Deep Purple: Albums Ranked |Worst to Best 

Agree, deserves more appreciation. I like Come Hell Or High Water. I just don't understand why song like Anya is nowhere.

​@@kg0173well I was at Purple gig in Italy in 2023 and they played Anya...

Great album but to high a key for Gillan to sing comfortably on some tracks (which Joe Lynn Turner was going to sing at one stage) . The production is too excoriating in the treble but generally the good songs are very good.

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Actually? Yes I’m a fan as well; but it’d be kinda ridiculously ignorant for any other artists who were worth their salt 🧂 Dont’cha think? Of course it is. Black Sabbath put 3 Lp’s out in less than 15 months after that one ☝️ So how’bout that one!? 😳 Yeah. I know right? Titled; Paranoid and Master Of Reality’s that next wave of the heaviest sounds coming outta 🇬🇧 And in Amerikkka in just short shrift afterwards destroying all of this hippy dippy shite 💩 beginning soon after Iggy and The Stooges; MC5 and Alice Cooper S tore his 🐤 in half lol . Hey 👋 he did think it could fly Or at least that’ll be what he’d tell you if you ever met him. Honestly though..? He has no idea how he will follow Iggy Pop so he took some pillows outta the van, ripped’em open and the fans did the rest. End of story. So... please never believe just as Ozzy with the bat ; doves 🕊 etc ( obviously planned after being turned down by 6 major labels it was actually Sharon whom came up with that one and now he’s got publicity doesn’t he.? Yup hun, this is pretty much how things go in this lousy, filthy business I’d be a part of for the next 30+ years on and off the road living like a Rockstar ✨ It’s not as glamorous as folks think it’d be. No, not at all my friend; well worth it though if you’re interested in getting head whilst doing an 8-ball and getting paid obscene amounts of money from one gig after another as the van rolls on with much more girls than were there previously! I cannot tell ya how many gals or guys who will have sex with you just because you play in a musical act they’re into and do virtually every thing you can dream of 😴 Pathetic, disgusted, empathy isn’t that far away from the woods that I feel for them. I’m officially retired and not by my own choices either; but this is how it goes. here today, dead tomorrow. Well, hopefully I’ve let you into a world you’re never going to feel. Don’t sweat 😓 💦 it hunny. Ok.? Truly, you’re better off than I am ever going to be again. Sincerely yours, DJP ex PostMortem and Kilslug Boston Massachusetts USA Amerikkka of course. Right.? 🇨🇳🏳️Whomever has the most toys wins. Asians 🇹🇷

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I feel the same way about Rainbow Rising

I can say the same about 3 to 4 more Deep Purple albums. In Rock is not that exceptional.

Absolutely, feel the same way about Carl Palmer. To me those 2 are the best of all time, and both rarely mentioned.

back in the 70's , Ian rancked often top in de drummer lists. He is brilliant and certainly on Burn . Fact that Maca used his and Gilmour's services for a gig , says enough.

@@Spock105 Not only a gig, but on the “Run Devil Run” album too.

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 didn't know that . And I had it on cd . But as usual I never read the small letters or lyrics . Back into vinyl and I can happily read those as back in the 70's.

He is not, it is a thing of Zeitgeist, a Word from my language, in the 70ies and 80ies paice was a force in every poll

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Flight of the rat is one of my all time favorite songs.

Amo o Deep Purple, pra mim é a melhor banda de hard rock da história.

For me 10 or 12 near tie for 2nd above machine head. My two way tie for top dog in rock and purplendicular. Only albums below machine head slaves and masters by a tad come and taste the band mark 1 recordings stormbeinger grew on me so perhaps it should be second and multi tie land for third. Brain damage to differentiate more. Big part depends on my mood. There are many shades of deep purple... Rapture of the deep definitely below machine head for me. Not a bad album just not as enjoyable for some reason. Progressive rock hits home runs but some albums can strike out.

Yup. PS belongs in the top 3.

Agreed, well said.

Agree. These albums are so different that it's hard for me to compare with other albums. In other cases, only the details changed, but the essence remained the same - hard rock, but in the case of the first replacement, the changes were radical.

@@ninoorjon One could argue the first three albums were by another band.

Agree. Pre Gillan era is full of wonderful music.

I completely agree.

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Apart from the mention of WDWTWA you aren't really a Deep Purple fan .

@@johnbarrett4846 dumb ass remark. Have all their studio albums and attended my 1st concert by them in 1973.

Come Taste The Band is a fantastic little album released 47 years ago on 7th November 2022.

@@johnbarrett4846 wow you say he isn't a fan because he just has a differing opinion?

Glad you like them!

And Strange kind of Woman is not on.

Same for me, no one came and fools are masterpieces...

They've played it numerous times with Morse. Interestingly, he and Jon Lord would swap the guitar and keyboard roles in the instrumental break from how they were on the original.

Nice one! Fools is one of my top 5 songs of all time. Absolutely love it

m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BZoDqAw-QsY.html Listen to the absolute masterpiece the modern Purple make out of it. It's just perfect and with Blackmore they would have never have played it.

They played it quite a bit, certainly in the early 70's.

Definitely that's one of my top 5 tracks

Yes , definitely good and well-spoken Observations . 👍 To you , m8 !

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The Batlle Rages on is fantastic!!!! Anya!!!!! Uffff Masterpiece!!!!!

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Sounds like a great night.

I love fireball

I agree

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Killer peformance! The Toccata and Fugue in D-minor intro is awesome, followed by that accelerated, blazing version of Highway Star. They sounded so relentlessly heavy and fast at the time.

Mamas Boys & UFO with Atomic Tommy M were my faves. Meatloaf was all I expected he would be and for all the reasons I can't stand his music. Our local pop sensation John Parr co-composed Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries about Purple & their treatment of Meat at Knebbo.

the rain and the mud.... all fuckin' day....

I was there too, meatloaf was crap.

Same her, PS was the last one I bought. I thought they were the greatest heavy rock band ever from "In Rock" up to and including "Burn". "Stormbringer" was a disappontment, "Come taste the band" I barely see as a DP record.

@@TTTT-oc4eb Agree on Come taste the band.We must be getting old non the less. I lived and breathed music in the 80,s but kind of got distracted in the 90,s. Mind you I think guys like us got the very best of a lot of bands that went on to keep reforming and churning vinyl out?The 70,s and 80,s were a breeding ground in the UK for solid heavy rock outfits for sure.

I was in the very same place about 18 months ago. I latched on to the Sea of Tranquility channel and have really enjoyed being brought up to date whilst also celebrating my musical past.

@@mahogany174 Yes I watch that channel now as well and like you am playing catch up slowly!Thanks.

Their new album will be great .. from the 2 singles I’ve heard .

Completely agree

The deluxe CD set of Made In Japan has Speed King on it. Also has Black Night and a song called Lucille.

THE greatest Purple album.

Ian Paice sounds amazing . The band really gelled.

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Sea of Tranquility and Classic album review are by far the best music channels

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Yup. Kinda like the way that Paranoid; War Pigs and Iron Man have for the past 50 years, right.? Thinking of what ya just wrote down here Luv.

I agree. I have always liked this album. Apparently far more than other people.

I should do that

He would have to share it with a number of others. He does seem to be as difficult to deal with as he is talented as a musician. I enjoy the videos he does with his wife. She's a very beautiful woman with a lovely singing voice and she seems to be able to soothe that savage beast.

Im surprised that him and JLT existed in the same band together, 2 of the biggest pricks in music.

He's probably not the best human being in rock. But man, he can THROW DOWN on guitar

Blackmore was right about everything except letting Roger Glover go in 1973. He knew that in 1979.

Most musicians have a big ego , annoying sometimes but it is that ego that gets them to the point of fame. I think there are not that many bands without big ego's . I can think of GONG as an example where music and humour are priority to individual stardom. REM is prob. also an example of missing ego.

I was at at Knebworth in 85

I'd say Morse's eclectic instrumental forays with the Dixie Dregs are firmly in the fusion world, clearly influenced by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever and the like (check out "What If" or "Night Meets Light"). That he was a gifted bluegrass shredder and classical guitarist, equally capable of composing Irish folk pieces and light-speed metallic boogie only made his particular brand of 'fusion' more adventurous than most.

@@KowankoMusic I don't disagree that he can play fusion, but I stand by my previous observation that it's with a strong country flavor. He uses very little of the complex chord and scales typical of modern jazz. I've got all his solo work and every Dregs album, and as a guitar player I've studied his work extensively. Morse is one of a kind, but he's not a jazz guitarist.

Kudos for the Frank Gambale name check.

Any time!

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I also really like Who Do We Think We Are. It's not quite as consistent as Machine Head, but still great album.

Couldn’t agree more about Made in Japan. Easily my most fav. Live recording of any band!

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Hi... Strange Kinda Woman featured on the USA version of the album, not the UK or European version. The 25th anniversary edition did feature it though

@@classicalbum Thanks for that, that is what I had heard, but now you've backed it up, I'm sure that is the case. So what was the actual listing on said American version ? I'm guessing that one of the European and UK versions tracks was omitted as a pure inclusion would upset their Mk 2 trademark of 7 songs. 👍

I saw that tour when it rocked up at Manchester, JLT wasn't too bad, it was more Rainbow than Purple, sound wise in IMHO and I was glad when Ian G returned.

by who?

@@mikev4621 American public and music critics

@@milosdunjic8718 I think the critics rated them. The American public tends to like American artists; but they weren't un appreciated in the States

No way Slaves and Masters is the worst. Its very similar to Perfect Strangers and has a lot good songs (I would say every song on that album is good). I never liked House Of Blue Light and then some of the later albums.

@@kg0173 Not really. Although the entire reunion was under the dictation of Ritchie, who tried to make Rainbow from Deep Purple and reworked the same riffs all the time, during the recording of Slaves and Masters, having no longer any resistance, he forced the group to record the most kitschy, borrowed and lackluster album.

@@ninoorjon I like it, I have listened to it a lot. I like it as whole. There are albums that I have listened no more than couple times like Rapture of the deep, Infinite, No what.... So in my book it is a good album, basically no worse than Perfect Strangers, The Battle Rages On, Purpendicular. Purpendicular I think has the most quality songs. I like this period of Deep Purple.