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Released: 1984 Mercury
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| There were many incarnations of Deep Purple
due to numerous personnel changes throughout the years. This is
the album where the most popular lineup from Deep Purple got
back together to record another album. It was the same lineup as
the 1972 album Machine Head. It's a tossup as to which of
the two is the better album. Machine Head had
"Highway Star" and Perfect Strangers had
"Knocking at Your Back Door". Machine Head had
"Smoke on the Water" but Perfect Stranger's
title track was great too! Oh what to do! I know, Buy both,
because that's what I did. The real tiebreaker was the fact that
after deep Purple broke up, Ritchie Blackmore became a better
guitar player. So when they reunited, he had some chops he
didn't have before that. I would also recommend Deepest
Purple (1980) for someone who just wants a sample of Purple
before they'd go and buy a non-compilation CD. |
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