Dio Is Away Better Than Ozzy
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ozzysaves90 — 18 years ago(July 29, 2007 05:21 PM)
you're so right alekski-juvonen!!
Dio is nothin compared to Ozzy. his voice may be somewhat better, but Ozzy has a bigger fanbase and has done more with his career than Dio has. idc what anybody says, Ozzy owns Dio! -
chasebanker — 18 years ago(September 28, 2007 06:04 PM)
Let me just start by saying look at the fan base between Black Sabbath with Dio and with OZZY. Dio will forever live in the shadow of Ozzy when it comes to Black Sabbath. Ozzy will forever be the "Prince of Darkness" and Dio will always be just Dio. Dio may have mo2000re range in his voice but when it comes to fanbase Dio couldn't be a stage hand for Ozzy. Longevity + Albumn Sales = OZZY wins!
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LovelyDeadAdam — 18 years ago(November 26, 2007 06:33 PM)
Dio hated singing the Ozzy era songs. He only did it because Tony and Geezer wanted to do them and it was really their band.
Anyway, I prefer Dio when he's in Rainbow or his solo band. He was great in Sabbath, but the band was meant for Ozzy, even though Dio is a better singer.
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aleksi-juvonen — 18 years ago(December 03, 2007 09:08 AM)
Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most inspiring and touching heavy metal artists of all time. He made Sabbath shine. Too bad he had too little discipline and too much problems, which is actually pretty understable looking at his background, and so Sabbath looked at the monetary side and banned Oz. Dio, while having pretty normal and decent voice, just whored away all the magic in the band.
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aleksi-juvonen — 18 years ago(December 03, 2007 10:41 PM)
Anyway Ozzy is a way better than Sabbath and more than the devil and fang crap. His musicanship was at its peak in the early solo years, but with Wylde the tour in 91' was pretty amazing also the latest album Black Rain. Can you say any songs that prove that Sabbath was in its peak with Dio ?
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SCP_One_Seven_Three — 15 years ago(May 19, 2010 10:58 AM)
Oh and I suppose Ozzy filing a lawsuit against Iommi is really "for the fanbase" despite the fact that he's asking for half of the Sabbath royalties in sales. I'm sure the Fanbase will be getting some of the pie
You don't know them personally so your argument doesn't hold up well. I could say the same about Dio but what good would it hold if I have no proof? Just like what you're doing.
Dio was better in Sabbath, Music wise, Vocal wise and Lyric Wise in my opinion. Hell, I think anyone was better than Ozzy (apart from a couple of singles, and I'm not even trying to find a reason to hate Oz, I just could never get into Ozzy's era of Sabbath.)
Unlike Ozzy, Dio respected his instrument and didn't abuse his voice. Even at the age of 60 he still sang greatly while Oz's voice was slowly diminishing.
Dio is what saved Sabbath from being has-beens. Sure the Music change (Honestly when didn't it change with all four different vocalist?) You can say what you want about Dio but he has his place in Sabbath.
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aleksi-juvonen — 18 years ago(February 09, 2008 10:28 AM)
Ozzys Believer is the most cleverest song Ozzy ever did. "Dreams that have shattered, may not have mattered: take another point of view". It is better than Dio ever did.
Dio speaks about doom and witches, propably wants to please the doomy music the Sabbath fans honour, to get more listeners, but Dio does shallow, pooda0r quality forgetable rock and roll. No real inventions, just masspleasing stupid, meaningless "rock" and roll. I like Ozzys Down to Earth more than the sabbaths "Dio Years" album, which was made to make money. Ozzy is lightyears smarter than Dio, and concertates to deep matter such as war, literaty, life etc.
Dio fits best to 12- year old boys, but Ozzy & Zakk music is for adults.