Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon – 1983
Randy Rhodes died.
And that’s pretty much the whole story here.
Jake Lee is hired as his replacement and it almost works. The title track is great, energetic, shreddy. The rest of the album is….like carbon paper.
If Diary of a Madman is Blizzard of Ozz part 2, this was both of the albums as copied by a cover band. That isn’t to say that its unlistenable, it’s not. It’s fine. There just no explosively mind bending brilliance. Lee doesn’t have Rhodes’s chops (the closest he gets is on the late album monster “Slow Down” and Ozzy seems to be going through the motions.
Grade: C
ASide: Bark at the Moon
BlindSide: Slow Down
DownSide: Centre of Eternity
DownSide:
