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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
Na not really great. Better than Van Halen though.
This album would be perfect for waking up during a roadtrip
This suffered on its rating because I was served back to back Deep Purple albums. Only can do so much Smoke On The Water
never knowingly heard anything outside of "smoke on the water". i don't like this very much, BUT i'm glad i listened to it.
Back in middle school there was this guy in my class. He had long hair, could play the guitar and would often hum the melody from Smoke on the Water. A large part of the girls had crushes on him. But not me. I wasn't like the other girls. I disliked guitars. Twenty years later, I'm still not fond of guitars. However, it was nice learning that the guitar riff comes with an entire song. The last song was every bit of alright as well.
- Played in Israel multiple times (4? ...the last time in 2022), and I can't find anything talking about the genocide, so likely Zios. I boycott all Zios. - It's fine for hard rock, I guess. I don't remember anything that I heard (other than the one hit). Lots of guitar solos, which were pretty good... the one on Pictures of Home stands out - lots of chromatic scales kind of thing. The solos felt like they melded with the rest of the music and weren't as gratuitous as they usually are in this type of music (other than that they often went on way too long). - The singer was pretty dime-a-dozen, with a thin voice and really uninspired lyrics. The vocals bring down the whole thing - I probably would have liked it better as an instrumental album because the other musicians are good, but it all just feels mediocre with the vocals. - Sigh, three of their albums on this list.
I get that loads of people love sabbath and lots of artists I like quote them as being an influence but for whatever reason I literally couldn’t find anything more boring than listening to a full Sabbath album. That sort of early 70’s dad rock just doesn’t do a thing for me. 1.5
Doesn’t differentiate itself from generic rock imo. Not bad but not super memorable
Just not my thing, found it a bit cringey and melodramatic.
This wasn’t my favorite album. But you could hear the early proto-metal that was there. It’s decent. It’s heavy. It’s just playing. I guess I’m glad I heard it but it was not that great.
you just created a million annoying kids at guitar centers
This didn’t do much for me sadly Playlist add: "Maybe I'm a Leo"
Not really for me
It’s the Smoke On The Water album. That’s really all it has to offer.
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It has Smoke on the Water, but otherwise is just ok. Not really my kind of Hard Rock.
Another classic. I only knew "smoke on the water". The sound feels old but it's consistwnt. Not my genre
meh. opening track was really cool. never before was decent. smoke on the water is overrated. didn't enjoy much about this one
Fine, there are better rock bands from the time. Smoke on the water and highway star are both bangers though.
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
In my early teens, I thought Deep Purple was the greatest band in the world. Listening now, the songs are familiar, and thereby somewhat comfortable, but I’m not exhilarated. I'd say Deep Purple were significant, maybe trailblazers of heavy rock, but they're not a band I'd play now for pleasure, more an object for study. Smoke On The Water in particular unlistenable (so plodding); I was looking forward to the chorus of Space Truckin', but the song is not fun enough to play the whole thing... Overall, there’s not much that’s good, and there are tedious bits, I am slightly surprised to say Not Good, 4/10.
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.
Oh joy, more Country/Blues/Rock Made by Hairy White Men in the Seventies. Not my thing. Like Led Zeppelin, it suffers for me from being the kind of music that I imagine Jeremy Clarkson would like. Macho, showy, dull. I did like the bluesy keyboards and harmonica though, and at least not all of the songs were about fast cars and being a sex pest.
Very strong start with "Highway Star" but fell apart after that for me. It's not proggy enough to be prog and not rowdy enough to be rock, placing it in this shitty in-between space.
Knew 'Highway Star' and of course 'Smoke On The Water'. Thought the solos went on to long and the keyboard solo was shite in the former. The latter actually felt a bit lacklustre to me, and I always get it confused with 'Sunshine Of Your Love' by Cream, which I think has better (beefier) sounding guitars. 'Space Truckin'' had echoes of what early Metallica would come to sound like, which I enjoyed. I guess I really don't like blues-y rock (or at least the albums suggested to me so far).
Nothing crazy special.
6/10-Mike 5/10- Josie Blind man song good
6/10 - In Rock goes harder Fav Tracks: Smoke on the Water Heard before? ---–- ❌ Saved a Song? ----- ❌ Saved Album? --–-- ❌ Will Listen Again? -- ❌ Album Cover -------meh
one decent song saved this from an easy 1
2.5
The crime of dad rock, you can call the lyrics trash and the songs samey but at least they knew their way around the electric.
Sure there are hits. Some are bordering and/or are iconic but my god they take themselves so serious that when you sit down and listen to an entire album it is more Spinal Tap than classic.
I just don’t dig hardly any 70’s British rock.
Not offended by this album or anything but wouldn’t listen to it again
Just not going to play this again at home tbh
Album started off promisingly then sounded a bit dated. Smoke on Water best track and enjoyed Space Trucking.
better than the other one
It’s a no from me. This band did make me appreciate black sabbath more.
Holy shit this is boring. Sterile production. Decidedly unthrilling guitar solos. Silly lyrics. No teeth. Seventies rock and roll is an abomination. This is why we needed the Ramones to happen.
Think the live one was half decent but this wasn’t
Some nice riffs in there but the song names were better than the songs themselves
not my kind of music to fast and bassey
Rock clásico álbum variado divertido
Other than smoke on the water not really a fan! Although I do think in the right mood /setting I would have preferred this
Every song sounds basically the same, but I don't hate that if im being honest. I feel like I have nthing to say about a metal/hard rock albulm that wont sound like a young person compalining but I think this sounds Fine ( not just fine the capped F adds something)
The tunes are good, some tasty riffs, but it just isn't heavy. The guitar tone is too clean, and the keyboards, although prodigiously played, suck the edge from the songs.
Nah, not a great one either. Very bluesy classic rock, and I wasn’t really into it. Felt dated somehow.
boring as hell, but it's okay
Vocals are the weakness here, just can't compare to contemporaries Robert Plant or Ozzie Osbourne. Also, the songwriting, especially the lyrics. The riffs must be acknowledged as monumental, but I think 80s hairmetal ruined 70s Deep Purple for me. It's good, but I can't get into it. 1001 is a long list, so I wouldn't say it doesn't belong here, it's definitely a historic, genre-defining album, but I don't really dig that part of music history. 2.5/5, but rounding up.
Not memorable, didn't feel like anything new, but most of this genre is not usually my personal preference.
pleasant
Solamente conoci una canción de este álbum. Pero, no está tan mal, mi puntaje es 6/10.
I was not caring about this at all then I got to ‘when a blind man cries’ and really enjoyed that? But that song + smoke on the water, I don’t think that adds up to an important album so still a low rating from me I’m afraid.
Its loud but a bit moronic. Smoke on the water aside (and thats played out) this is one for rock enthusiasts only.
Not a die hard fan of heavy metal/hard rock, but will still rock out!!
Highway Star and Smoke on the Water were the only songs i was familiar with before listening to this album. Interesting album but not one I’d go back and listen to. I did go back and listen to HA and SOTW.
It's alright, not really my style. It's good I just don't resonate with it
Yikes! Horrid has a name and that name is Deep Purple. 1 great song does not a classic make. Please, remove this from this list. I'll give it 2 stars for Smoke On The Water. But that's it The rest of the album sux donkey dix. 2 begrudging stars
Kinda yelly not my favorite
Ok with classic rock appeal. It felt repetitive.
1 good song, maybe worth revisiting
Machine Head keeps the motor running throughout the album. Some good battles between the keys and chords. Got that hair metal, stadium rock sound and they improved from In Rock. Deep Purple certainly accomplished the goal of bringing that live show feel. The record has their biggest hit and I like the backstory on its influence. Pretty fitting that Zappa burnt down their original studio choice. Not too bad at 2.42 stars.
Back in July 2025 I listened to Deep Purple in Rock. I gave it one star, comparing the album to Spinal Tap. I guess I should have realized at the time that this album would also be on the list, and now I got it at album 301. I'm going to be a bit kinder to this record, for two reasons. The first is that Smoke on the Water was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar. Such a simple riff, but it felt good to play something that sounded like a real song. While I don't really care for the actual tune, it holds a place in my heart. The second reason is that this was a band that at least let everyone have their solo-guitar, keyboards, drums, and yes bass too. I suppose that's worth something. I didn't enjoy any of this, and the few songs that I knew from classic rock radio have never been ones I liked. But at least I have those two reasons not to give it a one star rating.
Didn’t we do this already? Or was it live? Pretty redundant either way.
Gods of rock they may be, but it's not really for me.
The Instrumentation especially the electric guitar was incredible. They don’t make albums if this musical quality anymore. The lyrics were depressing and rock isn’t my taste
Prom 2.5. Kinda boring blues rock. I used to hate Smoke on the Water because it felt overplayed, but it is definitely the highlight of the album.
I am decidedly not the audience for this album. Smoke on the water, though!
This album gets off to a strong start with Highway Star. The rest of the album is a bit of a let down for me. Favorite songs: Highway Star
3 stars for Lazy, 2 stars for SOTW , minus 3 stars for the rest: bilge - mediocre and uninventive
2.5
The Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars of Hard Rock. Nothing impressive, except for Highway Star and the beginning of Lazy, which turns boring pretty early. Like, those guys needed to straight their ideas, are you playung space rock, progressive, boogie rock or blues? Could be a nice mix, but i think they were just lazy and high
Having already been a fan of Highway Star I was excited to listen to the rest of the album. It didn’t deliver. Deep Purple is good if you wanted to listen to a much worse Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Cream.
Not my bailiwick. My dad liked Deep Purple. It never did much for me. 2/5
gäsp
Middle of the road dad-flavored buttrock that has some good riffs now and then, but very little of it is interesting to me in any way. I know that I'd heard this album before and it left just as little of an impression on me this time around as it did when I first heard it. I have no idea what it is about this album that makes it so essential to listen to.
uuurgh not for me at all sorry
People complain about 3 dexy's albums, but they should be complaining about 3+ bloody deep purple albums. This was maybe not as bad as the other 2 I have listened to it, but I was glad for it to be over. 2.5 stars
sorry i am so behind i don't remember this one at all. it was like generic dad rock right. i dread these kinds of albums. i don't care for dad rock at all
when a blind man cries is probably the best track on this album but the rest of this is boringggggggg Would I listen again: No Deserves to be on this list: No 2.1
oh how i hate classic rock
Makes me want to make a montage.
Meh, listenable but I wouldn’t queue it up
I dont really get Deep Purple
Smoke on the water was good. Otherwise boring.
Not bad but I can see why Smoke on the Water is the stand out song.
Lidt for rocket må jeg sige, men kender smoke on the water Wuhu
Overrated
Boring!!!
I can smell the Coors Banquet and Marlboro Reds from this album.
Ikke noe for meg
2 Boomer dad final boss. "Gillende gitaren/ Ghost Rockers/ Vingers op de toetsen, razendsnel/ Duimen op de snaren/ Ghost Rockers/ Drumgeluiden rechtstreeks uit de hel"
хз мне не нравится такое
Дата прослушивания: 09.01.2026 Приблизительное время: 18:00-20:00 Первый альбом, который я прослушал. Сперва слушал целенаправленно, но после того, как понял, что это не мое начал слушать фоново. Ни одна песня из альбома мне не понравилась. Просто не мое. Подобная музыка мне особо никогда не нравилась. Также это первый альбом, который я послушал на своих новых Magnat Monitor Reference 3A)