Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz ✝ Diary Of A Madman (2011) [3CD BOX]

You need this collectible 3-disc box set “Blizzard Of Ozz ✝ Diary Of A Madman” celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ozzy’s solo career released in 2011 (now out of print) featuring both albums and an extra CD with a live recording from the era. In the box there’s also both albums on vinyl LP, a DVD with vintage footage, and a replica of Ozzy’s iconic Blizzard Of Ozz cross.
The great thing with this box set is the remastered original mixes of Blizzard Of Ozz + Diary Of A Madman, and the awesome 100-page coffee table book with awesome pictures, photos, singles reproductions and more (all included in the file).
It’s hard to mess up such classic albums, but Ozzy’s team did just that back in 2002, responding to a lawsuit from former band members who played on the records by replacing their parts with new additions from different musicians.
Ozzy said that he wasn’t involved with, and didn’t support this change, which has thankfully been reversed. So now everything’s back as it was, plus, sounding as good as modern technology allows.
Oh, and that’s only the beginning. A previously unreleased live show from the ‘Blizzard’ tour is featured on disc two of the ‘Madman’ reissue, showing off a rawer sound than the previously released ‘Tribute’ set from the same era. The guitar work and compositional skills of the late, great Rhoads are even more spectacularly impressive in this setting than they are in a recording studio.
These albums not only are heavy metal classics, these are contemporary music in general classics.

So, yeah, this box set is wonderful. Listening to it you’ll remember that despite all his antics and past reality show nonsense, Ozzy was a musician first and foremost, and a damn great one.


Tracks:


Blizzard Of Ozz
CD1-1 I Don't Know 5:13
CD1-2 Crazy Train 4:51
CD1-3 Goodbye To Romance 5:33
CD1-4 Dee 0:49
CD1-5 Suicide Solution 4:17
CD1-6 Mr. Crowley 5:02
CD1-7 No Bone Movies 3:52
CD1-8 Revelation (Mother Earth) 6:08
CD1-9 Steal Away (The Night) 3:28
Bonus Tracks
CD1-10 You Looking At Me, Looking At You (Non-LP B-Side) 4:15
CD1-11 Goodbye To Romance (2010 Guitar & Vocal Mix) 5:42
CD1-12 RR 1:13


Ozzy Live
CD2-1 I Don’t Know 5:08
CD2-2 Crazy Train 6:26
CD2-3 Believer 5:37
CD2-4 Mr. Crowley 6:19
CD2-5 Flying High Again 4:17
CD2-6 Revelation (Mother Earth) 5:58
CD2-7 Steal Away (The Night) 8:00
CD2-8 Suicide Solution 8:34
CD2-9 Iron Man 3:12
CD2-10 Children Of The Grave 5:07
CD2-11 Paranoid 3:17


Diary Of A Madman
CD3-1 Over The Mountain 4:31
CD3-2 Flying High Again 4:44
CD3-3 You Can't Kill Rock And Roll 6:59
CD3-4 Believer 5:15
CD3-5 Little Dolls 5:39
CD3-6 Tonight 5:50
CD3-7 S.A.T.O. 4:07
CD3-8 Diary Of A Madman 6:14