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EVERY SINGLE SONG IS ROCKIN, FULL OF ENERGY< GOOD OLE DAYS OF ROCK N ROLL. BUY THIS.

They're much better than the short versions on this album.While I owned this record on vinyl as a kid in the 70s, I feel no urge to get it on CD, especially after listening to the samples of the songs I don't have on live albums here on Amazon. Unfortunately, this was a faint Rainbow before they really rose and shined with their full brightness. This was Rainbow's first album and featured a version of the band which essentially was Ronnie James Dio's Elf with Deep Purple guitar god, Ritchie Blackmore, replacing Elf's guitarist. I didn't even recognize any of the songs, which suggests that they were pretty forgettable. It's an album you can live without. While there are some good songs on the album, better versions of those can be heard on live albums from the second Rainbow lineup which replaced the Elf instrumentalists with hard rockers Cozy Powell, Jimmy Bain, and Tony Carey. In particular, you can hear "Man on the Silver Mountain", "Catch the Rainbow", "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves", and "Still I'm Sad" in terrific extended versions on "On Stage", "Live in Europe", or other live albums from Rainbow's 1976 tour.

Full of drama and power, as well as some of the best vocals (and the absolute BEST guitar playing) in the genre ever, the 1970's Rainbow is a trailblazing juggernaut. Like Richard Wagner on guitar. Period.In any case, if you don't have this cd, get it, you're losing out if you don't, with four absolute classics of incredible magnitude enshrined within the Purple Castle walls. Just a brilliantly composed, played and sung song.this is one of the songs thatmade Rainbow the greatest Rock/Metal band in history for me.I don't have much to say for "If You Don't Like Rock 'N Roll", which is really awful Deep Purple meets REO Speedwagon (yes, it's that bad).The track "16th Century Greensleeves" is easily as heavy as anything Deep Purple did, and right up there with that band's best, in my opinion.

Ronnie James Dio's use of religious symbols in his lyrics make them particularly powerful for me; it doesn't hurt that his voice was the best in Rock/Metal at the time. At their best, they were THE best. This album was my first "official" heavy metal album. I inherited from my Dad (I got all his rejects) back in 1975 at the age of 9. Blackmore's Bach-ian patterns during the pre-chorus was a massive influence on the neo-classical movement in the '80's."Self Portrait" is an example of what an outstanding progressive band Rainbow could be. Fortunately for us, Dio writes some of his most clever lyrics, even more clever than Ian Gillans' own portrait of Blackmore, "Smooth Dancer".If anyone is at all familiar with or likes the Neo-Classical-meets-Renaissance stylings of Blackmore's guitar playing, he or she will absolutely love "Temple of the King".

They formed the blueprint for the entire career of Yngwie Malmsteen, as well most of the '80's and early '90's Shrapnel guitarists, and finally the entire Power Metal and (along with Deep Purple) Progressive Metal genres. In fact, this song, "Man on the Silver Mountain", and "Temple of the King" easily match the best songs by Deep Purple, and that's saying one heck of alot. It's just, when an album has three seriously weak songs on it (Black Sheep.,If You.,and yet another useless cover,Still I'm Sad), I start to lower my estimation significantly. The Dio and Bonnet-eras are overall the greatest Rock/Metal music ever in my opinion. This song seems to set the bar higher than Deep Purple for extremely well crafted yet intricate songs."Black Sheep of the Family" is one of the stinkers on this one, a cover of a very goofy song by Quartermass that would have been embarassing on a Spooky Tooth album."Catch the Rainbow" is a hauntingly beautiful ballad; at least in part an ode to Jimi Hendrix' "Little Wing", but for me a far more effecting song than anything Hendrix ever did. Or maybe I'm just one of those Dinosaurs whom believe a great album is tantamount to one where almost every track is a winner.Despite the first album's flaws (and the basic dissolution of the band after Graham Bonnet left), Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow remains my favorite band ever. Man on the Silver Mountain was the first song that completely fascinated me in the genre, and to this day it holds a very revered place in my heart.

Driving power, an imaginative storyline, intense vocals, and a fabulously mammoth guitar solo.Were it not for the covers and the Trying-For-American-Radio drivel, I would rate this album as the equal of any album released in the '70's. For the most emotionally moving version of this song, though, check out "Rainbow Live in Germany".The second half of the disc opens with "Snake Charmer", an obvious leftover from Deep Purple, Coverdale could have written the vocal line for this, it's so close to his style. Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on this song is one of those that is better left eternally unchanged; it is completely perfect for the song, spine chilling and monumentally BIG. Very beautiful and poetic.

Not bad, but the band doesn't seem to have challenged itself to write truly great songs. While they do some interesting things on "Catch the Rainbow" and the raucous "If You Don't Life Rock 'n' Roll," the album is a little more tame than would be expected, given its pedigree. An interesting moment in rock/metal history, when links back to Deep Purple and forward to the masters, Black Sabbath, converged with the presence of both Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio in Rainbow. A lot of talent, for certain, though this first effort isn't their finest.

"Snake Charmer" brings back the rock and roll and the band clicks on all cylinders. If they would listen, learn, and read on they would actually appreciate his superlative ability to often blend classical with rock and how deep the colors become. The energy level is exhausting (I mean for the listener, never mind the band). To end the journey one of the finest rock and roll covers and as an instrumental. As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.

Rainbow takes the Yardbirds gem "Still I'm Sad" and Blackmore cuts loose for some of the best four minutes the ears will ever encompass.The numerous haters of Blackmore have little to no knowledge of his musical history. It is haunting in its shear beauty. His solos and riffs aren't about how many notes per second he can achieve but the tasteful craftsmanship the guitar can bring to a song. Enjoy the music and be well, Craig Fenton Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" "The Temple Of The King" is mesmerizing. To the critics that enjoyed panning Blackmore since 1968 you can tell them "If You Don't Like Rock & Roll It's Too Late Now." The sound of Blackmore's Stratocaster as the story unfolds during "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" is a blowtorch.

Sometimes after a rock and roll fan endures, a horrifying storm there can still be a Rainbow when the last drop falls from the sky.Ritchie Blackmore's departure from Deep Purple after the 1974 "Stormbringer" record was devastating to millions (To this day I wish it were a dream) but when he resurfaced with the debut Rainbow album "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" he afforded us thirty-seven minutes of a mystical journey that was brilliant from the first note to the last crackle on the LP.You heard the story of him joining forces with ex-Elf member Ronnie Dio, but what is often left out of the equation was Blackmore's ability to foresee Dio handling the challenging role of singing in a formulated (Mythical) project and not simply straight ahead rock and roll. "Draw me away to the night from the day" is a lyric of superlative intellect. It comes out of the speakers with such fury it decapitates all in its path. The opening track many to this day consider Ritchie's premier post Purple tune "Man On The Silver Mountain." The riff became one of the most recognizable in the last thirty plus years. To fully digest the vocals "One day in the year of the fox" several plays are required. The words seem to freeze us in our tracks as we lean on every word.

"Self Portrait" is an oxymoron. "Black Sheep Of The Family "is a fun tune and Dio delivers a different way of expressing a rockers success with the ladies- "You get a little black book and it grows and it grows." Up next, "Catch The Rainbow" is magnificent.