By Grand Rapids Anonymous
tuesday, july 22, 2025 at 8:05:00 p.m. edt
GRA: I was not an Ozzy fan, but I thought "paranoid" was great.
I just heard my local news (fox17) say, "Ozzy Osborne is dead today, just weeks after his final concert."
Well it wouldn't be BEFORE his final concert.
A 100% drug addict and alcoholic, Ozzy finally finished off his multi-decade long suicide plan today, with Parkinson's disease stopping by to lend a hand, the last 22 years, though pneumonia likely got him, too.
As bad a shape as Osbourne was in the last few years, instead of reuniting with black sabbath, he should have sang with the zombies--because Ozzy was a great example of the "walking dead," if there ever was one.
He made it to 76--somehow.
--GRA
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Funny you mentioned "Paranoid"- I don't even REMEMBER hearing anything else from this guy or his group on the radio, not even on the best rock station in NYC (WNEW-FM), which played anything and everything. Yet the outpouring of love for this guy is mind-boggling, especially at the Commie Film Board. There's one guy in particular who is a totally repellent excuse for a human, who's bragging about getting high as a youngster and listening to this stuff- yet he's made a career out of befriending old-time film composers and preserving their music! Can't say it enough- life is NOT fair! It's always the creeps and weirdos who go out and get stuff done, at least vis-a-vis anything to do with film history.
Oh well, another rant on my part. I could listen to some Black Sabbath and maybe be surprised- but more likely it's a case of, as another, better group once sang, "The things you think are precious I can't understand."
-RM
So I checked my files and found two items from 2002, one quirky and the other quirkier.
May 7, 2002 - Jay Leno - Ozzy was the first person to be at a White House Correspondents Dinner with his name tattooed on his knuckles since Janet Reno.
June 11, 2002 - Steyn - Watching the Golden Jubilee concert for Queen Elizabeth II in London this week, I had two thoughts: First, she and Ozzy Osbourne, one of the gala's participants, could be sisters. They have the same slight grandmotherly stoop, the same weirdly inscrutable smile, and the same hairdo, though her majesty has let hers gray naturally, while Ozzy prefers an ill-advised dye job. But that's a mere detail. If ever the queen is abducted by aliens and they need a royal doppelganger, Ozzy's the one to do it.
I racked my brain to think of the song,but I had to look it up. "Reelin' In The Years"--an almost orgasmic piece of rock and roll perfection. One of the best openings--who else did a minute plus long instrumental to start a record--followed by ANOTHER tremendous instrumental break(with lead guitar brilliance) later on? A fast listen of five minutes that was Steely Dan's best song. But back then,a LOT of groups had great songs--hundreds of them. Where did all the talent go?
--GRA
Most of the rock radio stations I’ve heard have disappointed me. They have very short playlists and their listeners get the same songs over and over.
Headline on Breitbart (which has become a total joke, but is still useful for finding negative stuff about society):
"Ozzy Osbourne Tributes, Iconic Performances, and Playlists Go Viral Honoring Rock Legend"
Also on BB, related to the lefty protests over Colbert's cancellation (when were there EVER mass protests over a TV show being taken off the air?):
This is what a representative of the once-prestigious (though always liberal/Commie) Writer's Guild of America looks like in the year 2025:
https://res.cloudinary.com/dtjjgiitl/image/upload/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_progressive/v1753288013/gnlzrmeprvyji5btktzi.jpg
We are beyond redemption.
-RM
Excuse the excessive posting- It just dawned on me that the high-recognition/affection factor re Mr. Osbourne is likely because he became a TV CELEBRITY in later years, and not due to his music, which is more of a "cult" thing.
It's the same "celebrity" factor that gave us the totally ignorant, arrogant, corrupt boor of a president that we currently have in office!
-RM
Hilarious concept and it's not the Babylon Bee, either, but serious article at The Root: 13 Ways Ozzy Osbourne Stayed Connected to Black Folks Throughout His Career.
Sample:
T‑Pain covers “War Pigs” (2023)
Ozzy Osbourne Reacts to Trick Daddy’s “Let’s Go” (2004)
Ozzy’s Swag Had Hip-Hop Energy
entire article
jerry pdx
Black Sabbath was the first group to merge devil worship with rock, inventing satanic heavy metal music. Good or bad, to this day Ozzy and Sabbath have godlike status to followers of the genre for being "pioneers". Personally, I liked a few of their songs but like another notable rock group heavy on imagery, KISS, their music never grabbed me like the Rolling Stones, The Who, Zeppelin or Deep Purple did. I called it sludge rock, they weren't as talented instrumentally and didn't combine melodic inventiveness with heavy rock the way other groups did. They also helped spawn death metal, thrash, speed, goth etc... genres that focused a lot on satanic imagery and little on writing quality music. Not much of a legacy to be proud of there.
All great points,RM. TV is passe now,so look to tik tok for our next artistic and political leaders. Maybe Ozzy had the right idea after all,lol.
--GRA
I commented on ZH once, "Heavy Metal is rap for white people." Which is to say, loud, violent, angry, nihilistic, without the counterbalancing benefit of any quality resembling actual music. Totally devoid of human feeling.
The comment was NOT well-received.
-RM
WNEW-FM was unique and had DJs who really cared about music, and were given free rein to play more-or-less whatever they wanted. You could hear all kinds of eclectic stuff, especially in the short-lived era of "New Wave" music, some of which was very inventive. They never had the ratings of competitor WPLJ, which was the Classic Rock station in NYC that played "the same songs over and over." At one of my early jobs I worked with some real white trash from the "boroughs," and one guess as to which station they preferred! One guy couldn't stand WNEW because the station was always doing stuff for charity! I forget when they finally gave up the ghost, but it was probably shortly before the owner, Metromedia, sold out to Fox, TV station included. Late 80s, probably.
-RM
Agree,Jerry,about differentiating between what black sabbath did and authentic rock and roll. Where did ANY of it go,though? I can only guess that rock music was put out to pasture by record companies as a way to eliminate White music and place the spotlight on rap blacks to destroy our country a little more. Music,movies,tv,the press,politics--each category,handed over to the 13% blackies,sticks a fork in the U.S. and ever closer to our complete demise.
--GRA
In the 80s,I lived in an apartment and the floor above me had a couple who played nihilistic satan music LOUDLY. I'd tape it on my cassette player and bring it in to the landlord every week.
"Not good,"they'd say.
I'd throw shoes at the ceiling,play my music loud. They got warnings and eventually left.Took a while though,about six months. Then criminal blacks moved in downstairs. I told that story before though. They specialized in cockroaches and loud music too.
--GRA
"spotlight on rap AND blacks".
Somehow the "and" disappeared.
--GRA
I believe I've mentioned this before- there was an item in VARIETY, probably in the 90s, which showed record sales for all genres of music, and rap was selling fewer albums than Easy Listening! There was much commotion, and somehow the manner of tabulating sales was re-jiggered to increase the figures for rap (don't ask me how they did it!). It was around that time that MTV was pressured to include rap, and everything else gradually got pushed aside so that a new generation would grow up hearing little else. A monstrous example of "social engineering."
-RM
Tell me,RM,WHO is the social engineer(s)?
--GRA
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