Yesterday our Rock station had a syndicated Ozzy special to introduce and play some of the new Ozzy album Black Rain. I was listening at work on a piece of crap radio but my first impression is some of the songs are very good, especially the music. Zack put some killer guitar down on this album. I don't know if I'm getting older, or Ozzy is, but my tolerance for his voice has gone down a great deal. And sometimes I get the feeling that he just went back to his older albums and cherry picked lyrics and pieced them together for this one. I came away with a positive feeling overall though because this is the first music from Ozzy that has gotten my attention since the song No More Tears, and as a whole this album rarely gets played. As far as buying Black Rain the jury is still out. The fact that the music is so good though has me interested in checking out some Black Label Society again, or, maybe I should just buy the Black Rain....

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