Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Solid album
While I never considered myself a fan of Deep Purple I do not dislike them. Highway Star and Smoke on the Water are the tracks I recognize the most from this album. It is music.
Not bad, but this genre of music has not aged well
I had a decent time listening to this. Normally "Dad Rock" isn't my thing but everything, except maybe some lyrics, meshed well for me.
Short, good sounds, some songs are similar. 2 classics
Fun stuff! Probably wouldn't throw it on at home too often, but I'd totally rock out to this while eating slices of pizza and playing pinball at Old School Pizza.
My friend Ken played this album for me in 9th grade. Gotta appreciate how good it is 50 years later!
This is very much a tale of two albums. First, we have 4 tracks (Leo, Pictures, Never Before, Lazy) which are some funky white boys playing the Blues. I’d this were the main facet of Deep Purple’s sound, I wouldn’t care for them. Execution is fine, I love the mix of distorted organ and guitar weaving together in these arrangements, but these songs don’t do much to make a lasting impact. BUT the other three tracks (Highway Star, Smoke On The Water, Space Truckin’) are the famous songs from this record for a reason. They RIP! They’ve got their own weird and at the time innovative style that I feel really holds up. Great stuff. So overall? I lean positive, this is a very strong 3.
Decent classic rock album
I thought it would be more “country” but it really wasn’t that bad. Doll
a bit dad rock-y
It was a fun novelty to hear the album that contains the first song I ever learnt on guitar, as I'm sure it was for many people. Unfortunately the cheese is too much but it has some moments.
Not bad. Just more radio fodder I've heard a million times.
Classic rock and roll. No tricks or mechanical synthesizing. Just some pretty great music and instrumentation.
Songs are long and pretty repetitive. Not completely without interest, but I'm not sure in what situation I'd ever want to put this record on.
Some fun and iconic riffs. Not 100% my cup of tea but fun to listen to. 3.5/5
Deep Purple is the least interesting of the Unholy Trinity. They're just so... dad-ish. 3 stars out of obligation
before listening to this, i knew 'highway star' and obviously 'smoke on the water' - 'highway star' is as killer as ever, i think it's a very good song. but unfortunately, that's where it ends for me. the rest of the album did not do much for me. it's not bad, i just found it fairly uninteresting. i don't mind bluesy hard rock, but this was pretty formulaic to me, not much going on. the organ playing throughout the album, however, was great and fairly unique. but otherwise, i feel like there wasn't of much interest to this one.
Je m'attendais à un peu plus. Les pièces moins connues de l'album ne m'ont pas particulièrement impressionné. Je comprends le statut de Deep Purple, mais ce genre de hard rock reste un style que j'aime un peu moins. 7/10
a classic in my childhood music education
A pretty good entry into the "classic" blues-rock canon. Lord & Paice prove themselves as perhaps the most vital part of the band on this record, keeping most songs in the groove and in time. Ian Gillan is a perfectly serviceable hard rock vocalist but lacks the fireworks or the attitude of a Plant or a Mercury. Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord are supremely talented (guitar and keys/organ, respectively) technicians and pretty good at melodies, but they can tend a bit toward the baroque, eventually. Machine Head is a tremendously competent album and a big influence on heavy rock to follow, but after twenty minutes of the gymnastics running from Highway Star through Never Before, it's pretty refreshing to arrive at Smoke On The Water, which feels downright restrained in context. Lazy is a great, fairly straight blues if you wade through the first five minutes of it. Space Truckin' is a bit more riff and rhythm based (almost like slow motion Helmet, thirty years early). Ultimately, for all their influence on what was to follow, Deep Purple are a band better at playing music than writing it. Machine Head is a masterclass in playing, but you're unlikely to hear something new in the composition. Listen to this once and understand its importance, but you already know the best two songs on the disc. Unless you really love guitar solos, you're probably not coming back regularly.
I can definitely understand how they're considered pioneers in heavy metal. "Smoke on the Water" is likely their most popular song (and one of the most popular rock songs of all time...), and the only one I recognized from this album. Overall, I think it's a good album, but not a great one. I can understand its importance in music history, but I wasn't really 100% feeling the songs on this one. "Smoke on the Water" is probably my favorite, but I also enjoyed "Never Before." I give it 3 out of 5 space truckers!
not bad. Smoke on the water is the most popular song, but there are quite a few good ones on here
Highway star. Good intro song, sweet bassline, cool keyboard/organ. maybe im a leo. cool riff. Both songs have melodies and a sound that remind me of 8 bit video games. pictures of home. cool mix of solos, guitar then organ then even bass for a second! never before. funky intro. smoke on the water. classic, not sure why its so iconic, every other song so far has been just as good if not better. maybe just because the main riff is catchy and the chorus? lazy. sweet organ intro, trippy, cool. followed by guitar, cool instrumental through the first half. space truckin. catchy chorus. Cool guitar strumming in later verses adds some 'texture' or something. dig. little drum solo action when a blind man cries. ballad. pretty good
Cva, nice riffs, nice melodies
Surprisingly good. Can see how this influenced later metal bands.
Half hokey half inspired classic classic rock
Decent 70’s power psychedelic rock. Won’t be in rotation on my playlist, but still a good album.
Was surprised not to enjoy this more. Think I would get more out of it having heard it a few times. There's obviously some fine musicianship on display, but it doesn't always feel like it serves the songs.
Not as uninspired as I originally thought, and much better than In Rock. Still not sure how these guys get mentioned in the same breath as Zeppelin and Sabbath though, they are clearly inferior in every way. Sometimes I wondered if I was listening to rock or elevator music. Ian Gillan has one of the most boring voices in rock. Smoke on the Water in retrospect is not that great of a song, yes it’s an influential riff, but it’s super rudimentary, a child could have come up with that riff. Best songs are Space Truckin and Maybe I’m a Leo.
This is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Big dumb rock
Forever tied to the Rock Band start screen. Solid! I like the singles and the ones I don’t recognize too.
Its ok. Not my kinda music tho
A classic and influential rock album but I’m not fully convinced it’s aged particularly well.
I mean, I grew up in the 70s so good lord, this album was played.
okkk 6.5/10
feel like some douchebag driving an old pickup truck but in a cool way
This album just doesn't do it for me. I have a lot of appreciation for Deep Purple and recognise their classic and influential status, however the only tracks of this album I enjoyed were Smoke On The Water and When A Blind Man Cries.
Great classic electrified rock and roll...not my favorite though.
This also goes pretty hard. It sounds a lot like their live album that I just listened to.
I’ve never liked Deep Purple’s studio work as much as I’ve liked them live. That’s a me problem I guess. This album’s great, and a classic. But I’d have preferred it if it was live.
Wow okay the first four songs were incredible. A little long but that's okay. You can definitely see influences that other artists had from this. However I personally can't stand Smoke on the Water and Lazy so 5/7 songs is gonna have to bring this one down a little.
This album likely contains one of the most famous rock songs in the world. Also, if some YouTubers are to be believed, simply uttering “zero three five” will get their videos demonetised (the frets played in Smoke On The Water’s famous riff). That aside, it will be interesting to hear the rest of the tracks surrounding this. Songs I already knew: Smoke On The Water Favourites: Highway Star Firstly, Smoke On The Water is undoubtedly a very good, catchy song, but I think I’ve just heard it too many times at this point so it’s not quite as exciting as it once was. Highway Star shows some pretty amazing musical talent, and I loved the guitar solo in this. Conversely, the closing song Space Truckin’ might have been one of the silliest songs I’ve ever heard. It feels more like a Deep Purple parody than an actually serious song.
Can’t help but enjoy the vocal histrionics
We had a live album by Deep Purple before, 'Made In Japan', that I was expecting to be bad but turned out to be very good. This is almost the opposite situation. I saw 'Smoke on the water' on this record and expected it to be a banger, but almost all songs turned out to be boring. This was also a stupid expectation to have from me to have, since I can't find any joy with 'Smoke on the water' to begin with, I have simply heard it to many times, and it has lost its magic. My overall feeling with the album is also a bit perplexing. On paper, this album really has everything I should like. Good singer, rock from era I usually enjoy, cool electric piano etc, but it just doesn't get up there for some reason. The album was saved by the last two songs, 'Space truckin'' and 'When a blind man cries' which were actually very good songs, many steps above the rest.
Deep Purple has some amazing tracks but my god is "Smoke on the Water" not one of them. I don't know it if is because it has been played to death but it's just a weak track with a boring riff. Luckily this album starts off with "Highway Star" which is one of the better Deep Purple songs (sadly my version didn't have the extended intro). This album is an early metal album and sadly it sounds slightly generic today but i guess that back in it's day it was groundbreaking. Still "Highway star" and "When A Blind Man Cries' are great tracks but the rest doesn't really reach the same heights. I don't feel like I want to listen to it again but just cherry pick the first and last track while the rest was ok but brings me no real excitement.
Klassisk rock
Kudos for being one of the foundations of metal, but I have an irrational hatred at this brand of hard rock.
Whew! Ritchie Blackmore melts all the faces on this one. Highs: double tracked solo on Highway Star and the super soft-overdrive tone on Lazy.
Some great hits on this one. Others sound alike to me. We've come a long way in the recording production quality these days!
Heard several of the songs before. Did not download any. Don’t care much for the keyboards. Love the guitar playing.
Drei plus
3.5/5 Apparently I have been confusing Purple Haze and Deep Purple since high school. Whoops... Lmao. I liked this album. I thought it was one of those cheesy hair bands that are one hit wonders, but I was wrong. I think it was because of the cheesy lyrics, and overt macho energy. But who doesn't like cheese?
Had that one hit I knew and that's about all I remember. Chugged along nicely but a mostly unremarkable album for me.
decent, gets the juices flowing
Tout est bien qui finit bien
smoke on the water etc
Pretty rocky. I liked some of the more bluesy songs - they reminded me of black keys.
Heavy
Highway: "Highway Star," "Pictures of Home," "Smoke on the Water," "Space Truckin'" Consistently excellent performers. The songs tend to be more downbeat and groovy than on In Rock a few years ago, with a little more dithering and drag in the middle, but the keyboardist definitely comes through as feeling himself on this album: loud, distorted wurlitzer with the most inspired solos in the group for a clear standout. And the opener is probably the best song they ever had.
Not sure what to think about this one. At times I was really vibing, another times it felt like the songs were going on for too long.
I'm always more impressed with Deep Purple's stickiness than I think I am going to be, I end up humming their hits a lot more. We had gotten the live version of this album a few weeks back, and this is way more engaging than that! I'm not NOT a fan. 3/5
De songwriting van deze cd stelt niet veel voor, maar de solos zijn leuk om naar te luisteren. Het is alleen jammer dat je telkens minstens een couplet en een refrein moet luisteren om bij de coole gitaren en orgeltjes te komen. Eigenlijk is 21st Century Schizoid Man het ideale Deep Purple nummer.
High 3
Better then I expected
Fairly fun solid glam rock, Everything you'd expect from the Smoke on the Water band
The cool thing about going through these albums that have impacted history is that one can encounter an album from 1972 that would arguably carry itself in the 21st century. While the album does not hit particularly hard or profound, it is a testament to Deep Purple that they were doing this music in 1972. The old scripture from Ecclesiastes in which its author laments that 'there is nothing new under the sun' rings all the more true here and while trends and styles may certainly change, a decent album at any point in history is a decent album at any point in history.
I used to listen to a ton of classic rock, so I've heard a few of the songs on this album a lot over the years. I have a copy of this album on vinyl as well, but this was my first time listening to this album in its entirety. Overall, this is a really good album, and and it's easy to see how it influenced a number of hard rock and metal bands that came after its release. I love the heavy use of lower notes on the guitars that are present on a lot of songs, and I love that there's also some fast tempo guitar playing here too, like on "Highway Star" (perfect opening track for this album in my opinion). The drums are fast and manic, but also manage to be tight and clean as well. I also love the way that the keyboard and organ are utilized here; sometimes it's to provide a contrasting higher sound to the deeper guitars, and sometimes it's deeper as well to compliment them. Ritchie Blackmore is a great guitar player, and his talent is really on full display here. "Smoke on the Water," "Highway Star," and "Space Truckin" are my favorite tracks here, but everything else wasn't terribly memorable to me. The album works well as a whole, but in my opinion, the most important thing here is the influence that this album would go on to have.
7/10 Beaucoup de classiques. Ecoute facile.
This is the second album I’ve listened to recently that had a weird car song. Less weird car songs please. The guitarist is jamming throughout (that’s like half the album) but not really feeling any strong feelings about this one overall, generally pretty neutral on this old school heavy rock. Talked myself into a 3 because Smoke on the Water is iconic at least. Also I really like When A Blind Man Cries as the last song on the album, much slower and more ballad-like than the rest of the album, which was more guitar-shredding (Note: I learned this after finishing listening; When A Blind Man Cries was not on the original album, it was a B-side to the Never Before single. It was recorded when the album was first recorded but got added to the end of the album for the 25th anniversary release. I'm keeping it as my favorite song anyway because there's no rules here). Favorite song: When A Blind Man Cries Other: Never Before, Smoke On The Water
Dad rock really is a hit or a miss. You may get sleaze. You may get the most revolutionary shit you've ever heard. You may just get a decent time. I don't really find Machine Head to be particularly remarkable, but the songs on it were fine, and I can understand why some of them are well known. Highway Star really is *that good*
cool bit of rock
Another really solid album by DP.
Good stuff, not anything I hadn’t heard before and not my jam at the moment, but it was interesting listening to it from a perspective of it being an important album instead of just a tired song being played on classic rock stations 😅
No matter its historical relevance (especially to me, born in '89), Machine Head has half the teeth and sounds only half as heavy as In Rock, a record that truly blasts you to bits from the opening second. There's no ground here that they hadn't covered previously. Only a handful of flagship songs which are classics in their own right. They just happen to be on this album. I much prefer to listen to the Made in Japan live workouts of these songs.
Highway Star: 7.5/10 Maybe I'm a Leo: 5.5/10 Pictures of Home: 7.5/10 Never Before: 6/10 Smoke on the Water: 8.5/10 Lazy: 7/10 Space Truckin': 6/10 When a Blind Man Cries: 8/10 Overall: 7/10 (3.5/5)
I've always liked Smoke on the Water but the rest of it not so much
Two classics, no other stand outs
I go back and forth with this. I kind of prefer Highway Star to Smoke on the Water thanks to Dazed and Confused and now I want to drive around the US neighbourhood smashing US Mailbox things with a baseball bat. The rest, is way honkier than I was expecting, and while it's not bad, I'm not that arsed. Space Truckin' is great fun though, so that's three songs genuinely enjoyed. 3 out of 8 should warrant a 2, but these are 3 very good songs. Seeing the live album also in the book which is these songs but twice as long, fills me with some trepidation, but it could be excellent. Will find out in due course.
Enjoyed this. Heard Smoke on the Water so many times it feels like the worst track on there now! Maybe I’m a Leo / Lazy were my highlights. Chunks passed me by, but for what it is - a classic rock staple - it’s pretty good!
Not heard much Deep Purple before and thought this was some decent rock music. I didn't particularly dislike anything but nothing blew me away either. Highlights: Highway Star Smoke On The Water Space Truckin'
Album actually got better as it went on, solid enough
3/8, 38%
Another pretty enjoyable record here from Deep Purple. Though it's not exactly my rhythm I can understand the legacy this band and album have earned. Towards the end of the album in particular it was fun to really hear them not take things too seriously and just connect lean into having a good time while playing music. Probably somewhere between and a 3 and a 3.5 Fave track by a country mile was Space Truckin'... I mean come on.
Another great album from a classic rock band. Has aged well!
- drumming really interesting - adds more than just a sense of direction to the piece, truly driving - the drums in Space Truckin' are just beautiful...probably my favourite song on the album - story behind Smoke on the Water (and the history of the whole recording of the album) very interesting From Wikipedia: As previous recording sessions had been slotted into the group's gigging schedule, Deep Purple wanted to dedicate time to record an album away from the typical studio environment, hoping it would result in a sound closer to their live shows. They hired the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio for recording, and block-booked the Montreux Casino as a venue, but during a Frank Zappa concert immediately before the sessions, the casino burned to the ground. After a week of searching for an alternative venue, including a session at a nearby theatre that was abandoned due to noise complaints, the band managed to book the Grand Hotel, closed for the winter, and converted it into a live room suitable for recording. These events, particularly the casino fire, became the inspiration for the song "Smoke on the Water".
This is a band that would be on Guitar Hero if I've ever heard one. It's pretty generic 70's rock for the most part. That being said it's not bad. The first track is pretty good. I could see myself listening to this in the car with my dad. They do suffer from the 70's music trope of "This song doesn't have a good ending so we'll just stop/add an instrumental part at the end that pads the runtime" Oh these are the "Smoke On The Water" guys. This is music that would be playing in a biker bar though. Really just any bar that serves an older crowd. Can't decide if this is a low 4/5 or a high 3/5 It's a 3/5 because they have a 7-minute song that takes 4 minutes to start
holy shit smoke on the water. i played that on my guitar when i was like 14. wicked.
funkier than expected, which is always enjoyable. otherwise very emblematic of the era. i didn’t particularly enjoy it but there were some fun solos
Highway star is awesome, other than that everything else is pretty good too. I think they are trying to be hard but it's just regular classic rock. Just needed a few more bangers to be great.
This is another one of those classic albums/bands I have little personal experience with. I’m not sure if I’ve even ever heard Smoke on the Water all the way through until now, which seems impossible. The point I’m making here, much like Hotel California, I have zero sentimentality associated with this album, nor was it played to the point where I am sick of it. It’s hard reviewing albums like this on just a play through or two, because they frankly don’t always hold up. That’s how I felt about Hotel California, and it is sort of how I feel about this one. There’s good songs here, Highway Star in particular is a perfect opener, but I come more from a punk background which got its start being the antithesis to albums like this. Songs like Lazy get boring to me so quickly, and the well songs like that come from feel incredible wide but extremely shallow these days. There’s only so much guitar virtuosity one can take in a sitting, and while their abilities are impressive, I feel like I’ve got it after hearing it just once. It’s not always easy to listen to something old for the first time, and trying to appreciate it for the period it came out in, but it is a requirement when you want to love something like this. This go around, that was too high of a mountain to climb for me.
The sound of this album is the definition of classic hard rock. I read that they were a precursor to heavy mental and that makes a ton of sense from this album. The tone is much harsher then other classic rock albums. I liked it but I don’t think it aged as well as other bands like Pink Floyd or Creedence Clearwater Revival. Might be for me I’m not a fan of heavy metal. I didn’t read all the lyrics but read that they were mediocre. Lazy and smoke on the water were stand out tracks.
Decent enough
One of my dad’s favourite band
I didn't know Highway Star was Deep Purple. That song is a jam! Some serious Dazed and Confused nostalgia there. Their biggest hit, Smoke on the Water, is ok. The rest of the album is pretty good.
Perusrockia
Solid album, I especially love the guitar and other instrumentals, but not really my thing personally.
When it comes to rock music Deep Purple is solid and so is this album. But it's nothing that will be too memorable for me.
I'm sure this sounded better in 1972, before generations of rock bands that all sound exactly like this made the same record 500 times. It's not bad, though. Smoke on the Water is obviously a classic for a reason. Highway Star is cheesy fun. Lazy was a standout for me, love its more bluesy sound. Overall a very middle of the road classic rock album. Favorite track: Lazy
smoke.. on the water... in my house...
I did enjoy this. But not as much as I hoped I would
Some of it is good. I don't like the bluesy songs, they are little bit too melodramatic for me.
classic tunes
Enjoyed this more than expected actually.
green to red
honk shmimimi
when a blind man cries is a great closer.
Not really for me. Smoke on Water is fun if course, but also it’s so overplayed maybe I should hate them for it.
purp
Very regular. Lol.
BOOORRRIIIIINGGG
Totally fine album. Nothing really to note
A couple bop.coms
highway star is a meta song. smoke on the water is the first song anyone learns on the guitar so yk it’s good.
Reminds me a lot of Led Zeppelin - although a bit poppier and a bit less folky. It's a bit self-indulgent in places, to be honest, and the lyrics are really average in most places (particularly the sci-fi shit). Highway Star is a good pop song, and Smoke On The Water is great (helps that they're actually telling a real story, which masks some of the lack of creativity in the lyric that you hear on the stuff they've made up), and Lazy is a cool listen (although again, a bit self-indulgent). 3/5.
Believe it or not I've only listened to Deep Purple 3 times - 3! Artist #2556 I was expecting a whole lot more metal sounding minor stuff... this is like good time rock yeah?
Classic rock, a little dated by this point, but Highway Star is a really good opener.
*mullet intensifies*
Oui, Smoke on the Water est bonne est connue, mais sinon j'ai plutôt écouté d'une oreille distraite. L'originalité est maintenant diluée. J'ai remarqué la présence de l'orgue, c'est ce qui m'a le plus interpellée.
Great album. I am a bit torn between a 3 and a 4 star rating. My favorite tracks are "Highway star" and "When a blind man cries". I would give this 3.5/5 if possible.
Some fun 70s rock for sure. Nice hearing songs other than smoke on the water by them. Enjoyed "lazy" the most I think.
Whiffed real bad of dad rock, well good dad rock though so I don't know A decent record
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. The remastering makes it sound better than I remember as a teenager.
lazy är ju jävligt fin och det är ett rätt gött sound generellt. en stark trea.
Meh
Finally! I am not well-versed in hard rock, metal or really anything from the 1970s that isn't funk or jazz, so this is very much out of my comfort zone. However, I quickly settled in to this album, the keys (organ?) are spectacular, the guitar solos are always excellent. Smoke on the water is probably a weak spot, doesn't help that it was the third thing I learned to play on guitar when I was a kid and it just doesn't rock like the rest of this album! I think highway star is the peak, the battling solos are stunning, but the jam band feel on Lazy is a highlight as well. I would give this a 7/10 because I'm not comfortable with this style yet to say this is a classic, plus it does drag in places.
Classics
I imagine it was very exciting and new at the time and sounded amazing on vinyl! Enjoyable listen but don't feel the need to listen again or belt out any tunes. A lot of guitar solos, great vocals though!
it's cool but it's not that cool and it's pretty stupid, too, and not always in a good way
Yeah. Classic.
As a teenager I loved this band. Highway Star is possibly their greatest tune. Smoke on the Water is a bit of a dirge. There is less of Gillan's awful screams than In Rock but I still find it all a bit caveman. Lyrics are never going to win a Nobel prize and the constant keyboard/Blackmore duels tire. It's dated badly. I've lost the love. 3.
listen
Better than expected
I had no idea about smoke on the water and like the song even more now. Also highway star kind of rocks. Did not like space trucking at all
Extra star because Smoke On The Water was the first riff I learned to play when I was learning how to play an guitar and then bass 3/5
Gøy å hørra Highway star igjen
This album was alright, there's nothing that really stood out on this one.
No es el estilo de música que elijo escuchar pero es un buen disco y evidentemente se logró el propósito de que sonara menos a estudio y más al sonido en vivo. "Highway Star" es el tema del disco, incluso lo elijo por sobre "Smoke on the water".
I had obviously recognized the album cover and band name because of Smoke on the Water (which I will say right now is far too overrated when there are far better songs on this album alone), but I never knew too much past that. This was just seen in my eyes as "dad rock" through and through. This was alright, though. I mean, nothing spectacular (besides that guitar, all of the soloes were wonderful), but certainly nothing bad, save maybe Space Truckin'. There were some times where songs genuinely surprised me with their quality, and I don't regret listening in. Will I be adding Deep Purple into my band rotation? No, probably not, but I still enjoyed it, in a middle of the road, one time romp, sort of a way.
Best cool om te eens te luisteren. De basis voor stoner!
Wel een beetje ouwe-lullen-rock, maar toch nog best goed te hebben.
pretty fun rock all around 3.5
Bit boring
This is stoner rock with electronic organs. The album was not what I would have expected from Smoke on the Water alone.
Pretty good
A classic of hair metal, fun but nothing something I’ll be coming back to a lot
Pretty generic stuff. I'd only ever heard the two hits before and now I know why. It wasn't bad at all but nothing really there to make me come back.
I can't believe how annoyed I got by the end. It's OK, but kinda one-note and uninteresting.
70s Rock before glam came along and made it all a bit silly. Maybe I'm a Leo sounds like a proto-Black Keys / Royal Blood stomper. A sound that's stood the test of time and still shifting records today
Apparently this album was recorded with the intention of capturing a 'live performance' feeling. It worked. It's much less clinical and is more engaging than the other Deep Purple albums on this list. They'll never be a band I return to, but I didn't mind this. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Smoke On The Water Date listened: 04/10/22
Not bad. The hits on this one are the cheesier cuts...
Definitely reminds me of my teenage years back in AA. Highway Star, Space trucking and Smoke on the water are classics, although I tend to change from Smoke in the water due to over playing on classy radio. Enjoyed. Not a big fan of organs in rock, but good stuff. 3 for me. Hope to hear some Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmore
This is better than you might assume. Don't let the overplayed Smoke on the Water (good lyrics) delay your listening!
Not much into rock these days But it was a good classic album
Rather enjoyable besides the 7 minute instrumental track
Interessante sehr treibende Musik. Schöne Gitarren Riffs.
9/13/2022
More tuneful than expected. A bit dated but still punchy.
It was OK, but it doesn't start on a great note, so most of the best songs are on the second half of the album. A few other really nice ones besides the classic Smoke on the Water though.
Cheesey but fun, very blues inspired. Lyrics are dreadful. Basically fine
There's a lot of great stuff on here if it's your thing... but on the whole it's just not my thing, and unfortunately I don't know enough context to understand or appreciate why it was so big at the time. Some interesting and unexpected bits and pieces; cracking musicians - especially Ian Paice; and I'll take this over most of the polished American hair metal that this would eventually mutate into... but I'd much rather be listening to Fire And Water by Free from two years earlier.
Even though I feel like this music is kind of bad, it's really fun. The guitar solos really go for it and the energy is good. Probably wouldn't play it with other people unless I was trying to meme
Smoke on the Water is not enough is not enough to prop up the bland prog-rock jam band vibes. Weakest Deep Purple record on here so far
It was fine.
Ok. Smoke on the water is clearly the best track from the album
I'm captivated with the idea that they took over a hotel and recorded this with a mobile unit to capture more of a live sound. Fantastic idea and it produced the best album of their career. Definitely some iconic riffs here, but it drags in the middle for me.
Classic rock album, a few decent songs. Nothing that will be on repeat on my playlist.
Earthy, psychedelic, and a bit bland. Maybe smoke on the water has been ruined for me as a guitarist; however, the album on first listen did not move me very much.
SMOKE ON THE WATER!
I knew a few of their songs, but hadn't listened to the album before, pretty cool, classic dad rock! 3.5
Nice!
Det här var rätt tråkigt även fast smoke on teh water är världens ägigaste sång.
A generous 3⭐️ Smoke on the Water is shite 👍🏾
Great rock album
basic 70'rock nokkuð skemmtilegt
Contender for worst album cover on the list? At the Deep Purple concert: CROWD: Play Smoke on the Water! DEEP PURPLE: Here you go! <plays Smoke on the Water> <crowd cheers> DEEP PURPLE: We’d like to play a new song for you now… CROWD: No! Play Smoke on the Water! DEEP PURPLE: 1,2,3,4 <starts playing new song> <crowd gets restless> CROWD: Play Smoke on the Water! <Deep Purple look nervous> <crowd gets more agitated> DEEP PURPLE: <pause> DUM DUM DUM! DUM DUM DA-DUM! DUM DUM DUM DA DUM! CROWD: Yay! Smoke on the Water. (Based on a true story. Probably.)
Nothing wrong with the record, but not the sensation it probably was then
Listening to the most famous (and the only one that I know) album of the band Deep Purple, Machine Head, is like taking a time machine into a simpler times, where Highway Star was synonymous with total rebellion, unhinged freakiness and going overboard. But is it a pleasant trip? From the first notes of the Highway Star you can be sure what type of album this will be. Classic 70s rock, that slowly, over next decade, will turn into hard rock, and eventually into all kind of metal/rock genres. With that historical context, listening to Machine Head is like taking a dive into depth of wikipedia, to read some obscure facts about the reasons of a random 14th century battle in the fields of eastern Lombardy. And like that knowledge, it's nice to know about this album, but I probably won't listen to it again. Most of the songs are very similar, with an exception of Lazy and the afromentioned Highway Star. There is also another precedence with popularity of Smoke on the Water riff. If you never played that riff on guitar or bass, then you never had one in your hands. The song itself is beyond average, but not as good as two songs mentioned in previous paragraph. I will be able to hum to the rythm of Smoke in my sleep forever, but that doesn't change the overall reception of the album I had. I feel like this record is categorised in the shelf named 'history', not in somewhere, where all my favourite or even occasional music is stored. Interestin album, but I'm eager to move on.
This is fine. It’s some decent rock, somewhat generic for it’s time, but it was enjoyable to listen to.
Not my cup of tea. Plenty of the songs are familiar, but not what I enjoy listening to.
A solid classic rock album!
Better then i expected.
pretty decent
Some great tracks
Some decent classic rock stuff on here. Smoke On The Water definitely stood out
Couple of true classics on this one.
great guitars
Semi rockin..!
Ok
Knew half of these songs from their Made In Japan album and those featured don't sound as good here. While these were wild on the live album, Highway Star doesn't sound as lively and Smoke on the Water is pretty tame. I also despise Lazy and didn't like Space Truckin much. But those that weren't on Made In Japan (Maybe I'm a Leo to Never Before) were pretty great songs and had a lot of fun listening to those.
Considering Smoke on the Water is one of the first songs everyone learns to play on guitar, this band is pretty iconic. There's really nothing to dislike them for, just didn't do anything for me
70's guitar rock at its purest. Your dad probably loves this band. They are really good at what they do. If it is your thing, you'll love them. Otherwise, they are worth appreciating.
couple classics
Good rock but not special.
Alright. Didn’t blow me away
Very enjoyable 3.5
Machine Head is the sixth album by English rock band Deep Purple. This album was extremely popular, being Deep Purple's most successful album, and influencing the development of the metal genre of music. The speed of the band's hard rock music playing was so new and special that it went on to shape heavy metal music in the future. "Smoke On The Water" quickly became the most popular song from the album, and it is still widely adored to this day. I think this is a remarkable album from the golden years of hard rock. It has all the rock n roll one could ask for, and enough great songs to occupy someone's ear for a little while. Every fan of rock or metal music has probably heard at least part of this album, but everyone should really listen to this whole thing.
How many fucking Deep Purple records does someone need to hear? I've had 3 albums from them in a span of 52! Too much!! Thank Brian Christ this one has Highway Star and Smoke on the Water on it though. Classic banger tunes. This is the only DP album you need to hear, the others are just a reiteration of the same points. I hate the album "artwork".
4/08/22
Not great.
Highway Star is pretty great, so is Smoke On the Water, but the rest is a mixed bag. It's aight...
Bit annoying
It's alright. 6/10
As a rock dude I feel like I should be much more reverent towards Machine Head than I am. It has a couple of legitimately fantastic tracks like 'Highway Star' and 'Space Truckin'' - and even 'Smoke On the Water', a right old plodder, cruises by on the basis of *that* riff. But the rest of Machine Head veers between mediocre and annoying. The Purps take themselves and their lumpen proto-metal far too seriously. And in Gillan, they have the perfect frontman for this guff - hammy, self-important and as subtle as a brick sandwich. Still, Paice and Blackmore made 'em listenable.
3 stars, i give em props but it's just not enough to blow my mind
Zdecydowanie lepiej się słuchało tego niż live wersji z koncertu, still nie jestem na tyle fanem starego rocka, żeby puścić sobie tak po prostu. "Smoke on the Water" jest absolutnym klasykiem, ale poza tym album mi po prostu przeleciał.
Jak nie próbują improwizować i kombinować, to mogą jednak coś słuchalnego stworzyć. Wciąż nie lubię Deep Purple, ale album się trzyma technicznie, brzmieniowo i wokalnie przyzwoicie.
good bass work
Pretty standard 1970's classic rock, Highway Star is still a am though.
This was better than I thought it would be.
favorite songs: Highway Star; Smoke On The Water; Lazy; When A Blind Man Cries.
It’s fine. Smoke on the water is def a jam
Honestly, the only two songs I really enjoyed on the album were Highway Star and Smoke on the Water. Everything else just kind of missed for me
Solid
1972. Smoke On the Water, Highway Star
It's not bad but I didn't find it particularly interesting either. I can see how Smoke on the Water is such a famous song, though
Wasn't in the mood for this today.
Alright, a few classics. You can hear that they were in the process of transforming the genre, but still a bit cheesy to my modern ears. Highway Star is decent, Smoke on the Water gets a lot of hype but in my opinion both of these pale in comparison to the slow blues close of the album 'When a Blind Man Cries'
Okay album most songs are good without being great with the exception of Smoke on the water which is one of my favourite songs of all time. 3/10
Love th hits on the radio but don't go further than that for the Purple.
I was familiar with a couple of songs. The album overall held my attention. I didn't skip any songs but not sure I would seek this album out to listen to it again.
Deep purple is usually pretty bad, probably won't listen to this all the way through. But got kidnapped and swam in the cold sea at night today, so that's something. Highway star or whatever is great
I have heard at least three of the seven tracks on this album before. The album mixes elements of progressive rock and early heavy metal. It would have been interesting to hear the album at the time of its release, because Deep Purple was probably doing something very different. From a 2021 perspective the album is okay.
Eh, this had it's moments but not many. 3.5
Toit as a tiger.
It was good, each song was extremely repetitive although the motifs were extremely evident and made for some catchy songs.
Yes, it's Deeply Purple.
Mediocre rock band. Lyrics are simple and that's fine. The solos have a good length, but they lose my interest fast since they are nothing special. Great album at the time, but compared to other rock bands nowadays they are nothing unique.
I feel like I should like this more than I do. I can't say that I strongly disliked any parts of it, I guess I was just disappointed that I wasn't more blown away by a band thats so highly influential. Not bad by any means though. I would consider listening to it again. 6.5 to 7 out of 10
Smoke On The Water is overrated af but other than that this album is fine
Good stuff. Big crunchy riffs. Overall a little one dimensional though. A lot of the songs kind of mush together and aren’t very interesting
Honestly, all these stars are for the phased organ madness. Everything else is either much-aped now, or a bit cack: but for brainless driving it's a jam.
It's a cool album. I enjoy it.
Yeah dad vibes
Better than expected. Pretty standard rock sound but loads of great riffs
Hard rock is fun. Wish I had more thoughts about it beyond noticing that the reality of Smoke is better than the meme.
good deep purple
Some fun songs but it seems like kinda by-the-numbers 70's hard rock to me. Nothing was super interesting or creative. A good, solid record but I wouldn't call it a classic or a great one. If you are fan of this style it's a good one.
Great album with the classic smoke on the water.
I'm not huge into rock/metal, but this was okay. Felt like something that would come on the radio while driving that I'd leave on in the event of me not hooking up my aux. Smoke on the Water was a huge win of course, taking me back to pep band
obviously an LP that I will have heard at some point in the past - but not since the late 70s, I think. I'm a little surprised at the lack of roll in the rhythm section - it is all rock, and Iain Pace is regarded as one of the great British drummers. Blackmore defining the form for future waves of hard rock guitar players with widdling (nearly always pentatonics, and sometimes in harmony.) Meat and potatoes. No veg.
"Lazy" might be my favorite on the album. I found most of it good but something I wouldn't listen to in my free time. Seems like good bar music.
While I have heard every track on this record many, many, MANY times, I had never sat down and spent time with the record as a whole. I found it interesting but very repetitive. It makes a nice background when you are looking for something a little heavier. On that note, this is not a heavy album at all. I had always thought of Deep Purple as a much harder, deeper band. I enjoyed the record, I listened to it once. I think that is all I need.
Different music Some nice sonfs 3.5/5
Surprised at how much I liked this album
25th August 2021 Listened throughout the day whilst pottering. Much more fun, accessible and sure than the previous deep purple album I had on here.
This was a better deep purple album than the last one. Lyrically and style was it was much more refined around their guitar riffs that are still solid. Enjoyed this album but it wasn’t great. 6.7/10
Songs all quite long, so occasionally dragged on. I am digging the intro to lazy though. Overall, half decent considering the age and the genre not holding any appeal to me.
Classic rock is classic.
3.6 - Some awesome guitar and organ jams on here. Prog rock meets cock rock. “Highway Star” is a highlight.
Much more neoclassical and funk than I would've presumed for classic rock - shows what I know about classic rock. Enjoying the organ, and some nice 4ths harmonies on Pictures of Home here too. First two tracks were early favs, liked quite a bit of Lazy too, final track Space Truckin's a possible standout - great syncopated bass part throughout.
Inicio enérgico, mucha personalidad, las guitarras gran protagonistas durante el álbum. El desarrollo del álbum pudo ser más óptimo a mi parecer pero es muy bueno 3.70 sobre 5
yesyes11
Good guitar, similar to the Rush album but preferred that one though
Stabil Bästa låtar: Highway Star Smoke On The Water
I'd heard for years the Deep Purple were so much more than just Smoke On The Water. I didn't realise that the album that contained that song would be the one to prove it. Some absolute jams on this album.
// Favs: — Score: Decent 3
Good album
Lower end 3 for me. Personal taste wise its probably actually a 2 for me but I do appreciate the musicianship an album like this has so it gets a 3. I think the best way to sum up this album is that I really enjoyed the sections with vocals. Nice driving energy when vocals are being deployed but thats maybe a third of the album. The rest is heavily guitar solo centric and while I respect the art and craft of a good guitar solo, generally these long sections became boring personally. Not an album I disliked per say but not one I'd have much desire to revisit.
This one was tough: I liked most of the songs, they were just so damn long. And 5, 6, 7-minute songs may not be super long in a general sense, but here they felt like it. I thought the first track was wrapping up several times before yet another solo started, straight into another verse. The keyboards sound amazing (when they're not soloing). This would be a great 25-minute record. I'm okay with blasphemy.
Sounds like how cigarettes smell
Great rock album, probably very good driving music. I wonder why Smoke on the Water is the riff that is most known from this album; there's better keyboard and guitar riffs on many of the other songs.
very musically tight. enjoyed this one.
The first three tracks are solid. Track 4 "Never Before" manages to stay fun. T5 "Smoke on the Water" is okay. "Lazy" has a great intro and is pretty good. "Space Trucking" (the last track) is meh.
Loved Smoke on the water !!!!
me gusto pero medio embole no lo volveria a escuchar
Some fun tracks, sounds like a worse led zeppelin.
en una de esas coincidencias que no significan nada pero que gustan porque escapan de la frialdad de las predicciones algorítmicas, resulta que un día como hoy pero de 1972 salió este disco. No todo el heavy metal es para reírse. Pero este sí. Está bien, mejor escúchenlos en los Live in Japan francamente.
The songs I knew are great, the others didn't really stand out to me. 3RS
Highway Star is a GREAT song. Lots of long, metal songs.
solid hard rock album, there were cool musical ideas here and there, but a lot of the songs fell flat imo. 6/10
6
I liked it way more than I thought. I liked the second half way better. It was more funky and less metal.
Nothing can live up to Highway Star. It's mostly just 30 minutes of boring rock after a jam and a half. 6
Pienso que no tengo mucho que decir, porque además un puñado de estas canciones ya las había escuchado en el concierto de Japón, includio también esta lista. It's not my jam, pero okay, creo que "Space Truckin'" sigue siendo mi fav. 7/10
Chunka chunka chunka chunka!
Kind of nu metal for the 70s
"Following intermittent recording sessions between gigs for earlier albums, Deep Purple wanted a dedicated amount of time to record an album away from the typical studio environment that sounded closer to their live shows. They hired the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio for recording, and block booked the Montreux Casino as a venue, but during a Frank Zappa concert immediately before the sessions, it burned to the ground. The band managed to book the Grand Hotel, closed for the winter, and converted the hotel into a live room suitable for recording. These events, particularly the casino fire, became the inspiration for the song "Smoke on the Water". Machine Head is cited as a major influence in the early development of heavy metal music. It is Deep Purple's most commercially successful album, topping the charts in several countries." "Highway Star" was written by Deep Purple while they were on a coach travelling to their opening UK tour date. The band's management had arranged for them to travel to the gig with a group of music journalists, who could interview the band at their leisure. One of the journalists asked Blackmore how he wrote songs, upon which he said, "like this", picked up the guitar and played the song's opening riff. Gillan improvised a set of lyrics around: "We're on the road, we're a rock'n'roll band".
classic - but I can't hear Smoke on the Water even one more time!
Smoke on the Water is the noticable single here, but definitely the least complex. However, whole album didn't grab me that much? I dunno...
Production: 9/20 Songwriting: 10/20 Innovation: 10/20 Bangers: 5/20 Emotional response: 12/20 =47 Perfectly pleasant - the Hammond organ kept reminding me of the Raconteurs
I suppose Deep Purple should land firmly in my classic/psychedelic/heavy rock wheelhouse, but I never really got into it. I do appreciate the severely dated, unironic preteen-level cool of Space Truckin'.
Highway star is a banger... And the epiphany of the "rock = long guitar solos and lyrics about cars and girls" joke Bygone is the era of all 6 minute songs :(
Classic!
I'd already listened to most of the album before, but it was interesting to see that so many of their hits were on a single album. It was impressive.
Great rock, smooooke on the waaaahtaaah.
ok
i mean it's alright
Definitely forgot Smoke on the Water is just a straight up diary entry from Switzerland or whatever. Not the most intellectually stimulating record, but there may be a “mood effect” today.
OHHH NAURRRR IM SOOO BEHIND IM SORRY IM GONNA CATCH UP I PROMISE sMOKE ON THE WATER?? I think i'd heard that one before mkaaaay, i think this is ROCK rock so I should like it since it's something my grandpa would listen (very 70s if u know what I mean) but.....idkk I'd like more vocals and not too much riffs idk i'm weird. Still solid 2
perdon, no es mi estilo de música:(
I see the vision, pre cheesy, lowkey mi je bio dosadan. Ima par fora momenata al ne bi ponovo slusala
Hasn’t aged well.
Purple är ett av de mer acceptabla 70talsrockbanden, tillsammans med Status Quo kanske. Förklaringen stavas till stor del John Lord. Hans orgel tillför nåt nästan Booker T-aktigt som man inte kan avfärda. Lyssna på "Smoke on the water", felet med alla after-ski coverversioner som gör den hopplös är att fokuset bara är på riffet. Dom har ingen orgel och om dom har det så har dom ingen som kan spela orgel som John Lord. Purples version är rätt bra och hela groovet och meningen med den låten sitter i orgeln. Och detta gäller även för flera låtar på den här skivan. "Never before" är riktigt riktigt bra, "Highway star" och nämnda röklåten båda rätt bra. Sen finns det ren dynga också, som det vedervärdiga avslutningsspåret. För visst det blir en del bluessörja för mycket och enerverande solon och riffglädje. Men det är här Lord kommer in och är groovy och med det räddar skutan.
Rejält gubbrockig (även om de väl var mellan 25 och 30 när det begav sig). Rätt okej proggig bluesrock. För hårdrock är det ju som tur är inte. Samtidigt inget spår av riktigt hög klass. Lazy är nog det jag gillar bäst. Uppe och nosar på trean.
Saker ska kallas för vad de är. Det här är bluesrock oavsett om det påstås vara heavy metal. Det är dessutom rätt trist bluesrock. Hammondorgeln är rätt ok och det finns vissa partier som är lite mer rytmiskt drivna som jag kan uppskatta. Historien om hur Smoke on the water kom till är betydligt mer underhållande än låten. Historien berättas bäst i dokumentären om Montreux-festivalen.
This is the kind of music I ignore when I hear it on the radio while walking through the hardware store. Upon listening more closely, both Highway Star and Smoke on the Water are pretty alright.
should’ve stuck with smoke on the water didn’t really care about the rest
Kicks ass! Not a great album.
The songs sound pretty similar and the music in general is not really my cup of tea.