I was a bit surprised to see a new release from Ozzy in my Yahoo Music Jukebox player this morning. New Ozzy? The dude can barely speak a single coherent sentence whenever I see him on TV the past years ... and he's still singing?
Yup, and surprisingly his voice is clear and strong.
The album is called Black Rain ... and I just had to go take listen. I've never been a huge Ozzy fan, but man can Zakk Wylde play some tasty licks ... and yes, I have a select very few Ozzy songs in my music library for the crunchy guitar riffs.
The first 2-3 songs are a nice guitar feast with Ozzy's typical "singing" ... some sweet-o guitar solos from Zakk. Once you've listened to the first 2 songs you've heard the rest of the album IMHO.
The beauty of Yahoo Music is that I can listen to this new Ozzy to satisfy my curiosity ... then never listen to it again ... all for the same $5/mo ;-)
500 Bonus Points for the person who can guess my favorite heavy metal group back in the mid-late 80's ... ONE GUESS ALLOWED PER DAY PER USER to make it fair.
Here's a fun link to the styles that were hip back in the 80's ... too funny! What was your favorite 80's look?
... long live ripped up acid washed jeans (pegged of course), mullets and high top sneakers! :-)
Stryper
Posted by: J.C. Jennings | May 29, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Metallica?
Posted by: td | May 29, 2007 at 02:32 PM
My first thought was Europe, but I doubt your all time favorite 80s band was a 1 hit wonder. (Europe rocks anyway!)
As my first guess, I'll say Whiteheart.
I had hair below my shoulders in the 80s, even had a perm to make it all wavy. I guess I'm glad I did that then, look at me now!
Posted by: Jim Walton | May 29, 2007 at 05:23 PM
Good guessing ... no dice so far.
Jim - Final Countdown still rocks today :-)
Posted by: Jason Powell | May 29, 2007 at 07:06 PM
I'm gonna go with Guns and Roses
Posted by: Marcus Monroe | May 29, 2007 at 09:45 PM
Lets go far out on a limb and try my favorite christian metal band... Deliverance!
of course one could ask for the specific sub group of heavy metal that your favorite 80's metal group belongs to. you don't want to insult someone by suggesting a glam metal band when they were into thrash metal
Posted by: utech | May 29, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Did you see that Ozzfest is free? Assuming you can a ticket. Let me know if you want to go with us we are going to try to hit the Detriot show.
Posted by: Pete | May 30, 2007 at 12:55 AM
It's technically a different day.. so another guess.
Def Leppard
Posted by: Marcus Monroe | May 30, 2007 at 01:38 AM
I will guess Poison
Ain't looking for nothin but a good time...
and it don't get better than this.
Posted by: Paul | May 30, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Let's try again. I couldn't get my guess in yesterday. Dokken
dj
Posted by: Darrell Jordan | May 30, 2007 at 09:15 AM
Great guesses ... some real classics listed! But still no dice. I will help a bit by saying it is not a "Christian" artist.
Darrell - Dokken is a very close 2nd! :-)
Pete - free tickets eh? I'll have to ponder that.
Posted by: Jason Powell | May 30, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Well I should get credit for an extra guess today since I couldn't put mine in yesterday. Typepad errored out on me. :)
Posted by: Darrell Jordan | May 30, 2007 at 10:43 AM
80's metal bands. So many to choose from. Since you said mid-late 80's, I'm going to guess Whitesnake.
Posted by: Dave Moore | May 30, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Ok, if Dokken was number two then how about Lynch Mob since I am guessing you were a George Lynch fan?
Posted by: Keith | May 30, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Twisted Sister
Posted by: J.C. Jennings | May 30, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Metallica
Posted by: Kevin Arms | May 30, 2007 at 02:32 PM
Keep 'em coming ...
Posted by: Jason Powell | May 30, 2007 at 08:05 PM
have had a lot of problems posting today
I think this is attempt 8.
Judas Priest.
that is not a curse, that is my guess for Wednesday. and in 11 minutes I can post my guess for Thursday :)
Posted by: utech | May 30, 2007 at 11:50 PM
gonna try another favorite of mine...
Megadeth
Posted by: utech | May 31, 2007 at 12:26 AM
Ok. Let's try Ratt this time around :)
dj
Posted by: Darrell Jordan | May 31, 2007 at 07:51 AM
Iron Maiden
Posted by: Kevin Arms | May 31, 2007 at 08:20 AM
We have a winner!! I'll post who got it later today.
Posted by: Jason Powell | May 31, 2007 at 09:08 AM