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Rapture of the Deep Special Edition

Deep Purple - Rapture of the Deep Special Edition Audio CD

A fair review of the Deep Purple "Rapture of the Deep Special Edition" 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.

Band: Deep Purple
Title: Rapture of the Deep Special Edition
Rating:

Release Date: 2006-06-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Money Talks 2: Girls Like That 3: Wrong Man 4: Rapture of the Deep 5: Clearly Quite Absurd 6: Don’t Let Go 7: Back to Back 8: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 9: MTV 10: Junkyard Blues 11: Before Time Began 12: Clearly Quite Absurd – New Version 13: Things I Never Said 14: The Well-Dressed Guitar (Studio Version) 15: Rapture of the Deep (Live) 16: Wrong Man (Live) 17: Highway Star (Live) 18: Smoke on the Water (Live) 19: Perfect Strangers (Live)

The well dressed album
just make Blackmore-Lord fans to listen this album and they will guess that maybe Highway Star's solo is the best one, but current Deep Purple is the most fresh, vital, charismatic and creative band as never, after 1970-1973 years!

Rapture Of The Deep is Dp's one of the best album. are you bored with Morse-Airey VS Blackmore-Lord discussions? so, don't continue discussion if you're Morse-Airey fan. Actually, Purpendicular and Rapture are THE BEST albums after 1984 Perfect Strangers album. The album sounds too hard, morse has heavy riffs, Airey is just in his way, he's shining, Paice sounds a bit weak, but still good, Roger as always knows his job, and. . . . and. . . . of course, great Mister Ian Gillan - the immortal voice of Rock'N'Roll. Rapture is another Gillan-screaming album.

what about songs, Money Talks and Wrong Man are heavy heavy DP-esque songs, rocking. Rapture Of The Deep - the real classic song. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye - Sometimes I really think that this song was written during Machine Head sessions.

excellent
No complaints, would buy from again. Product shipped quickly and just as described. Thank you!.

An extra star for the additional CD
The out of character ballad Clearly Quite Absurd is deeply moving. By itself, Rapture of the Deep is an excellent album, perhaps the best of the post-Blackmore era. Of course there are rockers, the blusey Wrong Man and fun Girls like that stand out, as well as the more experimental Junkyard Blues and Before Time Began. By itself I'd give the CD 4 stars.

Then there's the bonus disk which contains Things I Never Said, a song which appeared only on the Japanese release. The track is very reminiscent of the classic lineup (I wonder if Deep Purple didn't intentionally write a Mark II-style song, but left it off the US version for exactly that reason). The live tracks are fun (so what if it's the 8 millionth version of Smoke On The Water they've released? The song still rocks. ) The added CD is worth the extra star.

Rapture of the Deep/ special edition '06
Of the 3 main lead
singers Purple's had since '68, I've always been partial to Ian Gillian,
(though Evans & Coverdale are very good also). I honestly was surprised at how good this cd is. Although the band has
morphed & re-morphed about 8 times, they seem to land on their feet time
after time.
The cd, 'Rapture of the Deep', is most definitely a case in point. I
saw them in '73, and know what the sound was like live. In fact, during
that same time-period, they were officially declared THE LOUDEST BAND
on the planet !!! On this cd, they have a lot of fresh, new material, &
I can't really remember a bad track. HIGHLY RECOMMEND *****.

Very solid album. The stuff on the second CD is a really good value, too!
In that review, I wrote this. My review of the original version of the album:

I saw Deep Purple back in 1994 when Steve Morse had just joined the band (the gig I saw with him was his third ever). . "Very good concert by a band who surprised me. Well worth the long trip to see them, and I hope they continue. " Boy have they continued, and they're like a good wine, they're getting better with age. Their last few albums havent' done well sales wise in the US, which is a damn crime.

Purpendicular was spectacular, one of the best of Purple's entire catalogue. Abandon I didn't care for, but some did. Bananas was a wonderful album, but I think suffered from the perception it got from its goofy title.

Rapture of the Deep is very much a traditional sounding Deep Purple album, and when I started writing this review, I planned on doing a track by track review of it, which is something I generally do. The problem I have is that the album is so universally solid, I'd end up saying most the same thing for every track. This is a great album from start to finish. Even the tracks that others feel are weak in some other reviews I've read I like. It's been said Ian Gillan isn't the screamer he used to be, and that's for sure. He can't wail like he could when he was in his 20's, but his "modern voice" fits the material perfectly. There's rockers, ballads, and everything in between. A great piece of modern music from one of the bands that defined hard rock. The lyrics in the song "MTV" are fairly amusing, and when I saw Purple turn up on Eddie Trunk's show on VH1 Classic, that's all I could think of. :)

You cannot go wrong with this album. Geezer rock be damned.

My review of the updated 2 CD version of the album:

An updated version of the album came out. It was a 2 CD version. Disc 1 is exactly the same as the original 2005 release. Disc 2 is "all new". This new version has 8 extra tracks. Most are live, but there's a few standouts. The standouts for the updated version are an alternate version of "Clearly Quite Absurd", and. . "The Well Dressed Guitar", which is a track I've been waiting on Deep Purple to release for some time now. Back before they released their last album (Bananas), I saw 'em live, and they played Well Dressed in concert, saying it was something they were working on for their next album. It was FABULOUS. I absolutely loved it. So I waited, and before Bananas came out, the space shuttle exploded. Because of that, Steve Morse wrote a song that appeared on Bananas called "Contact Lost". It bumped Well Dressed from the album. They said Well Dressed might turn up as a B Side or something, and it never did. So I hoped it would be on Rapture, and it wasn't. I had just a live bootleg mp3 of the track, which wasn't quite the same. Then I heard of this 2 CD Special Edition of Rapture of the Deep, and "Well Dressed" WAS on there - finally. As good as the main Rapture of the Deep album is, I think "The Well Dressed Guitar" is a track worth picking up the 2CD version of, even if you have the original - I feel it's that good. I will go so far as to say that "Well Dresses" is by far my favorite single track of the Steve Morse era, and Ian Gillan doesn't even sing on it. :)

If you don't have either version, get this one. As I write this in May of 2007, they're priced pretty much the same, so the 2CD version is a much better value anyway.

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