My favorite album from Deep Purple

If anyone can give me an album that can match this one in terms of progressiveness (except King Crimson's), please do so. That's just amazing what's all going on on this record. Pure psychedelic Beethoven.

This is DP's best album for sure.

^ Completely agreed although I've yet to hear Concerto from the same year, Burn beyond its title-track, Come Taste tB and a half-dozen post-Blue Light (which I expect I would score from 3-9/10 when I eventually get familiar with 'em)

Nice album. Shows the band's progression from their earlier material into more progressive song structures. The keyboard-laden interludes and solos are absolutely brilliant here especially on 'Blind' and 'Why didn't Rosemary'.

Great album. Great musicianship. Great songwriting. "Chasing Shadows" and "The Painter" are total masterpiece songs, and the standard of songs is really high on this album.

I try and try and try to listen to these proto-metal bands from the late 60s, but none of the albums are particularly interesting to me. This one is no different. Just feels like watered down prog rock.

Written by Boxcar Willy on Today at 19:44

I try and try and try to listen to these proto-metal bands from the late 60s, but none of the albums are particularly interesting to me. This one is no different. Just feels like watered down prog rock.

The late 60s was the birth of progressive rock, so calling it watered down, I don't know, makes no sense to me, what Deep Purple was doing back then was rather unique and important for the early days of prog (that's why you'll see DP classified as proto-prog, it's for their early albums, the Rod Evans era).