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Ozzy Osbourne - Essential Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne : Down To Earth

Sabbath star's ill advised solo sojourn

We join Ozzy Osbourne , metal colossus and ghoulish bon viveur , gazing through the window, wondering whether Mother Earth will survive. That's 'Dreamer', a Beatles-y eco-ballad. On 'No Easy Way Out', there's a mantra-like middle-eight that sounds like Ian Brown. Legends should rarely be let off the leash, and few need tying down so much as Ozzy Osbourne ....

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  • Oct 10, 2001

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Ozzy Osbourne - Essential Ozzy Osbourne: Wikipedia Album Entry

The Essential Ozzy Osbourne is a compilation album by Ozzy Osbourne, released in 2003. It reached #81 on US charts and #21 in the UK. Tracks featured here from the first two albums are the "re-recorded" versions from recent reissues (see Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.)


Disc One
"Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley) - 4:50
From Blizzard of Ozz
"Mr. Crowley" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:55
From Blizzard of Ozz
"I Don't Know (Live)" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:00
From Tribute
"Suicide Solution" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:16
From Blizzard of Ozz
"Goodbye to Romance" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:32
From Blizzard of Ozz
"Over the Mountain" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake) - 4:31
From Diary of a Madman
"Flying High Again" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 4:38
From Diary of a Madman
"Diary of a Madman" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 6:12
From Diary of a Madman
"Paranoid (Live)" (Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) - 2:52
From Tribute
"Bark at the Moon" (Osbourne) - 4:15
From Bark at the Moon
"You're No Different" (Osbourne) - 5:49
From Bark at the Moon
"Rock 'n' Roll Rebel" (Osbourne) - 5:22
From Bark at the Moon
"Crazy Babies" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley) - 4:14
From No Rest for the Wicked
"Miracle Man" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, John Sinclair) - 3:44
From No Rest for the Wicked
"Fire in the Sky" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, Sinclair) - 6:24
From No Rest for the Wicked
"Breakin' All The Rules" (Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Daisley, Randy Castillo) - 5:13
From No Rest for the Wicked

Disc Two
"Mama, I'm Coming Home" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 4:11
From No More Tears
"Desire" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 5:45
From No More Tears
"No More Tears" (Osbourne, Wylde, Mike Inez, Castillo, John Purdell) - 7:22
From No More Tears
"Time After Time" (Osbourne, Wylde) - 4:20
From No More Tears
"Road to Nowhere" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 5:09
From No More Tears
"I Don't Want to Change the World" (Live) (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 4:05
From Live and Loud
"Perry Mason" (Osbourne, Wylde, Purdell) - 5:53
From Ozzmosis
"I Just Want You" (Osbourne, Jim Vallance) - 4:56
From Ozzmosis
"Thunder Underground" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 6:28
From Ozzmosis
"See You on the Other Side" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 6:09
From Ozzmosis
"Gets Me Through" (Osbourne, Tim Palmer) - 5:04
From Down to Earth
"Dreamer" (Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones) - 4:44
From Down to Earth
"No Easy Way Out" (Osbourne, Palmer) - 5:06
From Down to Earth
Some pressings omit track 12 on disc one ("So Tired"). On these editions, "Breaking All the Rules" is added to end of that disc (as the 16th track), and is thus omitted as the first track of disc 2.


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