If you wanted a hit of Deep Purple in the late 70s/ early 80s, Gillan was a better fix than contemporaneous Rainbow. This track off Mr. Universe - She Tears Me Down - shows why.
Right on for UFO and I should maybe check out some of the stuff Ian Gillan did with his band because I'm not really familiar with it; but I would be surprised if it would beat the best work of Rainbow which I really like as you might know 🤣
Right on for UFO and I should maybe check out some of the stuff Ian Gillan did with his band because I'm not really familiar with it; but I would be surprised if it would beat the best work of Rainbow which I really like as you might know :lol:
It doesn't! Not the Dio years! Rainbow's Rising and Long Live Rock N Roll are two of the essential metal/hard rock albums of the entire 70s. I'm talking about after Dio left in 1979 to join up with Black Sabbath. Blackmore wanted Rainbow to go in a more mainstream & commercial direction and Dio wanted no part of that (at that time. He would certainly jump on that train in the mid 80s with Sacred Heart.)
So Blackmore recruited Graham Bonnett and released ...
On Van Halen II, Van Halen double down on putting on a show that only they could make. Part Vaudeville. Part 60s Girl Group. All showmanship. Monumentous pizzazz. Inane, effervescent, goofy yet lovable. Diamond Dave’s charisma drips snakeoil with a knowing wink from every groove of the record. It'd probably be annoying on its own, but Eddie’s creative & ingenious intros, solos and textures keep you grounded and hooked for what’s coming next. They were Ying & Yang. They were Rock & Roll. And we will never see their like again.
On Van Halen II, Van Halen double down on putting on a show that only they could make. Part Vaudeville. Part 60s Girl Group. All showmanship. Monumentous pizzazz. Inane, effervescent, goofy yet lovable. Diamond Dave’s charisma drips snakeoil with a knowing wink from every groove of the record. It'd probably be annoying on its own, but Eddie’s creative & ingenious intros, solos and textures keep you grounded and hooked for what’s coming next. They were Ying & Yang. They were Rock & Roll. And we will never see their like again.
I taped this album (on cassette) before their first and it's still my favorite album of theirs.
On Van Halen II, Van Halen double down on putting on a show that only they could make. Part Vaudeville. Part 60s Girl Group. All showmanship. Monumentous pizzazz. Inane, effervescent, goofy yet lovable. Diamond Dave’s charisma drips snakeoil with a knowing wink from every groove of the record. It'd probably be annoying on its own, but Eddie’s creative & ingenious intros, solos and textures keep you grounded and hooked for what’s coming next. They were Ying & Yang. They were Rock & Roll. And we will never see their like again.
I taped this album (on cassette) before their first and it's still my favorite album of theirs.
I can see that! Definitely one of their essential ones. A bit lighter & brighter in tone than other three that I would consider essential. It would be impossible for me to rank them since they are all subtly different, but I consider I, II, Woman & Children First, and Fair Warning to all be essential albums for late 70s/early 80s Hard Rock. They subtly incorporated punk into their sound with Woman & Children First and Fair Warning which I loved. Not crossover per say, but very cool. Than they got super lazy (or ran out of ideas) with Diver Down and then completely rebooted their sound with 1984. I consider 1984 a classic of Pop Metal though. Incredibly consistent throughout. Like most Van Halen die hards, I can NOT stomach the Van Hagar years. 🤮
Motorhead’s South Of Heaven as it were. Motorhead slows thing down a bit after the rip-roaring, bordering on Speed Metal, intensity of Overkill. The lyrics are some of their best. Lemmy sings “Sweet Revenge” like he means it. Good God! I’d hate to be his ex-wife! And how on "Step Down", they channel their own Ted Nugent (who honestly was quite the bad ass until the 80s. Even and up until his 1980 outing Scream Dream.) Not quite on par with Overkill, Motorhead take a bit of a dip here following their genre defining?/smashing?/who-the-hell-cares! Overkill. But, it’s still bloody good y'all and comes… Highly recommended!
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Rainbow's Down to Earth is very good but perhaps its best feature is that it was through that record that Graham Bonnet fell in love with hard rock and heavy metal. His 80s output shows this in spades. One of the most underrated rock vocalists of all time.
Beyond that, here are some cuts from rock albums from 1979 that you NEED to respect:
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