Editing Down to Earth (Rainbow album) (section)

==Reception==
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" >{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/down-to-earth-mw0000196706 | title = Rainbow Down to Earth review | access-date = 2013-12-08 | last = Erlewine | first = Stephen Thomas | author-link = Stephen Thomas Erlewine | publisher = [[AllMusic]] }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev2score = 7/10<ref name="pop" >{{citation | url = http://www.popmatters.com/review/139066-down-to-earth-deluxe-edition/ | title = Rainbow: Down to Earth (Deluxe Edition) | access-date = 2013-12-08 | last = Begrand | first = Adrien | date = 28 April 2011 | publisher = [[PopMatters]]}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Record Collector]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="collector" >{{cite journal | title = Rainbow – Down to Earth: Deluxe Edition | journal = [[Record Collector]] | date = March 2011 | first = William | last = Pinfold | issue = 386| url = http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/down-to-earthdeluxe-edition | access-date = 2013-12-09}}</ref>
}}
[[AllMusic]] editor [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] defines the album "a fine [[hard rock]] platter", which "might not offer anything unique, but it delivers the goods." He criticizes mostly Bonnet's vocals, but praises "the guitar artistry and mystical sensibility of Ritchie Blackmore", who "sounds invigorated on the album".<ref name="AllMusic" /> ''[[PopMatters]]''{{'}} Adrien Begrand, reviewing the 2011 Deluxe Edition, remarks how ''Down to Earth'' "is somewhat underrated compared to the towering Dio discography, but it remains a strong outing 31 years later", even with "the new material sounding so much more stripped-down compared to the overtly epic heavy metal arrangements of Dio-era Rainbow". The songs are "eight searing, hooky hard rockers", remarkably rendered by Bonnet's performance and energy.<ref name="pop" /> The album "is perhaps the most divisive record in Rainbow’s catalogue" according to  ''[[Record Collector]]'' reviewer, because of "Blackmore's single-minded pursuit of mainstream success" and the departure from the sound of preceding albums. He adds that this is a "strong" album with many "classic radio" staples, but the second disc of the Deluxe Edition does not add anything essential to the listening experience.<ref name="collector" />

In 2005, ''Down to Earth'' was ranked number 431 in ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''{{'}}s book ''The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Best of Rock & Metal – Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten|year=2005|publisher=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]|language=de|isbn=3-89880-517-4|page=36}}</ref>