Song · Dio
“We Rock” by Dio
From the album The Last in Line (1984)
“We Rock” by Dio appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1984 on the album The Last in Line. Its best result is #513 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,554 hard rock song of all time.
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Dio's second album, The Last in Line, arrived in 1984 with "We Rock" as its fist-in-the-air rallying cry. Ronnie James Dio wrote it, sang it, produced it and plays keyboards on it, and he had a lean, mean crew behind him: Vivian Campbell on guitar, Jimmy Bain on bass and Vinny Appice on drums. Claude Schnell adds keyboards too, on the first Dio album to count him as a full member of the band, and Angelo Arcuri engineered.
It's heavy metal aimed squarely at the back of the arena, and the album around it went further than anything the band had done: their highest-charting record in both Britain and America, and the first Dio album certified platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 513 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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