Stand Up and Shout: The Dio Anthology [Original recording remastered]

Stand Up and Shout: The Dio Anthology [Original recording remastered]

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Product Description
29 savage cuts on 2 CDs from Dio's Elf, rainbow, Black Sabbath & solo releases. The most complete collection ever! Plus track-by-track commentary from Dio himself. Remastered. Deluxe digipak w/slipcase. Rhino. 2003.

Stand Up and Shout: The Dio Anthology,Ronnie James Dio,Rhino / Wea,Hard Rock,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock

Average customer rating:

Nice collection!

He Rocks

Great multi band career spanning retrospective

Careeer spanning collection of RJD

Where in the world is MYSTERY?

Stand Up and Shout: The Dio Anthology
Ronnie James Dio
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000996FG
Release Date: 2003-05-27

Tracks:

Hoochie Koochie Lady
I'm Coming Back For You
Carolina Country Ball
Man On The Silver Mountain
Starstruck
Long Live Rock 'N' Roll
Neon Knights
Children Of The Sea
Heaven And Hell
Turn Up The Night
The Sign Of The Southern Cross
The Mob Rules
Computer God
Voodoo (Live, 1982)
Sacred Heart (Live, 1985)

Tracks:

Stand Up And Shout
Holy Diver
Don't Talk To Strangers
Straight Through The Heart
Rainbow In The Dark
We Rock
The Last In Line
Egypt (The Chains Are On)
King Of Rock 'N' Roll
Hungry For Heaven
Dream Evil
All The Fools Sailed Away
Lock Up The Wolves
Strange Highways

Album Description

29 savage cuts on 2 CDs from Dio's Elf, rainbow, Black Sabbath & solo releases. The most complete collection ever! Plus track-by-track commentary from Dio himself. Remastered. Deluxe digipak w/slipcase. Rhino. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Nice collection!.......2006-05-18

Hey I'm with the other reviewers in feeling some songs should have been included here rather than others(i.e.Mystery,Rock n'Roll Children) but overall it is a pretty great disc. You get "man on the Silver Mountain","Heaven and Hell" and a good collection from "Holy Diver" on two CDs. Short of buying the upcoming boxed set where else can you get this overview from a great career. I think with most anthologies people tend to focus on what is missing rather than what is included. This set smokes from the begining to the end(even though I am not much of an ELF fan). I highly recommend this album to anyone who is interested in sampling one the great heavy metal masters. I know you will want to buy the complete albums from DIO.

All smoke, No mirrors!

He Rocks.......2006-05-06

While not without flaw, Shand Up and Shout is chock full of metal goodness. Let's be serious for a moment: Any compilation that contains classics from Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio is going to be awesome even before you pick the tracks. Add some old classic Elf, and you have a well rounded glimpse into Ronnie James' career as a metal icon.

Elf were never my favourite band, my friends always likened them to "The Guess Who with Dio singing", and you can hear that in the boogie-woogie piano. Rhino did pick some of the best Elf tunes, including Carolina County Ball, my favourite.

To be a complete set, at this point Rhino should have stuck in the two songs Dio did with Roger Glover: Love Is All and Sitting In A Dream. After Elf, but before Rainbow, Dio had participated in Roger Glover's (ex-Deep Purple) first solo album along with a plethora of guests. The two best songs, undeniably, were sung by Dio. They really should have been on here, especially since Dio reprised them both on a recent tour with Deep Purple.

And then...and then...Rainbow rises. Ritchie Blackmore (also ex-Deep Purple...see a pattern forming here?) loved Elf when they opened for DP, and stole the entire band (sans guitarist) to form the first version of Rainbow.

Now, of course, you could argue for an entire CD's worth of Rainbow tracks to represent Dio. Three are picked, one from each Rainbow album that Dio participated in. Stargazer is absent, which to me makes no sense. I also would have loved to hear Kill The King and Rainbow Eyes, but we could be here all day discussing this.

How Black was his Sabbath? Very black indeed, you can get none-more-black. Three albums here are represented by eight tracks, and here the selection is pretty undeniable. Again, you could make convincing arguments against songs like Turn Up The Night and in favor of I, but the good news is there is a Black Sabbath/Dio boxed set coming that will cover all these great songs.

Dio made a solo album, and left Sabbath (in that order) only to be replaced first by Ian Gillan (ex-Deep Purple) and Glenn Hughes (errr...ex-Deep Purple). Dio's solo career speaks for itself.

Ronnie's Dio albums get over an entire CD, but it's not nearly enough space. As another reviewer pointed out, where is Mystery? Dio's most pop moment should have been here, the video and single were what introduced many of us to Dio in the first place. I would also like to have replaced the overly long Lock Up The Wolves with something else from that same-titled album. You could replace that one song (which has been on other compilations before) with two other Dio classics. Give me Wild One and Mystery instead. Better still, they should have included the rare Time To Burn from the Intermission EP. Time To Burn was Ronnie's first collaboration with guitarist Craig Goldy, and stands up and still one of the best things they have done.

Rhino may not have had the rights, but a few Dio albums are missing completely. Speaking personally, I don't miss any songs from Angry Machines or Killing The Dragon. Something about those albums (and the recent Master Of The Moon as well) just don't do it for me, so excluding them is fine. The underrated Strange Highways does get a look-in via the title track, but I would have picked Jesus, Mary & The Holy Ghost instead. I vastly prefer Dio's fast stuff to his slow ones, if you haven't noticed.

Most criminally, Magica is completely ignored. Fever Dreams, Lord Of The Last Days, Feed My Head, As Long As It's Not About Love, any of those tracks deserve to be on any Dio anthology. Why are they not? Ask Rhino, I guess.

Another track that should have been here: Stars, by Hear N' Aid. Campbell & Bain (ex-Dio) wrote it with Ronnie, performed it with Ronnie, and a slew of every big metal name circa 1985. Halford...Tate...Lynch...Dokken...Malmsteen...Neil...Nugent, they were all there. The Hear N' Aid album is impossible to find. That one song, such an important part of Dio's history, would have been very welcome on this collection.

Complaints aside, this is an awesome collection. Pics, packaging, liner notes (by RJD), history, it's all here. Total value for the money. Unfortunately if you used this collection as a guide for expanding your Dio collection, you'd miss a lot of classics. Yet, it's a start. It's a start.

Great multi band career spanning retrospective.......2005-11-27

If you're a hardcore Dio fan, then you have all of this material. However, if you don't, it's a worthy pickup, as it covers from Dio's pre solo days in Elf, Rainbow, & Black Sabbath, as well as his Dio material (although it doesn't cover the last 3 studio albums, as they were on a different record label). Still, it's a nice cross section of Dio's career (his first album came out in 1958!) and while this doesn't go back that far, it's something worthy to have if you don't already have all of his albums.

Great liner notes, too, as Ronnie has a paragraph or so to say about every track on here. He even says that one of my personal favorite Sabbath songs isn't one of his favorites (damn ).

Would be nice to see one of these things that cover his pre-Elf material (Ronnie & The Redcaps, Ronnie & The Rumblers, The Electric Elves, etc). But as it stands this is a great package that covers the majority of his career.

Careeer spanning collection of RJD.......2005-10-08

I was impressed when i first got this 2-disc set. When i looked at track listing, i was very glad that they included some songs from his ELF albums. ELF isn't really heavy metal at all, it's just bluesy-boogie style rock, and tends to get overlooked in favor of his later work w/ Rainbow and Black Sabbath. Disc 1 is actually my favorite of the 2, it covers ELF, Rainbow and Black Sabbath all on one convient little disc and shows Ronnies progression thru all of his differant musical careers.

Disc-2 is essentially "The Very Beast of" with a couple songs added on (but what happened to "Mystery"?), nothing new or special at all. The liner notes are very well written and the packaging is beautifully illustrated. You learn lot about how some of these very famous songs were written or where the idea came for them as told by Ronnie James Dio himself. This whole release was a very well thought out idea.

I wish they had included "Stargazer", the definative song he wrote w/ Rainbow, how could they skip this? Disc-1 has too many tracks devoted too Sabbath and not enough for Rainbow, i could of done with out the "Dehumanizer" song and the live version of "Voodoo", they could of replaced them with songs like "Kill the King" and "16th Century Greensleeves".

Oh yeah, WHY isn't "Stars" on this thing? that single is a important landmark in Dio's career, this is supposed to cover the mans WHOLE recording career, right? Well, i guess you can only fit so much on these anyway (80 minutes per disc), but overall it is a solid 4 star collection of Dio tunes.

Where in the world is MYSTERY?.......2005-03-17

I recently obtained this double disc since is the only one available that offers a complete representation of Ronnie James Dio excellent carrer. Most of his memorable stuff are included with cuts form ELF, Black Sabath, Rainbow and his solo carrer. High prompts for that.

However, this disc is lacking some major songs that should have been included in order to make it a more fulfilled expirience. An anthology is supposed to include the best selections of songs from an artists carrer. This disc includes some weak songs while leaving out major cuts like Lady of the lake and specially MYSTERY which is no doubt the song that gave DIO the most radio airplay in his entire career.

All in all, the buy is a good one for those who are major fans and would like to have a varied compilation of DIO entire solo and band carrer. I still hope that a better double disc GREATEST HITS is sometime put out on the market. Hopefully they wont make the mistake of excluding MYSTERY from that compilation.

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