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This was one of the great absurdities of Rolling Stone's infamous "200 Greatest Singers" list: Ozzy #112, Dio #165.

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Ouch. Make it make sense!

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I’m glad someone said this or I was going to have to. Dio was in a whole other league from almost every other rock singer out there: and, I say it as someone from Birmingham, a whole other *planet* from Ozzy.

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The band was just on another level in the 70s musically. I think Iomi and Geezer came up with better stuff & I have a personal presence for Ozzy’s voice. That’s real Black Sabbath to me. The Dio era definitely deserves its flowers but the Ozzy era deserves a whole garden.

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Yep you've got the bottom line, enjoy it while you have it, no guaranteed tomorrow, and of course enjoy them.

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I appreciate Dio-era Sabbath, and Heaven and Hell in particular is exceptional but Sabbath peaked with Vol. 4 in my opinion.

Ozzy was an integral part in their sound. With Dio, it’s a different band altogether.

That being said, I would take a Diary Of A Madman over any Sabbath album.

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I’m glad you can appreciate Dio’s era of the band. I’ve met some guys who considered it sacrilegious to ever consider listening to it.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath might be my favorite Ozzy album. I’m not big on Ozzy’s post Sabbath stuff, but I’ll need to give Diary of a Madman another listen!

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Dio was great - but magnificent though he was, it’s like shaking Stevens to Ozzy’s elvis

Just a whole different stratosphere

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!?!?!?!? What?????

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