Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon (1983)

At the very least, I would give a serious earful to anyone who allowed an album to be released in different parts of the world with different songs or song order.

The album in question is Ozzy's third solo album, although its name meant a full band from the very beginning.

After the sadly memorable Diary of a Madman tour, Ozzy let his bandmates go and looked for a new guitarist.

Daisley, who had left Uriah Heep in the meantime, returned and - although he is not listed on the album - wrote the lyrics to almost all the songs. The songs were written with Jake E. Lee; in the meantime, Ozzy (not for the first time and not for the last time) enjoyed the hospitality of the art institution founded by Betty Ford.

The legendary Carmine Appice arrived as a drummer, but he did not stay long; Aldridge returned for the recording.

The first album with the great guitarist Jake E. Lee was a huge hit; but to make it not so simple, the album was released in Europe and America with different songs.

(The difference is quite clear from the cover, the letters are red on the American one, and blue on the English one.)

Because of this, fans on both continents were shortened by one song. This is the American edition, which included the song Slow Down; while the European one has the (much better) Spiders (In The Night).

And they completely mixed it up, the European one starts with Rock 'N' Roll Rebel, the title track is the first track on the B-side.

The album was released in 1995 with the full "song set", i.e. the songs released in Europe and America. But they took the American one as the basis, i.e. Spiders (on the original English edition titled "Spiders in the Night") and the unreleased "Up The B-side" are included as bonuses.

An alternative remix of the album was also made, which was only released in 2002. On this, the guitar solos and some guitar tracks were replaced with the original.

This album was also followed by a large-scale tour (which was also filmed, but was not available on DVD until decades later) and then another

(and final) album with guitarist Jake E. Lee. It is true that the songs from "The Ultimate Sin" were tried several times, and producer Ron

Nevison considered the material completed for the third one to be good enough to make an album worthy of Ozzy; but that is another story.