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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Don't Know - (live)
2. Mr. Crowley
3. Crazy Train
4. Goodbye to Romance - (live)
5. Suicide Solution - (live)
6. Over the Mountain
7. Flying High Again - (live)
8. You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
9. Diary of a Madman
10. Bark at the Moon - (live)
11. Spiders
12. Rock 'N' Roll Rebel
13. You're No Different
DISC 2:
1. Ultimate Sin - (live)
2. Never Know Why - (live)
3. Thank God For the Bomb - (live)
4. Crazy Babies
5. Breaking All the Rules
6. I Don't Wanna Change the World - (demo)
7. Mama, I'm Coming Home - (demo)
8. Desire - (demo)
9. No More Tears
10. Won't Be Coming Home (S.I.N.) - (demo)
11. Perry Mason - (live)
12. See You on the Other Side - (previously unreleased, demo)
13. Walk on Water - (demo)
14. Gets Me Through - (live)
15. Bang Bang (You're Dead) - (previously unreleased)
16. Dreamer
DISC 3:
1. Iron Man - (with Therapy?)
2. N.I.B. - (with Primus)
3. Purple Haze - (with Zakk Wylde/Randy Castillo/Geezer Butler)
4. Pictures of Matchstick Men - (with Type O Negative)
5. Shake Your Head (Let's Go to Bed) - (with Was (Not Was))
6. Born to Be Wild - (with Miss Piggy)
7. Nowhere to Run (Vapor Trail) - (with The Crystal Method/DMX/Ol' Dirty Bastard/FuzzBubble)
8. Psycho Man - (with Black Sabbath)
9. For Heavens Sake 2000 - (with Tony Iommi/Wu-Tang Clan)
10. I Ain't No Nice Guy - (with Motorhead)
11. Therapy - (with Infectious Grooves)
12. Stayin' Alive - (previously unreleased, with Dweezil Zappa)
13. Dog, The Bounty Hunter - (previously unreleased)
DISC 4:
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man - (previously unreleased)
2. Mississippi Queen - (previously unreleased)
3. All the Young Dudes - (previously unreleased)
4. In My Life - (previously unreleased)
5. Fire - (previously unreleased)
6. For What It's Worth - (previously unreleased)
7. Sympathy For the Devil - (previously unreleased)
8. Working Class Hero
9. Good Times - (previously unreleased)
10. Changes - (with Kelly Osbourne)
Album Notes
Includes a 60 page book.
Personnel include: Ozzy Osbourne (vocals); Kelly Osbourne (vocals); DMX, Dweezil Zappa, FuzzBubble, Geezer Butler, Infectious Grooves, Miss Piggy, Motorhead, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Primus, Randy Castillo, The Crystal Method, Therapy?, Tony Iommi, Type O Negative, Was (Not Was), Wu-Tang Clan, Zakk Wylde, Black Sabbath.
Recording information: 1980 - 2002.
Released nearly three decades after Ozzy Osbourne departed Black Sabbath, 2005's PRINCE OF DARKNESS represents the first attempt at encompassing Osbourne's solo career in a box-set format. In the thoroughly entertaining liner notes, Osbourne admits that he was skeptical about taking this record company-prodded step, agreeing to the project only when allowed to fulfill a longtime musical goal--to record an album's worth of cover tunes.
The first two discs of this collection are divided between studio cuts, live recordings, and numerous demos of many bright spots in the Osbourne canon, including "Mr. Crowley," "Goodbye to Romance," and, of course, "Crazy Train." The third disc is a compilation of the Ozzman's non-album sessions, ranging from Sabbath standards with Therapy? ("Iron Man") and Primus ("N.I.B.") to a surprisingly low-key Motorhead collaboration ("I Ain't No Nice Guy"), a head-scratching duet with Miss Piggy ("Born to Be Wild"), and a previously unreleased romp through the disco smash "Stayin' Alive," with Dweezil Zappa. The highlight of the set, however, may be the newly recorded fourth disc. Here Ozzy pays homage to his heroes--including John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix--and contemporaries such as David Bowie and King Crimson. (Osbourne's unexpected take on Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" is particularly fierce.) For Ozzy fans, the 52-track PRINCE OF DARKNESS is a must-have collection.
Industry Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 - [T]here may be no better measure of Osbourne's miracle ride since he was sacked from Black Sabbath in 1979 than the extreme zigzags between hellfire classicism and hilarious anomaly...in this delightfully motley four-CD anthology...
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