Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears" (1991): Track by Track!

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