Rainbow - Ranking The Albums with Pete Pardo and Martin Popoff! 

1. Rising 2. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 3. Long Live Rock And Roll 4. Down To Earth 5. Stranger In Us All 6. Straight Between The Eyes 7. Bent Out Of Shape 8. Difficult To Cure

1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 3. Down to Earth 4. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 5. Bent Out of Shape 6. Straight Between the Eyes 7. Difficult to Cure 8. Stranger in Us All

1) Long Live Rock n Roll 2) Rising 3) Straight Between the Eyes Also - "Jealous Lover" is a top 5 Rainbow track for me.

I love hearing Pete, Martin & Hack review albums together !

1. Down to Earth 2. Rising 3. Long Live Rock n Roll 4. Stranger in Us All 5. Straight Between the Eyes 6. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 7. Difficult to Cure 8. Bent Out of Shape

1)Rising 2)Long Live Rock N Roll 3)Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow 4)Down To Earth 5)Straight Between The Eyes 6)Bent Out Of Shape 7)Difficult to Cure 8)Strangers in Us All. Great show guys really enjoyed

I find Rainbow Eyes to be beautiful, wonderful to hear a much softer side to Ronnie's vocals, showed how truly versatile he was.

1.Rising 2.Stranger In Us All 3. Long Live Rock And Roll 4.Bent Out Of Shape 5.Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 6.Down To Earth 7.Straight Between the Eyes 8.Difficult to Cure

Love Rainbow 🌈 every album is very good to great, no bad albums.

1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 3. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 4. Down to Earth 5. Stranger in Us All 6. Bent Out of Shape 7. Straight Between the Eyes 8. Difficult to Cure

Rising Straight Between the Eyes Down To Earth Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow Difficult To Cure Long Live Rock n Roll Bent Out Of Shape Stranger In Us All

1. Rising 2. LLRNR 3. Down to Earth 4. Bent Out of Shape 5. Debut 6. Straight 7. Difficult 8. Stranger in Us All

Great video...can't beat Pardo and Popoff talking Rainbow!

1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock n Roll 3. Richie Blackmore's Rainbow 4. Down To Earth

Martin Popoff can drive you crazy with his views and opinions. First album at 7;;; seven;;;; Demoish??? And Snownan is just EPIC... The melodies and guitars are sharp razors, they speak to the soul.

"Catch the Rainbow" was obviously 'inspired' by Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing".

Great video gents! Rainbow are one of my favourite bands ever, and I love all their albums! My order today is... 1. Down To Earth 2. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 3. Rising 4. Straight Between The Eyes 5. Difficult To Cure 6. Stranger In Us All 7. Richie Blackmore's Rainbow 8. Bent Out Of Shape. The bottom 3 could move around tomorrow depending on the mood I'm in.

"Catch the Rainbow" has always reminded me of "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix

1. Rising 2. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 2. Long Live Rock n Roll 2. Down to Earth 2. Difficult to Cure 2. Straight Between the Eyes 2. Bent Out Of Shape 2. Stranger In Us All

Hey Hack!, Catching this on the replay. Thanks for putting this together with Pete n Martin as well. Love Rainbow! "Thin, polite production" Absolute gold from Martin 😜. Power from Straight Between the Eyes and Lost in Hollywood ( Cozy friggin Powell) are two of my favorite non Dio tracks.

Well done, I have to revisit the albums

Rainbow.............................. Rules

*_Enjoyed listening to this one!_* 🤘

The debut is amazing. The clear second best after rising

Rising Down to Earth Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll Bent Out of Shape

Gates of Babylon IS the greatest Rainbow song, despite it not being eight minutes long. IMO of course 🙂 Only A Light in the Black can rival it... And few songs can rival Tarot Woman as an opener, that song is massive!

A great discography. No bad albums. 1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll 3. Straight Between The Eyes 4. Down To Earth 5. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow 6. Stranger In Us All 7. Bent Out Of Shape 8. Difficult To Cure

I love all the Rainbow records, one better than the other.

1.Rising 2. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 3. Long Live Rock and Roll

The LA mix of Rising is the best! This would be my tracklist for the ultimate rainbow album (dio era). Tarot Woman Kill the King Man on the Silver Mountain The Temple of the King Gates of Babylon Sensitive to Light Sixteenth Century Greensleaves Catch the Rainbow Stargazer A Light in the Black

I saw Rainbow when they toured for "Long Live Rock & Roll". It was a fantastic show but I could not believe they didn't play "Gates of Babylon" live. Missed opportunity.

Richie Blackmore's Rainbow Long Live Rock and Roll Rainbow Rising The Stranger in Us All 😊

I've never understood the shit Rainbow Eyes is always getting. A hauntingly beautiful, delicate and ethereal piece of work. Ronnie never sang as intimate and vulnerable yet masterfully controlling his instrument. It's so close, like he's sitting right next to you and very gently soothing you and telling you magical stories from another time and a place. And the fact that it has no heavier section in it just makes it better and even more unique. It's quite a hard-hitting and relentless record so it's actually a pretty clever way to close the album like that. And the best thing is that they didn't go and try to replicate Rising at all. All three records with Ronnie have their own individual character. But then again so does all three JLT records also. My listing for today: 8. Stranger in Us All 7. Difficult to Cure 6. Bent out of Shape 5. Straight Between the Eyes 4. Down to Earth 3. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 2. Long Live Rock'n Roll 1. Rising Four and five may change places depending on the day and sometimes number three may drop down to as low as six or seven. But I really like them all. There are really good songs on Stranger in Us All too and Ritchie's showcasing all his tricks for the one last time. I think his rhythm playing is more layered and prominent and driving the songs more than usual. And he's pretty generously soloing here too. Doogie's doing a fine job with the vocals it's just the pretty soulless drumming that drags down the whole output. That and the production too.

Here’s my ranking, #3-5 can switch around any day but for today here’s my list 1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock N Roll 3. Straight Between the eyes 4. Down to Earth 5. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow 6. Difficult to Cure 7. Bent out of Shape 8. Stranger in us all

How is there not a show called “Poppin Off w/ Martin Popoff” ??!

#1 = Rising #2 = Long Live Rock and Roll #3 = Down to Earth #4 = Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow #5 = Bent Out of Shape #6 = Straight Between the Eyes #7 = Difficult to Cure #8 = Stranger in Us All

1) Rising. 2) Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll. 3) Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. 4) Bent Out Of Shape 5) Straight Between The Eye. 6) Stranger In Us All 7) Down To Earth. 8) Difficult To Cure

''Rising'' deserves way higher recognition than it currently does...

1. Rising 2. Straight Between the Eyes 3. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll 4. Down to Earth 5. Bent Out of Shape 6. Difficult to Cure 7. Stranger in Us All 8. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow No bad albums here!

👍👍😎👍👍

JL Turner Rainbow is the polite poppy albums and my least favos. 8. Bent out of shape 6/10 7. Straight between the eyes 6,5/10 6. Difficult to cure 7/10 5. Stranger in us all 7,5/10 4. Down to earth 8/10 3. Long live R´R 8,5/10 2. Debut 8,5/10 1. Rising 9,5/10

Ranking the Rainbow Albums without In Stage makes no Sense. Best Rainbow Release ever!!

Agreed about Stargazer…..never gets old

Love Rainbow. I wish Ritchie had not gone down the road with Blackmore's Night and continued making Rainbow records. Dio, Bonnet, Turner, White for best Singers.

I love Rainbow Eyes. Dio's vocals are beautiful.

Pete your pup is saying "pay attention to me Dad!"

The only weaker track on Rising is “Do you Close Your Eyes” and still a decent track

Surprised Martin didn’t have Rising dead last

8. Bent out of Shape 7. Difficult To Cure 6. Straight Between The Eyes 5. Stranger In Us All 4. Debut 3. Down To Earth 2. Long Live Rock n Roll 1 Rising

If you're looking for a Hendrix inspiration for Catch The Rainbow, try Little Wing. Guitar parts and vocals...

1 Rising 1 LLRR 3 RBR 4 DTE

YES do a “horrible catalogs” show

My list? It’s the same as Pete’s, kinda funny

Martin calling the song Power, “ a big Cordey thing “was hysterical.

Damned flies always arriving in pete,s nose😮😅

I dig stuff off of all of them, but Rising is far and away Number One in my book

5:35 You could make the argument that Slaves and Masters is more of a Rainbow album, than Stranger in us all. 10:10 the battle rages on is an underrated Purple album.

Or a stone temple pilots ranking I’ve never seen anyone do a stone temple pilot’s ranking

You should do a ranking of Alice In Chains one hell of a great band

Why do so many people have things against instrumentals? Nothing against Martin but I've seen that often about lots of bands. People don't seem to like instrumentals even though songs with few lyrics are more okay (it is basically the same thing).

I laughed out loud when he described Graham Bonnet getting fired from MSG for getting drunk and waggling his willy on stage as "Moving on".

Am I the only one who likes black sheep?

I loved Rainbow From Rainbow Rising to Down To Earth, the first album is Okay and anything they did with Joe Lynn Turner I hated and he even turned up on the worst purple album ever.

Starting the ranking by bashing "Stranger in us all" isn't good. I personally like that album alot. I think it was a return to form for Ritchie after the kind of lacklustre "Battle rages on" and "House of Blue light". "Stranger..." has great songs and performance. Ritchie isn't usually the nostalgic type of person so that's why past members of the band stays past members. I think it's pretty easy to understand but it seems like even JLT don't get it even though he claims to know Ritchie so well...

You’re right about the choruses on some of those songs. They are absolutely dumb sounding. Never like down to earth or difficult to cure. Stranger in us all should be higher tho

1. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 2. Long Live Rock N Roll 3. Rainbow Rising 4. Stranger in us all 5. Down to Earth 6. the rest of them. Haven't listened to the JLT-era albums for more than 20 years so I barely remember anything from them but I'm usually not that keen on generic 80s commercial rock and I never liked JLT's singing. I'm a bit tired of RJD too to be honest but even so the albums that he sang on are really great despite me being tired of him.

You guys like kiss

I go against the guys. I prefer "Stranger In Us All" to "The Battle Rages On..!"

I'd only bought their first 2 albums, and I think Deep Purple was better.

Sorry Guitar Hack, you lost me when you dissed the debut album, it's a superb album. It's a toss up between this album and Rising for first place.

Could never put any of the JLT albums above the Dio or Down To Earth albums. If you took all three JLT albums and removed all the naff tracks you'd probably have one really good album. Remembering being so disappointed when Difficult To Cure was released. Magic, and Freedom Fighter (sound like something from Eurovision Song Contest), title track is fairly cheesy. Since You Been Gone is one of the worst songs I've ever heard, oh, that and the song Power, such lazy songwriting.

Pete is pretty naive! Bonnet messed up with Blackmore AND Schenker within a couple of years! ...wearing a suit and a tie...😅

Sorry Martin. I love you but those 3 songs wouldn't make my Top 10. Probably 11-13 for me.

4 min: "rather melodic European thing" - this is pure thesis replacement. Europeans have played and still play real Heavy Metal. While there are a million bands in America whose ideal is Kiss...

8. Down to Earth 7. Bent out of Shape 6. Straight Between the Eyes 5. Difficult to Cure 4. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 3. Stranger In Us All 2. Long Live Rock and Roll 1. Rising 8. Down to Earth - Hard to describe how much I dislike this album. First of all, this tour produced the single worst live performance I have ever seen. Other than Cozy Powell who was spectacular. Graham is shouting the entire album. It's way too pop. Way too many backing vocals as well. The keys are buried most of the time. Glover's production is a muddy mess. "All Night Long" - Painful. "Eyes of the World" - A pale and weaker "Tarot Woman". And Graham is offensive and completely annoying. But at least you can hear the keyboards this time. Good solo from Blackmore. "No Time to Lose" - Another weak attempt to duplicate "Sensitive to Light" and this would also show up later on tracks like "Can't Happen Here". " Makin' Love" - By far my favorite track on the album. But again, listen to how muted and weak Cozy's drums are! Sad because he is playing some great stuff. Most original track so far. A bit too much slide for me on this album. "Since You Been Gone" - ugh...awful. This is Rainbow???? "Love's No Friend" - Graham is not the right singer for a slow heavy blues track. Strong backing track but would have been much better with a different singer. Strong riff and love the organ work from Airey. "Danger Zone" - Probably the heaviest track on the album. Ritchie has recycled this riff many times before. Cozy is driving and Glover's bass sounds strong. However, the strongly dislike the 8th note octave pattern he plays at times. The solo break down is a poor man's version of "Gates of Babylon". "Lost In Hollywood" - Strong drumming from Cozy but this is another copy of a former track. The keyboard part in the verses is horrible! This is "A Light in the Black" without the power and without Dio. Falls flat.

1. Rising 2. Long Live Rock And Roll 3. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 4. Down To Earth 5. Difficult To Cure 6. Straight Between The Eyes 7. Stranger In Us All 8. Bent Out Of Shape

1. Difficult to cure 2. Rising 3. Down to Earth 4. Straight between the Eyes 5 Long live rock ‘n’ Roll 6. RB’s Rainbow 7. Bent out of shape 8. Stranger in us all