Why Ozzy’s 1991 Comeback Still Hits Hard

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Is No More Tears Ozzy Osbourne’s peak, or just the best-looking chapter in a long legend? We don’t tiptoe around it. One of us calls it his peak album with zero hesitation, another hears a dated 90s sheen, and the rest of us bounce between admiration, annoyance, and that reluctant “fine, the production is great” respect that only a big rock record can force out of you.

We dig into the 1991 context, the jump from earlier eras into the Zakk Wylde lineup, and why the guitar tone and pinch harmonics feel like their own character. We also get into the details that actually shape how a listener experiences the record: synths that either elevate the drama or instantly timestamp it, riffs that stand out versus riffs that blur together, and Ozzy’s unmistakable voice doing the heavy lifting even when we disagree on the songs. If you care about heavy metal production, classic rock songwriting, or what makes a track “sing-along metal,” there’s plenty to chew on.

The conversation gets sharper when we hit lyrics and meaning. “Mr. Tinkertrain” sparks real pushback, “Mama, I’m Coming Home” gets misread in a way that makes everyone stop and reassess, and we talk about how radio overplay can permanently attach music to childhood memories, dentist offices, and retail jobs. Then we let it all explode in our “dumb hill” segment, including a full-on Ozzy versus Metallica Black Album argument, plus what we’d cut, fix, or shamelessly merch if we owned the catalog.

If you’ve got a take on No More Tears, we want it. Subscribe, share this with the friend who always says “Ozzy is overrated,” and leave a review with your verdict: peak album, flawed classic, or total skip?

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Is This Ozzy’s Peak Album?

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Is No More Tears by Ozzie Ozzie at his peak or Ozzie just living off his past success? Damn. Might be a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_04 0:13

Okay. Which one is it more or? It's Ozzy at his peak. Ever it's No More Tears is his peak album? Yes. This is his peak? Yikes.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Where where is this album like in the Ozzy timeline?

SPEAKER_04 0:29

Give me a brief. Black Sabbath, 1970. He got out around 19, I think it was around 1980. Then the whole Blizzard of Oz was 1981-ish. And so then, about 10 years after Blizzard of Oz is No More Tears, 1991. First time was Zack Wilde after Randy Rhodes' passing. This is definitely the best album since Blizzard of Oz after Randy Rhodes died. And Zack Wilde is my favorite Ozzy guitarist. All the songs are great. I love it. And it definitely has Ozzy's best production, in my personal opinion. I'm sorry. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

I did not realize that this album was 1991. But now that you say that.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

I was nine.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

But you know what? I do remember vaguely in the early mid-90s, like hearing Mom Mom coming home on the radio.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

So I guess I always remember seeing my um uncles, cousins. I don't know. We had a weird family. I'm not sure which one they were. But they would wear Ozzy t-shirts and they would go to like Aussie concerts, Metallica concerts. I think that that was the time when Ozzy and Metallica went on tour together.

SPEAKER_04 1:50

No, that was 1986. Ozzy's uh no, that was uh the ultimate sin tour. That was years previous.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

But right, but that's what I'm saying. The shirts that they wore were from like that show and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 2:00

Those shirts would be worth so much now. But that year they were well they were whatever. But 1991 was a huge year for music. Nirvana's, you know, classic Nevermind came out. That was the black album for Metallica. Alice Cooper's poison album. I think that's the yeah, that's 1991. So there was a lot of great music that year.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

Okay, I'm I'm shocked to hear you say that this is Ozzy at his peak. I did not know you felt that way about this album. That's pretty cool to learn. There was a lot of facts in there that I didn't really care about, so thank you.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

But this is educational.

Meet The Hosts And Cover Art

SPEAKER_03 2:38

I'm Josh. I'm Rachel. I'm Cowing. I'm Jackson. And this is relatively terrible. I love you, but you're all terrible. Welcome back to the Relatively Terrible podcast. We are the Uploads of Fun Family, and we are questioning culture with comedy and just enough dysfunction to feel normal.

SPEAKER_05 2:56

I feel dysfunction.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

Today we're talking about Ozzie Osborne's 1991 smash hit album No More Tears. Five times platinum. I just want to know why is the wing on the album, on the cover, so small? It's weird to me. I just want to know. It would look weirder if it were big. Well, if he was like, I love the cover of that album. Yeah. I think it's a great cover. But I just now noticed that little tiny wing on his shoulder. Oh, that's you didn't know. No, I've never noticed that. It is kind of weird. Because if he was like that and he had big wings and you just saw a little piece of it, I bet that was one of the comps, and they were like, Doesn't look good. Tiny wing.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Let's go tiny wing.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

That was Sharon's idea. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Good chance.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Okay.

Elevator Pitches And Pinch Harmonics

SPEAKER_03 3:45

Let's all give this No More Tears album by Ozzie Osborne. The elevator pitch, sales treatment. You got one sentence to sell it to people. I'm gonna start and we're gonna go that way. We're gonna let Jackson go last. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

That's smart this time. Yeah. Yeah, let's reverse the order.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

Reverse it.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Okay. If you want to hear a ton of really cool guitar, including the most pinch harmonics you will ever hear on an album ever, Ozzy Osborne's No More Tears is the one for you. What are pinch harmonics? Zach Wild Like when he likes it.

SPEAKER_04 4:23

Oh, I like that. Oh, I love it. Oh, I love that, yeah. I wasn't making fun of it. No, I was just wondering because you said that the other day when I was listening to uh Tornado of Souls by Megadeth. You said that same thing.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

So basically, when you're down picking and you hit with your you pick it and then you hit it with your thumb, it causes it to woo. Oh, okay. I know that now. So now we all know that. Great. Nerd.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

Why is that a nerd? That's not a nerd.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Okay. I've never heard anyone call Zach Wilde a nerd, but cool. Difference. Rachel, can you save us, please?

SPEAKER_01 4:58

If emotional damage were an album.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 5:04

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_03 5:06

You don't know what emotional damage is? Okay, Jimmy.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Well, it goes and it goes both ways because the lyrics and the music, like it's very emotional, it's very raw, it's like a lot of self-reflection and self-loathing. And it also made me hate my life. So, you know, emotional damage all the way around.

SPEAKER_05 5:26

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

I'm exaggerating. It did not make me hate my life. I'm exaggerating.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

I never thought the end of our family would be filmed, but maybe this is it.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

It did not make me hate my life. I'm just I'm exaggerating.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

My wife will be asking me one day, why didn't you invite your parents to the wedding? I'll reference this clip right here. Damn, that was great.

SPEAKER_05 5:47

All right, ready to go. Come on. Opus clip. Clip that. Okay. I came up with this on the spot. Oh, okay. Here we go.

SPEAKER_03 5:55

Jackson hasn't thought about this since he listened to it this morning.

SPEAKER_05 5:59

Yeah. If you want to put on an album that will make your mama not want to come home, this is the one. Such a jackass.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

All right, Jackson, then take it home. How are you gonna sell this album in one sentence?

SPEAKER_04 6:14

The godfather of metal at his best. So did he just go off a cliff from there?

SPEAKER_05 6:20

Like with the crazy train. Woo! Oh yeah! Oh yeah, no more tears.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Yeah, now I'm gonna make generic metal. If you read the lyrics, like trains are mentioned.

SPEAKER_03 6:32

Like multiple times. Mr. Tinker Train, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Yeah, the lyric. Yeah, trains are mentioned. I what was it with the trains?

SPEAKER_03 6:41

It worked.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Okay. Choo choo train.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

You know what? Side note, I think Ozzy is obsessed just just as much with his childhood as like Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 6:52

Oh Ozzie definitely I can get that. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

I can't.

SPEAKER_04 6:57

Well, he grew up poor.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Poor. And the only options where he was in Birmingham was to either be, he went through a lot of different jobs, but his father was a factory like worker, would work during the day, come home, sleep, then his mom would go and work, and he hated it. And he said he was either gonna end up in jail or do something big. That's what his dad told him. And so his dad got him a mic kit at the time and he put up a flyer. You know, Ozzie Zig wants gig if it rhymed or something, and that's when Tony Iomi found him, and then they became Black Sabbath. They were originally a band called Earth, a blues rock band. There's a clip out there of them singing uh what's that Elvis song? Blue suede Blue Suede shoes, Ozzie singing it. It's so cool. I liked it. Nerd. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

This is just gonna be a full episode of Jackson, just random Ozzy

What Works, Dates, And Cringes

SPEAKER_01 7:52

facts.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

All right, in regards to Ozzie Osborne's No More Tears, what absolutely works, what dates this record, and what made you laugh or cringe or both? Do you want me to go first?

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Yeah, yeah. Let's keep it up.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

What absolutely works is every song is decent. Whether you like it or not, and you think it's long or whatever, there's always amazing production value, great guitars, interesting bass, uh, really cool synths. And since this was in the 90s, I like the synths just a little bit more. It's really hard to say. Synth. Because they were a little more 90s and they just sounded better.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Revenge of the Synth.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Uh, what dates the record is when I see the the album cover, it takes me right back to childhood, and I don't really like that.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Um that's my childhood is a lot different than pretty you problem.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

That's that's what dates it for me, because I was nine when it came out, and I don't, yeah, I didn't really like the age of nine. Uh what made me laugh or cringe was just some of the um, you know, some of the dramatics, some of the you know, the background stuff. It kind of made me cringe a little bit. I've heard some of Ozzy's newer stuff, like patient number nine, that I thought he did better with that stuff, where he's trying to add drama, he's trying to add a story, he's trying to add, you know, like Mr. Tinker Train when there's all that stuff in the beginning and things like that. I get what you're trying to do, but it just made me cringe.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

What works for me is I thought a lot of the lyrics were good. I don't think I've really ever paid that close attention to the lyrics before. Uh, Road to Nowhere in particular, although I very much dislike the music to that. Um, I really liked the lyrics. I don't remember that one.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

That's my favorite song.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Um, really. Road to Nowhere. The lyrics I thought were were real. That one hit me the most in terms of the lyrics. I mean, what dated this for me is it's it it really was I think it was like the synth and stuff. And it, and that's also kind of the cringe for me was this was I think I I think if we had listened to Blizzard of Oz, I actually think I would have been more into that. I think I would have actually been more into the older, give me like actually like more 70s. This this was too eighties influenced 90s for me. I just I didn't really care for most of the music.

SPEAKER_04 10:32

But I know you guys really care about production. So No More Tears had better production. If I were to show you Blizzard of Oz, I think he would have disliked it a little bit more.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

I think Ozzy is always at a high level of production, except for maybe. So when they first started, they didn't really know what they were doing yet with metal. But starting with like Blizzard of Oz, however as high the production could get for the time, he gets it there.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

And I mean, and I can definitely appreciate like listen, Ozzy Osworm's incredibly talented. There's no doubt about it. It really, for me, just comes down to taste and preference. I think I feel about this album the way you feel about Bill Murray. Like, I recognize that there's there's talent there, there was some a lot to appreciate, but like at the end of the day, this isn't an album I'm gonna listen to on my own.

SPEAKER_04 11:24

Okay, fair enough. Would you my turn?

SPEAKER_05 11:28

Yeah, your turn. Get ready, Jackson. Yeah, I know. What works is that you can actually sing along to the songs. There's not a lot of heavy metal songs where you can sing along. It's mainly focused on the music, like Megadeth. Uh because I'm sorry on the one album you like, oh yeah, you can't sing along to that. That's just horrible. Um, what dates this album is how the guitar riffs start to blend. You can't, like, as you go on, you can't really tell a difference.

SPEAKER_03 12:09

I I know exactly what he's saying, and I've always wondered that even when Randy Rhodes was in the band, there's like that's why I love Crazy Train so much. That dun dun dun dun dun dun that that riff just stands out, yeah, but there's some riffs that they're playing in in Ozzy's music that are done like on higher on the the higher uh strings, so they just don't sound like riffs to me. They almost sound like riffy solos, which is probably what they're going for. Yeah, it's just a preference thing.

SPEAKER_05 12:42

Yeah. Okay. What makes me cringe uh is probably the album cover. It's yeah, I don't, it's not that good.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

I'm the only one that didn't pay attention to that. It's not that good.

SPEAKER_05 12:53

It's a great cover.

SPEAKER_04 12:54

I like it. It's just him going like what's a good can I ask, what's a good album cover to you so I can get your preference? Like to have I seen it?

SPEAKER_03 13:05

I will say, I'll just say this before you answer. Like his generation, there isn't many good ones.

SPEAKER_04 13:12

That's what I'm saying. I prefer the older album covers when they actually had creativity to them. I mean see, for Ozzy, this is like his least creative. When it comes to album covers, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

Yeah, he would go balls to the wall with everything he did for the album covers. Balls to the wall, hey yo. Ow. What is a good album cover for you?

SPEAKER_05 13:30

Pantheon. Okay. I really like that album cover. Okay. I can't deny that it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

They have an aesthetic, just not like, not just like Ozzie, but they they have a look to everything they do, like Ozzy did. It's a very different look, but they have a look.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

But identifiable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

Alright, I'm interested to see what you say. All right. What works with this album is Ozzie and Zach Wilde. I know Ozzie was the type of guy where the guitarist would come up with the riff, and then he would find a melody to sing to it. And that's what made Black Sabbath so great, and that's what made his solo career so great. And uh the way that he was so open to collaboration. I mean, Lemmy wrote part of Mama Coming Home, which is weird to think about knowing Lemmy, but uh he talked Ozzie talked about that in his book. It was really interesting. So Ozzie and Zack's chemistry and the collaboration in this album was very cool. Uh, what dates it? Nothing in this album, at least to me. Well, alright, you know what? Maybe there is some stuff that dates it, like you know, you said the synths and stuff, but I enjoy that older sound. If you know what you do?

SPEAKER_02 14:43

I enjoyed it. Oh my god!

SPEAKER_01 14:45

I was going to say, how do you know what dates this is literally like 1970 to 1992 is like your.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

1991 is the future for him.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

I mean, this is your era.

SPEAKER_04 14:57

So but all the themes found in this album, especially the lyrics, that's what makes it timeless. And that's why I love it

Lemmy, Deep Cuts, And Favorites

SPEAKER_04 15:06

so much. What made me laugh is in No More Tears, I think it's President uh I can't, I think it might be President Bush. It's just another hand in the bush, uh- in the bush, uh-uh in the bush. Okay. I thought that was funny. I thought that was funny and added a nice element to it. I enjoyed that in No More Tears. I don't care if you say if it's three songs and by the way, No More Tears is the best song.

SPEAKER_05 15:30

Oh, it's so long. You know what's it's the best. You guys have no attention. By the way, so I listened to the album on YouTube and I listened to Hellraiser. The YouTube version features Lemmy. So what happened there? His vocals are terrible. Man, I was even mocking it this morning.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

I just made!

SPEAKER_04 15:55

He's so bad. I don't. It's funny because what's that one movie with Adam Sandler? They're all rockers. Airheads. Airheads, and they're like, which one, which one? Lemmy or God? They're like, Lemmy, no, trick question, Lemmy is God. And it's like, hold on a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No. Just no. Lemmy's not, I'm sorry, Lemmy's just not that good in my personal opinion. That community treats him like a god because they do.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Here's why. Because a man that is that ugly looking and just terrible at singing and music made it as far as he did. Of course you're gonna think he's a god. Well, I mean, you're gonna be like, well, what happened?

SPEAKER_04 16:35

Not only was he very influential in metal, but in like the punk rock scene, yeah, they loved him.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

But uh now, see, I thought the funniest song on there was the zombie one. And that was catchy too. Like that one really caught me off guard.

SPEAKER_05 16:51

Yeah, but I love the bass intro to that song. Oh, the I think my least favorite was Desire. Whaaaaaah?

SPEAKER_01 17:00

Is that the that's not the S-I-N the Sin song, is it? Okay, that was my favorite.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

That was my second favorite. That was my favorite one, but uh back to what you were saying about uh the Lemmy song. So what happened was a fan made an anniversary version of Hellraiser because Ozzy came out with it in 1991, and then Motorhead followed with their cover, and so they combined it to make one song, and I don't know how it happened, but I think that's what was published by Ozzy. He got paid to do it, and then on top of it, he also made the video. Yeah, the music video is very cool. The music video is very cool, but I do prefer the original just no more tears version because yeah, Lemmy's never been my favorite, not only in music, but as a person. Uh he although he did make he's made some very uh true statements. Even Joe Thorne put up about him, like when POV when Lemmy sums up actu an actual biblical truth. I don't remember what it was, but Lemmy was one of those guys that was crazy and weird and yeah, kind of ugly. Uh, but he but he would surprise you every now and again, and that's why it was shocking to Ozzy when he wrote part of Mama and Coming Home. Uh but yeah, Lemmy died on his deathbed still doing speed. Yeah. So no, I don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Says a lot about him, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

Welcome to the dumbest hill. I love you. Oh, yeah.

Dumb Hills And Metallica Debate

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Uh, this is where we are all gonna defend one really crazy take about the album No More Mama, I'm Coming Home by Ozzie Osborne. I couldn't wait to do that. No, it's Mama No More Tears. Oh, yeah, Mama No More Tears by All the Tears. By the Osmonds. Um they're from Utah, so polygamists. Uh no. Anyway. We're gonna defend one crazy take from No More Tears by Ozzie Osborne. I'm gonna start.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Jackson was gonna start this.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

Oh, you wanna start? Yeah, I want to see. Jackson, what's your dumb hill?

SPEAKER_04 19:06

What hill are you willing to die on? This isn't really a dumb hill, but I think dad and Calvin might fight me on this. Uh, No More Tears by Ozzie is better than the black album by Metallica. Oh no. Yes. No, no. Yes. See, I knew you guys would say that.

SPEAKER_05 19:23

I'm sorry, Enter Sandman destroys the No More Tears album. Screw you.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

No. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Listen, the black album. The only good thing about Enter Sandman is that riff. Congratulations. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

I'm kind of with you on this. I have such a distaste for Metallica that I I think I'm I think this might be a two to two.

unknown 19:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

I think I'm with you.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Metallica's black album was the first, and some people might not like this, I don't care. It's like the first pop metal album ever. It was so good, so catchy. Sing-along, like almost every song was a hit. And it's it's hard to compare something like Ozzie because Ozzy was never trying to do that. Ozzy is always trying to make a full, complete, good record. If he comes out with one or two hits, awesome, he doesn't care about making an album full of hits. That's what Metallica was doing with the black album. Is that's why they hired Bob Rock, right? He was the producer, Bob Rock. Why are you asking me? I don't like Metallica.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

Except the drums and the vocals for Metallica are like absolute trash.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

If you listen to what was the one before it and Justice for All, yes. Um it does it, there's two different albums, they're two different bands.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Yeah, so that's what pisses me off about Metallica is their lack of consistency? Yes, I hate their lack of consistency. One, and Justice for All, even though their tour was supposed to be insane, like even Joe Thorne still talks about how that tour was absolutely nuts. It was there was no bass on the album. That makes me pissed off because Metallica is known for their great bass, Cliff Burton, and then they got rid of Jason Newstead, even though he was pretty good. Uh and the black album just really pisses me off because they kind of went from their roots and made more, like you said, poppy type stuff. Yeah. And I hate that. And also, like the drums in uh the black album, even though they sound good, they're more simpler parts. Yeah, because that's what makes them sound better. Because that's all drums.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

When you bring in a real good producer, they're gonna turn you into what you should do.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Play your strengths.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

Play to your strengths, and that's why the black album's so good. I don't want to spend too much more time on Metallica. Oh, Calvin, what's your dumbest hill?

SPEAKER_05 21:53

Oh, here we go. There's too many guitar solos on this album. Switch. Switch it up once in a while. Like damn. How can you tell? They all it all sounds like solos. It's one because I get it. It's heavy metal, it's the 90s, but switch it up. Like switch it up, man. Like too many guitar solos.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Switch it up. I would have loved more like standard, heavier riffs. Um, that's why I really liked The Road to Nowhere, because that part where I was that was really cool.

SPEAKER_05 22:29

And see, that's another thing. This is another dumb hill. This album is very forgettable, except for the hits.

unknown 22:37

Ow!

SPEAKER_04 22:37

You deserve a penchant.

SPEAKER_05 22:39

I I just listened to it this morning and I can't remember a single song except for That's gotta be preference then. Tinker Train uh or whatever it is, and the singles, like the hits. Except for that, I can't remember a single song. And I just listened to it this morning.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

But Jackson, that's hard, that would be a hard one for you to wrap your mind around because you've listened to it so many times.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Yeah, well, that's how I see it all comes down to preference because that's how I feel about like the music you listen to. So it's all down to preference, but I mean it's five times platinum, and people are still talking about just yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

Just keep going. Platinum doesn't matter anymore, by the way. Go ahead, Rich.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Get rid of Mr. Tinkertrain. What the F is that song about? Is he a pedicide take?

SPEAKER_02 23:25

What is going on in that song?

SPEAKER_03 23:27

He's obsessed with his childhood. That's why he also has that song about Terry Mason.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

No, that's not what the song is about. It was a state, it was a statement. I don't care what it was. It was a statement about it was supposed to be a statement about like child molestation. It was. It was supposed to not in a good way. I didn't think it was a good way.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

No, it was. You're at the end of your seat, always ready to tear us. I'm like, yo, what'd you say about Ozzy? No, I What did you say?

SPEAKER_01 23:52

That's a ballsy way to kick off your album.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

Don't say ballsy and child molestation in the thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

I mean, but that's but like out of the other days, but like the beginning, so you know what a tinker train is, though, right?

SPEAKER_03 24:06

Kind of. So the only way I know it is from like Christmas story when they're talking about like Tinker Toys. They're toys. So it makes me think he is obsessed with childhood stuff, like Perry Mason. He probably watched that when he was a kid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

But that but that song just really weirded me out. And for it to be the first one, like that was really off-putting to me. Once I got past that song, I was like, okay. And it it was just, it was the lyrics to the album.

SPEAKER_04 24:38

I liked that song because it really is like a bold statement to make at the beginning of your album. I love the I love the intro part where you hear like you hear kids in the background, then you hear the dun dun dun dun dun dun dun, and it goes into the guitar, and it's I thought that was so cool. Okay. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 25:01

Zamina? Yeah. So your dumbest hill was get rid of Mr. Ticker Tree? Yeah. Alright. Okay. Oh boy. I don't I don't know if this is a dumb hill. Uh

Mama I’m Coming Home Misread

SPEAKER_03 25:12

okay. My dumbest hill is I do not like the song Mama, I'm Coming Home. Because it always made me think when I heard it, I was like, I didn't know if his mom was alive or dead when I first heard it, but it always makes me think like he wants to kill himself and go to heaven with her.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

So I Oh, you heard it as a suicide song. Yeah. Yeah. I can't, I can get. I mean, again, I never listen, Jackson. You have to- Why can't I have my own opinion?

SPEAKER_05 25:39

That's an interesting take. I'm not saying anything. Well, what is the song the plus?

SPEAKER_04 25:43

It sounds about super country at the beginning.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

It's a very bluesy acoustic guitar. I'll give you that. It's definitely bluesy, but I liked that. But the song was meant as a song for Sharon because he was gonna stop touring for a while and go home to be with her because he had been on the road constantly and he had finally It's for Sharon? Yeah. So then he's calling Sharon mama? Yeah, because he's the mo she's the mom to his children.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Now, see, when you read the lyrics, you do you do get that. You do, and I I when you say that, I think maybe I kind of interpreted it that way a little bit as well. But no, it's definitely not about him dying. It literally is about him actually physically like going home to his family.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

Also, the uh mama, I'm coming, home, and you hear those guys in the background. Yeah. I all I can think of is like the 80s when I hear that, and I see like long-haired guitar guys like doing this, and I'm like, ugh, and it's not that kind of a song, but that makes my head go there.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

You're like picturing the guy in um school of rock in his little Yeah!

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Yes!

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Like, I don't know, that doesn't happen to me, but that will now.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

But see, that he's a victim of the time period the the music came from.

SPEAKER_06 27:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

So at the time that probably sounded like awesome, and I think you still like it. I love it. I can't stand that song.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

This is something that I think the radio ruined for us is the radio would be on and in public places and in certain circumstances where you would be hearing this music that now you have connected to these really weird events in your life. Like, that's why I always talk about dentist office music. Yeah. Anything that played on the radio station while I was a kid at the dentist all the time. Like, to me, maybe objectively, some of that actually was good music, but it was played to death, and I associated with getting my teeth drilled.

SPEAKER_04 27:59

Like, see, Calvin and I feel the same way about different songs that are more current, that are current to us at least right now, but we know it through social media and videos.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

Yes, it's it's transferred.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Instead, you're yeah, it's the same thing. Yeah, so I I get it. Yeah. But you guys at least have good music. The music that's playing over and over again now is shit.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

And what's worse about right now is it's like a 20-second snippet of the song. Instead of like, anytime I hear Sugar Ray, I want to grind my teeth, and I'm automatically 17 working at Office Max. Sugar Ray.

SPEAKER_03 28:36

You never heard of the band Sugar Ray? Like that sounds great.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Oh, phu. Or even All Star.

SPEAKER_05 28:43

That's a good song. A now, get you a side. Wait, you think that's a good song? It's not bad.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Oh, I heard that song working at Office Max on 106.5 as a T.

SPEAKER_05 28:54

I don't think that song's bad. It's is because it's a meme. It's a meme. I don't take that song seriously.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

For me.

SPEAKER_05 29:00

I don't take it seriously.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Terrible. It is a bad song.

Why Fans Love Ozzy Anyway

SPEAKER_03 29:04

Why do people love a record like No More Tears by Ozzie Osborne with the heavy guitars and all of these lyrics that have all these emotional damage, as your mom said, in it. For me, I think I think one big thing that comes to mind is everything that came before this album and everything that came after this album. Ozzie is consistent, he loves his fans, he puts out music that he believes in. So it's not just the heavy guitars and the lyrics. I think it's it's the man himself. I think he was born to do this, and it's just he did it until his last moment here on earth, and uh it's all of it together, and I think that's why someone like Jackson's age has discovered him and become a huge fan and has something to latch on to, and that's why they love this album. Follow that.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

I don't know if I can. I mean, I think a lot of what I think I said about Bill Murray holds true for Ozzie Osborne. I think it's just you find someone you can identify with who's saying some really true things. Like I said, his lyrics are pretty deep. And this album in particular, it's a lot of self-loathing and reflection and trying to course-correct his life. And I think those are universal themes. And again, I think Ozzie Osborne as a person endeared himself to millions of people. So he was, it didn't, to a certain degree, it didn't matter at that point by 1991. The man could have put out an album of him reading the phone book, and people would have bought it. Oh, that would have been fun. Um, you know, he had such a dedicated fan base at that point, but but he did, he was committed and he was uh true to his fans and his art and and all of that. And I think, again, as somebody who's not a fan of this album, I could totally respect what he was doing. Um and I under s I understand the poll.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Real quick, this Gen Z moment is brought to you by Uploads of Fun and Relatively Terrible. A phone book is something from the 70s. I know what a phone book is that's about yay big with all kinds of phone numbers in it.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Oh, so an iPad?

SPEAKER_03 31:28

What was the difference? Usually came in the color yellow pages.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Wait a minute, wait a minute. There was the yellow pages and there was the white pages. What's the difference?

SPEAKER_05 31:35

Yellow pages raised emergency numbers?

SPEAKER_01 31:38

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:41

You thought you think there's this many emergency numbers.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Like there was the yellow pages and then there was the white pages. So the white pages were individual peoples. Like if you wanted to find the Coopers, you went to the white pages. If you wanted to find a plumber, you went to the yellow pages.

SPEAKER_05 31:56

Okay, Calvin? Sounds awful.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Um it was.

SPEAKER_05 32:00

I think people really like this album because it's unique, I guess. It's kind of different from heavy metal. Like you can recognize Ozzy. Uh but yeah, like a lot of heavy metal bands just kind of sound the same, except for Ozzy, because he's more recognizable. Inspiring stuff.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

All right.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

No matter what we would have said, he would have had a no, you two were great.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

You were you weren't.

SPEAKER_03 32:31

I didn't know what to say.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

It's okay because he didn't like it.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

It's okay. It's okay. Yeah, it was rough. Uh, this out Ozzie was always great at making you bang your head while still being very vulnerable. He had great music with even better lyrics. It's as simple as that. And like Calvin said, his voice was so distinct. When you hear Ozzie singing, you know it's Ozzie. So it's as simple as that for me.

SPEAKER_05 32:58

Hmm. I think if we went back to the dumb hill, one of my dumb hills is Oh, here we go. Ozzy's voice, like, kind of carried this album.

SPEAKER_04 33:09

It carried out. I don't know, that's not a dumb hill. Okay, I think he's like, That's why when Black Sabbath didn't have Ozzy in it, I lost introduction. Yeah, because Dio sucks. Yeah, Dio's not my friend. He's not good. When you're an Ozzy fan, you think of Dio as like the devil. It's kind of like the opposite. You know who else was in Black Sabbath at one point? Ian Gillen of Deep Purple. Oh my gosh. They switched a lot of singers in the 80s.

Merch Cash-Ins And Fixing The Album

SPEAKER_03 33:35

It was funny. Alright, No More Tears by Ozzy Osborne. Are you going to tighten the album up? Are you gonna make it more ridiculous or are you cashing in on merch? I'm cashing in on merch.

SPEAKER_04 33:48

No more tears eye drops.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Oh my Come on, that's genius. It's right freaking there. It's gonna cause dry eye. Like normally people try to cure dry eye.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

No, that's the no more tears? It's gonna make your eyes, it's gonna dry your eyes out one day.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

But it's just it's just the anti-crying.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

No, it's the anti-red eye. Like it's like, it's just I gotcha. I got I don't whatever. Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

I mean, Johnson and Johnson had like the, you know, that wasn't that one of their slogans for like the baby shampoo and stuff. No more tears.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

No more tears eye drops. Whatever.

SPEAKER_04 34:28

Damn. That's pretty good. No more tears eye drops. When I thought about that, I was like, yes. Galvin, what you what are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 34:34

I'm me. I'm cashing in and I'm making Christmas ornaments that are angels, but it's you know, take Ozzy out of that album cover and make him like a little baby angel. And it's a Christmas ornament. Okay. Okay. I'm sure they've done that in the past.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Probably. There's gotta be something out there. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

I think I would cash in, but I would be making maybe like some ironic t-shirts.

SPEAKER_06 35:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Something about how this album caused me all the tears. You know, and get like the guy from the emotional damage video.

unknown 35:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

Can put him on there.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

Emotional damage! Ozzie Osborne. Oh, interesting. Ozzie Osborne.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

He's my mom favorite. Yeah, maybe we can get what's his name from Love on the Spectrum. Dylan from Love on the Spectrum to.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

You guys are all over the place with the nationalities and cultural backgrounds here.

SPEAKER_04 35:32

The Hispanic universe.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Okay, I think if if I had my way, and I obviously couldn't do this now because Ozzy's not alive, but I would tighten the album up. I would go back to the studio with the band, and I would make it more riff-driven. Um and I would, you know, just get rid of some of the trim some of the fat. And I would make it sound more like um, I don't what's what album is I don't want to stop on? Oh, Black Rain. I would make it sound more like that or the Scream album. Scream or Scream just a song. No, Scream's an album. No more tears is better than Scream, though. But I love that production and that sound a little bit more, and I'd I try to make it more like that.

SPEAKER_04 36:21

And you really would have loved 2000s, Ozzy. I prefer more 90s and 80s. Like that 20 years right there is perfect.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Yeah, but like I said, he can he can make whatever. Like that I don't want to stop song, that sounds like a newer metal song. And it's good, and I like it.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

I did like that song, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

So now let's rate No More Tears by Ozzie Osborne on the relatively good scale, which is relatively great, good, fine, exhausting, questionable, or relatively terrible. I think I got that in the right order. Okay. I'll go first. It was relatively fine.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Um Jackson, I love you, but this album was exhausting.

SPEAKER_04 37:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:09

Agreed. This was relatively exhausting.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

You guys are relatively exhausting. This album was relatively great.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

Shocking! I cannot believe it all right. Let's leave the internet with one sentence for No More Tears by Ozzie Osborne. Jackson, start us off. R.I.P.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Ozzy, your music and this album will live on forever.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

He can't hear you. No shit.

SPEAKER_04 37:36

I got one.

SPEAKER_05 37:39

Oh, here we go. This is not gonna be good. Good. Mama is definitely not coming home. She's like, Ozzie, you son of a bitch, I'm leaving you.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Ouch. Rage?

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Yeah, no more tears is accurate. I was dry as a bone.

SPEAKER_03 37:55

Damn. Oh, I was gonna say that the album is accurately named No More Tears because when it's over, there are no more tears.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

Or tears of relief. Yes, it's over!

SPEAKER_03 38:05

No, I cried the whole time.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

Jackson, seriously, love you.

SPEAKER_03 38:11

Alright, what was good this week?

Ratings, Farewell Lines, Weekly Wins

SPEAKER_05 38:14

I go first. Yeah! Uh, I got Zelda.

SPEAKER_03 38:19

Wow. You bought something. Congratulations. Great. You like it?

SPEAKER_06 38:23

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

Okay. Jackson, anything good this week?

SPEAKER_04 38:27

I got two records. Rest in peace, Mega Death, and Deep Purple Machine Head. Huh?

SPEAKER_03 38:34

What? From a record store that no one frequents. Go ahead, Rich.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Mother's Day was good.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

It was fun. Mmm. Dad, what was good this week? Well, and this episode will be seen a couple weeks from now, but in two days we're going to see Bill Murray.

unknown 38:53

Oh!

SPEAKER_03 38:54

That's amazing. I'm kind of hard.

SPEAKER_05 38:56

Batacashew.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

Ew. Good luck, Jackson.

SPEAKER_05 39:01

Why are you going? You don't like Bill Murray. You don't want me to go? No, I'm just wondering why you're going.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

You don't like that already got a ticket.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

And that is relatively terrible.