best deep purple album
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Topic: best deep purple album
Posted By: martinprog77
Subject: best deep purple album
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 04:20
which one is the best one  ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 04:45
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Well damn, with a name like Slaves and Masters, how can you possibly go wrong? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: prognose
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 06:35
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None of the above lol.
It's between the following remasters
Machinehead
Fireball
Stormbringer
The book of Taliesyn
In rock
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Posted By: dave-the-rave
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 11:34
With only two choices, proper grammar dictates, "Which one is the better one?" If there were three or more choices, you could ask, "Which one is best?" BTW, the answer is that 'Abandon' blows, and the best DP album is 'In Concert 1970/1972.' (Two weeks 'til what's left of DP at Radio City.) |
martinprog77 wrote:Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 12:08
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Abandon is by far the DP album that has impressed me the least.
Thus I'm going to vote for Slaves and Masters, although it isn't much of an effort. (it has its moments, though: King of dreams, Wicked ways, Love hurts and Fire in the basement are very good IMHO, and Joe Lynn Turner is a fine singer, though Gillan and most of all Coverdale are far better) By the way, my favourite DP album is Stormbringer (on with the boos), followed by the Fireball and Burn pair ------------- A flower? 
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Posted By: Hacketeer
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 13:37
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Slaves and Masters, solely because Blackmore plays on it.
Purple without Ritchie? Don't be daft! ------------- "Just keep me nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam" |
Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 03:34
I've never been a huge fan of Mr. Blackmore...in my opinion he's largely overrated as a player (he has a tendency to hit flat notes...) so his replacement with Steve Morse has never given me any problem at all. However, being Jon Lord my favourite keyboards player, I feared that his absence on the last two recordings would have disappointed me...well, as a matter of fact it did not! Don Airey is a very good performers and the albums are surprisingly good! Keep up the good work, guys!  ------------- A flower?
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Posted By: Hacketeer
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 14:02
Blackmore over-rated? By whom? As for the "flat-note" thing.......well, I'm stunned. Blackmore is streets ahead of any other player of his genre, some examples that spring to mind would include No No No (Fireball), Lazy (Machine Head), the solos from A200 (Burn) & Hold On (Stormbringer), or, the sublime Gates of Babylon (Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll)
Whilst Don Airey may well be a good keyboard player, he's not in Lords league. Mr Lord is the King of Hammond. ------------- "Just keep me nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam" |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 14:53
Choosing an album between these 2 is like choosing between UNION and TORMATO from YES.
But i think ABANDON is definitely the worst DP album ever.
I like KING OF DREAMS and a few more on SLAVES AND MASTERS
Yes the last 2 are quite good!
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 16:41
Ok... This is my 90's Purple's production chart:        P.s.: Compiled with albums that I have!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 16:43
| This is like the vote for WORST DP album, not best |
Posted By: Ely78
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 17:28
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"SLAVE AND MASTERS" because I adore Joe Lynn Turner. Voice and man!!! ------------- When the love becomes poetry, distant from the eyes (Quando l'Amore Diventa poesia/ Lontano Dagli occhi [Aphrodite's Child) |
Posted By: ZowieZiggy
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 09:23
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The question should be re-phrased into "Which Is The Worse DP album", but I admit than even so it would be difficult to answer that question. Here are some excerpts of my reviews for these albums (I have reviewed around 35 DP albums) :
About Slaves And Masters : "This is the Purple worst release. Stay away form this one. A single star."
About Abandon : "In "Abandon", there are eleven prog moments. Each break between the numbers. Between them, awful heavy metal songs (not even hard rock) for the huge majority of the tracks". "This "work" is only equalled by the infamous "Slaves & Masters". Same crap, same rating : one star.
I guess you had the idea.
Cheers. ------------- ZowieZiggy |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 09:29
Slaves & Masters is a Great album! 
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Posted By: Uther
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 12:56
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I think DP is overrated because all albums has some good track ( and some masterpiece) but the whole album is not quality consistent
On the other hand, their career were not lineal so that impact theri music...egos, egos before the band  ------------- What! can the devil speak true? Macbeth, 1. 3 |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 10:31
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it is actually Fireball, followed by Purpendicular :) out of these: Abandon |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 14:11
| What a choice! |
Posted By: Tetragon
Date Posted: August 08 2007 at 18:14
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Only three Proto Prog Deep Purple albums
'Shades Of '
'The book of Taliesyn'
'Deep Purple'
My choice being 'Deep Purple'
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 12:41
| I have to go with Abandon. i like this album mainly because i like Steve Morse's and Jon Lord's work here. And obviously I prefer Gillan to JL Turner. Anyday. |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 12:52
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I voted "Slaves And Masters", but my all time favourite is "Burn" ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 12:18
almost true, but if I had to choose, I'd choose Abandon |
Posted By: Lady In Black
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 12:22
Uhm... "Slaves And Masters" is a great album in all musical fields (and in AOR field is sure a masterpiece). And this chart is also my DP 90's chart. ------------- It's dark... I've fear... I have strong pains... A serpent is being born... That badly I did, I? |
Posted By: MrEd49
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 18:42
This is similar to asking me whether I'd prefer being mauled & eaten by a lion, a tiger, a grizzly bear or a great white shark. 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 12:34
| Slaves and Masters superiors the ugly Abandon but don't know if it beats Purpendicular or Bananas or ROTD. |
Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 22:16
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Abandon. Its a good album but not their greatest. Better than Slaves and Masters that album sounds dull and boring and all the songs sound the same. It just drifts past you. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 15:13
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My 80's 90's and 00's DP chart... I'm the only DP fan that hates Perfect Strangers (the album)
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1st and 2nd's and 3rd's I can listen to the entire album. 4th Skip almost all the songs. |
Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 08 2008 at 16:34
| Ian Gillan is the Metal God !!!!!!! |