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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Sabbath with Ozzy and Sabbath with Dio are totally different episodes, what one needs is to lighten up on prejudices and listen.
Of course w. Ozzy it was THE revolutional band, it was THE band that started to play something noone ever heard before and that launched the whole darker / heavy movement that some of us enjoy so much.
But Dio put in it his own influence, which is very much obvious if someone listens to the (mainly early) Dio albums, but their work with Tommi Iommi (Heaven n Hell / Mob Rules) is a classic. At the end it also lead to a break up of the lineup.
Different approaches / different episodes - that's all, note that they always played their own and new signature material (even their later reunion 1992 Dehumanizer is a very intense and underrated album more than worth mentioning).
I have seen both lineups live and I am a big fan of both, although I would never want to mix their repertoirs and anything from Ozzy sounds weird if sang by Dio while Ozzy would probably have a hard time to keep up with Dio's voice equilibrism.
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Truth is, the Dio Era of Black sabbath ain't so bad but there was also a big change when the 70s turned to the 80s.. Most of the big act didn't survive that change (ie Kiss, Sabbath, The Who, Deep Purple, Led Zep). Many of these band lost a member (death, fight, etc..) but the result is the same: there was a huge change and almost none of these classic band survived.
If these albums would have been under a different name, maybe they would have had a chance to have a true fair listenning and a fair judgement. But when it's written Black Sabbath on the cover of ythe album, you'll compare it to Black Sabbath and it won't stand the comparision.
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On a different note, have you ever thought what its like for bands like Metallica, Pink Floyd and other biggest bands to come out with a new album once you have a masterpiece on the market? You just can't live to the fans expectations. No matter what they will come out with, people will inevitably be disapointed and won't really give the album a chance.
This is why I think Axl Rose should just forget about Chinese Democraty...Expectations of a new Appetite for Destruction are wyyy too high ( especially after a 15 years wait) and no matter how good the songs will or won't be, people will spit on it the very first day its out.