Nololob
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Under The Gun, Hungry Daze and of course title track are my favourites from Perfect Strangers.
Deep Purple (Official Thread)
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E-Z
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I remember the reformed DEEP PURPLE giving an interview to BBC radio 1s The Friday night rock show with Tommy Vance back in 1984 when the PERFECT STRANGERS album had just been released and each band member was asked to name there favourite track off the new album?.
I remember Ritchie saying that his favourite track was WASTED SUNSETS cos it reminded him of LESLIE WEST'S MOUNTAIN (we were all great fan's of that band Ritchie said) cos of the 'backwards guitars' on it.
I think Ian Gillan's choice was either PERFECT STRANGERS or GYPSIES KISS i can't remember?. I think KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR & NOBODY'S HOME was also chosen but i can't remember by who?.
I remember Ritchie saying that his favourite track was WASTED SUNSETS cos it reminded him of LESLIE WEST'S MOUNTAIN (we were all great fan's of that band Ritchie said) cos of the 'backwards guitars' on it.
I think Ian Gillan's choice was either PERFECT STRANGERS or GYPSIES KISS i can't remember?. I think KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR & NOBODY'S HOME was also chosen but i can't remember by who?.
DaKillerWolf
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Nice choices, Nolob.
I personally prefer Purple from 70 up to Burn, as I already stated at least three times, but that doesn't rule out liking their later material for me. If it does for someone else..fine.... not a big deal to me. However, my opinion is my opinion and no one tells me, or anyone else who has a brain, what good music is for them. As Riff stated earlier ...it's a matter of personal taste.
I personally prefer Purple from 70 up to Burn, as I already stated at least three times, but that doesn't rule out liking their later material for me. If it does for someone else..fine.... not a big deal to me. However, my opinion is my opinion and no one tells me, or anyone else who has a brain, what good music is for them. As Riff stated earlier ...it's a matter of personal taste.
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METALPRIEST
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I think it's just fine in my case to like In Rock, Machine Head, Japan more but still like Battle Rages On. 
E-Z
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An album of theres thats grown on me over the last few years which was possibly considered one of there 'weaker efforts' back in the day is the WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE album released in the UK in early 1973.
This album actually sounds better now (to my ears) then it did when i originally bought it back around 1977 although theres possibly a couple of 'filler tracks' included on it (Place in line & Our lady maybe?) but nearly 40 years on it all actually sounds fairly good to my ears now.
This album actually sounds better now (to my ears) then it did when i originally bought it back around 1977 although theres possibly a couple of 'filler tracks' included on it (Place in line & Our lady maybe?) but nearly 40 years on it all actually sounds fairly good to my ears now.
DaKillerWolf
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Who Do We Think We Are, is a great and underrated album. There are some great songs on it and not one I don't like. I've been listening to Deep Purple since I was wearing diapers and started loveing them in about 77 when I was only 6. Actually went to see Richie and Rainbow about that same year just before Dio left, w/ my uncle and oldest brother. Rock critics be damned !! Most are just mentally challenged hacks with a type writer sitting in front of them IMO anyway....4 of my favorites off of WDWTWA.
Super Trooper/ Smooth Dancer/ Rat Bat Blue and Our Lady of the Sky.
Super Trooper/ Smooth Dancer/ Rat Bat Blue and Our Lady of the Sky.
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E-Z
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A track that should have been included on WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE and wasn't was the track PAINTED HORSE which was left off of the original vinyl album cos apparently Ritchie didn't like the lyrics which was a shame cos i've always liked that track (i first heard it on the DEEP PURPLE-POWER HOUSE vinyl compilation album released sometime in the late 1970s in the UK).
If PAINTED HORSE should have been included on the WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE album then i personally reckon that it would have made that album a better album to listen to although due to time restrictions with vinyl records it may have meant that another track would have had to have been dropped?.
If PAINTED HORSE should have been included on the WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE album then i personally reckon that it would have made that album a better album to listen to although due to time restrictions with vinyl records it may have meant that another track would have had to have been dropped?.
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Hi I cut my teeth on Purple as my eldest brother was heavily into them through the 70's forcing me at the tender age of 10 to "get educated wee man".
Child in time,Speed King and Highway Star were favourites at the time as well as the usual Smoke On The Water and Black Night.
Gillan must be one of the finest voices in Rock even to this day up there with
Dickinson,Mogg,Rodgers and Barnes.
Child in time,Speed King and Highway Star were favourites at the time as well as the usual Smoke On The Water and Black Night.
Gillan must be one of the finest voices in Rock even to this day up there with
Dickinson,Mogg,Rodgers and Barnes.
DaKillerWolf
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Here are the bonus tracks that are to be found on the Anniversary Edition cd of WDWTWA:
8 Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)
9 Woman From Tokyo (alt. bridge)
10 Painted Horse (studio out-take)
11 Our Lady ('99 Remix)
12 Rat Bat Blue (writing session)
13 Rat Bat Blue ('99 Remix)
14 First Day Jam (instrumental)
I own the vinyl that I have been listening to since I was a small child ( it was my Uncles, got it when he left me all his vinyl ), the original CD and the Anniversary Edition.
8 Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)
9 Woman From Tokyo (alt. bridge)
10 Painted Horse (studio out-take)
11 Our Lady ('99 Remix)
12 Rat Bat Blue (writing session)
13 Rat Bat Blue ('99 Remix)
14 First Day Jam (instrumental)
I own the vinyl that I have been listening to since I was a small child ( it was my Uncles, got it when he left me all his vinyl ), the original CD and the Anniversary Edition.
E-Z
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Probably the thing that went against the WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE album when it was originally released back in 1973 was a number of reasons?.
A: It came out off the back of a 'good album' MACHINE HEAD.
B: Apparently one half of the band wasn't talking to the other half while making this album!.
C: The track MARY LONG was the only track that was ever played live at a limited number of concerts before it was dropped by the band.
D: Other then the track WOMAN FROM TOKYO personally speaking i didn't like the rest of the album (and many D.P. fan's also didn't like it) and it took me a number of years before the rest of the albums tracks started to grow on me, a 'slow burner' of an album you could say?.
Now days i actually rate WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE as one of there 'better albums' although i still WOULDN'T rate it better then the MACHINE HEAD album but it's not far off it though!.
A: It came out off the back of a 'good album' MACHINE HEAD.
B: Apparently one half of the band wasn't talking to the other half while making this album!.
C: The track MARY LONG was the only track that was ever played live at a limited number of concerts before it was dropped by the band.
D: Other then the track WOMAN FROM TOKYO personally speaking i didn't like the rest of the album (and many D.P. fan's also didn't like it) and it took me a number of years before the rest of the albums tracks started to grow on me, a 'slow burner' of an album you could say?.
Now days i actually rate WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE as one of there 'better albums' although i still WOULDN'T rate it better then the MACHINE HEAD album but it's not far off it though!.
