Rainbow
Finyl Vinyl

Listening notes

Released in 1986 on Polydor, Finyl Vinyl is a Rainbow compilation issued in cassette format under catalog number 827 987-4. Spanning hard rock and rock, the release draws from the band's catalog across what amounts to a substantial running time, spread across four cassette sides.

The tracklist runs fourteen selections in total. Side A opens with "Spotlight Kid" at five minutes, followed by "I Surrender" at five minutes and forty-five seconds, and "Miss Mistreated" at three minutes and twenty-one seconds. Side B carries five tracks: "Jealous Lover," "Can't Happen Here," "Tearin' Out My Heart," "Since You Been Gone," and "Bad Girl." Of these, "Tearin' Out My Heart" is the longest on that side at eight minutes and four seconds.

Side C is anchored by "Difficult To Cure," which runs eleven minutes and fifteen seconds, making it the single longest track on the release. It is followed by "Stone Cold" and "Power." Side D closes the set with "Man On The Silver Mountain" at eight minutes and twenty seconds, "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll" at seven minutes and twelve seconds, and "Weiss Heim" at five minutes and ten seconds.

The four-sided cassette format itself warrants a note for cataloguing purposes. A double-cassette configuration of this kind was a practical format choice for compiling a larger body of material in the mid-1980s, allowing total content that would have been difficult to accommodate on a single tape without significant compromise to running time per side.

Beyond what the tracklist and release data confirm, this draft makes no further claims. Details regarding personnel, recording origins, chart performance, or the circumstances of the band's dissolution around this period should be verified independently before publication.