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Post by queenfan11 on May 23, 2022 4:32:49 GMT
Harmony here that gets up to C#5 or D5 (can't tell, it's faint). Not sure if it's Ozzy or not though.
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Post by Batfleck on Jul 21, 2022 3:08:48 GMT
Really nice B♭4s in "Black Sabbath" at 2:25 and 4:27 and A4s at 5:48. This one is a different version from the album recording, and they're playing half a step lower.
Also, no bolds for Ozzy?
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Post by CT on Jul 21, 2022 16:15:55 GMT
Really nice B♭4s in "Black Sabbath" at 2:25 and 4:27 and A4s at 5:48. This one is a different version from the album recording, and they're playing half a step lower. Also, no bolds for Ozzy? I’ve always liked this version more than the album version |
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Post by Batfleck on Jul 22, 2022 19:39:09 GMT
Oh yeah, I've heard this version before, but didn't realize it went higher than the studio version. What do you think I should list it as? Label it as "Black Sabbath" music video version or something like that. |
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Post by queenfan11 on Aug 17, 2022 4:18:33 GMT
Are you sure the A2s from "A Hard Road" are Ozzy? I think they might be Bill Ward. They sound a lot darker in tone.
Though I compared it to the Bb2s and G#2s from "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" and they do sound kinda similar, so maybe.
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Post by Batfleck on Sept 5, 2022 17:44:49 GMT
New Ozzy Osbourne song. E3 in the verses, C♯3 in the pre-chorus, highest note in this song is a G♯4 (chorus, 2nd verse). Probably my favorite song from the upcoming album; sounds like it could've been on Ozzmosis.
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Post by Henny Macc on Sept 13, 2022 23:42:25 GMT
Man, every time Ozzy has released new music in the past decade it's had me hoping that he might finally give us another vocal performance like "Psycho Man", where he really shows us how good his low range can be when he bothers to use it. Instead, the closest we've gotten have been the B♭2s on a couple tracks off 13 and The End, which were good, but not quite groundbreaking for him. I figured if there was EVER gonna be a time that he would sing that low again, it would be when he's as old as he currently is, but instead he keeps bottoming around the lower third octave and topping out in the upper fourth octave.  Ordinary Man bottomed at C♯3, and now Patient Number 9 only has two notes below that - one spoken B2 and one backing vocal C3. So, really not much better.
The album itself is pretty solid, however, at least in my opinion. There are some moments where the songwriting/production feels like it's trying a little too hard to keep up with the times, but overall a lot of the songs have some good hooks and Ozzy's vocals sound...surprisingly good on them yet again. I really wasn't expecting him to sing as high as he did on either this or Ordinary Man after what he had said during the recording sessions of 13, about how that time around the band made a point not to write songs that pushed his abilities too hard, because they wanted him to actually be able to recreate them live consistently. I had also wondered how he was gonna handle performing the vocal parts on Ordinary Man live, and to this day I am still wondering, because Covid hit shortly after that album came out, so now it's been over two and a half years and he still hasn't toured or performed any of those songs. Now Patient Number 9 is out and tops around the same points as that album did (a couple songs with lead vocal B4s, and quite a bit of singing up to strong/easy B♭4s), and he's at least performed the title track of it live and managed to sound good on that, so...we'll see about the rest I guess. :time:
Possibly even more surprising about this album is the number of fifth octave backing vocals it features, including numerous songs with backing D5s and even 1-2 with E♭5s! There were a small handful of songs on Ordinary Man that had backing vocals up to C5/D♭5 as well, and while I was slightly suspicious about those, I was able to find them believable enough given how strong his B4s on "Under the Graveyard" were. I've listed the fifth octave notes from Patient Number 9 for now, but I'm a little more skeptical about them, considering that he otherwise hadn't sung up to anything D5 or higher for...decades, at this point. So it does seem a bit suspicious that he'd suddenly have those notes in him again when he's in his 70s, but always be hiding them in backing vocals. 
Here are two examples to start with of backing E♭5s that I heard; I'll let you guys be the judges. This one sounds legit enough - like not artificially pitched up or autotuned to hell. I wouldn't have as many doubts about it if not for the sizable gap between that and his lead vocal notes.
This was one where I thought I might be hearing an E♭5, but I couldn't tell if my ears were playing tricks on me and I was actually hearing a lower harmony as fifth octave. I'm starting to think it may just be an E♭4 and that the mixing made me hear it an octave higher, but there are some faint backing D♭5s shortly after at 2:59, so make of those what you will.
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Post by Batfleck on Sept 15, 2022 20:51:15 GMT
Found a live version of "Electric Funeral" from 2005. This is played in C♯ tuning, so he's hitting C♯3s here:
"Sleeping Village" from the same concert. He hits a B2 at 0:29. Also played in the same tuning mentioned above:
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Post by queenfan11 on Sept 19, 2022 1:29:03 GMT
In addition to the notes already listed in the thread, "Jack's Land" has several A4s, and a C#5 at 4:08.
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Post by Henny Macc on Oct 15, 2022 6:27:41 GMT
Found a live version of "Electric Funeral" from 2005. This is played in C♯ tuning, so he's hitting C♯3s here: "Sleeping Village" from the same concert. He hits a B2 at 0:29. Also played in the same tuning mentioned above: A bit late on updating the OP with these, but thanks - just added both of them! Always good to find more lows by him, especially since he's apparently still so reluctant to sing in that range even in his old age.  Those "Sleeping Village" B2s in particular were a really good find - that may actually be the best passage I've heard from him so far at that pitch, except for maybe "Latimer's Mercy".
In addition to the notes already listed in the thread, "Jack's Land" has several A4s, and a C#5 at 4:08. Good call, I dunno how those A4s got missed, but that C♯5 is a little less noticeable because of the other vocals that are happening at the same time as it. Perhaps I should list it as a backing vocal note? |
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Post by CT on Oct 17, 2022 16:16:40 GMT
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Post by CT on Mar 24, 2023 17:20:10 GMT
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Post by dehumanizer3001 on Jun 26, 2023 6:18:33 GMT
the tape speed is not correct there, its playing too fast. i'd think its more D5 than E5 |
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Post by queenfan11 on Aug 26, 2023 1:44:22 GMT
G4s, A4s, and B4s here.
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Post by CT on Aug 30, 2023 13:38:57 GMT
Patient Number 9 (2022) - B2-C♯3-B4- D♯5 Isn't there a F5 in Degradation Rules? |
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Ordinary Man bottomed at C♯3, and now Patient Number 9 only has two notes below that - one spoken B2 and one backing vocal C3. So, really not much better.
