bunch of pretentious knobs with keyboards?
I'm ashamed to admit this Al, but I don't have any Dio in my collection. I really like what I've heard (stuff like Holy Diver and whatever that Rainbow song I heard yesterday was) what should I get?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:27, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Oh Vipros...
for shame :(
( thealternativefact, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:29, Reply)

*head in hands*
I'm so sorry

*weeps*

I have seen him live twice though. does that help?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:30, Reply)

Okay
The thing to do is first get "Holy Diver" and appreciate how awesome it is, then get "Last in Line" and appreciate how awesome it is, then get "Sacred Heart" and realise that the Dio/Cambell relationship was coming to it's natural conclusion before the frilly haired tosser left to join Whitesnake and then Def Leppard.

Then I think you should leave Dio for a while and catch up on what really brought him to the collective concious of the world, namely Rainbow's "Rising" and "Long Live Rock and Roll", then get Black Sabbaths "Heaven and Hell" and "Mob Rules" and most importantly "Dehumanizer" which includes possibly my favourite Sabbath song "Buried Alive".

Once you're done absorbing all that awesomeness, return to Dio by getting "Killing the Dragin", his excellent return to form, and it's not quite so good follow up "Master of the Moon". For the true officionado(sp?), you can listen to "Dream Evil" it's good, but not as good as the first three albums, and listen to "Strange Highways" where Dio go ANGRY and changed his sound and I really like it, but some people don't. "Angry Machines" is the follow up to Strange Highways and you can see what he was trying to do, but it doesn't work anything like as well as "Strange Highways" so it's more a true fans record.

Finally, "Lock up the Wolves" has a few good tracks, but in all honestly, it's a piece of shit and not worth bothering with unless you live for all things Dio. Like me.

Heaven and Hell's "The Devil You Know" deserves a mention as the fourth Sabbath album, it's probably the fourth best Dio/Sabbath album, but that doesn't mean it's bad by any means, just that the others are so very, very good. Definitely worth listening to.

edit - oh there is Magica too, which I've not really listened too much, I'd put it in the Lock Up The Wolves category.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:32, Reply)

I will follow this advice
thanks
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:36, Reply)

What advice?
I gave up after Dio was mentioned.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:37, Reply)

I hope you die
and I hope your family dies. And I hope all your friends die.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:41, Reply)

And then all come alive again to die some more.

( thealternativefact, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:42, Reply)

what I want to know is
what was the Rainbow song I heard on Planet Rock yesterday

I'm certain I know the name of it, but it completely escapes me at the moment.

ah, it was Man on the silver mountain
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:43, Reply)

Since You've Been Gone?
which was sung by Graham Bonnet, not Dio.

edit - oh yes, man on the silver mountain was dio.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:45, Reply)

pah
I knew it wasn't since you've been gone

it's a shame ritchie blackmore is such a weirdo, because he is an awesome guitarist

deep purple just aren't as good without him.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:47, Reply)

I think Steve Morse is fucking superb
Blackmores okay, but his lack of sticking power is a real black mark against him.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:48, Reply)

as a guitarist blackmore was superb
a unique style which really characterised Purple, but Steve Morse is just too widdly and technical. It's good, but it's not Deep Purple.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:51, Reply)

Meh
Lets face it, no-one goes to see Deep Purple to hear them play Rapture of the Deep or The Aviator, they want Fireball, Highway Star, Child in Time, Smoke on the Water and Woman from Tokyo (at least I wish they would play that song)
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:54, Reply)

I'm not overly fond of Woman from Tokyo
I wanted Stormbringer
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:55, Reply)

I like 'In Rock' best of their LPs*
and the 'Hush' single.


*Flight of the Rat is fucking ace.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:57, Reply)

Hush is quite good
it disappoints me that two of my favourite Purple tracks feature David fucking Coverdale on vocals.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:00, Reply)

Indeed.
A well-known bender.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:01, Reply)

is he?
I just don't like him because I think Whitesnake are fucking shit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:02, Reply)

Not an actual one, you understand
A musical one. Whitesnake were utterly terrible and without merit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:03, Reply)

ah ok
I had thought he had a reputation for having shagged a lot of women
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:04, Reply)

NO!!!!!!
Whitesnake have done some very good songs, they are pretty inconsistant, but Here I Go Again and Is This Love are fucking brilliant!
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:06, Reply)

You are now joking, aren't you?
Is This Love????
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:10, Reply)

Stormbringer the album
is so, so bad, in contrast to how good the song is. Burn is probably my favourite Purple song. Fireball is my second.

I don't think Hush is that good, especially since it's a cover version.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:02, Reply)

that is reassuring
also, Burn and Fireball are probably in my top 5 Purple songs.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:04, Reply)

What does being a cover version have to with whether it's any good or not?
Only a cloth-eared cretin would try to argue that Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower isn't as good as Dylan's.

Even Dylan admitted it and changed the way he played it to be kind of cover of Jimi's interpretation.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:05, Reply)

is Kula Shaker's version a cover of the original
or a cover of the cover?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:06, Reply)

It's a cover of the Purple version
Most people haven't heard the Billy Joe Royal version - indeed I'm surprised Al has.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:08, Reply)

It's a cover version
which sounds almost identical to the original, and the original wasn't that good to start with.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:07, Reply)

I recently bought Rainbow's Rising
having not heard it since the early 80s. It's not actually that good. There's a dreadful overlong pseudo epic number with the most excruciating 'mystical' lyrics - and shit loads of that widdling guitar rambling that Al so ironically thinks I like. It's not aged very well at all - and the keyboards are shite too.

Music for 13 year old boys.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 13:55, Reply)

You're totally wrong
it's still a great album, and so is Long Live Rock and Roll, apart from the last track, which is just crap and boring.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:05, Reply)

Run with the Wolf is a good tune
but Stargazer...oh dear. I'd been reading reviews before I bought it, describing it as a Stairway-style epic. It is, in that Stairway's a bit annoying.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:07, Reply)

a bit annoying
but it's still fucking brilliant
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:07, Reply)

You're the aged equivalent of a 17 year old indie kid
just because something is popular doesn't make it bad, Stairway to Heaven is a fantastic song, it's probably overplayed and it gets more attention than it maybe deserves, but it's still a great song.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:09, Reply)

I prefer Good Times Bad Times
over Stairway any day. I didn't say I didn't like it, it excellent, but I skip over it when I play that LP, it's just too milked.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:13, Reply)

III is my favourite of their albums
but there are some awesome tracks amongst the others No Quarter in particular, and Achilles Last Stand and Nobody's Fault But Mine off Presence
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:15, Reply)

Prescence: criminally underrated
Physical Graffiti: rather overrated
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:17, Reply)

Physical Graffiti is on odd one
on one hand: Kashmir and In my time of dying - incredible songs

on the other: everything else - a bit meh
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 22 Dec 2009, 14:19, Reply)