PERFECT STRANGERS

Deep Purple MK II does not really need any introduction. It is simply one of the best ever rock bands to ever grace this planet. That though was based on some excellent albums from the 1970s and ditto legendary gigs, whose three of them was fused into the legendary Made In Japan live album.

That was then....

Sometimes later, in 1984, MK II reappeared with this album and some scattered magic.

Let's start with the sound. Gone is most of their organic sound and in comes the generic 1980s plastic fantastic sound. It is also obvious that the hair metal and the general heavy metal scene influenced this album. Deep Purple plays it safe on this album. Too safe.

The best two songs on this album is the rather superb Knocking At Your Back Door and the great title track. Inbetween these two songs, we get some Rainbow left overs type of tracks and some other dubious pleasures. Most of all; we get a band who are desperate to get this right and overkill most things here. We also get an album which probably sounded good back then, but whose the 26 years inbetween then and now has treated very badly. For example tracks like Nobody's Home which was great then, but sounds pretty bad these days.

In short; this is neither a good album or an album that has survived the passing of time. I am stucked between two or three, but falls down on two Betlehem stars.

2.5 stars

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