who was the best Black Sabbath vocalist?

[hitbyambulance]

now listening to - _Seventh Star_ (1986) with Glenn Hughes for yet another Deep Black Purple Sabbath experience. it's... it has a few ok tracks. for a mid-80s hard rock album. and Iommi is an excellent guitarist still. but Sabbath, this is just not - and it wasn't intended to be... it was supposed to be a Tommy Iommi solo album, as was _Born Again_, but Warner Bros wasn't havin' it. so this one is actually compromise billed as "Black Sabbath featuring Tommy Iommi". have no real opinion on Hughes, his vocals are just kinda there. _Born Again_ was definitely more interesting overall than this one.

[hitbyambulance]

Since this thread I've listened to entire catalogue (or at least what's available to be on Spotify),

I'm pretty sure that's everything except the Tony Martin era due to rights conflicts.

That would be:

Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Tyr

They were very much a product of their era, more highly produced with a fuller sound. They're not everyone's favorite, although I'd say that Tyr is probably my favorite album (as mentioned above), mostly due to the nostalgia and memories I have associated with it.

good news for Blackhawk - the Tony Martin era albums are actually being re-released:

https://metalinjection.net/news/black-s ... a-material

[Kraken]

An archeological dig in a corner of my office turned up a tote bag with swag from the last trade show that I went to. I trashed everything -- including the allergy pills that expired in 2005 -- except for a Dr Evil action figure (with detachable Mr Biggles) and an Ozzy Ozbourne bobblehead. Today I tried to open Ozzy's battery door in hopes of hearing him say whatever he says, but alas, my tiniest screwdriver only stripped the tinier screw.

So...um... for sale, one Ozzy bobblehead that was removed from its package with a dead battery.

[LordMortis]

As I clean my house, I keep dropping expired meds off for destruction as part of my recycling effort. Every time I think "Finally got them all. No more decades of unused meds in my house" I find one or two more in the strangest places.

I still don't have an answer to this Ozzy is still Sabbath but Dio is possibly my favorite singer with the band and Guillen still had some surprising that just worked.... Nothing after grabbed me.

[Daehawk]

I voted for Dio. I liked Ozzy fine in BS but Im glad he left because we got full ozzy then and almost everything he did after BS was gold.

[TheMix]

my tiniest screwdriver only stripped the tinier screw

It may not be possible, but try using a rubber band. You place it over the screw and then press the screwdriver into it. The rubber may help the screwdriver get purchase. We've had it work the few times we tried it.

[hitbyambulance]

So...um... for sale, one Ozzy bobblehead that was removed from its package with a dead battery.

if you can't get it working, i'll take it

[Jaymann]

This guy:

[Kraken]

So...um... for sale, one Ozzy bobblehead that was removed from its package with a dead battery.

if you can't get it working, i'll take it

Ebay has nonfunctional ones for $20, or working ones for $30 -- too valuable to throw away and not valuable enough to bother with packing and shipping. I checked. . Wife wants to either hold onto it for her next Yankee swap or send it to her brother as a gag gift.

[Blackhawk]

Since this thread I've listened to entire catalogue (or at least what's available to be on Spotify),

I'm pretty sure that's everything except the Tony Martin era due to rights conflicts.

That would be:

Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Tyr

They were very much a product of their era, more highly produced with a fuller sound. They're not everyone's favorite, although I'd say that Tyr is probably my favorite album (as mentioned above), mostly due to the nostalgia and memories I have associated with it.

good news for Blackhawk - the Tony Martin era albums are actually being re-released:

https://metalinjection.net/news/black-s ... a-material

Thanks for the heads-up. I doubt that I'd put most of them back into my regular rotation (although a few songs from Tyr may end up in my painting playlist...), but it'll be nice to hear them again.