Best Sabbath singer
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Topic: Best Sabbath singer
Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Subject: Best Sabbath singer
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 11:52
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I've only included those who have sung on albums with Sabbath I think Dio is a better singer but Ozzy was the best singer for Sabbath. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big"> 
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 12:34
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Dio was good but he just can't beat Ozzy! ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:20
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Ozzy!!!
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Posted By: Minkia
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:57
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What the hell are you all talking about? Ronnie Dio brought a breath of fresh air to Sabbath whose best thing for them was dithering Ozzy's departure.
As with Rainbow, Dio was the catalyst who brought epic length songs to both bands. Don't get me wrong, Ozzy did his fair share of calssics with Sabbath, but Dio completely brought the band to new musical realms. I mean, Ozzy couldn't have sang 'Children of the Sea', 'Mob Rules', 'Die Young' and the like, could he? |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 18:53
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^^^I agree with you that Dio brought new life into Sabbath. All at the perfect time, when the new wave of British Heavy Metal was reallly picking up speed.They fit right in with Maiden,Priest et-al. I don't feel however that Dio was nearly as good as Oz. Ozzy's voice set the tone for Sabbaths sound. I just couldn't imagine songs like Paranoid, SnowBlind or Sweetleaf being sung in Dio's operatic way. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 19:31
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Dio. Ozzy may have been more of a showman, but his vocal abilities have been all smoke and mirrors for decades. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 22:34
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Ozzy is better than Dio any day. Ozzy is THE singer for black sabbath. no substitutes accepted.
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 02:04
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Ronnie James Dio! One of the greatest voices of entire rock history! According to me BSabbath and Rainbow both was the best with him. |
Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 04:03
| Ozzy for Sabbath, Dio for everything else (except frontman). |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 05:02
This is a duplicate poll ... I remember that the old one turned out exactly as the first post suggests here. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: March 31 2006 at 11:43
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Yeah Dio never seems to be able to be a good frontman. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big">
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 08:49
Ozzy he was the Iron man!  But yeah DIO was preety good too but Ozzy of course is the real sabbath singer.------------- 
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Posted By: yeppp
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 12:30
| Who has woted DIO 7 times ??? that's mad.... Black Sabbath was so much better with Ozzy or infact i cant even call black sabbath with another singer.. Black Sabbath did some very intresting heavy albums like Vol 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ( they included prog influences ) Especially Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is really great !! Tony Iommi is an original guitarist and made very original riffs |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 14:23
Hmm...to be honest I never felt Ozzy was ever a bad singer (I've heard far worse in metal bands- Vince Neil, Bret Michaels, Phil Lewis...yes all 'glam metal' vocalists) and in fact think his voice works extremely well with the music. Sure, Dio is technically better, but Ozzy's vocals were the main way people could identify Sabbath- with their other vocalists it's a great deal harder to tell them apart from other acts. Gillan's stint was fun in a Spinal Tap sort of way but his appalling takes on 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Black Sabbath' in concert must be a nadir of the the metal genre in a sense. Glenn Hughes cluttered the OK 'Seventh Star' somewhat with some typically OTT histrionics, and really, Tony Martin was something of a Dio clone. So Ozzy has to get the vote from me!
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Posted By: A'swepe
Date Posted: April 01 2006 at 14:26
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Ozzy of course. ------------- David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light. http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 14:18
and why is that? I have never seen him live... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Cygnus X-1 wrote:Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 16:50
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well if you find the video of Heaven and Hell on you tube with Dio you'll see what I mean ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big">
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 17:05
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I can't stand - Ozzy anymore- after that MTV show I Put Dio ------------- |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: April 04 2006 at 17:13
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I voted for Dio because the first BS album I've heard was "Heaven And Hell". Each singer made great contribution in BS music, I like them all. As a singer (vocalist) Ozzy is the worst, but he is the one and only true voice of BLACK SABBATH. I'm not a great fan of "Born Again" album with Ian Gillan. But '83 live recording "King Bisquit Flower Hour Presents. Black Sabbath Live In Worcester" shows how good Gillan was on stage with BS. He not only sang the song "Black Sabbath", he even played it as an actor. The album has lots of great moments, even the performance of "Smoke On The Water". ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: blazno
Date Posted: April 05 2006 at 09:23
| Dio and Gillan are way better vocalists than Ozzy but he is the true voice of Sabbath. Anyway records that Dio made with Black Sabbath kick ass!!! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 05 2006 at 13:53
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I agree. I like the albums with Dio, and he is a technically better singer, but the true classic Sabbath sound was made whole by Ozzy's vocals IMO. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Paul K.
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 11:18
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Ozzy of course.
There is no other Sabbath's singer for me but Ozzy. Ozzy + Iommi is classical Black Sabbath. ------------- Weasels ripped my flesh |
Posted By: Zenith
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 06:43
That must be Ozzy. ------------- We're only in it for the music!!! |
Posted By: Time-Machinist
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 08:24
Ozzy
Dio
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 13:13
Ronnie Dio rules! I like Ozzy a lot, especially as a person, but let's face it - he's no singer. Great for the first Sabbath albums, but the band with Ronnie was something else.
After Ronnie, I'd also like to mention Glenn Hughes - my favourite vocalist of all. His performance on "Seventh Star" is nothing short of stunning, and both the albums he recorded with Tony Iommi in more recent years are fantastic.
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Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 15:58
| Dio is a better overall vocalist, but nothing he did in Sabbath or elsewhere can compare to the power and the influence of the fist 5 or 6 Sabbath albums so I gotta say Ozzy, even though over the years I've lost alot of respect for him. |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 17:09
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Technically, all singers after Ozz are better. Ozz, however, just has THE characteristic Black Sabb voice. "Allright now!"
"Won't you listen!"
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Posted By: Goldenavatar
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 00:37
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Ozzy? PFFT! This is not a joke, I've heard a lobotomy patient who was more coherent than Ozzy. I'm not kidding. The Dio Sabbath was a hundred times better. I'm still going with Tony Martin though. |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 02:49
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this is the most unfair post ever...how could you possibly compair these 4 Voices.. (i don't mean that Martin is not a good singer, but there can be no serious competition for him). i mean, Ozzy has the most eloquent voice i've ever heard and with the rest of the Sabs defined hard music as we know it today..without these albums nothing would be the same today.. who can tell anything bad for Dio? his voice is perfect. so are Sabbath albums with him (Dehumanizer aside..) Gillan? seriously? the voice of Deep Purple.. if Sabbath were influential, then what Deep Purple were? ask Michael Kiske, Geoff Tate, Ray Alder and so many others about Ian.. Hughes has the most technical voice of all the above and also it's not fair for him because Seventh Star was supposed to be a Iommi/Hughes project LP but the record company insisted on a... new 'Sabbath' album.. Personally, i voted for Dio because whenever i listen to 'Neon Knights' 'Heaven And Hell' 'Falling Off The Edge Of The World' and so on i get feelings that can only be compared to the touch of a woman.. if you know what i mean... Ozzy excites me too but it's more of a.. bite of a woman vampire... ha ha.. |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 10:21
| Tony Martin. Though Dio was very good with Sabbath too. |
Posted By: Dantallion
Date Posted: May 28 2006 at 18:40
| I say Ozzy. The origanal mad man of rock-n-roll. |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: May 28 2006 at 19:28
| Mr Ozzy Osbourne |
Posted By: Jennifer
Date Posted: May 28 2006 at 20:24
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Dio for vocals.
Osbourne for influence.
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Posted By: YYZed
Date Posted: May 28 2006 at 20:27
Agree 100%  ------------- 
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Posted By: dojo
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:36
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I voted for OZZY. When I think about Black Sabbath I instantly think about him
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 14:10
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While Dio is a better singer and I enjoy listening to him more,Ozzy is the TRUE voice of Black Sabbath. -------------  |