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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
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    Posted: January 14 2021 at 11:00
An interesting match-up of live vs. studio cuts. Even more compelling is Child in Time jumping way out front here. 'Purple was always at their grittiest live, so I went with Space Truckin'.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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It's Mistreated for me.
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Child In Time
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."



Music Is Live

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.



Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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I have to go with Child in Time too (Made in Japan version).
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I wish I'd voted for Smoke on the Water instead now, mainly out of sympathy, as it hasn't picked up any votes so far. Cry

Don't be sad, I do that right now.
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Voted for Child in Time, but I do love April as well.

Speaking of which, there's a very strange music video for April, recorded in October 1969 for West German broadcast. There are a number of unusual things about it:
-the video is shot in a quarry for some reason
-the video features cuts to military trucks filled with shirtless young men wearing shorts/trunks (?!)
-truck noises are spliced on the track whenever the scene shifts to the trucks
-a small orchestra is gradually assembled, with workers adding chairs during part 1, the orchestra plays part 2 and the orchestra leaves when part 3 starts
-workers lay out chairs for the orchestra in part 1 and remove them during part 3
-the music is obviously the studio recording (most obvious because part 1 features both acoustic and electric guitar from Blackmore), so one wonders why they had a small orchestra assembled just to mime along to the music
-save for a brief moment during the outro guitar solo, you can't see Blackmore except for the neck of his guitar
-April is a Mk I song recorded with Evans and Simper, whereas the band was in it's Mk II lineup with Gillan and Glover at the time the video was recorded
-Gillan seems to be smoking a cigarette during the orchestral section
-the band and orchestra are both facing away from the camera



Per the YouTube uploader, the video was recorded for an avant garde film, P2, by Werner Schretzmeier and Juergen Schmidt-Oehm. The film is 47 minutes long and also features the band playing And The Address and Hey Joe. The film also includes performances by Steppenwolf and Savage Rose.


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There is always the Gemini Suite which seems oft overlooked. Done live. With Orchestra.
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I wish I'd voted for Smoke on the Water instead now, mainly out of sympathy, as it hasn't picked up any votes so far. Cry
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Child in Time is one of my all time favourite compositions and I even consider it prog. Here’s a little secret: I dance to it quite horribly sometimes (I’m a terrible dancer); it’s not something you would want to witness. But we’re all a bit mad aren’t we :p
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Child In Time is the obvious choice, but I vote for April.
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Yup, epic has more than one meaning. If/when I create a topic lilke this, I prefer to underline what I mean by epicness, i.e., about the duration or another thing.

Edited by Shadowyzard - January 03 2021 at 09:31
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Among the options, Child in Time.

Yet my favourites are not here, which are Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.

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also Knocking at Your Back Door from the  Perfect Strangers album.

also Anthem from their second album fits the epic description (if I may say so). 


Nice! Knocking at Your Back Door is absolutely epic. Seemingly a regular 80s' hit, but has an edge over the typical ones.

Anthem... I'd say beautifully captivating, but not epic for that; whilst it is like The Odyssey, when compared with Smoke on the Water. Come on, even the story of how it (SotW) was written makes the song's "character" bleed out. LOL

a lot of songs in the poll don't fit the epic description, 
but if by epic, it's just a long(er) song, then, yes, but if it's a long song telling a story, then a lot of songs don't fit here. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Among the options, Child in Time.

Yet my favourites are not here, which are Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.

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also Knocking at Your Back Door from the  Perfect Strangers album.

also Anthem from their second album fits the epic description (if I may say so). 


Nice! Knocking at Your Back Door is absolutely epic. Seemingly a regular 80s' hit, but has an edge over the typical ones.

Anthem... I'd say beautifully captivating, but not epic for that; whilst it is like The Odyssey, when compared with Smoke on the Water. Come on, even the story of how it (SotW) was written makes the song's "character" bleed out. LOL
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Among the options, Child in Time.

Yet my favourites are not here, which are Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.

Thumbs Up
 
also Knocking at Your Back Door from the  Perfect Strangers album.

also Anthem from their second album fits the epic description (if I may say so). 
I agree that I could have expanded a bit the definition of an 'epic' and add a few more tracks but 'Child In Time' would have won anyway. LOL
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Among the options, Child in Time.

Yet my favourites are not here, which are Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.

Thumbs Up
 
also Knocking at Your Back Door from the  Perfect Strangers album.

also Anthem from their second album fits the epic description (if I may say so). 


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Among the options, Child in Time.

Yet my favourites are not here, which are Perfect Strangers and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming.
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I feel no shame in going with the grain.
Child in time all the way.
Levitating downwards,
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Child in Time.

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When I was young, I would've picked Space Truckin' from Made In Japan in a heartbeat. But today, I'll vote for Child In Time.
 
 
 
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I actually preferred the Dio/Rainbow live version of 'Mistreated' on 'Rainbow on Stage' - though I admit it's years since I've heard it.  I've always been put off the Coverdale/Hughes vocal team since I saw that California Jam video. Hughes especially was just such a monumental w**ker.

Errrm... I dunno, I think I'll go with 'Space Truckin' here. Probably should just go with 'Child in Time', but it's getting plenty of love.

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