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Music : Deep Purple: Remastered
Rating: 
- Fault lines among the pearls
Deep Purple's third album brings a close to their first incarnation. While this line-up isn't as highly-regarded as the one that follows, it still impresses. Rod Evans wasn't quite up to Ian Gillan's standard, but his voice suited the band's style. Where they are lacking is in that dynamism and flamboyance that characterises later recordings. 'Chasing Shadows,' with its exotic rhythm, gets the album off to a good start, while 'Blind' features a great baroque performance on harpsichord by Jon Lord. Unfortunately, the quality is uneven from here on. Much of the album's worth hinges on their take on T.S. Eliot's 'cruellest month,' 'April.' It opens with some Gothic organ and a mildly haunting acoustic guitar line, but the strings in the middle section are drab and unnecessary. The track lacks impetus and simply isn't good enough to warrant its twelve minutes. The dark, bluesy 'Bird Has Flown' has character aplenty by comparison. Richie Blackmore employs the wah wah pedal liberally here, unlike on later albums. 'Deep Purple' is worth investigating for the fan who buys the later material, but not before.
Rating:
- Hidden Classic
It's such a shame this album isn't more widely known. It even took me a couple of minutes to find it on Amazon to write this review both because of it's self title and the fact that it is obscured by Deep Purple's later albums.
Great acid rock sound. I occaisonally DJ in a bar, I always play "Why Didn't Rosemary" and I always get asked who it is. The song April is a beautiful piece of music that attempts to fuse rock with classical music and in my opinion succeeds greatly. The Painter, Blind and Bird Has Flown are also fantastic songs.
Yes I know it's a different lineup but this should be considered up there with Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball & Machinehead. The style may be different but the quality of the music is exactly the same!
Rating: - One of the best DP albums
This is the third and last album made by the first lineup of DP rather than the better-known Mk2. The first two were somewhat uneven and contained several cover songs per album (not all of which can be considered successes), but the band's performance starts to come together in this one (great guitar and keyboard work by Blackmore and Lord) and most of the material is written by DP.
The style is quite different from their later albums - it's not exclusively hard rock. I consider this a good thing as its variety makes it quite interesting, but people used to the heavier sound of, say, "In Rock" may be slightly disappointed at first.
The only slight let-down for me is the cover song "Lalena" which seems a bit out-of-place; and it must be said that not all of the bonus tracks are entirely up to the standards of the "main" album (both in sound quality and song material) - but that's to be expected. Still, the extra live version of "The Painter" is excellent (as is the studio version).
For me, this is up there with "Fireball" and "Machine Head" as one of my favourite DP albums. Definitely worth checking out.
The CD is accompanied by a very nice booklet.
Rating: - They don't make em' like this anymore
Part of the DP re-issues this is a worthwhile listen with an even better read (the booklet is so good). If it sounds a bit ropey it's because it was recorded during an extended weekend with the singer sleeping at night in the transit.
Fair enough it's not the DP most people know & love (& some of this is dross) but it has a certain charm & it's a sunny day & I'm in a good mood thus the rating.
- Fault lines among the pearlsDeep Purple's third album brings a close to their first incarnation. While this line-up isn't as highly-regarded as the one that follows, it still impresses. Rod Evans wasn't quite up to Ian Gillan's standard, but his voice suited the band's style. Where they are lacking is in that dynamism and flamboyance that characterises later recordings. 'Chasing Shadows,' with its exotic rhythm, gets the album off to a good start, while 'Blind' features a great baroque performance on harpsichord by Jon Lord. Unfortunately, the quality is uneven from here on. Much of the album's worth hinges on their take on T.S. Eliot's 'cruellest month,' 'April.' It opens with some Gothic organ and a mildly haunting acoustic guitar line, but the strings in the middle section are drab and unnecessary. The track lacks impetus and simply isn't good enough to warrant its twelve minutes. The dark, bluesy 'Bird Has Flown' has character aplenty by comparison. Richie Blackmore employs the wah wah pedal liberally here, unlike on later albums. 'Deep Purple' is worth investigating for the fan who buys the later material, but not before.
Rating:
- Hidden ClassicIt's such a shame this album isn't more widely known. It even took me a couple of minutes to find it on Amazon to write this review both because of it's self title and the fact that it is obscured by Deep Purple's later albums.
Great acid rock sound. I occaisonally DJ in a bar, I always play "Why Didn't Rosemary" and I always get asked who it is. The song April is a beautiful piece of music that attempts to fuse rock with classical music and in my opinion succeeds greatly. The Painter, Blind and Bird Has Flown are also fantastic songs.
Yes I know it's a different lineup but this should be considered up there with Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball & Machinehead. The style may be different but the quality of the music is exactly the same!
Rating:
- One of the best DP albumsThis is the third and last album made by the first lineup of DP rather than the better-known Mk2. The first two were somewhat uneven and contained several cover songs per album (not all of which can be considered successes), but the band's performance starts to come together in this one (great guitar and keyboard work by Blackmore and Lord) and most of the material is written by DP.
The style is quite different from their later albums - it's not exclusively hard rock. I consider this a good thing as its variety makes it quite interesting, but people used to the heavier sound of, say, "In Rock" may be slightly disappointed at first.
The only slight let-down for me is the cover song "Lalena" which seems a bit out-of-place; and it must be said that not all of the bonus tracks are entirely up to the standards of the "main" album (both in sound quality and song material) - but that's to be expected. Still, the extra live version of "The Painter" is excellent (as is the studio version).
For me, this is up there with "Fireball" and "Machine Head" as one of my favourite DP albums. Definitely worth checking out.
The CD is accompanied by a very nice booklet.
Rating:
- They don't make em' like this anymorePart of the DP re-issues this is a worthwhile listen with an even better read (the booklet is so good). If it sounds a bit ropey it's because it was recorded during an extended weekend with the singer sleeping at night in the transit.
Fair enough it's not the DP most people know & love (& some of this is dross) but it has a certain charm & it's a sunny day & I'm in a good mood thus the rating.