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Honesty, this is heaps better!: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fuVBY7dUTko
If you listen carefully, you’ll find a few little nods towards some classic Deep Purple tunes on this one…
I tried so hard to like this style of music as I adore the Ritchie we love from DP and Rainbow but I just can’t take this anymore. Sorry but I am out their circle of fan club. Good luck to Ritchie and Candice and their army of fans.
Oh, that is really cutting edge and filled with all kinds of musical surprises, the nifty key change especially, I know great original art when I hear it! There is nothing like a good song and this elaborate musical piece …
IS INDEED NOTHING LIKE A GOOD SONG.
Blackmore’s Night have now reached that pantheon of bands normally populated by the likes of The Ramones, AC/DC, Motörhead and Status Quo: You like one song – all the songs are the same – you like all the songs! No point arguing with that. (That was slightly unfair, Quo show more variation and The Ramones and Motörhead were at least cool.)
I know, a Christmas single is not the most opportune moment to stretch your musical wings. But Slade’s Merry X-Mas Everybody was Prog rock compared to this (and a good song to boot). The trouble with Blackmore’s Night is that all their releases throughout the year are Christmas Singles. Spare me.
Rant over. I worship Blackmore, but his undeniable talent has become static with BN and – worse still – banal.
Will I now be banned from The Highway Star? I still bought it!!!
@Defender of 75-year-olds: It has nothing to do with age. Ritchie – even as a young man – always had a regressive streak in his musical tastes, but the input from the others with DP put him – to his and the band’s benefit – in musical situations and environments where he shone though they were not of his choice. That worked well within Mk II, found its limits with Mk III (hence his departure) and after that he might have named Rainbow just as well “Ritchie Blackmore’s Strat-Trashing Comfort Zone” (with a few exceptions such as Gates of Babylon).
But who am I to write as a Blackmore fan since 1975 and owner of even his most obscure Joe Meek ditties plus having witnessed the man about 30times+ in concert (w DP/Rainb/BN) – I’ve just morphed into an “internet troll” at the mercy of his family!!! : – )
Its quite good if you like that sort of thing! I would have hoped he would grow tired of BN by now, but it obviously makes him happy. Candice is easy to listen to as well, no judgement from a long time DP fan. We all get older and more mellow do we not??
Candice has grown as a singer (even if it’s all very samey) and Ritchie can play the telephone book and still elicit something with me, but Steeleye Span or Renaissance this is not, much less Carmen or Jethro Tull to name two bands Ritchie always professed to like. I like folk rock if it’s done with some brains to it. Blackmore’s Night sometimes (or often) sounds like Peter, Paul & Mary with that guy from Deep Purple strumming along. ; – )
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I would hardly call Rainbow “Ritchie Blackmore’s Strat-Trashing Comfort Zone” considering the content of the debut album and it’s unheard of (at the time) modes and structures plus, Rainbow Rising is one of the seminal albums in the history of rock music, a tad more respect is due. Ritchie shines in every music environment he has been in.
We’re all fans and his current output has given him a lot of satisfaction and a whole horde of new fans. There are some hidden gem with extraordinary playing among all the BN albums, embrace that.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
autant les premiers albums étaient sympas car ils sortaient de l’ordinaire autant les derniers sont ennuyeux et inintéressants…
November 7th, 2020 at 10:50Honesty, this is heaps better!:
November 9th, 2020 at 09:28https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fuVBY7dUTko
If you listen carefully, you’ll find a few little nods towards some classic Deep Purple tunes on this one…
I tried so hard to like this style of music as I adore the Ritchie we love from DP and Rainbow but I just can’t take this anymore. Sorry but I am out their circle of fan club. Good luck to Ritchie and Candice and their army of fans.
November 9th, 2020 at 13:29Oh, that is really cutting edge and filled with all kinds of musical surprises, the nifty key change especially, I know great original art when I hear it! There is nothing like a good song and this elaborate musical piece …
IS INDEED NOTHING LIKE A GOOD SONG.
Blackmore’s Night have now reached that pantheon of bands normally populated by the likes of The Ramones, AC/DC, Motörhead and Status Quo: You like one song – all the songs are the same – you like all the songs! No point arguing with that. (That was slightly unfair, Quo show more variation and The Ramones and Motörhead were at least cool.)
I know, a Christmas single is not the most opportune moment to stretch your musical wings. But Slade’s Merry X-Mas Everybody was Prog rock compared to this (and a good song to boot). The trouble with Blackmore’s Night is that all their releases throughout the year are Christmas Singles. Spare me.
Rant over. I worship Blackmore, but his undeniable talent has become static with BN and – worse still – banal.
Will I now be banned from The Highway Star? I still bought it!!!
November 9th, 2020 at 15:40@2 Blackwood Morerich: The new BÖC album is indeed their best one since the mid-80ies. I was blown away. Great unsung American hard rock heroes.
November 9th, 2020 at 23:07@4
75 year old guitarist enjoying life and not really caring what the internet trolls have to say. Fair play.
I hope your family are a little more tolerant and don’t start thinking you’re banal and irrelevant.
November 12th, 2020 at 20:53@Defender of 75-year-olds: It has nothing to do with age. Ritchie – even as a young man – always had a regressive streak in his musical tastes, but the input from the others with DP put him – to his and the band’s benefit – in musical situations and environments where he shone though they were not of his choice. That worked well within Mk II, found its limits with Mk III (hence his departure) and after that he might have named Rainbow just as well “Ritchie Blackmore’s Strat-Trashing Comfort Zone” (with a few exceptions such as Gates of Babylon).
But who am I to write as a Blackmore fan since 1975 and owner of even his most obscure Joe Meek ditties plus having witnessed the man about 30times+ in concert (w DP/Rainb/BN) – I’ve just morphed into an “internet troll” at the mercy of his family!!! : – )
November 13th, 2020 at 19:11Its quite good if you like that sort of thing! I would have hoped he would grow tired of BN by now, but it obviously makes him happy. Candice is easy to listen to as well, no judgement from a long time DP fan. We all get older and more mellow do we not??
November 16th, 2020 at 12:34Oh,please
He should have continued with Shoshana/Judith……
November 16th, 2020 at 19:56Candice has grown as a singer (even if it’s all very samey) and Ritchie can play the telephone book and still elicit something with me, but Steeleye Span or Renaissance this is not, much less Carmen or Jethro Tull to name two bands Ritchie always professed to like. I like folk rock if it’s done with some brains to it. Blackmore’s Night sometimes (or often) sounds like Peter, Paul & Mary with that guy from Deep Purple strumming along. ; – )
November 16th, 2020 at 23:44@7
I would hardly call Rainbow “Ritchie Blackmore’s Strat-Trashing Comfort Zone” considering the content of the debut album and it’s unheard of (at the time) modes and structures plus, Rainbow Rising is one of the seminal albums in the history of rock music, a tad more respect is due. Ritchie shines in every music environment he has been in.
We’re all fans and his current output has given him a lot of satisfaction and a whole horde of new fans. There are some hidden gem with extraordinary playing among all the BN albums, embrace that.
November 19th, 2020 at 19:30