The Very Best of Deep Purple

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Editorial reviews

Album Description
The only newly remastered single-disc compilation featuring all of the hits during the band's heyday. Includes 15 full-length singles, live cuts, and album tracks from 26 albums released between 1968-1984!

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Customer reviews

review by: rock and roll doctorate date: 2008-12-06 rating:
Please Don't....
Please don't buy this album. Go out and get the CDs that the songs are featured from. Deep Purple Compilation albums are pretty awful, mostly encompasing the same tunes , more or less. This album is very similar to "When We Rock, We Roll & When we Roll, We Roll" get a remasterd copy of this instead...Better song collection. I really do feel strongly about buying "In Rock", "Fireball" and "Machine Head. if you happen to like I an Gillan's Voice. As A Second thought try Made in Japan...a brilliant Live Album covering their songs up to Machine Head, that is classic Purple

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review by: One Gigmaster date: 2008-12-01 rating:
Lazy!
When I was a kid my sisters got Deep Purples album for Christmas. It has to be one of my core rock favorites. The organ will melt your head! Definitely worth every minute of your listening pleasure.

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review by: paper man date: 2008-11-23 rating:
EXCELLENT 1960'"S MUSIC
This CD is for anyone who longs for the sound of 1960's psychedelic rock and roll. Music such as this by Deep Purple is no longer produced. The rendition of "Kentucky Woman" is worth the price of the entire disc. In my opinion, Deep Purple does a better cover of this song than even Neil Diamond, the original artist.

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review by: date: 2008-10-09 rating:
The title says it all: the BEST of Deep Purple!
Some bands have far too many "deep cuts" that never get airply to ever be fully represented by just a "best of" collection. Queen, The Beatles, etc. etc. The "hits" are almost a watered down version of what those great bands could really do, so a "Greatest Hits" collection just doesn't cut it for them.

Not so with Deep Purple. While they did many fine songs not on this cd, the BEST of what they did from 1968-1984 is mostly here, and what a collection it is. Easily two of the best songs from the early Rod Evans days are "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman," and they are present and accounted for. "Hush" is probably the better known song, but I've always preferred "Kentucky Woman." The two best known songs from the later David Coverdale era ("Burn" and "Stormbringer") are also here and they blend surprisingly well with the rest of this cd (whereas the Rod Evans songs are most definitely a little "different"; still good though).

In between the Evans/Coverdale songs though lies the heart of this collection, and that's 10 tracks from the vintage "Mark II" lineup of Deep Purple (Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord). As someone who has all the albums Deep Purple has done, I can say that I do listen to the individual albums from time to time. But when I want a cd without a single weak cut and that includes nearly all of my favorites from all of their albums, THIS IS IT. Highway Star, Child In Time, Space Truckin, Strange Kind of Woman, etc. are ALL every bit as good as the overplayed "Smoke On The Water" and "Woman From Tokyo", so if you're looking at this cd for just the "radio" hits, by all means get it, but expect to hear some stuff you probably haven't heard before that you will like just as much as the hits (if not more).

Tacking "Knocking At Your Back Door" onto the end of this collection seems a bit odd, since all the other cuts are from albums recorded more or less continuously in the years 1968-1974 and then this cut comes from an album a full 10 years later ("Perfect Strangers" from 1984). So I'd almost rather have seen "Knocking" omitted and another 70's cut included instead, but hey, it is a great song and the name of this album is... the Very Best of Deep Purple, so I can see why it was included. In reality, their 1984 album is so good anyway that you'll want that too anyway, but THIS cd is a great place to start exploring Deep Purple. From there, check out "Perfect Strangers", "Machine Head" and their classic live album, "Made In Japan". You won't regret it!

All in all, I would strongly recommend this to anyone that likes any Deep Purple you've heard on the radio or any fan of 70's hard rock in general. It's all great stuff from a band that was definitely recognized in their time, yet still has to qualify as a vastly under-rated band.


review by: date: 2008-08-14 rating:
The Very Best of Deep Purple
Deep Purple was one of favorite groups in the '70's. Hush, Smoke on the Water, and Woman from Tokyo are great songs.

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