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Black Sabbath always split 4 ways, even for Ozzy who never wrote a lyric in his life.

Now now, Mo. That's not actually true. While Ozzy is far and away the worst lyricist in the band you can recognise his particilar lyrical style across quite a lot of his recorded career.

Ozzy wrote the lyrics for 'Who are you?' and 'Am I going insane'. Geezer has claimed that Ozzy wrote some or all of the lyrics to 'Black Sabbath' and I have read somewhere that he wrote 'The Writ' although I can't seem to find the source for that factoid. Barring the eponymous track you'll note these songs are, as Sabbath lyrics go, shite. The adherence to form is poor, the structure is bad and the general grammar of them is so bad they're generally incomprehensible. The eponymous song works largely because it ignores structure - I presume the lyrics were written without the music. I'm not entirely convinced that Geezer didn't give it a good editing, either. God knows there was very little quality control anywhere in the band by the time Ozzy wrote those others.

The two studio tracks on Reunion were credited to Ozzy. You can see a lot of stylistic and thematic similarities between those and the Bark at the moon tracks that aren't very good and most of the work on *No more tears and Ozzmosis. There tends to be a lot of first-person, descriptive passages of slightly creepy/spooky phenomena that are generally centred around the narrator's visual perception. I figure either he has actually learned to write a song by this point, though, and can manage a kind of comprehensible structure and lyric - or the same someone else has been writing his lyrics for him the whole time. As far as I can work out the only person that could actually be is Sharon because nobody else has been around Ozzy that whole time. Largely because Sharon fires them, or rips them off to where they won't come back. That would explain her motivation - maybe it is her?

I presume most of the solo lyrics are the same as on the above mentioned albums, post-Daisley, but I can't tell you for sure because pretty much everything after Randy died is unlistenable Californian cokehead eighties soft metal MOR shite. Which is not to say Ozzmosis and No more tears aren't - I just had the lapses of judgement that made me buy them when I was a teenager and listen to them ad infinitum hoping they would one day turn into Black Sabbath albums and/or feature Randy Rhodes. Neither of these things happened. Black days, black days.

End procrastination.

Firstly, it's such a generic blues riff anyways - and secondly, HE ALREADY BLOODY RIPPED IT OFF JIMI HENDRIX.

+1. I thought he'd ripped it off from Clutch, though. 'Open up the border' sounds like Butler sentiment.

Hippies considering litigation? Kind of goes against the ethos of feral living doesn't it? Live and let live I say.

Fezzas and hippies are the same to the untrained nose. Fezzas eat road kill and smell like wet dog. Hippies package road kill, label it organic, sell it for $39.95/kg, and smell like their parents' money. Butler is a hippy through and through.

rigid said 2 days ago: I wondered where noneabove had disappeared to. Shamed out of the cauldron eh?

Hardly.

This is the peak of M+N. It's over now.

She Hunter arrives! dudewolf is now a meme! This day goes to max!

10/10

Fucking amazing.

9/10. Haven't had this much fun on M+N all year. Been a great week.

josejones said 12 minutes ago: fuck off

That's not, where a comma should go? Harder to read without the comma, all those names running on. Looked weird.

Without word limit to lead-in: Is Townsville Bulletin reporter Amanda Gray actually Eva Rinaldi in disguise?

With word limit to lead-in: Is Townsville reporter Amanda Gray actually Eva Rinaldi in disguise?

Was that so hard?

Is Townsville Bulletin reporter Amanda Gray, Eva Rinaldi in disguise?

That's not, where a comma should go?