OZZY OSBOURNE — Bark At The Moon (review)

OZZY OSBOURNE — Bark At The Moon album cover Album · 1983 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Stephen
The death of Ozzy's goldenboy, Randy Rhoads, forced him to held another audition and this time, Ozzy found another skillful axeman, Jake E. Lee, under the recommendation of the future bassist of Slaughter, Dana Strum, whom had recommended Rhoads earlier. "Bark At The Moon" also marked his third solo album with the prominent session drummer, Tommy Aldridge, whom later famous with his works at Whitesnake. The album sold well in the States and to date, "Bark At The Moon" had nailed triple platinum, trailing behind his sensational debut, "Blizzard of Ozz".

Let's start with some of big numbers of the album, check out how Lee unleashed a rapid riffings to the uptempo opener, "Bark At The Moon" or the loud-and-furious, "Centre of Eternity", or "Slow Down", which has a trace of commercial drip that's sweetened by the sound of keyboard but still compounded with raging riffs. "Rock N' Roll Rebel" is a good midtempo song and "So Tired" harvested a lot of controversies for being such a sappy poppish ballad, but I kinda like it though. Some low points here are "Now You See It" and "Waiting For Darkness" which I found a bit flat and boring.

I've never been a big fan of Ozzy's vocal, but I can't deny the fact that this album belongs to the list of influential heavy metal albums of all time. Jake E. Lee's provided a superb guitarworks but I think he evolved greatly in Badlands later on. With a numerous strong tracks and couple of decent tracks and fillers, "Bark At The Moon" stands out as one of Ozzy's great records and worth to buy since you can easily find it relatively cheap.
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