Catch the Rainbow

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2002)
• Original Release Date: February 10, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sanctuary
• ASIN: B00004NRUB
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,639 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kill the King

2. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves

3. Stargazer

4. Lost in Hollywood

5. Catch the Rainbow

6. I Surrender

7. Spotlight Kid

8. Man on the Silver Mountain

9. Rainbow Eyes

10. Eyes of the World

11. Still I'm Sad

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I HATED IT, April 20, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Catch the Rainbow (Audio CD)

I am a huge Rainbow fan, with my favourite singers being Dio and Graham Bonnet. I also love blackmore's style. With this tribute album i thought the band did pretty good. But the singer ruined the whole lot for me. It was screechy, shakey, all over the place and just downright horrible. Not saying I could do any better but im not the one creating a tribute album here. When I listen to the original version of catch the rainbow, i feel relaxed and peaceful. When I heard this version i had to turn it off straight away, it was just an utter joke. But this is just my opinion.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You have to respect the power of this record, February 10, 2003

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David J Newman "Party Host, Writer, Guitarist... (West Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catch the Rainbow (Audio CD)

This Rainbow tribute album has the absolute best cover version of "Kill the King." Uli Kusch, former drummer for the excellent German power metal band Helloween and now with Masterplan, puts on a drumming clinic! He is perhaps the most talented skins man on the scene today. Lovingly recorded by a crew of brilliant musicians, this album smokes from the opening crush of "Kill the King" to the closing bombast of "Still I'm Sad," featuring Primal Fear's Ralf Scheepers on vocals.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Well Done But Too Similar to the Originals, April 28, 2001

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bogubundus2 (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catch the Rainbow (Audio CD)

These are very good note-for-note carbon copies of a selection of Rainbow songs which is actually a better representation of Rainbow's greatest hits than the selection on the Rainbow's greatest hits CD. That said, it suffers from the same shortcoming that many "tribute" albums suffer from - the musicians try to perform carbon copies of the originals rather than putting their own "stamp" on them or doing something at least a little bit different with them. Invariably, the originals are better, so why bother? The guitar solos are not quite as good, at times the drumming falls short (too much rapid tapping on the bass-drum foot-pedal: sounds amatuerish), and the vocalist, although very good, is no Ronnie James Dio (although the vocalist who does Joe Lynn Turner sounds so much like Turner you would swear it was Turner himself!). My two favorite songs are the only songs where the musicians have actually done something different with them: "Catch the Rainbow" and "Rainbow Eyes". On the original "Catch the Rainbow", a simple repeating melody on guitar just plays over and over again as the song fades out. Here the guitarist adds completely different solos both in the middle and at the fade - its a refreshing change. I LOVE what was done to "Rainbow Eyes": a great bluesy-type solo is added in the middle and at the end several solos play different variations on the basic melody; on the original there is no solo in the middle and at the end, a simple melody played on a violin with no variation just repeats as it fades out. The tribute version is actually an IMPROVEMENT over the original! In summary, I have mixed feelings about this album. It is very well performed by very competent musicians from mostly the Metal bands Helloween and Gamma Ray, along with a few others. I love the SELECTION of songs, and it doesn't sound like a bunch of bad outtakes like on the Deep Purple tribute CD; it sounds more like alternate versions of songs done by Rainbow itself. This project had a lot of promise but would have been better had the musicians varied things up a bit and put their own stamp or personality on the songs.