Black Sabbath - Dio Years
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Free Music Notes for Dio Years
Free Music Review: Excellent overview to Ronnie James Dio's tenure with Black Sabbath
Hit: 5 Stars
Black Sabbath's April, 2007 release which was a retrospective The Dio Years is an excellent overview to the Ronnie James Dio era in Black Sabbath.
Alot of fairweather Sabbath fans think Black Sabbath began and ended with Ozzy Osbourne from 1970-78 but they are WRONG! The band fired Ozzy in 1979 because his behavior was erratic and out of control because of drug and alcohol use. Then the surviving members which were guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Terry Butler (nicknamed Geezer) and drummer Bill Ward recruited one-time Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio and all forged ahead.
The first album with Dio which was 1980's classic comeback Heaven and Hell is represented by pretty much the entire album. The choices from here are superb and they are "Neon Knights", "Lady Evil", the classic title cut, the great "Die Young" and the classic closer "Lonely Is The Word".
1981's classic Mob Rules, which saw Ward exit and Vinny Appice fill in the vacated drum stool, is represented by its title track, the killer opener "Turn Up The Night", the superb "Voodoo" and one of my favorites "Falling Off The Edge Of The World". I know that "The Sign Of The Southern Cross" was omitted but CDs can only store up to 80 minutes.
The 1982 live album Live Evil is represented by the stellar "Children Of The Sea".
1992's superb reunion album Dehumanizer is represented by the superb "After All (The Dead)", the excellent "TV Crimes" and "I". I wish "Computer God" was here but then again it would have been a 2-CD set.
The reason to acquire this set (in addition for the remastering) is for the THREE NEW SONGS which are "The Devil Cried", "Shadow Of The Wind" and "Ear In The Wall". Dio still has it vocally wise (whilst Ozzy is now a caricature of himself sounding like a dying seal). Iommi and Butler and Appice still play well.
This collection is the cream of the crop of the Dio era in Sabbath unless you want the new Rules of Hell box set.
RECOMMENDED!
Free Music Review: The Dio Era- The very best of Sabbath
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD compliation is way overdue.TheRonnie James Dio era of Black Sabbath is, in my humble opinion, the very best of Sabbath. If you are a fan of that era this CD is for you. From the beginning it rocks with the Sabbath classic "Neon Knights", a truly legendary heavy metal song. We are also treated to such classics as "Lady Evil", "Heaven and Hell", "Die Young" and a favorite of mine "Lonely is the Word". Next we move into the Mob Rules tracks."Mob Rules" comes blaring out as the first track from that album. A true heavy metal classic. "Turn up the Night" is next. This song is an underrated, yet blistering tune, worthy of this CD."Voodoo",and "Falling off the Edge of the World" round out the Mob Rules portion. My only complaint is that "Sign of the Southern Cross" was left off, which I believe is one of their greatest songs of all time.
We then turn to the "Dehumanizer" era. Dehumanizer, to me, was one of their heavest and most powerful albums. I really enjoyed the track "After All ( The Dead), and TV Crimes, but my favorite is the wicked song "I". Dio's voice comes schreeching through on it with an evil menancing tone. Another complaint is that the great song "Computer God" was left off. Also "Time Machine" and "Sins of the Father" could have been included. I really enjoyed the live version of "Children of the Sea", a classic from "Live Evil".
The new Sabbath song "The Devil Cried" was next,and WOW! What a fanatstic song! Heavey, dark and forbidding. "Shadow of the Wind", and "Ear in the Wall" are really great songs and it really shows that at 60+ Dio and his bandmates can still rock. If you love Sabbath and the Dio era, buy this CD!
Let's hope that there is more in the future from these guys, they can still rock!
Free Music Review: Great considering. . .
Hit: 5 Stars
no compilation ever satisfies everyone who is a fan of that groups music. It is even harder still to choose songs when that group's music doesn't rely on Am or Fm hits like Sabbath. Amazingly and pathetically, it has been decades since i heard a Black Sabbath song on the radio that wasn't Ironman or Paranoid. Even though there are only 3 studio albums to pick from, 4, if you believe Geezer Butler, who considers "Live Evil" 90% studio rerecorded(from the recent VH1 classic show, Hanging with Heaven & Hell), there is some room to screw up the best songs. I would have changed the following. I would include E5150 and go right into Mob Rules. The Mob Rules version from the Heavy Metal soundtrack is lame compared to the album version. For years, non-Ozzy Sabbath concerts had E5150 go into Neon Knights, which i have never understood. Use studio version of Children of the Sea; the live one sounds very muddy and loses any hint of light and shade that makes the original great. At all costs, you must have Sign of the Southern Cross. Remove "Falling off" as it is almost as long. Just like Heaven and Hell, "Signs" is the centerpiece of their second album and has to be on. Time Machine should also be on. If any time is left, put on the shortest Dio song from Live Evil, maybe Voodoo or Country Girl. Finally, i was a bit surprised by Lonely is the Word, but then i remembered i've seen several quotes from Iommi about "Lonely" being one of, if not the favorite/most proud of Sabbath song he's ever written. And he is "The Man". The 3 new songs are all good, sad to say much better than the Iommi/Hughes efforts of recent years. I think Dio and Iommi just have a certain magic together when writing.Free Music Review: A must have for the Sabbath fan, Great return of DIO into the Line-up
Hit: 5 Stars
When it first happened 15 years ago for Dehumanizer, I didn't think much of Dio's return but as a ploy to revive a drop in sabbath and Dio album sales. It did produce a great album now in retrospective with some years to digest. Also, we all longed for the reunion of Ozzy and Sabbath at that time. Well, 15 years later, the big reunion has come and gone, and now Heaven and Hell (thanks Sharron Osbourne)...And I am completely Stoked. The Three new songs on here are some of the best work Iommi and Dio have made in years, and argue they Are better than the 2 Ozzy put on the Reunion release. It's a shame they didn't go through with Releasing the box set idea for the Dio years as originally planned, but fans can rejoyce because they get three great new song, the devil cried, Shadow of the wind, and Ear in the wall, for a cheaper price than likely a box set would have cost. I can't wait until Heaven and Hell tour, and the subsequent Live CD that is planned to be released this fall as well. In the future, I can only hope for a complete greatest hits disc to include the years following Ozzy and Dio...Tony Martin was a great frontman for 5 albums and a live Cd, and the man deserves credit as well. And who can forget "Deep Sabbath" with Ian Gillen as frontman for the Born again album, classic. I do agree, some songs did not make this like sign of the southern cross and Time machine, which is why the box set or two CD set may have been better, but I'll take what I can get. So if this is a sign of things to come...BRING IT ON. MUST BUY FOR THE METAL HEADS.Free Music Review: EPIPHANY '07
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, well how come nobody told me this era of Sabbath was not only this good, but THIS GOOD? I discovered metal music around -83 so my memory banks tell me that a cooler new school was around and that my own musical prejudices probably prevented me from having the foresight to discover some classic music. Sure DIO was around but to me it all sounded a little old fashioned at that point, I wanted spandex, teased hair and something a bit more threatening. Roll on 25 years or so and over the last couple of years I have welcomed RJD into my CD collection but only through some Rainbow and a predominantly Osbourne era Sabbath best of. I had no idea that the quality and magic of this era of Sabbath was something I really needed to become acquainted with. And then an even bigger surprise the stuff from the "Dehumanizer" release sounds as good if not perhaps better. I missed two chances to have many more years of classic rock to listen to. I won't bother to give you individual song reviews cause as indicated above I am a virgin to these wondrous sounds (a 40 year old DIO in Sabbath virgin) but I can tell you this CD does what the great "best of" does best , namely it makes you want to go out and buy the full back-catalogue. Not since the mighty Judas Priest's "Metal Works" has such a pleasant surprise come to my ears and I sense the beginning of a new love affair. This line-up needs to hang around.