Syd solo was mediocre. His brain was fried on acid, so his solo work just never amounted to anything truly relevant.
We owe him a debt of gratitude for "Piper at the Gates...", but everything he did after that was pretty much a flash in the pan, IMHO.
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"Paranoid is just like an anchor. It really secures everything about the metal movement in one record. It's all there: the riffs, the vocal performance of Ozzy, the song titles, what the lyrics are about. It's just a classic defining moment."
--Rob Halford of Judas Priest
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