The Essential Ozzy Osbourne

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The Essential Ozzy Osbourne is a compilation album by British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, released in 2003. It reached No. 81 on US charts and No. 21 in the UK. Tracks featured here from the first two albums are the re-recorded versions from recent reissues (see Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman) as well as the remixed Bark at the Moon tracks. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 5 February 2005 with an excess of 500,000 copies sold, then certified Platinum by the RIAA on 3 March 2016. This compilation was re-released in 2009 as a Limited Edition 3.0 package with an additional disc of bonus songs that were not on the original release.

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
1.	"Crazy Train"	Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley	Blizzard of Ozz (1980)	4:50
2.	"Mr Crowley"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley	Blizzard of Ozz	4:55
3.	"I Don't Know" (live)	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley	Tribute (1987)	5:00
4.	"Suicide Solution"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley	Blizzard of Ozz	4:16
5.	"Goodbye to Romance"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley	Blizzard of Ozz	5:32
6.	"Over the Mountain"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake	Diary of a Madman (1981)	4:31
7.	"Flying High Again"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake	Diary of a Madman	4:38
8.	"Diary of a Madman"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake	Diary of a Madman	6:12
9.	"Paranoid" (live)	Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward	Tribute	2:52
10.	"Bark at the Moon"	Osbourne, Jake E. Lee, Daisley	Bark at the Moon (1983)	4:15
11.	"You're No Different"	Osbourne, Lee, Daisley	Bark at the Moon	5:49
12.	"So Tired"	Osbourne, Lee, Daisley	Bark at the Moon	4:02
13.	"Rock 'n' Roll Rebel"	Osbourne, Lee, Daisley	Bark at the Moon	5:22
14.	"Crazy Babies"	Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Daisley, Randy Castillo	No Rest for the Wicked (1988)	4:14
15.	"Miracle Man"	Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, John Sinclair	No Rest for the Wicked	3:44
16.	"Fire in the Sky"	Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, Sinclair	No Rest for the Wicked	6:24
Total length:				76:36

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
1.	"Breakin' All the Rules"	Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo	No Rest for the Wicked	5:13
2.	"Mama, I'm Coming Home"	Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy Kilmister	No More Tears (1991)	4:11
3.	"Desire"	Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Kilmister	No More Tears	5:45
4.	"No More Tears"	Osbourne, Wylde, Mike Inez, Castillo, John Purdell	No More Tears	7:22
5.	"Time After Time"	Osbourne, Wylde	No More Tears	4:20
6.	"Road to Nowhere"	Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo	No More Tears	5:09
7.	"I Don't Want to Change the World" (live)	Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Kilmister	Live & Loud (1993)	4:05
8.	"Perry Mason"	Osbourne, Wylde, Purdell	Ozzmosis (1995)	5:53
9.	"I Just Want You"	Osbourne, Jim Vallance	Ozzmosis	4:56
10.	"Thunder Underground"	Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo	Ozzmosis	6:28
11.	"See You on the Other Side"	Osbourne, Wylde, Kilmister	Ozzmosis	6:09
12.	"Gets Me Through"	Osbourne, Tim Palmer	Down to Earth (2001)	5:04
13.	"Dreamer"	Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones	Down to Earth	4:44
14.	"No Easy Way Out""	Osbourne, Palmer	Down to Earth	5:06
Total length:				74:25

• Some pressings omit track 12 on disc one ("So Tired"). On these editions, "Breaking All the Rules" is added to end of that disc (as the 16th track), and is thus omitted as the first track of disc 2.

Disc three (Limited 3.0 Edition)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
1.	"The Ultimate Sin"	Osbourne, Lee, Daisley	The Ultimate Sin (1986)	3:45
2.	"Lightning Strikes"	Osbourne, Lee, Daisley	The Ultimate Sin	5:14
3.	"That I Never Had" (live)	Osbourne, Joe Holmes, Robert Trujillo, Frederiksen	Live at Budokan (2002)	4:15
4.	"I Don't Wanna Stop"	Osbourne, Wylde, Kevin Churko	Black Rain (2007)	4:32
5.	"Black Rain"	Osbourne, Wylde, Churko	Black Rain	4:42
6.	"Changes" (with Kelly Osbourne)	Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward	Under Cover (2005)	4:06
Total length:				26:34