Live Evil or Speak of The Devil?

[WetWilly]

Which one's the best? Two Live albums from '82.

Black Sabbath Live Evil with The Late Great Ronnie James Dio on Vocals,
or Ozzy's Speak of The Devil with all Sabbath tunes ?


Live Evil
E5150
Neon Nights
N.I.B.
Children Of The Sea
Voodoo
Black Sabbath
War Pigs
Iron Man
The Mob Rules
Heaven And Hell
The Sign Of The Southern Cross/Heaven And Hell
Paranoid
Children Of The Grave

or


Speak Of The Devil
Symptom Of The Universe
Snowblind
Black Sabbath
Faries Wear Boots
War Pigs
The Wizard
N.I.B.
Sweet Leaf
Never Say Die
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Iron Man/Children Of The Grave
Paranoid

 

[WetWilly]

I meant to add a poll. Someone help, me out if you could. Never mind I got it.

 

[That 70s Guy]

Live Evil

 

[Taboo]

Live Evil

 

[OzzyVanHalen]

Live Evil

 

[stepcousin]

SOTD probably has a better flow, no medleys or reprises, just the classics. But I voted Live Evil because of Iommi and Geezer. Nobody can duplicate that sound but them.

 

[gcczep]

Live Evil. Great cover too!

 

[stepcousin]

Live Evil. Great cover too!

yeah, I forgot about the cover. Much more thought and graphics went into this, as opposed to Ozzy's stupid cover with grape jelly in his mouth.

 

[Lynch]

yeah, I forgot about the cover. Much more thought and graphics went into this, as opposed to Ozzy's stupid cover with grape jelly in his mouth.

In all fairness to Ozzy, the dude just lost one of his best friends and bandmates in Randy Rhoads as well as a couple other members of his crew. Ozzy was devistated at the time and actually is rumored (or maybe it's been verified) that he wanted to quit that business after Randy's death.

At the time of that tragic accident, they were working on putting together a live album, however the record company forced Ozzy to shelf the idea and get something else out ASAP. Sabbath's Live Evil was due to be released later in the year and they wanted to get Ozzy's live album out before Live Evil, which they did.

So with Ozzy being unenthused about even having to do this album, I'm sure he didn't put a lot of thought or care into the album cover either.

*shrug* Just speculating.

 

[Tek_54]

Ozzy, more than BS