Live & Loud [Original recording remastered, Live]

Ozzy Osbourne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002B84
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,804 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, May 10, 2002

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Dan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live & Loud (Audio CD)

This cd rules! It's absolutely the best live album I own! I know I said it was tribute before, but when I bought this I changed my mind. Zakk Wylde is an absolutely amazing guitarist. Ozzy's band sounds the best ever since 1982. The crowd noise is a little bit loud, but it doesn't get in the way like some people would have you think. The profanity is excessive but, ya know, it's Ozzy. What do you expect? The setlist is incredible. It has hard rockin' classics like "Crazy Train", "Mr. Crowley", "Flying High Again", and "Bark At The Moon". It has softer ballads like "Mama, I'm Coming Home", "Goodbye To Romance" and "Road To Nowhere". Zakk Wylde adds a fill wherever possible, and it sounds good all the time. he does the solos as well as the other guitarists, sometimes making them better by adding his own. Buy this album if you're new to Ozzy, or if you wanna hear some awesome music.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A halfway descent if not applaudable effort....., February 1, 2006

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Ron Burgondy "thedemonalcohol" (The Paradise CIty) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live & Loud (Audio CD)

I would usually do a quick review of an album if it is rated 3 stars or less, but there are alot of really good songs on here there are just some that get extremely butchered in the process (almost every Randy Rhoads era song except Mr. Crowley and MAYBE Suicide Solution). The best tracks on here in my opinion though are the ones from No More Tears and the Black Sabbath songs(I still don't understand Ozzy's reasoning behind alway putting like 3 BS songs in there but I really really liked the ones on this album).
Track Listing: (remember 11 is louder than 10)
CD 1:

1.Intro: Just a highlight reel or something of Ozzy's career with tune samples from Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Ozz (the band that made Blizzard and Diary), and his solo career.
2.Paranoid: The most amazing version of Paranoid I have ever heard, even the ones from the Tribute and Speak of the Devil albums! I was a little annoyed when at the 1:20 mark or so Ozzy just started talking to the crowd and there was no Zakk solo to accompany the sudden loss of vocals. Other than that if you want Paranoid you have to buy this album, don't buy Paranoid or any other BS album with Paranoid on it, just buy this! 11/10
3.I Don't Want to Change the World: One of the new songs from NMT during this tour; I believe it was even nominated for a Grammy for the best metal performance in 1993! I think they meant this version cause it kicks the absolute crap out of the studio version. 10/10
4.Desire: Another Lemmy cowrote song! They should thank god that Lemmy helped write this album because without Bob Daisley they were screwed! Okay, he wrote the lyrics for like 4, but still! Anyway, this is a crazy good song to begin with but this version is just that much better except for that part in the beginning where Ozzy starts screaming: "hey!hey!heyoh!" or some weird British crap like that. 11/10
5.Mr. Crowley: Perhaps the only Rhoads era song that Wyldeboy didn't screw up (I'm still undecided on Suicide Solution). In fact it almost is as good as the Tribute version. It is hilarious how Ozz introduces it: "this is a song called Mr. Crowley" hahaha! very funny! I really don't like how they have a 30 second pause after the keyboard intro but the band makes up for it big time. Although Wylde doesn't have the neoclassical edge that Rhoads did he makes up for it with "Wylde riffs" that make the song a more harder rocking song then when it was done by Rhoads (although not as virtuosic). Inez has some very noticeable bass riffs throughout the song which is very odd considering this is Ozzy. The only downside in this version is the drumming. It is great but not up to par with the legendary Tommy Aldrigde's heavy bass drumming in the Tribute or afterhours show. He makes up for the lack of loud drums by doing extremely fast tight sounding drums. An extremely awesome song that is done here with very little blemishes. Rating: off the F#$%ing scale!
6.I Don't Know: Otherwise known on here as a classic heavy metal tune gets butchered. I do not like Wyldie's thrash-like riffs on this song, it totally destroys the original guitar scheme behind the original song! What made I Don't Know a hit was Rhoad's intense Ritchie Blackmore meets LA guitar style not a melody section that sounds like the guitar break from an early Metallica song (I believe it was Phantom Lord or No Remorse?). An absolute bomber. Half the quality equals half the rating: 2/5
7.Road to Nowhere: In my opinion the greatest track on this whole album. I thought the original version was the most amazing song when I first heard it back in '92 and I thought it would be impossible for Ozzy to come up with something that would blow this track away. Well, I was 'F#$%in' wrong!' This live version is absolutely "f#$%in' great' as Ozzy gets to perform this as it was originally intended to instead of in some half-@ssed studio. I love it after he say "I guess i'd do it all again" and then adds "you better f#$%ing believe it man!" as he believes every word he says. I was surprised at the greatness of this version compared to the studio. Rating: Blows the f#$%ing crap out of every other song on here, even Randy Rhoad's Guitar Solo!
8.Flying High Again: A classic song that gets butchered part 2: Flying High Again. The drum solo in the beginning was assexual at best, what is this a friggn NBA game?! The riffs from Wylde are actually on par with the original until they get to the solo where he just 'straight out F#%#ed it up!' This sounds like a friggn Slash solo not Zakk, what the crap?! The only track from Diary and this is the best they can come up with?! at least it is better than I Don't Know: 5/10
9.Guitar Solo: I find it weird that they put the solo before Suicide Solution instead of during it(which they did in Blizzard of Ozz) or after it (they aslo did that in Blizzard and when Ozzy went solo with Jake E. Lee on guitars). I very very good track. I have no idea what this guy was playing but it was WACKED! Simply put it was WYLDE guitar! After awhile I got it: it was Zakk's solo piece from "Fire in the Sky", his greatest riff to date next to "No More Tears". Unbelievable metal riffs that only the WYldeman himself can dish out. 11/10
10.Suicide Solution: A good take on the original but not as good. There I said it: it is good. Still a little too thrashy in places. 7/10
11.Goodbye to Romance: What was once a classic metal ballad that became an arena metal classic with Tribute becomes an arena rock song that has sing-along with the crowd. Not the greatest thing in the world. 6/10

CD 2:
1.So What?: Just kidding!
1.Shot in the Dark: This version is better than the original as it has the extended guitar solo at the end that is just WYLDE! However Ozzy's sober and aged voice weakens the song at critical moments taking away from the high points on the track. If you want to hear Shot in the Dark I would recommend Just Say Ozzy instead as it not only makes it better overall but almost comparable to alot of the trax on Blizzard and Diary and sound like it came from No Rest for the Wicked, which is a good thing. 9/10
2.No More Tears: I was very disappointed, I was expecting an unbelivable 9:32 version of this song with an inhuman guitar solo in the middle and end of it but all I get is the same as the studio version all except that Ozzy screams at some parts "let me see your cigarette lighters" or "going f#$@ing nuts!" Still a great song though. 10/10
3.Miracle Man: Despite the fact that Zakk originally played on this song they find some way to botch up his guitar parts by making them sound more rockish and upbeat than the dark, creepy, almost emotionally powerful riffs from the Just Say Ozzy version that made this song so awesome live. This is the only track from No Rest for the Wicked and I feel that since this is the case they should make an accurate representation (hey, they did it for Shot in the Dark!). 6/10
4.Drum solo: read between the lines. I aint tellin you how great this track is; just go down to the nearest secondhand CD store and buy this album!
5.War Pigs: When I saw this song on hear I thought about just skipping this record because I heard the Speak of the Devil version an hated it. However a friend of mine talked me into hearing the JSO version and then I heard this one and if you have JSO you aren't really missing much except 57 more seconds of music. The guitars on this track blow the crap out of Iommi's original riffs. 11/10
6.Bark at the Moon:

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars F*cking incredible!, April 30, 2005

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Paster (Finland, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live & Loud (Audio CD)

This album is simply spectacular. Hell, there's not much to say about it, except fot the praise. The best songs known to man, fine to fantastic performances, and the greatest production I can think of ... the drums sound like nuclear bombs, the guitar has more balls than Rocco and Holmes combined, Ozzy proves why he is the man that started metal ... and wait till you hear Tony do Black Sabbath. That's the ultimate metal sound. Is Laney the greatest guitar amplifier manufacturer in the world? Listen to that song, and there's very little argument about it!