20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rainbow

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rainbow

Track Listings

1. Man on the Silver Mountain

2. Catch the Rainbow

3. Stargazer

4. Mistreated [Live]

5. Kill the King

6. Rainbow Eyes

7. Since You Been Gone

8. I Surrender

9. Stone Cold

10. Power

11. Street of Dreams

Tracks:

Man on the Silver Mountain
Catch the Rainbow
Stargazer
Mistreated [Live]
Kill the King
Rainbow Eyes
Since You Been Gone
I Surrender
Stone Cold
Power
Street of Dreams

Customer Reviews:

Good budget compilation.......2005-07-30

I think all of the people who are tearing this collection apart are missing the point, if you really think it is missing that much and it doesn't have all of your favorite songs, wtf are you reviewing this for? Quit your bitching and go buy the 'Catch The Rainbow' two-disc set. This is a low price collection, a good one, for people who just want a sample of Rainbow.

20th Century Masters has released a whole slew of CDs just like this for many differant groups, true, some are better then others but they all TRY to represent the best material for the artist as much as they can for a single low-price CD (these things can be found for under 8 bucks in most department stores). Rainbow has a couple of 'Best Of' albums out now, this being the cheapest (in price of course), it's only got 11 tracks but they are all exellent choices. They were kind enough to include the live version of "Mistreated" and one of the most underrated Rainbow songs ever, "Rainbow Eyes". You get all the standard hits that Rainbow is known for, "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Stargazer", "Kill The King", "Since You Been Gone" and the MTV favorite "Stone Cold". It is simply a collection of their hit singles and nothing else, if you are looking for an in-depth retrospective or some devinative collection of the bands material, look elsewhere. I do agree that there are a couple songs they could of put here, where is "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll", "Spotlight Kid" or "All Night Long"?, but it still is a good collection despite that. I wish they could of gave the Graham Bonnett-era a little more attention (two songs instead of one) seeing as Dio gets 6 songs and Joe Lynn Turner gets 4, they could of squeezed "Eyes Of The World" or "Lost In Hollywood" on this thing if they wanted, considering that CDs can hold up to 80 minutes of non compressed data on them, but what are you going to do?

It is a good buy if you are just discovering Rainbow's music and don't want to shell out cash for all of their studio albums or 'Catch The Rainbow'(which is like 30 bucks). This thing is a steal considering the qaulity of music your getting, i saw it for $7.50 in a Wal-Mart cut-out bin in the music department, it was either this thing or 'Three Dog Night'.

A little too much emphasis on the Ronnie Dio era.......2005-03-30

Don't get me wrong, Rainbow was a great band. I have all their regular releases on tape and I got this because it was $2 (on CD). A fair collection of their songs, though it seems to focus on their more "popular" tunes instead of delving deeper into other album tracks. "Catch The Rainbow" and "Rainbow Eyes" are nearly interchangeable; "Power" is a filler song to my ears, and whoever made up the song list needs his/her head examined!! "All Night Long" NOT ON HERE??? A couple others from "Down To Earth" certainly would have helped. I agree with the statement that the Millenium series should have enough songs to come close to the 80 minute mark...c'mon for cripes sakes, give people their money's worth!!!

5 star music, 2 star selection.......2005-01-10

The 20th Century Masters collections are notorious for picking terrible selection of songs on them. For example, look at Motley Crue's. But this review is not about Motley Crue. it;s about the selection on the Rainbow album. While most of my personal favorites are included, where is 'Long Live Rock n Roll'? And someone PLEASE tell me what 'Rainbow Eyes', the worst song Rainbow ever recorded is doing on here? While 'Stargazer' and 'Man on The Silver Mountain' are included, where is 'All Night Long'? I gave this album 4 stars because the music is just too good to give anything lower, but with the omission of 'Rainbow eyes' and the inclusion of the two songs mentioned earlier, this album could easily become a 5 star album, at least.

OK Collection.......2003-12-06

Given the choice of this or "The Very Best of Rainbow", you should definitely go with the latter. It is a better collection, with more cuts. I would also recommend "Final Vinyl".

Rainbow is Rainbow.......2002-01-02

Although some - and possibly be all - of Rainbow's regular albums (e.g. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rainbow Rising, Long Live Rock'n'Roll, etc.) may be better than this selection, it is still a pretty decent one and could be recommended for those who want to get familiarized with Rainbow's music. This selection is of less interest and value for those who know the band's music well, probably. However, it gives a pretty good idea of Rainbow's musical efforts, which are still to be discovered and appreciated by many true rock music fans. And when I say "rock music", I mean "hard rock" first of all. So if someone is into boys' bands (which is nothing wrong but definitely not my area of interest), that's not your stuff.

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