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Hated it
I was a fan of Deep Purple in Rock when I got it a bit ago, not as much of a fan of this. The ballad-y songs are pretty good, but the songs that are supposed to have drive feel sluggish.
This album somehow combined every bit of music I absolutely love. Absolutely beautiful.
Deep Purple is Deep Purple. Decent music, but I don't think this does anything that their other albums don't also. Take your pick, but I don't think this list needed more than one of their albums.
Kinda ripped for some songs
great
nice
That smoke song had a cool guitar part- I think I heard it in a guitar center once. It's OK - not sure why i liked this less than Deep Purple in Rock but feels like it traded MC5 for Floyd?
Really strong. Only a couple dull moments.
09/11 Classic album
Such a great album. With the iconic Smoke on the Water and has one of my favorite songs that is a majority instrumental with Lazy.
The first half is really bland. Smoke on the water and the two song that followed were good.
At first it felt pretty average for a deep purple album, but then towards the end it really hits home. I had to go back and listen again, immediately. The last song is a 4, the rest as said. Pretty average.
What good fun. More than 4 stars but not quite 5.
Some towering riffs (and not just the obvious one) countered by an aged Maybe I’m a Leo and the cornball Space Truckin’
Enjoyable, and hey I even recognized a song or two. I won’t give this a relisten on my own though. 3.5 / 5
En tykänny. Tuntuu, että tästä musiikista puuttui jokin särö. Jokin epätäydellisyys, joka tekee siitä uniikkia. Kaikki kuulosti liian huolitetulta, nätiltä ja taidokkaalta. Haluan virheitä ja rätinää, sellaista oikeaa elämää. Smoke on the Wateriin asti tympi, ja sit kuulosti et nyt levy alkaa. Paitsi että just sillon se loppu. Iso haukotus ja krooh mimimimi.
Ihan jeppis! Alko bängäävästi mutta töissä meni kyllä taustamusiikiksi. Tän jälkeen alko automaattisesti soida The Who joka bängää isosti niin ihan hyvä vertailukohta. Pidin tästä. En kiljunut riemusta. Mutta tää on ehottomasti mun lapsuuden levyjä, tätä on vinyylillä meillä kuunneltu.
Mulla ja Ian Gillanilla on sama syntymäpäivä, eli sanosin että Maybe I’m a Leo kertoo musta :-)
Rok rok! Mitenhän tätäkään ei oo ikuna tullut kuunneltua sen enempää? Kansi ei kyllä puhutellut tai kutsunut tarttumaan, mutta sisältö oikein toimivaa paahtoa.
Jee, tykkäsin tästä! Rullasi mukavasti eteenpäin ja vei mukanaan. Selkeä kokonaisuus, solid af.
Solo por Smoke on the water (a recordar la historia del incendio en el Casino de Montreux ) ya merece estar en cualquier listado. Pero es que Highway Star está a la misma altura. Apenas media hora les bastan para sentar cátedra. Maybe I'm A Leo a ritmo de blues trotón. Pictures Of Home , más convencional pero con esa guitarra que engancha a cualquiera. Never Before es la más tarareable del disco. Lazy es una experiencia instrumental con esos teclados (Lord) y ese ritmo saltarín de Blackmore, que incluye hasta armónica. Cierre legendario con Space Truckin´. Junto con Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep y Black Sabbath, los pioneros del Rock Duro. Y aún les quedaba Made in Japan (1972).
cool album.
This is so sick. Good humour
Really really great
Nothing mindblowing but the tracks are pretty fun.
Na not really great. Better than Van Halen though.
Due album dei Deep Purple di fila! Credo di avere ascoltato il miglior live e il miglior album in studio della band. Sono l'essenza dell'adrenalina rock anni '70 e i miei preferiti del genere dopo i Led Zeppelin. Non si può non scuotere la testa mentre si ascoltano i Deep Purple.
Far exceeded expectations. Varied and engaging all the way through
Rievocano tanti ricordi Album bellissimo
ICONICO
Love a 70s rock album, their hits on this one are okay. Each song almost sounds the same, which can get boring pretty quickly. A little TOO classic wrong for my taste, but I can see how much of a staple this album must be in rock history.
Вот и моё знакомство с Deep Purple. Насколько понимаю, это альбом с кучей песен, в последствии ставших хитами (те же Highway star и Smoke on the water). По жанру это вроде как хард-рок, но... Он какой-то не хард. Скорее хлебный мякиш - очень неплохо, но мягковато. Те же Led Zeppelin звучали куда жёстче, да ещё и на 2 года раньше. У певца высокий и слегка глуховатый голос, я себе совсем не так представлял Deep Purple. Но хочу отметить интересные соло, которые, вероятно, повлияли и на Lynyrd Skynyrd, очень похоже + ещё клавишник тоже играет в похожем стиле. Отмечу неплохой бас и классного, хоть и слегка предсказуемого барабанщика. Честно говоря, не особо впечатлило, но вторая часть альбома хороша (особенно space truckin и when a blind Man cries) (8/10)
No está mal el disco, me gustaron bastantate Highway Star y la clásica Smoke on the Water, las demás... Mehh..
Not bad, some songs I recognised that I had no idea were by Deep Purple This'll do
Great classic rock album. Super cool guitar, drum, bass, and keyboard parts all around.
Great classic rock album.
2026.08.31.
Wow
It was good, a few notable songs here, but a couple there weren’t as memorable.
quanto mais eu conheço essas bandas antigas de rock mais vejo o quanto esse gênero de encanta de vdd
uma das primeiras bandas que tomei conhecimento quando eu descobri que rock era rock. e, realmente, soa pra mim como um rock soaria. além das mais famosas que eu já conhecia, um destaque é pictures of home
6.5/10 - A lot happening here. Early on, I see the vision. It feels like an expansion of Sabbath’s early foundational work for the metal genre. These guys are hitting on a lot of what will become future metal, the big exception being the lack of down tuning and distortion. They do this well for 1/2 to 2/3 of the album. The latter parts feel very Prog inspired and I didn’t enjoy that as much. The lyrics aren’t great in my mind but Smoke on the Water tells a good story. Over all pretty middle 3.
A bit of a mash between early metal and dad rock that just doesn't interest me. 4/10
This is 3.5 really. Fun to revisit my dad's music that I loved when I was 16. I really liked two songs I wasn't familiar with at all. I would've loved this in high school definitely. It's good, just not really for me anymore
ok. not a fan.
i don’t really like rock
Banger, this band knows how to write a riff. Smoke on the Water is one of the most iconic riffs of all time, but this album is full of incredible riffs. The arrangement are still original to this day.
Highway Star is one of the best lead tracks of any hard rock album. Following with Maybe I’m a Leo, with a deep and funky groove to it, is a great one two punch. Smoke on the Water suffers from being overplayed and so often emulated, but it’s a good cut. Lazy is a favorite and Space Trucker rips. Blind Man is sappy, whiny closer - too drippy for my liking.
I enjoyed it. Highway Star rips. The last track was really good too.
really consistently dope rock. maybe no mindblowers but definitely no skips. i didn't realize Smoke on the Water was actually a real song. favorite is Highway Star or Space Truckin'. solid 4
Rating: 8/10 Turns out I think that Deep Purple was a fucking great band, at least from these albums of them at their peak, and makes me interested in checking out some of their other stuff. Their brand of high energy anthemic hard rock is very straightforward but hard not to love as a rocking out jam sesh. A side and B side are both pretty equally strong, but my favorite might be Pictures of Home. The song kept getting better as the progression builds and the riffs were cool as hell.
Up my alley more, so I was already inclined to rate higher. I like the production and vocals better. Doesn't overstay it's welcome, not much slowing down by the band across the 7 tracks.
Si me gusto
Not my personal preference, but I can see how their music was cutting edge and influential of rock musicians who followed, so I'm giving this a 4 rather than a 3.
This album would be perfect for waking up during a roadtrip
lots of classics in this, but still dad rock. 3* Highlights: smoke on the water (classic riff), highway star
This is really a great album from Deep Purple's classic/peak era and line up. Opening with "Highway Star" which features an unbelievable keys solo from Jon Lord. We also have the hugely overplayed/overheard "Smoke on the Water" which still holds up despite its status as the most played rock guitar riff in history. You've gotta give props to Ritchie Blackmore - not only is he a phenomenal player anyway but to pen such an iconic riff the whole world has heard is something else. "Lazy" is one of my favourite tracks, almost all instrumental and I never want it to end. This album has all the tools that make Deep Purple great and is another staple in British metal/hard rock history.
I was in 2 miles of stop-and-go traffic on I-93 for the majority of this album, which was both deeply ironic and gave me enough time to reflect on 2.5 things: 0.5) My first favorite CD was my mother’s copy of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water & Other Hits” and while my personal favorite track (Stormbringer) isn’t on this album the nostalgic appreciation is still here and automatically makes this a 4-star listen. 1) This album earns its spot on this list as a representative example of early 70s hard rock/proto-metal with some memorable tracks and surprisingly proggy guitar work on Lazy and Space Trucker in particular. 2) My righteous indignation over this list’s inclusion of “Live in Japan” was reignited because in addition to the significantly overlapping track lists (and the same release year!), Machine Head is a more cohesive album and I frankly prefer the studio versions of these tracks. I’m going to preserve my original score of 2 stars because Deep Purple did establish my heavy music roots at the age of 6 and I don’t outright hate the live versions, but I am seriously tempted to go back and edit it to 1 star on principle.
it was meh , basic ass rock
Nice gent switch up. Love hearing the roots of metal
We zijn er weer hoor WMvMLmuziek! Classicrock album, lekker voor als je op de motor aan het toeren bent. Maar voor als je net wakker bent, een puzzeltje zit te maken met een goeie kop koffie…. Niet helemaal het moment van de dag. Verder vond ik dit niet een mega bijzonder album.
Deep purple verrast mij toch elke keer. Dit is nu het derde album die ik luister uit de lijst en elke keer keek ik er tegen op. Nu ook weer bij Machine Head vind ik het toch wel weer heel leuk. Ik moet echt mijn mening over deep purple bijstellen en zeggen dat ik het echt wel heel leuk en goed vind. Dat maakt het luisteren van deze lijst toch ook wel heel leuk.
Yes, we hebben ze alle drie gehad. Niet tot nieuwe inzichten gekomen. Om de vorige reviews samen te vatten: Technisch goed maar niet zo veel inhoud.
Ik heb het even gecheckt, de drie Deep Purple albums uit de lijst hebben we nu gehad en ik vind het helemaal prima, ik was namelijk ook wel verzadigd. Prima rockplaat, moet wel gezegd worden dat ik Smoke on the Water toch een beetje overrated vind, oké de gitaarriff is wel iconisch maar zo leuk vind ik het nummer verder ook niet. Het was leuk kennis gemaakt te hebben met Deep Purple, bedankt en tot ziens.
This suffered on its rating because I was served back to back Deep Purple albums. Only can do so much Smoke On The Water
My appreciation for Deep Purple continues to grow.
Great album with high energy. Just a pumping machine which seems to never stop, but stays interesting. Feels like listening to this would fix my car if it were misfiring.
Highway Star & Lazy are highlights, otherwise dull lyricism and lazy machismo overshadow strong musicianship.
Takes me back to 2004/5 PMT days where every guitarist learnt that dreaded part. Good solid Dad rock album though this.
I’ve honestly never listened to this record, much to my own chagrin. And I grew up listening to hard rock and metal. Well, better late than never, although I’m not sure I would have appreciated it in high school as much as I do now. It’s pretty rock solid. I’ll be revisiting. 8/10
4.2
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.
Muy bueno con muchos clásicos y uno de los precursores del metal
Really talented guys making songs I mostly didn’t care about. First and last tracks were the big standouts.
I don’t even really care for smoke on the water, it’s just the first song you learn on guitar.
It’s Deep Purple!
5/5
Highway Star is ridiculously good but the rest was kind of forgettable.
A classic. Heard it before a couple of times cuz my father would play it once in a while. Though definitely has aged somewhat, it still is a fun and energetic listen and probably top 3 best dad rock album of all time
6/10
Great album as I expected. Richie Blackmore's guitar is too iconic and very underrated vocals throughout the album as well.
6.5
It's a good album, not a great one. The best tracks are excellent but there are also some very mediocre offerings on here. The reissue does benefit from the addition of When A Blind Man Cries.
Of course I was already familiar with the main guitar riff on "Smoke on the Water". Everybody has this pop up in their head randomly from time to time, right? Otherwise, this is basically classic rock music. I heard this kind of music a lot growing up, so it's there and I think it's okay. I prefer a different style of rock music, though.
I think this was first time listening to the album even though several songs were very familiar. They used to have Highway Star as one of the bonus songs for Guitar Hero on Xbox. I had PlayStation so remember playing it for the first time with Cousin Kyle. Great jam and love the double guitar solos.
Quite a glam sound despite being pre glam. A few nice riffs throughout the album. Solid listen.
Buen album, pero esperaba mas por lo conocido que es. No mucho para decir ayer gano river al fin hdp
Perfection! Probably the greatest hard rock album of all time. Every single song is a classic with some being synonymous with Deep Purple. Imagine buying this album and putting the needle on it when it came out... 5/5, if there ever was one
Hard rock and early heavy metal built from roaring organ, distorted guitar, pounding drums, and forceful vocals feels like sitting in the engine room of a ship while the crew keeps demonstrating how powerful the machinery is. It's perfectly competent and has plenty of energy, but for me it never turns that energy into genuine excitement. The heavy riffs and impressive musicianship are more noticeable than compelling, leaving me with an album I found okaish but simply not very engaging.
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.
он даже довольно приятно поёт, но я не люблю вот это тяжёлое упивание гитарами…
hyvää musaa!
uhhh.. not my thing at all. I can recognize that the craftsmanship is great but I never felt the heaviness in the sound as I do with other hard rock bands like Zepplin & Stooges. I think my biggest problem was the vocals and the production, both were underdeveloped and kinda annoying. Highway Star is a pretty good song but everything else went in one ear and out the other. sorry!
Deserves its place on the list
Steve Earle’s Guitar Town on steroids
0 3 5 reference 🤣
It's just very average rock to me. The two big hits are massively overrated, in my opinion, and the deep cuts are nothing special. I don't even think I have anything else to say about it because it was pretty standard and generic.
Come on! Ain't nothing wrong with solid competent rock. Why does everything need to have a message. Don't know why I keep reading the cooler-than-thou reviews. Enjoyable af, occasionally drifting close to diddlery but then powers through.
- 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.
Machine Head may serve as the golden standard for heavy metal albums. Apart from Smoke on the Water, a legendary song by itself, it offers several masterieces while remaining a really short record. I would argue that Lazy is the single best song, its first few minutes precluding the singing are sublime. And that is pretty much how the whole album appears to tge listener: virtuosic drums, guitars and other instruments with immensely solid vocals as well. Highway Star, for instance, has such a wonderfully creative composition that it is so worth giving additional listens to. I can easily see this album being top 20 in all of the 1001 list (it's the 89th for me). Deep Purple show eith this album that they are indeed wonderful musucians deserving all the fame they indeed gained.
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
I recognise that this is seen as a vital influential album, but its a mixed bag for me. I quite like Highway Star and Space Truckin, but I hate that Hammond Organ sound that crops up frequently and is so overbearing.
4,5
A great big dumb rock and roll album. The riffs and musicianship is as amazing as the lyrics are stupid. Still....this is just so much fun. One of the best and biggest early heavy metal influencing albums. Highway star is an all time great album opener.
GREATTT ALBUMMM WHEWW GOOD STUFF
Not my favorite album for sure. Smoke Under Water was all that I actually enjoyed. Very dated rock and roll.
i liked the fuzz and distortion of the guitars and the way you can see heavy metal's nascent forms in it.
Very few bands not named Black Sabbath went this hard in 1972. Some tracks here hit more than others, but this is certainly a pretty foundational entry in the early annals of what we'd now call proto-metal, and its influence is pretty undeniable. I actually think the best part of this album, musically speaking, is the keyboards - hearing the B3 cranked up and run through a mountain of distortion is pretty great. Also contains one of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time. No reason to be stingy with the rating here and plenty to like.
Listening to this album was interesting after listening to so much Metallica and similar artists. The influence of Deep Purple is clear. This album felt like another iteration of the genre and it didn't stand out to me at first, honestly. However, I found it enjoyable and I appreciate the significance of this album.
Fire In The Sky 1001 Albums Generator 324 (8/10/2026) An all time classic of early heavy metal. The strong songs are some of the best ever, but there is some filler in the middle of the track list. 4/5. Favs: Highway Star Smoke On The Water Space Truckin' Least Fav: Never Before
Highway Star, Smoke on the Water and Soace Trucking, what’s not to love
Doesn’t differentiate itself from generic rock imo. Not bad but not super memorable
Really enjoyed this one. Only previously had heard Smoke On the Water
I didn't listen to this for ages because I didn't want to, and as suspected I didn't enjoy this. This style is just not my thing. I don't find it enjoyable, just jarring in most cases. It was good knowledge for the pub quiz though
Just not my thing, found it a bit cringey and melodramatic.
didn't impress me tooo much, but it was still nice, enjoyed the hammond organ
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.
Fire
Great
Absolute classic
This is rock and roll music - very cool for some, not for all. It’s good. Better than other rock albums from the same era in my opinion
In my 4th grade orchestra class i played smoke on the water on my cello because i vaguely knew where the notes were at. I was super cool for an afternoon.
Not as good as Deep Purple In Rock. But this album is still a damn good album! Too bad "Space Truckin'" isn't that long on this album as on their live albums. 4/5
Highway Star might be the best opener of all time. Snoke on the Water has the most famous riff of all time. Space Truckin plows down everything in its way. In my opinion, the only song not holding a very high standard is Never Before. Great hard rock, more than great musicians and vocals
Fantastic fantastic fantastic. Was absolutely shocked with how amazing this was. I only really knew deep purple for smoke on the water and highway star but this was truly a no skip album. Favorite song: Highway Star Least Favorite (but still liked): Space Truckin’
There were a few songs I recognized from all over. A lot of the music felt very samey. And blended pretty easily into the background. Good. But nothing attention grabbing.
I am slightly familiar with Deep Purple. I currently have 4 songs liked by them with 2 on this album - "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water" - which I believe were the radio hits at the time. I was digging this the whole way through. Twas a fun listen. The song Lazy reminded me a lot of early ZZ Top - in a good way. Kinda had that choogling southern boogie blues thing going. At first I thought it was an instrumental since it was several minutes of just music. This is just the right length for this kind of album - 7 songs for 37 minutes. No filler. Now I have a new "perfect album" in my collection! I would call this hard rock, not heavy metal. It's so much better than the stuff that gets lumped into the heavy metal category. Good job Deep Purple! Liked songs on Spotify: 7/7 (perfect album) Rating: 5/5
What a blast from the past. I seem to remember Highway Star being on Rock and Roll Racing a absolute gem of a game on the Super Nintendo.
I actually liked that a lot more than I expected to. Could do with a little less wailing, but it's got its place sometimes
74
Dad rock at its finest, you can see why this is their most successful album. It’s satisfying rock done their way, like no other band. Smoke on the water is enough to give this album a 5/5, but this album is consistently great. Had fun listening to it
⭐⭐⭐⭐- Vet att detta anses vara en klassiker och av många anses vare Deep purples bästa album men tycker nog det är lite överskattat. Det är inte dåligt men tycker helt enkelt inte det är ett så fantastiskt album som man ibland matas med. Dessutom är texterna ganska mycket nonsens. Men det går inte komma ifrån att det är röjigt och framföralllt orgeln är fet. Kommer inte slänga mig över albumet i framtiden men en 4a förtjänar albummet så det blir en svag 4a. Bäst är Highway star, Lazy, Space truckin', When a blind man cries
you just created a million annoying kids at guitar centers
еее рок
Not the biggest fan but decent
I came to this expecting the usual historical obligation: one of the records that helped codify heavy rock, enormously influential, probably rather heavier and more ponderous than anything I would choose to hear for pleasure. Instead, it swings. That was the first surprise, and it remained the central one. Deep Purple are much lighter on their feet than their reputation had allowed me to imagine. Highway Star does not lumber towards you in iron boots; it tears off with a lovely bass opening, Bach-influenced runs from guitar and Hammond, and the forward momentum of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal before that was a thing. It is closer in spirit to Silver Machine than to the oppressive gravity of Black Sabbath. Maybe I’m a Leo then lopes along with Ian Paice applying exactly the right amount of swing. It does not chug. Had it been Southern rock, it might have cheugled, but this has a slightly stranger gait. Paice seems to understand immediately what every song needs in order to move. I already knew how well he drove McCartney’s Run Devil Run, but here he is the man preventing Deep Purple from becoming the leaden band I had expected. Pictures of Home manages to contain a terrific drum opening, mystical mountains-and-crows lyrics, guitar, Hammond and a genuinely astounding bass solo, all within five minutes. Deep Purple have most of the raw materials of progressive rock—classical influence, conspicuous virtuosity, tempo changes, extended instrumental passages—but they compress them into economical songs. Prog compressed. The songs do what they came to do and then get out of the way. That economy matters because these musicians could clearly have spent twenty minutes demonstrating how clever they were. Jon Lord alone has enough ideas to sustain a lesser band. His distorted Hammond is the secret weapon of the album: not background colour, not a substitute rhythm guitar, but a second lead instrument that can swell, smear, roar and alter its identity in ways a guitar cannot. On Lazy he spends the enormous introduction trying on many costumes rather than merely putting on a cape, moving through jazz, blues, church and R&B before the band settles into another hard-rock groove. Never Before simply struts. It has enough R&B drive that a good bar band could dress it slightly differently and make it absolutely slap. That became another useful way of hearing the album. Beneath the canonical status and Marshall stacks is the instinct of a working band that understands rooms, sets and audiences. Lazy is the sort of number that could take however much time remained before “Time, gentlemen, please”: shorten the instrumental passages if the set has overrun, or let everyone have another chorus if you have ten minutes to fill. It is modular, flexible and plainly tremendous fun to play. Then there is Smoke on the Water, a riff so ubiquitous that they teach it to first-year secondary pupils at Montrose Academy, producing generations of twelve-year-olds who come home disconsolate because thirty beginners playing it together sounds nothing like the record. What survived that familiarity for me was the lyric. It is astonishingly documentary. They arrived in Montreux to record an album, some pillock in Frank Zappa’s audience fired a flare gun, the casino burned down and the entire plan became an absolute balls-ache. Later heavy metal might have filled the scene with flames, screaming crowds and infernal symbolism. Deep Purple merely report what happened. The event itself—turning up to make a hard-rock album and discovering that someone has burned down your venue—is already one of the most heavy-metal things imaginable. It needs no embellishment. Space Truckin’ finally reveals the branch that leads to Bad News and This Is Spinal Tap, not because Deep Purple are bad or unaware, but because the idea is magnificently ridiculous and delivered with total conviction. It sounds like something conceived through clouds of herbal smoke and giggles: ordinary haulage, but through the Solar System. The Expanse if James Holden were a comedy character, Alex Kamal came in hot while blasting Deep Purple instead of dreadful Martian country, Amos shouted “YEAH!”, and Naomi Nagata spent every episode trying to make the men behave sensibly. Somewhere between the compressed intensity of the Canterbury disaster and the complete lunacy of Red Dwarf, there is a rollicking blue-collar space series soundtracked by this song. Machine Head sounds less like the birth of heavy metal than an outrageously accomplished R&B band discovering how loud it can become without losing its groove. Every song has a gait: it hurtles, lopes, struts and swings. The virtuosity serves the songs, the songs remain usable, and the band sounds as though playing them is the most enjoyable job imaginable. I can absolutely understand some grebo in Northampton taking this home, hearing the riffs, the musicianship, the mystical imagery and the girls gathering around the band, and deciding that this was precisely the life for him. Far too much fun for a Wednesday morning.
Kinda corny, very 70s sounding. Guitar solo on literally every single song (sometimes multiple solos) which just felt unnecessary. Some of the solo's were very good though (highway star). The actual songs outside of the solo's were mostly good, but nothing amazing. And again very corny lyrics from a modern perspective. like a 7/10 probably,
very good album was not expecting to like it this much as have never really listened to deep purple but found a new band that I quite like
It's pretty standard rock music. Definitely not bad, but a bit repetitive and not intriguing. Give it some extra credit for being old, but if it came out today, it wouldn't be too interesting. I like rock music, so probably overrating the album tbh.
sol gudmen
Great album, classic songs! Smokebon the water! Boom!
this record is freaking nuts! funky, freaky, with a little metal and prog thrown in. bombastic and warm hearted. never would have listened to it if not for this site. thank you!
Not bad, but feels a bit played out.
Hell yeah.
Oh nice, I love Machine Head! Oh, wait. It's the Deep Purple album? Not the band? Oh nice, I love Machine Head! Deep Purple deserve their star in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame for Smoke On The Water alone - which must be one of if not the most-learned riff on guitar in modern history - and the album surrounding their iconic single continues to impress. Coming in at only seven great tracks means each gets a chance to shine, and shine they do. Lots of machismo oozing from that good hard rock sound. It shines amongst the others of its generation upon re-examination over a half-century later (as continued plumbing of this list has very thoroughly attested), and it still rocks. The songwriting isn't particularly anything special, admittedly, but the overdriven sound is terrific. Also, Lazy absolutely knocked my socks off the whole way through. Nearly seven and a half minutes of real fucking rock music. Fav tracks: Highway Star, Pictures of Home, Smoke On The Water, Lazy
67/100
Another classic..... Eternal !!!
Best Deep Purple album ever?... Maybe.... My personal preference is for In Rock, but both represent the band at their creative best and this MH has some real classics. Side 2 is especially good. I've got the 25th anniversary edition to listen to today, 2 different mixes of the album and a couple of bonus tracks. I can't really tell the difference between the two mixes but the album always bears repeating so I'm happy.
Some classics
Happy to have listened I guess 🤷🏼♂️
Not my type of music, but good
Great to hear real rock, and this was better than I expected.
This didn’t do much for me sadly Playlist add: "Maybe I'm a Leo"
Easily my favorite album of early 70s heavy metal, and probably in my top 10 albums of all time due to how influential this album/band in general have been to me. I guess if I still had to find a point of critique it would be some of Ian Gillan's lyricism? Either way every song on here rules, and "Highway Star" is definitely in the running for my favorite heavy metal song; the organ and guitar solos on it rewired something in my brain the first time I heard them and Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord have been idols for me ever since. 10/10, just all around great bluesy, hard rock/early heavy metal.
8.5/10
3.0/5 - gets old pretty fast.
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Never got round to Deep Purple, and this record says why: dated on landing, fluffy-hair baroque, naff, cheesy, blues-rock tropes thrown together with the occasional blinding riff, every moment rocks. Hipster affectations of youth shed, I can enjoy this without constantly glancing over my shoulder. Some luxurious tones here - second Simon’s comments about guitar and keys, dripping in distorted fun.
Requires no explanation, perfect if you're in the mood to rock out. You know the greats here. Lord and Blackmore together, man...
Great album, great musicians and great songs.
Half of this album is some of the greatest 70's hard rock created, the other half does not slap anywhere as much, but Highway Star, Space Trucking and Smoke on the Water - untouchable.
very solid rock album. more like a 3.5 but I give everything a 3 and this is better than that
This is all about Ritchie Blackmore's guitar and Ian Gillan's voice. The big tracks on this album are undeniable, but the deeper cuts are still pretty great, too. The electric organ is a little much at times. This isn't Zeppelin or Sabbath but it's still pretty damn good.
It delivered the face-melting metal of my youth. The riffs, the organ, the swagger… this is hard rock done right. I skipped one track when it wandered into jam-band territory (you know who you are), but the rest was loud, fun, and timeless.
Not really for me
Awesome album. 4.5
Lyrically it can get kind of cheesy. If anyone else wanted to tell me about this time they went to a Frank Zappa concert, I'd probably ignore them. But as a guitar and organ rock album, it’s a classic.
Surprisingly enjoyable! Pretty catchy, hard rock kinda stuff. It's not something I'm likely to put on myself, but I'd be happy listening to it if someone else spun it. 3.5 stars.
Very decent
I’m pretty excited for this album. I didn’t listen at work like I normally do so it’s a slightly more relaxing experience for a not so relaxing album. Highway star was a great introduction! It had some great guitar moments and I’ll begrudgingly say that it earned its 6 minutes. I don’t have much to say about Maybe Im a Leo, but it was a vibe the whole way through. Pictures of home was rather jaunty, which was a good thing. I liked how you could almost tell a story just from the music. Of course this album contains every guitar center employees worst nightmare. As I, myself have been guilty of playing this, I can’t make too much fun of it. Lazy was just some nice music. Honestly I think this is one of those that can just speak for itself. Space trucking was a good way to end things off. 4/5 ⭐️ 206/1089
no siinä oli kirkasta kiekumista ja menevää meininkiä saakeli
Day 347 Great album, bit embarrassed to admit as a 47 year old Englishman, it was only today I realised Deep Purple aren’t American. Highlights Smoke on the Water Space truckin When a blind man cries
Don't have much to say, just very good
I never thought of Deep Purple as early metal based on only knowing “Smoke on the Water,” but apparently so based on this album. Rather enjoyed it. Musically on point. Even Roger Glover went extra on the bass. Typical metal cheerful lyrics, “…unfriendliness chilling my body…”. It’s a 3.5 for me but I rounded up.
Childhood memories. "Smoke on the Water" is quintessential 1970s music.
Highway Star probably better as a song and as entertainment than Smoke on the Water, everything else... primitive rock 'n roll.
I'll admit it. This was the first time I ever listened to a Deep Purple record. And I really enjoyed it! Three classic tracks, Highway Star, Smoke on the Water, and Space Truckin. The other tracks are consistently strong. Really, not a weak or dull moment here. Lean and mean at 35 minutes, the way an album should be
Pre Listen: I think I've listened to this one before, but it's been a while. I can't name any tracks off the top of my head, and I know I don't have any Deep Purple songs on my playlist, but I just know I've listened to this before. Hopefully I just forgot about it overtime just from bad memory, and not because I disliked it! Notable Tracks: Highway Star - Never mind I do have a Deep Purple song on my playlist, and it's this one. I'm glad I forgot simply due to my poor memory, and not any other reason, cause this song's a bop. Smoke On The Water - Another banger I completely forgot was Deep Purple. I didn't have this one on my playlist, but I quickly remedied that. Post Listen: I've had so many albums in sequence that I've really loved this month, I feel as though I'm running out of ways to rephrase how and why I like them all. The guitar was the highlight on this album for me, very impressive work on it. The lyrics are ok throughout, as was every other instrument. Good jams all around. 4/5
It’s the Smoke On The Water album. That’s really all it has to offer.
Interestingly – this seems to be a precursor to hair metal that will come 10 years later
Helt ok album
HIGHWAY STAR #JOJOREFERENCE
Sometimes good music doesn't need to be complex. After listening to albums packed with dense lyrics and big philosophical themes, there's something refreshing about a record that just says, "Here's a killer riff—have fun," and what's more iconic than the most practiced beginner guitar riff of all time in "Smoke on the Water" Some people would probably call this boomer rock, but Machine Head reminds me why those albums became classics in the first place: heavy (for the time) riffs, a fantastic vocalist, memorable guitar work, and not a single song I'd skip. It may not push boundaries or reinvent rock music, but it doesn't really need to—it just does what it sets out to do extremely well. 3/5.
Don’t like
Brilliant album. Highway Star is one of the best album openers I've heard, an absolute banger. A lot of great songs and obviously the epic Smoke On The Water.
9 - EXCELLENT
Smoke in the Water is the reason I heard this nearly 20 years ago. At the time, I downloaded the whole album but only really enjoyed the single. After listening today I think I get why, though there's heavy metal magic spread throughout the album, it's got a star track that goes beyond the pull of the album. This is listenable because it's not mediocre anywhere, it just doesn't concentrate the magic frequently enough to grab my attention. They fix these things in the live performances, and the bands they influence can tell the good shit apart. I'd buy it because it's a cool addition to the collection, not because it's a record I need. 3.2/5
No skips album.
This is a classic I'm glad to finally be checking off my list! Aside from "Smoke On the Water," I was very unfamiliar with Deep Purple going into this album, and this definitely exceeded my expectations. There's a lot of complexity here, in tandem with the proto-metal badassness. It's crazy to hear how directly this influenced so much of the hard rock and heavy metal that followed. "Highway Star" is a clear favorite for me—such a classic, rock 'n' roll premise but with a proggy, cyclical structure that gives it so much weight. Really enjoyed overall, I'm excited to listen to more Deep Purple and see how this record compares to their catalog overall. Favs: Highway Star, Pictures of Home, Smoke on the Water, Lazy Least Fav: Never Before Score: 7
3.5. Classic. Bästa låt, pictures of home
Great rock album
Quintessential OG Deep Purple!!
its fine, i just have a vendetta against music like this. sick of it
It does feel a tad redundant after Made In Japan, but there's no denying it's a fine album.
Most people think of Smoke on the Water when this album comes up, but I think the true star of this album is Highway Star. Probably one of the best opener of an album in history. There is not much to say about this album that hasn't already been said. Its a classic, just banger after banger, there really isn't a bad song on it.
Very nice guitars and bass and stuff catchy but not anoying best song maybe I'm a leo worst song Smoke on the water
I think this band is often dismissed as a one hit wonder. As famous as "Smoke on the Water" is it was surprising that I thought it was the weakest song on the album - that's not to say it's bad - I just mean everything else was better. Standout tracks are "Lazy" and "Pictures of Home" - some amazing performances. "Space Truckin'" gets a shout out for just being cheesy fun. the performances of all the musicians here really make it stand out above other granddad rock. the album is full of guitar, bass, and organ riffs and solos. It's in this area "Smoke on the Water" is the weakest, It's easy to see why it's the first thing beginners learn, but it doesn't do justice to what else this band can actually do. The existence of the organ in a metal band does show how early this really is. Overall I thought it was a fun and energetic album. 4/5
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Highway Star is such a rock song. It really hits you in the face. Ok I think this was a good rock album tbh. Quite a turn up considering how much I hated the live album and even Deep Purple in Rock 3.9/5
not great but pretty good. lots of fun memories from this record
It has Smoke on the Water, but otherwise is just ok. Not really my kind of Hard Rock.
Gran álbum con grandes canciones
Deep Purple have never been my favorite hard rock band. They have their moments, but this album is mostly not my cup of tea. It comes across to me as so flashy when there's not a lot going on, and the production is just not good. I can forgive them for the constraints of a mobile studio, and touring schedule, but it's just not an album I find myself jonesing to listen to. I don't think it's a LAZY album, I just don't think they puts much effort as the could've into it. Not to say the whole thing is mid, Pictures of Home is particularly amazing, and there's moments scattered throughout that are pretty nice, but then there's songs like Smoke on the Water that are showy and acting all badass, when it's really just a dude playing a few strums and saying "that's good enough for a song :)" I just don't understand the hype for this album. Deep Purple have a lot better sounding albums than this that actually succeed in being flashy and at least somewhat badass
Really good licks on this album. Smoke on the water was actually really good despite it being memed to death. I really liked the way the songs passed solos to each instrument. I wouldn't rush to listen to it again, but I enjoyed my time with it.
This is a classic that I never listened to all the way through. 4/5
Another classic. I only knew "smoke on the water". The sound feels old but it's consistwnt. Not my genre
One of the most important albums in rock history in my opinion. Just how iconic smoke on the water is speaks volumes. A must listen for anyone that has anything to do with rock.
gitaar en smoke on the water 👍
Ouaiiiis mon premier album de deep purple. Je connais highway star et smoke on the water Pictures of home ! Lazy ! J’aime bien qu’ils aient un style hyper reconnaissable, essentiellement par le synthé C’est un album qui peut rentrer dans la catégorie des albums parfaits, il y a pas de son à skipper. Peut-être que les chansons ne se compliment et ne s’élèvent pas assez entre elles. Quand même, un des meilleurs albums de hard rock que j’ai écouté 8/10
Rock, gitarren Solos (sehr gut), roblox Tycoon, Never before Smoke on the water good intro Lazy alien goood almost no lyrics 7 min Space trucking heated When a blind man cries damn
It’s good, not Sabbath good, but it’s good. It’s all a little too worked out for my taste. I like things on the edge of chaos when it comes to harder rock music, and it’s just a little too worked clean.
I'm one track in ('Highway Star') and I already love it, especially the heavy, thick sound and the solos. It carried on in the same way and is one of the best albums that I've been recommended so far
A real childhood classic here. I think this material ended up being mostly improved on Made in Japan (at least what appears there), but come on, man: "Smoke on the Water" is a classic for a reason. "Highway Star", too.
Yeah it's good and everything, but i had their "Made in Japan" live album just yesterday, so I already experienced two hours worth of them. Kinda over it
Hahahaha dude I fuck with this so hard. I really only knew Smoke on the Water and I was like “okay this is gonna be cringe here we go.” And I was SO fucking wrong. This was the most epic meat and potatoes rock with the most delicious sizzle. Every band member was so locked in on this whole album. Nothing was terribly inventive here, but they managed to bring something fresh to every organ part, every guitar riff, every song structure. I was so impressed with this and am excited to return to it.
I had admittedly listened to All Hail West Texas by The Mountain Goats before this, so my lyrical standards were admittedly on another level. I really dog a lot of this, but in spots it just felt corny. I have heard a lot of my dad‘s friends call this one of their favorite records of all time. It’s just not there for me.
hell yeah. this would be a dangerous album to play while driving on the freeway. a sense of thrill and rush accompany all of these songs. I guess this would come down to sequencing, but I preferred the odd numbered tracks from start-to-finish. not saying the rest weren't any good, but the odd numbered songs are the ones that stood out to me the most. rockin good time tho. only really knew "Smoke on the Water" and "Highway Star" before listening to this, and I'm glad to have a chance to hear more of their stuff.
This was hovering between 3 and 4, but a jam about space truckin tipped it over the edge. There’s a lot of momentum in these songs, never really gets bogged down in the repetition.
classic
A very good earlyish hard rock album. 3.5/5.
meh. opening track was really cool. never before was decent. smoke on the water is overrated. didn't enjoy much about this one
Its prety cool maybe dindt aged the best but I liked it. The solo of "Higway star" is so good. 0-3-5-0-3-6-5/5
Funky, bluesy and I get why it's important but I don't think I need to hear smoke on the water ever again in my life
There are just so many classics packed onto this album, it's unreal. "Smoke on the Water" is obviously legendary, and it holds a special place for me since it was one of the first songs I ever learned to play on the guitar, like many others. For the most part, a lot of the tracks instantly scream signature Deep Purple, especially high-octane anthems like "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'" that push their classic hard rock sound to the absolute limit. What makes the record so interesting, though, is how they pull in other heavy influences of the era. "Maybe I'm a Leo" features these groovy Jimmy Page style riffs that feel right out of the Led Zeppelin playbook. Then, you immediately transition into "Pictures of Home," and the vibe completely shifts to something that sounds like it was lifted straight off an early Black Sabbath record with its dark energy. The interplay between Ritchie Blackmore’s blistering guitar solos and Jon Lord’s distorted organ work is just spectacular throughout. They managed to capture lightning in a bottle with the production here, keeping everything sounding raw, heavy, and completely ahead of its time. Favorite song: "Space Truckin'"
Gaap - echt wel prima hoor, maar waarom dit album zo'n ding is, zal ik nooit begrijpen
Geen idee waarom dit altijd in het rijtje met Black Sabbath en Led Zep wordt genoemd. Dit is echt aanzienlijk minder tof. Degelijke rockplaat verder.
This album really highlights how Deep Purple influenced all of the other rock bands at the time. Relentless and ripping solos, endless frenetic energy, and just being loud. Highway Star is a million times better than Smoke on the Water. There I said it.
Bien.
Great album and interesting story behind it
solid
it was okay, felt repetitive
JL : 3, Highway Star A : 3, Never Before (tho smoke on the water is a classic)
I had this album for years and only listened to smoke on the water. Glad this popped up. A great album from rock legends. Edgy, raw sound.
I'm biased going into this one because when I told my dad I was doing this album challenge, he kept asking, "Have you gotten Deep Purple yet???" so obviously my expectations were quite high when the generator finally did its thing and bestowed this album upon me. As expected, it's a really solid, fun listen that I will be coming back to outside of this challenge. Obviously Smoke on the Water is a classic for beginner guitar players everywhere (tied only with Wonderwall imo), but there are so many great tracks that it doesn't stand out in a tall poppy kind of way.
just not my thing
If In Rock was a good Deep Purple album, then Machine Head is their greatest album and one of the best in hard rock. And after the breakthrough album two years ago, they didn't even need to invent anything new! Just five professionals who knew their stuff and continued to play an incredible blend of old blues and new (at the time) hard 'n' heavy. Every song here is amazing in that it's a pleasure to listen to both as a whole and just to listen to individual parts. I don't know what the original releases sounded like, but the remaster you can find on streaming services is very good. Yes, the riff in "Smoke on the Water" might make guitar stores workers' ears bleed, but pay attention to Jon Lord's organ part; it really carries the whole song! Ladies, take note: if a guy says he doesn't like this album, he might have issues with his father. No offense, guys, just the facts.
353/1089 not really my music but honestly didn’t mind it it was the kind if more chill old rock that i can enjoy 60/100
well worth more than a couple listens. The flashes of what would probably come to be hair metal is not particularly my flavor, but when the drums, bass, and guitar get their moment, boy do they run with it. Namely on maybe I’m a Leo, pictures of home, lazy, and when a blind man cries. This album surprised me a little bit — I liked all the songs I didn’t know better than the ones I already knew or heard on their live album thats also on this list. Smoke on the water was (of course) the first riff I learned on guitar and what they’re most well known for, but it doesn’t stand out like you think it might among the songs I mentioned above. I mean, when a blind man cries is a fucking gorgeous tune. Lazy is an absolute jam that I’d have love to seen live. This is a really good album, and it’s because of the songs you don’t expect.
Solid album indefinitely deserves a spot on the list. Three stars.
It’s a classic album. I’m glad I heard it. I won’t listen again
Blackmore, baby. 4.5 down to a 4.
I'd like to see the royalty statement for radio play of "Smoke on the Water". Three stars because making a song called "Space Trucking" in 1972 is peak classic rock laziness.
Don’t like this gender
One of the original 3 power chord rock bands. My dad had this album when I was growing up. Smoke on the Water is almost always one of the first songs a young guitarist learns to play.
Sok
Maybe it’s nice timing, but I’ve been revisiting Deep Purple lately. And this is a great one for sure. Fantastic drum parts. Effortless performances. 4.1/5.0
Eins og ég tengi ekkert við textann í Highway star (áfram hjól!) þá verður því ekki neitað að það er eitt svakalegasta opnunarlag sem sögur fara af. Restin er alveg solid, en þar sem ég er ekki lengur sami rokkarinn og fyrir þrjátíu fimm árum þá fjörkum við þessa.
It has highway star :D
This album slaps! It also has Highway Star, my favorite Deep Purple song on it. I would call this quintessential classic rock. This was just the groove I needed. Highway Star, Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin', there's no way this can't be a 5 from me. Just phenomenal, legendary record.
Guarantee if I’d grown up listening to this my mind would be blown right now, but I didn’t so it’s not - fun, but I doubt I’ll be running back for more
Fine, there are better rock bands from the time. Smoke on the water and highway star are both bangers though.
5
Crunchy fun
I had no expectations but surprisingly really enjoyed this album. Of course Smoke on the Water is a great song, but I also thought some of the more unexpected chord progressions and harmonies were super cool.
Highway star and smoke on the water how could it not get 4 stars
This really is a crossroads from blues and rock into a heavier sound. Smoke On The Water
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.
If you are an intellectual like me you will first and foremost enjoy the splendid lyrics on this album. But if you're more like a raw and simple man you'll just enjoy the riffs and ignore the lyrics. oh and: SMOOOOOKE on the WAAATEEEEEEER I'll try this guitar part in my guitar store!
Didn't really feel like listening to hard rock/ metal yesterday so I didn't, only listened to the first song and it was alr. Also I didn't understand why it was hard rock and not metal, when paranoid is metal and not hard rock
4.5 maybe only halfpoint for being pretty samey, but all pretty good with a couple all time hits.
Kinda long, listened to the whole thing and liked it a bit more than I thought I would though it started to mush together near the end
Please don’t make me listen to Deep Purple again.
good stuff
that smoke on the water riff will live in my head until i turn to dust
Overall very good definitely an acquired taste to enjoy and minimal lyrics during the end of the album
Not as boundary=pushing as Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, but good heavy blues-driven rock.
Pretty classic and fairly underrated album. It is a soft 4 IMO.
Enjoyed this one!
fine
Increíble
Highway Star and Smoke on the Water are both iconic songs. But the album as a whole stands up decently well. I would say that these hits carry it above the average though.
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
Holy Dad Rock, batman! I am starting to feel like I need a boilerplate response for albums like this. Do I like it? No. Do I hate it? No. It's perfectly ok. It's fine. I'm neutral.
They’ve got the most awful artist bio on Spotify lol. Some great guitar licks. Ive never listened to deep purple before, seems a very solid album.
Shoutout Frank Zappa for Smoke On The Water
perdon, no es mi estilo de música:(
Classic hard rock ./,,/
Cool
I love this band. Some heavier stuff from this album like “ Highway star” and “ Space truckin” are my favourites! All in all, 4 stars!
This album sounded great and the lyrics were sometimes fun and other times about deep topics. I enjoyed the album.
노래가 전체적으로 좋았고, 특히 smoke one the water는 전설적이었다. 과거에 음악 수행평가 때 한 번 들어봤던 기억이 났다. The songs were great overall, and "Smoke on the Water," in particular, was legendary. It reminded me of a time I had listened to it for a music class assessment in the past.
It was decent, just not really my kind of music.
Good hard/blues rock album. "Smoke on the Water" is the albums most famous song, but the band plays well throughout. 3/5 Might listen again
Ooh its the smoke on the water guys Kinda bad 😭
Excellent album of heavy rock indicative of the period . Long live Rock
Think the last two songs are actually the stand out tracks. Really interesting 60s flair (kinda disco?) i wasn’t expecting. Obviously Smoke on the Water is the most popular but other than that baseline it might be one of the weaker tracks on the album. Highway star is another great song.
I see the vision, pre cheesy, lowkey mi je bio dosadan. Ima par fora momenata al ne bi ponovo slusala
Haven't heard a rock album in so long. Forgot how they felt. It was ok to listen to in the start but I can't lie if I say that the songs started getting to me and they sounded banger. Second half was damn good. Solid album and can listen again. Songs I liked : Highway star Smoke on the water Lazy Space truckin Review - 8/10
A little bit samey but very good
Cool songs, nice and varied instrumentation. I actually listened to this quite a lot when I was a child, because my dad is a big fan of the album.
The opening riff of Smoke on the Water is so iconic... I had no clue who this band was, but it was a surprisingly nice listen! Which says a lot coming from someone who doesn't listen to rock at all
I can see why this is considered an important early metal album. If I want to listen to 70’s British heavy/ amped-up blues, though (which I don’t often), I’ll stick to Sabbath, for Ozzie’s one-of-a-kind vocals.
A classic album that really helped progress metal into the mainstream. A little basic but still so well executed
Good fun, that
Not special
it’s not bad
My first exposure to Deep Purple aside from Smoke on the Water and Hush. I gotta say I really liked this one. It's oozing with that early metal sound that I've come to love. Highway Star is another great track and I'll be loading it into a more regular rotation. Another good surprise from the list.
Yeah that was fine