For no other reason than this came up and I think it’s magnificent.
As you were.
This is just f*****g brilliant.
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No arguments here. Although DPIR is an album that I will suddenly and desperately need to hear, thoroughly enjoy but then not listen to again for years.
Couldnt agree more Vulpes- Deep Purple were my first ever live experience and Child in time was and still is my favourite of their songs.
I also would put Since I’ve been loving you by Led Zep in the same category over and above their more famous songs.
Child In Time is definitely my favourite too, but it’s also the only song of theirs I like. I thought Rainbow with RJD singing were soooooo much better.
Funnily enough I started listening to this song on the telly you tube app tonight, enjoying the nuances of Jon Lords organ ( missus), when my wife came in and said turn that old shit off……
We went out somewhere or other and there was a fund raiser on the radio where you paid to have a song played. As we arrived someone paid for “Smoke on the water” of Japan. Obviously we sat in the car park till it finished. Unswitchoffable.
The truism about how a band is only as good as its drummer is absolutely true in the case of DP. In the roll-call of great rock drummers, Ian Paice deserves to be right up there. A phenomenal player who drove the backline with panache.
Absolutely correct. Any version of ‘You Fool Know One’ knocks your socks off.
Apparently it’s a double paradiddle.
Yes, and he learned to play with a kit made of biscuit tins playing along with this dad’s big band records, and even on their rockist songs you can hear that swing in the snare drum.
Hmmm
I even put Italian subtitles on just for you, G
And I thank you for that, very kind of you and much appreciated. Could you not have translated this comment too though? I’ve no idea what it says.
Something about a donkey, some olive oil and a twinge of regret?
Mamma mia!
If we’re doing the just f*****g brilliants, then it’s once again time for my two favourite music clips out of the whole of the internet up till the last time I looked at it. Both feature fantastic drumming. Both are much better than anything else.
What a guitar player John Squire is. Such a shame he’s made no decent new music for nearly 30 years
How could you forget the Shire Horses?
….hang on….
By coincidence I saw the Seahorses cd for £1 on my charity shop hunting yesterday.
Bought it as never heard the whole album. As turgid and dull an album I’ve ever heard. Might give it them back
It took me a while to remember the name. It’s a bit much when the parody band are more memorable than the originals…
But then The Seahorses sounded like a parody of TSR in the first place.
I’m reminded that some 90s pop show pointed out that The Seahorses is an anagram of He Hates Roses. As I recall Love Is the Law was a decent single though.
OK, watched in YouTube and that and even more so Blinded By the Sun were powerful late 90s throwbacks for me. I don’t remember the rest of the album being much good though.
They never topped Lardy Boy.
Child in Time is a great song and I have praised it on this site before. Ian Paice is phenomenal – giving such variety of dynamism to the music. When he accompanies ‘ricochet’ with a fill, it’s just spine-tingling. He’ transforms a hard rock band into so much more – gives them real swing.
Stone Roses had the same swing, thanks to Reni and Mani – though in Gary’s clip above, it’s only Mani who really comes through for me. That clip is interminable. The Clash had far more drive, thanks to Topper. But why is the camera so fixated on Joe? There were 4 musicians in the band. It’s what makes the Deep Purple clip above so good – moving from band member to band members, to capture many if not all the best moments when each drives the song.
That’s part of what I like about this classic clip of the Wailers – all musicians get screen time. Plus it’s a great song – such a solid groove, particularly for me, Pete Tosh’s guitar solo from 2:38. At 2:58 it gets super squelchy and I start to levitate. those two seconds could be the best two seconds in recorded music history.
Great clip. Bunny ingratiating himself to the British TV audience by dressing as Tommy Cooper.
ROFLWMFITA
As @Hubert-Rawlinson, surely?
@salwarpe
That’s the second time you’ve used ROFLWMFITA, I’m probably making a rod for my fez but please explain.
Do you mean it’s not a common abbr.? If not, it starts out as one, with the suffix ‘with my feet in the air’
Watch this space for further additions to describe the ecstatic state of mirth I reach in response to the delightful promptings from this site.
When I looked for it, all I found was a Googlewhack and a link to your post on the Kier Starmer thread.
ROFLWMFITAPM😀
Well, let’s keep it to ourselves then. There’s been enough ‘going viral’ in recent years.
Remember The Golden Hour? The first hour of Simon Bates’ morning show, where you had to guess the year all the records were made?
During a period of working from home in the 1980s, at an old farmhouse in the Shropshire hills, I tuned in one day to hear Fluff Freeman standing in for Simes.
Fluff had 1970 on this particular morning and was scheduled to play Deep Purple’s hit Black Night. But instead (by mistake? I think not) he played the B-side, Speed King.
For those of you who are not familiar, here it is
(warning, it’s very loud from the start)
I’m convinced he did it deliberately.
Meanwhile, the housewives of England will have got the shock of their lives. He didn’t take it off either – played the whole thing. Not ‘arf!
Speed King – great rocker. Was disappointed Black Knight never included on DPIR.
DUMB MOVE
20 years later it was included on an anniversary edition. Too late , what a stupid decision. Probably Ritchie Blackmore’s idea… he says without a shred of evidence.
Actually the single written and released after DPIR.
From wikipedia
“Once Deep Purple in Rock had been completed, EMI asked for a suitable single to be recorded to help promote the album.”
What an odd thing! Have as a strategy to write a ( hopefully ) hit single to promote an album which wont have that song on it.
The first 2 singles Teenage Kicks and Get Over You were left off The Undertones debut. A re-release 6 months later fixed that, but it also mucked up the flow of the album.
Maybe they should’ve been on the original, but weirdly it was a better album without them.
If they were on there in the first place you might not have thought that.
But shirley you remember that was the way in those days. You didn’t put your singles on the album because it was thought you were asking your fans to shell out twice. Viz. Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane as the prime example of how an album was not as good as it could have been.
Well, yes, I guess. Pissed me off then, still does. Not all bands adhered to that approach though did they?
There was also the school of thought that if you took a single from the album, both single and album might not sell quite as well as they might, because sales of one could diminish sales of the other.
TU is a great album – with GOY and TK added it is quite magisterially great. Sometimes more is, er, more.
I have to admit to not having listened to ANYTHING DP since the 70’s. I seem to remember I developed an aversion to them (and Led Zep, as it happens) as I was much more a Prog/Little Feat/ Zappa teenager.
Having learnt to love the Zep over the years, where do I start back again with Deep Purple? what’s the one or two blockbuster albums that simply can’t be ignored?
Made In Japan is a great place to start.
Machine Head and Fireball also worthy.
Compilation? Deepest Purple was my entry point
“Deepest Purple was my entry point” – you said it, hun.
For my money, the most complete album is Machine Head. I can take of leave “Smoke OTW” but the rest of the album is cracking. “Made In Japan” is blemished by a drum solo (no one needs a drum solo).
Burn and Stormbringer.
I know. Mk3 fare with not a Gillan for miles.
But they’re the best albums DP made. Really.
(Curls into foetal ball and awaits shoe-ing)
ROFLWMFITA
This is the best post Big Music version of The Waterboys I saw live and a great tune.
“Here’s one our keyboard player wrote!”.
Child in Time is indeed ludicrous and wonderful and that’s a stonking version.