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WaywardSon 
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 Topic: Last Rainbow Poll
Posted: July 27 2006 at 09:37 |
I voted for Stranger in us all, it really has some standout songs like "Ariel" and "Hall of the mountain King"
The one song that spoils Down to Earth is "Since you been gone". Other than that it is still a good album.
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Raff
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 09:41 |
Greg, it seems we're the only ones to vote in these polls...  BTW, it's "Down to Earth" for me, though I perfectly agree about the awful "Since You Been Gone". Still, there's Cozy and Don Airey to compensate for it..
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WaywardSon
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 09:47 |
^^^
Maybe we are living in the past, letīs face it Blackmore isnīt going to return to hard rock 
Edited by WaywardSon - July 27 2006 at 09:47
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tdreamer
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 10:00 |
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Down to Earth just for the amazing 'Eyes of the World'
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 10:05 |
 tdreamer wrote:
Down to Earth just for the amazing 'Eyes of the World' |
yup, just for that one 
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Raff
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 10:11 |
WaywardSon wrote:
^^^
Maybe we are living in the past, letīs face it Blackmore isnīt going to return to hard rock |
AAh... the pain, the pain! Ritchie, why? Why?  BTW, "Eyes of the World" is really amazing! 
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NotAProghead
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 10:46 |
I voted for "Down to Earth" because it's shorter and it was my first Rainbow album.
Both albums are pretty weak for such a good band like Rainbow, though both have their moments.
Add here "Straight Between The Eyes" and we'll get Rainbow's "unholy trinity".
BTW "All Night Long" isn't much better than "Since You've Been Gone".
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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salmacis
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 12:35 |
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'Down To Earth' is a credible hard/melodic rock album- hardly up to the Dio era but has its moments nonetheless. Not heard the other album, but I don't get the JLT era, really.
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Raff
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 12:38 |
I'm not a great fan of Graham Bonnet's vocals, but he sounds wonderful in comparison with the nasal tones of JLT. I worship Ritchie, but I really can't understand why JLT was his favourite vocalist... I guess even gods have their weaknesses. 
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