Reviews (page 7 of 10)
3.7/5
I'm not sure if it's a 3 or 4, I liked it but it was very long.
It's good, but the songs are toon long. I prefer the studio version.
-i do love a live album so im excited for this -i think this is the first live album i’ve gotten? -loving the screamy rock going on -why is the same song on here three different times. i get it was performed at different places and times but is there a real reason why -these songs are really good, but i think live albums are better when you know and love the original songs -having said that, the songs itself are good from what i can tell -the guitar and drum solos are fun
Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars for me. Enjoyed the noises in Child in Time which had to be the highlight.
Highlight: Highway Star. In a nutshell: “Can we have everything louder than everything else?” The Simpsons episode “Weekend At Burnsie’s” kinda ruined “Smoke On The Water” for me. All I could hear was a stoned Homer singing the lines wrong and I couldn’t stop laughing. Overall: 6/10
Pretty good. Middle school me would have LOVED this. 53 year old me likes it a lot.
I enjoy Deep Purple but I don't care for live albums
63/100
Great performances slightly let down by going on far too long than they need to.
A bit of a slog, but ok in the background. Definitely way too long, and I feel like live albums lose something when you're literally not there with the performance. Also makes it more difficult to imagine a time and place to set the album, which I like to do. 04/10/23
Good for a live album. Particularly in the showmanship on the drums.
Not a fan of live albums. But this one seemed chipped as well. Wasn’t one continuous flow.
1. The solo in highway star is much better on the studio album. It's cleaner, and packs more of a punch. The solo in the live cut felt like the guitarist was saying "hold my beer" while clearly having had a few too many beers. 2. Holy lots of screaming batman. Somewhere, somewhen someone was high and thought this was the greatest song ever written, I'd disagree. Holy shit, did they steal a riff from Achilles last stand?! Good lord long solo is long. It's not bad, but I think you have to be a big fan of them to dig this and I'm not. Nice ending though! Oh shit, that's not the ending, we're only halfway in! Skipping to next track. 3. Ok, I'm a sucker for british singers explaining shit live before a song...i get chills every time. More bands should do this - it's intimate, makes the show feel special. So many bands just come on, do their thing, and leave. This is a classic song, it's great, the bass is amazing in this live cut. A++ 4-7: rest of the album plays out like I expected the rest. It's not the worst thing I have heard, and I like Deep Purple well enough, but live albums aren't usually my thing unless I REALLY like the band.
It’s good rock music but very long and not wholly my thing, some interesting blues and jazz influences
Difficult to balance my fondness for Deep Purple, my delight at the track selection and the talent of the musicians against the fact this is a live album. Honestly, Deep Purple are great and this album.. Isn't. Because I'm not interested in the showboatery of a twiddly lead guitar solo. I don't care about audience participation, and I'd far, far rather listen to music being the best it can be rather than "the best it can be live".
Aside from Highway Star and Smoke on the Water this wasn’t too much for me. Especially Strange Kind of Woman, I did not need to hear a screech followed by a guitar mimicking that same screech. Also… that drum solo.
Real jammy. Long drum solos. Long guitar solos. Fine, just not my speed.
Ok live album. Not as big a fan of the songs, so hearing long solos strung throughout wasn’t my thing. I can see the historical significance, but won’t listen to this again
Apart from ‘Smoke On The Water’ I can’t say I know a single Deep Purple song. And I hate live albums, but this music drowns out the crowd so +1. It also really helps that there are no singalongs or clapalongs (Producers, take note). Highway Star: Bad ass metal keyboards! Tasty guitar solos! Heavy guitar, heavy drums, heavy vocals - I never realized Purple was *this* metal. I am transformed. Child In Time: Such musical drumming! I didn’t need to look up his bio to know there’s some jazz in his background. All hail Ian Paice! Again with the keyboards! My face can only melt so much! CONTINUE MELTING IT. I mean it as a compliment when I say there is something delightfully old school about these guys. Especially remarkable because in their heyday they were considered pioneers. Ah sunrise, sunset. Holy s*** Ian Gillan! Somewhere in Sutton Coldfield, little Robbie Halford is getting ideas… Smoke: Ah yes, here it is. A Voyager 3 should be launched to the Oort Cloud to do nothing more than play this riff over and over for all eternity. The Mule: Ooooo nooooooo this album needs a big red label on the front WARNING: CONTAINS ABSURDLY EXCESSIVE DRUM SOLO. Sorry, Ian, you’re still a metal god - no need to over-do it, bro. Strange Kind of Woman & Lazy: Hmmm. Back half of this album is less metal and more like an overblown jam session. The last few tracks are just passing around solos. Lazy could slip into an Allman Bros live album unnoticed. Space Truckin: Now we’re talkin’! More, please! This is primordial stuff - roots of ELP and other prog rockers to follow, but stirred up with tight, clean riffs and cosmic metal sensibilities. Hell yeah, Ian G goes off again! OMG YES JON LORD PLEASE PUT MY FACE BACK WHEN YOU ARE DONE MELTING IT, SIR. Absolutely galactic keyboard work, here. I am so glad I stuck it out to this final track - totally worth the finale. HELL YEAH COMMANDER JON FIRE THE PHOTON LASERS! Ha! Little metal icing on the cake with 4” to spare! Nice touch, just to remind everyone the Truck has returned them to earth’s orbit safe and sound. These dudes played their audience all the way out the door and left no survivors. Arigato, Osaka, goodnight. \m/ \m/
Won't pretend this isn't an impressive performance Also won't pretend it's not A LOT of the same thing
Too long.
MachineHead est 5/5 aucun doute là-dessus. Mais comme album live, ca commence quand meme fort. clairement dans les hautes notes, mais la deuxième moitié... mon dieu ca dérape. On reconnait meme aps les tounes. Je savais pas que deep purple était un Jamband.. est-ce que ca leur va bien ? Pas certain. La première partie est quand meme malade, Child in time Smoke under water, highway star. Ca dérape trop our moi après strange kind of women, Pourtant j'ador ela chanson space truckin sur machine head3.5
- as far as live albums go, this one was very well done - enjoyed the jammin , didn’t love the long drum solo
Good but didnt have enough time to enjoy right
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This one really feels like a parody of itself. It's so over the top. Kinda love it kinda hate it. Probably won't come back to it very often
These guys go hard and deep, but the twenty-five minute drum solos are probably much better in person.
70s bro party rock
As far as live albums go, this one wasn't too bad. The recording quality was excellent, and Rickie Blackmore's guitar playing is incredibly clear and precise unlike some other guitarists of that time whose playing is often muddled live. The album was too long and the last two songs started to drag, but it was an impressive live album.
One of classic rock’s quintessential live albums. Perhaps too long and overwhelmingly indulgent, but stellar renditions of Highway Star and Space Truckin’ are enough to recommend it.
I will preface this by saying I am a jam band lover. I typically like long live jams of songs. The talent showcased on this album is immense. I won't deny that. However, it does feel a bit masturbatory at times. Lots of the songs seemed to jam with endless solos yet no real direction for the song to go into, if that makes any sense. I also got tired of the lead singer's voice pretty quickly. I just cant stand that YAAAA yelp.
Legendary band and the solos are quite entertaining as they extend their greatest hits in this live album. But after 30 minutes there is not much more offered by it.
the fountainhead of butt rock
Good live album, but... meh?
I didn’t mind most of the tracks, but each one was just too long.
It was OK. As individual songs, they were really good and has definite historical value as an influential album, but the extended live versions became somewhat self-indulgent and, well, annoying. Would give it four stars for its place in rock history, but it gets knocked down to 3 for the excessive musical rambling.
Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal Formed: London, England in 1968 Run time: 13 songs, 2 hours, 2 min This is a double live album, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It is a great live album containing some of their best known songs. The track “Black Night” appears three times on disk 2 and “Speed King” appears twice. Spotify: Least popular song: almost 242k Most popular song: over 2.2M. Despite the group's popularity this album isn’t massively popular on Spotify. Presumably people prefer the studio versions of the songs. I love Deep Purple, but I cannot stand the screaming in the track “Child In Time”. I would have left for the bar when it came on (and I don’t drink). But a bottle would have been purchased and thrown at the singer well before the 12 minute mark! Listen Again?: No My Rating: ***
Pretty rocking, but I don't like live recordings
After the first three songs, I was unsure as to why so many people had a problem with this record. Sure the songs were long, but they didn't overstay their welcome and had a real force behind them; the second half of the record illuminated those criticisms I had seen. As someone who loves longer music (Swans are my favorite artist), the performances start to drag and lack a sense of direction, sure there are great moments or stretches of a couple minutes, but the totality of the later songs lack a certain cohesiveness that the first three had in spades.
Euhm ja, dit hadden we toch al gehoord? Wel aardige muziek hoor, maar had ik deze echt *moeten* beluisteren of was het album 'Deep Purple In Rock' niet al genoeg geweest? Okee, live klinkt het anders en af en toe rockt het de sterren van de hemel, maar net zo vaak zakt het in. En alles waar een drumsolo van vijf minuten in zit krijgt sowieso een punt aftrek.
Ik ben niet per se fan van live albums als het niet specifiek anders is dan gewone albums. Als ik zelf naar een live optreden ga, dan wil ik overigens wel gewoon dat de nummers gespeeld worden en niet dat de zanger een uitvoerige monoloog gaat houden of dat een van de muzikanten een oeverloze solo inzet om de boel te rekken. Dat haalt wat mij betreft juist de energie uit de show. De beste live albums voor mij zijn een aantal "live in a dive" punkrock shows, waar je duidelijk de energie hoort en de interactie met het publiek. En toch ook wel een aantal MTV unplugged, waar de nummers in een ander (onversterkt) jasje zijn gegoten. De bekendste is misschien wel Layla geworden, als ook het hele Nirvana unplugged concert. Persoonlijke favoriet in die serie is Alice in Chains, omdat daar de muzikaliteit en de schoonheid van de nummers tot absolute uiting komt. Maar goed, dit gaat over Deep Purple. Wederom een uur en een kwartier lang live onvervalste boomerrock. Eerste helft is hele dikke prima. Dan zit er halverwege een oeverloze drumsolo in, waar je als publiek beter even kan gaan pissen of een vers biertje kan gaan halen. Het tweede gedeelte is uberhaupt meer een aaneenschakeling van solo's. Al moet ik wel zeggen dat die gasten wel kunnen spelen allemaal, nondeju.
Sounds nice and quite a jam if they weren't stretched into overambitious lengths of 7 minutes and even reaching 19 freaking minutes.
Interesting that this would be on the list but not their album "Machine Head" which has the original studio recordings of "Smoke on the Water" and "Highway Star". Maybe this is the author of 1001 album's personal tastes coming through in the list a little bit... (we'll see if "Machine Head" comes in later) "Highway Star" is such a badass rock anthem. One of the best songs to hear while you are alone in your car and flying down a highway. "Smoke On The Water" --> one of the best rock riffs of all time. Usually in the conversation for best of all time. What a weird thing to do live though to variate it the second time you play it. It's so simple and people want to hear the riff itself, not some variation. Small thing but just a little odd. The rest of the performance was solid. Tight 3/5 album. Still curious about the choice of a live album for some of these tracks.
I like some DP but this too repetitive for me. Good in its day
I cant rock lol
A great live performance of songs I don’t like. Musicianship and tightness is superb - but for some reason I can’t forget my ambivalence to Deep Purple. Also the Spinal Tap level of self indulgence kind of makes it a harder to digest. Still a good listen but not something I’m ever really going to seek out specifically again.
"Smoke on the Water" is one of the peaks of white-boy rock. It's very good, but it strikes me as music for people that don't know how to dance. (To be fair, this could be said of a fair bit of hard rock). This is basically the hard rock version of yacht rock. I can see some boomers listening to this, sipping their gin and tonic, and saying "This rocks!" 3 1/2 stars, rounding down.
I really enjoyed a handful of songs. I think some of the live stuff took away from the listening experience so I’ll take this as a sign to check out more studio albums.
Does any live set need three drum solos? There is, however, fun to be had amidst the onanistic technical performance. I quite like the gentle trolling at the start of Smoke on the Water where the riff almost gets played then walked away from. Very funny. The songs are also good. Just needlessly bulked out with unnecessary solos. As I believe Zappa once said to Satriani, "If I wanted to watch you w*nk I'd have stuck a camera in the toilet."
A couple of classic songs on here as well as some long as hell jams. It's a good sampler of what it might be like to be at a concert for Deep Purp. Would be great to watch this as a film to see the guys play in their prime!
Pretty solid album - they're a talented bunch.
Stodgy 70s rock.nothing wrong with it but not really my taste. Again this is one of those live albums that gets lost in translation. None of the energy you should feel is there
As a spotty long haired youth i used to be a big fan but now I find them a cringingly spinal tappish combo. Gillan voice wears on me and Lords classical noodling seem to quaint. Still, if you buy one DP album this is the one.
I mean it's Deep Purple live album and it's a good one at that. Still I think you will only like this if you already like Deep Purple and I'm not sure this should be on the list at it's not really an studio album but more a compilation of songs. The long solos i think are fun if know the tracks and can appreciate the differences from the album versions but otherwise I imagine they can drag on. I would recommend listening to the studio albums (or a greatest hits) if you are not a big fan already. Since i know all these songs i enjoyed it though. I still think smoke on the water is a bad song but it might be due to the mandatory music classes in primary school where thirty 9-year-olds on thrity out of tune guitars played smoke on the water on the E string.
The issue with live albums of artists you haven't heard before is that you can't tell where the original track ends and the embellishments begin. An avid fan already has that familiarity with the track and so appreciates the additional stuff performed during concert. But it's all new to a new listener, so when those embellishments start and tracks can last 20 minutes, it can be hard to stay engaged. This album gets 3 stars because I do like what I've heard, but I'll need to visit the studio versions to see if Deep Purple are an artist I'll follow.
The tracks on this album were decent but I really didn't need all the excessive live jamming that just went on for way too long. Not sure exactly why this is included on the list considering the summary literally describes how the band didn't want to do this but their Japanese label thought it would be good for publicity... talk about selling out. 2.5/5
good but live... ARG
Fine
A live performance steeped in high-energy, some epic drum solos. I wasn't too taken with the actual music though
Solid live classic rock, not as hard as you would expect given all the talk of setting the stage for Heavy Metal...
The history of Made In Japan's reception is alarming: I can only conclude that we went from having way too much fun to failing to have any fun at all. The grain of salt is that I enjoy a decent drum solo, the smear the band makes of time here, playing a few ideas out but saving a few to the end.
"Made in Japan" almost didn't exist. Deep Purple did not want to release a live album, seeing no way to replicate their explosive live set on record. When their touring engineer presented them with these recordings, the label were fanatic about them, and the band begrudgingly went along with a professional release (partly to stifle bootleg recordings and partly to jump on a similar trend by other groups). 50 years on, now the hype has dimmed and the purpose of release is null and void, this 70 minute, 7 track album has retained a lot of its power, but the indulgence of it all hasn't quite stood up to time. The best thing about "Made in Japan" is the added vitality that the studio versions can't quite match. Deep Purple perfectly fused raw metal power with virtuoso performances and sheer exhilaration, and that's perhaps more evident here than I've ever heard before. From the get-go, "Highway Star" blows the roof off. Ian Paice's drumming ups the tempo, Roger Glover fuzzes out his bass, Ritchie Blackmore throws in increasingly blistering guitar runs, and Ian Gillan retains the powerhouse vocals of the studio version with just a little more grit. It's a real thrill, and the peak of the whole record. The main issue is that every track is stuffed out to breaking point, with only "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water" maintaining a brevity of seven minutes. "Child in Time"'s dramatic build in intensity, though still powerful, is undermined when the heavier sections are dragged out for several days, losing any sense of climax. "The Mule" begins well but quickly dissolves into a seven minute (yes, SEVEN MINUTE) drum solo from Paice. There are frequent interludes of extended solos, dragged out crashing endings, Gillan's wordless call-and-response with Blackmore, and long stretches of feedback and sonic experimentation. "Space Truckin'" is the worst offender, at a needless twenty minutes. Everybody knows Jon Lord was a phenomenal keyboard player: he's wonderful throughout the whole album and makes his mark on "Truckin'", mining the depths of his instrument and lifting phrases from famous classical pieces (I spotted Holst's "Jupiter" among others). While it must have been a thrill to experience live, it's a tough listen when removed from the atmosphere and the visuals. And therein lies the main problem with "Made in Japan": expertly performed and essential for hardcore Deep Purple fans, but a real struggle as an album-length listen. Perhaps the band were right all along, in assuming their barnstorming live act could never quite be captured on recordings. You just had to be there.
Great sounding live record. Need to check out more Deep Purple before I can have a better appreciation for this.
I expected to give this album 2 stars since it's missing Pictures of Home, my favorite from Machine Head (3 stars). During Child in Time I was ready to give this 5 stars. 50+ minutes later I've settled down to 3
This might make some people mad, but I flip-flopped between being slightly intrigued, being utterly bored to death, and being extremely agitated by this album. Maybe I'm missing something?
Pretty cool jam album, live albums aren't really my thing but these guys did go pretty hard. Few tracks went on a bit long. Smoke on the water is an all time classic, was great hearing a live version
Also ich mag es aber ich denke nicht, dass ich es jetzt Privat hören würde. Und einfach ein Song ist 19min lang.........
Deep Purple is niet echt mijn muziek. Ik snap best dat mensen dit vet vinden maar ik moet er echt mijn best voor doen. Des al niet te min geef ik dit wel een 3 omdat het gewoon goed is.
It's alright. I like Deep Purple but this one was a bit challenging. There was an inordinate amount of sudden-onset screeching that was deeply unpleasant and a lot of vocals that, had this not been a live album, would have absolutely been retracked. I mean, there's some just gnasty out-of-tune vocals here. It's not their best showing, TBH. Not sure why this one's on the list.
Not my type of music.
It's good, but would rather have the LP
Oh Gawd I'd forgotten about the never-ending drum solo in 'The Mule'. Why, oh Why. Plenty better 70s live albums than this, including by Deep Purple! Still, Gillan's voice is mostly great, and Jon Lord's keyboards and of course Ritchie's guitar and licks are legendary.
I have never been more conflicted by listening to an album. There were moments where I marvelled at their quite frankly stunning musicianship. However, others where I couldn't help but think the whole thing felt self-indulgent. 2 hours of a man imitating the sound of a guitar. His vocal range seemed impressive the first time he did it, but after 10 minutes, it felt like a chore. 1 star for being legends, 1 star for amazing music, 1 star for some classic tunes but that'll do. I just hope the crowd enjoyed it
Ég er ekkert mikið fyrir live upptökur. Þetta er samt í skárra lagi. Gillian er alveg svakalegur í distortion scream-unum sínum!
Same as last album. Not bad, just not for me.
It's alright but just too long
Great musicians but not my style
I'm not a big fan of the band, although I sometimes enjoy listening to some songs. This release is too much show-off and less good music, but it's pretty clear why they reach so much success in the 70s until today. After almost one hour of show-off how good they were playing, "Lucille" caught me and ended the album at a very high level. Still far from something that I'll listen to any other day.
J'ai passé un agréable moment au sein de la famille de mon camarade d'écoute robchimisteoubijoutière, à savoir son ermite de père de la caverne à vinyls, le batteur de Deep Purple et rob lui même.
Wow, is this a long album. It also repeats the same song three times on side one... Or at least, the expanded edition does, for some reason. It's cool to get into a stellar groove, but much how I feel with most jammy music, the lulls can be very, very dull. Favorite tracks: "Smoke On the Water", "Space Truckin'"
0-3-5, 0-3-6-5… not bad, but pretty boring after a while
I'm sure the concert was great. Maybe if I'd been there I'd enjoy this album more. As it stands, it's good music just they jam way too long to be enjoyable outside of the actual attendance.
Classic Hard Rock album Great guitar licks and keyboards, but it does show its age
Not my thing but alright.
Yeah I mean, nice solos, but jeez did it overstay its welcome. I liked it though. I'd say solid 3 (I'm retroactively giving wizard rungren a 2). Normally I'd give +1 stars for an album being entirely live, but a 4 feels very wrong for something that was nice but nothing I'll come back to.
Probablement l'un des meilleurs album live j'ai entendu, les solos étaient plus intéressants que j'aurais pensé. Mais il y avait quand même des longueurs.
Although I can appreciate the quality of this band’s performance and I appreciate the quality of the live recording, I wasn’t really into it.
This was going along pretty great until after Smoke on the Water and its holy trinity of rock chords. Long spoodily, uninteresting solos made the rest feel like an eternity. The band sure does sound great live and the songs are good but these jammy solos get a big no-thank-you from me.
Since this is a live album the listening experience is a little different. The songs are all great and the band is putting on great performances. Hearing the crowd also gets me excited as well, especially on the disc 2 recording the crowd is especially energetic on those. Hearing live performances is always special compared to studio recordings as songs live feel much rawer and they have an energy to them the studio songs can't match. The band's live additions and extensions to the songs are generally good but on certain songs, I think they overextend went too long. Like the slow quiet section in the mule, these moments show up in a few songs and took the momentum away. Another issue I had was the repeated songs on disc 2 as Black night appears 3 times and speed king 2 times, there are only 6 songs on disc 2. While I enjoyed all the recordings it felt to repetitive listing to them again so close. I would like to single out the smoke on the water performance as it was my favourite and I really enjoyed what they did with the live version. Fav: Smoke on the water, Black night, speed king Least fav: 7/10 - pretty good
Live album with a lot of solos
This was ok, kinda proggy psychedeleic sorta rock. The drum solo was way too long, otherwise it was alright.
When a live album pops up on this project, I get extra critical. I think a live album needs to pack a special punch to make it onto this project, otherwise why include it at all? You're not really able to tell that this is a live album, aside from the occasional clapping at the end of tracks. It's great that they perform so well live, but without the concert energy, again, I'm not sure what the significance of a live album inclusion is; this may as well be a greatest hits album. But on the other hand, I can't deny that this album is just a complete and total rock fest from start to finish. While it is certainly gratuitous, it is pretty impressive to hear Deep Purple just lose it on these instruments with expert musicianship and improvisation. However, without the concert energy context, the gratuitous instrumental nature does start to get a little boring after minutes and minutes of sitting and listening to it happening in multiple songs; sometimes it even slows down to a droning crawl. Overall, the whole thing does leave me a bit jealous that I couldn't be at this concert/series of concerts in order to see what it was like in person.
Fantastic classic rock album! I'm not a fan of the genre, but this being a live album made it fun to listen to. I don't think I'd listen again, though. 3/5 Favorite track: Child In Time
A solid live album, that has all the great Deep Purple songs you would expect to hear. The band is outstanding here, serving up technically perfect songs that are as good as or better than the studio versions. The album gets insanely jam-heavy in places, but mostly never ceases to be entertaining. Fave songs: Smoke on the Water, Highway Star, Child in Time, Space Truckin'
When I was 14 and 15 this album was the absolute bomb. My favorite live album. Now I'm 60 and I'm afraid the bloom is off the rose. All the songs go on too long except possibly Highway Star and Smoke on the Water. 15 year old me thought Child In Time was a masterpiece, now Ian Paice's vocal wailings just make me cringe. The musicianship is first rate there is no doubt, but I'm just not into wailing guitars and overly long drum solo's and self-indulgent organ wailing solos, though I still think Space Truckin' is great, my favorite song on the album. I think ultimately Spinal Tap ruined this kind of music for me, well at least it now makes me smile wryly. 3.5 stars for the nostalgia factor.
Live rock albums are rarely excellent, in my estimation. Jazz and blues and classical music recorded live has a much better chance of capturing the scope of the event. Not the same as being there in the moment, but you get close to the full experience. With a stadium-sized rock show, with no visuals, live albums almost always leave better than 50% of the experience behind. So it is with "Made In Japan." Deep Purple was possibly the biggest-sounding rock band in the world in 1972 — they were certainly among them — but this album doesn't recreate that sound. Ian Gillan on vocals deserves a 5-star on his own, you can hear the intensity of his performance, and he's one of the all-time greats, just being able to ride atop the massive sound the band is churning out is a feat — and he wails with the best of them. Ian Paice on drums is also in great form on this album, as is the rest of the band. But the throb of the organ, the bite of Blackmore's guitar, the bass... they just don't bring the noise on this recording. And while this is a bygone era, drum solos are almost always a bad idea, and the band spends so much time exploring jams and super-extended flights of fancy — is it really necessary to add solos on top of that? There's too much noodling, and combined with the sub-excellent translation of the live show, what could have been a concise wallop of an album meanders and seems to lack focus, even if the live show itself didn't. It's a 4-plus for the intensity we're not getting to hear, and for including the definitive version of "Smoke On The Water," but the other detractions weigh this album down. I guess they included the live album on this list because it highlighted the best of the band's material at its most awesome, but I bet a studio album from this era would have earned more stars.
The definition of a classic rock live album. Gratuitous as hell. Flashy guitar solos ajd long (too long for me) drum solos. I think I preferred the studio versions of these songs though I do enjoy a long jam. I think maybe being at this show would have improved the listening experience a lot for me. Pretty wild they we heard two deep purple albums before anything by The Who, Led Zeppelin or bob dylan
la canya q necessito per començar el dilluns: - highway star
Impressive but harder for me to get into live albums. Guitarwork was phenomenal
Really was quite amazing by Ian gillains vocal range. Surprising deep purple don’t get the props led zeppelin and sabbath do.
Seems an amazing live experience. The Mule and after made me really want to be there in-person.
fine. thought i'd like it more. recording wasn't great imo.
Good
Cool to hear smoke on thw water. As a whole it was fine
I have a feeling that they were not, in fact, made in Japan
Good live album
Híjole, siento que este disco sí sale totalmente sobrando. No es malo, pero ya de entrada no le veo sentido a los discos en vivo, menos aún a este que la mitad de sus rolas salen en el disco de estudio que ya escuchamos. Por otro lado, en este disco rebasan el concepto del solo y le dan su momento (de varios minutos) casi a cada instrumento, haciéndolo especial en ese sentido, pero no para ganar muchas más estrellas… de hecho creo que llega a cansar.
I like a lot of the songs on here individually. This Live album just didn't do it for me. Too meandering and too long.
Sometimes enjoyable. The biggest problem is seven songs shouldn't take seventy-six minutes. I don't care who you are. Somebody stop the drummer. And the part where the lead singer was mimicking the guitar? Urgh.
Jam band album. Personally just more of an in studio album Vs recorded in this type of environment. Cool to hear the 11 min version but cooler to hear the distilled intentional version. Not a bad listen overall. Would not listen again.
not a fan of live albums but this is... ok?
I’m just not a big fan of drum solos, I don’t care who is doing it. Come to think of it, not a huge fan of any solos (exception: Hans). It’s just showing off really.
Jam band with good vocals.
Tracks 1-3, and the encores were great, 5 was alright, and 4, 6 and 7 were shit.
I know I should listen to this again, but I just don't want to waste the time. It's Deep Purple. Live. In Japan if that makes a difference. Exactly what it says on the tin. So if you're not a massive Deep Purple fan, don't expect any surprises.
deep purple aight. 70s hard rock woo. I never thought they were anything special and this essentially confirmed it. Fiyah in the sky
i liked it 3.5 but the lenth of each track is too long for me to listen to on a normal day of listening to music.
absolute shred city. love the vox guitar back and forth on SKOW
I did not finish the album because when I started it it was on shuffle and 30 minutes in I realized it was shuffling a bunch of stuff. I'll come back to it.
This was fine. It's a live performance, so it's pretty "jammy". Songs were kind of long, and as someone listening it as an album, I do not think it was amazing. I bet it was great live, though.
big organ driving all the tunes
The songs are great, the 20 minutes of shrieking guitar solos between the songs are a little grating
Heavy, goes on a bit.
There are some fun moments but I don’t want to be tied to deep purple for 2 hours
i stopped midway through. at some point i’m sure i’ll smoke and listen to this, but not rn.
Underrated live album. Child in time was the standout
Best Song: Child in time. The best vocal performance on the album, that perfectly hits that sweet point between singing and screaming. Plus a killer guitar solo. Worst Song: The Mule. Excessively long drum solo that even the crown didn't seem interested in. Overall: The music is good, but the live setting doesn't add much atmosphere beyond apparently giving the band permission to draw out each song into these long, drawn out solos and musical interludes while the audience quietly watches. The result is an album that feels a little "look what I can do", and lacks the cohesion of a regular album but also the passion of a live setting.
Ok. Fine. This is pretty cool. 4 Just a little too much boring dad music. (Though they get technical even in the boring parts) 3... (2.5)
Classic songs. But it was maybe slightly to long for my liking
My wife's mood fluctuates as much as her weight does. When she's naked it's hard to tell what's a stretch mark and what's a self harm scar. She likes Deep Purple and who am I to judge the sad, chubby moose?
Yet another album with a 50 year anniversary, this time a live concert recording from Japan by the band Deep Purple. The album has only 9 songs, but all of them have a different arrangement than on the studio recording. The big change - a lot of solos, improvisation and just general craziness. The first two songs were very promising Highway Star and Child in Time had the right amount of all the ingredients: faster songs, guitar solos, vocal improv, just a great show. As for the rest of the album, the quality, in my opinion, went a bit down. The same recipe as for the first two songs stopped working. It became bothersome and boring. I had a really hard time getting through last three songs. It might be amazing, when heard live, especially 50 years ago, but as a listener from a different generation, in my bed and with headphones on, that album doesn't have anything special for me anymore.
Great way to start a Monday morning
Solid 70s rock jam band - enjoyed more than I thought I would and love the live album sound
Nah - too drone’y for me
Wild sprawling jam sessions. What a rush
Almost lived up to the hype
Too much jam but still fun
Don't need a live album of this. Smoke on the Water speaks for itself - probably the first song anyone learns on guitar, if not Iron Man.
I'd say as far as live albums go this probably captured the energy quite well. Definitely some wankery in guitar-work but they definitely change things up as it goes on. Never got into much of Deep Purple besides liking "Smoke on the Water" as a teen learning guitar, but overall not bad. I could see people rating it 4-5 but it's generally not my thing.
I like Deep Purple as much as the next guy (though judging by the reviews, where too many people are under the impression that Smoke on the Water is their only song, maybe I like them better than the next guy), but come on. This thing lost steam somewhere around The Mule / Strange Kind of Woman. Sometimes the live show needs to stay the live show. Best track: Highway Star
Highlight: Highway Star
Live, ma le canzoni non sono inedite, ok. Boh, non mi trasmette molto di più delle canzoni, anzi le preferisco in versione studio. Bella 'Space Truckin'', ma 19 minuti anche no
It seems a bit redundant to have a live album on here as well as the studio albums the tracks come from. It's then also a bit of a stretch to expect us to sit through the extended jam/solo versions of these songs. It's also a real punish when there are two versions of speed king and THREE versions of black knight on it (all 7min+), pushing the album to over 2 hours. wtf. Gripes aside, this is still preferable to most of the other 616 albums I've heard so far. The rockin' parts really do rock, Gillan can scream like a banshee, the guitar/keyboard playalongs are at least fun at first. My criticisms are all "it didn't need to-s": it didn't need to be any longer than an hour, it didn't need a 5min drum solo, it didn't need extended jams... but it wasn't "this fucking sucked". So it still gets an easy 3/5.
I know a few of their songs from hearing them at different times in my life. I liked them when I was a teen but didn't really listen to them beyond that. This live album was a good one for me to hear because I could listen to how incredible they are at improvising over their hard rock tunes. They play incredibly well. I don't necessarily love all the songs, and stylistically they probably aren't a band I'd come back to very often, but I definitely appreciate and admire what they can do as musicians.
Dirty fuckin' hippies on the cusp of some great shit. The 10 minute drum solo that felt like two hours really sucked, but there is some great riffs here that is true hardcore shit. I really liked this album as a historical artifact, but could taste the PCP through my earbuds and was hungover before the album ended.
I ended up liking this album more than I thought I would. To the point that I wouldn’t mind hearing it again. For a live album, I was surprised how little we hear the crowd.
I guess I’m not that into metal
I've never gone out of my way to listen to Deep Purple before. Their songs are recognizable, and jumping straight into a live album would not normally be how I introduce myself to an artist, but this was a treat.
I feel like with a very few exceptions, live albums are only suitable for fairly serious fans of a band or performer. It mostly held here, I am relatively indifferent to Deep Purple and was unmoved by these various bloated song versions, with all the Original Recipe Heavy Metal live show trimmings - the hyper-extended drum solo number, the call-and-response yell-off with the crowd... On the other hand just getting me to tolerate a nearly 20 minute version of “Space Truckin” is a feat, and at times the fun and energy of the time and crowd does shine through.
Kritisoin kyllä hieman sitä että tälle listalle nostetaan livelevyjä ja kokoelmia, mutta it is what it is… Asiaan. Onhan tää aika väkevä live. SOTW ehkä huonoin biisi kuten on myös DP:n Machine Head levyllä joka varmaan tästä generaattorista putkahtaa jossain kohtaa. Vittu tekis mieli antaa neljä pistettä ihan ton Highway Starin takii ku on nii poskettoman härkänen veto, mut laitetaan vähä malttii. 3/5
Hyvät teininostalgiat, DP oli kova juttu. Ja fiilaan kyllä edelleen, vaikka tää livelevy onkin ihan liian pitkä.
Deep Purple ei mikään oma rokkisuosikki, mutta varsin hienoja pitkiä jytäklassikoita kyllä tällä levyllä. Laitan nyt kuitenkin vaan 3/5, ei ihan nelosen verran herännyt kiinnostusta.
So Täp
Love a good live album, and Deep Purple certainly don't disappoint.
Holy long album Batman. Started at about 8:30 am and took me until 3:30 to get through it with interruptions. It was good but didn't need to be 2 hours long.
Actually pretty groovy, only heard smoke on the water and strange kind of woman before... only thing is pretty self-indulgent.
There are two types of people in the world: those who find Ian Gillan's high- pitched wailing in Child in Time completely thrilling and those who are horrified by it. I happen to be in the former camp and yet I'm not much of a Deep Purple fan (there is another way of splitting humanity into two clear groups: those who enjoy Smoke on the Water and normal people). It's all a bit silly really, though I must admit to enjoying a fair bit of it. Sort of.
Czuć było dobrą energię od zespołu (czego nie można powiedzieć o japońskiej publiczności). Niektóre utwory zostały subtelnie rozszerzone, ale żadne z nich nie utwierdziło mnie w poczuciu, że słucham czegoś na nowo. Dobór setlisty poprawny, mamy tutaj najpopularniejsze kawałki zespołu, choć potrójne granie tego samego utworu bywa męczące z pozycji domowego słuchacza. (3.5/5)
Każdy z artystów występujących w albumie dał z siebie wszystko - wspaniałe solówki, wirtuozerię swoich instrumentów, podróż przez szeroki przekrój gatunków muzycznych. Wszystko to, by stworzyć... dwugodzinne Jam Session, które wręcz prosi się w trakcie o przewinięcie do kolejnego utworu i od Smoke On The Water nie opuszcza słuchacza na krok do samego końca. Album jest zbyt długi, a nagrywki live niestety często psują klimat płyty, tak też stało się w tym wypadku. Najbardziej było to widać w przypadku jedynego znanego szerszej publiczności Smoke On The Water, gdzie w solówce basowej zaczęli klaskać nie w rytm. Jak bardzo doceniam warstwę muzyczną, tak wokal dopełnia obrazu męczącej i przygnębiającej płyty i choć bardzo bym chciał się przekonać, to oprócz oklepanego już singla (a to i tak nie w tej wersji) do płyty już nie wrócę.
This is a double live album from Deep Purple's first tour of Japan in 1972. It is regarded as one of the top live albums, and this album's version of "Smoke on the Water" is praised as being the best by the band. At first the band had no intention of releasing a live album showcasing their amazing concerts, but bootleg recordings of the band were immensely popular so they planned their own release. Even after this change in decision, the band still did not want this live album released outside of Japan. However, this album jumped to the top of charts and sold a lot all around the world once it was released worldwide. In conclusion, this is a very popular live album with a lot of great tracks from Deep Purple. I recommend everyone to give it a listen!
not something i would ever come back to, but these guys deserve some points for sheer enthusiasm.
It is a live album
crisp. the drum solos and long ass guitar solos are purely jerkin' off.
Of all of the live albums I've gotten so far, this one felt the most like a concert with all of the guitar solos and added stuff to each song. Unfortunately, I don't like Deep Purple that much so I couldn't fully enjoy the live vibes. Smoke on the Water is still cool though
it's a live classic rock album what more can be said - never been a huge deep purple fan though
Live albums aren't my thing per se, but it is a classic.
Elements of this I enjoyed, but each song just went on and on. And The 2-3 min drum solo was hard to get through. I'm a fan of Black Night and Lucille, the first half let it down for me. Wish I could give a 2.5
Pretty enjoyable at times, other times it gets too self-indulgent with the technical wankery. 2.5/5
Deep and long
Impressive live album, long, fun solos, call and response, dorky but they know what they're about
I feel the same way about this Deep Purple album that I did about the other Deep Purple album I got on this list, which is that when the lead singer hits his high notes, all I hear is Dennis Reynolds from IASIP singing Day Man. Add to that that it's a double live album, and there isn't much for me to get into here. Their music is fine, but there's so much about this album that biased me against it going in. Not bad, but I was ready to be done after two songs. After the high water point of Smoke On The Water, every song is at least 9.5 minutes long. 3/5
Pretty sure my dad had this on vinyl, not too bad, but quite proggy in parts. Won't listen again
A very well produced and engineered live album, by a band in it's grandiose and feral peak.
If you are familiar with Deep Purple this is probably great cause it adds a twist to songs you already know. If you are not it's a lot of jamming and screaming. I am not familiar with most of there work but I can appreciate this.
Sort of a cool sound with the organ, and I liked his voice. I'm not as big on such long songs/solos.
fine, I can appreciate it but not my thing.
Good live alum. Some songs were extended, but it really felt like it didn’t add to the songs. More like the band was just showing off that they know how to play their instruments and not expanding the song so much.
Similar to "...In Rock", which I reviewed last week. Soloing good, but lengthy. Slightly proggy. Good live recording. All the hits!
Not crazy about the live album ness
Live Deep Purple. It's good.
It was okay but: 1. Prefer the studio recordings more 2. Songs are too damn long. Just get to the next one already, sheesh.
Not for me. It rocks though, for sure.
Fun, I guess, but most of the songs lack a strong enough hook or chorus to justify such long solos.
This rocked when I was at school: still does.
First Listen. It's a great album and it's live.
Loved this album in high-school. It hasn't aged well for me. Songs are too long the solos are too long and indulgent. But it sounds great. 3.5 🌟
Very long drawn out songs. Rocked tho 6/10
Solid if meandering classic rock. I like envisioning being there, in a Tokyo arena with a Tokyo crowd, listening to American rock more than I like the actual album. But it's pretty fun, nonetheless.
Kolejny album zywy, no i kolejna podroz do nippona, tym razem z o wiele bardziej znanym zespolem, bo dyskografie studyjna Deep Purple juz mialem okazje przesluchac, wiec na trakliscie zadnych niespodzianek, no moze poza tym, ze niektore kawalki sa grane podwojnie, jak speed king czy black night, wynika to z tego, ze nie jest to zapis jednego koncertu, tylko sklejanka mateiralu z japonskiej trasy koncerowej, jesli wiki mnie nie zwodzi, to dokladnie z trzech koncertow jednego z Budokana w Tokio i dwoch z Festiwal Hall w Osace, juz same ten fakt, ze nie jest to nagranie jednego koncertu a takie best of trasy koncertowej, jest dla mnie troche dziwne, no ale wiecej dobrego grania, bo to album z okresu pomiedzy machine head a who do we think we are, czyli okres w ktorym banda juz dobrze przeszla od psychodelicznych poczatkow w bardziej harde granie, ktore akurat o wiele lepiej wychodzi na takich livowych materialach, wiec poza wspomnianymi juz trakami na albumue znajda sie takie klasyki jak space truckin, smoke on the water czy child in time, album slucham praktycznie majac z tylu glowy jeszcze at bukokan od cheap trick i najbardziej uderza roznica w interpretacji kawalkow, o ile na cheap tricku brzmienie bylo rozne od tego z wersji studyjnej, to jednak banda trzymala sie tego co jest na traczku, tutaj natomiast Deep Purple stawia na prawdziwe jamowanie i improwizacje, wiec 5 minut roznicy pomiedzy wersja live a albumowa nie jest czyms dziwnym glownie sa to solowe popisy na gitarkach pana Blackmore czy drumowe od Paicea, jak na the mule, 9 minutowa wersja, wiec o ile jestem w stanie uwierzyc, ze jest to najlepszy livowy wystep bandy, to czas trwania albumu potrafi zmeczyc, bo jest to ponad 2 godziny, co jak na sluchanie z codziennego polecenia jest iscie maratonskim czasem, na plejke raczej nie bede nic wrzucal, bo chociaz jest to solidny kawal muzyki, to plejki lajwowej nadal nie udalo mi sie zorganizowac, a wiekszosc kawalkow juz i tak jest na rokowej plejce, o czym jeszcze warto wspomniec, to to ze nie slychac tutaj zadnego overdubowania, albo jestem gluchy, albo tak mistrzowko zaranzowane, ze nie daje sie go wylapac, choc sadze, ze miala to byc wylacznie plyta na rynek nipponski do sprzedazy po tournee, a wyszedl material klasyczny, dlatego tak niewielki naklad orginalnego tloczenia winylaka, no i pod wzgledem nagrania to jednak da sie stworzyc livowy koncert z budokana bez psychofanek wykrzykujacych randomowe nipponskie zwroty
I liked it
Not bad. After the well known tracks fades from enjoyment. 3.4
Something is weird about live albums to begin with, but having three different shows throws me off a bit more AND to have multiple versions of the same song is even more off (all three versions of Black Night?)
Some great songs. Never been much for live albums. I'd rather see the show.
pretty good live versions
Decent
I wish I could give this 2.5, because I would much rather rate the album on which these songs were originally included. 3/5.
Great classic rock
Would've been better if they'd stuck to having actual songs not just 20 minute drum solos.
I knew Deep Purple for Smoke on the Water - the tune every kid knows when learning the guitar. It's a classic and it pigeon-holed the band to a certain sound in my head. This album expanded my understanding of the band a lot. While a fairly hard band, sort of metal, sort of hard rock, the progressive rock element was also highlighted. At times it could have been Emerson, Lake and Palmer that thought I was listening to, other times, the lilt of the voice and riffs reminded me of Spinal Tap. The long drum solo was lost a bit without being able to see it. As far as live albums go, it seemed to capture the band well for the true fan, but as a casual listener to their genre, I will check this one of the list and probably not revisit it again.
There are decent classic rock sounds here, but also a lot of tiresome muso self-indulgence.
It's kinda fun, but they're just not that good though, are they? It's half hard-rock, half psych-rock, except not as good as the best bands from either genre and never committing to either genre for a satisfying enough length of time. I enjoyed bits of what I heard, but it wasn't good enough for me to sit here for the full 2 hours.
Undoubtedly incredible musicians, but a little too rock and roll for my vibe. Am I not a hard rock personality....? ...But she’s so cool... we never saw it coming...
7 songs, 76 minutes 😳
Guitar good
One of the first CDs I bought for myself and listened to on repeat, when I started getting into rock in middle school, was a "best of" Deep Purple. I loved it... but I never listened to any of their real albums! This is actually a live album from a performance in Osaka, Japan. It's got a bunch of tracks from that "best of" disc. 1. Highway Star- voice recording is awful, in a charming way. awesome electric organ solo. 2. Child in Time - I forgot what a great song this is. Fun jams in this version. 3. Smoke on the Water - nice to hear a different version of the classic 4. The mule - I like this song. I'm less familiar with it. Long drum solo. 5. Strange kind of woman - excellent extended jam on this track 6. Lazy - wowzer of a synth intro. Fun outro. Best track so far? 7. Space Truckin - 19 MINUTES LONG. That synth doing the main riff is THICC.
Instrumental!
All around pretty good, love the extended solos from all members on the songs, entertaining to listen to.
A bit bluesy
Rekoh si kud sad ta glazba bemu lebac. Mislim nisam čuo ništ baš previše loše o Dubljim Ljubičastima, pa sam ono dao šansu, iako je po meni onak loš uvod u njihov katalog. Ne sluteći, dojmilo mi se pokoja pjesma i naravno nisam lud da slušam deluxe edition, našao sam koliko zapravo ima traka, opleo to vozeći se autom prema NG kako bi si išao napraviti osobnu. Pa jebemu mater, nisu oni toliko loši a? Ima dobrih stvari, samo morao bih čuti i studio verzije jer nažalost ima izdrkavanja bezveznog u nekim pjesmama, neloše solaže, al ono aj skrat. Child of Time vjerujem da je nekakav klasik jer zvuči kvalitetno. Strange Kind of Woman mi je dobra, al sam da je skratio. Za live album je okej. 3.03/5
Dobar koncert, krenuo jako
I have a newfound appreciation for Deep Purple. Still not my cup of tea necessarily, but they definitely put on a show. Lots of epic tunes here. Favorite Track : Highway Star Least Favorite Track : The Mule
don't usualy listen to hard rock but this nostalgic lifly af
Interesting enough. Lots of messing about on solos, great if you were there at the time
More deep purple! It's like being 17/18 and discovering my dad's records again.
Hach wieder diese Live Alben...ohne wären es mehr Punkte, weil super Songs und live dabei wäre auch super aber live Album?
Silly, over the top, self-indulgent stadium rock. In other words everything a Deep Purple live album should be. Love it.
I have to stick to the system - love some of this music, have been one of my best surprises from this thing and this was really enjoyable but unlikely to go back to it really (unlike their studio stuff)
jako dobra gitara sve u svemu, vise melodicno i "atmosferno"
3/5 this kind of lives are not my cup of tea at all. Even though some songs were good
Hard drum solos.
Oh the solos! Drums in "The Mule," Vocals (screams!) in "Strange Kind of Woman," Keys in "Lazy." I loved discovering "Can We Have Everything Louder Than Everything Else?" and learning the story behind "Smoke on the Water" (I looked it up on Wikipedia). "Space Truckin'" is quite an exit jam! I wasn't familiar with this album before. It's not really my "thing," but still enjoyable and interesting.
Absolutamente ridículo. Me la pasé a risa y risa pensando que escuchaba a The Darkness. Hay algo que ya no se recuerda, pero ese elemento de ridículo, de lo grotesco e irrisorio era parte fundamental del rock. Era esa mezcla de miedo y risa lo que hizo tan atractivo al género. Ahora, en que se toma a todo (incluso al pop más inane) tan en serio, estos discos son fundamentales para recordar que el rock and roll es para reírse (Caló dixit). Fuera de eso, inexcusable el solo de batería que está por ahí. Verga, aburridísimo eso.
Good album, but I don't like Live music...Hearing people screaming or clapping kind of annoys me.
The caterwauling in "Child in Time" is laughably horrendous. "...Some stupid with a flare gun..." might just be one of the worst lyrics in rock history.
Pretty fucking wild 2 hour long Deep Purple concert recording. It’s good to listen to for sure, but like its a whole ass concert. I listened passively and it was solid, but I could not have actively listened to this for that long. So, I guess plan accordingly.
Good start but a little bit noodly toward the end. Live albums tend to disappoint.
3.5 - Hesitated for 2 months to give this a listen. Good as far as live recordings go - some killer extended guitar solos - but not likely something I'll be excited to listen to unless it's playing on late night classic rock radio, or maybe at some dive bar.
Not bad, but it is waaaay too long
Not a bad live album. 6/10.
No sé distinguir de pronto entre lo que es el hard rock, el (heavy) metal, pero supongo que a esto suena Deep Purple. Los gritos me asombran, aunque no sean para mí. De hecho, quizá este género no sea tanto para mí. Las duraciones largas, en las que se luce sobre todo la habilidad musical de la banda es alucinante, sin embargo, no es algo que yo quisiera escuchar frecuentemente. En fin, fue una buena escucha, pero va más allá de mis gustos. Estrambótico, así diría que es este sonido. 7/10
Good album. Started off strong and I was into it with its powerful guitar and drums. For me it just started getting a little annoying about 5 songs in with every song just dragging on. Maybe I needed to be high.
Interesting. Not my favorite but they get after it?
A very strange album. This was probably more interesting live where you could also watch it. Lots of improvisation, drum solos that went on for a very long time, etc. Otherwise it was enjoyable to listen to. Smoke on the Water obviously the most recognizable as the first song everyone learns on guitar
This is good. It rocks. 3 stars.
Not bad, dragged on some songs
Great live album. Screaming hard rock.
It's a good live album from a good rock/metal band, but nothing special
Good stuff but I'd rather listen to the studio versions
Prefer the studio version, not a fan of prog
Eh
Felt like this could be quite good; and it is in the brief moments when the band get their heads down and actually play, together. Unfortunately though, they never pass up even the most tenuous opportunity to launch into grossly over-extended, self-indulgent solo twiddling. Ghastly. Shortest track is over six mins and feels twice that. Would almost be funny if it wasn't such hard work to get through.
don't think I MUST listen to this before I die. woulda been ok without it. I was kinda bored and then annoyed about listening to noise. didn't listen to more than 10 minutes total tbh
dude. DUDE. okay I’m trying to be more forgiving of my grouchy length complaints when it comes to live albums but come ON, man. just two hours of endless drum and guitar solos and “YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH”s that I’m sure kicked ass to watch onstage but i am not at the concert so the mileage does indeed vary. sometimes I really like live albums for the insight you get into the artists and the variations on how they perform as opposed to record and their interactions with the audience but this was just interminable. Second act montage needle drop in my biopic: “Speed King”
Not the biggest fan of Deep Purple, but you do get the sense from this that it was a seriously impressive gig to be at. But I wasn’t and the album format isn’t enough in this case to capture it. It’s impressive but it left me cold. 2
Live albums are mostly a miss for me, and Made in Japan unfortunately didn’t do much to change that. I appreciate Deep Purple and some of their most iconic songs, but I’d still much rather listen to the studio versions on the albums they came from, where there’s a more consistent sound and flow. I’m sure hearing the band banter, stretch songs out, and go into these massive solos was a blast if you were actually there. But as an audio-only experience, it just doesn’t translate the same way for me. There’s obviously a ton of talent on display, and the band brings plenty of energy, but after a while I started feeling the sameness from song to song. That also brings me to my biggest problem with live albums like this: they’re so freaking long. Made in Japan goes well over 70 minutes, and when some of these solos feel like they go on for ages, I’m sitting there thinking, “Okay… we can move on now.” By the second half, I was more than ready for it to be over. I can absolutely give the album credit for its energy, the musicianship, and a really solid live recording. I just don’t get much out of listening to this kind of concert experience as an album. Give me the studio records instead. 2 out of 5.
Oh great. A live album. And a double album. Great
I don't normally enojy live albums, and this was no exception. Smoke on the water is great but other than that find this proto-metal to just be a bit screechy and annoying. Not a great album for me.
Ugh. Live albums. Didn't care for the 7 minute drum solo. Smoke in the water is undeniable though. 2 rats
Listening to a live album is like watching somebody’s sex tape. I'm sure it was fun for the people who were there, but did it really need to be recorded for everyone else?
Live albums aren’t my favorite even though this is a good example of classic rock.
cock rock: 😐 cock rock, japan: 🤯
The band was cooking on this, but all of the extended jams/solos really drag.
The extended jams make this one tough. 2.5
Okay Deep Purple (Live); Pre-Listening: after my Sam Cooke Live experience I was more excited for another live album. Then I looked at the track list and realized it’s 7 songs and lasts 1 hr. 16 minutes! I knew it was gonna be a stretch on my ability to care. To be honest, I’m not big on jam bands, but I wanted to give them a shot. Best Song: Smoke of The Water. Runner-Up: Highway Star 3rd: Tie for the rest. Post-listening: It was what I thought it would be. A lot of long jam sessions and epic solos that were hard to maintain appreciation for. They’re obviously an essential band to the history of rock, but I can’t say if I was alive in the early 70s that I would want to see out their concerts, especially after hearing Live in Japan. 5/10
Look they can play Smoke On The Water however they please, but if they change the riff it'll sound like a mistake to me. Also, I don't really like jam albums except very few, this is not one of them.
I don't understand the argument against live albums. Live albums can be amazing. This is however, a collection of relics, as antiquated as a McDonald's placemat in an antiques store.
the best part of this album is ~9:20 into the last song, when they played Jupiter from Holst’s Planets for like 5 seconds (which was followed by 10 minutes of random noise) I did not care for this album
DNF
A live album huh. Dern dern dern... dern dern, DERN DERN. Dern dern dern... dernnn dernnn. That's the only shit I ever saw my dad play. Oh wait these guys start mad strong. Yeah they're fuckin shredding god damn boys. Speed King fucks. Ok wait so I'm listening to the wrong version of this album where Black Knight plays 3 times when I should be listening to the one that... doesn't have it at all? The way they used to re-order live shows on wax sucked. Figuring out how to sift through the proper order once they've been remastered also sucks. Ok we're at the OG tracklist now. Highway Star. I also don't like how these tracks all come from any one of 3 Osaka shows... but I get it. Anyway the band is going fucking crazy on this one too so hey. Guitarist is seriously not here to play dude... god damn. The vocals on Child in Time are crazy. Idk how he can keep hitting that high note. This entire song actually my god man. I hate to say it but I giggled a little bit when they played Smoke On the Water. This is pretty fuckin good for 1972 I read a review where someone mentioned an unnecessary 6 minute long drum solo and I have - without a DOUBT - found it. Holy fuck it's still going... holy fucking shit it started at 1:40 and ended at 7:47 it's an actual 6 minute drum solo. The Mule sucked because of that lol I like the "OOooooooohh Oooooooo" on Strange Kind of Woman. This album is pretty sweet dude I can't lie. I've seen a couple of reviews and also my mom shit on the prevalence of guitar solos in classic rock (Boner Music?)... y'all are tripping. A good solo elevates the fuck out of a song while showcasing just how talented a musician is - not only in their ability to craft it, or in the technical ability to play it.. but this is what they came to do live, on the spot, and they shredded the fuck out of that thing. You gotta love it man. For fuck's sake this one has a call and response with the singer, that's so cool. Admittedly the solo does drag on for maybe a little too long... but it's a super unique one so I'll give it to them. Oooh fuck when they finally come back out of the solo, that was good. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW. *inhale* OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW OOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. OW! thanks man What the fuck is happening on Lazy it sounds like two large construction vehicles driving into each other slowly and then someone steps out of one and starts to fucking shred. Didn't care for when it got bluesy. This album is good but it feels like I'm just at one long concert.... wait a second. Space Truckin' goes pretty hard. Doesn't need to be 20 fuckin minutes long though. I'm torn between a 2 and a 3. It's pretty good from a "oh shit these guys are playing that shit" standpoint, but it's also just not that exciting as a whole.
Imagine how much better this could have been with a good setlist.
I'm breaking my usual rule of not looking at reviews until after posting mine, and just finished reading everyone else's. I gotta say, I agree (with everyone but Tyler). The pure musicianship alone almost made me give a 3, because I respect what they're doing, and Owen is right, at an actual live show (with some substances) this would go crazy... But as an album listening experience on an airplane this was pretty tough, and after seeing all the 2's, I'm inclined to agree.
Same thing I thought about Black Sabbath but even more extreme. They overdid it. Smoke on the water and highway star are great classic songs, and they start playing them and you think “Hell yeah” and then the 10 minute long instrumental ensued. Only union drive can get away with stuff like that and that’s because they have legendary bassist Owen young
This album was flat-out tedious to listen to. Each song started strong and I’d be having fun with it, then the back 3 quarters of solos would kill my enjoyment. Don’t get me confused, I like jam session type performances, but when the soloing becomes the main focus, you’ve lost me. You can’t just have stuffing and cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner. Not much to say about the production on a live album (the crowd dragged when they clapped along lol), but given that live albums like Amy Winehouse’s At The BBC exist, the inclusion of this one is perplexing to me. Deep Purple are obviously borderline virtuosic instrumentalists, and Ian Gillan can WAIL, so no criticisms on the musicality front. However, the whole thing felt really self-indulgent (dare I say self-fellating). I understand the merit of putting a live album on this list, especially for a performance that deviates so much from its source material, but for these specific songs, I would have much preferred the studio cuts. Song notes: - The drum solo on the Mule was well done but unless you’re John Bonham, don’t do that shit for 6 minutes - When Ian Gillan starts screaming “HEYYYYY” to the crowd at the end of Strange Kind of Woman, I cracked up. I actually had tons of fun from start to finish on that song Favorites: - first part of Highway Star - first part of Smoke on the Water - Strange Kind of Woman
This album left me exhausted and I don’t even want to do a long review. Having multiple tracks over 8 mins just makes it so difficult to stay engaged even if the guitar, drums, and organ all shined at several points throughout the album.
10 days ago we got ‘Machine Head’ by Deep Purple. This album starts off better than I expected; there’s some nice David Lee Roth style vocals on ‘Highway Star’. And this live version of ‘Smoke On The Water’ is great, maybe my favorite version of the song. But a lot of this just feels like Machine Head with pointless solos and occasional crowd whistling. ‘Strange Kind Of Woman’ is actually a stupid long terrible thing to listen to.
It’s a bit cruel to include a 2 hour live album for a band that most people don’t know beyond one song on a list like this. I really enjoyed a few songs on here but it was too long and some parts were uninteresting to a non-fan. I don’t see myself ever listening to this again.
Just kind of a slog to get through. 7 tracks for a 1 hour and 16 minute album is not a good ratio. There would be parts of the songs I would get into, but they'd be constantly interrupted by a noodle-y overly long solo on one instrument or another. I liked parts of "Space Truckin'" but 20 minutes is way too goddamn long for one song.
The music isn’t bad I guess, but I don’t really care for live albums. I feel like a lot of whatever made the performance great is lost when you aren’t actually there to experience. It’s kind of like watching a movie from a video of someone recording a movie screen with their phone.
I mostly judge live albums on if they add anything to the original material - unfortunately in this case (after a strong start!) the conclusion is no.
Great album to show they band's mastery over their instruments, but holy balls it's a long album. Also, even though yes, it is good, why is it on this list? I wouldn't say it's quite all that.
I think there’s a latent impulse in basically any talented musician to want to show off, and I don’t think it’s innately a bad thing because it can bring you and the others around you and the audience genuine musical gifts. However, as with any sort of showing off, there’s always the chance that you cross the magically unknowable line of overindulgence - obviously where this line sits is so personal and context dependent as to be something you just know when you hear it, but it does always exist either way. Anyway, this album is like textbook overindulgence to me. Taking already simple and thin songs (not bad, just an observation) and stretching them way beyond sense, spinning out beyond musicality into showcases that just feel like they’re made for the person doing the playing and no one else (not even other people in the band on stage) and this is all without me getting into some of their tendencies to just make annoying noises repeatedly for whatever reason, much to my additional chagrin. Almost every song here seems like it would be much better in the tighter form of a single recorded album than a double live album, except for Smoke on the Water, which they build on without toppling. It’s just the kind of 70s hard rock and the kind of live album that makes you want to not like either, even if you do like them.
I did it, I listened to it all the way through, and it's official: I do NOT dig DP. I'm sure they tick all the boxes for the metal heads, yay for them but if I never hear them again ... I wouldn't shed a tear
I simply don't care how good this album is. I don't care that the playing is great. I don't care that the band sounds vital and energetic. I don't care that it some how refreshed and shines new light on one of the most recognizable and cliched riffs in music. In the end they are to blame for some much that would come in their wake. And every time Ian Gillian screams for the rafters my hatred grows. They have much to answer for but I just don't care.
Metal is not my thing and the screeching/screaming vocalist was irritating.
I have had it with these motherfucking live double albums on this motherfucking list. The musicianship is impressive. The tracks are cool and bluesy... at first. Then they go on and on and on. 7 tracks drawn out over 78 minutes.
Want to basically hear Machine Head again, but with like half an hour of extra gratuitous solos? Have I got an album for you!
Not sure how I feel about live albums on this list. This is the first one I’ve had so far and the performances sounded great but was just too long as someone who’s not a mega fan
I wasn't sure about this one
Yeahhh I did not need a 20 minute version of Space Truckin'... I am a Deep Purple fan, but this jam band live album did not do it for me. Highway Star always hits though.
⭐️⭐️ I ain’t much of a live album guy. I like Deep Purple and the guitar solos are interesting, but seeing disc 2 and its run-time for the same songs just took the wind out of my sails.
I was nice about a different Deep Purple album before but respectfully, is a live album from them something we need to hear? Like yeah it sounds good as a piece of live music but I think that most live albums could be easily omitted here 2/5
I’m not a huge Deep Purple fan as it is, so a double live album of theirs didn’t exactly fill me with joy. This was fine. I get this would probably be a wicked show to have seen live, and some of the extended guitar sections are fun, but I’m just not that into it.
I feel like if I hadn't gotten Machine Head just a month ago, I'd be inclined to rate this highly. But why does this need to be on the list with Machine Head? Are we gonna start putting deluxe albums separately from the regular edition? Being generous with a 2 star here.
This album is like a T.S. Eliot poem. Quite long and difficult to digest. The quality of the music is mostly 3-star level, sure; but the absolute daftishness of its conception, birth, and execution is just stunning. It really does my head in.
I’m not a Deep Purple fan, to me it’s just basic bitch early heavy rock. You have to appreciate the musicianship but then again it’s hard to keep attention in a non gig setting to 10min long mid song jams and solos. Does nothing for me, I expect it does loads for some but I am not arsed about listening to it again. 2.3
Didn't really like this. Some great riffs and playing at times but it's full of self indulgent soloing that goes on way too long. I hate the vocals and keys sound too. Never been massively into deep purple and this just confirms my indifference.
Every time a solo ended it felt like when you turn off the kitchen fan and it's a relief because you hadn't realised how loud it was.
Beetje lang
Smoke on the Water!! I just don’t think live albums (in general) should be on the list. Already long songs made longer.
Hootin with a side (or 50) of hollerin but not in a completely bad way. Great live performance but not my cup of tea, DNF
Sure, these guys are very talented and the performance goes pretty hard and heavy, but you can skip this one. I don't believe any live record belongs on this list unless it's something along the lines of Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker, or James Brown at The Apollo. Basically, if it's a live record that must be heard, it should be a singular piece of music history, not just the radio hits that we already know from the studio version with ~10 minutes of solos/jams added in....
These songs are mostly way too long and noodly for me. The never ending drums on the Mule almost put me to sleep.
W/ more jump & pace than Deep Purple displays on the two studio albums I have heard of theirs, which weren't any good, this live record still drives me nuts, even tho the instrumental prowess is clear. It's not palpable tho - the talent is obvious enuf, but soul is replaced by self-seriousness, & Ian Gillan mixes the pot w/ a one-note campaign that often takes away from whatever enjoyment I get out of the album instrumentally. There are moments here & there that remind me of the blessed aliveness of the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East, but they're few & far between, & at its worst, Made in Japan flaunts cheesy modulations that reek not only of metal but prog absurdity. It's the organ I think, the organ that takes bands like DP from bad to shite.
The punk in me just can't with this shit. I've found the other Deep Purple albums in this project fun in a "real-life Spinal Tap" kinda way, but not this. It embodies the ridiculous excesses of '70s rock, laying bare all the reasons my punk forefathers revolted. A 20-minute version of "Speed Truckin'"? Fuck right off.
Long
Not good
1972 in all its glory. Ian Paice in particular is on splendid form, swinging away as he drives the band. Lots of guitar solos with widdly-widdly-widdly happening An interesting time capsule, but I was quite relieved when it was over
muy largas las canciones y el álbum, pero está bueno.