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Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Audio CD

A fair review of the Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Deep Purple reviews here, or go back to the Deep Purple tabs.

Deep Purple Band: Deep Purple
Title: Perfect Strangers
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-06-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Knocking at Your Back Door 2: Under the Gun 3: Nobody's Home 4: Mean Streak 5: Perfect Strangers 6: Gypsy's Kiss 7: Wasted Sunsets 8: Hungry Daze 9: Not Responsible 10: Son of Alerik [*]

Maturity Rocks!
) albums. In my opinion,this is the epitomy of all the Deep Purple (Gillian & Glover incl. The band brings a maturity here that makes the CD strong from beginning to end. Many of their 70's releases were plagued by filler material. Not so here. It's a must have for any Purple fan.


Re-united and on fire!


I love virtually everything about it. My favourite Purple album by far. From the simple, yet iconic DP logo that i scrawled on countless surfaces to the thick and heavy production.

From the opening riff of the dirty, dirty 'Knocking At Your Back Door' to the sprawling very 70's-esque title track, it's perfect Purple. Heavy, hard and tuneful with a dash of experimentation. It doesn't sound like supposed 'classic' Purple and it's all the better for it; this is a rejuvenated band showing the critics that there is still plenty of fuel in the tank and fire in the belly.

Blackmore is buzzing and the writing is top notch. I'd say there is no filler at all, although the blend of styles from the straight rock of 'Not Responsible' to the slow 'Wasted Sunsets' and the recurring Eastern motif's in that epic title track may divide some purists. These are also complete 'songs' rather than a stitched together showcase for the individual talents to shine. As such, i think there is a greater overall cohesion to this album than to many of Purple's other efforts. It is very much an album from a band on form.

One word must go to my favourite track 'Hungry Daze' which recalls the story telling of 'Smoke On The Water' a style of writing Deep Purple were always very good at. For some reason it always makes the hairs stand up and makes me want to stand up, jump up, play air guitar and sing-a-long. Any album with even one song that makes you want to do that is worth the money, especially at the price this classic is going for!

So buy it!.


Perfect strangers!
I hate that "big drum" sound! But if you ignore "big drum" sound on this album, this is still great album!. I'm a fan of 70's hard rock! I don't like 80's music at all.


A master of many tongues...
`Perfect Strangers' seemed like a once in a lifetime, happy accident and is it would soon pan out, the band would never again harness their volatile chemistry to make classic rock. In the fall of 1984, the unthinkable happened in which Deep Purple's greatest lineup reformed and reintroduced themselves to a younger metal audience who knew them only from the fact that their current rock heroes praised such landmark recordings as `In Rock', `Machine Head' and `Made in Japan' from this once and future mighty band. Blackmore and Gillan could only stand each other for so long. `Strangers' was a great record because it sprouted its own share of classics that could stand beside the ones from the early `70s. The title track is so creepily moody it immediately raises goose bumps and the hilarious and masterful masterpiece "Knocking at Your Back Door" opens the album brilliantly. My other faves include "Nobody's Home" and "Gypsy Kiss" (I love the bridge section with Paice and Blackmore pounding along). Ritchie seems revitalized here as his playing was the best it had been since `Rising'! The rest of the band, refugees from Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Whitesnake, were now right where they belonged and never sounded tighter. `Perfect Strangers' set a standard that was unfortunately not to be duplicated and band seemed tired by the time a follow-up was released three long years later, but the cracks were already reappearing.


The Best Metal Of 1984
The sound was very similar to MACHINE HEAD, and the songs were mostly top-notch. PERFECT STRANGERS, the reunion album by Deep Purple Mk II, was the best heavy metal album of 1984. "Mean Streak" is about a vulgar or abusive woman (nowadays, one interpretation could include the stepmother in 2004's A CINDERELLA STORY); "Knocking At Your Back Door" is a rocker about thrill-seeking; and "Under The Gun" is an antiwar anthem that's highly relevant with the current situation in Iraq. However, this CD's defining moment is the title track, a song about how the past can hold you back which led to my decision to put looking good for my favorite female celebrities as a higher priority than food-related reunions at my old school. Overall, the remastered PERFECT STRANGERS is one hard rock CD you don't want to miss.


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