Top 5 Deep Purple Songs - Progressive Rock Music Forum

1) Highway Star
2) Child in Time
3) Space Truckin'
4) Smoke on the Water
5) Lazy

All from 'Made in Japan' though.....

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

It's time for the first count-up of the votes:-

1. Highway Star (38 points)

2. Child in Time (22 points)

3. Burn (15 points)

4. Smoke on the Water (10 points)

4. Lazy (10 points)

6. Perfect Strangers (8 points)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 05 2020 at 18:20

I hate Smoke On The Water.

Mine is something like this.

1. Highway Star

2. Child in Time

3. Perfect Strangers

4. Knocking at Your Back Door

5. Speed King

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

Top 5 update with siLLy puPPy's votes added:-

1. Highway Star (44 points)

2. Child in Time (26 points)

3. Burn (15 points)

4. Perfect Strangers (11 points)

5. Smoke on the Water (10 points)

5. Lazy (10 points)

1. Fireball

2. Speed King

3. Shield

4. April

5. Never Before

Okay here is my take.

5. Burn

File it under GOAT Openings in Rock. If anyone had doubts whether DP will survive Gillan and Glover departures, here's the answer...

4. Fools

Maybe a favorite track from criminally underrated Fireball. Everyone is hating on Anyone's Daughter, but nobody takes notice of fantastic B side, with Fools leading the charge. In terms of atmosphere, it's one of their best ever. What a shame the band moved away from Fireball material rather quickly.

3. Hard Lovin' Man

Deep Purple In Rock is intense AF, at least by 1970 standards, and this song drives the point home.

2. Highway Star

Pace, vitriol, rock. If 1 out of 10 "rock" bands had this much cojones, the world would be a better place.

1. Child in Time

It has to be somewhere up here, huh? It's simply a sensational tune, one of rock defining moments.

I have a soft spot for Deep Purple's formative years as well as 1980s, up to The Battle Rages On..., but after Blackmore's departure they lost much appeal. I mean, this whole band is about Blackmore and how his riffs/leads/solos coalesce with Jon Lord's amazing sound and Paicey artillery barrage.

That's why Burn is much more interesting than anything from Morse era. Sorry!

1. Hard Lovin' Man

2. Highway Star (Made in Japan version)

3. Burn

4. Fireball

5. Flight of the Rat

"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

"He's up the pub"

Yay, glad I helped Hard Lovin' Man make the top five Paul. It's an amazing track with a relentless galloping bass and drums rhythm (I've always thought they took this from Rondo by the Nice), snarling Hammond, a great guitar solo and Gillan's banshee wails.

"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

"He's up the pub"

1 - Highway Star

2 - Burn

3 - Perfect Strangers

4 - Space Truckin'

5 - Lazy

1. Might just take your life (criminally underrated)

2. Burn

3. Highway Star

4. Child in Time

5. Speed King