Disc I 01. Over The Mountain 02. Flying High Again 03. You Can't Kill Rock And Roll 04. Believer 05. Little Dolls 06. Tonight 07. S.A.T.O. 08. Diary Of A Madman 09. I Don't Know [live][2002 remaster bonus]
Disc II[Blizzard Ozz Tour live bonus] 01. Don't Know 02. Crazy Train 03. Believer 04. Mr. Crowley 05. Flying High Again 06. Revelation (Mother Earth) 07. Steal Away (The Night) 08. Suicide Solution 09. Iron Man [Black Sabbath cover] 10. Children Of The Grave [Black Sabbath cover] 11. Paranoid [Black Sabbath cover]
If anyone had cautioned guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake about the notoriously difficult second album, they clearly weren't listening. While not as commercially successful as Blizzard Of Ozz or No More Tears in America, Diary Of A Madman is often regarded as the crowning achievement of Ozzy Osbourne's solo career by fans, and it's not hard to see or hear why.
Not quite a classic album, due to a couple of fillers, but there's certainly a few classic songs on this one. "Believer" and the title track are monsters!
Blizzard of Ozz was a magnificant debut. But i think this is my favourite Ozzy album. All my favourite Ozzy tracks are here, including "Over. the mountain", "Believer", "Diary of a Madman", and "Flying high again".
Damn, I forgot how brilliant this album was. Probably the only Ozzy solo album possibly other than Blizzard of Ozz that I love from front to back (though I love various songs here and there from the rest of his catalogue up to Ozzmosis really), this is one hell of a masterpiece.
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
Another quality album by Ozzy, I'm not quite as impressed by it than their debut though. This was also one of Randy's finest displays of guitar soloing.
"Over The Mountain", "Flaying High Again" and "Diary Of A Madman" are the three main stand out tracks for me, the rest of the album was still pretty decent.