The Essential Ozzy Osbourne

Infobox Album |
Name = The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Ozzy Osbourne


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Released = February 11 2003
Recorded = 1980-2001
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 2:26:55
Label = Sony Music
Producer =
Reviews = *"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ozzyosbourne/albums/album/308149/review/5943828/essential_ozzy_osbourne link]
Last album = "Live at Budokan"
(2002)
This album = "The Essential Ozzy Osbourne"
(2003)
Next album = "Prince of Darkness"
(2005)

"The Essential Ozzy Osbourne" is a compilation album by Ozzy Osbourne, released in 2003. It reached #81 on US charts and #21 in the UK. Tracks featured here from the first two albums are the "re-recorded" versions from recent reissues (see "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman".)

Track listing

Disc One

#"Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley) - 4:50
#*From "Blizzard of Ozz"
#"Mr. Crowley" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:55
#*From "Blizzard of Ozz"
#"I Don't Know (Live)" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:00
#*From "Tribute"
#"Suicide Solution" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 4:16
#*From "Blizzard of Ozz"
#"Goodbye to Romance" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley) - 5:32
#*From "Blizzard of Ozz"
#"Over the Mountain" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake) - 4:31
#*From "Diary of a Madman"
#"Flying High Again" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 4:38
#*From "Diary of a Madman"
#"Diary of a Madman" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 6:12
#*From "Diary of a Madman"
#"Paranoid (Live)" (Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) - 2:52
#*From "Tribute"
#"Bark at the Moon" (Osbourne) - 4:15
#*From "Bark at the Moon"
#"You're No Different" (Osbourne) - 5:49
#*From "Bark at the Moon"
#"Rock 'n' Roll Rebel" (Osbourne) - 5:22
#*From "Bark at the Moon"
#"Crazy Babies" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley) - 4:14
#*From "No Rest for the Wicked"
#"Miracle Man" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, John Sinclair) - 3:44
#*From "No Rest for the Wicked"
#"Fire in the Sky" (Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, Sinclair) - 6:24
#*From "No Rest for the Wicked"
#"Breakin' All The Rules" (Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Daisley, Randy Castillo) - 5:13
#*From "No Rest for the Wicked"

Disc Two

# "Mama, I'm Coming Home" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 4:11
#*From "No More Tears"
# "Desire" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 5:45
#*From "No More Tears"
# "No More Tears" (Osbourne, Wylde, Mike Inez, Castillo, John Purdell) - 7:22
#*From "No More Tears"
# "Time After Time" (Osbourne, Wylde) - 4:20
#*From "No More Tears"
# "Road to Nowhere" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 5:09
#*From "No More Tears"
# "I Don't Want to Change the World" (Live) (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Lemmy) - 4:05
#*From "Live and Loud"
# "Perry Mason" (Osbourne, Wylde, Purdell) - 5:53
#*From "Ozzmosis"
# "I Just Want You" (Osbourne, Jim Vallance) - 4:56
#*From "Ozzmosis"
# "Thunder Underground" (Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo) - 6:28
#*From "Ozzmosis"
# "See You on the Other Side" (Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy) - 6:09
#*From "Ozzmosis"
# "Gets Me Through" (Osbourne, Tim Palmer) - 5:04
#*From "Down to Earth"
# "Dreamer" (Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones) - 4:44
#*From "Down to Earth"
# "No Easy Way Out" (Osbourne, Palmer) - 5:06
#*From "Down to Earth"

*Some pressings omit track 12 on disc one ("So Tired"). On these editions, "Breaking All the Rules" is added to end of that disc (as the 16th track), and is thus omitted as the first track of disc 2.