Deep Purple In Rock

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