. Yeah. And it's a real great example of, of Ozzy's contributions to this band. And how his lyrics, his tone of voice, his melodies make such an insane difference in what you're hearing and really complete the puzzle. It's so easy to single out the riffs. I know. I do it. Yeah.

But we cannot leave out that half of the story is what you're hearing. The story you're hearing is the vocals. And this song is maybe the best singular example of that. Something interesting, I read while just doing a little research for this list. Bill Ward wrote the majority of the lyrics for Black Sabbath. Really? Yeah. Wow.

It's a classic master killer situation. Classic. Yeah. And then also think about, again, I'm not shit on Ozzie. No, totally. But then think about, like, he got help writing lyrics from Lemmy later on. Yeah. You know, so he, I think that is actually a strength to be able to say,

hey, you're good at this and we work well together. Help me. 100%. Look at Elvis, dude. Of course. You didn't write shit. Look at Frank Sinatra. Look at Life of Agony.

You know. It's just how it goes. Dude, a star is a star. Absolutely. And Ozzy is the, is the, shine the brightest of them all. Absolutely. But yeah, I thought that was interesting, too. Very interesting. All right. My number five.

Hit me. The self-titled track on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Oh, yeah, dude. Baby. Oh, baby. Life is killing you, dude. Oh, wait, is that Snowblon? I'm thinking of more specifically the... Dund-da-dun-da-dun-dun-ggan-cun-cun-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d.

Dude. Yeah. So something funny that I read, too, it was more specifically for a song later on. But as they started, they would tune down to relieve tension because Tony's injuries, it would hurt, and he would use lighter string gauges because he could bend easier on lighter string gauges

because he can't feel the strings because he's wearing essentially thimbles with leather on his fingers. Which he chopped off his fingers at the last day of a factory job. His last day, he chopped off. off his fucking fingers. Like, hey, I'm going to leave to be a musician forever. Boom. Holy shit.

Pretty crazy. But so he made his, his, I don't know what it would be, apparatus. What's the word for a fake leg or something? I don't know. Prostetic? Prostetics, that's the one. And so he's playing with those lighter string, lighter tension, tuned down. So it's easier for him to play, which by the way, makes, like, that guitar should play

like shit. Yeah, 100%. It should buzz and sound crazy. It just goes to show you, it really doesn't matter. Even with modern intonation, that would really, like, techs actively working on it every day

would not sound good. But what's crazy is, and this is in the Wikipedia for a different record, but as they would tune down, Ozzie would just instinctively go the octave higher than he should have, which is why this part is so gnarly. Because it should be,

Sabbath bloody But it's like all the way up Sabbath bloody Sabbath But dude this This part This in like Alice Cooper is like Okay well you hear

There's where King Diamond came from Yeah Yes A dude basically doing falsetto Over A palm muted technical riff This is a breakdown

It's If that was a crowbar riff It would be the heaviest thing Of all time. You know what I mean? So then that's just all like production and tones and shit. So we may have accidentally discovered legitimately the first like breakdown. Yeah.

And that's the intention of this part. Yeah. Oh, it's a total. Yeah. Let's break this song down real quick. And then come back in with a. Yeah, it's insane. I love it, man.

Oh, a fun story about this one. It was recorded in Clearwell Castle, which is where Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple had also recorded in the past. It was like a full-on castle, so there's like armories and food halls and lots of chambers and all this stuff. And one night, Tony and Ozzy saw a ghost in the armory. And during this time, this was later on, like, in the bands, you know, I think this is number four or five, five.

And Bill Ward was constantly hazed. He was just like the guy who would get, like, joked on. And during the recordings for this, he started going to bed with a dagger to stop people from fucking with him while he was sleeping. Really? Yeah. So that's fun. We got to go to that castle. Clearwell Castle, baby.

Where is it? Do you know? Somewhere in England. Somewhere in England, yeah. We are from England. Okay. My number five, this is my pick from No More Tears, Ozzie's masterpiece. This is, I think this is the hard.

Ozzy song. It better be. The song is called Desire. Oh. Interesting. Dude, he drops crazy train again. Yeah, true. And he says, maybe my favorite,

one of my favorite lyrics of all time is gotta keep rocking because it makes me crazy. I gotta fucking keep rocking because it makes me crazy. Wow. And if I'm not crazy, who needs to be cool, you know?

This song rocks ass. It's nonstop. Zach shredding all over the whole thing. Again, this is like the just an incredible example of what you're getting from the total package here. Awesome lyrics.

These are these got to be. I don't know if these are lemmy lyrics, but I would imagine they are. Incredible melodies. Same old desire. Raise a dream. Crazy train. Zach's harmonies in the background, absolutely perfect.

You know the Lemmy version, the Motorhead version of Hellraiser and how awesome it is? Yeah, yeah. It's so sick. It's awesome. I almost put that. But I think the tempo of desire and how raging it is compared to the rest of the record, I think, sets it apart. Okay. I was so sure that you or I were both going to have Mama or No More Tears that I put both for that.

And now No More Tears is nowhere else. on my list, but we have to talk about that song. Yeah, let's do it. That is probably my favorite Ozzy song. Oh, cool. The title track? The title track, dude. The buildup

into the solo makes me feel like I can beat anything. I can do any... This is 91? 91. And it's Christian woman. And Faith No More

And Faith No More Yeah, absolutely So really think about that Like Obviously fucking typo were Sabbath heads Yeah big time We know that And obviously so were

I mean this is pre-bloody Kisses Yeah yeah yeah But this is I feel like they heard Faith No More Oh you think so Because Mike Borden eventually played drums in Ozzie Yes So I dude

I think this song was legit inspired by Faith No more you do so I just think the whole vibe of it the verses and stuff dude the verse is so fucking hard and kunk kank kank and that's that's Zach coming at it with the modern mindset of like

hey look at what you've inspired look at what people are doing now because of you I love dude Zach first of all that's in drop tuning which is sick that's crazy Zach pulls those squeals out of the earth dude He may be the greatest pincher in history.

Him and Dime. Pinch hitter. Him and Dime for sure. The last one, because there's three verses, so the very last verse after the big buildup, like the, he does one that's like, like it's so crazy. And you just, as a guitar player,

you just know that as a guy who's sitting in the exact right spot. because that's all electronics. That's all... That take was... Yes. Dude, when they stopped that tape, that room erupted. That had to be one of his favorite days

of, like, being a professional musician because it's like... All right, Zach, we got to get the squeals today. Yeah. You know? Because you know, also, he's not playing into it. Like, that's an overdub. Yeah.

So he's just waiting for the... Because it's all on the three. So he's just sitting there, perfectly placed, ready to just... and it's it's just perfect. I fucking love it. So I just,

we had to talk about that song. No, no, respect. This is the, this is, this is, this is,

this is, this is, this is best record. Yes. Yeah. That title track is masterful. Hard, the,

hard as shit. I love it. The, ding, ding. The timing is so weird. It switches up like halfway. Yeah. It's very weird.

Very cool. Excellent. Was, did you do your number five yet? No. Yes, I did my number. That was Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. Okay.

My number four. Do your number four. Okay. I have Snowblind. Respect, dude. Down, now, wow. Wow. Shaka da.

I love it. Is this cocaine they're talking about? Absolutely. Okay. What you get is what you see. Can't get enough of this stuff. Absolutely. And they really like it.

I think this song, has, in my opinion, like, one of the biggest, like, oh, there's typo negative in this song. The... Boonan-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-d-down-down-burning. Very Johnny Kelly to me. It's very Johnny, Kenny Hakeyke. Very Kenny. Very Kirk.

Oh, interesting. You're right. It's a little bluesy. Everybody's doing Sabbath, dude. I mean, everything I like comes from this. Canelmasse, Pro Bar, typo. So during, this is on Master of Reality, during the recording this, the band got like real, this is when the band, this is the third record,

band got super into drugs. This is when they were like, hey, we got money now. Yeah. They were getting speaker boxes full of cocaine sent to the studio. And it was like, let's get weird with it. And they got real weird with it.

they almost killed Bill Ward by spray paint. He was passed out naked. They spray painted his entire body with gold spray paint and he had a seizure because his... Yeah, that'll kill you. His pore is closed up.

That was during the recording of this record. The man never caught a break, huh? Snowblind, baby. Until like 11 days ago, he never caught a break. Oh, that was a good joke. Thanks, man. Yeah, that's my number four. I respect, great pick.

My number four. is heard to this day in every New York hardcore song ever. Many bands have ripped it off. Many bands have tried the skank fest that is symptom of the universe from sabotage. Wow, you are a sabotage guy. Oh, dude. This riff, are you kidding me? Hum it.

Wow. Gat, gack, gout. That's what we're all doing. Yeah. We're doing a bastardized version of that. And Warzone ripped this song off. I've seen fucking Demise cover this song. Well, it's funny, too, because it's like,

like Tom G. Warrior heard that and went, I have an idea for a band. Yeah, he just slowed down. That's Celtic for us. Yeah. Gang, gang, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung, gung. Dude, exactly. It's all here.

I'm telling you. Yeah, it's all there. Yeah. Yeah, but this is, again, this is another proto-harker song, and it's just guys doing what they feel right at the time. Like I've said, this is my favorite record.

This is the hardest song on this record. Bill Ward going fucking nuts on this thing. That's me. That's what I'm doing. So thank you, Bill. Thank you, Simpson the universe. Thank you, Black Sabbath. Wow, great pick.

Where Into the Void is on Master of Reality, right? It sure is. It is. That's another one. It's not on my list, but that's another one that's like, that riff shouldn't make sense. You tell me that isn't typo. That's a typo. That's Pyretta Blaze.

Yes, dude. Like almost note for note. Yeah. But that's another one of those kind of deep cuts that aren't, like sabotage is not high on my list. Master Reality isn't high on my list. those are deep cuts there you go oh yeah oh that's hey that sounds like

every band everything that I've made a career on yeah yeah huh all right we're getting down here yeah my number three and this is the rest of this is all

it's been Black Sabbath this whole time it's all gonna remain Black Sabbath number three probably one of the first five songs I learned on guitar motherfucking paranoid come on man You have said very openly that live at Buda Khan

changed your life, right? Yeah, that recording, that version of Paranoid was on an Aussie CD. Yeah. So like when I heard Crazy Train and had to go and get Crazy Train, you know, like Mom, I need Crazy Train, you know. So we went to Tower Records.

Dad, I want the album, Crazy Twain by Ozzy. I was born. Wees. And it was, you know, we went to Tower and she probably got me some best of. Yeah. And yeah, that. And he goes, this is paranoid. And they just, they rip it. And it's like, dude, it's like 20 BPM fast. Yeah, that's awesome. This was a last minute song. It was written in 25 minutes. Fucking crazy, dude. And then there, and that's title track. Yep. Geezer wrote the lyrics. and the majority of the songs on this record

were songs that they would like kind of improvise at like shows when there weren't a lot of people. These were their line check riffs. They were kind of jam and more than half of the songs at Paranoid were from those things. Hell, man.

All told from Tony playing that intro riff to recording it. It was two hours. Oh my God. Two hours. I've never done anything good in my whole life Yeah crazy I mean great pick

Legendary Legendary song Yeah there's no bad You know what I mean Yeah yeah These are all Anything anybody would put I'd be like

That's a great pick Yeah Wow you're right My number three From Master of Reality Into the voice Oh my god This is one of the first risks

I ever learned Really? Yeah I love the song. Again, this is the DNA of every single thing I listen to. And like putting that together as a teenager, blew my fucking ass off. You're actually really right.

The last pick of yours and this pick are like all of your favorite bands. Oh, this is typo and biohazard. Yeah, Typo, Biohazard, Celtic Frost, Crowbar. It's all within those two riffs. Wow. That's fast. Canal mouse. Yeah.

Wow. That's really, you're right. Dan, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Canal masks in the liner notes of nightfall at the end of the thanks list says, and thank you to the best band of all time, Black fucking Sabbath. In all caps with like five exclamation points. God, that's cool. That's awesome.

They never met them. That's so cool. Just paying respects. Yeah, Into the Void, masterpiece. Riffmania. Weird riff. But like, doesn't.

And it's like, it's like two scales combined kind of. It's so weird. It's awesome. Adding the bends and stuff is just, that's swag, dude. That's unteachable swag.

Yeah. So, that's my favorite band. Combine. That riff is my favorite band. 100%. Yeah. Great pick.

Thank you. My number two. Hit me. This has been in all time. Since I first, like in high school, was like, okay, let's listen to Black Sabbath. And not Cozy Train. Children of the grave.

Oh, come on, brother. Come on. The fucking extra percussion. Yeah. In the... La la. Who played this at the memorial, the tribute show?

It was one of the fucking supergroups. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think it may have been. The worst one. Yeah. Unfortunately. This is an instance where Tony tuned a full one and a half step down from E standard. Which is C sharp standard motherfucker.

The first band to ever tune to the only tuning I've ever cared to use in my whole life. Let's go, man. And like, listen, we've brought this up before. Why did Marauder tune to C Sharp standard? because of carnival. Take one fucking guess why carnivore did it. It's fucking cool, man. This is all, it really does all stem from Black Sabbath. Everything we like. This is the beginning. They are the alpha and the omega. It's fascinating. And the beta.

But yeah, Children of the Grave has another breakdown. You know. How many times have I played that? Exactly. That was, that was, uh, Ramallah, you know? Yeah, yeah. Dude, it's just, uh,

when I was going through this list yesterday and I would, it was fun, I would like go to the Wikipedia, click on whatever record, click on the recording process. And there's, it's just, there's so much documented.

Yeah. And then you realize how dense these record are. And they're doing it all in five fucking years. I know. Every single one of these Sabbath songs we're talking about was done within the five years. Within five years. They are the heavy metal Beatles.

One thousand percent. The Beatles were a band for seven years, changed the world. Black Sabbath was a band for much longer than that, but within just five years changed the world. Yes, very good. Well, well put. Have you seen the video of Paul McCartney and Ozzie meeting

for the first time? No. Is it awesome? Well, what's crazy is, like, it's at Howard Stern, like in the green room. So like, probably late 90s, early two, thousands and it's their first time meeting. And Ozzy's probably like, oh man, I love you so much.

Oh, yeah. He's a total fanboy. And Paul says like, how are you, darling? Lovely to meet you and like kisses him. It is, it's a beautiful moment. Were they both knighted? Was Ozzy knighted? I don't think Ozzy was knighted. Yeah, that makes sense. Sir Paul certainly was. Sir Paul has been sir for a long time. Ozzie should have definitely been knighted.

Yeah, he'll probably get a posthumous knighthood, I feel like. If he doesn't, you know, it's all. Really bullshit. It's all bullshit. My number two, Bo. Yeah. This is my favorite Ozzy Osbourne song. Awesome.

This is my favorite Randy Rhodes song. The song is called Believer. Oh, dude. This is specifically live from the Blizzard of Oz tour, which is a bonus track. The song is from Dyer of a Madman, but they were playing it on the Blizzard of Oz tour. Oh, okay. Okay. I see.

They came loaded, dude. And this is another thing. Those records are what? One, maybe two years apart. But, like, they were clearly tracked back to back. Because they're going, this, this song's from our fourth coming album called Dyer of a Madman. This number's called Believer. And then they rip into this nine riffs in a row.

And the verse riff is the fucking sickest, hardest, heaviest, Ozzy riff. that it's a legit miracle to me he managed to sing anything over it at all. Yeah, alone, something as complex and memorable that he ended up doing. What is the time goes? While Randy's going, doing like harmonics and shit,

this is from the Randy Ozzy catalog the masterpiece to me. Fascinating. Because it's, it's, this was never going to get radio airplay. But he, but they were like, yo, let's write the heaviest fucking song. Love of the game, dude. Love of the game type song. Believer is, uh, is the, the shining star to me. Fantastic.

I love the song so much. I'm going to listen to that version of it as soon as we finish. Oh, dude, it's going to whoop your ass. Ozzie is like full strength power. So that's the thing. that's the thing is like on some of these records he's really really dialed in

and also on his solo records and that's when you go oh he's a pretty good singer well that live he did not miss a fucking note yeah dude that coke and he was he never ran out of gas yeah that coke was strong

oh yeah that's the best you can get this uh this is so you'll this this version of this song is life changing to me. Like, this made me want to be better at guitar. Love it. I never got better at guitar. But that's not their fault. They did their best. Fascinating.

Believer. All right. My number one, and I wonder if we have the same number one pick. I think so. I think so, too. Listen, and let me preface this. I think I know what you're about to say. Okay. Raining Blood is the best extreme metal song of all time, period. there is an obvious pick for maybe the best straight up heavy metal song ever.

Oh, I think you might pick another. Oh, maybe I am. Maybe, maybe. Hit me with it. All right. Mine is a little song called Black Sabbath. Okay, no. See, that's not what I put, but good God.

Hey, Black Sabbath off the record Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath. Oh, my God, dude. This record was recorded live in 12 hours. mostly in one take. Mostly in one take. The only overdubs were solos and the rain and bell in the beginning. Dude, and second one, note one album one, you create something new.

Yep. And nobody ever really ever does it better. Kind of note three. Because it's like, nah, that's where you go. Yeah, I guess so. But even from the opening of just the production and what you're getting, you know from the rain and the bells that you're getting. something like,

you're about to go. Oh, I might be scared putting this on. So my mom told me that when this record came out and she would be at parties, if this came on or Riders on the Storm came on, there were people who would like leave. It was like scary. It was scary music. And then the verse is,

I just don't understand how you think of this. So he, this is probably my favorite performance of his because especially the like, oh, God, please God help me. Is like, that's horrifying. Yeah. You know?

He's acting. Dude, the fucking... Dundan-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-man. Also, like... Yeah, fucking rocks. Yeah. The... Dan-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dun.

You know. That's like the only thing that's of the time. Of the time. So, which is cool, right? Because you can see that they're like, we'll do one of those. They had influences. Yes.

But overall, they were just like, let's just fucking get weird. Most of these songs were recorded in one fucking take. Ozzy did the vocals live. He was just in a sound, in a vocal booth. And they just did it, 12 hours. They had two days, one to record, one to mix. That was it. Insane.

And to me, it's just like, like obviously we're doing one song in a time. But then you go straight into the wizard after this, too. Yeah, yeah. Ozzy's ripping out of her mom. Monica? Yeah. And I hate her, Monica. I mean, but you can't hate that. You can't hate this. It fucking rocks. But I do think it's that kind of, that kind of pressure and drive is what turns shit into a diamond, you know?

Absolutely. So yeah, this is. Nobody ever did it better. No, I really think that this is like, they opened the doorway for everyone with the best possible song. Yeah. I agree. Totally agree. Great. pick. Thank you. My number one I went with what I think is the quintessential heavy metal song. It is Warpigs. Yeah. Yeah. When you started explaining it, I was like, oh, yeah, you're going to pick Warpigs. It's, what can you do? Dude. I don't know a person that has, like, if you look up, person reacts to Warpigs YouTube. Yeah. You'll probably see a bunch of people who have never heard metal in their lives being blown away by how cool this is.

Dude, it's so awesome to me that in 70 whatever, they were like, hey, war sucks. Yeah. So let's really creatively write a song about it in a way that, dude, like, it's so vocal-driven that I don't, it inspires me to this day. Because when you sit down to write a song, you don't sit down in this genre, especially vocals first, you know? Yeah. Or think like, okay, I'm going to go gag out. And then you'll say something.

And like if he had said something that wasn't exactly what he said and exactly how he said it, the whole thing doesn't work. But everybody I know knows every second of this song. You're absolutely right. Um, so the intro riff was, was already a thing. The la la la da da da da da da la la la la. Right. There's a marauder.

That was already done. And then they didn't know where to go with this. And then one time, literally one time, Tony just went, and then everyone was kind of like, wait, do that again. Bill Ward went, it just started counting. Dan, out. Yes.

Is that 7-8? No, no. It's probably 6-7. No. Yeah, it's probably 6-7. Ending on the... I mean, that's my second favorite. Ending on the open, you know.

Yeah. And just... Then he rhymes masses and masses. Oh. You don't even think about it. Perfection. But literally, you don't even think about it. Because it's different.

word. In their masses, just like, no, it's the same word. No, but it's a different meaning. No. It's a massive. General's gathered in their masses. I mean, it's a massive guys. Mass of people, yeah.

Black masses would be. Just like witches in black masses. I don't know. I don't know. I guess mass is in like a church sense is different. Yeah, it's different. Okay. All right.

T-cha. Different meanings. It's fucking awesome. Dude. And like, I know this isn't the point. But the Faith No More cover of this at Brickston is like as cool as a live video gets. Yeah. And that's the reason they covered easy because people wouldn't stop heckling them to play.

And then they also made the best cover. And that became like a smash number one hit, which is so funny. There's a great video of Faith No More plus Ozzie plus Hetfield playing the song. I love how hard Hetfield rode for Faith No More at the time. Dude, it's really cool, isn't it? Like, kind of... That's RBS, straight up. Yeah.

Holy shit, I never thought about that. That's awesome. But, yeah, War Pigs, I think, is the goat heavy metal song ever, aside from Raining Blood, which is the best song ever, probably. War Pigs... People will continue to be

blown away and changed by this song for an eternity. Dude, the bridge to the... Low... Lawn. Laun. That's the best riff ever. Yeah, it's like somehow melodic.

Well, that song is still like kind of, it's creepy. It's somber. Satan laughing spreads his wings, you know? That's the sickest, that's the best imagery ever. I know that he probably means that in a bad way. Yeah. And I hear that. And I'm like, hell yeah.

So you take what you want with it. That's the other great thing. And not everything is going to be after forever. Sometimes it's going to be Satan laughing spreads his wings. And then there's, and then we all win. It's so good. Ozzie, the one true greatest of all time, the most influential heavy metal vocalist to ever live.

Dude, we just went over 20 songs each and we only doubled up on one. That's insane. And we didn't say like Sweet Leaf. Like there are songs we left off. Yeah. Hundreds. So dive in today. Yeah.

If you're, you know, I imagine most of you listening are already well versed. in many of these. But if you're not, we hope that we've guided you towards greatness here. Yeah. You really can't go wrong with anything from either discography. I implore you to check out later, Ozzie, too.

The song with fucking Elton on his like 2020 record is insane. Yeah. Obviously, we're big Deo Sabbath guys as well. Yeah. Hardest music ever. Dude, I fucking love it. It was hard not to include that because the other guys,

but this is more about Ozzy. This is Ozzy. This is Ozzy's legacy, which will forever be changing the world somehow via the original extreme music. Thank you all for listening. We hope you've enjoyed this very special bonus episode. And we will see you next week with something good. Bye.