Ozzy Osbourne "The Ozzman Cometh (Japan Edition, Double CD)"

The Ozzman Cometh is a compilation album by British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne released in 1997. It is his third greatest hits collection. Its initial, limited-edition 2-CD pressing contained five previously unreleased songs. Versions released in 2002 later have only one disc, and the song "Shot in the Dark" is replaced by "Miracle Man". This was due to a legal action brought about by the song's co-writer, Phil Soussan, for unpaid royalties.

The tracks "Black Sabbath", "War Pigs", "Fairies Wear Boots", and "Behind the Wall of Sleep" are performed by Osbourne's previous band Black Sabbath during a 26 April 1970 performance on the BBC Radio 1 show "The John Peel Sessions", conducted by British DJ John Peel. "Fairies Wear Boots" and "War Pigs" are early versions of tracks that would be recorded and released on the band's second album Paranoid with new lyrics.

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 09:24   
2. Black Sabbath - War Pigs 08:15  
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Goodbye to Romance 05:36
4. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train 04:51
5. Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley 04:56   
6. Ozzy Osbourne - Over the Mountain 04:32   
7. Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid (live) 02:53
8. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon 04:16   
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark 04:16  
10. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Babies 04:14
11. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (edit) 05:55  
12. Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home 04:11   
13. Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Want to Change the World (live) 04:00   
14. Ozzy Osbourne - I Just Want You 04:56   
15. Ozzy Osbourne - Back on Earth 05:01

Time:    01:17:16  

Disc 2

1. Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots (Previously Unreleased) 06:55  
2. Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep (Previously Unreleased) 04:09  
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Walk on Water 04:20  
4. Ozzy Osbourne - Pictures of Matchstick Men 06:01   
5. Ozzy Osbourne - Interview with Ozzy 1988 17:43  

Time:   39:08  

Tracks 1 & 2 from the two discs are taken from "Ozzy's 1970 Basement Tapes" and performed by Black Sabbath

Track 4 (Disc 2) is a Type O Negative song with Ozzy on vocals.

The version of "War Pigs" on this album is actually called "Walpurgis". They titled it this way so there would be no confusion as to the song, because both songs are demos made before Black Sabbath got a record deal and the song was not called "War Pigs" then. "War Pigs" is actually a toned-down version of "Walpurgis". Also, the version of "Black Sabbath" on this album has an extra verse from the original.

The 2002 remastered version featured new versions of "Goodbye To Romance",

"Crazy Train", "Mr. Crowley" and "Over The Mountain". "Shot In The Dark" was replaced with "Miracle Man".