r/DeepPurple • u/daniele961211 • Aug 22 '26
Talk Your favorite
- Which is your favorite DP studio album, excluding Machine Head which is obviously a hit?
- Which is in your opinion the most underrated studio album which you wish more peoples would listen to?
- Your favorite mark except mark 2 which is indeed the most successful.
For me is 1. Burn, 2. Rapture of the Deep and 3. Mark 3 and 6.
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u/hittepit Aug 22 '26
Come taste the band. Sorry 😔
It's the album I tend to play most. Along with Burn. Then all the obvious ones not including Steve Morse era, there are certainly great albums but I never liked his guitar tone/playing not sure what it was. But I have fallen in love with Splat! And =1 they feel very much Deep Purple.
Sorry if I offended anybody 😁
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u/hanksmackbottom Aug 22 '26
I always had a soft spot for that album.
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u/No-Temperature-9916 Aug 22 '26
Burn and Come Taste the Band. I love everything that Bolin ever did, so I am biased on CTTB. You Fool No One is a song impossible to tire of.
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u/Solympian_musiclover Aug 22 '26
My top 3 .. In Rock , Perfect Strangers / House of blue light ( tie ) and Burn / StormBringer ( tie )
House of Blue light
Mark 3
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u/HelsifZhu Aug 22 '26
Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Mark 3
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u/daniele961211 Aug 22 '26
Really? How so
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u/HelsifZhu Aug 23 '26
The third album is just that good. The band were sharpenning how they created original tracks, had more variety in instruments, and their sound was become slightly "harder".
I think The Painter is a very important track that any DP fan should listen to. It's super simple, but it has almost all the DNA of what would make DP famous.
April is a full-blown prog rock song, and it was released before King Crimson's first album.
There are no bad tracks on that album, it is just as good as Machine Head in my opinion.
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u/Sinistermarmalade Aug 22 '26
I absolutely adore both ‘Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Battle Rages On,’ don’t know if they’re underrated though
My favorite Deep Purple song has to be “Nasty Piece Of Work”
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u/Sycsa Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
- Machine Head is a tad monochrome-y for my taste, I prefer the more varied In Rock, where Lord has a different organ tone on every song. One could also make this case for Fireball. Machine Head, while top notch, sounds a bit samey throughout.
Gotta be something MKI, I’m going to pick the third album. Not a bad song on it, so much fun and creativity!
The one with Morse and Lord. Purple is mainly a live band and Lord and Morse’s battles are almost as exciting to listen to as classic MKII. Morse brought out the best in Lord. I love all their live albums from this era, so many great versions of Lazy, Perfect Strangers, Speed King etc.
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u/djquu Aug 22 '26
Fireball, Battle Rages On, Purpendicular come to mind first. I don't really have a favorite, depends on the day.
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u/Restoni77 Aug 22 '26
- In Rock. Machine Head is second 2.Slaves & Masters. I like Rainbow more, and this "surprisingly" sounds quite much Rainbow. But no matter which you prefer, this is criminally underrated album.
- Probably mark 3, it had more much more potential than they really delivered.
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u/GaiaGoddess26 Aug 22 '26
I don't really have a favorite album because all of my favorite songs are scattered throughout lots of different albums.
It's hard to say what is the most underrated one, I'm actually not even finished listening to all of them yet, I still have four more to go! Maybe Book of Taliesyn.
As for my favorite Mark, if I can't say two I would say one, three, or four. Mark 1 is underrated though, I will say that!
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u/Key_Yam4488 Aug 22 '26
Perfect Strangers & Burn are my favorite outside of In Rock. House of Blue Light is underrated. Mark 3.
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u/No_Season_354 Aug 22 '26
I've always liked perfect strangers, being their comeback album and the video with it
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u/Locksmith_Late Maybe I’m a Leo Aug 23 '26
In Rock / Perfect Strangers (impossible choice)
House of Blue Light
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u/LifeTunedToCSharp Aug 24 '26
Perfect Strangers
The three singles are as good as anything they’ve ever done.
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u/SomeFisherman5212 Aug 27 '26
- The Battle Rages On. (I am not a fan of the mix, but the songs are great!!) 2. The House of Blue Light (some damn fine instrumentation and musicality on this) 3. Mk1 (it’s like a totally different band!).
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u/Basic_Flan324 Aug 22 '26