BURN

I'll tell you why, track by track:

Burn: The greatest hard rocker of all Time. Unbelievable construction, unreal chemistry, superhuman performances by every band member, fantastic riff, spectacular guitar solo, and the most uncanny keyboard solo section in the History of the Universe (4:25-4:52). If aliens asked me "What's Hard Rock?" I'd put this one on the Hi-Fi.

Might Just Take Your Life: In the Woman From Tokyo Style, it's not an equally great song but it's a very good and enjoyable one.

Lay Down, Stay Down: Blues rocker that demonstrates the fantastic voices of both Hughes and Coverdale in a more clear way that the rollercoaster-like Burn did. A really good song, one of the best of this kind they ever recorded.

Sail Away: Wow, very good riff! That's my first thought when the song began, but unfortunately the song is a bit monotonous, and in my opinion it doesn't live up to the hype it creates with that catchy beginning. The vocal lines are very nice, the solos are good as always, but what could be a classic is "just" a very good song after all.

You Fool No One: Another song with massive potential that lacks the IT factor. Everything very good, but nothing outstanding.

What's Going On Here: Yes! That's a very good song with the IT factor, which I suppose is the blues-boogie atmosphere, the great guitar work, the inspired vocal lines and the wonderful Jon Lord guitar at the piano.

Mistreated: Sharp as a razor, it cut's you in half with it's colossal Blackmore guitar work and Coverdale's majestic, voluptuous vocal performance. Totally unparalleled.

"A" 200: Very nice, epic instrumental, that makes no sense as an outro. It would be great if they opened the album with this one, only to stop it suddenly and begin the outstanding Burn. I mixed them that way with "Audacity" and they sounded great!

RATING: It contains the hard rocker and the tortured blues anthem... But that's pretty much it. In the MkII era, everyone contributed to the compositions. In Burn, Hughes contributes zero, while Coverdale has a more simplistic/mainstream approach than the others. The result lacks the IT factor in a number of cases, in a way that a potentially 4,5 stars album becomes a 3,5-4 stars one. I'll give it the 4 stars, but just barely. Weaker that In Rock in my opinion.

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