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Deep Purple - Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple Audio CD

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Deep Purple Band: Deep Purple
Title: Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Black Night 2: Speed King 3: Fireball 4: Strange Kind of Woman 5: Child in Time 6: Woman from Tokyo 7: Highway Star 8: Space Truckin' 9: Burn 10: Stormbringer 11: Demon's Eye 12: Smoke on the Water

Great CD...bad sound
Also, the underrated Mark III highlight "Burn". This album was my first introduction to quite possibly the BEST rock group EVER!!!!

All of the hits are here from the legendary Mark II lineup, including their sole hit "Smoke On The Water" and the concert favorites "Highway Star" and "Woman from Tokyo".

Sadly, this was one of those CDs that lacked the proper mastering technology we have today. It was done back in the early 80's and the original vinyl had the volume all the way down to fit all 30 minutes on each side (much like Apple Records' US LP pressing of "The Beatles").

I'm surprised that the group has yet to release a definitive 2 CD compilation of the group from 1968 to today.

As a dedicated fan of the group, do yourself a favor and buy "The Very Best Of Deep Purple". You'll get all the tracks from "Deepest Purple" plus their Mark I hit "Hush", "Kentucky Woman", and their 1984 reunion single "Knockin' At Your Back Door". Also, check out "Machine Head" and "Made In Japan". . . CLASSIC PURPLE!!!.


Good introduction to Deep Purple
This is an essential album to own. I've been a Deep Purple fan since age 14, but when I saw this in a record store seven years later, I just had to get it. It's some of their best material from two different lineups with the band - Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice and Jon Lord, and also Blackmore, Paice, Lord, David Coverdale (Ian Gillan's replacement) and Glenn Hughes (Roger Glover's replacement).

The tracks are as follows:

1. Black Night 2. Speed King 3. Fireball 4. Strange Kind Of Woman 5. Child In Time 6. Woman From Tokyo 7. Highway Star 8. Space Truckin' 9. Burn 10. Stormbringer 11. Demon's Eye 12. Smoke On The Water

This album's biggest hits and best songs are Black Night, Child In Time, Woman From Tokyo, Highway Star, Space Truckin', Stormbringer and Smoke On The Water.

For anybody not familiar with the band, Ritchie lackmore is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Jon Lord is one of the best keyboardists ever, Ian Paice is one of the best drummers ever, Roger Glover is a great bass player, and both Ian Gillan and David Coverdale are great singers.

Deep Purple has been a very influential group for several decades, and this is a good sampling of why this is so. Highly recommended.


A very good introduction to the band in the 70's
And if you like it, just buy all the studio albums from this glorious period in the band history. . In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Who do you think we are, Stormbringer and Burn. . . there are excellent tracks there that you won't find on this very best of. If you want only one cd from Deep Purple, this is a very good choice. Recommanded. .


An early best of - 3.5 stars


Which on the face of this collection is a bit unfair as it's hard to go past awesome rockers like Black Night, Fireball, Strange Kind of Woman and Woman from Tokyo. A relatively early best of that has been re-released so many times (usually around xmas funnily enough) this collection provides a very useful career round up of one of the earliest and most successful hard rock bands, a bunch of long hairs so influential yet who have somehow been less touted than, say, Black Sabbath over the years. And when backed up with stuff like Demons Eye and the all conquering Smoke on the Water you really have the basis for an excellent highway album or something to put on when a bunch of older blokes around going to be around.

Where this best of does fall down a touch is that it's an earlier collection and thus misses some of the later moments of greatness this band pulled off. I mean as sacrilegous as it may be to say out loud but some of their later stuff was better than a couple of the tracks on this single disc collection. The title track to Rapture of the Deep being a case in point, it's stronger than some of the stuff here. But of course your average Deep Purple anorak would never believe that, they are still convinced that only the 70's stuff is great.

This release will always sell as it is a concise single disc run through of a chunk of this bands more well known memorable moments. But given it's age it may be of limited use as a genuine career retrospective which I suppose we may not get for a while yet as the band are still going strong at the time of writing.

A perfect introduction and about as good as any of the other myriad best of's put out under this bands moniker.


Great songs poor remaster
Its what made me a rabid Purple fan. I remember being given this by my bro on vinyl many years ago. FInally grabbed this on CD. . . . though old memories came flooding back, the music is sadly dulled by the poor production.


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