You had to know that The Prince of Darkness would show up here. And let’s get some of the best Halloween themed music:
Maybe not the scariest song, but the keyboards have this creepy vibe to them. This underrated track from the amazing Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Album also has the distinction of being a kick a** metal song with no guitars!
From Ozzy’s solo career, this might be my favorite music video of all time. And this is the funeral I want someday (not any time soon), jump to the 1:33 mark: In the rain at night, Sister Babe ripping the petals off a rose & throwing them over me in disgust as Anderson Cooper pronounces last rites:
https://youtu.be/ZncJyec4i4s
Only three? I could go all day but I need to draw the line & keep these short. One of my favorite tracks from Ozzy’s solo career, and that ending…
Up for the final Saturday before Halloween – Black Sabbath, the non-Ozzy years! And oh there is plenty of material for that one…
Who ya got?
8 replies on “Saturday Night Videos – Halloween Music, OZZY!!!”
Loved revisiting the “Bark at the Moon” video. The colors matched Halloween, and it was in that era before even the claymation used by Tool when theatre was one of the main creative outlets. No CGI. No green screens (for the most part). Still very “low-tech” without a library of pre-made, digital special effects.
They did a nice job marrying it with the whole olde English theme when they really didn’t know what was walking around in the woods outside the iron gate. Same applied to your front door when you were a kid. As I said, good times.
Yeah, that video scrrams pure 80s (I think the most 80s moment was the keybord player surrounded by pianos and still needing another one strapped around him), but aged surprisingly well
Dude the 80’s were the best. If you’re looking for a good movie about a rock bank trying to recapture their past, watch “Still Crazy.” It was well done and funny and serious in the right places…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149151/
Wow, not sure how I never caught that one – just added to my Netflix queue!
You’ll enjoy it bro. It has the comeback story angle combined with a harkening back to the free spritedness we all used to share when the feds were an afterthought. We need to get back to making them an afterthought, but we’re well on our way. Enjoy!
My ride to high school when I was a freshman was a huge Ozzy fan and my first introduction to Black Sabbath. He even had these crazy eyes to match. Holy crap did we have fun! Ahhh…..good times!
In a way, I felt jilted when “Crazy Train” went mainstream a few years ago. We sang it as sort of an anthem for years to the disdain of onlookers, and then all of a sudden it was accepted by the masses. I take offense!!! Your Honor, I demand justice!!!!!
Now I know the true meaning of the words “stolen valor.”
Love it all. Thanks for posting!!!
Amen. A few years ago I was explaining Metallica to some college students. They were surprised that music that practically appears in toothpaste ads today was 30 years ago the realm of only degenerates and dorks. Or a combination of both, like me. And in my case, mostly dork of course.
Degenerates and dorks unite!!! I’m a proud deplorable and ex-sometimes current dork. Normal people are boring and have no fun.