Has anyone else heard this abomination?
I think my ears would spontaneously start bleeding if I had to suffer through the whole thing. I’m not sure who’s worse: the ‘artist’ or Ozzy (if he owns the original song rights) for letting it be created. If you’re a musician who gets a hankering to re-do a song from a DIFFERENT FUCKING GENRE (Brittney Spears, Korn, et al), then please call me so I can stab you in the eye.
Yes I’ve heard it - Trick Daddy and Lil’ Jon of Crunk fame are behind it. Yes, it sucks.
Shit, I can’t stand the original, and that still sounds like an abobination before jaHEEzuss. Hellfire and damnation. Someone ought to just firebomb the record labels’ main offices. The studios would survive, cool songs would still get recorded, but maybe the free market could decide what sucked and what didn’t. :smack:
Ozzy’s allowed this sort of thing before, and it’s worked very well.
Ice-T, Shut Up, Be Happy to the tune of Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath:
“We interrupt this program with a special bulletin
America is now under martial law.
All Constitutional rights have been suspended.
Stay in your homes.
Do not attempt to contact loved ones, insurance agents or attorneys.
Shut up.
Do not attempt to think or depression may occur.
Stay in your homes.”
-Genius remake, scarier than the original.
Sharon Osbourne is a money grubber, and it doesn’t surprise me that they allowed this. It’s bullshit, but it will happen time and again.
I haven’t heard it, but I’m not real big on rappers taking good rock 'n roll songs and basically stealing everything about them. It’s one reason why so many do not respect the genre.
Fortunatley, there are a lot of hip hop/rap artists who do not rely completely on the works of others to make their music. Too bad most of them aren’t the ones in the spotlight.
It doesn’t seem so much like a remix as a rap song which samples crazy train.
and I kinda like it
It’s not a remix, it’s just a sample of the guitar track off the song. The lyrics and hook are completely different.
And I like the song. It’s a fun club mix.
See, folks this is why the free downloading of music is a good thing! Since someone can download this and use it to inflict pain on others, all without having to give money to the artist, and thus encourage him. Not that I would ever do such a thing, but um, my friend would. Yeah, that’s it. 
Yeah, but at least it can’t be as bad as Pat Boone’s rendition of it.
Crazy Train…didn’t they rap in their first radio single?
This reminds me of that Pink Floyd-Scissor Sisters trainwreck. It’s hilarious that Ozzy fans are now getting all conservative and complaining about The New Music and indulging in Back When I Was A Kid Music Was Music rants.
Sacred cows make good hamburgers. Get over it.
Does the original artist have any say as to whether another artist may cover, or sample, his previously recorded work? So long as royalties are paid, that is?
You should hear the ‘cheerleading’ mix of Crazy Train.
Yes, how dare people take riffs from different genres to make new songs.
I’d say the very thought keeps Jimmy Paige lying awake at night.
I’m not sure incorporating American blues into British rock counts. Without blues, rock wouldn’t exist at all. And, whilke noting the sly irony of your post, Jimmy Paige believes in passing the cross-genre torch down; he gave his approval to P Diddlydangdoofus grunting over “Kashmir.” THAT was an abomination if ever there was one.
But why shouldn’t it?
What else is an “influence” other than an indirect sample?
the only time I complain about samples is when the sampling song is a pile of steaming horseshit.
As for P. diddy and Kashmir, Paige didn’t just approve, he rerecorded the riff for him.
As for covers of songs, the same rule applies. the afformentioned Scissor Sisters committed a crime against music with their rendering of Comfortably Numb.
AFAIK unless Ozzy’s bought the rights back, the artist has no control over the song - its the record label that approves covers/samples.
So if the record label is a whore to the Pound, then the artist can do nothing about it.
Cecil did a column on it.
Personally, I find it kind of funny that anybody could complain about ruining an Ozzy song, since I always thought it would already be a ruined song by definition.
Jimmy Page, Twisty, not Paige.
A Rap/Rock crossover sample? Whatever next?
I’m not a big fan of Ozzy, but the stuff he did with Randy Rhodes is his best stuff, and some of the songs (like “Crazy Train”) are bona fide rock classics.
Which doesn’t mean that it’s a crime against music to sample Randy’s excellent riffs for a rap songs. It means the rapper has good taste in riffs.