Killing The Dragon - Dio's Worst Album?

[GEORDIE]

I was going through the polls section yesterday and found a poll that put Strange Highways against Angry Machines. Someone on that thread referred to these albums as "Dio's worst" and while it's hard to argue that about Angry Machines, Strange Highways is one of his best and most raw albums ever. I then got to thinking about how disappointed i've always been in Killing The Dragon and how i've always thought it was Dio's worst album ever. On Strange Highways, we got an angry Dio, one who just left Black Sabbath, full of passion. On Angry Machines, we at least get Dio trying something new. However, on Killing The Dragon, we get nothing. The album sounds tired, boring, and strained, not to mention the fact that the majority of the songs on the album (Guilty, Throw Away Children, Cold Feet, Before The Fall, Rock & Roll) are just plain awful. I'd rather hear Big Sister from Angry Machines played a 100 times over than sit through one of those songs just once. Plus, the songs besides those ones are simply okay - there's not one song where i think "man, this is AWESOME." Now, i know there will be lots of disagreement from people on here, but I think it's a shame that perhaps Ronnie's most emotional and powerful work, Strange Highways, is ignored and ridiculed while a steaming turd like Killing The Dragon is always talked about so positively.

[Holymagica]

Controversial post
I am not a great fan of KTD either,the songs are great and Ronnie's vocal performance is the dog's bollocks[ps.. this means its Excellent ]
But I do not like the guitar sound or tone ,its far to light for me thats really my only complaint.
Don't worry about there being a disagreement with other fans,we are allowed to have different opinions but I do ask folks to remember to have respect for each other.

[piracy_of_life]

I have neither Angry Machines or Lock Up the Wolves but from what I've heard about them I think I'd like them.

Killing the Dragon definitely doesn't rank high with me either and I think I'd agree with your statement.

this may not be as controversial as what you said but Master of the Moon has the most replay value for me. I find KtD and Magica boring, I'm not at all saying they're bad albums, I just have no desire to listen to them anymore and often times skip over their tracks.
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[Holymagica]

piracy_of_life maybe we should forgive Magica becoz its a concept album

[piracy_of_life]

it's very loosely a concept album, without the Magica Story at the end I think it would be hard to tie all the songs together. But I don't know, I still like the album I just can't listen it over and over.

maybe it's just a phase
haha
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[GEORDIE]

[nunoni]

Angry Machines is on my top 5 of DIo albums. MOTM is not, and I do prefer KTD to it! Because the title track is so awesome!

[Beast_Regards]

The songs on KTD are just overral pretty weak, especially lyrically... definitely not some of his best... but not worst by any stretch

musically I dont have a problem with it.

[Jack24]

I love Killing The Dragon, perhaps not Dio at it's absolute best, but it still has some killer tracks, and if you're going to call it a steaming turd, I'd say it's a golden one.

(My least favourite Dio album is Strange Highways, never heard Angry Machines though).
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[GEORDIE]

[DevinMacGregor]

[GEORDIE]

[piracy_of_life]

I don't see the point to that post, you just turned a perfectly good topic bad.
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