Deep Purple In Rock

Solid listen, but not my thing

Strong guitar, not my favorite singer

classic late 60s, early 70s. The album art though is off the chain!!! I think i could do better w/ my iphone today

Hadn't listened to much of their music outside of the millions of times they run on Classic Rock radio due to stuff like Smoke on the Water, but I think always had a good appreciation of where they stood within the rock/metal pantheon. I think this is a good entry point into their music. Fairly economical songs, and a great guitar record.

Very good Rock Album! Some great tracks but not all hits.

Nur halb gehört, ist schon cool aber wenn man nicht Fan konkret von dieser Musik ist, doch schwer zu hören.

A lot heavier than I thought it would be, some great riffs and guitar work, no songs stood out though but quite liked the album

Muy gritar hero core, así que bien. Pero solo ahí, porque la verdad lo encuentro medio repetitivo y tiene una energía que no me llega.

Самый прямолинейный классик рок, без сюрпризов. Child In Time крутая, остальное не особо запомнилось

Starts up fast and never stops until the end. Not a bad listen.

I can get the quality of these songs, but they will always sound a bit dated for me. Deep Purple is one of the few classic rock bands that almost never catch me and always sound like old grandpas trying to be cool.

Not as sold on this one compared to machine head. Decent listen overall, but nothing to go crazy over.

Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal Formed: London, England in 1968 Run time: 7 songs, 43 min, 25 sec The fourth studio album by the English rock band. The lyrics are often thought provoking and the topics and references are varied. For me though, it can sometimes get a little self indulgent. Spotify: Least popular song: >33k Most popular song: almost 80M. \"Speed King\" is a nod to 1950s rock and roll with hard rock elements. It references/name checks Little Richard and Chuck Berry, both trail blazers in Rock ‘n’ Roll. The second part of the song refers to the working man’s practice of taking his weekly wage, then blowing it all while enjoying life. “Bloodsucker” is about a mysterious man who wants to give love and live life to the fullest. The lyrics clearly show he’s more into living life to the fullest than giving love, so I think he's hoping to have his cake and eat it. “Child In Time” is about innocence in a chaotic world. It’s about good vs evil. It is a warning that actions have consequences, but it warns that the innocent may get caught up in the misdeeds of others. I cannot stand the screaming in this track and generally press skip… “Flight of the Rat” is about breaking the chains holding us back and making us miserable. We can then live and grow and become what we want. It’s about failing, trying again and succeeding. We look at the rat leaving (the sinking ship) as a negative, but the fact is the rat is a survivor. It doesn’t hang around when something has failed, it moves on. “Into the Fire” is about being honest with yourself. It’s also about taking responsibility for one's actions and the consequences. “Living Wreck” is about the singer feeling repulsed by a woman who he has been taken in by. Her appearance isn’t what he thought, and neither are her thoughts and actions. Presumably she is repulsive for exhibiting the characteristics that would be acceptable as a man would. Had she been a man the singer would no doubt have patted him on the back and said “Well done”. “Hard Lovin’ Man” seems to be about the lust the singer feels for a woman. It’s not a particularly clever or well written song and the music is often on the edge of discomfort. Nothing to redeem this one star track. Listen Again?: No My Rating: ***

Not really my thing, but I can recognize the skill that went into it.

Speed King - (3) heavy metal guitar to start, then pipe organ? Lots of instrumental sections Bloodsucker (4) - sounds like the original hair band, makes me wonder why I have never really listened to Deep Purple. Some screamy sections, nice, also a little synthesizer Child in Time - (3) rock ballad? Lots of hair band hollerin’ - several of the songs have “jam-band” sections in it which is kind of unusual for hard rock/metal. Lots of shrieking Flight of the Rat (3) - - fast driving rock - nice drum solo at the end Into the Fire - (3.5) more of a creeping tempo Living Wreck (3.5) - loved the start - vocals really different than the others Hard Lovin' Man (3) - synthesizer jam band section didn’t work for me There was certainly a time in my life when I would have loved this record - I liked it a lot, but I’m not as much of a metal/hair band guy anymore.

not as good as Machine Head but still nice

Deep Purple might be the most generic 70s metal band, but jeez sometimes you need a palate cleanser like this to remember that generic doesn't equal bad. A bit samey, but not in an annoying way. "Child in Time" was especially great, really wasn't expecting it to go full on prog rock. Gonna go with a 3/5, not as good as "Machine Head" but still a nice listen.

Probably important for the history of hard rock and metal, sadly not my cup of tea

Not bad. A bit too much DP on the list though!

Liked it

grungy blues/metal that probably sounded great at the time, highlight is the awesome psychedelic Child In Time which is as good as anything else they've done

I love Smoke on the Water but this album is too rowdy for me

Classic rock album; essential for Purple lovers.

Literally nothing about this album stands out to me. It's not bad, but they just did better.

Well, my birthday album. It’s insane that I got two albums in a row by a group with only 3 albums in the book on my birthday. Anyway, this is nowhere near as good as Machine Head. Firstly, the production is kind of shoddy. Not like it sounds atrocious or anything, but this could do with a remaster. Second, the songs aren’t as memorable. Aside from ‘Child In Time’, I probably wouldn’t be able to name a song from this album if you played it for me. Finally, it’s simply not as fun to listen to. I had a good time with Machine Head, but a part of me felt like I was just waiting for the album to end. A lesser effort than its successor on this list (chronologically speaking).

Besides Smoke on the Water, I was basically unfamiliar with Deep Purple. The first half of this album was surprisingly good. The musicianship is impressive throughout.

Probably a bit too metal for me to really enjoy, but this is decent. Nothing as catchy as Smoke On The Water or Highway Star on this album, but it's consistently good without being great. Awesome energy to it, maybe overstretched on a few of the tracks. 3/5.

Time is worth 10 minutes of attention every day but rest is too much of the same and I do not see a reason for the songs to go on and on and on and on and on and on. And on. Without anything interesting happening. 3 stars,

It has a good start and there’s some bangers on there but there are a few too many proggy movements/solos. The rock organ is a complete joke. I’ve included Black Night even though it wasn’t on the original release, which gives it a star in its own right. It’s groovy but I can see why punk happened after this.

Perfectly fine to mow my grass while listening.

Good stuff. Bit Zeppelin-ish with some early NWOBHM thrown in. Really liked Child in Time, reckon Iron Maiden took a lot from that. Some songs were good but just dragged on too long, e.g. Flight of the Rat. Could go back and listen to again at some point. 3.5*

A classic. It's alright, but not my thing.

Alright!

Child in Time best song. Deep Purple pretty solid 70s rock band

Rock in a pure form

Was alright

Producer - “we need to make this track a little longer” Ian Gillan - “maybe I could just shriek for a bit to fill the time?” Producer - “great idea”

thought this was going to be total wank but then it got going and i was like 'actually this is badass' but then after a while it did indeed become total wank. but it wasn't bad

I loved the live album of theirs but this one didn't hit quite as hard. "Child in time" is an amazing song. Album was ok.

3/5 Best: Child In Time Worst: Into the Fire

nao ouvi mt preguica

Could use a little more structure but it's a jam.

purple

This was better than I expected. I wasn't very excited for it, but I liked it. The organ was pretty neat. Some of the songs felt kind of prog-like, which is a big appeal to me. I wasn't crazy about any of the songs in particular, but this was solid. My favourite song was Child in Time.

Incomplete in Spotify, but good stuff.

Classic rawk

Second part of the album fell slightly flat for me

Solid album, and it must have had a pretty huge impact in 1970. Child in Time is a masterpiece and Into the Fire and Living Wreck both have fantastic riffs. The musicianship and vocals are great throughout but the songwriting is a bit weak in places and it does take a while to get going, and not as strong as Machine Head a couple of years later

Could only access two of the songs...

3 Deep Purple albums, 3 3-star ratings. Child in Time slaps. The rest are forgettable

Hell yeah, but of absolute Rock! Average rock mind, but rock nonetheless.

Hard to listen to.

This isn’t their best work. Our great great list curator overlords have selected a Deep Purple album at a time in their career when they sounded like a garage rock band with something a little special going on. This album is certainly better than just garage rock, but the long instrumental bits aren’t good enough to justify themselves, which take away from the album. The lyrics are very cool and I enjoyed the whole thing. I just know they have much more to offer, which makes the album feel boring comparatively. 3/5

Not really what I was expecting.

This record is very much of its time, and isn't far off from other albums I've heard from Deep Purple. Still a classic though, because no matter how many decades pass, you're always going to find something to smile about when listening to '70s rock. Standout was Living Wreck.

A good but not great album with a couple awesome songs...

Ifall jag ska va ärlig har jag aldrig lyssnat på Deep Purple men kommer absolut börja nu. Speciellt lyssna mer på mina vinyler me dem.

Most deep purple songs lull me to sleep but then some wake me up in a psychedelic dream state

gritty

Perusrockia, ei ihmeitä tarjonnut, mutta oli mukava silti kuunnella.

I liked some of the riffing but overall not really for me

Something classic-rockish

I see what they did there.

Not mad at all about the grooves and licks on this one, but the vocal styling of hard rock of this (any?) era grate me, technically impressive though they might be. Luckily they are most present on the shorter, more straightforward tracks, and I could settle into the jammier cuts where the band shines. Fave track: Child in Time

I felt like this album was really close to the kind of music I like but also really close to the kind of music I don’t like. For 1970 I’m sure it was a bit ahead of its time but didn’t really sound like anything all that special. Fave track: child in time

Child in Time - One of the best rock songs ever. The rest of the album is nothing compared to that. Standouts: Child in Time, Black Night (Bonus) Others: ummmm? 3/5

If there was a musical color gradient with The Doors/Led Zep on the left in white and AC/DC / Motörhead on the right in black I would put Deep Purple's "Deep Purple In Rock" somewhere in the gray zone. So wild hearing this kind of sound come out of a band that recorded this back in 1970 (perhaps even a year earlier in 1969). Even crazier, still, is that this album came out a year after LZ1 and only 3 years after The Doors self-titled. I am honestly surprised by how listenable and interesting this album was. I always thought of Deep Purple as somewhat of a one-hit wonder churning out one of Guitar Center's greatest hits (and many a guitar player's first song, myself included). The combination of organ and silky smooth vocals with shred and mayhem makes for an extremely intriguing listen. Songs like "Into the Fire" just have this simple back and forth, waddling rhythm with some Hendrix chords thrown in there. It's in your face. It's heavy. But it's not obnoxious and it isn't boring. It hits. Dare I say this is proto-metal? Possibly. Had a great time with this record. Glad to have been introduced to another side of Deep Purple via this list! Feeling a 3/5 for this one. It was great but not something that really made me feel something deeper.

I guess in my estimation of pre-1970 bands that Van Halen would draw on and 80s-ify in the latter half on the decade, I did not consider bands like Deep Purple. To be perfectly honest, all I knew about Deep Purple going into today’s selection was “Smoke on the Water,” and how it IS the guitar riff for all beginners everywhere. Honestly, this album kinda slaps. I love when mix quits on “Speed King,” to make room for the organ solo. Very Doors, very heavy, and very prog-rock all at once. The extended jam on “Child in Time” is great too. Like the Allman Brothers Band turned British and made a prog record. Though, the vocal soloing and circus-vibe in the latter half of the song lays it on a little thick. “Flight of the Rat” is probably my favorite. Just the right mix of raw, proto-heavy rock and prog. I don’t really care for the last three songs. Probably for no better reason than that I can only stomach this sound for so long. Hard to believe this is from 1970. However, I don’t think this album really rivals those it begs to be compared with. Like not even close. Deep Purple in Rock—great tongue-in-cheek album title and artwork—is fun and almost more fun because it’s less self-serious than some of those prog-ier bands, even if it is less impressive. The mixing and mastering could definitely be better. But I don’t see a remaster. All in all, for 1970, pretty solid. But nobody needs to hear this before they die, and I have a feeling we’re going to get more Deep Purple. 3/5.

I liked this! It was raw. This kind of thing I’m really warming up to. Something about it felt like it got this kind of thing right. Like Bloodsucker, which is pretty choreographed, well rehearsed. Just felt more like a complete experience, vs other albums like this we’ve heard. I dunno! All the early, proto-metal, rock albums are kind of blurring together for me. But this one felt tighter than others. Also I looked up some music videos of Deep Purple and loved what I saw. 3/5

Pidin tätä bändiä aikaisemmin ihan turhana, mutta oon alkanut lämmetä tälle jytäkaahaamiselle. Ei huono. 3/5

Yläastevuosien suosikkeja ja ihan hauskaa menoa edelleen.

En oo koskaan Deep Purplesta niin innostunut. Ihan jees mut kolmoseen jää.

Definitely more pleasant to listen to than most classic rock albums. However, I still don't think I will be seeking this out for another listen in the future

Loud and fun, with Richie Blackmore really excelling on his solos. That being said, Machine Head is the more cohesive album.

This is standard Deep Purple fare - fun/mindless rock music to cruise around to. Some cool organ sounds; guitar solos feel sloppy at times. Ultimately it ends up as forgettable.

I think I actually like this more than "Machine Head." It's way more intense and heavy.

Some interesting things going on instrumentally but it didn't quite grab me enough over other similar bands of the time. Deep Purple are always just "good" but never "great" for me.

Como un disco en vivo.

De muziek van Deep Purple is goed te luisteren. Niet meteen mijn favoriet, maar het klinkt erg goed. Gitaren (en dan vooral dat overdreven gitaarrifjes spelen) is niet mijn ding, maar van dit album kan ik het goed hebben. ***

Classic 70s hard rock.

Iets te intens en chaotisch voor mij.

Deep Purple In Rock is een chaotisch album vol In-Gadda-La-Vida-esque hardrock nummers. "Child in Time" is goed en "Black Night" is leuk, maar de rest van de nummers missen harmonie. leukste nummer: Black Night Ironisch genoeg zijn de lyrics van "Black Night" zo banaal mogelijk geschreven, aldus de band

Pretty solid album. I enjoyed side 2. Side one has some good solos though. I guess the lead singer bugs me a little. Not my taste, but a good overall album.

had always assumed deep purple was super cheesy glam rock. enjoyed this more than i anticipated, but probably wont revisit. iron maiden scratches this itch for me.

3-27- Driving to School

3.5

This is REAL ROCK N ROLL! Got a little silly at times but I was having fun with it. 3.2/5

Great playing, technical, epic but left me kinda empty

Habs nur halb durchgehört. Immer das gleiche bei mir mit deep purple, iwie find ichs cool aber nicht so dass ich das dann wirklich hören würde.

3.8/5

3.5

Not really my thing but I can see the appeal. The keyboard solos made me laugh.

I enjoyed it, but not as much as Machine Head

grungy blues/metal that probably sounded great at the time, highlight is the awesome psychedelic Child In Time which is as good as anything else they've done

Talented musicianship marred by the bothersome "ooh baby yeah" type of vocal approach. The extended instrumentals are all ace.

Una combinación rara, si estuviera drogado diría que es el mix de the doors, led zeppelin y David Bowie a momentos. Nunca me senté a escuchar deep purple hasta hoy, tiene un tema que es inescuchable, pero el resto es sólido, innovador y de alguna manera se diferencia con lo que se presentaba en la época. Deep purple tiene carácter y una sólida base en la que construir, por eso se ganan mi 7/10

A bit confused why this album was chosen to be on here. There’s really nothing in particular that made this album too special. Maybe the guy making this list just really liked the song Child in Time? Beats me. It’s a decent album overall, but just feels unnecessary to listen to before I die. It’s a low 3 because I like the genre, but the Live in Japan album was much better. Also I’d like to say for reference there are 3 Deep Purple albums on this list, which is equal to the number of Queen albums on here and 1 more than the number of AC/DC albums and Fleetwood Mac albums. Even if you know nothing about music, you’d think that’s strange. I know 0 people who would name a Deep Purple album or song in their top 20, maybe even top 50. I’m not mad, just disappointed.

ok

Let's give this a chance! Child In Time, everybody knows that one! It's just pretty inoffensive hard rock, it's alright. This is all very Iron Butterfly at the moment!! Decent record, nothing mind-blowing but a solid rocking time.

Enjoyed this much more than their other one. Some good blues rock baby.

Classic 70's rock, is a little generic-sounding.

Hard driving music, Child in Time is especially good. Really enjoyed but -2 stars for the horrible keyboards/ organs.

The guitar and organ are quite cool. The vocals are quite uncool.

Child in time is an amazing song. Otherwise this music and the pathetic screaming sound rather outdated.

Wait, I’m supposed to believe Deep Purple had other songs beside Smoke On The Water? Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Child In Time This was not at all what I was expecting a Deep Purple album to sound like. It opens with shredding guitar, and demonstrates Halford-esque vocals at times. It’s certainly prog at its core, but you can easily draw parallels between this album and power metal (although I don’t think power metal had started existing yet when this came out). As groundbreaking as this all is, it is still 2022 when I’m listening to the album, so listening to it for the first time today isn’t quite as revolutionary as it may have been in 1970. They may have put the building blocks in place for various genres yet to come, but others have since perfected this which makes Deep Purple In Rock unfortunately somewhat dismissible now. Not a bad album, by any means, but if I wanted to listen to music like this, I’d likely go elsewhere.

Not bad, sounds like they are trying to hard to be Led Zeppelin. No tracks really stand out but guitar work/riffs are tight

after the first minute of the album i thought i was gonna hate it but i didn’t! i think the vocals are the weakest part of this album and sometimes take away from some super cool things happening musically.

kinda cool ig but nothing special

Grew up listening to this because my parents like this album

Loads of fun, have me a terrible wired energy though and I scrubbed the kitchen til 3 am. I'm not a metal guy but this was very listenable for the most part. Not too cheesy, a few really good solos which sounded accomplished, rhythmic and satisfying. Almost like some early hippy prog stuff. You know, when it just goes. Other times, a bit like early hippy prog stuff, it falls if a cliff but those moments are few and far between.

Er zijn een paar dingen die ik niet goed kan hebben in muziek. Dingen waardoor nummers veranderen in een karikatuur wanneer ik ze hoor. Het Mortal Kombat-achtige synth geluid heb ik al ooit benoemd bijvoorbeeld. Die komt op dit album niet voor. Een andere is de typische high-pitched heavy metal scream die later ook te pas en te onpas werd misbruikt in de glamrock. Als je wil schreeuwen: schreeuw. Word boos of verdrietig. Doe eventueel een varken uit de hel of een verongelijkte orc na, allemaal prima. Maar stoere gitaarmuziek met Gerard Joling achtige 'aaaaah' geluidjes doen het niet voor mij. "Child in Time" is dan ook een flinke uitdaging voor me. Dat gezegd hebbende: Zo'n Hammond orgeltje vind ik dan wel weer genieten. Dus Geer streep ik weg tegen het orgel en dan blijft er nog genoeg muziek over voor een 3. Maar ik ben mild omdat het donderdag is, op maandag was het een 2. P.S. Flight of the Rat en Living Wreck hebben de minste streams maar zijn de beste nummers.

I like a lot on it except for that damn keyboard.

3.5/5. This was alright. Very heavy rock, but it's from a time where heavy rock is good.

proper old school rock. I liked it and will likely listen again

Loved this band as a teenager. I played Child in Time so many times. Now I find them overly showy. I know that's the point. The Blackmore solos, the screeching of Gillan, the almost classical keyboard riffs. Its psyche heavy rock and it does little for me. The simplistic riffs of Sabbath and the purer blues of Zep trump it. This sounds like a band pulling in diff directions.

I hadn't heard this album before (had a copy of Machine Head on cassette when I was a kid). There are some great riffs in here, possibly a track or two I would go back too - eg Into the Fire.

Surprised myself about how much I enjoyed this. More varied than I anticipated. Best song Black Nighy.

Après avoir écouté l’album live fait au Japon, celui-ci semble épuré, plus fini. Du rock dans son état pur.

Deep Purple reminds me of that time I was repeatedly kicked in the cock and balls by the entire Chelsea first team and backroom staff. It was shortly after they had all jizzed on my face and chest.

Hard Rock doing what Hard Rock does. And look at them being literally carved into rock on the cover, how very clever.

Meh

Pretty typical 70s drug-rock. Well executed drug-rock, though - the genre at its best.

Pretty hype but a bit repetitive, 3stars

I can see how this album has influenced a lot in the genre, not my type of music though

It was pretty cool. I could see listening to it again. Just didn’t quite do it for me. Huge spinal tap fan

Classic rock group from that era.

Listening to this album made me check my earlier review of Machine Head, but sure enough, I feel this album just isn't quite as good as that one. To me, it feels more basic, with fewer defined themes and more generic metal "filler", including for example, super fast but not-necessarily-inspiring guitar segments.

Nothing special but never a great experience listening through YouTube

Some good ol' fashioned rock. Really dope instrumentation; every solo ripped and the drums at the end of Flight of the Rat give me life. The keys gave an interesting texture to the overall sound, leaning a little gospel-y in places- not sure I was ever a fan of that too much but it fit here and there. One thing I for sure ended up not liking is Ian Gillan's voice. It sounded pretty good until Child In Time's constant ceaseless caterwauling... That really wore me out on his whole style, such that he was consistently my least favorite part of any following track. Which is a shame, because again most of the music ripped. Highlights: Speed King, Flight of the Rats, Child In Time (the parts w/ no vocals) Lowlights: Child in Time (the rest of it), Living Wreck, Hard Lovin' Man

Not what I usually listen to but enjoyable. Not much else to say for me.

solid classic rock album. Not my tastes though

I really wish I could hear this in context, it’s hard not to listen with modern ears. In 1970 this was probably great but it just sounds so generic to me. The keyboardist sounds very educated It’s hard not to compare any 70’s rock to zeppelin. I’m sure I’m gonna say that a hundred more times over the course of this activity. Child in time hits remind me of Achilles last stand. Really wild journey of a song. I love the insane ending. It sounds like they spliced the final hit. Organs are sick, but the organ-heavy rock sounds so generic and dad-rock. ( granted they were probably some of the first to do it)

Speedking, dang. This albums banger after banger. Child in Time is amazing, that screeching is haunting. Fantastic album not perfect but pretty dang good.

Classic rock, hard rock, possibly one of the first metal albums. Reminiscent of led zeppelin from the same time period. Overall enjoyable.

Good riffs. Dumb lyrics. DP for everyone!

Le moins bon des bons albums de Deep Purple? Je trouve qu'il y a paw grand chose sauf Child In Time (qui fait presque penser à du Bowie) à se mettre sous la dent. Pourtant j'aime bien le rock prog (ou psychadelique?) Mais je l'ai trouvé un peu trop brouillon, même si tout le monde joue bien.

Third Deep Purple album out of around 50, gives around 6% on my list so far! And similarly, as on other albums, I think that this band is enjoyable and interesting, but a little bit outdated. I am honestly surprised, that Deep Purple is regarded so high in terms of cultural impact. There is a chance that I am missing the context again, that in late sixties this type of music was non-existent and they revolutionized the pop/rock genre forever. But if you look, for example, at Led Zeppelin, making music during the same time, there is no comparison between the bands in my opinion. Also, nowadays DP is fairly forgotten, and I really think this is not a coincidence. Deep Purple In Rock is a good album, that has couple strong moments, especially on Side A with songs Speed King and Child in Time. Interesting guitar and organ solos, long compositions and fairly entertaining rhytm section makes those songs tantalizing and hypnotizing.However I would argue that those are just moment on this album, whereas Side B is extremely bland and forgettable. This record is a really nice piece to listen to during a long, winter night, with a fireplace close-by and a drink in hand. But personally, I am pretty sure this won't happen anytime soon, so the way I enjoyed this album surely has to be reflected by the rating.

Living wreck has a bridge that sounds like the 100 volt ghost very cool

Deep purple in cock

Streit dad rock

Ngl it went kinda hard though it was repetitive.

Good enough

Wasn't too excited when this album popped up so it was fighting an uphill battle from the off, but it was fine really. Probably more forward-thinking at the time than it sounds now. Good vocals & lots of Doors-y organ bits that I didn't expect. Child in Time is textbook OTT rock and I dig Living Wreck too.

These son’s-a-bitches are still touring (I guess, so are the Stones). “Into the Fire” a rip-off, I mean a borrow, of King Crimson’s riff “21st Century Schizoid Man”.

Whilst I was surprised to see even two Deep Purple albums make the list, In Rock was the more enjoyable of the two. And whilst they never quite shake the feeling they are having more fun planting than you are listening, there are a few moments here that show the band giving some good rock.

Man I love 'Child In Time'.

Deep Purple is certainly at their best when they allow for their songs to build up. They possess a skill for grandiose songs but unfortunately they only really showcase it on the magnificent Child in Time. Apart from Gillan’s singing, Blackmore and Lord are the absolute highlights of the record. Blackmore seems to overshadow Lord on this record, but when the organ gets to shine it’s always a joy. While a shocker in 1970 for sure the more classic blues and jam heavy parts don’t quite hold up today. In the end, while having some excellent and timeless moments, it just doesn’t hold my attention throughout.

Cracking drumming and some great riffs but we’re edging into prog territory here with the extended jazzy solos and keyboard interludes. So ultimately not my thing. But fun for a listen.

Long hard rocky songs

Rockin!

Good classic rock

Le titre est bien choisi. On est clairement entre 2 styles ici. C’est rock, mais c’est un rock avec beaucoup de couches. On essaie d’innover.

Einu sinni fannst mér þetta æðisleg plata, nú finnst mér hún fín. Child in time er mjög gott, Speed King er góðu lagi. Hitt er filler fyrir mér. Mun nær fjarka en tvisti, en ég mun ekki setja hana á fóninn í bráð.

In Rock (1970) was a transitional album. 2-3 really good rock songs, the rest rather average. (6/10) FT: Child in time, Speed King

It's pretty good, but it's also pretty Spinal Tap-like. From the Mount Rushmore album cover to the hard, simple riffs, to the silly lyrics, I have to believe Christopher Guest and the guys listened to a lot of Deep Purple as they came up with the music of Spinal Tap. 3 stars.

Better than expected

3.5 I really liked Speed King, Child in Time, the distorted white noise-like organs in Living Wreck; also sometimes dragged in ways Machine Head didn’t

Bit too much noodle

It was alright. A lot of early stuff I've never heard before

Sounds just like an album titled ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ from 1970 should

Turn that music down, dad.

lala

Not my cup of tea as something that I would normally listen to, but I get why some would love it. The energy is palpable and engaging, both from the vocals and the rhythm section. Favs for me were Bloodsucker, Child in Time, Living Wreck, and Hard Lovin' Man.

I kept waiting for smoke on the water. Some pretty screamy singing and beefy guitar.

This is some pretty standard early 70s hard rock. A bit samey but some grinding organ

I should have liked this a lot but I much prefer Rainbow which covers roughly the same sound but just rocked better. 3.5/5

Some bands release debut albums fully formed: Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath, for example, who were exploring similar (to a certain extent- everyone calm down, I know the differences between the two) heavy sounds at around the same time in history. Zepplin was the first out of the chute in January of 1969, then Sabbath, who were literally recording and releasing their debut at the same time as Deep Purple were recording and releasing theirs. While this is not, technically, Deep Purple’s debut, it is the first with vocalist Ian Gillan and organist Jon Lord, who along with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore are really the Deep Purple everyone knows. Listen to Zepplin’s debut and then their next two LPs, doing the same with Sabbath, and while there is certainly musical development, the debuts are still pretty damn strong. Then, listen to 'Deep Purple In Rock,' and skip ahead to 'Machine Head' (I’m not familiar with the one in between, but it doesn’t matter for the sake of my argument) and hear the difference. The performance (particularly drummer Ian Paice) and most definitely the recording are far superior on 'Machine Head' than they are on 'Deep Purple In Rock.' In retrospect, the boys should’ve composed, performed, and recorded this whole thing, then threw it away, gigged some more, and moved on to 'Machine Head.' If I were a member of Deep Purple, I would wince a bit every time I heard 'Deep Purple In Rock.' Come to think of it, though, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard it played at a bar or a restaurant or at the grocery store, or anywhere. Which is good, because its not very good. At least, parts of it. Drummer Ian Paice is the weak link in the chain, which surprised me because of his terrific work on 'Machine Head.' Obviously, he got a lot better as time went on. By the way, his drum solo at the conclusion of ‘The Flight of the Rat’ is lame and unnecessary. Ringo Starr and Charlie Watts did not do drum solos. Even Neil Peart didn’t do drum solos, for crying out loud! Hey, rock n’ roll: leave the drum solos to John Bonham and jazz drummers, ok? Then there’s the lyrics- oof. They’re just awful: ‘In my mind I had to find a new kind of way of being so cool. Like a blue-blooded, well-studded English fool.’ And that might be the best one of the bunch. These lyrics are bonerfide cock rock, best sung with no underwear, tight jeans, and unbuttoned shirt. Barefoot or boots, your choice. ‘Hard Lovin’ Man,’ ‘Into the Fire (with its silly reference to the Mandrake root),’ please. On the positive side, at least, is the one singing ‘em: Ian Gillan, one of the best voices to emerge from the dawn of metal. No one, and I mean no one, could yowl a falsetto like Mr. Gillan. He’s in rarefied air with Ronnie James Dio, maybe the greatest metal vocalist ever. But even Gillan’s vocals are a mere prelude to the two deepest shades of purple, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and organist Jon Lord. Their individual solos, harmonizing solos, dueling duets are a wonderful thing to behold. Just skip ahead through the tedious first three minutes of ‘Child In Time’ (what’s a 1970s LP without the mandatory anti-war song, right?) and get to around the 3:20 mark when they start a rockin’. (Yeah, we get your little clever little military drum cadence bit, Paice.) And then about thirty seconds later when they double-time the tempo, sit back and enjoy the ride. In fact, that might be the best advice throughout, to just skip over Gillan’s lyrics, and then once he starts howling, you’re safe from there. Blackmore and Lord are soon to follow. Hey, it’s still Deep Purple, and they still outplay a lot of other bands. But it would probably be more accurate to call this first one Deep Lavender. Thankfully, they got good n’ purpler as time went on.

Old school heavy rock

Watered down Led Zeppelin wannabes. Meh.

6/10 some parts shred but it just drags on

5/10. Definitely glad that I got a Little Richard earlier in the challenge, made hearing Speed King more interesting, and it's always fun to see albums in the list referencing each other. That said, this music is not interesting enough to have 7-10 minute tracks, and just feels frantic.

This would've been a 4 if not for some very grating parts of this album.

Was NOT in the mood for this, but it get pretty damn good starting at track 3.

I guess I just don't quite get Deep Purple. I feel like I should like them more than I do. Some stuff works for me, some is just meh. I appreciate their influence on some of my favorite artists but I just can't enjoy it that much. I think if I had grown up in the 70's I might like them more.

this is really interesting. You can hear and feel the foundations of metal in this album but the vocals still sound more like late 60s rock'n'roll. Definitely breaking through into something new. I will listen to more Deep Purple

These guys rock!! Craaazzy vocals, extreme speed, power chords, hot damn! We start off with a radical ode to Little Richard; I like that feedback that closes the song. "Bloodsucker" has cool screeches, and a nice proggy guitar solo in the middle, but otherwise forgettable. "Flight of the Rat" has a really sick extended solo segment, but I'm not a fan of the beginning or end. "Into the Fire" and "Living Wreck" are pretty forgettable. "Hard Lovin Man" has the coolest heavy metal instrumentals, kinda reminds me of Black Sabbath. The star here is the classic "Child in Time," a prog-rock 10-minute masterpiece that strongly borrows from classical genres. The song is so great that all the characteristics I enjoy are perfected here, causing the other tracks to pale in comparison in every way. Love how the song just gets crazier as the minutes pass into a heavy metal frenzy until the 6 minute mark just resets us to the beginning, closing with a climatic finish. "Child in Time" carries the album, but it's the only track besides maybe the first and last to be great from start to finish. Two duds and the rest have their highlights. Nevertheless, this album was huge influential in the emerging heavy metal genre at the turn of the 70s and should be looked in that perspective where they had few contemporaries to base their work off.

not my tasse de thé mais sympa

Classic but not outstanding.

Pretty standard deep purple

Not as bad as I was expecting, clearly an influential rock record just not my jam

Full on rock. Whilst I won’t be listening to this again, I have to admit it’s good music for the genre so 3 stars it is!

I liked it when I first heard it but it did not leave much of an impression on me afterwards

Speed King is a hard rockin opener. The rest is pretty typical Purple with that prog/hard rock mix, soaring vocals, etc. Good record. Not necessarily for me, and certainly no Machine Head.

Oh boy. Another standard 70s rock album. Woohoo. Bloodsucker was cool tho

Interesting! Not my style, but the keys player was awesome.

A pretty solid album. The songs aren't quite as memorable as those on Machine Head, but still really good.

I love the purple but this wasn’t my favourite album by them it was honestly just a lot of screaming and not as much instrumentals or actual singing

It's rad man.

Didn’t really listen to to it that much it didn’t grab me enough for me to care out of the gate.

Solidt rockalbum. I modsætning til motorhead, synes jeg stadig det har relevans i dag.

Ægte rock n roll, catchy, lækre riffs, lange soloer

70s rock such as this one tend to have a particular formula. Yells, screaming, the kind where the tongue comes out the hand gestures in tow --- it's all here. In particular "Child in Time" in its near epic conclusion you can feel the vessels in your brain sympathetically strain with Deep Purple. The album is otherwise not super exceptional, but it does usher in rather effectively the classic sound of the 1970s, where things got a bit rougher around the edges, where the flowers and brightness of the 60s got muted with browns and oranges before settling into the darker acts which eventually gave us bands like Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper. It can be said that Deep Purple is a safer version of 1970s metal, the kind you can enjoy without feeling gruesome.

I used to love Deep Purple much more than I do now, a fact I attribute to their simple brand of rock music that got replaced by better stuff since. Still, Child in Time is a great song.

7/10

Beetje veel, maar toch best tof.

Mmmmmm. Gritty.

Deep Purples Classic break through album. The Classic 'Purple line up, some good music on this and not just head's down hard rock. Good example of the development of heavy metal "Old Wave" and you can see the links with Led Zep, et al on this album. Favourite track has to be "Black Night" I have "Made In Japan" as my favourite DP album as it gives a much clearer view of the band's live capabilities than any studio album could. When you look at what this bands members went on to achieve.. Wow

Didn’t really listen tbh but I can tell by skimming through it is white as fuck.

The blueprint of 70s and 80s British heavy metal. Amazing how iron maiden wound so similar 10 years later! Great riffs!

Ovaj album ima žestine. SHREDDING BORTHER!! Uglavnom, dobar album. Nisam prevelik fan hard rock žanra, glazbe, ali kad slušam neke solaže ovdje mi dođe da trčim istom brzinom kao Sonic the Hedgehog i utrkujem se sa formulama iz F-Zero serijala.

Da je bar svaki dad rock ovakav, neb bio meme.

Enjoyable but in the middle for me. Thankful I didn't have to listen to Smoke on the Water again (but I'm only twenty albums in)

Only two tracks available on Spotify. Noodly prog rock with the occasional headbang.

High-energy rock with tons of cool organ, but the screaming?

Love the guitar riffs but the vocals alternate between completely lacking tone or melody and shrill hair band screams (while consistently remaining devoid of harmony). I would love to hear someone with great musical instincts perform these songs at karaoke; they could be really special if the vocals sounded musical.

Really skilled platers but nlt the best music

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Favourite track: black dog

Goed maar niet mijn stijl

Pretty good album, and I get these guys were pioneers, but its the psychedelic part of their hard rock I don't really dig. Some great songs, some really bad songs.

I thought this album was cool for roughly one minute. I can see why this would have blown people's minds in 1970, but it sounds a little self indulgent today, like when Dennis from It's Always Sunny pretends to be a rock star. Seriously, Flight of the Rat is at least a minute longer than it needs to be so that the drummer can fit in a song-ending solo. That's fine for a live show, but completely unnecessary for an album. I'm only halfway through this album, and I'm mad about the fact that I'm going to listen to the whole thing 3/5

Meh

5/10 mehh

This is very in your face. Some fine guitar work. Maybe the model for shrieky vocals which are probably more suited to a live show than a record.

Great musicianship and I enjoyed the guitar work especially, but the songs are more like jams and they lose the novelty after a few songs.

mount rushmore looks a bit different here boys!

Solid rock album that will queue up a day of rock music on spotify.

Definitely Deep Purple.

This album kinda makes me want to go out and break something; it has that kind of energy. It's a pretty fun energy when you're feeling it, but I wouldn't really listen to this otherwise. Apart from that, it's one of their earlier works, and although it's a pretty good album, their later works are definitely better. Favorite track: Child in Time

This one is kind of average. Deep Purple did better on pretty much all of their other albums. This probably only made the list because of Child in Time which is admittedly a banger. Highlights: 1, 3, and 7.

Not bad. Nothing super exciting though. All songs sound the same

Deep purple I know from a famous riff. They have plenty of hard riffs but the album doesn’t feel like much more than that. The songs themselves aren’t anything special. 6.3/10

Some great classic rock tracks, but that said, it sounds a bit dated now and the production is a little weak.

Thoughts: Not much, it’s just kinda boring. The music feels a bit empty the majority of the time. Maybe I need to give it another listen but it’s just not my type of thing I guess Favorite songs: Hard Lovin’ Man, Child in Time

I generally like the Deep Purple sound, but it's a lot to take in on a whole album. Not bad at all though.

All right.

1 - terrible, can't stand. 2 - not for me but doesn't hurt my ears. 3 - decent, could stick on again. 4 - enjoyed it, will listen again. 5 - absolute belter

Funky. Old sound, reminds me of an old B-movie, moved onto fireball automatically after the album finished and was feeling that more so than this one

Easy listening. Nothing stood out but I enjoyed it

The roots of 80s metal. Great to hear the thread.

Good album

Some good heavy rock songs. I didn't get through the whole album. But its enjoyable.

Sounds like a Led Zeppelin tribute band, but with more prog and less blues. Still, this is a raucously good time overall, an all-out assault on the eardrums. What it lacks in majesty, it makes up for in effort, sheer heaviness and slam. Play this loud.

Wow this is not what I thought Deep Purple would sound like. This is almost like hair metal classic glam rock. This is fuckin hilarious. Not bad the more I listen to it

No. ❤️

Despite its classic status it’s more of an important album than a classic in my opinion, although there are some great tunes on here (Speed King, Black Night). Child In Time is just mad though.

A band still quite some way away from reaching their peak but clearly all the ingredients were their. Richie Blackmore’s blistering playing is breathtaking and Ian Gillan really shines on the epic Child in Time, which is undoubtedly the album’s high point.

eh - it's alright and passed the time, but it sounds like generic rock. Not really my cup of tea.

it was good but nothing special. prob wouldn’t listen to again

Listened

Didn't remember it being this heavy. Child in Time is epic.

Often regarded as Deep Purple's best album but it doesn't quite hit for me. Blackmore rips it up as usual, though. Best track: Speed King

Had a Deep Purple not long ago. Seems similar, classic rock, really upbeat, enjoyable. Sounds more classic than I ever thought these guys to be. Sounds Led Zep-ish. 3/5

Enjoyed this. High energy guitar rock. Sounds more modern than 1970. Best track: Child in Time.

Some bangers on there (Speed King!) but missing Black Night which came out around the same time. Still some over-the-top prog-rock sounding stuff that I really didn't like (Child in Time), so limits the replay value for me vs just a greatest hits album.

A couple of good tunes. Felt like a poor man's Led Zep. 'Hard Lovin' Man' gave me a headache.

Very good.

Enjoyed more thank Rush but still a bit sameynot for me

Good fun, nothing to write home about

Rockprog. BT: Speed King, Bloodsucker, Flight of the Rat

Good rocking album

Did not know this one. Definitely a window into a era.

Good 70s rock album, Emil loves them

pretty solid album, but ngl I miss the raw intense energy of Live in Japan

Good rock album but nothing super noteworthy for me

I was pretty pleased to see this album, because I’m a fan of Deep Purple. Hadn't listened to the entire album in over 35 years - it wasn't all of what my nostalgia had hoped for. That said, it wasn’t bad either - there were some brilliant moments - Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar work in the nondescript songs “Bloodsuckers” and “Into the Fire”. there were also not so brilliant moments - e.g. vocal screeching from Ian Gillan. // The final track, “Black Night”, has been a longtime favorite (mainly due rob some great live versions). Overall solid 70 s rock.

Surprisingly enjoyable - very cool riffs.

Hit and miss. Liked the heavy stuff. Bit long.

enjoyable, not really my thing

"Hard headed woman and a soft hearted man They been causing trouble since it all began" (Speed king) "In my mind I had to fin A kind of new way Of being oh so cool Like a blue blooded Well studded English fool" (Flight of the rat) Es posible que sea la persona del mundo a la que menos le interesa Deep Purple. Cómo que diez minutos de canción, señor, a dónde va usted.

Alright album. Lots of guitar driven songs, minimal vocals meaning lots of so gs sound very similar.

I mean this just rocked. These were a bunch of dudes that wanted to rock super hard, and did exactly that and nothing else. I wasn't shocked by anything out of the ordinary here. Wasn't really blown away by anything, except for some top notch screaming. These guys wrote "Smoke on The Water," the song thats apparently the easiest song to play on guitar, so I can't say they were necessarily rock innovators. But hey I enjoyed head banging to this, and honestly will probably rock to it again.

True to its name, this album really rocks. I like the dueling solos between guitar & organ which became their trademark. Ian Gillan has a great hard rock voice, like Robert Plant. Lyrics are lame.

This one fell flat for me. lots of guitar shredding, but just felt bland. maybe because all of the classic rock i listened to when i was younger

The music in "Bloodsucker" is actually pretty good.

With a stiff upper lip, reckoned I would’ve scored this high before listening... but the [impressive] solos dragged on for so long. If your epic song changes dramatically halfway through, then turn it into 2 songs. Black night a ripper

hört sich ned schlecht an, aber die fans waren damals den musikerinnen egal - 3

Alright. I find Deep Purple less interesting than some of their contemporaries. 6/10

Very generic sounding tbh 2.5

The organ is spectacular.

good for a classic rock album, i like mix of long songs and shorter songs. they all started to mesh together though in theme, it seemed like they were trying to hard to be macho rock n rollers.

I don't know. It was fine.

Best lekkere gitaar maar ook wel wat nare nummers

Fast and fun. Nothing too crazy

Yeah, tvättäkta gubbrock, det e najs blir sugen på att spela guitar hero. Dock inget jag skulle lyssna mycket på.

Very good hard rock album. Child In Time is amazing, Bloodsucker is also pretty great. The rest is ok. I just don't feel like there's a lot of substance here. Good listen but not something I will often come back to.

This rocks! Songs meander a little too much sometimes. Favourite was Child in Time.

Standout tracks: 1, 3, 4. Nice to hear a good Purple record without any of the usual radio fare. 3 stars

They really got to jammin it seems. Good shape for things to come

Child in time kida, ostalo ok

Is kiss and sabbath had a baby. Fun listen 3.5

Chile in time bekannt, sehr schön

Weird.

This was exactly what I expected.

Classic classic rock. Again, cool to hear the roots of stuff but not super into it.

3.5 stars

Didn’t really enjoy

My Uncle Paul is watching me today because this was his favorite band ahah

Nothing particularly special

I just do not enjoy Deep Purple. Garage band that thinks they are better then they are.

The cover is pretty cool

I don't know why but this album just rubbed me the wrong way. Nothing worked.

Had a huge impact on me, and can still listen to Ian Paice's drumming on anything. Made my ears tired. This style of blues rock 70s nonsense just feels worn out to me now after being a major source of inspiration in my early 20s. Child in Time is still a fuck 20/10 song: unbelievable. I don't really think the rest of this album is worth listening to anymore.

Nowhere near as good as Machine Head. Often found this to be a bit grating. Technically competent but not really for me. Hard Lovin' Man is pretty wild though. Good song.

This seems like something I should rank high. But it was just a bit loud for me. Maybe it was my mood?

The music is really poor and the vocals even worse.

As established, I'm not the biggest heavy metal fan. So, when I peered at the reviews and realized how metal this was going to be, I was not exactly looking forward to it. Plus, the Deep Purple tracks I've heard before haven't been my favorite. It appears my preconceived notions were pretty correct - I am just really NOT a fan of Ian Gillan's voice, the vibrato and random screaming really got on my nerves. (Side note: you can absolutely tell David Lee Roth was a fan.) This really did not have any sticking power for me, as I didn't care for any part of it beyond the drumming and some of the guitar riffs. If I'm going to pick a 1970 metal album, it's going to be Paranoid...sorry, not sorry. 2.5/5 rounded down Favorite track: Living Wreck

Sometimes, less is more

Deeply boring

Meh