The Deep Purple epics
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Topic: The Deep Purple epics
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: The Deep Purple epics
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:30
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Here's a really fun one - Deep Purple's epics - across their live and studio releases! Let's see how this one turns out. |
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:37
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No-brainer for my part :) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:42
| Sweet Child in Time |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:49
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:56
------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 11:04
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Child in time. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 11:18
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Then I'm going to Wring that Neck! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 13:44
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The one that appears in an ELP epic with seven virgins. ------------- 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 15:10
| Hard choices here, since I love Deep Purple a lot. At the end I voted for Fools. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 19:08
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Child in Time ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 19:42
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Child In Time - quick decision for me. ------------- 
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 20:05
| Child In Time |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 23:15
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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. ------------- Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 00:23
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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. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 00:28
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Child in Time. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 07:00
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I feel no shame in going with the grain. Child in time all the way. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 07:12
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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. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 07:22
 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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Shadowyzard wrote:Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 08:28
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 08:29
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.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 08:54
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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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 08:58
| 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. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 11:06
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Child In Time is the obvious choice, but I vote for April. ------------- 
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Posted By: Theprogelitist
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 14:15
| 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 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 14:54
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. 
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 21:56
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There is always the Gemini Suite which seems oft overlooked. Done live. With Orchestra. |
Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 23:42
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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. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 04 2021 at 02:44
Don't be sad, I do that right now.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 00:16
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I have to go with Child in Time too (Made in Japan version). |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: January 14 2021 at 01:34
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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… < |
Posted By: triptych
Date Posted: January 14 2021 at 03:44
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It's Mistreated for me.
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 14 2021 at 11:00
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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 |