No Rest For The Wicked
	Produced by Keith Olsen and Roy Thomas Baker
	Released on October 1988
	UK CHART POSITION #23 . . . US CHART POSITION #13 . . . GOLD RECORD (12/19/88), 2x PLATINUM (8/15/97)
	Find it at GEMM
OZ 44245 cover [high resolution photo]

L est you think it look too easy, some albums give me fits. Ozzy albums always do. Wicked has gone through several iterations, and at this stage I’m just content to throw the scraps together into a bag and be done with it. Most recently, I toyed with a scenario where Ozzy (leaning on the cheesy pitchfork they gave him for the photo shoot) threatens to turn my world upside down and I respond, “Good you can start with the garden.” Earlier than that I had a line that went “I’ve come to desecrate what you’ve become and aerate the cucumber patch,” only because I thought “cucumber patch” was funny (I still do). I also got personal in my frustration, writing that the album was “so gay it was like Alice Cooper metal gay” and calling Zakk Wylde a “pansi with an I” because of his hair metal antics in what should be a forbidden zone. (I was desperate for a laugh at that point. All apologies in advance, et cetera.) Other snarky snacks: “No Rest For The Wicked suggests that maybe the wicked could have used a rest after all,” “pandering rather than pandemonium,” “perfunctory nods to the black forces,” “a diminished Ozzy diminishes us all.” Taken in toto, it’s the picture of a poor critic drowning in his own uncertainty. I don’t just like Ozzy Osbourne albums, I want to like them. But Ozzy was being packaged as product, and I can’t tell what’s underneath the packaging anymore. The review at KickedInTheFace.com is less ambivalent about it, so I’d point all metallurgists and non-allergists there.

OZ 44245 back cover	OZ 44245 lyric sleeve

TRACK LISTING

1. MIRACLE MAN    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/Bob Daisley)    3:44
2. DEVIL'S DAUGHTER    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/John Sinclair/Randy Castillo/Bob Daisley)    5:14
3. CRAZY BABIES    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/Randy Castillo/Bob Daisley)    4:13
4. BREAKING ALL THE RULES    (Ozzy Osbourne/Bob Daisley/Zakk Wylde/John Sinclair/Randy Castillo)    5:12
5. BLOODBATH IN PARADISE    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/John Sinclair/Randy Castillo/Bob Daisley)    5:00
6. FIRE IN THE SKY    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/John Sinclair/Randy Castillo/Bob Daisley)    6:24
7. TATTOOED DANCER    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/Bob Daisley)    3:50
8. DEMON ALCOHOL    (Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Wylde/Bob Daisley)    4:26
9. (*Original CD bonus track:) HERO
   
   CD reissue bonus tracks
   
10. THE LIAR
11. MIRACLE MAN (LIVE)

CREDITS

OZZY OSBOURNE -- vocals
RANDY CASTILLO -- drums
BOB DAISLEY -- bass guitar
ZAKK WYLDE -- guitars
John Sinclair -- keyboards
Keith Olsen -- mixing
Gordon Fondyce -- engineer
Gerry Napier -- engineer
The Leisure Process -- art direction & design
Bob Carlos Clarke -- photography

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