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Speaker 2: We're going to discuss today Ozzy Osbourne's nineteen ninety one
album No More Tears. We started with his biography. If
you didn't catch that, and go back last week and
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so we're going to talk about No More Tears today.
I've got a couple of bits of information, sort of
an intro to the album before we jump in track
by track, Like you said previously. This album was released
September seventeenth, nineteen ninety one. That was the same day
the Guns N' Roses released their two albums, Use Your
Illusion one and two.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: It's the same month that read Hou Chili Pepper's release
Blood Sugar Sex Magic, and the same month that Nirvana
week same week yep that Nirvana released Nevermind. Is huge,
huge time for music in America.
Speaker 1: This was the first and only Ozzy Osbourne album that
I ever purchased. I didn't own the rest of them.
I didn't really even get into some of that, some
of the seventies stuff until later on.
Speaker 3: It may have been Beavis and butt Head.
Speaker 1: Honestly, they had an episode where they joked about him
biting the head off of a live cow, which one
of my friends said, did he really? And we lost
our minds. That friend, you know, that friend that says that,
of course, I'm not a diehard Ozzie fan. I haven't
gone back and gotten those other albums to check them
all out. I'm the radio friendly Ozzy guy.
Speaker 2: Me too, Me too. So this is his sixth solo album, Yep,
No More Tears, released September seventeenth, ninety one. This is
his first album that he was sober. This album, if
you'll notice just the themes in general, it's more personal.
It's more you can feel bits of regret but hopefulness.
So it's a little different than diary for Madman, for instance.
This is definitely a more personal Ozzie. You have help
from outside composers. Let me Killmeister from Motorhead wrote four
of the tracks on this album. Wow, the personnel on
this album, I find this interesting. Okay, you've got Ozzy
on lead vocals, You've got Zach Wilde on guitars. You've
got Randy Castillo, who was lead of Ford's drummer before
he jumped on with Ozzy, and actually he was Tommy
Lee's replacement in Motley Crue for a time when Tommy
Lee dropped out of Motley Crue and then they had
this guy named Bob Daisley who was with them for
ten plus years, but he was fired before the release
of the album, although he did lay down the tracks.
The guy that in the video was Mike Ainez and
he joined Alison Chains full time after the album. So
it's kind of an interesting cast of characters on this album.
I think it's interesting. When they were asking him initially,
they're like, oh, so you got a new album out
and you're newly sober. Yes I am, and yes, yes
I am right. They say, well, what do you think
is it good? And he's like, I have no idea.
I am just now like a newborn babe trying to
figure out what's good and what's not and what's real
and what's not right. He was so drugged out that
when he was finally sober, I don't know if it's
any good or not. We'll see. So the first song
on the album is a song called Mister Tinkertrein.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So the song starts off and it's got this kind
of music box sound to it, and it's got the
children playing in the background, and it's real creepy it
is creepy, and then there's a video for it, and
the video I don't know that I've ever seen it
before we started researching these.
Speaker 3: Albums, but I'm watching.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think that's the movie that Jason and
I have just started talking about. And sure enough, it
is the movie M by Fritz Lang from back in
nineteen thirty one, which, if things go according to plan,
we will be comparing to Silence of the Lambs in October.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But it's a story of a child serial murderer, which
is what our song mister Tinkertrain.
Speaker 3: Is about as well.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: I actually watched the first half of it this morning
of M of M. Yes, I watched the first half
of M with my eighteen year old daughter, who doesn't
get interested in ao lot of movies. But she was like,
I really, she had to go to work. It's like,
I really want to watch the rest of this. We
need to watch the song.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, interesting, okay, cool. So yeah, this song
the lyrics talk about a serial murderer who is enticing
young children with sweets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and toys you've never seen. I'm pretty sure it's
a sexuals Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then the it come in full blast after this,
after the little intro with these hard drums, guitars, bass,
and then this anthem pulsing boom boom.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: So I'm listening to this and I was talking to someone.
I'm like, man, that drum sounds so good, Like what's
going on there? And he said it's it's the kick
drum and the snare at the same time. And so
it's that fist pounding rock. It blew me away. I
love it, pounding rock song. The one thing that's really
curious about this song is it has this wonderful, gorgeous
synth breakdown in the middle of the song and it softens.
Speaker 4: It's really soft.
Speaker 3: It's very Beatles esque.
Speaker 2: And it's like beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so I just when I heard that, I'm like, man,
this song is me It's just unexpected turn. And so
although the lyrics are.
Speaker 1: A little bit strange, well scary songs or scary scary
songs yep.
Speaker 3: Dance with the world with the Girl that brought Yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know what mister Tinkertrain is, but to me,
I keep thinking of tinker toys. The weird thing also
about this song yeah, is it stops on a dime?
And when I mean stops on a dime, it just
full on and that's it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have a fade out, which I love.
I fade outs for every single song growing up, and
I got tired of fight out fade outs.
Speaker 3: I want to hear the end of the song.
Speaker 5: Yep, finish it.
Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful song, pounding rocker. Love it all right. So
the next song is called I Don't Want to Change
the World.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: This is the first song co written by Lemmy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It came out in nineteen ninety three on the Live
and Loud album and that version won the Grammy for
Best Metal Performance.
Speaker 2: This song won a Grammy. Yeah, this is a great song.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's another I mean, it's another awesome rock kicking butt.
But unlike mister tinker Train, he's not referring to demons
or insanity or any of the other stuff that he
had made his career on up to this point.
Speaker 3: This is about life.
Speaker 4: I know, you ad.
Speaker 1: This is about I'm just trying to be me and
I'm not trying to make a big show or something.
Speaker 3: I just want to get on with my life.
Speaker 2: Another song that I'm just loving right out of the
gate two for two so far.
Speaker 5: Yeah, love it all right.
Speaker 2: The next song I'm dying to talk about.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The third song on the album is called Mama I'm
Coming Home.
Speaker 1: So this might be the reason that I bought the
album was to learn how to play this intro guitar piece.
And this is one of a few rock ballads on
this album, and I love it.
Speaker 2: This song was released March twelfth of ninety two, each
number twenty eight on the Hot one hundred. This is
a rare top forty hit for Rozzie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In fact, this song and Close My Eyes Forever are
his only two top forty hits. Wow, it's gorgeous. This
is not a crazy psychopathic rocker. This is a beautiful ballad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is This is a love letter to Sharon.
So he'd had this melody in his head for a
while and it was Zach Wilde that kind of helped
him bring it to fruition.
Speaker 3: And the Mama I'm Coming Home would be what he would.
Speaker 1: Say to Sharon at the last show at the tour,
you know, finally done, I'm coming home to see you.
And Lemmy is the one that the guy from Motorhead
is the one that ended up writing the lyrics for
the song, and he did it in just, you know, like.
Speaker 2: A couple hours.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always thought it was weird that Mama is Sharon, Like,
that's him referring to.
Speaker 3: His wife, right.
Speaker 2: I always thought that was weird as a single person
until I had kids. Yeah, right, And so you refer
to your wife a lot of times as mom, you know,
talking to the kids. Hey, go tell mom it's time
for us to go to dinner or whatever, And so
it doesn't seem as weird to me anymore. But yeah,
that's his nickname for her, And in fact, he has
used that nickname for her in Flying High Again, which
we talked about off Diary of a Madman, and then
in his other song running out of Time, which is
off his two thousand and one album, Zach Wild talks
about the guitar solo on this It says so easy
that he can do it in his sleep. But that's
not necessarily a bad thing. He thinks it's pretty cool.
It's just so catchy and just flows right out of it.
Speaker 3: It is definitely catchy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, after Lemme wrote the lyrics, Ozzie said,
he looked at him and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, he wrote this and how long?
Speaker 1: And they're not good lyrics, they're amazing lyrics.
Speaker 2: F word's just roll right out of Ozzie all the time.
This is kind of a love learn to Sharon for
her helping him get so much. Yeah, the cool thing
I learned when I researched this song. There are two
versions of this video, this music video. Okay, keep in
mind in the early nineties, man, MTV is still showing
a lot of music videos, still.
Speaker 3: Very popular, good old days.
Speaker 2: Let's hold your hand over your heart first. So the
first video I saw, but as soon as it was
put up yesterday, is really weird for a song that's
nearly thirty years old. I saw it, I tried to
send it to you, I couldn't and then I go
back and look today, I can't find it.
Speaker 1: There's some video out there that Ozzie didn't like, that
didn't make it out that you got to see and
I didn't.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's a side scroll video. Okay, picture with
me light blue background. It reminds me of like the
Sewing of Seeds of Love video or maybe Raspberry Beret
colorful a right and it's scrolling sideways. Think Defender Right
Defender the video game. And it's Ozzie, it's Zach, it's
the drummer. It's interesting little animations. It doesn't fit the
tone of the song though, right. The new video with
those sort of brown cepia tones gives the beauty and
the respect that this song deserves instead of something Hoki
and cartoony.
Speaker 3: Do you know who directed the video? No, Oh, I'm
gonna blow your mind? Tell me so? He had?
Speaker 1: Is it Russell McKay No, He had just directed a
video for another band who had had an album released
the same week. The band picked him as a director
because he had the worst demo, Fido, and they wanted
it to look not corporate. It was Sam Bayer, who
directed nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit video who directed Ozzie's Mama,
I'm Coming Home.
Speaker 2: When you say that, it totally makes sense. The brown,
grainy cpia tones that blow your mind, that blew my mind.
Great job, my mom, I'm coming home. Wonderful song.
Speaker 3: I hay to end it.
Speaker 2: Beautiful song all right. The next song is called Desire.
Speaker 3: Just reminds me of something.
Speaker 1: Wait till I tell you okay, all right, yeah, this
is kicking butt already.
Speaker 2: This is a driving rock song, right yeah, loving it,
loving it? Okay. The beginning of this song.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of what what is it?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's ringing a bell in your head?
Speaker 3: Yes, the d.
Speaker 2: Okay. It's either it's either another thing coming by Judas Priest.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, okay, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: See where I'm coming from a US or it's Wizards
in Winter by the Trans Siberian Orchestra. It's that, it's
the Christmas Light song.
Speaker 1: Oh man, let me play that.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding and I'm not making a joke. This
is what that reminds me of. Are you with me
on that?
Speaker 1: Yep? It is, You're right, it is. That's what it's from.
I was not a big Judas Priest fan, but I
guarantee we listened to that every single Christmas. Every Christmas,
Downs Family Farm Baby.
Speaker 2: Shout out, Downs Family Farm. This song was played almost
every show for the No More Tours tour Pump and Rocker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he's, of course referring to Crazy Train
at the end of the lyrics. This is nothing has changed.
So even though he's sober, he's still got the desires,
but he's not going after those. But he's still out
there rocking.
Speaker 5: Nothing's changing, love it all right.
Speaker 2: Moving on. This song is called No More Tears. This
is the title track of the album No More Tears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this song starts out with layers, which you
know I love, yes, But apparently that's how the song
came into existence. You know you mentioned that Mike Inez
from Alison Chains was with them.
Speaker 3: He's part of this song.
Speaker 1: He just started thumping that bass that Interne and internear
and then and Castillo comes in and on the drums.
So then Johnson Claire comes in with that those keyboards
that are mystical and magical, and it is awesome. But
as mystical and magical as it is, Ozzie still delivers
those tough, like gritty, dark lyrics.
Speaker 2: It's yes, Ozzy calls this song a gift from God,
right and to hear the Prince of Darkness himself say that,
it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: Right right? So where did it come from?
Speaker 2: Okay? So the title of the song No More Tears.
I got this story. It's gonna blow you away.
Speaker 6: Right, So Ozzie is taking a bath, right, Oh my gosh,
think about there.
Speaker 2: And it's probably, you know, a very benign bubble bath, right.
So he's in the bathtub and he looks over and
of course he's got children in the house, and he
looks over and he sees the Johnson and Johnson shampoo
bottle that says no more tears, that blew me away.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's hysterical. That is hysterical. I'm surprised
Johnson and Johnson let him get away.
Speaker 2: Johnson and Johnson needs to use this song for commercials.
Speaker 1: So this song, interestingly, this so I'm listening to this song,
and this song has a similarity to a song off
of the User Illusions albums.
Speaker 3: There's a comedy.
Speaker 1: Bit by John mulaney called the Salt and Pepper Diner.
John and his buddy play What's Up Pussycat on the
jukebox twenty seven times? Okay, and he says at the beginning,
he's like, and so you're listening and the second time
it comes on, you're thinking to yourself, Wow, they just
played What's Up pussy Cat? Two times? Or you're thinking, wow,
what's up pussy Cats? A lot longer than I thought
it was. And it just kind of has a dip
in the middle, you know, like November Rain where you're like, oh,
November Rain's.
Speaker 2: Over, No, it's not no, just getting started.
Speaker 1: So this song is Ozzie's longest song, over seven minutes long,
and it's got that little dip where you're like, oh,
the song's over.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not no.
Speaker 2: And you're exactly right to compare it to November Rain.
It's three different songs in one that breakdown in the
middle where you have that dark, haunting synth.
Speaker 3: So you get this break, yeah, get this piano with
the keyboards, with the bell.
Speaker 1: It's majestic and slow, and the guitar is coming in
and it's like an anthem.
Speaker 3: It's also slow.
Speaker 1: And powerful and just builds and builds up and up,
and then the drums start slowly building and you have
this break where it moves from slow anthem rock guitar
to speed metal blow your friggin mind, madness.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: And Zach Wild he's doing those levels with the guitar
and it keeps climbing and climbing and faster and climbing,
and then it drops out and then we're right back
to the the bassline. It's incredible. The song gives me chills. Right,
it's a mind blowing song, man freaking pastic You might
be familiar with the song from Little Nicky starring Adam Sandler.
I've got a quick story about this song. Bob Daisley
actually plays the bass line on the song track Okay.
He was the bass player and lyricist for Ozzie's first
three solo albums Okay, But on Bark of the Moon
he was uncredited because of an agreement where he took
a buyout on songs. I don't really understand how all
of this works, but he didn't get the proper credit
for songwriting that he felt that he deserved. So he
got into a little bit of a fight with the
ardents okay about payment. They paid him out rather than
paid him for royalties. And so when he was asked
right lyrics for No More Tears, huh, Like he was
getting ready to sit down and try to work on
this song, and he said, well, okay, I'll write the
lyrics for this song, but I don't want to be
bought out this time. I want credit for songwriting, right,
And they're like, see that door, see you later.
Speaker 1: So fired Inez is credited as a writer on the song.
He was the one that came up with the bass rift,
but Bob Daisley was the one that ultimately played it
for the recording.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's it, if that makes sense. Yeah, all right,
are we done with No More Tears?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: It is a wonderful, beautiful, dark haunting.
Speaker 3: Maybe the best song on the album.
Speaker 2: Then I think I don't know if there's any argument
for me on that one. All right, Okay, So the
next song on the album is Won't Be Coming Home,
also known as s I N Okay.
Speaker 1: So, at this beginning part, it's so slow and so bluesy,
I really feel like Crockett just got in a fight
with Tubbs. He's driving his Ferrari down the ninth streets
in Miami. You know, angry situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Crockett just got somebody shot on accident.
Speaker 1: Dealing with the grief, throwing the bottle out the window.
But fortunately they come in. I like at the beginning,
it's not very ausy, but I like it. But then
they come in full azzy speed home.
Speaker 3: Yeap, just what you want.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, this song is very slow and very bloozy. Just
like you said to me, this sounds like Long Cold
Winter by Cinderella, who's a bluesy rock band. Sure, but
you're right, it does pick up. But then you have
this wonderful, great sort of melodic chorus. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very hooky, very poppy, and its sensibility in
the chorus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another radio friendly song. It wasn't released, but all
these songs can be played on the This is not
Crazy Wildman, Ozzie. These are great radio size.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to say other than I
was shocked at the amount of ballads that we're finding
on this album.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, the first lines are about a psycho driver twisted
in his head, but this he's talking about voices in
his head. This. When I'm listening to the lyrics on this,
I'm thinking about the fight with Sharon that got him arrested.
He said, I saw it happening like deja vu. They
tried to tell me, but they couldn't get through.
Speaker 3: In my head.
Speaker 1: I hear voices scream I need someone to tell me
what it means. And then it says WHOA, who turned
off the lights? WHOA shadow in the night, whoa It
wasn't meant to be. I can't take this alone. Don't
leave me on my own tonight. No, I can't take
it alone. Don't leave me on my own tonight.
Speaker 3: So it's I mean, I'm not saying that that's what
it is.
Speaker 1: I've got nothing to back that up, but it sure
sounds like I had voices in my head. I don't
remember what happened, and there was a big old problem
because of it.
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly play what this song is about.
He blacked out, doesn't remember any of it, and this
is his recollection of that. Any idea what s I
n stands for? Anything in the lyrics that could tell
us what s Ion stands for?
Speaker 3: That I can see?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so moving on the world may never know.
Why would you have an acronym in a song and
not spell it out for us?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: So the next song on the album is called hell Raiser. Okay,
So hell Raiser is a song written by Ozzy, Zach Wilde,
and Lemmy from Motorhead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this one is his I'm on the Road song. Okay.
Speaker 1: The line the lyrics, very first lyrics are I'm living
on an endless road around the world.
Speaker 3: For rock and roll. Sometimes it feels so tough, but I.
Speaker 1: Still ain't had enough and then it goes into the raizo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this tour was the No More Tours tour, yes,
which meant he was done, except that he wasn't, because
two years later he came back with retirement Sucks tour.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: He needs the stage is what this song is about.
He needs the lights, he needs the noise. That's what
lights is fired.
Speaker 2: That's great, that's great. You know if you like this
song and you say to yourself, hey, this song's great,
but it's not quite heavy enough for me, that's okay,
because Motorhead recorded a version of this song on their
nineteen ninety two album March or Die. There you go,
what do you think? Pretty good?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: This song appeared in the two thousand and four video
game Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: It's also the entrance music for the professional wrestling team
the hell Raisers.
Speaker 5: Shocker, right right, how appropriate?
Speaker 2: I like this song?
Speaker 5: This is another rocker.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I'm not fast forwarding.
Speaker 2: We're flipping between melodic rockers and awesome power ballance. The
video that motor had made for hell Raiser yea. The
video shows let me playing poker against Pinhead from the
hell Raiser movies. That is pretty cool. What's that guy say,
will tear your soul apart?
Speaker 5: Nice?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: After hell Raiser, we move on to a song that
gets tons of radio plays till to this day. It's
called Time after Time. It is not the Cindy rock.
Speaker 1: All right. So this song is simple, okay, but straightforward.
It's a lost love, right. It's not particularly deeper complex
lyrics the song itself. The music isn't super complex either,
but it sure.
Speaker 2: Is the hints ear candy.
Speaker 1: You get a twelve string guitar with a kick butt
drum behind it and a kick butt lead on top
of that, and I'm in and this is that all
over the place.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. I love this one. This one has the
line in it, line after line. Yeah, it's got to
be we're talking about cocaine there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he says it twice, and so the first it's
I couldn't read your mind, line after line, and then
line after line it was written in your eyes. You
kind of get the impression that he didn't do what
he should have done, he should have seen it, but
also that it was those cocaine lines that were blurring
his vision.
Speaker 3: The vision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is another song that has an incredible slow
breakdown in the middle, and he even has that sort
of I don't know what you call it, drum machine.
It was like that beautiful power ballad. You admit you
brought it up in the last song. I wanted to
talk about it just a little bit. This album was
supposed to be his last tour, right, and so he
was going to They even called it the No More
Tours Tour. Yeah, okay, from June of ninety two to
November of ninety two, because he was incorrectly diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis. Oh okay, and so the last few dates
of that tour, it may have been in the last date,
like November fifteenth and ninety two, the original four members
of Black Sabbath played on stage altogether again, But of
course that was a misdiagnosis.
Speaker 1: He was feeling good.
Speaker 2: So a couple of years later it comes back with
the Retirement Sucks.
Speaker 1: Tour, and then a couple of years after that does
a tour with the old members of Black Sabbath.
Speaker 2: It's awesome, and I think he either just finished or
is just starting his No More Tours tour two right now.
So time after time, beautiful lovely melodic song. Can't say
enough love it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: The next song on the album is called Zombie Stomped.
All right, D So this song has a stupid title, right.
I don't know what the zombie stomp is, but you
have this really cool, grand two minute intro to this song.
And really, if you don't like this song, you don't
like rockby. He's like, I mean, this is just a
beautiful build up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a pumping, pulsing.
Speaker 2: They keep adding layers and instruments.
Speaker 1: And I think that if you're thinking of zombies like Merberis,
that's that probably is gonna make it a stupid title
for you. But the lyrics, I mean again, I'm I'm
throwing my own interpretation on here. But he's talking about
having to struggle through, needing something to kill the pain.
I'm thinking that the zombie he's referring to is the drink. Okay, yes, okay,
because he's talking about having a headache and don't call
me a dotor, just give.
Speaker 3: Me something to kill the pain.
Speaker 1: And I, you know, the morning after killing me again,
I think, yeah, I think it's gotta be zombie. It's
got to be an alcohol more drug references. Yes, yeah,
and so how did well? How to do an alcohol
reference that also ties into your occult and scary?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's where it is. So yeah, what's
a drink that's scary?
Speaker 3: The zombie? That's that's where I'm okay, all right, tell
me I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: All right, So to our listeners out there, if you
know better, tell me i'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay, fun song, good song, good rocker, yep, moving on,
all right. The next song on the album is called
a v H another acronym. Yes, okay, with the mysterious
what does it stand for? Question?
Speaker 1: I know the answer in this one is okay, Well
are you excited? I?
Speaker 2: Well, I've got two answers?
Speaker 3: You got two? Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, all right, go ahead, what you got?
Speaker 3: Okay? Wait, let's play the Let's listen to the song first.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So this song.
Speaker 1: When this song starts off, I'm thinking of Aersmith. We've
got the old bluesy style and when you come in
that the riff that he's got going is very Joe
Perry asked.
Speaker 3: D D D dent nna Yeah, and it's and even.
Speaker 1: The lyrics are up and down, it's about it's about
the blues, baby rock and freaking roll Man. Not typical
Ozzy stuff, but it's I think this has to be
a Zach Wilde contribution to the album. But we still
have the question of what does a v H mean?
Speaker 3: Right? Okay, So do you know who Chris Jericho is?
Speaker 2: I do know who Chris Jared the wrestler, yes, and
radio personality.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's He's a professional wrestler and a lead singer
for Fozzy And according to him, okay, Ozzy Osbourne said
that a v H stands for aston Villa Highway, which
is an homage to the football team that he and
his Black Sabbath bandmates followed when they were kids growing
up in Birmingham.
Speaker 2: Okay, not Alabama. Okay, so I've heard that too, the
aston Villa Highway a v H. He doesn't say that
anywhere of the song, but here was the rumor on
the street. Okay, now you know rumors whatever. A v
H stood for alcohol value and hashish. Oh, okay, talking more,
you know, more drugs.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say this because if I was going
to if if somebody were going to say, what's the
drug with H? I'm not going to say hashish, I'm
gonna say heroin. But among the drugs that Ozzie has done,
he has.
Speaker 3: Not done heroin.
Speaker 2: He never did heroin, Never did heroin.
Speaker 3: I love it. He's like did did didn't do ecstasy,
did do heroin? Did do a ball Oh wait? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right? What do you think of this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I think it's it's fun. I'm not skipping it.
Speaker 2: I'm not skipping it either. And like you, I was
surprised at the amount of ballads on this album and
the amount of blues I hear on this album.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, let's not forget they did originally back in the
seventies get together to be a blues band.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Saxophone in black seven Yeah, okay, all right.
Next song on the album, the last song on the
original release, The Road to Nowhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is about Sarah Palin and an event
that occurred during the two thousand and eight Oh wait,
I'm sorry, has a bridge to Nowhere?
Speaker 3: Never mind? Sorry? Sorry, scrap that politics.
Speaker 1: Yes, so this song number one, I love it before
I get certain listen, I love but number two Black Sabbath.
When they were together, they did everything they could to
not be formulaic, right, They weren't going to do verse chorus,
verse chorus, bridge chorus done. They avoided that in this album.
We've had it over and over. Right, there's a formula here,
but they execute it with such perfection. And I got
to give lots and lots of credit to Zach Wilde
because you've got a song here that I mean is
drums and a guitar at the beginning, and you are
playing along with it. If you're not playing air guitar
or beating on air drums at the beginning of this song,
there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 2: We both did it at the same time, Yes, we
both did it impromptu.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is so good.
Speaker 1: And the dynamics are so powerful where they can go
from this sweet and beautiful sound to this powerful kick
in the chorus, and then when they move into the bridge,
it's a beautiful transition again. And the lyrics are so
self reflective. So you know, I'm really the problem. All
along the road to nowhere.
Speaker 3: Leads to me.
Speaker 2: Tip of Gore can't come after him on this one.
I'll tell you that he's very much accountable to his
former actions, and you know, the events of his life
that left him in you know, wreckage he talks about
this is clearly talking the road to nowhere. Drugs are
the road to Nowhere. I love this song.
Speaker 1: We've had so many albums that we the last song
on the album I went man, I wish they would
have left this one off. This one finishes strong.
Speaker 2: That's such a great capper.
Speaker 1: Again, arguably best song on the album. I'm not saying
it is, but you could make the case. You could
make the case, and to finish as strong, actually stronger
than you started with so many powerful, chart topping, amazing
songs throughout It's master Fez.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm with you, I'm with you. What a great
end to the album.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Now, just to comment on that this album was re
released in two thousand and two, there was two bonus
songs called Don't Blame Me and Party with the Animals.
Uh huh, we're not gonna talk about those, No, we're
talking about the original nineteen ninety one release. Right. One
more thing about Road to Nowhere.
Speaker 5: Yes, the video.
Speaker 2: I watched the video for this song. Did you watche
the video? Okay, so it has kind of this interesting beginning.
It's in black and white in Ozzie one like.
Speaker 5: A carterage or Sewers or something.
Speaker 2: He's sitting in an apartment room watching a television of
clips of Ozzy Osbourne from the eighties, okay, and he
keeps flipping channels. He's getting mad, and it's basically he's
thinking about the way he used to be and he's
watching himself and he's like, change the channel. So he's
another picture of himself, like A hate that guy. I
hate that guy, right, and he finally pulls out a
gun and blows up the DV. It's a very early
nineties video.
Speaker 1: So just a thought, because I think this probably applies
to a lot of the guys who listen to us.
Speaker 3: Replies to us, he was forty two this on.
Speaker 1: I mean, you get to a point on your life
that you start reflecting, you start looking back, and you're like,
if you're disappointed.
Speaker 3: With where you are, if you're doing it right, you're.
Speaker 1: Probably saying to yourself, I'm the one that put myself here. Yeah,
but never fear because forty two or forty five or
forty seven is all still young.
Speaker 3: You got a whole lot of life.
Speaker 2: Left in front of you, right, That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: So we're ready to jump in the final Just.
Speaker 2: Skip to final judgment, okay, D, all right, D, where
are you?
Speaker 3: You want me to go first?
Speaker 2: You want me to go first.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: That's fine, I'll go first.
Speaker 5: I'll go first, you go first?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Before we dove into this, I would have said I
am more of an Aerosmith fan. I definitely was more
familiar with the Get A Grip album than I was
No More Tears, even though I owned both albums. When
I examined the gett A Grip album, there are certain
songs that I love on that album, but there's also
songs that I would skip and be happy if I
never heard again more than one or two or three.
Even I love Living on the Edge, I love Amazing
and Crying, and those songs really define the early nineties
for me because they were on all the time. But
when I took the deep dive that we did into
Ozzie's No More Tears album, the best song on the
album is No More Tears. One A is Mama, I'm
Coming Home. Right after that, you Got Roads Nowhere and
time after time. Mister Tinker Train is a butt kicking,
thumping rock song. But you go up and down the album.
Every song is good. Every song on No More Tears
is good. There are some throwaway skippers on Get a Grip,
there are some brilliant points, but for the album to
album comparison, it is clearly, in my opinion, No More Tears.
Where are You?
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean to compare the work of the band. I
probably was in the same spot like Aerosmith. I knew,
I knew sweet Emotion, I knew dream On, I knew
Walk This Way. And then when they started hitting big
again in the eighties, I was all about those songs,
and we picked Get a Grip because it was their
biggest selling album of the time, and it was the
nineties album that came out the same time as this one,
where we've got seventies rockers bringing it back full circle
in the nineties, and you've got great songs. You've got
Eat the Rich, you've got living on the Edge, you've
got crying, you've got crazy, you've got amazing. And then
my personal little one that I brought out of this one,
having not heard it before, was boogey Man. I know
you don't like it, but I dig I dig it,
and so I'll be coming back to that one. But
I'm in the same position that I was with Journey
when we covered Frontiers. All of the other songs are
like the generic Aerosmith song. Like I hear it, I'm like, okay,
it's Ariasmith. I'm not gonna you know, if I'm busy,
I'm not going to turn it off.
Speaker 3: But if I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Listen hard, I'm gonna skip some of these songs so
I can get to some of those other songs that
I love.
Speaker 3: Right when I get to No.
Speaker 1: More Tears, I don't skip. It is a rock solid,
no skipper, great from beginning to end. There are some
songs that are greater than others, but all of them
are worthy to take your time and dive into because
they are all very good songs, zero skippers. And so
that being the case, I got to pick No More
Tears as well.
Speaker 2: All Right, how often does that happen? We agree?
Speaker 3: What? How about that?
Speaker 2: Well, let's hear from you guys. What do you think
Arasmiths get a Grip album or Ozzie's No More Tears?
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Happy Gilmore is actually reaching its twenty fifth anniversary.
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