He's done it again
Tommy Morais | New Brunswick, Canada | 10/05/2010
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Ozzy released this tenth solo album Scream in June of 2010, now he comes out with a "Tour Edition" of the same album. A second disc has been added to the original album containing an unreleased song (Hand of the Enemy), an Itunes exclusive (One More Time), a Japanese exclusive (Jump the Moon) and 4 live songs making 7 songs overall. It's not the first time that he's done this; some of you may remember when Oz released a tour edition of Black Rain back in 2007 in November of that same year. Now I'm not going to review the album Scream, I already did when the album initially came out, if you want to read reviews of the album go on the normal edition of Scream's page and you will find excellent reviews. I'm rather going to look at the contents of this special edition.
I really like Scream, I think it has some of the best Ozzy songs in a while and it's a strong album. "Hand of the Enemy" is a really cool song, heavy riff and good lyrics; I don't know why it didn't make it on Scream. "One More Time" is a good song, I love Gus `solo here. "Jump The Moon" I'm not fan of, I don't know it just doesn't reach me, it's certainly not terrible but that's how I feel. The version of "Let Me Hear You Scream" found here sounds almost exactly like the one on the Itunes Festival EP (which I also bought) released exclusively on Itunes in the summer of 2010. The first live song "Bark At The Moon" is an excellent live performance of the song, this being one of my favorite Ozzy songs it's nice to see it here and played so great! Excellent guitar work by Gus and Ozzy sounds awesome. The version of "No More Tears" found here is a very good one, I prefer the version from the Live & Loud (1993) and perhaps even the Live At Budokan (2002) version but it's pretty good, plus Gus's guitar playing on it makes this version different. It's nice to see "Fairies Wear Boots" as a live Black Sabbath song instead of the usual "War Pigs" or "Paranoid" found on most live Ozzy albums. I would have liked Oz to play another obscure Sabbath song (if there is such a thing to Sabbath fans of the Ozzy era) but just the fact that it's not the usual ones makes it that much better, plus it's played really well I must say. While I'm talking about the live song choices, I know Ozzy started doing "Shot In The Dark" and "Killer of Giants" again during his shows, now those two are my absolute favorite Ozzy tracks and it would've been so great to get live performances of those on this Tour Edition. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it would have been cool to get those songs here. Oh and the black flag that was on the original version of Scream has here been replaces by an American flag.
If you have not bought Scream yet I'd say you're better off buying this edition, (for 1$ more than the regular edition on amazon) but unless you're a fan like me who wants everything you're better off to keep your original copy of Scream and not bother with this Tour Edition. I think there should have been more new content included as it would have been more valuable to those who already bought Scream, I like the new content but re-purchasing it for this isn't all that worth it. I'm still looking forward to the reissues of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman though. 2 stars.
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GREAT EDITION !!!
BASIL | 10/07/2010
(4 out of 5 stars)
"EVEN IF YOU ALREADY OWN THIS CD, IT IS WORTH IT ALONE FOR THE 7 MORE SONGS AND VIDEO CONTENT. ALSO I BELIEVE THAT THE RECORD COMPANY, NOT THE ARTIST, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RELEASING TWO VERSIONS OF ALBUMS."
