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Albie said:
I'm in the later part of a two week holiday from work and as such, I have refused to look at my emails on my Blackberry (and even gone as far as letting it run out of juice and just die). At present, I have almost 400 odd unread emails (if I was to count the ones filtered to not be shown on my Blackberry, you can triple that) and it feels pretty damn good to not respond to, or even acknowledge them.

Bravo!  Tho, enjoy wading through all of that... :)

@Foro, I think that is awesome!  Good to get little H involved early on!  How old is he now? 2ish  I lose track... :blush:
 
Wasted CLV said:
Bravo!  Tho, enjoy wading through all of that... :)
I'm in two minds to just mark all as read and then get rid of them. But there is bound to be one or two from my boss asking me to do whatever.
 
Fuck, I only had a salad for dinner and now I'm
as hungry as a pig
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Guys, questions time:

I've listened to the first couple of Dio albums. While good, they don't really make me want to listen to anything else by him. Is anything other then these two albums really good, or are they just ok, like Ozzy's other albums?

Same goes for Sabbath after the first 2.
Also, Anything by Rainbow other than Rising?

Oh yeah, and I god my hands on Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations and Angel Witch's Angel Witch.
If they're good, should I listen to enything else?

I don't really like these sort of bands. They either not around at this point, which means that if I like it there's nothing left for me to listen to, or they're still around but half their albums suck.

It does make my life easier not listeneing to 10 albums by each band though.
 
I like Dream Evil, and Magica quite thoroughly. Aside from that, it's a little meh, but still better than Ozzy.

The two Dio Sabbath albums are among my favourites. Dio was a god of a singer, but he needed better backing than he got in his solo band. Heaven & Hell's single album is good too.

So my roommate picked up a new RPG system, Mutants and Masterminds, in which you play superheroes. We're doing a Silver Age style game with custom heroes. I'm playing Commander Heroism, a US Navy Commander who was killed in Korea but resurrected as part of a US Government program to bring back great soldiers for the purpose of performing special ops (led by Brigadier General Brave, Gunnery Sergeant Guts, Major Mischief, etc). My sidekick is Sgt. Cinema, a government filmographer who's job is to take video of me doing heroic things for propaganda purposes.

The best part? My rival is Soviet super-scientist slash radiation monster Comrade Chernobyl and his Red Menace.

Gonna be awesome.
 
I actually listened to H&H, both album and band. Don't remember liking it too much, I should give it a second listen.

But here's the thing I don't like in it's prime: H&H got one album out before Dio died. It's so sad that there's only one album, I almost don't wanna listen to it again.
 
Mega said:
Guys, questions time:

I've listened to the first couple of Dio albums. While good, they don't really make me want to listen to anything else by him. Is anything other then these two albums really good, or are they just ok, like Ozzy's other albums?

The next two (Sacred Heart and Dream Evil) are bloody brilliant, though very 80s-ish. Check out the latter works (Magica, Killing the Dragon and Master of the Moon), maybe you'll like those better.

Same goes for Sabbath after the first 2.
Also, Anything by Rainbow other than Rising?

Sabbath: Really, anything other maybe the albums from the second half of the seventies. Sabbath is seriously one of the greatest bands ever, no matter what 'era'.
Rainbow, all three Dio albums (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising and Long Live Rock 'n' Roll), the others are very poppy.

Oh yeah, and I god my hands on Diamond Head's Lightning To The Nations and Angel Witch's Angel Witch.
If they're good, should I listen to enything else?

If you're looking for the more accessible, check out Demon (especially Night of the Demon and The Unexpected Guest), I'm sure you will like those. Other than that, see this post (and the entire thread).
 
I wish I had a bit more time so I could delve a bit deeper into recommendations and introductions.
 
Dio:  I agree about Dream Evil and Magica.  They are excellent, and the song "All the Fools Sailed Away" on Dream Evil is criminally underrated.  Magica is a concept album with a totally lame story, but the music is as strong top-to-bottom as any Dio album.  Master of the Moon was Dio's last album, and has some good songs, but some filler.  The other albums you can skip, but there are a number of anthologies and greatest hits albums that for the most part pick up the highlights.  EDIT:  In the U.S., Magica is now sold as a 2-CD package with Killing the Dragon for about the same price as a single CD, so that's a pretty good value for your entertainment dollar.  I listen to Magica far, far more often than Dragon though. 

Black Sabbath:  Master of Reality, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules are essentials.  If you like Master of Reality, then check out Volume 4 and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.  If you like the Dio-fronted albums, then also worth checking out Dehumanizer, which was released in the early 1990s and also featured the Dio/Iommi/Butler/Appice lineup.  Dehumanizer isn't quite as strong as Heaven and Hell or Mob Rules, but it does feature the song "I" which is completely awesome.  

Rainbow:  You could cheat (like I did) and get the Catch the Rainbow anthology, which does a pretty good job of covering the best Rainbow songs.  Disc 1 covers the three Dio-fronted albums, Disc 2 covers the albums with Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner singing.  I'm a much bigger fan of the Dio material on Disc 1.  Dio recorded two other studio albums with Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, neither of which is as strong as Rising, but both are classics.  The Live in Munich concert CD/DVD is not a bad supplement to Rising, if you can handle Blackmore's extended solo jams, because it pretty much just covers material from the first and third albums, with only one song from Rising.

Can't really speak to Diamond Head or Angel Witch, though I did pick up the 25th Anniversary edition of the latter, which is fun because it includes all the scathing reviews Angel Witch got in the English press at the time.  I think it's good but not great, and I'm in no hurry to pick up other Angel Witch material.  

EDIT:  Perun once again typed faster than me, but we're largely saying the same thing.  
 
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