Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Top 5 Deep Purple Songs
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Top 5 Deep Purple Songs
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 5>
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
essexboyinwales View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: April 27 2015
Location: Bridgend
Status: Offline
Points: 5099 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote essexboyinwales Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Top 5 Deep Purple Songs
    Posted: 5 hours 33 minutes ago at 07:22
Highway Star
Burn
Knock in’ At Your Back Door
Child In Time
Smoke On The Water
Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell
Back to Top
Olape View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 28 2013
Location: Chile
Status: Offline
Points: 2193 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Olape Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Yesterday at 12:43
Mistreated 
Child in time
Fools
Perfect Strangers
Mandrake root

Edited by Olape - Yesterday at 12:45
Back to Top
richardh View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 28270 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 18:49
^ Yep it fits very nicely alongside the likes of Whole Lotta Love, All Right Now, Don't Fear The Reaper, Since You've Been Gone (more Ritchie!), Paranoid etc that appear on the endless procession of 'Dad Rock' type compilation albums that seem to come out from the 80's onwards. I like the chugging bass line and Ian Paice is as tight as ever behind the drums. It does the job perfectly well but is just a bit too slow and 'bluesy' for my taste. I generally prefer Purple when they are being either a proto-prog band with Hammond at the front or when they are ripping it up proto-metal style.
Back to Top
GuruCan View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 24 2024
Location: Seattle
Status: Offline
Points: 899 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (3) Thanks(3)   Quote GuruCan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 16:04
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.


It's never been a favourite of mine either - to me it sounds like something an up and coming high school band might have composed, whereas Highway Star, Lazy, nd Space Trucking from the same album are masterpieces.

On a side note I wonder how many times a day guitar shop staff hear those opening chords twanged by prospective instrument purchasers. [The same can probably be said for 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.]
Nobody hates Smoke on the Water more than the person who wrote it, Ritchie Blackmore.
I believe that every great guitarist hits a rough patch at some point in their journey. Look at Robert Fripp; he's been pretty harsh about the Lizard album, calling it "unlistenable" and its fans "a bit strange." The late Allan Holdsworth hated his solo debut from 1976. But let's be real; not many guitarists make it to that legendary status. Ritchie Blackmore is one who did, and Smoke on the Water is a huge part of that legacy. That song has one of the most recognisable riffs out there. I doubt Ritchie gets any flak for how straightforward that riff is; it's probably just seen as overplayed.
Personally, I didn't put "Smoke" in my top five Deep Purple tunes. Still, that riff did exactly what it was supposed to do. I heard it at a Deep Purple concert I attended as a kid. It had the right vibe, with a killer rhythm and just enough simplicity to capture what the band was going for with that song. It turned into a hit (which surprised the band), and it stuck in our minds. It became one of those defining riffs of heavy rock music.
I can assure you that any self-styled gatekeeper of rock guitar authenticity who slates Smoke on the Water as "too simple" has never come up with, nor will they ever create, a more intricate riff that people will instantly recognise as a classic fifty years down the line.
Back to Top
Saperlipopette! View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11799 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 12:10
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.


It's never been a favourite of mine either - to me it sounds like something an up and coming high school band might have composed, whereas Highway Star, Lazy, nd Space Trucking from the same album are masterpieces.

On a side note I wonder how many times a day guitar shop staff hear those opening chords twanged by prospective instrument purchasers. [The same can probably be said for 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.]
Nobody hates Smoke on the Water more than the person who wrote it, Ritchie Blackmore.
That's fine. I'm not in a hating contest. I'm pleased to hear Ritchie Blackmore hates it. But I just dislike it in the similar way I loathe Roadhouse Blues, Money, Whatever You Want mm...
Back to Top
Floydoid View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2007
Location: Planet Prog
Status: Offline
Points: 1619 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 10:37
I guess SOTW was of the moment as it told the story of the fire at the Mothers' gig, and probably composed in a short space of time without much time for embellishing or fleshing it out a bit into something grander.
'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.'
Back to Top
Easy Money View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: August 11 2007
Location: Memphis
Status: Offline
Points: 10651 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Easy Money Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 10:24
Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.


It's never been a favourite of mine either - to me it sounds like something an up and coming high school band might have composed, whereas Highway Star, Lazy, nd Space Trucking from the same album are masterpieces.

On a side note I wonder how many times a day guitar shop staff hear those opening chords twanged by prospective instrument purchasers. [The same can probably be said for 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.]
Nobody hates Smoke on the Water more than the person who wrote it, Ritchie Blackmore.
Back to Top
Aodhán View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: December 08 2024
Location: Land 01
Status: Offline
Points: 121 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (5) Thanks(5)   Quote Aodhán Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 09:31
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.

Well, ain't that a bit of a laugh? Back in '72 when Smoke on the Water dropped, pub-rock was all about tunes like this…



Hmmm...
Back to Top
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Online
Points: 40685 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 04:47
Top 5 update with Starshiper, Aodhan & Saperlipopocataptl's votes added, although I'm still unable to add GuruCan's votes on. Confused

01. Child in Time (112 points)
02. Highway Star (84 points)
03. Burn (58 points)
04. Perfect Strangers (29 points)
05. Smoke on the Water (26 points) 

06. Fireball (24 points)
07. Speed King (21 points)
08. Shield (20 points)
09. Space Truckin' (18 points)
10. Lazy (15 points)


11. Stormbringer (13 points)
11. Mandrake Root (13 points)
13. Hard Lovin' Man (12 points)


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 09 2024 at 04:48
Back to Top
Floydoid View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2007
Location: Planet Prog
Status: Offline
Points: 1619 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 01:47
Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.


It's never been a favourite of mine either - to me it sounds like something an up and coming high school band might have composed, whereas 'Highway Star', 'Lazy', and 'Space Trucking' from the same album are masterpieces.

On a side note I wonder how many times a day guitar shop staff hear those opening chords twanged by prospective instrument purchasers. [The same can probably be said for 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.]
'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.'
Back to Top
Floydoid View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2007
Location: Planet Prog
Status: Offline
Points: 1619 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2024 at 01:47
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.


It's never been a favourite of mine either - to me it sounds like something an up and coming high school band might have composed, whereas Highway Star, Lazy, nd Space Trucking from the same album are masterpieces.

On a side note I wonder how many times a day guitar shop staff hear those opening chords twanged by prospective instrument purchasers. [The same can probably be said for 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.]
'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.'
Back to Top
Saperlipopette! View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11799 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2024 at 22:09
Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I hate Smoke On The Water.
Yep I didn't even like the the first couple of times I heard it. Always sounded like pub rock to me - even before I knew that was a thing.
Back to Top
Saperlipopette! View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11799 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2024 at 21:49
Shield
Burn
Hush
Child in Time
Speed King
Back to Top
Aodhán View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: December 08 2024
Location: Land 01
Status: Offline
Points: 121 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Aodhán Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2024 at 19:38
1. Child in Time
2. Speed King
3. Stormbringer
4. Burn
5. Smoke on the Water
Back to Top
Starshiper View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 08 2024
Location: Englantic
Status: Offline
Points: 1624 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (4) Thanks(4)   Quote Starshiper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2024 at 00:40










Back to Top
Cristi View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Crossover / Prog Metal Teams

Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
Status: Online
Points: 44146 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2024 at 16:43
Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

Stormbringer, the song, wasn't underrated at the time when Deep Purple had still been a current band. On the contrary, it was one of the concert triggers.

You are probably right, surely MKIII & IV has its fans (I've always liked that era), but many people would not listen to DP unless Gillan or Blackmore is in the line-up. If you ask me, they're missing out... Smile


Edited by Cristi - December 07 2024 at 16:44
Back to Top
GuruCan View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 24 2024
Location: Seattle
Status: Offline
Points: 899 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (4) Thanks(4)   Quote GuruCan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2024 at 16:36
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

In no order

Stormbringer
Hush
Burn
Speed King
Child in Time

Nice to see Stormbringer getting some love. Thumbs Up
Yeah, Stormbringer is a criminally underrated song these days. I'm pretty surprised, though, that no one besides me brought up Hush, which, albeit a cover, is one of their most beautiful early songs. An outstanding hippy anthem from '68 that radiates a cozy vibe, featuring Rod Evans' soothing voice, while the Hammond organ solo is top-notch; Jon Lord really showcased his skills on this iconic instrument!

Video is not working for me, I don't know what you posted, not Hush I hope, it's such a famous song, it's rather pointless, no offense.
No, no problem. This is indeed the wrong thread for posting a YT video featuring Hush; actually, I should have posted it in the "Post an obscure track" thread because apparently it somehow became obscure as no one but me mentioned it, even though Hush is a superb song from 1968!

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I think Stormbringer has always been underrated or overlooked,


Stormbringer, the song, wasn't underrated at the time when Deep Purple had still been a current band. On the contrary, it was one of the concert triggers.
Back to Top
Cristi View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Crossover / Prog Metal Teams

Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
Status: Online
Points: 44146 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2024 at 08:51
Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

In no order

Stormbringer
Hush
Burn
Speed King
Child in Time

Nice to see Stormbringer getting some love. Thumbs Up
Yeah, Stormbringer is a criminally underrated song these days. I'm pretty surprised, though, that no one besides me brought up Hush, which, albeit a cover, is one of their most beautiful early songs. An outstanding hippy anthem from '68 that radiates a cozy vibe, featuring Rod Evans' soothing voice, while the Hammond organ solo is top-notch; Jon Lord really showcased his skills on this iconic instrument!

Video is not working for me, I don't know what you posted, not Hush I hope, it's such a famous song, it's rather pointless, no offense. 

I think Stormbringer has always been underrated or overlooked, overshadowed by the more popular Burn. Also a lot of people ignore MKIII because there is no Ian Gillan. Nevertheless the Coverdale+Hughes combination had plenty to offer, proving Gillan was not irreplaceable (IMO). 

The band also did some good albums with Steve Morse on guitar which are often overlooked. 
Back to Top
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Online
Points: 40685 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2024 at 08:45
Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by GuruCan GuruCan wrote:

In no order

Stormbringer
Hush
Burn
Speed King
Child in Time

Nice to see Stormbringer getting some love. Thumbs Up
Yeah, Stormbringer is a criminally underrated song these days. I'm pretty surprised, though, that no one besides me brought up Hush, which, albeit a cover, is one of their most beautiful early songs. An outstanding hippy anthem from '68 that radiates a cozy vibe, featuring Rod Evans' soothing voice, while the Hammond organ solo is top-notch; Jon Lord really showcased his skills on this iconic instrument!

If you'd like to arrange your favourite songs in order, I can add your points to the Top 5. Thumbs Up
Back to Top
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Online
Points: 40685 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2024 at 06:25
Top 5 update after two more rounds of voting:-

01. Child in Time (104 points)
02. Highway Star (84 points)
03. Burn (52 points)
04. Perfect Strangers (29 points)
05. Smoke on the Water (25 points) 

06. Fireball (24 points)
07. Space Truckin' (18 points)
08. Speed King (16 points)
09. Lazy (15 points)
10. Shield (14 points)

11. Mandrake Root (13 points)
12. Hard Lovin' Man (12 points)
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 5>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.145 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.