Under Cover

Ozzy Osbourne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 1, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000BKDNZS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,540 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Exclusive Import version features one bonus track, 'Changes' (a cover of a Black Sabbath song!) Under Cover is full of newly recorded covers of John Lennon's 'Woman', Joe Walsh's 'Rocky Mountain Way' and the Moody Blues' 'Go Now', Mountain's 'Mississippi Queen', King Crimson's '21st Century Schizoid Man', the Jeff Beck Group's Hi Ho Silver Lining', Mott The Hoople's 'All the Young Dudes' and the Rolling Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil' and more. 14 tracks in all. Epic. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Well, November 9, 2005

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Jesse (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under Cover (Audio CD)

First of all the people saying ozzy is greedy and insulting him for putting out countless compilation albums have not paid much attention to recent Ozzy interviews. The reason ozzy did the cover songs for the box set to begin with was because he was sick of his fans being ripped off, you see Ozzy knows he has too many but the record label was gonna put out the box set either way. Ozzy decieded to put out some cover songs as something extra for the fans.

He didn't have the time to put the effort into make a new studio album so what he did was recorded some stuff while he was on the road at Ozzfest 2004. That might actualy be the downfall of this record actualy, Ozzy didn't have the proper time to do it right and after getting off stage every night was probably realy tired, it might come across as Ozzy not putting enough effort into the songs.

Now that this is done Ozzy should take a little break and then get back to doing what he does best, making some new orifinal music.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly satisfying, November 27, 2005

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Mr. Jj Gatenby (England, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under Cover (Audio CD)

I wasn't sure what to think when I first bought this album, and actually at first didn't even recognise half the songs being only 19. I have since grown to love this album, and I feel that Ozzy's voice holds up fantastically. Some say it's cracking or failing, but I actually find the maturation or evolution of Ozzy's voice through his career an extra side to listening to any Ozzy album. And let's remember this man is almost 60, has an extremely rare genetic disease to battle, has metal plates in his chest and nearly died two years ago.

Yes, I too am desperate to hear a completely new, original album from him but we will just have to wait! The simple fact that he doesn't rush out a new original album proves that he is not interested in "cashing in" as he could probably record ten awful songs and release them and the album would still fly off the shelves - but he cares, and he cares a lot, and he won't do that.

To those that say this album is a cash-in, it was an addition to the box set and all Ozzy's idea for our benefit. The day Ozzy retires would be a terrible shame to all of us and to him as well, and hopefully it will never happen.

AND for those that talk of him 'divorcing Sharon' because of business decisions you really must think very little of Ozzy. He loves that woman and she loves him, and she's literally saved his life and his career!

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars KARA - OZZY, June 15, 2006

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under Cover (Audio CD)

Wow, listening to this conjures up visions of a drunken bar patron forcing his way onstage with a covers band and tipping them till they let him sing. How else to explain this flat sounding re-working of classic rock songs from such a seasoned vocalist like Ozzy? One needs only to the current Def Leppard "Yeah!" CD to realize just how lame Ozzy's "Under Cover" is.

Granted, this started life as 1/4 of a box set, where listening to it was an exercise in context. But to hear it as a stand alone document is a marker of declining greatness, and what one supposes is the inability of the Osbourne entourage to warn Ozzy that this really wasn't a very good idea. Ozzy's cover of "Women," a standard by John Lennon, is warbley wandering, a song in search of pitch and devoid of emotional impact. "Rocky Mountain Way" loses its uniqueness. Only on a mere three songs does Ozzy measure up to the material chosen here, and they are "Sympathy For The Devil" (he obviously relates to the subject matter), "Working Class Hero" (singer matches song) and "21'st Century Schizoid Man" (a natural counterpoint to "Iron Man"). Which means that "Under Cover" would have made a heck of a bonus EP for a full length original Ozzy CD. But as a stand alone? Strictly naptime.