Best Deep Purple Songs

[Kmonk]

Space Truckin'
Highway Star
Hush

[FretlessMainly]

All good suggestions. I really dig this one from Fireball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4oBiBaLfVo

Skip to 1:50 to avoid the riff raff if you so desire.

[Lonesomedave]

Hush
Kentucky Woman
Lazy
Pictures of Home
Strange Kind of Woman

[wabbit]

Another DP tune I've always dug was Black Night. That vamp just keeps me bopping.

[Thundar]

Stormbringer...and everything off the Perfect Strangers album.

[robd]

My faves...


Woman from Tokyo
Speed King
Rat Bat Blue
Pictures of Home
Burn
Mistreated
Gettin Tighter

[Mugre]

Being a drummer, Burn

I don't know why but I'm a sucker for Mistreated.

Another less common one the I've always liked was Pictures of Home but that goes with the all of Machine Head sentiment.

[crikker]

Ted the Mechanic.

[TolerancEJ]

Highway Star
Black Knight

[Rickengeezer]

Originally Posted by gjbassist

Highway Star
Hush

+2....Jon Lord for the win in both, one of the greats we lost in 2012.

[N.F.A.]

Highway Star
Fireball
Burn

[mellowinman]

So here is what I went with:

Black Night - Single
Burn - Burn
Child in Time - In Rock
Highway Star - Machine Head
Lazy - Machine Head
Never Before - Machine Head
No No No - Fireball
Pictures of Home - Machine Head
Smoke on the Water - Made in Japan
Stormbringer - Stormbringer
Woman from Tokyo - Who do we Think we Are
Wring that Neck - my own edit from In Concert 1970

It's not perfect; it's not definitive; it's a bit Machine Head heavy, but it will do. Sonically, I just couldn't use the first three albums. Drums were too light in the mix; it just didn't mesh with the other tracks. I will listen to it in the car, and see if I got it right, but I think I did. I just love that "Made in Japan" version of "Smoke on the Water." This is probably one of those bands where you should just burn each album to its own CD, but hopefully this disc will work, at least for now.

[Thornton Davis]

There are a lot of great Purple tunes in their discography many which have already been mentioned but one of my favourties is Lay Down, Stay Down from the Burn LP. This songs just out and out rocks!

TD

[Mike in Chicago]

Highway Star from Made in Japan is the greatest opening song I've ever heard.

And Who do we think we are is their best studio album.

[Turock]

Highway Star
Lazy
Space Truckin

[Richland123]

I am a big Deep Purple fan. Their anthology CD set is great if you can find one.

While I can't pick just one song, here are a few of my favorites.

Black Night
Hard Road (Wring That Neck)
Highway Star
Rat Bat Blue

[JimK]

Going off on a tangent-
Been off for 3 weeks...dug around & found an old '80s Guitar magazine with David Coverdale/Steve Vai on the cover...I'm not a fan of Coverdale/Whitesnake...still, read the Coverdale interview-
The guy is way more knowledgable (about other music) than I knew!
He sez a problem when he & Glenn Hughes joined DP at the same time...both were listening to the same type of music: Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, etc.
Coverdale, being a fan of Billy Cobham's Spectrum (seminal '70s Fusion classic) & Alphonze Mouson's Mind Transplant (an overlooked '70s Fusion classic)...was responsible for getting Tommy Bolin into DP (Bolin's guitars were in-hock when he auditioned for DP).
Love/hate: He loved Bolin's playing, hated what he chosse to do to his body.
Eventually, though, Bolin's skills got so bad that Coverdale & Hughes jumped around on-stage like kooks as a distraction to Bolin's pitiful playing.

Coverdale had kind words for Rudy Sarzo...
Coverdale on Vai: The guy coulda fit in with Miles Davis during the Bitches Brew period...

Coverdale also mentions Coltrane, Zappa, & some other R&B guys.
All in all, a very good read.

[mellowinman]

Originally Posted by JimK

Going off on a tangent-
Been off for 3 weeks...dug around & found an old '80s Guitar magazine with David Coverdale/Steve Vai on the cover...I'm not a fan of Coverdale/Whitesnake...still, read the Coverdale interview-
The guy is way more knowledgable (about other music) than I knew!
He sez a problem when he & Glenn Hughes joined DP at the same time...both were listening to the same type of music: Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, etc.
Coverdale, being a fan of Billy Cobham's Spectrum (seminal '70s Fusion classic) & Alphonze Mouson's Mind Transplant (an overlooked '70s Fusion classic)...was responsible for getting Tommy Bolin into DP (Bolin's guitars were in-hock when he auditioned for DP).
Love/hate: He loved Bolin's playing, hated what he chosse to do to his body.
Eventually, though, Bolin's skills got so bad that Coverdale & Hughes jumped around on-stage like kooks as a distraction to Bolin's pitiful playing.

Coverdale had kind words for Rudy Sarzo...
Coverdale on Vai: The guy coulda fit in with Miles Davis during the Bitches Brew period...

Coverdale also mentions Coltrane, Zappa, & some other R&B guys.
All in all, a very good read.

I don't have anything against Coverdale as a person, or as a member of Deep Purple. He seems like a good guy, and he certainly has a good voice.

Why, then, can I just plain not stand Whitesnake?

I'm wondering if I should even be blaming David for that band!

[Tituscrow]

Originally Posted by mellowinman

I don't have anything against Coverdale as a person, or as a member of Deep Purple. He seems like a good guy, and he certainly has a good voice.

Why, then, can I just plain not stand Whitesnake?

I'm wondering if I should even be blaming David for that band!

C'mon man...not even 'Aint No Love In The Heart Of The City' or 'Mistreated' (live versions)?

[Tituscrow]

Oh, I know 'Mistreated' is a DP song, but the Whitesnake version - albeit with Lord and Paice - is jaw-droppingly good.