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Burn Hush Child in Time Speed King |
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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'.] |
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Top 5 update with Starshiper, Aodhan & Saperlipopocataptl's votes added, although I'm still unable to add GuruCan's votes on.
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 |
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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... |
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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.
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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.
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^ 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.
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Mistreated Child in time Fools Perfect Strangers Mandrake root
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Highway Star
Burn Knock in’ At Your Back Door Child In Time Smoke On The Water |
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