Did I just use the word “cinephile” to caption an image that features a two-disc Porky’s box set? Yes, I’m afraid I did.

Huge vibe

If you wanna cry you can listen to Dreamer or See You on the Other Side. If you wanna bang your head there's No More Tears or Over the Mountain. If you want something scary there's Diary of a Madman. If you wanna rail at fascists there's War Pigs or Miracle Man. There's an Ozzy song for everything.

Another favourite Ozzy annunciation is the way he says “burglar” in this 1982 interview. He spits it out with such speed and certainty. Cracks me up every time I hear it.

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He does a similar thing, to sensational effect, with the word “tiger” on Johnny Blade, which for my money is peak Ozzy and peak Sabbath. As emotionally resonant and “real” as their music has ever been.

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Few singers ever have possessed this quality. And few voices have ever made me so emotional. Even the Sabbath and Ozzy songs that aren’t necessarily deemed emotional can set me off. I associate Ozzy’s voice with being working class, with being bullied for being weird, with just fucking going for it.