- Paranoid - Every track on this album is perfect. Very close call between this and Master of Reality for #1, but I give the edge to Paranoid because of my personal history with that album.
- Master of Reality - Higher highs and lower lows than Paranoid.
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Sabotage
- Heaven and Hell
- Mob Rules
- Black Sabbath - Great songs I just don’t feel like listening to listen to most of the time. Black Sabbath (song) is a great example. Super important. Unique. Ground-breaking. Yet low on my list of favorite Ozzy-era classics. NIB is a masterpiece. I never get tired of it.
- Vol. 4 - A little too on the bluesy side to be top-tier Ozzy era for me.
- Cross Purposes
- 13
- Technical Ecstasy (underrated!) - Gypsy is SOOO GOOD!
- Never Say Die!
- Dehumanizer
- Headless Cross
- Seventh Star
- Tyr
- The Eternal Idol
- Forbidden
- Born Again - The only Black Sabbath album without any songs I like. Ian Gillan doesn’t work here. His vocals are a mess. It sounds like the band wrote a song, then Gillan improvised over the top. The best song is Zero the Hero, and that song has an identity crisis. It’s half swagger, half doom. If this album wasn’t by Black Sabbath it would have been completely forgotten.