Deep Purple had kicked off the '70s with a new lineup and a string of brilliant albums that quickly established them (along with fellow British giants Led Zeppelin and Black...
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Bananas has every sign of being a disappointment. Jon Lord's grandiose keyboards were always a focus but he's gone, it's released in the heady age of Radiohead, and it's got...
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The Mach III line-up's primary contribution. The Coverdale-Hughes vocal trade-offs were a good idea, but half the songs are weak. The beginning of the...
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The departure of vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover seemed to rejuvenate Deep Purple, and 1974's Burn was a huge improvement over their previous effort, the...
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Ritchie Blackmore bails, ex-Zephyr, ex-The James Gang, soon-to-be dead guy Tommy Bolin steps in. An ill-fated tour, and this disaster signaled the (first)...
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When Ritchie Blackmore departed Deep Purple in the mid-'70s and formed Elf (which evolved into Blackmore's Rainbow and featured Ronnie James Dio), his replacement was Tommy...
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This is a record that this reviewer can listen to two or three times in one sitting, and he's not even much of a Deep Purple fan -- but then, Deep Purple wasn't much like...
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Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple will perfectly satisfy anyone wanting to discover Deep Purple without shelling out for the comprehensive, four-CD box set Shades...
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When something works, do it again. This is In Rock II for all intents, with the title track subbing for "Speed King," plus future concert standard "Strange Kind Of Woman." A...
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One of Deep Purple's three essential albums, 1971's Fireball finds the band taking the no-holds-barred, hard-rock direction of the previous year's In Rock to new creative...
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Alongside Sabbath's Paranoid and Led Zeppelin II, this is a masterpiece of hard rock/proto-metal. In 1970, it was the loudest record available. "Speed King" was fast and...
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After satisfying all of their classical music kinks with keyboard player Jon Lord's overblown Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Deep Purple's soon-to-be classic Mark II...
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Led Zeppelin's fourth album, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and Deep Purple's Machine Head stand as the Holy Trinity of English hard rock. These recordings provide the blueprint...
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The time restrictions of rock song format were tossed out by the live DP, and here's the proof. Excessive, noisy, frequently long-winded at times, but revealing the players...
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Recorded over three nights in August 1972, Deep Purple's Made in Japan was the record that brought the band to headliner status in the U.S. and elsewhere, and it remains a...
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This live recording, made in 1975, comes from Ritchie Blackmore's last three concerts with the band before leaving to form Rainbow. It features Deep Purple's Mark III, with...
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No kidding. Mach II see if they remember the Made In Japan set list on this beyond-redundant live set. Slightly redeemed by a cool, new studio version of...
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Deep Purple's definitive Mark II lineup finally caved in to the temptation of the almighty dollar, "made up," and reunited for 1984's Perfect Strangers. Luckily, it is one...
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The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP, put together in...
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Stormbringer falls short of the excellence of Machine Head and Who Do We Think We Are, but nonetheless boasts some definite classics -- including the fiery "Lady Double...
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Yes, before metal, the Purp did have a streak of Carnaby Street psychedelia, and it's on display here. The 10-minute workout on "River Deep Mountain High" is commendable,...
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A year after the innovative remake of "You Keep Me Hanging On," England's answer to Vanilla Fudge, was this early version of Deep Purple, which featured vocalist Rod Evans,...
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Signifies the third time Gillan joined the band, in between two or three (who's counting?) stints with Black Sabbath, with whom he simply did not fit. This album has all the...
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Since its re-formation with its classic lineup in 1984, Deep Purple were one of those veteran bands that made its money playing its well-known songs in concert while...
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Deep Purple had kicked off the '70s with a new lineup and a string of brilliant albums that quickly established them (along with fellow British giants Led Zeppelin and Black...
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A lot of care went into the track selection and mastering on this four-CD set, devoted to 30 years in the history of Deep Purple -- though for most listeners, discs one...
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This live album captures a complete show by Deep Purple Mach IV, featuring Tommy Bolin on guitar, recorded at Long Beach Arena, with two bonus tracks from a show in...
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This is a live recording of Purple's infamous appearance at the 1974 California Jam Festival, which was televised by ABC-TV in prime time. At the end of the show, Ritchie...
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It was only last year, who's in the band? I've lost track. Sorry. I think Steve Morse is on guitar. That's Blackmore over there in the corner,...
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Twenty-eight years after the band's inception, Deep Purple venture into the most adventurous album of their storied career. With guitar virtuoso Steve Morse, of ex-Dixie...
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Deep Purple continued cranking out new albums into the late '90s, despite diminished audiences and little attention from the media. But as long as they continued to satisfy...
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Although purists might argue otherwise, Machine Head remains the "ultimate" Deep Purple album, the one LP that everybody knows and loves and the home, of course, to one of...
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Recorded over three nights in August 1972, Deep Purple's Made in Japan was the record that brought the band to headliner status in the U.S. and elsewhere, and it remains a...
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Rhino Records first attracted notice for its ability to assemble good, well-thought-out best-of and greatest hits compilations on acts (such as the Beau Brummels and the...
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The title is something of a misnomer -- "extended versions," after all, conjures up visions of 12-inch remixes and protracted studio work-outs. Here, however, we receive...
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Spitfire released the CD version of this concert that Deep Purple filmed in London. While a solid live album with an interesting and rare performance, Live at the Royal...
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The Mark IV lineup of Deep Purple was the last before this innovative heavy metal band's initial 1976 breakup. By this time, a variety of factors were sounding the death...
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This is not a Deep Purple album: it's a compilation of the singles released in the mid-to-late-'60s by Episode Six (Ian Gillan and Roger Glover's pre-Purple band). Six...
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Deep Purple had kicked off the '70s with a new lineup and a string of brilliant albums that quickly established them (along with fellow British giants Led Zeppelin and Black...
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Back in 1970, it seemed as though any British group that could was starting to utilize classical elements in their work -- for some, like ELP, that meant quoting from the...
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This special edition three-CD set features the three 1972 concert recordings from which the classic Made in Japan album was selected, remixed, and remastered, and almost...
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As a present to their fans, particularly the ones on the Internet, the band decided to put out another live album -- such live releases now tallying in double figures,...
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Deep Purple's 2005 album Rapture of the Deep generally maintains the quality of 2003's surprisingly sturdy Bananas. It's the second release from the re-energized line-up of...
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