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L'arcobaleno del rock si tinge nuovamente di mr. Blackmore, con il suo ultimo regalo ai suoi fedeli fan: "Strangers in Us All", uno dei migliori capolavori del rock dello scorso decennio, dove Ritchie e la sua Strato deliziano l'ascoltatore con virtuosismi barocchi e note blueseggianti.
L'album è perfetto sotto ogni punto di vista, l'unica pecca sono le semplici linee ritmiche di John O'Reilly che risulta piuttosto spompato come batterista e la scarsa attenzione alle tastiere che comunque sono comunque rimpiazzate dall'uso della tecnologia midi applicata alla chitarra.
Ottima è la prestazione di Dougie White (attualmente impegnato con i Rising Force di Malmsteen) degno successore di Dio e Turner...Ospite nell'album è la soave backvoice di Candice Night, moglie di Ritchie.
L'album si apre con Wolf to the moon, bellissimo brano dal carattere power-epic tipicamente blackmoriano; segue il pezzo Cold Hearted Woman, un pezzo discreto dal sapore hard rock-blues, il terzo brano è la maestosa Hunting Humans (Insatiable) che crea una atmosfera epica; segue Stand And Fight, un pezzo AOR che rievoca i Rainbow degli anni '80, in Ariel il man in black esprime la sua massima espressione compositiva, una ballad love-metal molto romantica addolcita dalla voce soave di Candice Night nella parte finale; la track numero 6 Too Late For Tears rispecchia anch'essa lo stile AOR dei Rainbow anni 80; ed ecco il pezzo più complesso: Black Masquerade che dimostra che i Rainbow hanno fatto la storia del power e dell'epic metal con bellissime parti orchestrali e assoli di chitarra acustica, clavicembalo e chitarra elettrica; poi c'è Silence, che sembra un sorta di rivisitazione di You Fool No One dei Deep Purple.
Penultimo pezzo è Hall of the mountain king, famoso brano di musica classica di Edvard Grieg riarrangiato in stile Rainbow (ascoltandolo capirete dove arriva la fantasia di quest'uomo); ultimo pezzo è il remake di una cover degli Yardbirds, Still I'm Sad, reso stupendo dal maestoso intro e dal riff incisivo e ovviamente un assolo stupendo che solo Blackmore può sfornare.
Elenco tracce e testi
04 Stand and Fight (05:21)
Can't say something if the words ain't there
What you trying to do
Money can't buy me out of trouble I'm in
I've been messing with the likes of you
Been so long since I left my home
Looks like I lost my way
Tried so hard just to make it work
You just turn around and walk away
Something's got to give, I ain't gonna leave
Time to dig down deep
If you wanna get out of this town alive
You gotta stand and fight
So infuriating the way you twist my words
I know you got your problems, it seems every day
That they're getting much worse
I hear you screaming for attention
You say your life's a mess
Something else to cry about
Just get on with it
Something's got to give, I ain't gonna leave
Time to dig down deep
If you wanna get out of this town alive
You gotta stand and fight
05 Ariel (05:39)
[Blackmore/Night]
I search for her in the dead of night
A silhouette lit by candle light
In a whispered word she is gone
Familiar stranger without a name
In a darkened room they all look the same
Like the sand of time she slips away so far away
In the mirror you can see her face
An angel dressed in the blackest lace
A sip of wine and the game can begin
Just an image lost in fantasy
Then you touch her and you can't break free
Till you see your fate written there in her eyes
Oh Ariel,
Lost in a distant dream, take me home
Ariel
06 Too Late for Tears (04:54)
[Blackmore/White/Regan]
Well I'm moving faster close to the edge
As I smoka a pack of strong cigarettes
When my fears run dry, you won't see me cry
Coz I know I got it coming
We touched the sun and went on our way
And we asked the stars to come out to play
But you said good night when they lost their light
And my world stopped spinning `round
What are we fighting for
Dontcha know that no one wins
What are we fighting for
Just give up and I'll give in
It's too late for tears
When the things you need are things you don't want
And you take the needle right to the point
I'd be heaven bound, but you shoot me down
Leave me broke and bleeding on the killing floor
08 Silence (04:04)
[Blackmore/White]
You say you want your freedom
It all gets a bit out of hand
Caught in the ocean as I'm watching you breathe
We all believe what we wanted to belive
That's the silence of love
You say all you want is money
You scream for a little bit more
Caught in a landslide as we're stumbling on
Who'd say we're right but who would say we're wrong
Silence of love
You say you need someone to hold you
You say that you're feeling afraid
I know the worst part of being alone
Is a book full of nombers with no one to phone
That's the silence of love
10 Still I'm Sad (05:24)
Version 1 (From ''Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow'')
instrumental
Version 2 (From ''On Stage'')
See the stars come falling down from the sky,
Gently passing, they kiss your tears if you cry.
See the wind come softly blow
Your hair from your face,
And the rain comes falling down
In its crazy ways
Still I'm sad,
Still I'm sad.
For myself my tears just fall in the dust
They will drive every night will find they're lost
See the wind come softly blow
Time into my heart
And the rain comes falling down
While we're apart
Still I'm sad,
Still I'm sad.
See the stars come falling down from the sky,
Gently passing, they kiss your tears if you cry.
See the wind come softly blow
Your hair from your face,
And the rain comes falling down
In its crazy ways
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
I'm so sad,
I'm so sad.
But still I'm sad.
Feeling so sad
Feeling so bad
You're making me sad
Making me bad
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, I'm sad.
Version 3 (From ''Stranger in Us All'')
See the stars come fallin' down from the sky
Gently passing, they kiss your tear drops dry
See the wind come, softly blow
Your hair from your face
And the rain comes falling down
In its crazy way
Still I'm sad
For myself my tears just fall in the dust
As I search in the night and find they're lost
See the wind come gently blow
Time into my heart
And the rain comes falling down
While we're apart
Still I'm sad
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