Top five if you can and and mine is kind of shifted
around this week there's a couple songs that
I left off if you follow the show on Instagram
or primarily Instagram, I think some of it bleeds
over to Facebook, but I left out mr. Crowley
left off diary of a madman the title track and
I probably would have Thrown that in there taking
a couple things out. What would you say number
five for you Ozzy solo? i'm not really gonna
have any hits on this of course we've already
talked about road to nowhere and osmosis and
all that so number five is kind of a deep track
and i believe a bonus track from a reissue of
blizzard of oz is called you looking at me looking
at you oh nice yeah this song just fucking rocks
great little uh great little rocking riff that
brandy does good little intro solo ozzy screaming
and i don't know i'm just I love the song. Moving
on to the album Diary of a Madman, there's a
great ballad on there called Tonight that just
gets me every time I hear it. Again, Randy has
a great solo, great chorus, great soaring chorus
by Ozzy. Just another one of his underrated ballads.
I don't know if, I don't think that was ever
released as a single. So we've already talked
about Shot in the Dark. So moving on will be
another deep track off of No Rest For The Wicked,
and that is going to be Devil's Daughter. And
this is Zach Wilde's debut as Ozzy's guitar player.
And the song rocks and the guitar solo in this
song, I mean, almost reminds me of the Cemetery
Gates solo that Dimebag does. But it's obviously
not the same style. Cemetery Gates is more of
a ballad, and this one is a straight ahead rocker.
But the way that kind of slowly comes in, slowly
comes in, builds up, builds up, and then towards
the end of the solo just lets it rip. It gets
me every time. So we're up to number four now.
I think number three. Was that? Yeah, yeah, because
I had you looking at me tonight, Devil's Daughter.
Well, maybe we're number two. Okay, number two.
This is the fourth this one is gonna be off the
bark at the moon I don't know why I've always
liked this song. I mean, it's kind of goofy sounding
but I've always liked slow down Mmm. Love it.
Yeah. Yeah reminds me Reminds me of an old friend
of mine. He's sadly no longer with us. We used
to play this song He'd look at you and start
corny slow down. You're moving way too fast Yeah,
and I mean, the song is goofy as shit, but I
don't know. I just, I love it. So that's number
two. Number one, I think is obvious. It's very
timely and it's, it's re -entered my playlist
and that's my mom coming home. I think that is
going to go down as his signature song. I think
his live version of it at the back of the beginning
was so powerful. I had tears in my eyes watching
it. I think that's going to be his signature
song and just uh What a powerful song mid -tempo
ballad off what I consider to be his best album
no more tears It just has new meanings, but uh,
but I love it and it'll probably stay in my uh
In my playlist Moving forward So that's that's
my top five I love the deep cuts. I'm a i'm a
sucker for deep cuts. Oh, yeah Mine I drew up
a top 10 And I'm just gonna I'm gonna race through
the runners -up But this was I scratched this
out. I think the night Tuesday night last week
or the next night, so it was fresh on my mind.
I think I'll shuffle around 3 2 & 1 a little
bit but like I said love mr. Crowley and Diary
of a madman those are just outside of my top
10 I Dreamer is a runner -up. I remember listening
to that one with you on the stereo late at night
around the time that that album was released.
I remember that. That was a good one. What did
I have time? I forgot about that one. That's
a good ballad from that record as well. Yeah.
So Tired is a runner up. I listened to it again
today. I think Ozzy did a lot with A Little on
this one. It sounds experimental for the sake
of, I guess, just being experimental. It doesn't
appear to be any guitars on the track. It's uh,
just orchestral sounds and and drums, I guess
It does have a good guitar solo in it, but yeah,
it's a lot of piano and Orchestra music. Yeah,
you're right. There is a guitar solo. I don't
know. Is there a rhythm guitar or is it just
buried in the mix? I think it's buried in the
mix. Yeah, uh steal away the night Just one of
my early favorites from when I got my own blizzard
of eye cd around 1999 and we'll have to touch
on our time at that first apartment as well.
Fire in the Sky is a runner -up. That's a great
song. That's an introduction from you thanks
to, you know, one of the many mix CDs that you
made. Yeah. You Can't Kill Rock and Roll. Classic.
So getting into number five. Desire from the
No More Tears album. Great song. I'll listen
to it this weekend. I just wore it. slap out,
for lack of a better description, back then.
I played it so frequently, at such a high volume,
in my car, mostly. Over the years, I've been
an airpod, earbud guy for maybe 5 % of the total
time I've been listening to music, so a lot of
it is just in front of the stereo or in the car.
And I put Desire and really all of No More Tears
on the shelf for close to 20 years, largely.
It just, I was thinking about this today, Ozzy's
catalog or the Ozzy sound, for me, I started
really getting into his music at the dawn of
the century. And there was just so much stuff
flooding the zone back then. Of course, Metallica
is my favorite band. But you know a lot of things
turning my attention in the different path But
coming back to it. I just I got the goosebumps
again. I love Zack's solo and the way it starts
out it kind of The opening notes of his solo
kind of reminds me of like something that Chuck
Berry might crank out Yeah, absolutely There's
something I don't know that album to me is one
of those few where Every song on there could
have been a hit could have been a single yeah
um i could i could listen to it front to back
i don't really ever get tired of any of the songs
on there even you know like no more tears or
you know mr teaker train or something that you've
heard a bunch of times yeah and lyrically i love
the statement it's just something only ozzy can
put out there i know he he and lemmy co -wrote
several songs in this record this might be one
of them but basically saying It drives everybody
crazy drives them crazy and we can imagine who
they are back in the late eighties early nineties
that I won't be cool. I won't tone it down. Yeah.
And I just love where he says, I always knew
what I wanted to be. I knew for sure, you know,
I wanted to be on top of the world, I guess.
What is just a driving risk on the back of that?
Yeah. And, um, every guitar sound that uses.
Moving along, we already talked about it, but
old LA tonight is my number four. Great, great
thing. Number three, and I'm gonna shuffle up.
If you guys have seen my top 10, I'm shuffling
up three, two, and one as the week has gone on.
I'm gonna move road to nowhere to number three.
And this is real, it's kind of still the head
space that I'm in Robert. I'm real top heavy
with the ballads. Yeah. wrote to nowhere until
I heard what'll be my Actually, I'm gonna keep
number one the same but until I heard the next
song number two It was my favorite ballad. See
you on the other side Great song. He had a lot
of ballads if you go back and look at his catalog
Yeah, and in training number of balance, you
know, I mean with a lot of the hair bands I mean
you might have one ballad on a album He had several.
Yeah, and he probably could have done more You
can do a double box set of just his balance Yeah
Robert, how about just hearing this? I'm guessing
you've played this song this week Leaving I hate
to see you cry grieving. I hate to say goodbye
dust and ash forever Though I know we must be
parted as sure as stars are in the sky I'm gonna
see you when it comes to glory and I'll see you.
I'll see you on the other side You know, I think
you could apply this song to randy rhodes. I
know he was very close with randy castillo who?
Who died of cancer in the early 2000s his his?
Yeah touring drummer, I believe Yeah, but he
also played on no rest for the wicked and no
more tears. I just love randy castillo In his
playing style and the first time that I saw motley
crew. I think it was the first time in in 99
Castillo was supposed to be the touring drummer
and because he was sick And it was kind of a
late development that he wasn't gonna be able
to perform Samantha Maloney from whole of all
bands play with crew and she was Spectacular
that night at I believe it was Oak Mountain amphitheater
I know we saw them at Lakewood with the scorpions
on that tour But I think it might have been before
Randy got sick. I can't remember if she was on
there or not. I remember she played They did
a tour I think before they got back with Tommy
and I think she was on it I think I think that
might have been an oak mountain as well. Yeah
We made me think of the same concert Well, you
haven't heard me say this on this show before
other people have said hey Dan, I gotta run It's
been great, but I am getting very close on time.
I've got to go pick up my boys but Not gonna
shut it down until I reveal number one Goodbye
to romance Wow And for me, Robert, this is again,
see you on the other side a little more polished,
a little more of a seasoned Ozzy performance.
Yes, it is. Goodbye to romance. I just, I love
my connection with anybody, whatever music you
listen to, you draw back on the memories. And
I remember listening to the Blizz Revive's album
going up. Was it Claremont? the old apartment
Yeah, you know driving to and from downtown or
south side at night and I was listening to that
record hail to England Listening to some social
distortion. I had a pretty good mix of stuff
back then Yeah was getting into rock and roll
and I had a girlfriend that loved everclear.
I actually saw everclear in concert and thought
they were great live you had a couple of their
cds i i never could get into them yeah but you
you got in some weird 90s alternative rock well
i love your metal yeah still love the verve richard
ashcroft love his solo records but yeah so i
just i go back you know how you how you just
remember uh very random memories yes from one
summer night 1999 driving down claremont blasting
Goodbye to romance and and you've learned the
lyrics you've any song that you've learned the
lyrics in your you're just one arm Sound like
Dixieland delight one arm on the wheel Windows
rolled down. I remember Robert when we were kids
you drew a picture or a painting and it was like
hair blown in the wind Pretty girl on my side
and the music playing you remember that? Yes,
I do this more like 12 year 12 or 13 or maybe
younger But I always liked that because that's
embodies the, you know, just the, the fun of
being a teenager or 20 or 21. And you're just
getting into just rocking out and being on your
own time, going to a party, going to see your
girlfriend and listening to the music that you
love. But yeah, Robert, we could keep going on
and on. I love these experiences and I really
wanted to bring you on the show too. let everybody
know, but also to thank you for getting me into
this type of music. And I'm not an Ozzy Osbourne
fan unless I'm Robert McArdle's brother and the
time that we had grown up. That really makes
my day. That means so much. Yeah. Well, it's
true. I'm happy to help. Cause who knows what
I would have, which lane I would have gone down
if not for your love for this music and how,
how, let's just end on this note. going back
to Ozzy and his his drug problems back in the
the late 70s and we could have lost him then
but the way that it it all ended yes we're sad
and it's okay to to kind of feel that way because
we've lost our our uh our king yeah pretty much
the king the prince of darkness like the prince
but it's all right the story is it's complete
yeah um it's it's sad but um and i'm still i
go back to it what what a way to go uh and his
music will live on i mean and hopefully my kids
will be listening to it your kids will be listening
to it and maybe we'll get some good ozzy tribute
bands that'll come to the to the final group
or something because i mean that's what we're
that's what we have now yes and I'm glad you
mentioned that Robert because what we were talking
about earlier and if you got a couple under bucks
every year that you're setting aside or maybe
it's 500 or a thousand to go to some of these
these big budget big production concerts uh do
it by all means but don't snooze on some of these
tribute acts you've heard me talking to uh Sean
Perry from the Four Horsemen uh vinyl music hall
He's They put on a great performance and he's
got a really relatable story really opened up
like a book Well one thing one thing they do
and we were there together last time yeah, I
look forward to when they play seek and destroy
That's where you're really Suspend disbelief
right feel like it might it just really might
be 1983 and here you are because they've got
all the And that's my wife my wife is asking
me She can hold out no longer hold on a second
it's under the matter I left it under the mat
there Will go I know you gotta go go Make her
happy. Yeah. Well, this has been fantastic and
Hey, let's do it again sometime Absolutely, where
I'm officially into a new season of Dan time
and for those of you listening No, I'm not gonna
give you a few nuggets every week. It's just
gonna be when I've got the time To shoot something
out to you and won't just be anything. I'm not
gonna do an episode for the sake of doing one
It's for your enjoyment. Had a lot of fun here,
Robert. Always love talking about bands and I've
been looking forward to this. Unfortunately,
the reason for doing this, I've been sad about
it, but the opportunity for you and I to share
our memories has been a lot of fun. This was
a lot of fun for me as well and I can't wait
to do it again hopefully under better circumstances
for somebody else. Agreed. Yeah. All right. Well,
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Ozzy and it's driving you nuts? Well, Maybe you
need to go check out the No More Tears album
and find out what we're talking about, what everyone's
been talking about. He's not the caricature that
maybe you thought he was. These are some amazing
songs. So hopefully we gave you some good direction
today. Thanks, Robert, for doing this. We'll
connect again soon. All right, absolutely. Take
care. All right, you too. Thanks for listening.
Have a great week, folks.