Made In Japan

no me gusta el hard rock :(((

It went on and on. I thought the guitar and drum solos would never end.

Let me see, am I going to listen to over 2 hours of Deep Purple Live? Ergh, I listened to a bit. It's entirely what you'd expect it to be.

Just like many other listeners here, I feel like the bar should be considerably higher for a live album to make this list. Outside of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, I'd also be hard pressed to think of one that has the significance to be on here. Someone suggested the Quintet's Jazz At Massey Hall, for instance. In jazz you could also add Coltrane's Live At The Village Vanguard. But you could also go to other genres, from the Woodstock album or Yessongs to Mötörhead's No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. Yet unless I'm mistaken, none of the latter can be found on the original list. So *this* instead? No way. Besides, out of *Made In Japan*'s seven tracks, four we already heard on Machine Head. I feel like it's giving Deep Purple far too much space in this list for no good reason, especially when you're listening to those overlong solos--an exercise that in its most self-indulgent extremities didn't age particularly well within the rock idiom. So even though *Made In Japan* is not a bad record by all means, it's still an unnecessary redundancy in this list, and this should clearly be visible in the global ratings. Therefore I'm giving it a 2. Harsh, I know. But fair if you consider the difficulty of including *only* 1001 great albums in a list. Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 849 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory: 82 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 38 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 32 (including this one)

didn’t stick jazz band throwbacks still hit though

another live album of the bands hits the parts where there are vocals are good but the 10-minute guitar or drum solo are annoying 2.5

I don't dislike these songs but they don't really gain anything from being on a live album.

I've heard the studio recordings for at least half of the tracks on this album. For a live album, the recordings are done well. This album feels a lot like the track "Smoke on the Water". Yes, it's a rock album. Yes, there are talented musicians making interesting music. Yes, I've heard this enough that I don't really want to come back again. I did NOT like "Child in Time" - too much wailing. "The Mule" and other instrumental portions of the album were interesting. The band did well with extended versions of their songs. "Child in Time" is enough to sink the album below the possiblity of rounding up to a full 3 stars.

When playing songs this is a tight and powerful live performance, which I enjoyed more than I expected to. However, there is too much pointless noodling between (and during) songs. This adds nothing bud boredom and would have led me to want to shout "get on with it". Could also do without the drum solo. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Smoke On The Water Date listened: 14/06/22

Wow. Two separate 5 minute drum solos in one concert. Yup. This album might have inspired a good deal of This is Spinal Tap.

The Platonic Ideal of big doofy rock, early ‘70s edition – with all the self-indulgence and useless, feckless excess you’d expect from a live album. The vocals are overwrought, so many misbegotten arias (though our man Gillian seems distinctly underpowered and non-god-like on beginning of “Highway Star” and “The Mule” and quite shaky “Space Truckin’”). The solos (both keys and guitar) on opener gets us straightaway into Spinal Tap territory, as does the subject matter (boss hot rods and bitchin’ Camaros, one supposes). “Smoke on the Water” gets off to a false start and sounds offbeat, like they couldn’t get the hang of a hook they must have already played thousands of times. Might it be said they explored virtuosity in a hard rock context, thereby staking new ground that jam bands (including mellower, pacifistic sorts given to softer drugs and disinclined to put armadillos in their trousers) would later explore and colonize (often overstaying their welcome)? Sure, but whether that’s a feature or a bug depends on one’s tastes. This is decidedly not to mine, because the longer it goes on, the more tedious it gets, which, one assumes, was not the intent of this allegedly epic effort.

Just too ott… too much noodling too much self indulgence.

I was excited for some classic rock, but wound up underwhelmed and mostly unimpressed. "Smoke on the Water" is a fondly remembered classic, but this version is a bit too much. In fact, every track is a bit too much. A bit too much extended jamming. A bit too much trying desperately to be cool and for some reason coolness stays just out of reach no matter how many minutes the song drones on for. Deep Purple is held up as members of the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid- seventies" along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, according to rock journalist Joel McIver's book about Black Sabbath. But Deep Purple does not have nearly as deep a catalog of hits as either of those other bands. Sabbath certainly influenced heavy metal. Led Zeppelin influenced everyone but could never be duplicated. But maybe Deep Purple were influential on hair metal? Thanks Deep Purple.

The songs are good, but I'm not a fan of live albums

this is just an entire two hour concert. i wish it wasn’t

These guys have amazing technical skills. I just don't enjoy listening to this - it's too frenetic and self-indulgent. There is a 20-minute track.

Live albums require a good deal of energy and focus to even hope of matching the energy of an in-person show. This outing starts strong but quickly fades in the effort as it gets lost in gratuitous soloing and fills that just don't translate from a live setting to wax.

Meh

It's 70's rock so should absolutely float my boat, but I just found it a little bit too hard work

Rather pointless.

hahahaha this list is so dumb, this is a completely unremarkable record

Too many solo's. Cock rock

One for the Deep Purple aficionados. Cool organ/guitar stuff. But loooong and drawn out. 2/5.

Just ok.

meh

Classic rock in its most generic form. It's not hurting anyone, it's just on the radio sometimes. If you like 10 minute guitar solos on every song you'll love this album. If you're like me and you'd rather get to the point already, you'll move on quickly from this to something better.

Muito barulhento e muita gritaria, definitivamente. Não gostei.

Self indulgent clap trap. A band that enjoy showing us how much they enjoy playing their instruments. Hilariously, for a live album, it sounds, at times, like there are ten people in the audience. There’s no atmosphere captured on the record, which is tragic for a live album. Some great riffs to be sure but the songs built around them just aren’t that great. And that drum solo is an absolute low point, as I shuffle my feet on the floor and check my watch wondering just how long is left of the concert…

This is not really my kind of music I wouldn’t normally choose to listen to this. However, I like that it is live that does add something, I really enjoy the song Lazy, and I am seriously impressed by the guitar skillz and the drums in Mule, wow! Again it’s not my fave but musically it’s very good. I think it’s a 2 though in the scale of things for me.

Eugh this was just too much. So flipping long and every track had like 5 crappy solos. It felt like what teenagers want to do when they start a band, just piss around a lot for ages. It was excessive.

Didn’t enjoy, but can appreciate why others would

It was ok, tried to give it a chance because my dad was a fan. 2*

Maybe I would have liked this more if I hadn't listened to the other deep purple album the day before this

one time i was with my dad driving somewhere and i was playing my music and he complained that todays music 'wasnt even music' like dads do. so i asked him what he wanted to listen to, and he said REAL MUSIC, like deep purple. so i put the mix on spotify, and the first song of course was smoke on the water, and my dad was jamming, rolled the windows down, havin a blast, saying THIS IS MUSIC not what you kids listen to today, and im like okay sure its not bad, second song that came up he didnt know but was still having a good time, ish, nodding his head. by the third song he told me i could put my music back on. listening to this kind of felt like that. im sure if id have seen it live i wouldnt stop talking about it to anyone who would listen, because its very energetic (and by now im desperate for a concert of ANY kind) but to conclude this listen ill just say im glad the last song, which was over 19 minutes, was somehow blocked in my region.

Meh

Smoke on the water

Listened to a live performance which didn't really help this time around. Also didn't really sit down for the listen, so 2 hours is just a bit too long for an album I feel. Some classics on this record but the genre just doesn't tickle my fancy.

Cool album but way too long

Not for me.

Allemaal knap gespeeld, maar is wel erg 'voor de liefhebber' met 1 nummer wat er maar liefst in 3 uitvoeringen opstaat.

Legendarische band, maar voor mij live veel te uitgesponnen en teveel gepiel op de millimeter. Heb het na een paar nummers uitgezet.

De heren kunnen echt wel iets, en ik kan het zeker wel waarderen. Maar een live plaat waarop de gitaarsolo's tot in het oneindige uitgerekt worden👎, een drumsolo 10 minuten kan duren (get to the point!👎, en de gitaar en het orgel een eindeloos 'gesprek' voeren👎; nee, not for me.

Drumsolo en hitjes fijn. Verder had ik liever een studio-album gehad, was misschien wat minder eindeloos.

1972: Highway Star

Why live albums?

Surprised they made the list, with a live album no less. But no "Hush"? If you're going to represent live albums, I can't see (or hear) why. Nice cover of a Little Richard song, and I guess it was OK to hear a different version of "Smoke On The Water".

Very average. Not intersting.

Pretty lame

4 hours of deep purple, oh joy.

Hab's bis track 8/10 geschafft, dann war das Essen fertig. Coole Band, war live sicher auch mega, aber es war hier schwer für mich dran zu bleiben.

Live rock album from the 70's. Boring and I hate live albums.

Too much hard rock. Not for me.

vroeger was ik fan, maar door dit album geraak ik precies niet door.

Was very over the drum and guitar solos by the end of the album.

Not that interesting to me.

Not for me

It was ok for a live album but in general I'm not a fan of a concert album

Smoke on the Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaater. It was fine, again it didn't stand out to me in anyway. indifference out of 5

Too repetitive. But a couple nice jams.

While Smoke on the Water is iconic, especially for the intro, I just can't get into them at this point in my life. It's fine, but I wouldn't listen again anytime soon.

Not a big fan of metal

It was fine

Live-optræden, smoke on the water, lange trommesoloer, energisk, svingende

Not good at all

longer versions of songs i already dgaf about

I don't really need this

Oh man, this was boring.

classico, talvez, mas mto improviso, faixas extremamente longas e umas gritaria q nao da pra entender, parece q fizeram o show sob efeito de LSD. 2/10

I am getting irrationally angry at the live albums on this list. I barely liked their studio album. This was not fun. One of the more baffling inclusions.

Everything I hate about 70s rock. 'Smoke on the Water' is up there with 'Sitting on the Dock of a Bay' as one of the most overplayed and oversubscribed dross of the times.

Yeah I'm not doing this

I was initially all over this but I don't think live albums should be on the list as its a completely different playing field to studio recordings. It's a great album for the fans tho and musically it's an easy 4* but....

As someone who wasn't super into Deep Purple's studio albums (especially Machine Head) this was a bit of a slog for me. Extended live versions of songs I'm already not a fan of aren't super appealing and I don't think this does anything particularly notable as a live album. Maybe it'd work better as a concert film where I can see the interplay between the band, but I felt a disconnect between how much the crowd was enjoying it and how numb I felt to it.

#Not4Me cool to be able to now name and place smoke on the water though!

Unbelievably poor

Have you ever been to a really cool house party and the girl of your dreams says 'let's put on that Deep Purple live album and get this thing lit!" Yeah, me neither.

no

una cagada atomica, detesto el rock semipesado yanki

This one way overstayed its welcome. The instrumentals were fine, but the solos dragged on way too long and it got boring really quick. A 1.5 hour (2 if you listen to the deluxe version that the generator suggests) live album from a band who's main claim to fame is that they made that riff that every 15 year old that just picked up a guitar for the first time learns is far from a must hear.

Deep Purple Eats Farts. Live farts. Each track is about 9 self indulgent minutes. The music is infantile, “cursive” rock vocals, STUPID drum fills/solos, corny lyrics about “hot women” and space truckers.

Great band once

Self indulgent widdling taken to a new level. The musicianship is clearly outstanding but that certainly doesn't mean the music is good. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I was going to give a generous 2 until the last track, but it's such twaddle that much like the Spice Girls, 2 became 1.

Hated it. The kind of honky tonk, blues, riff rock that I find most useless and self-indulgent on full blast for an hour. Smoke On The Water is such a cliche of the horrible first riff that a neophyte guitar player learns that when they started the song I thought it was a joke until I remembered that it was their horrible song. It’s just as awkward and unimpressive here as when you play it at home I assure you. The whole thing is truly a frenzy of notes without a single original idea.

This record is like a circle-jerk where nobody can get hard.

dad

Wow. This is by far my strongest reaction to anything on the list. So let's start at the top: this is a live album, which basically makes it a terribly mastered greatest hits album..which the list specifically chooses to avoid (rightfully). Yet this is here. So that should be an instant 1/5 but let's not judge it on whether it should be on the list... Then we get to the actual music. Wow. This really is nothing great. Maybe they were something special in the 70s but in 2026 it's just kinda generic hard rock...until we get to the solos. My god why are there so many solos. There's like 2 okay ones and then far too many "what if we randomly hammer every fret above fret 16 really really fast" solos. I don't know Deep Purple past smoke on the water, but there's no way their studio albums can be *this* awful - right? I really hope so. Oh and then there's a fucking 5 minute drum solo. Not "a 5 minute instrumental section when the drummer gets a chance to shine". Just 5 minutes of drums. And a hi-hat solo. Nobody fucking wants a hi-hat solo. So even if we ignore the 1/5 for it being included on the list, the 1/5 for it being a 4 hour slogfest by including same songs 12 times, the actual *music* I'm giving a 1/5 for being really bad. Awful, awful album that should be nowhere near this list.

I'm sorry but nobody needs a 20-minute version of "Space Truckin". Make it stop.

Jammy big hair vibes. Not into it.

Great band. Why this album though? Unless you're already a hardcore fan of a band, nobody wants to listen to a live album. There are VERY few exceptions to this rule, and this isn't one of them.

He decidido empezar a ignorar las bandas de Hard rock

"I hate that wanky guitar solo horribleness" - Kevin Shields I was excited when I saw a live album come up but it doesn't feel like a live album which is a credit to how well it's recorded but detracts from the album as whole. Live albums tend to have more atmosphere and texture which I appreciate from them. The guitar solos were way too long. I don't care if you can play your instrument I care if you can play your instrument in combination with other instruments. I question what made them think a 5 minute drum solo was a good idea. Did they think crowd not cheering for the first 3 minutes was because they were entranced by it or something. The last song was 17 minutes of build up for 2 minutes of jamming out and it wasn't even that good disappointing 1

It was live, i dont liked it

Über zwei Tage verteilt hier durchgequält. Es mag stimmlich an sich sehr gut performt sein, nervt mich aber extremst. Zudem klingt die Aufnahme qualitativ für mich nicht gut, das löst einfach gar nichts (Positives) aus. Ich war froh als es vorbei war, daher kann es keine andere Wertung geben.

holy longggggg. ngl quite liked the drums and guitar at some parts but for on average 1 minute of these 10 minute songs.

Not my cup of tea at all…..

1. ztar - 2 2. child - 2 3. zmoke - 1.5 4. Mule -1 5. Strange -1 6. Lazy - 0 7. Space -0 8. Night - 1 9. King - 1 10. Lucille - 1

dude please stop with the stupid live and double live albums. horrible way to be introduced to artists. DNF after the prolonged self indulgent screeching in the 2nd song.

Nope

This is my second album from this band. And tbh I listened to one song and felt like that was enough.

Two Deep Purple albums in one week. Bad algorithm. Machine Head sounded over-indulgent and not very interesting. Live albums are generally over-indulgent and never sound great, unless you were there to bring back memories. Combine over-indulgent with over-indulgent and you get two hours of instrumental solos and intermittent screeching. An album for Deep Purple fans, not one that should be on a list for everyone else to listen to.

Luckily it's been three days since I listened to this, so my initial thoughts have now been sanitised by plenty of decent music in between. But I do have some reasonably clear recollections of wondering why this crap was ever put on record. I remember thinking there were some very bland songs, awful guitar solos and a very boring over indulgent drum solo. When the idiot on vocal duty started aping the guitar sounds i wanted to pull.my ears off in embarrassment. I really wish I had written this review straight after I listened to it to really do it justice.

Meh

I want to be fair with my reviews. If I was having a good day and was prepared to give this the time it supposedly deserves, it might’ve got pushed up to a 2, but I’m not having a good day, and I’m not prepared to spend 75 bastard minutes of it trying to convince myself I hate this less than the amount I've comfortably been hating it since the last time I gave them a try decades ago. I listened to 2 songs (18 fucking minutes) and they can all play (or sing) their asses off, so what? It’s boring and self-important and means nothing to me. Maybe I can get through the rest of my life happy, finally knowing for sure that I don’t like Deep Purple. “BUT HOW CAN YOU LIKE [insert all the other bands from the same era and genre that I do like] AND NOT LIKE THIS? HOW? I just can. 1 star

hold nu op live albums på listen, der er optaget i Japan: 2 (mindst) albums på listen fra bands, der hedder "Japan": 1 (mindst) albums fra japanske kunstnere: 0 (afaik)

N/A Another Live Album that I really don't think should count in these lists, especially when we've already heard some of these songs on this list. So I consider this a DQ

Too noodly couldn't finish

Not for me, although SOTW is reminiscent for me

-Deep Purple again, -70s, -live, -double album. Yes yes, Japan is very cool, we all love the Budokan (apparently). But this was a slog. Some parts are way too quiet, some parts are straight up screaming. Every song is 6+ minutes. It's not even a single performance, it's a combo from different nights and venues. No thank you. The more I listened, the more I hated it. Started at a 3, went to 2, ended on a 1 (and I didn't even do the bonus tracks). Wait, but was that part of Holst's 'The Planets' in 'Space Truckin''?? Space rock?! OK... it ended on a 1.5. Highlights: 'Smoke on the Water' (supposedly the main riff is an inversion of Beethoven's Symphony #5 dun-dun-dun-dun, which makes sense. similarly catchy & EZ to learn! (but unlike Deep Purple the rest of Beethoven's oeuvre is actually great :P)), the concept of classical music Easter eggs

Kill it with fire.

As mentioned previously, I don’t really ‘get’ live albums and this does nothing to change my mind. A thirty-seconds-long drum solo is more than enough but eight minutes? Nope! The kind of music that seems a lot more fun for the people on stage than for anyone forced to endure it who isn’t stoned out of their tree. Spinal Tap, except they’re not taking the piss.

auto 1 star for the live album

i don't know it's just whatever to me LMFAO

Non. Durée moyenne des chansons 12 minutes, pour des solos de 9 minutes, chaque instrument sa chanson. Les nerfs commencent à lâcher sur le solo de batterie, le coup fatal étant l'harmonium. J'en peux plus de ces conneries.

Everything about this album is too much. Everything last 50x longer than it should. I just wanted this album to end. This album should have been 30 minutes long.

I'm not a big Deep Purple fan and then you throw me a live album by them?!? Nope!! Made it about 3 songs in and gave up. 1/5

🎸🎸🎸💩💩💩

I realized I was listening on shuffle about one hour in. I turned it off out of frustration and do not think I will go back and try to relisten

I asked my dad if he likes Deep Purple and he said “hmmmm…. no, I don’t think so” and I said “cool, they fucking suck” and he said “awesome, I was worried you were about to say that you just found them and thought they were inspiring or something” and I said “the only thing they almost inspired was me never risking listening to new music ever again” and we bonded. Thanks Deep Purple ♥️

I don’t like live albums at the best of times so a live album by Deep Purple… well, I feel like I’ve just done a 12 hour shift in a factory. In fact, I honestly think I should now be paid. An hour or so ago, I didn’t know this album existed. Great times.

Off the cuff remark: eeugh, make it stop I assume he was 16 when he wrote the lyrics? It takes more, in my book, than a good riff to make a good song, even more so to make a great album. Standout song: just one and just for the riff Revisit?: No. Never again

Songs are WAY too long and I don't really care for live recordings anyway.

sempre achei deep purple muito ruim ok galera vcs são muito bons nos instrumentos que vcs TOCAM PROFISSIONALMENTE virtuosismo e hard rock, que combinação inovadora!!!!

Fuck rating albums. Just let me listen.

How about some actual Japanese music on this list instead? Like Ground Zero, that's the kind of thing I wanna hear!

What a fucking drag

Nope. Quit after 1:05. Can't deal with live albums, not a fan of this type of music, not going to waste 2 hours of my life listening to this.

First of the albums I nearly gave up on mid listen. To say it is excessive would be a huge understatement. To its credit, it is a live album, and this quality of live album being produced in 1972 is crazy. But the sheer amount of time given to solos is wildly obnoxious and makes for an extremely dull listen. Again it was probably hype af in a live context, some of the performances are pretty stellar (some not all, the drum solo was mid at best and far too fucking long), But as an album over an hour long with just 7 songs and much of that time given to wanking off guitars, drums, keyboards and not to mention the typical classic rock screeching, its just too much.

Listening to this album made me feel like I had long greasy hair and was wearing grubby denims smelling of stale cigarette smoke. It has long noodly sections for each band member to show off. Some of these songs are classic heavy rock songs ruined by jamming. And the lyrics seem a bit banal to me.

Lol

Live albums are really niche for me

un directe segueix sense ser un album (fins que jo ho digui)

Did they really need a 15 minute drum solo? Shit sucked, yo

First listen

Boomer fuel. I just can't.

troppe note, troppe

This album, like a lot of long and live albums, really fails to make itself worthwhile. All of the best songs on this album are just worse recordings of songs on Deep Purple studio albums, and the worst songs are uninteresting, discordant, and overly drawn out. I'm sure that the concerts these were recorded at were great, but the album falls pretty flat.

I straight up could not finish this album. The high pitched caterwauling genuinely annoyed me, and there was way too much fret wanking and drum soloing. Smoke On The Water is a genuine banger, but everything else here was just overlong death-by-boredom. I haven’t minded the other Deep Purple albums I’ve heard, but the live version is just too much for me.

We get it, whoever makes this list: you were a 17 year old white guy at some point in the 70's and you got high a bunch. Jesus, I'm tired of this self-indulgent boomer nostalgia. This is NOT an album anyone NEEDS to hear before they die. It's a perfectly average 70's live jam bullshit white guy album.

Find it so hard to take anything like this seriously after Spinal Tap.

Just ain’t my rodeo this stuff. Soz.

Not for me.

Live album… better to see it live.

Not on Spotify but I’ve already listened to a DP album and it sucked

Everything I hate about live albums

In what world do I need to listen to 2+ hours of Deep Purple live in concert?

Doesn’t do anything for me, not my vibe.

To be totally transparent I didn’t give this a proper go. I got about two songs in and gave up. I don’t want to listen to a live Deep Purple album, why would anyone want to?

people paying to listen to this shite is the weirdest thing that has ever happened in japan

schrecklich, wohl was für fans

Really not my band

Nothing against the bands music but this is not the best live record

I get that the fans enjoy this one, but this is not a valid list entry. Protest 1 star

Pointlessly long, boring, repetitive, and way too many solos that don't need to be as long as they are.

Hier ben ik faliekant tegen. Een livealbum, waarvan ik 5 nummers (van de totaal 7) eerder op de lijst al gehad heb op de originele albums. Daardoor gebruik ik de stemknop in dit geval vooral politiek en ga ik één ster geven. Buiten deze context zou ik een 2 of 3 geven. Deze live-registratie schommelt tussen geniaal en irritant (die aanstellerige hoge glam-achtige uithalen van de zanger). Bovendien rekken ze sommige nummers wel erg uit.

Boring? It's a freaking sedative.

CBA

These classic rock live albums never sit well with me. They always just feel like a circlejerk. \"Look how good I am at playing my instrument!\" Okay, but can you play music on it that doesn't bore me to tears? Smoke on the Water was good but there's also a track that's basically just a 9 minute drum solo and then a track where the singer tries to mimic his guitarist which was basically just 5 minutes of screeching.

It's not that it's bad, its just so boring and there's such a surfeit of this kind of 70s blues rock shit that's been hyped for decades that I just can't bring myself to care. I love jambands so have a high tolerance for indulgent instrumental wank, but my god this is some tedious stuff. Shredding blues licks over a hard rock riff is the lowest form of virtuosity! He's not even that good at guitar - nothing interesting in terms of tone, technique, phrasing, harmonies, musical approach, anything...he's just pretty fast and had loud Marshalls. The vocal solos are even worse, just a dude screaching. Then the endless drum solos that go nowhere. Urgh. No sense of improvising as a collective process of discovering emergent music from listening and responding to others, just turn taking showing off on dull solo after solo. Who cares?!

Somehow this album was able to be both incredibly boring and incessantly annoying. So much screaming. So many drum solos. And it went on… and on… and on… and on… and on…

Maybe a fun concert 50 years ago…seemed pretty dated and boring to me.

Live albums are pointless.

A lot of noise, and not a particularly well-recorded live album. Some cool solos on display here, but it's hard to appreciate. I would have greatly preferred a regular Deep Purple album.

overlong live album . no thank you.

Your common or garden hard rock, complete with 10 minute drum solo zzzzzzzzz

Too much boomer rock. Who gives a shit.

I don't understand how this live album even got on the list. I may not be Deep Purple's biggest fan, but I do enjoy some of their music—to a certain degree. This was exhausting to sit through, and I only made it through seven songs, I did not listen to the deluxe version (which has three versions of Black Night and two of Speed King for some reason?). Anyway, my point is—this is clearly an album for the most devoted fans of the band, and good for them! As someone who enjoys Deep Purple on a very shallow level, I found the ever-present long instrumental breaks exhausting. I forgot which song I was listening to as it all bled together into one big mush of over-indulgent guitar solos and annoyingly loud drums. When we did hear the vocalist sing it was at times decent, but the occasional shouting and squealing took me out of the experience even more. I did not expect I'd be giving my first one star rating to a Deep Purple album, but here goes. I'd actually give it 1.5 star if I could 'cause occasionally, when we do hear the actual song and some good vocal performance, it's not that bad (but it makes for about 10% of the album).

If you enjoy noise, not music

Fuck live albums

Noise. Sounds like they’d just discovered a drum kit and were intent on playing it as loud as possible. 3/10

Probably wouldn't mind a lot of this if it wasn't these insanely long live versions. Way too long and drawn out and way too much screaming. I'm also not into the scream singing, it's just giving me a headache.

i couldnt force myself past the 5th track. And i feel like i endured enough to make me put on a Minor Threat record as a cleanser

This album had a classic (Smoke on the water) but the rest sounded the same as every 70's/80's hair band.

Not a live album fan

my will to go on with this slowly decreases with every goddamn live album. good songs but theres no reason for all this and i DO in fact want to kms now thank you so much for nothing pls just make the song a normal lenfth nobody wanted the extended versions i hace never wanted to die more in my life please make it stop PLEASE

Way too long for someone who isn’t already a fan. Some of the songs were pretty good but listening to Black Night 3 times kind of takes away from it

Fuck you

There are other albums that deserve a place on this list. I'm ok with Deep Purple, but this album is too long and has songs that another album on this very list has too. It is already hard to make a case for live albums on this list and the only thing I know for sure is that this isn't it.

Heinous

Oh god, I listened to this blindly in my Streaming player, and it was so not Deep Purple - it turns out that Deep Forest also released an album called 'Made in Japan' - the styles are quite different. I can't get into deep purple. I just can't. I tried. I listened. I parsed lyrics. I felt the vibe and the energy. Nope, I just can't. Bring back Deep Forest! Bye Bye Deep Purple. 1 star.

Sounds like banging on the drums with no beat, turn the guitar amp up as loud as possible and randomly strum it and scream into the mic as loud as possible, all independently from each other

Other than the occasional sweet guitar solo, terrible.

Not for me.

it's ok

how fast can you do meth and a line of coke at the same time and then say hold my needle watch this. thats the vibes with this

I wonder if attention spans are getting shorter. Maybe twenty years ago I could have listened to this album without wondering a) if the track will ever end? b) are the band playing for themselves or the audience? c) who likes this noodling? and d) will the track ever end? This just doesn't hold my attention. It feels bloated and it's like the musicians are individuals rather than a group. There are amazing "long" tracks that hold my attention - Ain't it Funky by Grant Green, The Trench Coat Museum by Yard Act and Papa Was A Rolling Stone by The Temptations as examples. Let's hope the next album is better.......

This is the kind of live show I hate. Unnecessarily stringing out pretty much every song for no reason other than to needlessly noodle. The Mule and Strange Kind of Reason were the worst offenders. I don't need a 5 minute drum solo ever.

Pointless, why is this here. So long, such a mediocre recording.

My head hurts from banging it on my laptop, not because I enjoyed it but because I was trying to make it stop! There is not one song that is worthy of a comment. I will say that I think they destroyed any chance that I can ever enjoy listening to Lucille ever again. Ugh! Favorite Song: ?

Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, it's Deep Purple... LIVE! It's like Zeppelin, but without the guardrails. Jam bands of the world shutter in fear of this wildly arrogant display of skill and directionless blues rock music. But seriously, I felt like I was losing my mind during some of these songs (The Mule sounds like my neighbour when he gets high and beats his skins for 10 minutes). Also the vocal/guitar call and response on Strange Kind of Woman will haunt my dreams. It verges on fun, but never stays there long.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." A live album so dumb, so indulgent, so pyrotechnical it is almost transcendent. Almost. I was waiting for mini-Stonehenge to descend from the ceiling. I have never felt so much whiplash between thinking "Good grief! This is entertaining!" and "Good grief! When will it end?!" And then there was "Space Truckin"... I guess when your shortest song is 7 minutes, you better go for it with the 19-minute grand finale. Y'know, I bet this would have been a fun live show. Do I feel like my life has been enriched by hearing this record? Not really.

it sounds like someones dad has a band. Not for me. 1 star.

Glam rock shit

there was an organ solo around 1:04 that i liked quite a bit, but that was one of the few high points on this album. the version of "Smoke on the Water" somehow eliminated all the parts of that song that i like. the drum solos, guitar solos, wailing vocal solos ... the vocals in general ... just added up to an unlistenable, rambling listening experience. i don't think the obvious musicianship outscores my dislike of listening to this album. i'm giving it a 1.5 and rounding it down to a 1.

One thing I really like about this album is that we got punk music as a response to all of the meandering guitar solo jams of the era. I guess another thing I like is the memetic nature of Smoke on the Water. And it has an end, which is nice.

Alright, not my favorite live album. I love a good jam but wayyy too jammy and not very good jams at that. 2/10

Vonandi var boðið upp á áfallahjálp eftir þessa tónleika.

Mér er til efs að það sé til leiðinlegri plata. Ekki nokkur leið að hlusta á þetta í gegn.

I hate live albums

This album was really hard to listen to. I made it through the first album and most of the second, but I had to skip ahead in 2-3 songs when I just couldn't take the excessive drum solos or obnoxious screaming.

Stop with the double-long, 60s & 70s rock, double disk jam session albums already!! I know nothing about Deep Purple, but this doesn't make me want to know more. Just give us a good studio album, list makers.

It’s just noise.

Didn’t listen all the way through. Not for me.

yeah brother, true music hell yeah. Anyway why was this album on this list. Why was any live album on this list? I regret listening to any of these songs, while they may be average/decent they sound like shit cuz it's recorded from a live concert with a shitty wallmart mic. "But you gotta feel the atmosphere to appreciate it, hurr durr", bro no. KISS (god i hate that band) tried to put out live album cuz nobody wanted to buy their studio-recorded albums cuz they weren't blackout drunk in the middle of crowd and realised that their music is garabage. Did Deep Purple think the same? IDK, either way this album blows

Didn't get into it. 1/5

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Deep Purple has always seemed like a "had to be there" band to me. "Made In Japan" is an odd choice to include in this list, as live albums are generally for preexisting enjoyers. That said, Ian Gillan's live vocals and embellishments are something to behold. At the end of my life, I may wish those minutes spent listening to the drum solos in "The Mule" and "Space Truckin'" had been spent with better economy, by instead speaking with loved ones or taking in nature.

I don't understand why this is on the list but Machine Head is not, since it's pretty much the same tracklist. A 20 minute version of Space Truckin' is wildly unnecessary.

downloaded first 2 songs and then the album lost my attention at 7. idc enough to continue

Hate this with a burning passion.

Child in time 👍

Worse than Aerosmith. The first track is pretty rockin but "Child In Time" has too much guitar noodling, bad vocals, and the lyric "I want to be inside of you." Dumb lyrics continue on Smoke On The Water which also includes some Clapton-esque guitar chugging. Once that ends you are treated to a dull drum solo. This is the closest I have come to skipping a track in the over 300 albums I've listened to in this project so far. There is a part in the middle of "Strange Kind of Woman" where a guitar is trading licks with someone making dumb mouth noises. That is the exact moment I decided to give this record one star. "Lazy" includes some harp that gives me major "Honkin On Bobo" douche chills. This sucks.

Not terrible, a bit jam and a bit heavy

I know this isn't a one star album, but I don't understand why exactly it's in here. Live albums can be cool, and DP are clearly a world class live act but I've heard a lot of these songs already in other albums on this list, and the audience clapping along drives me absolutely nuts. Would have been awesome to be there live and in person, but sadly this was a dud for me.

Not for me

No sé por qué hay discos en vivo aquí

I hated this album. it gets a 1. It deserves a 1. it has no business being on this list. it was so long and just a bad live album. i’m so pissed i had to waste time listening to this dog meat

I just hate live albums. They spend forever "playing" with the crowd with isn't fun to listen to. And there's only one good song, space truckers

Really really boring and a lot of instrument wankery. Would not recommend. Only Smoke on the Water was decent and even that went on way too long compared to the album version. Most boring dad rock I’ve ever had to listen to.

A band with such iconic albums released the most over the top corny solo filled borefest of a live album. The ratio of song to solo wankery is like 1:5. I'm not exaggerating. It's exhausting. Also, Black Night is on here THREE FUCKING TIMES. And Speed King is on here twice. Who decided that was a good idea? That adds up to 37 minutes and 45 seconds of TWO FUCKING SONGS.

I hate this brand of in-your-face, screeching guitars and vocals rawk n’ roll music. I mean, rock is my favorite genre, but not this.

This is the worst live album created. And yes I AM familiar with j.giles and Edgar winter. This is the most incoherent piece of garbage recorded. I'm a Phish/Dead fan and no stranger to live recordings and long jams. Even if there is some great musicianship, this album does nothing to lead us there or bring us back.

Live double album? Nope. Dope? Nope. Although I need it to get through the 7 songs and their 96 minute guitar solos.

If I had a nickel for every time I picked up my phone and went ‘oh god another 2 minutes’ I’d have 25cents. The solos were excessive, lyrics forgettable. WIL2IA? That’s a no from me dog The only thing I enjoyed about this was it made me want to go to Japan. Yes the mere fact that it was recorded there made me daydream about cherry blossoms, temples and ramen. Japan 2024 anyone in?

Not particularly interesting to me but I can see how it's a good live album

Blir så trött. Är det tredje eller fjärde Purpleplattan nu? Live dessutom. Låtar som aldrig tar slut.

Great show! However 1 star for live albums

15 year old me probably would have been really into this. 32 year old me just wants the 10 minute drum solos to end.

booooring

If the solos were so long it was like watching a horse having a never ending shit... basically a catchy riff and massive walk off solo. Not my bag hombre

I am so tired of getting live albums. The artist is able to choose from their best songs so obviously all the songs will be classics. On the other hand, the quality is always worse than the original and rarely feels more energetic. This live album is no different. There is absolutely no reason this album should be even considered for this list. The fact that it was included shakes my faith in this entire concept and has me questioning if I should even continue using this generator. Seriously, what classic rock-biased mf made this list? Love Deep Purple though, just bad score on the principal. 1/5

Tämähän menee vain livejammailuksi, joka saattais paikan päälläkin olla tylsää. Hitit sentään tulee alkuun, että saadaan kuuntelija lämpimäksi. En ihan saa kiinni?

It’s a live album

They can play but so dull !!!!!!

I tried but I could literally not get through this one. So painful to listen to. The excessive drum solo in the mule is where I called it quits.

All these songs are hella long. Strange kind of woman I liked cuz he was singing in it a little more plus I liked the lyrics but still way too long.

WOOOO A LIVE ALBUM!!!!!

Between the length and the fact that there they have other studio albums on this list, this seems totally unnecessary

This album proves that relativity exists because it's only an hour long but it feels like fucking six.

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Got as far as Smoke and bailed.

'Double live album' - refused to listen.

They actually had some decent stuff on their first couple of albums (Hush, Kentucky Woman, Hey Joe, River Deep Mountain High) then they started their metal nonsense. Screaming instead of vocals, stupid lyrics, juvenile guitar solos. Smoke on the Water is right up there with A Horse With No Name as the stupidest song ever recorded and that every bar band in the world played.

The only thing worse than a live album is a two hour live album.

Wiem, że ta opinia może niektórych oburzyć. Ale zastanawiałem się bardzo długo co temu wystawić. Ogólnie Deep Purple było mi raczej obojętne, parę kawałków na krzyż było dla mnie całkiem spoko. Starałem się bardzo podejść z otwartą głową do tego albumu, ale słuchanie tego było fizyczną i psychiczną nieprzyjemnością. Nie dość że album koncertowy, a powiedzmy sobie szczerze - koncertowe są zwykle dużo gorsze, to jeszcze z japońską publicznością, która nie dość że ma słabe wyczucie rytmu najwyraźniej, to jeszcze brzmi jakby tam było kilka osób na krzyż, i to niezbyt podekscytowanych. Do tego ma powtórzone te same piosenki, bo to jeszcze wersja Deluxe nie wiedzieć czemu. I jeszcze trwa nieco ponad 2 godziny... Ale to wszystko dałoby się jakoś znieść, gdyby tego się słuchało w miarę przyjemnie. Ale nie do końca wiadomo, czym to ma być. Ani to nie jest jakieś ciekawe eksperymentalnie, bo są lepsi, ani nie jest jakieś imponujące technicznie (choć to utalentowani muzycy), ani to chwytliwe (bo są setki bardziej słuchalnych zespołów z tego okresu). I wydaje mi się, że album się robi coraz gorszy, a to wycie wokalisty w jednej z piosenek już przelało czarę goryczy. Riffy są całkiem fajne czasem, ale są zepsute przez nudną dalszą melodię, dziwaczną strukturę albo (subiektywnie) nieprzyjemny wokal. Myślałem czy dać 2 czy 1, ale 2 dla mnie byłoby albumem, który jest słaby, ale nie mam nieprzyjemności z słuchania - a tutaj czekałem, aż to się skończy, żeby posłuchać cokolwiek innego.

Lyssnade inte

I did not enjoy this at all.

Same shit

sorry but boring

Listen, I like the album version of Highway Star. It's not trying to do anything deep; it just wants to be a face-melting metal classic, and it does it very well. It's fun. In this live rendition, however, all the joy and spirit they'd put into the recording is gone. This is a shell-less husk of a song, devoid of soul or enthusiasm—and this absence carries through the entire album. Because what we are listening to is not a band performing for a crowd. It is a band who has showed up for work. It's not difficult to believe that even the sections of endless guitar-wailing and drum solos are scripted, played the same way from show to show as the band autopilots its way through the tour. At one point following a song, the vocalist engages the crowd, but even this is lacking at first; you can actually perceive the moment he mentally reminds himself that the crowd wants him to scream at them, that he needs to give them energy to feed off of. Maybe it was one of those "you had to be there" kind of things, but nothing in this album is convincing me that going to see a band who is touring, playing the same show over and over for groups of people too large to comprehend, is the best way to experience music.

Awful.

October 21, 2021 I generally don't like live albums and this one was terrible. Over an hour of just noise.

My butthole hurt

Not a fan of live albums

For all its turgid music, tiresome soloing, semi-coherent lyrics and overall self-satisfied idiocy, it's amazing I don't hate this dogshit even more than I do. I thought events reached a nadir with the drum spot on 'The Mule', but Gillan's dipshit shrieking on 'Strange Kind of Woman' takes the fucking cake. Candidate for worst album shat forth from this app thus far.

I'll be honest, there are some days where I wish I didn't have to listen to an album just because the success rate has been so low. Today, I get to take that breather just the same way I did when they did this for the Who. Live albums don't belong on this list.

I care very little for this genre of music.

Terrible live album. Songs repeated from different nights, all licks from early century blues, not a single inventive melody sans smoke on the water. Why do bands introduce songs at concerts? Bad look.

It’s ok. Just not really the mood for me today. Too long

Deep Purple... La mitad de los temas los disfrutas si estás drogado y la otra mitad sólo los disfruta el que hace el "solo" de 5 minutos