Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

My friend John gave me the records that have been sitting in his garage for decades and Ozzy's Diary of a Madman is there. How could i resist?

It's his last album with Randy Rhodes, his first album with Sharon being "manager" and like the 47th lawsuit he's settled out of court. She fired and replaced the bassist and drummer because those dirty rat-bastards had the audacity to ask for money to buy food while they recorded their parts for free. The new guys  didn't try to pass it off either, from day one they told anyone in earshot that the actual recordings weren't them and the Osbournes finally had to give them something when it was all said and done.

If i didn't know better (wink, wink), i'd say musicians getting ripped off by business executives was pretty standard practice...

Tangent: the written English language desperately needs a sarcastic tense, or declension or something....

Where was i? The best part about Ozzy is he's actually not dark or serious at all. The joke is that he's actually singing about reality. The madman of this album isn't a murderer or a psychopath or a vampire, he's just a normal person dealing with normal boring everyday unpleasant things. We turn to drugs, and rock music, and religion because it's too hard to fight the people who've made it their mission to turn us into beasts of burden for their personal gain. Surprise, surprise, it's the same people in charge of those things as well, profiting from our misery. It's enough to drive you mad....

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