'The Osbournes': No Rest for Family Values on Black Sabbath

NY Times ^ | April 2, 2002 | ALESSANDRA STANLEY

[E Rocc]

Gag. The bubble gum "metal" made me queasy. I once saw an interview with brett Michaels of Poison. He said "Nirvana killed my career."

And we are all eternally grateful to Kurt Cobain for that! :-)

Ugh...no matter how much one may dislike the "pop metal" bands, they accomplished two things:

1) They put a better class of music on the radio than would have otherwise been there.

2) They got a lot of other bands signed and released.

Nirvana meant the replacement of "Life's cool, let's party" with "Life sucks, let's pout". Not a good change, IMO.

-Eric

[sharktrager]

This has got to be the greatest new show in 10 years. My wife is very conservative and even she loves parts of it.

I thought she was going to choke to death when Ozzy walked away from his wife backstage, sat down in the directors chair, and promptly fell backwards.

Personally, I figured his wife should have told Ozzy he did have every other day off. I doubt he'd know the difference.

I also loved watching Ozzy work out. It reminded me of that excercise tape that Milton Berle put out a few years ago with a band of geriatric aerobic instructors.

[occam's chainsaw]

Nirvana meant the replacement of "Life's cool, let's party" with "Life sucks, let's pout". Not a good change, IMO.

Absolutely! I agree 100% and have been saying the same thing for years. The record company turned it's back on hard rock/heavy metal to embrace all of the gloom and doom suicide rockers (heroin junkies!). After that petered out, they focused on teen groups and hip-hop (C)rap artists. They have ruined country music, too (turning it all into pop!). The music scene has gone to sh!t and the record companies are still trying to force feed us with what they want us to hear/buy by strong-arming the radio stations (promos, tickets, etc. in exchange for heavy rotation of whatever crappy song they are presently pushing)...it's no wonder people are pirating music on the internet.

[occam's chainsaw]

... end rant < / rant >

[Bella_Bru]

As someone who almost cried with joy that she could see Ozzy WITH Black Sabbath last year at Ozzfest, I completely understand.

[Neets]

I fell off the couch laughing at that chair scene...it was too funny.

[Bella_Bru]

If you are looking for a good place to download from, try WinMX. No spyware with that puppy.

[Bella_Bru]

Me too! A couple of episodes ago, they showed a scene where Ozzy was at a photo (instead of autograph) session at Tower Records on Sunset. Alex was there and he said you had everything from people who you could tell were at the first ever Sabbath show, to their grandkids.

[Neets]

....and the one at the restaurant..the daughter complaining to him about how he can never hear him..."Just write it down"...LOL...THAT one I can relate to.

[E Rocc]

If you are looking for a good place to download from, try WinMX. No spyware with that puppy. I like Audiogalaxy's format, reliability, and availability but I did have to remove some clintoning spyware...grrrrr.

-Eric

[realpatriot71]

I've been to Ozzfest every year since it began. I wasn't a big Ozzy fan until the first show. Then I was hooked for life.

[E Rocc]

Absolutely! I agree 100% and have been saying the same thing for years. The record company turned it's back on hard rock/heavy metal to embrace all of the gloom and doom suicide rockers (heroin junkies!).

Is it a coincidence that soon after, young voters switched from predominantly Republican (as we were during the Reagan years) to mostly a bunch of cravenly PC Damnocrats?

Yes, that was partly due to the re-emergence of the neo-Puritan right. But it's no secret that whiny dissatisfied people are much more likely to vote for liberals.

-Eric

[occam's chainsaw]

WinMx is great - even better if you use NapMx with it.

[GSWarrior]

I don't understand. These are not actors playing the roles? It's really Ozzie and family?

[realpatriot71]

Yes, this is really Ozzy Osbourne and fam :-)

[Dog]

I have become a huge fan of this show......

[JURB]

Yep, as soon as you hear the first chord from the first song from the first Sabbath album (which I believe came out in 1971), you know that is something that was entirely different than anything that preceded it.

I'd have to say that my favorite Black Sabbath album is probably a tie between Master of Reality and Heaven and Hell (with Dio on vox).