Description

What’s a rock and roll Prince of Darkness to do in the midst of becoming America’s favorite television family man? He journeys to the sacrosanct Budokan arena in Tokyo and cuts a live one. On Live At Budokan, recorded at on the 15th of February 2002, Ozzy lumbers through fourteen tracks, including big crowd pleasers such as Mr. Crowley, the great Crazy Train and the Black Sabbath chestnut Paranoid. Between songs, he slurs commands to the audience and gets it shouting back the refrains. Ozzy sings his post-eighties material No More Tears, Gets Me Through, I Don’t Want To Change The World with abandon, his guitar foil Zakk Wylde propping him up with screaming, dense solos when the old man’s voice hits a sour note. But after months of bumbling around the house on national TV, cursing with his wife and children and cleaning up doggy poop, Ozzy is no longer convincing when he’s barking at the moon. Live At Budokan may be his best performance set since 1987’s Tribute, but by now the Prince of Darkness has fully metamorphosed into the Court Jester. Here, Ozzy is at his most credible crooning Mama, I’m Coming Home.

Track list:
1. I Don’t Know
2. That I Never Had
3. Believer
4. Junkie
5. Mr. Crowley
6. Gets Me Through
7. Suicide Solution
8. No More Tears
9. I Don’t Want To Change The World
10. Road To Nowhere
11. Crazy Train
12. Mama, I’m Coming Home
13. Bark At The Moon
14. Paranoid
15. Behind The Scenes With The Osbourne Family
16. Discography
17. Biography