Fabulous Harold. Love Deep Purple...I would rate House of Blue Light a little higher , but that's a great rundown. A Rainbow ranking would be great also , Purple the best Heavy Prog band of all time. No. 1 for me ... Fireball. 😍
Fireball is my number 3. Thank you very much. Deep Purple for me is also the best hard rock (heavy prog) band ever. I like the Ronnie James Dio Rainbow albums. I have to explore the other Rainbow albums.
Great review and spot on choices, Harold! Yes, Deep Purples' best album is "In Rock", although running close is "Machine Head". And of course the best album by Rainbow is "Rising".
Thank you very much Hans. It was great to make this ranking. Of course I love Deep Purple and Rainbow. In October 2024 I will go to the Deep Purple concert in Amsterdam.
My favourite Deep Purple related project is The Gemini Suite (1971) by Jon Lord with the London Symphony Orchestra under Malcolm Arnold, himself a superb composer. I consider this a vastly superior work to the more widely celebrated Concerto For Rock Group & Orchestra. It is not technically a 'Deep Purple' album, of course, as only Lord, Glover and Paice are featured soloists on it, the others being guitarist Albert Lee (who I much prefer to Blackmore) and singers Yvonne Elliman and Tony Ashton. I mention all this purely because the work has given me so much pleasure over the years and I recommend it if any readers are not acquainted with it.
Deep Purple and Rainbow the greatest hard rock bands ever. The key is of course Ritchie Blackmore, the greatest guitarist of all time and the leading figure behind both bands.
Hmm...not one of my favourite groups, mainly because I absolutely loathe and detest Ritchie Blackmore...monumentally over-rated guitarist and a prize pillock, too...but the other 4 (Lord, Gillan, Glover, Paice) are damned fine in my book, especially Mr Lord and Mr Glover. If I had to choose 1 album by the band it would be either In Rock or Machine Head. Better still, give me neither of them and in their place, give me Focus instead! Now that's more my kind of band. PS However, The Gemini Suite by Jon Lord is one of my favourite LPs of all time...and Albert Lee shows why he's a vastly superior six stringer to Wretched Crapmore...so there! PPS I discovered your channel after seeing you on that video by Sea Of Tranquility where you discuss Yes.
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Huge band with a fantastic catalogue. Thank you for your content!
Thanks a lot.
My fav of all time, one of the best hard rock album ever
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Harold, for your thoughts. I am an old fan and will let myself out. Thanks again
Thank you John.
Fabulous Harold. Love Deep Purple...I would rate House of Blue Light a little higher , but that's a great rundown. A Rainbow ranking would be great also , Purple the best Heavy Prog band of all time. No. 1 for me ... Fireball. 😍
Fireball is my number 3. Thank you very much. Deep Purple for me is also the best hard rock (heavy prog) band ever. I like the Ronnie James Dio Rainbow albums. I have to explore the other Rainbow albums.
Great review and spot on choices, Harold!
Yes, Deep Purples' best album is "In Rock", although running close is "Machine Head".
And of course the best album by Rainbow is "Rising".
Thank you very much Hans. It was great to make this ranking. Of course I love Deep Purple and Rainbow. In October 2024 I will go to the Deep Purple concert in Amsterdam.
My top five studio ranking:
1. Machine Head
2. Burn
3. Perfect Strangers
4. In Rock
5. Stormbringer
Very good show Harold!
Thank you very much. Nice top 5.
My favourite Deep Purple related project is The Gemini Suite (1971) by Jon Lord with the London Symphony Orchestra under Malcolm Arnold, himself a superb composer. I consider this a vastly superior work to the more widely celebrated Concerto For Rock Group & Orchestra. It is not technically a 'Deep Purple' album, of course, as only Lord, Glover and Paice are featured soloists on it, the others being guitarist Albert Lee (who I much prefer to Blackmore) and singers Yvonne Elliman and Tony Ashton. I mention all this purely because the work has given me so much pleasure over the years and I recommend it if any readers are not acquainted with it.
Nice that you recommend the The Gemini Suite by Jon Lord.
Excellent 5:57
Yes excellent.
Great review Harold , agree with your top Two choices, plus Made in Japan one of if not the best live album ever .
Thank you very much. Made In Japan is indeed a real classic live album.
Good ranking just discovered your channel and subscribed
Thanks a lot for your reaction and the subscribing.
Fireball.
Great album.
My favorites are s/t, The Book of Taliesyn and Come Taste the Band. Mark I was the best, Rainbow was where Ritchie shined.
Thank you.
A very comprehensive ranking indeed. I wouldn't out them in the top 10 but I really like their first 3 albums.
Thank you once again Mark. The first 3 albums are interesting in my opinion.
Deep Purple and Rainbow the greatest hard rock bands ever.
The key is of course Ritchie Blackmore, the greatest guitarist of all time and the leading figure behind both bands.
I totally agree. I also think that Steve Morse saved Deep Purple in 1996 after Ritchie Blackmore left the band.
Machine Head
Fantastic album.
Hmm...not one of my favourite groups, mainly because I absolutely loathe and detest Ritchie Blackmore...monumentally over-rated guitarist and a prize pillock, too...but the other 4 (Lord, Gillan, Glover, Paice) are damned fine in my book, especially Mr Lord and Mr Glover. If I had to choose 1 album by the band it would be either In Rock or Machine Head. Better still, give me neither of them and in their place, give me Focus instead! Now that's more my kind of band.
PS However, The Gemini Suite by Jon Lord is one of my favourite LPs of all time...and Albert Lee shows why he's a vastly superior six stringer to Wretched Crapmore...so there!
PPS I discovered your channel after seeing you on that video by Sea Of Tranquility where you discuss Yes.
Thank you. In Rock and Machine Head are both great.
Angry prog
Hard rock with prog rock elements.