Dio Album: “Diamonds: The Best of Dio”

As most of you know, there are two versions of a Dio's "Greatest Hits" album available. The first one is "Diamonds: The Best of Dio" and the second is "The Very Beast Of Dio". If your a casual Dio fan, I would recommend going for "The Very Beast Of Dio" over "Diamonds" because it contains more tracks (16 to "Diamonds" 13) and a better selection of his classic tunes. "Diamonds" however would be a better selection for the Die-Hard Dio fan for one reason, Hide in the Rainbow. Yes "Diamonds" contains the ultra rare track Hide in the Rainbow that was previously only available on the Iron Eagle soundtrack, and who really wants to own the Iron Eagle soundtrack? The movie was bad and having the soundtrack in you collection would make you a laughing stock. Now here is your chance to owning "Hide in the Rainbow" without being laughed at. The song is worth the price of this CD and plus you'll add another cool Dio CD cover to your collection. So die-hard Dio fans, pick this CD up today!

Diamonds. All the songs here are great ! In my opinion,Ronnie James Dio is one of the few "Professionals" in Heavy metal, One of three singers in Heavy Metal history that can write and sing songs equally well, the other two being Rob Halford(Priest) and Bruce Dickinson(Maiden). The man is very unique in his song-writing and singing and it shows in this album. This album is truly of very high quality, lyrically and musically, as are Dio's albums that these songs are originally from . BUY IT !! You will be mighty proud of it. It is going to stand out like a DIAMOND in your music collection (heavy-metal or otherwise).

Bought this CD after not having listened to Dio for a while (The rest of my Dio-collection consists of vinyl records), and I must say, there was pleasant sounds in my living room! Of course, there was nostalgy involved, but the music in itself rocks too. One or two more songs from the Dream Evil-album, and I would have given 5 stars.

This Dio song selection is great; Some underrated Dio tunes and some hits mixed together. This CD is a must buy for "Hide In The Rainbow" which is a mystical, uplifting, empowering classic Dio song (like most others). The only other Dio album this song is on is the out of print The Dio EP. Also this CD is in SHM (SUPER HIGH MATERIAL) which reads the music alot more accurately leaving the listener with a more warm quality a sound of a more alive and organic auditory vibration, like vinyl on CD! So Audio connoiseurs can forget the plastic, flat sounding remasters and invest in shm! For Dio it's worth the price!