Deep Purple Vs. Black Sabbath
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Topic: Deep Purple Vs. Black Sabbath
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Subject: Deep Purple Vs. Black Sabbath
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:14
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I prefer Deep Purple very slightly, but i've heard more by them and am willing to be proved wrong. ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:18
| Black Sabbath, since i'm a little fanboy |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:42
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Sabbath. Deep Purple are good, but ive just never been into them as much as Sabbath |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 12:44
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^^^^^^
Yeah, same here!
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Posted By: Era V.
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:14
| I couldn't possibly vote in this...just too difficult...both made an equally massive but thoroughly unique contribution to music in general and metal specifically...too hard! |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 13:28
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"i am the world that hides the universal secret of all time..." followed by the best riff ever... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 19:41
| With less skilfull musicianship but a greater inclination for variety and rocking power... THE SABBATH!!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:32
| deep purple by a little. although they both rock and ronnie james dio has an amazing voice. |
Posted By: GentleGiant
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:40
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SABBATH(OZZY)
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:47
What he said!  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Snipergoat wrote:Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:48
Love that song!
  And that album, and that band!
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:55
Listening to it right now...  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 15:23
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SABBATH (Though Yes is better...) ------------- 
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 16:19
| Deep Purple |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:35
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Sabbath by far, beter songs beter riffs beter singer and so on.. never liked purple that much altough i got thire classic albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 11:42
| Deep Sabbath. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 11:52
| Aren't you thinking of Black Purple? |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 11:56
| Actually I was thinking about Purple Sabbath. |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 10:21
^^And no-one for Deep Black  But seriously, for me it's Deep Purple, especially with Ian Gillan (just listen to Made In Japan, one of the best live recordings ever). Enjoyed the first two Sabbath-albums as well, but never really got into the band. ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 10:19
| Never understood the hype around Deep Purple. They bore me. Black Sabbath all the way. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 09:24
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Sabbath are good, not crazy about them though. Deep Purple all the way. ------------- 
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Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 12:48
MK II era Purple is one of the best things that have ever happened to music! 
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: December 28 2007 at 03:02
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 09:00
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Black Sabbath, from which all Prog metal stems from |
Posted By: axxit
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 19:32
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Posted By: PROGMONSTER2008
Date Posted: December 29 2007 at 21:10
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Pretty equal bands
1968
Purple-Shades of Deep purple and Book of taliesyn remasters with bonus tracks-pretty good
Purple wins
1969
Purple-Self titled album with bonus tracks-fairly good
Purple wins
1970
Purple-In rock remaster with bonus tracks-pretty good
Sabbath-Self title album and Paranoid-very good
Sabbath wins
1971
Purple-Fireball remaster with bonus tracks-very good
Sabbath-Master of reality-very good
draw
1972
Purple-Machinehead remaster with bonus tracks-very good
Sabbath-Vol 4-pretty good
Purple wins
1973
Purple-Who do we think we are remaster with bonus tracks-pretty good
Sabbath-Sabbath bloddy Sabbath-very good
Sabbath wins
1974
Purple-Burn remaster with bonus tracks-fairly good
Purple wins
1975
Purple-Stormbringer-very good
Sabbath-Sabotage-pretty good
Purple wins
Purple win up until 1975 and Come taste the bands is cool too. Sabbath albums Heavan and hell and Mob rules even things up a bit.
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Posted By: MrEd49
Date Posted: December 30 2007 at 18:47
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DEEP PURPLE
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Posted By: Real Paradox
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 17:18
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Defenatly ,
DEEP PURPLE...YEAH! ------------- What is This? It is what keeps us going... |
Posted By: EnglishAssassin
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 19:13
| I love 'em both, and I'll feel disloyal to the other whichever I choose, but Sabbath managed to release a greater number of unequivocally classic studio albums than Purple. |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 19:46
Black Sabbath had some very interesting and revolutionary ideas. Grandfathers of metal in my mind, plus they made an entire song built around the Diabolus in Musica... the Devil's tri-tone (augmented fourth). That song was "Black Sabbath", appropriately enough. Plus, if you add the numbers of the frets in the main riff (0, 12, 6). you get 18 which is 6 times 3, or 6+6+6.  Deep Purple... "Smoke on the Water" annoys me to no end plus 13-year-old kids think they're cool because they can play it all loud and distorted at Guitar Center.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Pinkk
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 02:59
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Definitely Black Sabbath, but I like Deep Purple as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Real Paradox
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 08:52
haha...I play King Crimson...no one notices, and when i play Deep Purple...they go like...(HOW CUTE!!!)...Its stupid and i don't like it ...damn it ,just beacause I'm 13 that does not mean not awere LOL...   ------------- What is This? It is what keeps us going... |
Posted By: 1vic
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 10:54
This thread is irrelevant as a discussion about who's better Bach or Beethoven. ------------- Can help with composition, orchestration, harmony, polyphony, musical forms at http://composition4pros.com |
Posted By: Sinusoid
Date Posted: January 25 2008 at 22:54
| It really isn't fair for me. As of this post, I've only been listening to Deep Purple for about a month and I have only one of their albums, MACHINE HEAD. I'll vote for Black Sabbath anyway just because I have more of a history listening to them. |
Posted By: Nash
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 10:18
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This is a hard one, but i prefer purple ------------- http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191/sydbarrettg.jpg/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 10:33
 This is the fence ... and I'm sitting on it!  ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: khammer99
Date Posted: January 30 2008 at 17:17
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Man tough call!! You have a couple of "eras" with Deep Purple to compare. It almost comes down to an album by album comparison. Paranoid vs Machine Head Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath vs Burn etc... ------------- Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. - Terry Pratchett |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 12:00
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DEEP PURPLE not all the way but still....
What I love of DP is Jon Lord!! and then Ian Gillan. From Sabbath ok Ozzy is perfect but doesn't surprise me. Perhaps Geezer surprises me. Purple Had all their line ups exellent moments. Sabbath didn't. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 12:03
| Yeah perhaps you're right. But what you think about the song paranoid or N.I.B's riff when the kids play that too think they're god. |
Posted By: tillo
Date Posted: February 09 2008 at 17:09
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Black Sabbath, it doesn't matter if Ozzy or Dio on vocals, for me, Iommi created heavy metal! ------------- please, visit http://roberto-land.myminicity.es/ |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 01:29
I love the albums with Dio. And sure, many of the early Ozzy albums. Can't say I'm a big fan of his vocal capacity, though  . But sometimes the music just turns to droning and doomish. It's like being it by a sledgehammer made of thick glue  .
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Posted By: Okocha
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 06:16
| BS |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 05:29
Nice to see Sabbath smoke purple.  -------------
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Posted By: WideAngleWatcher
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 10:38
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Wow! Was surprised to see Deep Purple were behind, I would have guessed they would be dominating. I would say D.P. by a long shot personally too. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 15:46
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i can't vote for me both bands were a major influence in my formatives years of rock so i love them both bands my bote is for the two Alberto -------------  |
Posted By: lucysmusicbox
Date Posted: February 29 2008 at 19:10
| I agree both bands are great |
Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 01 2008 at 17:15
| Deep Purple because they sound more typical of what you would expect of a heavy metal band |
Posted By: abdulbashur
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 12:00
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I love both of them. DP and BS are completely different bands, and when I analized them, I have found that DP is more structured, and complex, than BS. The sum of their parts (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord and Paice) is by far better than the BS result. Deep Purple Rules!!! |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 12:23
How do I hate being Deep Purple classified as metal!!! They're classic hard rock pioneers together with Led and Sabbath, but Sabbath headed more heavily even I don't like none of these three amazing hard rock band being called metal. |
Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 16:15
| I didn't say that Deep Purple was a metal band. I said they were a HEAVY metal band thats something totally different. To me hardrock and heavy metal are the same thing. Its just that heavy metal sounds cooler. Hardrock sounds like an ordinary genre discription while heavy metal also refers to the feel behind it. But I agree calling LZ, DP and BS metal is an insult. When I think of "metal", bands like Slayer, Morbid Angel, Metallica, Pantera or Iced Earth come to mind. Those kind of bands represent the kind of dark, grim, hostile, lets-stick-the-devilhornsign-in-the-air music that I hate. On the other hand the phrase "heavy metal" I think of bands like Judas Priest, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Saxon, UFO and the bands mentioned above. They represent the fun, exciting, no-nonsense lets-have-a-ball rock.. So next time I use the word heavy metal I mean the same as hardrock and not that blood-death-and-murder metal that poserbands like Slayer and Sepultura and all those deathmetalbands who cannot play their instruments make |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 16:24
Ac/Dc metal or heavy metal ? haha it's a joke right... When I think in metal or heavy metal to my mind comes Motorhead, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest others.. When I think of Glam Metal this comes; Whitesnake, Poison, Motley Crue, Kiss, Alice Cooper, others.. |
Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 16:59
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No its 10000000000000000000000% not a joke. Absolutly the opposite!!!!
I dont just consider AC/DC a heavy metal I consider them THEE heavy metal band. You can be damn well sure that im serious about that. People who dont consider AC/DC a HM band dont know what heavy metal is a about. Saying that AC/DC is not HM is a bit like saying that George Clinton is not P-funk. PERIOD!!!
And Metallica is a complete joke they've got nothing to do with real HM and they ruined heavy rock forever.
Glammetal is not a real genre. They are just normal heavy metal bands with a glam image and I still consider bands like WASP, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Twisted Sister, Dokken (etc) as genuine HM not thrash crap bands like Metallica,Slayer, Exodus, Sepultura, Nevermore and all those falsemetalbands YUUUK!!!!!!!
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 02 2008 at 17:06
Almost all glam metal bands are a joke!.... Perhaps I don't like metal but I really know what I'm talking about. And the part of trash is just a personal taste so better don't interlude to trash metal fans ok?! Ac/Dc HM I can't really believe you, even though more people come an' tell me they're, they'r not! They're simply hard rock. If Ac/Dc is HM then Black Sabbath is Heavy Heavy Heavy Metal . |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 11:03
A -10000000000000000000000% joke? That must be a world record. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 12:12
I can understand you dont like bands like Whitesnake, Poison, Motley Crue, Kiss, Alice Cooper, becaus they all suck. But are you realy saying you dont like great bands like Motorhead, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest? thos are some of my favorites, becaus they are heavy metal? I dont even think some of thos are heavy metal or metal or hard rock or whatever take Van Halen for example they where never very heavy more like a classic rock band, and Motörhead, i seen Lemmy say so many times that they are not a heavy metal band but yust a very laoud rock band, and i agree with him. And as for Judas priest, Iron Maiden and Metallica, yes they might be heavy metal, speed metal,doom metal or whatever, so what they are still great. -------------
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 12:46
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Those of you who think Whitesnake are a glam metal band because of TWO albums should probably listen to their earlier output - when they were a great hard-blues band. If you seriously think Jon Lord and Ian Paice (who were with the band for a number of years, before they were kicked out in order for the band to conquer the US, as they did with 1987) would ever play glam metal, I'm afraid you're deluding yourselves. I know ALL of the band's recordings, and I saw them live at Donington in 1983, and I can guarantee you they had NOTHING to do with the likes of Poison and Motley Crue (I hate glam metal btw). As for Deep Purple being heavy metal... Well, I am a major fan of the band (their new bio here is my handiwork), as well as of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, and I see very little similarities between those bands. I also agree about Motorhead and AC/DC being loud rock bands, not metal ones - while I totally disagree about Metallica being crap. I don't like what they did from the 'Black Album' onwards, but their first four albums are great, and Master of Puppets is a masterpiece. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 12:54
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^ Nice to see someone that appreciate the "real" Whitesnake, which is one of my favourite classic rock bands to come out of the '70's. I'm awfully tired having to explain that I don't listen to the "product" Whitesnake. For all you out there who need some education , check out Ready an' Willing.
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Posted By: rudderhead
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 13:34
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Yeah, Master of Puppets is a real masterspiece
A masterpiece of complete rubbish!!!!!
LONG THE LIVE THE REAL HEAVY METAL:
AC/DC, Motorhead, Motley Crue, Krokus, Accept, Saxon, Deep Purple, Poison, Judas Priest, Tank, Riot, Y&T, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Styx, Raven, Black Sabbath, WASP, Warrant, Blackfoot, Uriah Heep, Whitesnake, Rush, Triumph, Armageddon, Def Leppard, Witchfynder General, Foghat, Scorpions, Helix
Forget about the thrash/power/death/prog/hardcore/gothic/blackmetal stuff that followed.
Thats just all been one big detour that HM should never have taken
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 15:54
I would say the ones in red are hard rock
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 16:07
Your telling me that I don't know Whitesnake early era pfff... I had Ready an' Willing's cover on my signature... Being that together with Lovehunter very great albums and very faves on my rock collection.. And Come an' Get It aheading lessing 'proggy' and more simple but still rocks. And some songs from their EP and debut are good too. |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 16:09
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I've voted for Black Sabbath because I love Iommi's guitar so much (and he's left handed... so am I). But really, this was a really hard poll. The Deep Purple were my first love in rock music ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 16:11
Dude you're out! They already denied you much stuff of what you said... Scorpion really sucks... Whitesnake 'metal' era is really popish in a way... Black Sabbath is a completly hard rock band being one of the loudest from 70's together with DP... Styx?.... Ac/Dc again you're saying they're HM oh come on! They're not even a loud band only perhaps in Fly on the Wall.... |
Posted By: alanerc
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 17:21
| Deep Purple |
Posted By: muellator
Date Posted: June 26 2008 at 22:06
| Definitely Deep Purple, Sabbath was great, but there is so much more energy in Deep Purple, and Lord's Hammond playing just sounds so mean. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 02:40
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Deep Purple, at least the mk2 lineup were the better musicians except Ian Paice, who while a good drummer isn't quite on the same level as Bill Ward (who's my fav drummer of all time). Sabbath, however, have more good albums than Purple, so I vote for them. As for influence, they're about equals. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |