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
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
Bark At the Moon performed well enough commercially to put Ozzy's solo career back on stable ground after the death of Randy Rhoads threatened to derail it. However, whilst Jake E. Lee is a perfectly competent guitarist, he seems more prone to playing it safe than Randy was and doesn't bring any comparably exciting riffs and solos to the table - and come to think of it, the album as a whole is rather Ozzy-by-numbers.

There's the typical sappy ballad (So Tired, in this case), because for some reason Osbourne keeps thinking he can pull off that sort of material, there's at least one song with an irritatingly repetitive chorus (Now You See It Now You Don't), there's dull baiting of evangelists (You're No Different) and playing up of the Ozzy legend (Rock and Roll Rebel) because Ozzy had hit that tedious point in an artist's career in which the artist will delude themselves into thinking singing about their own image is useful and innovative, and so on.

On the whole, there's absolutely nothing unexpected about the album except for two tracks - Spiders, a synthesiser-heavy experiment which is one of the goofiest tracks Ozzy has ever sung, and the title track, which is genuinely good fun if you're into pop-metal. At this point in time, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman had set a pattern for what was expected from an Ozzy album, and Bark At the Moon doesn't deviate from that in any significant respect.
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