Deep Purple In Rock

I didn't manage to get all the way through the last Deep Purple album. It's not that it's bad, it's just that my emotive response to it is boredom, so I keep listening to something else instead. This one I hung on until I woke up when Spotify decided to play some Zappa instead.

Deep brown

Fine, but not my taste.

Growing up in Ann Arbor, I had a friend who's older brother just loved Deep Purple. Didn't understand then, but now I'm convinced he was just on acid all the time. A 10 1/2 minute song?? What the hell, just end it already. There were a couple tunes that were rocking, Speed King, Blood Sucker and Into the fire. Thought they were OK, but gog damn, I just can't get into the electric organ. Album released on June 3rd. Terrible day for the family. :( I'll say album was OK, but I won't become a Deep Purple fan any time soon. Love the color and think of Prince. Added bonus, TCU's main color is purple. To hell with Michigan and all their fans. Hahahahahahaha. 2

2.5 Being released in 1970, the elements of hard rock and metal on this album definitely make it feel ahead of its time. So, I can see why people think of Deep Purple as pioneers of the genres, but personally I can’t help but wonder how influential they actually were versus more well-known acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, who were both also putting out this kind of music at the same time… and much better music too imo. It still seems like it clings onto some elements of 60s keyboard-driven psychedelia which creates an interesting fusion I guess, though not overly. Fine slice of the era, but far from its best. Not sure we needed two by these guys on the list. Favorite songs: Child in Time, Hard Lovin' Man

Just not really feeling this album. Not my type of rock music.

Ok album, not my thing

Yeah, nah. Some interesting tracks, but I didn’t really vibe with this.

Child In Time is pretty good, but the rest is a bit meh. Historically important album, one of the founding texts of "metal", but it's a genre that has moved on so far this just sounds like caricature now.

Not for me

🤘

I’m sorry but I’m just not interested in Deep Purple enough to have this many albums from them. The live album was the ultimate insult. This one’s not as bad, and they’ve got a decent sound, but I’m just not finding much worth saving. I’d limit this group to just one album on the list, and not this one. Favorite tracks: Flight of the Rat. Album art: The Mount Rushmore twist on a band photo is pretty cool, and fits the album name well. Font isn’t great but what can you do? 2/5

Ok

Not bad. I found myself tapping my toe a time or two. The first part of the first song was great, and that gets an extra star.

Lars Ulrich loves them, which makes me suspicious. This isn't the Deep Purple you're familiar with at all. It's really just musical masturbation.

A band that's always left me cold. It would be better without 'Child In Time' and all that wailing.

I honestly don't care. You'd think I'd like this and you'd be wrong.

Half of the album wasn't available

Nonniih nyt ois sitä papparokkia

Drug infused "rock". Pretty standard late 60's- early 70's. Meh.

Mitään sanomatonta jynkytystä noh child in time

If I'd come across this in my early teens I might have given it a go, but my tastes have moved on from there. If I'm in the mood for guitar based rock now, Hendrix or Zeppelin would be my go to's, which are far superior to this.

Terrible album cover and title I wanted to like this one more than I did so I took some notes going through the songs about what worked for me and what didn’t. Child in time- the vocals dudes falsetto with the wide vibratto is so comically metal Organ- love the tone and texture for hard rock however some of his lines solo lines don’t quite work for me ( maybe too straight rhymically or some random sounding choice of scale/ modes) Overall I think I need stronger melodies all around -vocals the solos and in the riffs. I think for this kind of classic hard rock you need to have better riffs. For a music style like this that leans on the instrumental this way I wanted something better to hold on to. They did do a good job capturing a live feel I do like the tempo changes on Child in Time. Flight of the rat- rhythmic break downs are cool. Into the fire- verses sound cool coming out of the riff Living wreck is pretty bad. The cat noises on the organ are kinda cool Hard lovin man- pitch bend on organ are cool. Harmonized solo is cool too Random band fade out to excessive pan shifting guitar solo feels like it’s trying too hard and just made me dizzy. Idk that kind of thing may have seemed trippy and cool in 1970 but just feels awkward now.

Too much. Too many long tracks that go nowhere.

ñ é o melhor do deep purple

Not into the vocals

Not really my genre and I was tempted to skip tracks several times. On the plus side they make good use of dynamics and keyboards. Drums sounds great. Ian Gillan's vocals are great (although you have to be in the mood for the more intense bits). Guitars are a bit too heavy in the mix for my liking and are often too harsh/trebly for me. But there are some nice techniques and presumably they helped invent some of them. In places they are reminiscent of the Doors and Led Zepp. I knew Deep Purple a bit because my stepfather had Machine Head when I was growing up. I also know Ian Gillan from the original Jesus Christ Superstar album. Some good moments, and it is a good, innovated example of its genre but not for me.

Don't tell my Dad I said so, but this was pretty boring

Never really liked these guys, and they still don't do much for me.

Not really sure what to think about this. It's long as heck, and I don't really know what "gotta black breast Chinese eyes" means. But it's not too crazy off the wall other than 20 seconds of dead air, random transitions, and really freaking long songs.

Dreck. It does not survive the test of time. The organ has not carried well through time, and this is a perfect example... even hard working man starts with a great guitar riff and then just goes sideways with miserable guitar. There's not much to like here, too many ridiculous flourishes and overly dramatic vocals. It is heavy, but i think only the middle portion of child in time really hits the mark.

2.5

Maybe two songs.

Inspired a lot of my favorite hard music. It just feels boring for the most part now. Some great moments, but it gave me the same feelings as long jam band albums where it meanders and doesn't go anywhere

Yes, OK - apparently seminal, but not a patch on Zeppelin, who must have stolen their better tunes

Exactly the kind of music that Bill hates. Shannah surprisingly pleased (and excited at recognising a song). Conor liked guitars and keys. Jane heard very little of it - probably not her cup of tea. 2.25/5

No memory. 2?

03/03/2022 Had to track down the majority of the album on YouTube because Spotify only has 2 tracks available. WILD guitar work on this.

boooo

Whatever catchy initial hook these songs enter with is inevitably lost under 4-5 minutes of gratuitous, unnecessary guitar soloing. This band cannot just let a track breathe (or end in a reasonable amount of time).

My ears are bleeding!

Not my cup of tea, there is quality but it feels quite long. Favorite song: the rat one. One star less because organ solos are silly af.

Classic 70s metal. Not for me, but they had some crazy guitar solos and could sing really high.

nej ik rigtig min vibe

I guess I can appreciate that this is a very early, and therefore influential, example of heavy metal, but other than the first half of "Child in Time" and parts of "Into the Fire" this album didn't have much to offer.

Meh. I really expected to like this a lot more -- oddly, despite growing up listening constantly to what we now call "classic rock" (back then, it was just the stuff all the rock radio stations played), I hadn't heard very much Deep Purple -- and I don't like much here. I can hear some very talented musicians, no doubt about it, but I don't like the vocalist, and the songs themselves just don't really grab me. I love the sound of guitars in any genre, especially rock, but incredible as these guitarists are in terms of their ability, I was surprised to find myself bored during solos. I think, too, that this album suffers a bit because of so many bands that came after this era sounding a lot like this.

Child in Time vind ik een mooie classic, maar voor de rest is het me teveel gepiel op de millimeter. Daarom het net niet tot het einde volgehouden.

Het is geen argument maar ik vind dit echt achterhaald.

Not my favorite

Wow, this goes hard. Not my favorite, but harder than I thought for 1970.

39. Deep Purple in Rock - Deep Purple 7 tracks. I was really looking forward to this but it was a really big let-down. Not enjoyable at all. Such a shame. 2/5

Very meh

Sounds all the same, not really my style

Not my thing. The vocals are nails on a chalkboard, the organ noodles pointlessly. Good rhythm sections saves it.

This album made me feel stressed out. some cool moments though.

It was only in my twenties, when I first started commuting regularly and listening to local classic rock stations, that I discovered British bands like Deep Purple. Even then, though, my exposure was mostly limited to 'Smoke on the Water'. This is my first listen to the album... it's a fine example of that genre, I guess. A little too prog-rock for me. Best in small doses. I couldn't take listening in one sitting.

23rd August 2021 Listened on YouTube cos Spotify had like 2 of the songs. Started on the way back from swimming and finished in the living room. Quite forgettable to be honest, concept proggyness with big guitars.

It's hard to work out exactly why I don't like this. There are so many possibilities. It could be that the clinical production sucks any life out of it. It could be the focus on musical wankery (yes, we get it, you can play your instruments well - no need to labour the point). It could be that it seems too controlled and contrived for the vocal screams to be spontaneous and 'for real'. Having written all that down I've worked out what my big issue with this is - it's completely devoid of emotion. Maybe a musical person would appreciate this on a technical level, but from my point of view, the main purpose of music is to inspire some sort of emotional response, and this just leaves me cold. 2/5

It's fine. Child in Time was kinda fun. But sort of generic. This was their fourth album, and they had a new singer and were going for a heavier sound. ~shrug~

63. Rock, Austin, Taker, Cena, Jericho. NWA, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Kanye, Kendrick. Sampaio, Soares, Eanes, Marcelo, Cavaco. Um, dos, drei, cuatro, cinq. MotA: Hard Lovin' Man "Good Golly, said little Miss Molly"

Music to bang out a high school girl 20 years your junior to

Not recommended to listen to with a headache.

It was okay.

I can appreciate certain aspects of this album - particularly the drums - but the rest is incoherent and way too racy for my taste.

It actually got better, as I couldn't ever seem to finish listening to it. But I won't listen again. Very pompous.

Didn't grab me

Not very special to me

wow.

Bueno un pouco monotonillo pero aguantase ben

Child in time is an epic but the rest of the album is fairly non descript with guitars overpowering the lyrics. Not my cup of tea.

It actually got better, as I couldn't ever seem to finish listening to it. But I won't listen again. Very pompous.

Not my thing but some great riffs. And of course Black Night. Two and a quarter stars

not my steaz

So so, man wähnte sich groß

Another acquired taste, but better than say Billy Bragg. Nice jazz influences here

Fuck 1 song in particular

Not a fan

Meh

Building blocks I can see period that doesn’t mean I like the album period

No sure if they had more than one hit. Not sure if they are considered acid rock. If this was considered good at the time, it hasn't aged well. Particularly annoying was their coming to a complete stop in the middle (often already 4:00 in) and seem to start over again and add an additional 3 minutes to the song. I wonder if one of their other albums would have been more indicatinve of their good work.

Not for me

Not favorite at all

not my cup of tea and very samey from song to song. of its time

Deep Purple in Spinal Tap mode.

What a thudding great indigestible dollop of a record. The cover was very familiar, but I've never listened to it before. I wish I could still say that. Maybe it just sounds horribly dated but it's hard to think this stuff was ever considered to be good. Maybe get rid of that ridiculous keyboard sound, and lighten the production up a bit, and it would be a little more palatable. As it is, it's a tuneless load of old stodge that left me gasping for air.

It is possible that Deep Purple invented one of my least favourite things in music: histrionics. They should be vilified for this at every opportunity.

It’s a (very) low bar, but I think I slightly preferred Machine Head…

This was listenable in parts but there were other bits that actively gave me a headache, and I can't be having that with an album.

Physically unpleasant to listen to. I have no way of knowing whether this is worse than the other DP album we’ve been subjected to so far as to make that judgment I’d actually have to endure both again, something I will never do voluntarily. One star because there is ridiculously no lower mark. Tom.

I’ll pass on this one, give it to a stepfather or a 10 year old who really needs it. You can thank me later.

*Deep Purple In Rock* is 50% lunkheaded bloozy nonsense and 50% sub-ELP semi-prog foolishness, and the sum total adds up to a lot of nothing. Singer Ian Gillian tries unconvincingly to infuse his dull lyrics with some sort of significance, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore plays fast, to little effect, and keyboardist Jon Lord slathers every song with Hammond organ for no particular reason.

Ggs not my things

not for me

Good at what they do but songs are waaay too long

Eh- just not very good

Vaya mierdon

yeah the master sucks and it's literally unlistenable

Alright, settle down everyone

I really didn't like this. I often say the 70's are my least favorite decade of music because of music like this and yacht rock. It was not good.

Fuck off

70’s bro music

Whiny and screechy album

Nope

Really hated this x

barrett's gonna be even more annoying™️ but we move. baby driver music (derogatory). hendrix bar for fucking bar. the first line of the album (whole song actually) is a little richard reference. at some point we have to question if racism affects everything 😨. oh wait. bloodsucker work rates its way into being decent. the line "Got a black breast Chinese eyes" tells me i should stop looking at the lyrics. good sabbath impression. child in time Might be it (despite that goofy fucking ending). if i lived in 1970 and bought this i'd genuinely be pissed 85% of the a-side wasted my time. ritchie has the juice (along with most of the band) but the song structure and lyrics let them down terribly. "flight of the rat" made my good songs from the generator playlist but. what was the point of restarting the song after 5 minutes. i'll use the drum breaks for something. might be useful then. 1.2-2.3. proto berklee. guitar wasn't invented until buckethead.

Hard Rock, big fleemmme. En plus c'est la semaine des mines

Hard nope

Hate it. Too much rock.

No to another heavy rock one Not ground breaking at all. Led Zep every time

no more rock please.

Boring :/

Complete and utter shite

meh muy rock

lore ipsum

had to stop listening 😅. not an album i could even get through!

Butt

My God some of this is annoying lol, screeching for a whole song, fuckin come on. Child in time got to be one of the most annoying songs in history. This hard to listen to, one review said it was masturbatory and that's so fitting. Nothing.... Forever basic solo of something, "Rock lyric" , strum strum boring and annoying. The cheesy like Jaguar sound bit is a joke right? Lol Made it to "hard lovin man" turned it off, another awful song that seems like a joke. I get it, and even like other albums of that same style but found this just awful, my first 1?

Oh gawd. Now I know where Spinal Tap got a bunch of their schtick. This is screamy, pointless guitary and basic song stuff. Hard pass.

jesus christ thee are way too long. saved: n/a.

qué aburrimiento :(

No.

I was happy to turn this one off. I like their earlier stuff, but this is just too many notes, too many solos. Nothing moved me.

Not a fan of Speed King. It opens like hard rock by numbers before a pointless organ break and then back to a minute of throwing great rock songs into the lyrics. Bloodsucker does nothing to change this. Child in Time decides to move the organ to the start, which at least changes the sound. The vocals are far more restrained but I fear this does not improve the quality of the song as they are shocking. It is this point i realise there is still 8 minutes more of this song. It improves slightly with the change of tempo and guitar wakery, but this is more than 4 minutes in and we eventually return to the slow warble Track 4 includes a reasonable guitar break that ventures into Jimi Hendrix stylings, but otherwise the rest of the album is just more of the song. Overall the album feels an excuse to showcase some lead guitar virtuosity, which is obviously exceptional but not enough to justify this shit.

This was far too long. Had far too much Jon Lord knob-twiddling. I didn’t know where one track finished and another began. Time was but a construct listening to this. Never again.

I like heavy music, I like Sabbath but this did absolutely nothing for me. It felt like a slog despite not even being that long. Playlist track: Living Wreck

I really didn't like this one. It was so bad i couldnt even finish it.

Noodles.

oh my god

Like many things from the 70s you wouldn't get away with this nowadays. A couple of ok tunes but otherwise very generic with fairly shoddy vocals.

Album 24 Top 3 "favorites" off the album: Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire, Living Wreck Another neutral leaning dislike, unfortunately. I'm not super inspired by this one either, so another short review. I don't mind screaming, really, but this one just got on my nerves. I didn't even realize it had ended and moved on to another album. Whoops. Suffice to say, the vocals were not my favorite. It's like a bad imitation of rock 'n' roll screaming, but not intentionally. I liked the guitar, some of the organ, and the drumming.

Forced myself to give it a fair shake. I was only able to get all the way through 2 of the 7 songs, one because I forced myself to, and one because I didn't get sick of it. The rest I listened as long as I could… didn't really like any of it, to be honest.

I don’t like this at all

Don’t care!!

Guitar and drums on this were good but something about this album just wasn't for me

Pots and pans, hootin and hollerin. Its a cacophony of talent. The guitars are nastyyy and the drum work is impressive, but it feels at times like they’re just doing their own thing rather than moving as a band, it doesn’t feel cohesive. In all honesty, I just felt overstimulated and anxious listening to this, I only found 2/7 songs listenable so 1 star

No. No. No. This is not for me.

Not to my taste.

misschien leuk zodra je t kent, nu merkte ik halverwege niet eens dat die niet meer aan stond. bah

not for me

very eh

This wasn’t a vibe for me unfortunately

child in time, speed king or flight of the rat. first album with Ian Gillian. i think his voice is a bit much at times. agree the keyboards are a bit much too, which seems they become more guitar heavy next few albums. going 3 out of 5 all the songs were decent

Classic metal. Lots of guitar wailing and screaming. Not interested. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs

I do like Deep Purple, but this album did not do anything for me. It's an OK 1970 rock album but no particular song enraptured me. In fact, I kept finding myself hovering over the skip button. I would say it's a 2/10 ablum.

Flight of the Rat has some very good guitar work on it. I’ve now heard two Deep Purple albums where before I was only familiar with the song Smoke on the Water. I’d say overall they are not in my interest - lyrically the songs are of low value and musically a lot of songs are hard rock into heavy metal territory in a way that it’s to my taste. I’d say there are several contemporaries who “did it better.” Having said that, I can’t fault the guitar skill of Ritchie Blackmore - it’s the only saving grace for this band in my opinion. Notable tracks include Flight of the Rat (again only for the guitar playing).

Felt like I was in an action movie with all the gitaur solos. Enjoy a bit of Rock occasionally but was a bit head melting at times.

I’m embarrassed that I listened to this. What will it do to my Spotify algorithm?

Designed in a lab to piss me off

Skilful but just imitative of Led Zep, nothing new nothing innovative but not offensive either.

Shite. Would give zero if that was an option.

First listen

Not for me. 1/5

Is this a joke

Gar nicht meins...

Probably not

Not for me

This is a lot heavier than I expected. The riffs are big and the organ sounds cool. This just isn’t my thing, though. Standout Track(s): Into the Fire

There's not much I like about this.

Nope

The contstant reverb on electric guitar Not my genre.

Not enjoyable to listen to at all.

Today's pick was Deep Purple in Rock, and I honestly have no idea what to expect. I feel like everyone and their mother has heard Smoke On The Water, but I have no idea what to even expect when it comes to this band or the music they make. This album throws you head first into the very loud and instrumental heavy Hard Rock the band was working within even prior to the 70s. I would also argue the music here falls into Progressive Rock though it doesn't all connect as smoothly from track to track, it just has long runtimes throughout the project. I can understand why this is such a big stepping stone as not many people really even knew what Hard Rock, early stages of Metal, and Prog Rock was in 1970 so having a band create such a booming and elaborate album really must have been a big deal, but I just can't seem to really get into this album. I can appreciate the compositions and the ideas behind the album but other than Child in Time, a track I wasn't even super huge on, I really didn't enjoy listening to this album. It came off as more of a chore for myself than anything else. If I wanted to listen to Hard Rock or early Heavy Metal, I'd rather turn on Black Sabbath any day than this Deep Purple project.

This is an absolute Living Wreck that needs to be tossed Into the Fire. Immediately. At least they're consistent in their suckitude... except this time they didn't even have the benefit of that 'Smoke on the Water' riff.

This was worse than first Deep Purple album. And they certainly set the bar very low to begin.

Didn't like this one. Very repetitive.

70’s metal is not my thing. There’s a reason Spinal Tap exists and this is it. A very unenjoyable experience.

These songs all sound like demos or jams based on "Highway star". Not what I expected. Machine Head AND another DP record I've not heard are ALSO on the list, so I can say pretty confidently this one doesn't need to be.

This is the 157th album I’m rating. I don't think I've heard a single Deep Purple song in my life. Adding to my Playlist - Bloodsucker, Into the Fire, and Living Wreck. Not Adding to my Playlist - Speed King, Child in Time, Flight of the Rat, and Hard Lovin' Man. All in all I liked 3/7 songs. Nothing too interesting. I'm getting burnt out on all of these boring rock albums.

Alguna cancion no esta mal, pero el disco entero cansa de cojones

*no music, mostly screaming, screeching, and banging.

Dnf

First things first. I hate the title and cover. 30 seconds in it’s just guitar twaddle. sigh. here we go. you know the concept of ‘darkest timeline’, listening to this album has made me think we’re in the darkest timeline where bands took the technological and societal changes of the 60s & the pop music it brought about, but they said no - we’re gonna focus on making the blues scale louder & make separate ‘rock’ from ‘pop’. Leading to ‘rock culture’ as what it is now, if you look hard enough. the Doors & Clapton have a Lot of answer for this kinda stuff. boring. regressive. Imagine inventing ‘Hard Rock’. I have heard this a thousand times in regional pubs that put on cover bands & it’s fosters the worst dress sense and culture this century. awful, for what this album will bring onto us. if you’re new to this sort of stuff, black sabbath offer much better at around the same time. or try 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson (say what you want about Kanye, he could stop a good sample) still some good riffs. gets a 1 1/2

not a bit of me

Boring

Listened to it 5 times in a row without realising because every song sounds the same

No.

Oof.

I didn’t care for this at all. Too over-indulgent, too self-important. I always wondered where the worst metal bands got their inspiration. Now I know.

I don’t like it

IMMEDIATELY I'm reminded of the type of rock I really do not like. 🫠 If you’re giving me rock then give me Steppenwolf, not whatever this is…

one time I was bar hopping in salem and this guy who tagged along spent a long time talking to us about bitcoin, media conspiracies, and this band. I did drunkenly buy into bitcoin, but Nothing could make me buy this album👎

This sounds like life before the battle pass

This game should be 1000 albums generator. 1001 was entirely unnecessary. This one did not need to get included.

I honestly like a fair amount of music that is obviously inspired by this so I can definitely appreciate it from that angle. I also don't mind when they just pick a riff and rock out for a second. But pretty much everything else they do makes me want to kill myself Fav song: Speed King

N gostei

First thought: oh boy! Eh, I just don't like this kind of music. I am not interested whatsoever. I hate the 'wwwaaaoohhhs'. Ew.

Thanks, I hate it

dreck

You know it's dire when I'm debating between a 2 and a 1. I think just based on how unnecessary this album is to include, I'll give the project a 1. Deep Purple has some good songs, but nothing on Deep Purple in Rock feels influential or important enough to include on the list. Most of this album just feels like a rip off of Led Zeppelin. Best Songs: Speed King Worst Songs: Into the Fire

mid

I'm not a big fan of this style of rock so my rating and review will definitely be a biased one. My favorite parts of this album are the bits where it sounds like a zeppelin album, but even in those moments it just isn't as interesting or compelling. I appreciate the artistry but I just found myself tired by the longer tracks. My rating will be my own personal rating.

How are there at least 3!!!!!!! Deep Purple records on this list. This record is trash. It breaks no new ground. What is the point?

not my thing

Sludge rock and not the good kind.

Boring.

just unlistenable for me, sorry not sorry

not for me.

Absolutely forgettable

I like many elements that make up what this album is, hard rock and other bands that have those elements, but I just can’t stand this. This is my 2nd DP album on here so far, and I guess I just don’t like their parts or what they are as a whole. Someone else I think mentioned Spinal Tap - that was a mockumentary, and I love it, but this is/was real, and good god has every overblown excess. Guess the oh so subtle cover should bean indicator of all to be found inside, not pretentious at all, the instrumental solos everywhere that are just sonic masturbation, the scream vocals, the oh so epic song structure. Heard their live entry last time and was hoping a little more control in the studio but no. Yes they have their place in the history of popular music, yes they can play but they are a band I Just do not want to hear, can only listen to this once and 1 star.

Like Rudy Tchaikovsky on speed?

The most masturbatory album I've heard yet. Between the singing and the guitar solos... just rock wankery all around.

Didn't love it.

Waaaaaaaaaah!!!! Rock on duuude!!!!!!!!!!! \m/

Did not enjoy

😞

Poopoo caca

Spotify only allowed two of the songs, which was still seventeen minutes of music. That was enough.

Boring for me

Meh.

I didn't like Machinehead, and I don't like this one. The singer sounds like a blowhard singing so overly earnest. The guitar is unremarkable, the organ is completely unnecessary, and the effects on his voice make it unintelligible which is somehow worse than being able to understand the words he's singing.

Only 2 songs where playable in Spotify

Lengthy and loud songs, wasn’t a fan

Cacophonous. Glad it was only 17 minutes.

Wasn't feeling this today. Not as good as Machine Head.

Wow, earliest known hair band? I don't like hair bands!

Ugh, I like their drummer and some of the riffs but beyond that jeez- I felt like I needed to be in an altered mind state to appreciate.

meh

Something wrong with the mastering.

Gawd, I hate heavy metal. Such a bore.

Part 70's melt your face rock, part carnival tunes. Child in Time being an example of the latter, but to be honest, I gave up the track early on when I saw it was a full 10+ minutes of that crap. Flight of the Rat feels formulaic with lyrics written by a 13-year old boy struggling in middle school English class. Also has no business being almost 8 minutes... why? I'll never understand 70's metal.

Not my thing

Utter dogshit

i really don't think i like deep purple

Loud and obnoxious, couldn't listen to the whole album.

Too much yelling.

1/5. Not for me

Of all the bands that see themselves in "This is Spinal Tap," Deep Purple might be the closest resemblance. Remember, as a kid, when you would mix all the drinks in the soda machine? That's what this album feels like. "Speed Queen" feels like The Doors on meth blended with some Zeppelin while "Into the Fire" is just a straight ripoff of Sabbath and "Iron Man." The only thing missing is some Jethro Tull jazz flute. Just way too much screaming, too many bloated solos, turned all the way up to 11. Mix it all together, and you just get a lot of flavored sugar water that tastes like shit.

Te intens

2nd deep purple album in a row and it only had one song available on Spotify

Shut up

The definition of doing too goddamn much. If they were tighter, it’d be a better record, but I also think that their noodling bullshit is why this album is here. But to normal ears, the drums are too much, the guitar work sounds like the type of shit a 14 year old boy does to impress his friends, and the vocals are just flat out bad. There are no songs here, just jams, and that sucks. Maybe I just need to be stoned in a Trans-Am to get this, but I think this is just White Boomer Dad music history, not actually important.

Not that good

Refused to listen.

N/A Not available to stream

Budget Doors

garbage

No thank you.

Only 2 songs from this album were playable on Spotify and I didn't like either

This just sounds cartoonish in 2023. Didn't expect to hate this.

…nope

Dumb and dreadful and impossible to take even a little bit seriously – and no way near the level of seriousness these lads no doubt were aiming for. One can just about see the armadillos in the trousers down all these decades? The prog-ish "Child in Time" is least worst of this lame, cliche-ridden lot. Should come with a total heavyosity alert. Strong contender for worst cover design of all time. And obvious points off for inspiring David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel.

I tried. Gotta give him credit for going all in. They do rock. Bombastic, and not for me.

Not for me

It may be a time and a place album, its not my time, i don't like that place, and a whole album of it ... nope, not for me. Did not finish. 1 Star

Classic rock sound. Fun, if a bit trite, and simple music from the 50s. Seems to reflect if not the reality than at least the perception we have of those times well: white picket fences, we’ll-manicured Beach Boys-type easy listening, but without the stunning harmonies. Not my cup of tea exactly: I like my rock with a little more edge, a little more sass, say Chuck Berry. Overall, a fun listen but don’t think I’ll find my way back.

Nope

The screaminess and screechiness of most of these songs was matched only by the screaminess and screechiness of my reaction. The best I can say is that there were glimpses of music, which weren’t totally horrendous.

5 stars for Ian Gillian’s voice minus 4 stars for it being Deep Purple.

Given some of the reviews of this album, I went into this hoping I'd discover a classic proto-metal album. I wouldn't say my hopes were especially high, exactly, Let's say I had countertop-high hopes. The moment it started, however, was the moment I hoped it would end. This is clearly a transitional album for these guys, and maybe if you're a DP fan, you might dig this, but honestly, I just found it embarrassing. All of these guys have chops, but none of them seem to know what to do with said chops. Especially Ian Gillen. Deep Pass.

So not for me

Um yeah. I accidentally listened to a Delux edition and the album had a about 30 too many tracks. This band is in the category of " a few tracks good, a whole album, bad" So it hurt after a while. I imagine some people like this rock opera and maybe it brings back power ballad memories, like maybe running helicopter missions on speed in Vietnam, with this on an 8 track. But I wasn't there man.

not really my thing...a bit too screamy for me!

This is very "Spinal Tap", particularly "Child in Time". There was a brief time, when I was about 14, where I enjoyed Deep Purple's greatest hits. I realize now how wrong I was. They are best forgotten about I think apart from their few good hits.

Omslaget känns mer klassisk än själva låtarna.

No pude escuchar completo

I'm not convinced that this isn't Spinal Tap

Sounds like a fat pulsating cock full of blood and cum and the mindless solos are just as unrelenting. Sure, some of the riffage is fat and angular, and I’m sure this kind of heavy aggressive blues rock (now called “heavy metal”) was a crazy listen at the time, but ultimately it doesn’t hold my attention once the riff settles into the familiar and bland.

Had high expectations but didn't find much joy in these tracks.

I just can't find a way in on this. The musicianship is first class, but the songs are overlong, the singing generic and the songs muddy and indistinct. Imagine Zep without the self control (or just listen to Zep after the numbered albums I spose). Without the tightness accompanying to dizzying musicianship, the whole endeavour turns masturbatory in its relentless showing off.

Oh God. This was horrible. Special shout-out to Hard Lovin' Man, which was a flaming turd of a track imo. More like try-hard man. This album convinced me that a shitty band can go on an improvement arc and learn to kick ass. And I love electric guitar and heavy, shredding production, so that's not why I hated this album. It's because it's so deeply unenjoyable. The album starts off meh, and as an experience the tracks just get worse and worse. For that disappointing trajectory I have to rate this one star. Ugh, this was really borderline unlistenable. Fave track: Speed King was okay and then it was all downhill from there.

Ik ben hier ooit wel eens aan begonnen toen ik 16 was, maar gestopt toen ik 17 was... Zelfs mijn haar diep paars verven in die periode heeft niets opgeleverd. Blijft gewoon een kutplaat!

Way to classic rock for me.

Could only listen to two songs on spotify but did not make for good work music

Everything has a screechy quality, and I actively hated every aspect of the vocals. Each song worse than the last. Finishing the album was hard

Preposterous drivel. You could almost hear the midget dancing round the 18 inch Stonehenge

Rubbish. Just shouting.

Bullshit, noisy stuff without any taste

That sure is some 70s rock

Exactly what I expected. Not got me