The Essential Ozzy Osbourne

The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
Greatest hits album by Ozzy Osbourne
Released February 11, 2003
Recorded 1980-2001
Genre Heavy metal
Length 2:26:55 (146:55)
Label Sony Music
Ozzy Osbourne chronology
Live at Budokan
(2002)		 The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
(2003)		 Prince of Darkness
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

The Essential Ozzy Osbourne is a compilation album by Ozzy Osbourne, released in 2003. It reached #81 on US charts[3] 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) as well as the remixed Bark At The Moon tracks. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 5, 2005 with an excess of 500,000 copies sold.[4]

Contents

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley) - 4:50
  2. "Mr. Crowley" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:55
    • From Blizzard of Ozz
  3. "I Don't Know (Live)" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:00
  4. "Suicide Solution" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:16
    • From Blizzard of Ozz
  5. "Goodbye to Romance" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:32
    • From Blizzard of Ozz
  6. "Over the Mountain" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake) - 4:31
  7. "Flying High Again" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 4:38
    • From Diary of a Madman
  8. "Diary of a Madman" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 6:12
    • From Diary of a Madman
  9. "Paranoid (Live)" (Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) - 2:52
    • From Tribute
  10. "Bark at the Moon" (Osbourne) - 4:15
  11. "You're No Different" (Osbourne) - 5:49
    • From Bark at the Moon
  12. "So Tired" (Osbourne) - 4:01
    • From Bark at the Moon
  13. "Rock 'n' Roll Rebel" (Osbourne) - 5:22
    • From Bark at the Moon
  14. "Crazy Babies" (Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo, Daisley) - 4:14
  15. "Miracle Man" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, John Sinclair) - 3:44
    • From No Rest for the Wicked
  16. "Fire in the Sky" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, Sinclair) - 6:24
    • From No Rest for the Wicked

Disc Two

  1. "Breakin' All The Rules" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo) - 5:13
    • From No Rest for the Wicked
  2. "Mama, I'm Coming Home" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 4:11
  3. "Desire" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 5:45
    • From No More Tears
  4. "No More Tears" (Osbourne, Wylde, Mike Inez, Castillo, John Purdell) - 7:22
    • From No More Tears
  5. "Time After Time" (Osbourne, Wylde) - 4:20
    • From No More Tears
  6. "Road to Nowhere" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 5:09
    • From No More Tears
  7. "I Don't Want to Change the World (Live)" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 4:05
  8. "Perry Mason" (Osbourne, Wylde, Purdell) - 5:53
  9. "I Just Want You" (Osbourne, Jim Vallance) - 4:56
    • From Ozzmosis
  10. "Thunder Underground" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 6:28
    • From Ozzmosis
  11. "See You on the Other Side" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 6:09
    • From Ozzmosis
  12. "Gets Me Through" (Osbourne, Tim Palmer) - 5:04
  13. "Dreamer" (Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones) - 4:44
    • From Down to Earth
  14. "No Easy Way Out" (Osbourne, Palmer) - 5:06
    • From Down to Earth

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ "Billboard album chart history-Ozzy Osbourne". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=5355&model.vnuAlbumId=942077. Retrieved February 17, 2009. 
  4. ^ "RIAA Gold & Platinum database". http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=essential&artist=osbourne&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved February 17, 2009.