What's Yea Forums's opinion on him? Both his solo work and his work with Sabbath.
Ozzy Osborne
Blake Collins
Easton Gutierrez
I feel indifferent about him but religious about Sabbath.
Jonathan Baker
First six Sabbath albums and his first two solo albums are great. The rest I’m indifferent to.
Alexander Howard
Pretty much invented metal. So he is basically god (Satan?) to proper metal heads. Quite funny old man.
Sabbath bloody sabbath is a great song, lyrics really hit you if you are some poorfag who hates everything and wants revenge.
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day
They really need to make a biopic of him, stat.
Michael Taylor
The definition of a hack. The only thing he had going is a distinctive voice and finding the right band members to write the songs.
Thomas Brown
Tony wrote the riffs and Geezer wrote a lot of the lyrics. Bill Ward added a nice jazz style drumming to flesh it out. Ozzy had distinctive shrieking and that's about it.
Lincoln Moore
Ozzy wrote the those lyrics though, he was pissed at their label
Isaiah King
He didn't write any lyrics until their sixth album, and Geezer still wrote the majority.
Jonathan Miller
is this vinny from vinesauce?
Brayden Bailey
I credit 150% of his solo success to Randy Rhoads. Ozzy wouldnt have made the comeback that he did without him.
Nicholas Watson
This.
Oddly enough I found Ian Gillan to be a better and more horror themed singer for Sabbath.
Dominic Martinez
Total nobody.
Jonathan Miller
Lucky to have surrounded himself with great musicians otherwise he'd died being a petty thief
Jose Moore
I've always liked his voice and hes extremely charismatic. I agree that his solo success is all Randy Rhodes, riff and solo master RIP. Early Sabbath wouldn't have been Sabbath without him.
Lincoln Hall
Ozzy is great. Apparently zoomers are hating on him now that they found out he's not really a musician?
Brayden Long
Love Sabbath, love Ozzy solo. It's important to recognize it's true he mostly became a mascot and did fuck over musicians who made his career, but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that it's still good music to listen to, and in his own right he did have one of the most unique voices in rock
Sebastian Harris
But better than Bruce Dickie son or Paul McCartney.
Julian Garcia
solo works become abysmal, equal parts reminiscent 'paranoid' era sabbath 'randy' era + 'whatever current trend in rock' (idk how they'll pull off the next one)
Sad thing it doesn't have to be that way, pair him up with ANY mediocre stoner/retro metal act & ppl will lose their minds how great he still is, sad case of having too many handlers
Kayden Young
You better only be talking about the late 90s and 00s , and even not ALL that stuff was awful, just mostly generic and "who gives a shit"
Adrian Adams
yes, solo works become abysmal, meaning: wasn't always
Jaxson Lewis
The correct response.
Ryan Moore
he's comfy
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Asher Morris
LEGEND anyone who doesn't agree is just a pussy
Andrew Cruz
Anthony Peterson
dubs and he dies soon
Aiden King
Dubs and he pees on you
Thomas Mitchell
Gillan is great and incredibly influential, and though he is appreciated within the genre, I feel he is underrated compared to, say, Plant.
Bentley Richardson
A larger than life persona.
If not for Iommi, Geezer, RR, Jake and Bob Daisley he would be shit.
Tyler Jackson
The man is a total retard but I can't help but love him. He's been a part of a lot of my favorite music ever.
Favorite album with Sabbath- tough but I might lean towards Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Favorite solo album- I'm a bit of a contrarian here because I like the Randy albums ok but they're not my favorites. I think Ultimate Sin and No Rest for the Wicked are both really underrated.
Jack Johnson
Not a particularly good singer or lyricist, but he had a remarkable knack for finding talented musicians to surround himself with
Josiah James
Yeah most normies and general fans of rock or metal never even heard of him (they’ll know his work). I do find it strange that he gets passed by on most influential singer and screamer lists... definitely had a more intricate voice than Plant in his day. Ozzy? Idk, sings way in that high octave Ozzy range and could scream well enough but I can’t say he was epic.. just my take.
Jordan Cruz
>'whatever current trend in rock' (idk how they'll pull off the next one)
Dreampop crossover? God I hope not.
Noah Parker
muh zoomers