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Difficult to Cure | Rainbow | power rock mixed with solid rock pop

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	Difficult to Cure Rainbow Polydor / Umgd, 1999 average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this classic album from the British Hard Rockers led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, originally released in 1981. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.

Best Rainbow

I love how people knock this album because it got airplay or its too commercial. Face it, this is the best they ever did. No kings or knights or dragons, give me a break. I really love the Dio years but come on JLT smokes Dio(RIP) in vocal ability. Cant Happen here is fantastic, I surrender is probably their best song(along with Stone cold). I could listen to this diverse album over and over and never tire of it. Give this a chance and it will become your favorite.

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power rock mixed with solid rock pop

This album is rock and roll it's just not a harder edge type of hard rock. It's more rock with some heavy pop overtones. And on that level it excels. A band can make different types of rock and roll and do it well. So if you take this on that level and say: "is this great rock and roll of it's type? hard rock with a pop edge?" then yes! and I don't find fault with it all. I do like the earlier rainbow albums alot and they are really well done but they are a different type of hard rock generally. This disc had hit singles and they were all good rock and pop rock songs. The best of them is: "It can't happen here" which is in many ways a classic rock song that was a hit by any standard. The song could be the soundtrack for every disaster movie and real disaster facing mankind since the seventies. because 'were using up the future!" as it points out. Plus we still face possible nuclear war due to rogue states such as Iran although at the time of this ablum we faced the Soviet communist empire and total destruction. This song could fit well on any rainbow cd as far as I am concerned. I like every song on this disc as well; even the poppier ones. And The lead singer can really sing which is another benefit that some of todays hard rock just lacks sadly. So if you like survivor , night ranger and other bands then you will like this one. And although the earlier rainbow stuff is different it's well worth a good listen too as well.

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Solid effort

I believe that it's Ritchies attempt at safe "Van Halenesque" rock and roll at a time when that's where the wave was going.
However with respect to the everyone that says he abandoned his integrity for AOR it's just not true.
These are still good songs that have substance. They aren't songs that are, like every other song from that era , centered around the guitar solo.
I like Joe Lynn Turner. Get over the fact that he's not Ronnie Dio. He wasn't meant to be.
This is a different Rainbow. They're both good.
This incarnation has got a late 70's Bad Company / Foreigner type feel to it with a little bit more of a blues flair .
It's decent and worth having

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Mixed feelings

I loved this as a young lad - I thought it was great pop Rock but now I have mixed feelings about this album - some really good poppy tunes like "I surrender" and "Magic" and "Can't happen here" but I am also conscious looking back that it was the beginning of the end leading as it did to the dreadful "straight between the eyes". Some fine guitar playing though but I do think Joe Lynn Turner was a mistake.

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Tracks
I Surrender | Spotlight Kid | No Release | Magic | Maybe Next Time | Can't Happen Here | Freedom Fighter | Midtown Tunnel Vision | Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)

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