Dio - Holy Diver poll

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Outlier vote for Straight Through the Heart because I like how the guitar solo progresses from scratchy noodling to that fuckin sweet duelling guitar riff at the end

Tragic sign of my old age that I can't remember what any of these sound like apart from the title track but if I listen to this over the weekend I will instantly know them all

I'm feeling Dioed out at the moment.

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Dio the band is like medical grade Dio, you can only get with a prescription, if you are feeling Dio'd out you might want a milder substitute, like Whitesnake

Oh no, I can't even bear Coverdale with Deep Purple!

yeah that is not a good substitute at all

That's the point

We don't have Dio, is Whitesnake OK?

"Holy Diver" followed by "Stand Up and Shout"

ok i'm gonna end up voting for all of these

holding my lighter up for the "ViV Campbell is 12" discourse

"you been riding on a Gypsy feels a bit racist idk"

foetal prodigy Vivian Campbell rips out a big solo tho so fair enough

okay Don't Talk to Strangers is so good and chonky it's almost made me stop thinking about the ridiculous Heaven & Hell dis at the start of this thread

"Straight Thru the Heart" = the "I Love Rock & Roll" refix that nobody ordered

honest to god Ronald could just sing "bah bah bah" on every track and i'd still be in

full disclosure this is still an absolutely excellent album but i've been itching to stick Accept on thru most of it

ah fuck i forgot how emo "Invisible" is

already anticipating the bit where Ronnie says "INVISIBLE" in his tummy voice at the end

ok "Rainbow in the Dark" yes yes bring the Casio

right in brief this is still an all bangers classic, still don't regret voting for the title track, still thing none of these quite reach "Man on the Silver Mountain"

Keys played by Ronnie himself! Probably with one finger. Claude Schnell must have gritted his teeth every time they did that song live.

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just acquired the live album from 2005. right as the opening strains of "Holy Diver" starts, instead of doing the generic rock star introduction, shouting shit like "ARE YOU ALL READY? ARE YOU READY TO DIVE? IT'S TIME FOR THE HO...LY...DIVER!", he just jocularly says "well it sounds like my theeeeeeeeeeme song is starting" before actually giving it a proper intro.

it's a delightfully goofy moment. miss this man.

yeah there’s often a lovely uncle-y kind of warmth to his stage patter

A proper dude, he always struck me as. Mensch on the silver mountain.