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 Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 2:46 am Post subject: ~MAGICA~Discussion |
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Released March 21, 2000
Cd Track Listing
1."Discovery" – 0:54
2."Magica Theme" – 1:16
3."Lord of the Last Day" – 4:04
4."Fever Dreams" – 4:37
5."Turn to Stone" – 5:19
6."Feed My Head" – 5:39
7."Eriel" – 7:25
8."Challis" – 4:25
9."As Long as It's Not About Love" – 6:04
10."Losing My Insanity" – 5:04
11."Annica" [Bonus Track] – 3:46
12."Otherworld" – 4:56
13."Magica (Reprise)" – 1:53
14."Lord of the Last Day (Reprise)" – 1:44
15."Magica Story" – 18:26
Band
Ronnie James Dio – vocals, keyboards
Craig Goldy – guitars, keyboards
Jimmy Bain – bass
Simon Wright – drums
Scott Warren – keyboards |
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Opaque0ne
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Dig this one a lot. Craig's guitar work shines here. The extra texture in Dio's voice coupled with sensitive, yet powerful fretwork make me come back to this one often. A sense of artistry is on full display and I really think this album transports the listener to another world. I've read a lot of reviews that slam this one, but I love it.
The 18 minute spoken word story was a bit much, otherwise bravo. |
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DioInfinitum
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I was listening to this album on the way in to work today.
Incredible.
Very artistic.
I love
Lord of the Last Day
As Long as It's not About Love
Otherworld
The tone of this album is luscious.
It absolutely gave me mad goose bumps today, that was after multiple times hearing over the last few weeks.
So very much a worthy buy. I highly recommend it. I always wondered what the Magica 2 & 3 would have been like. |
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Opaque0ne
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes! We can only wonder what would have been with Magica 2 and 3. Thank goodness we have Magica. It's a layered piece of work and the keyboards seem to blend in rather than dominate. I never heard Annica on the import, unfortunately. |
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richierich
Joined: 30 May 2010
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Excellent album. Took a few plays for some of the tracks to grab me, but it was worth it! Fever Dreams and Losing My Insanity are my faves. Great hearing RJD and Craig back together too.
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adiszul
Holy Diver
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:56 am Post subject: |
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awesome concept album, atmosphere of Magica is so great,mystery and magic, what more can i say
take a part of me away...
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fiddlequeen07
Master of the Moon
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I really like all songs on this album...especially Fever Dreams, Eriel, and Losing My Insanity. I also love how everything fits together to tell the story; it is a highly creative and interesting album which remains true to the high standards that this band has always set.
Ironically, however, Magica is probably my least favorite album, if I were to judge the album as a whole. I have wondered why this is, and still I cannot even explain my own opinion. I love the songs and I think this is a great work, but it somehow lacks a bit of the energy I feel from other albums.
Still, I listen to Magica whenever the mood strikes, and I always enjoy it.
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Opaque0ne
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| fiddlequeen07 wrote: |
I really like all songs on this album...especially Fever Dreams, Eriel, and Losing My Insanity. I also love how everything fits together to tell the story; it is a highly creative and interesting album which remains true to the high standards that this band has always set.
Ironically, however, Magica is probably my least favorite album, if I were to judge the album as a whole. I have wondered why this is, and still I cannot even explain my own opinion. I love the songs and I think this is a great work, but it somehow lacks a bit of the energy I feel from other albums.
Still, I listen to Magica whenever the mood strikes, and I always enjoy it. |
Shame on you!  Where's your usual 'beyond the scope of what's merely coming out of the speakers, what it means to you' passage? lol Just giving you a hard time. But I urge you, if this is your least favorite, listen to it with earphones, pick up on the delicate subtlety, the very textured vocals and music. There is energy here, it's just not as agressive as many of his other albums. Very soulful.
Craig's guitar playing is, in my opinion, the best he's ever laid down on a Dio disc, and the production is impeccable. I understand we Dio fans all have our preferences, but this gets low marks in spite of all its overall quality. Maybe it's too long for some? |
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Jeffrey
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OpaqeOne,.
Yes, I loved this CD when it came out. I had waited for a long time for a good metal CD to come out. When I heard that Craig Goldy was back with Dio, I hoped for something like Dream Evil. But his playing was so much better than I remembered in the 1980s.
And Dio's voice was so great! You are right, listening to it with headphones is a real treat for the senses. Every song had a different "taste". I am hoping for another Magica release in the future.
Jeffrey
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fiddlequeen07
Master of the Moon
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| Opaque0ne wrote: |
| fiddlequeen07 wrote: |
I really like all songs on this album...especially Fever Dreams, Eriel, and Losing My Insanity. I also love how everything fits together to tell the story; it is a highly creative and interesting album which remains true to the high standards that this band has always set.
Ironically, however, Magica is probably my least favorite album, if I were to judge the album as a whole. I have wondered why this is, and still I cannot even explain my own opinion. I love the songs and I think this is a great work, but it somehow lacks a bit of the energy I feel from other albums.
Still, I listen to Magica whenever the mood strikes, and I always enjoy it. |
Shame on you! Where's your usual 'beyond the scope of what's merely coming out of the speakers, what it means to you' passage? lol Just giving you a hard time. But I urge you, if this is your least favorite, listen to it with earphones, pick up on the delicate subtlety, the very textured vocals and music. There is energy here, it's just not as agressive as many of his other albums. Very soulful.
Craig's guitar playing is, in my opinion, the best he's ever laid down on a Dio disc, and the production is impeccable. I understand we Dio fans all have our preferences, but this gets low marks in spite of all its overall quality. Maybe it's too long for some? |
 It's good that you're holding me to high standards! Actually, I have listened to Magica through headphones, and I agree it is a wonderful audio experience. As is always the case, Ronnie's voice is simply phenomenal, and the music is a tribute to the high level of talent among the band members. I especially love Craig's playing on Turn to Stone.
As I said, I thoroughly enjoy all the songs on this album. In fact, Fever Dreams is high on my list of favorite DIO songs. I also agree that the lyrics are excellent, and the story itself has great significance. I recognize the wonderful quality of this album, and I always enjoy it when I listen to it. It isn't a matter of its being too long, nor is it in any way lacking of that special DIO "magic" we all know and love.
I think you have actually helped me to understand why this is my least favorite album...and that is for the fact that it just doesn't hold the same personal significance for me that the others do, which would be why my first post omitted the "what it means to you" details. It seems to me that Magica is actually quite a popular album among fans; maybe I'm mistaken. Anyway, it just doesn't touch me the same way as the others do.
Maybe that explains my opinion a little better? I've always had a difficult time figuring out why I just don't like this album quite as much.
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Richard241
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| Opaque0ne wrote: |
| fiddlequeen07 wrote: |
I really like all songs on this album...especially Fever Dreams, Eriel, and Losing My Insanity. I also love how everything fits together to tell the story; it is a highly creative and interesting album which remains true to the high standards that this band has always set.
Ironically, however, Magica is probably my least favorite album, if I were to judge the album as a whole. I have wondered why this is, and still I cannot even explain my own opinion. I love the songs and I think this is a great work, but it somehow lacks a bit of the energy I feel from other albums.
Still, I listen to Magica whenever the mood strikes, and I always enjoy it. |
Shame on you! Where's your usual 'beyond the scope of what's merely coming out of the speakers, what it means to you' passage? lol Just giving you a hard time. But I urge you, if this is your least favorite, listen to it with earphones, pick up on the delicate subtlety, the very textured vocals and music. There is energy here, it's just not as agressive as many of his other albums. Very soulful.
Craig's guitar playing is, in my opinion, the best he's ever laid down on a Dio disc, and the production is impeccable. I understand we Dio fans all have our preferences, but this gets low marks in spite of all its overall quality. Maybe it's too long for some? |
It's good that you're holding me to high standards! Actually, I have listened to Magica through headphones, and I agree it is a wonderful audio experience. As is always the case, Ronnie's voice is simply phenomenal, and the music is a tribute to the high level of talent among the band members. I especially love Craig's playing on Turn to Stone.
As I said, I thoroughly enjoy all the songs on this album. In fact, Fever Dreams is high on my list of favorite DIO songs. I also agree that the lyrics are excellent, and the story itself has great significance. I recognize the wonderful quality of this album, and I always enjoy it when I listen to it. It isn't a matter of its being too long, nor is it in any way lacking of that special DIO "magic" we all know and love.
I think you have actually helped me to understand why this is my least favorite album...and that is for the fact that it just doesn't hold the same personal significance for me that the others do, which would be why my first post omitted the "what it means to you" details. It seems to me that Magica is actually quite a popular album among fans; maybe I'm mistaken. Anyway, it just doesn't touch me the same way as the others do.
Maybe that explains my opinion a little better? I've always had a difficult time figuring out why I just don't like this album quite as much. |
Because your most likely some wheres like I was growing up...
I think we all could of listened to 5 or maybe 10 over and over again, Holy Divers & Last in Line albums / remakes. It was that sound, time and everything that they were and we were back then. I could be wrong here too, and others feel it was rainbow or sabbath... But Dio broke the egg with Holy Diver, not just a mere cracking of the shell here. The album Holy Diver, himself and everything about us back then and at that time was it...
Some wheres, don't get me wrong... the power, the anger and everything / everyone changed, as times and people do tend to do, but everyones got to admit, Ronnie always tried to keep up. America shifted course on Rock & Roll, while Ronnie kept at it.
In the end, Ronnie fucking blew me away with Heaven & Hell.
The power was back, the performance was outstanding and these guys together could bring down the house.
They did too, there was nothing like these guys in the world and never will be again. But we all can thank them for getting back together and doing what not only they enjoyed, liked and wanted to do again, but for us as well... the fans.
This was never about money for Ronnie. It was about doing what he liked. I'am so thankful for that, him and everything that he was. Wow, I can't still believe he is gone. I try to avoid this place because it brings tears to my eyes. But I know... he loved doing what he did, so thats cool. Just sucks this is the way our world or life is... why can't we all just live on and not die, its stupid.
Hope there is a place, after death.
Hope I get to find it too and Ronnie is there. I loved him. He was what made my life easier to get thru another day sometimes. I didn't listen to much other music at all besides his. I was a Dio junky, lol. He could of been 85 and released something and I would of been there to listen and buy it.
Man, life sucks when you lose someone so wonderful and made life worth living ya know. Anyhow...
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PowerKnight
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:03 am Post subject: |
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Magica...my all time Dio album, this one blows Holy Diver out of the water for me. This is thee Ronnie James DIO opera, the Dio opus, not a single weak track, it`s all in here Ronnie`s blood sweat and tears. The passion and Craig`s guitar work is something very special, a tapestry that unfolds into sheer brilliance.
Every time I play this it give`s me the goosebumps, a full blown concept piece that Ronnie should have put out much earlier in Dio. 10/10 and flawless, PowerKnight 
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Jeffrey
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Got this CD out of the closet this week. Holymagica made me think of it. Excellent playing, songs. Craig really plays well. Band is tight. Saw them on this tour, and they played a lot of the new songs from this disc. Everyone seemed to enjoy them. You don't see that from a lot of bands. The fans want to hear the classics. But with Dio, they all become classics.
Like has been said before, the production is very clean, and makes for excellent headphone listening.
If you have this, pull it out this week. You will enjoy it again.
Jeffrey
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cameljackson
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One glaring oversight has always kind of killed the entire album for me: That awesome line in Fever Dreams, "I have seen some evil as I've walked upon the Earth." I used to love this line, but after I actually thought about it, it really does not belong on the album at all. It doesn't even take place on Earth, it takes place on Blessing. So the correct line should be "I have seen some evil as I've walked upon Blessing."
Why Dio didn't use this instead (especially given its awesome hidden, suggested meaning of seeing unfairness even when you are given privilege) would have made the song a thousand times better. Every time I hear that line now it obliterates any sense of immersion I could have had for the album. This slight oversight ruined an entire album for me, so... ****.
The songs are still very solid, though. As an album, it's a masterpiece. But as a concept album... eh. It's weird how much that one word demolished the entire album... |
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Mysterioman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:34 am Post subject: |
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This one includes my most favourite RJD song of all-time, "Lord Of The Last Day". Awesome song! "Fever Dreams" is another great one.
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