Ozzy Osbourne stares down his demons with a smile on ‘Ordinary Man.’ Read our review
in the depths of misery, the songs, whether tender or bawdy, are more revealing and personal than some of his past hits. He was still recovering from an operation related to his fall last year when his daughter Kelly asked if he wanted to make a song with Post Malone — someone Ozzy had never heard of.
Some of the songs are elegiac, some are packed with comic-book laughs, but throughout the album he sings with a youthful vivacity that seems at odds with his 70-something years. His goofball songs are more lighthearted than ever, and his more serious songs sound even more thoughtful.half a century ago, he sang horror-movie lyrics with a conviction that was truly unsettling.
The raging antidrug opener “Straight to Hell” shows off his crude sense of humor — “I’ll make you scream; I’ll make you defecate,” — minutes before a ripping guitar solo by Slash. The bluesy “Eat Me” is his take on the German cannibal who placed a classified ad to find someone willing to be his meal and “Scary Little Green Men” starts off like a gorgeous ballad in the vein of his 1986 classic “Killer of Giants” until it picks up the pace with verses about homicidal Martians.
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