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Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy
Overview
Ozzy Osbourne may well be ripe for mainstream acclaim as a founding father of heavy metal, but thankfully Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy is not one of those increasingly common, cute, and "eclectic" tribute albums where bands and artists are seemingly chosen on the basis of how far away they are, musically, from the honoree. Nor is it -- like Legend of a Madman, Ozzified, and Land of the Wizard, the previous Osbourne tributes -- an attempt by record labels to showcase the no-name acts on their roster. This one gives the Ozzy Osbourne songbook the full-bore, hard rock treatment with a lineup that includes members and ex-members of Ratt, Kiss, Night Ranger, Poison, Slaughter, Twisted Sister, and Judas Priest, to name just a few. There are more guitar heroes, virtuoso bassists, hotshot session drummers, and '80s wild-child screamers in this lineup than you could shake a dead pigeon at. Most of the covers are, by and large, faithful to the originals, if a little too heavy on the guitar pyrotechnics, but that comes with the territory on an album that features Paul Gilbert, Reb Beach, Richie Kotzen, Steve Lukather, George Lynch, Doug Aldrich, Dweezil Zappa, Brad Gillis, and Yngwie Malmsteen. On the one hand, the guitar overkill is what keeps the songs from being note-identical copies of the originals; on the other, it is a tiny bit hard to digest after a point if you're not a shred fan. Speaking of shred fans, the entire Racer X lineup is present on "Children of the Grave," the only "band" effort on the album (and one of two Black Sabbath songs on it, along with "Paranoid") apart from the Flys on "Suicide Solution" -- the rest are all by supergroups assembled on the fly specially for the tribute. The only really unusual collaboration is Lisa Loeb and Dweezil Zappa doing "Goodbye to Romance" -- not bad, no matter what it sounds like on paper. And you also get to hear Motörhead's Lemmy singing on "Desire," a song he co-wrote with Osbourne for the No More Tears album back in 1991. It's pretty obvious that all the artists on this album grew up idolizing Osbourne. Often that's transparent in their desire to be impressive, but there are worse faults a tribute album could have.
Product Details
Release Date: | 08/22/2000 |
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Label: | Cleopatra |
UPC: | 0741157088922 |
catalogNumber: | 889 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Stuart Hamm Track PerformerYngwie Malmsteen Track Performer
Dweezil Zappa Track Performer
Richie Kotzen Track Performer
Tim Owens Track Performer
George Lynch Track Performer
Vince Neil Track Performer
Brad Gillis Track Performer
Lisa Loeb Track Performer
John Alderete Track Performer
Tommy Aldridge Track Performer
Reb Beach Track Performer
Gregg Bissonette Track Performer
Jack Blades Track Performer
Bobby Blotzer Track Performer
Jason Bonham Track Performer
Vinnie Colaiuta Track Performer
David Glen Eisley Background Vocals
Steve Ferrone Track Performer
Tony Franklin Track Performer
Bob Kulick Guitar
Bruce Kulick Guitar
Tony Levin Track Performer
Steve Lukather Track Performer
Ricky Phillips Track Performer
Jeff Pilson Vocals
Mike Porcaro Track Performer
Jay Schellen Track Performer
Billy Sherwood Track Performer
Eric Singer Track Performer
Dee Snider Track Performer
Jeff Scott Soto Track Performer
Paul Taylor Track Performer
Pat Torpey Track Performer
Scott Travis Track Performer
Doug Aldrich Track Performer
Joe Lynn Turner Track Performer
Michael Sherwood Track Performer
Gilbert Track Performer
Derek Sherinian Track Performer
Mark Slaughter Track Performer
Jeff Martin Track Performer
Lemmy Kilmister Track Performer
Nick Lucero Track Performer
James Book Track Performer
Peter Perdichizzi Track Performer
Adam Paskowitz Track Performer
Tommy Bogert Track Performer
Gary Moon Track Performer
Technical Credits
Ozzy Osbourne ComposerPaul Gilbert Producer
Bruce Bouillet Producer,Engineer
Geezer Butler Composer
Randy Castillo Composer
Bob Daisley Composer
Tom Fletcher Engineer
Tony Iommi Composer
Bob Kulick Producer
Chuck Wright Graphic Design
Bill Ward Composer
Tommy Pons Paintings
Jamie Lamm Engineer
Phil Soussan Composer
Tom Size Engineer