Track Listing:
Not Going Away
I Don't Wanna Stop (album version)
Black Rain
Lay Your World On Me
The Almighty Dollar
11 Silver
Civilize The Universe
Here For You
Countdown's Begun
Trap Door
When I saw that Ozzy had another album coming out, I thought that it must be a greatest hits collection, because from interviews of him I've heard, he sounds incapable of singing... When I heard the single, "I Don't Wanna Stop," on the radio, he actually sounded better than in his previous albums. His lisp is much less pronounced, and he rarely stutters... Most critics didn't like this album, though, they said it sounded to much like Black Label Society (ozzy's guitarist's other band,) and the lyrics were to "poppy." It's true, it does sound kinda like Black Label Society, and the lyrics are more mainstream than his other albums, but not enough to really detract from it. Black Rain is more "metal" than his other albums, which I think works very well, especially after his very soft 2003 album, "Under Cover." The title refers to the tar-like rain that supposedly fell on Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped during WWII... Black Rain is my favorite 2007 album, so far....
