The Contrarians Dark Horse Albums: Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band (1975)

[@thecontrarians2438]

What is your thought on Come Taste the Band and what do you rate it out of 10?

[@MrTheabsolute69]

Great album! listened to it over and over. What's not to like Bolin, Hughs, Coverdale. Purple got funky, great guitar work and excellent vocals with this mix. Sadly it was not to last as drugs and ego[mostly drugs!] got in the path of talent and unity.

[@lahreafruge7508]

An excellent album extraordinary vocals unique guitars and great melodies

[@laurentasselberghs8673]

Not the best Deep Purple album, but it's surely my favourite one. Best vocal performance by DC, fantastic guitar and drums playing, perfect songs.10 out of 10.

[@Matias-music-71]

Perhaps my 3rd fave of their entire catalog , a solid 9

[@tomp8463]

8

[@Redrum1981]

My favorite Purple album of all time 🤘

[@kenfrederick6223]

Always a good episode when Geddy Lee is the host. 😀 "Come Taste The Band" is an underrated classic IMO.

[@christanner3761]

Rush isn't touring anymore and he has a wife and three hungry kids to feed. Keep on hosting.

[@rickhutterly1485]

This is a definite 10 out 10, it is Deep Purple, a great lineup and a great album with some Killer songs, great playing and singing from Coverdale and Glenn, spectacular, and the remix from a few years is electric. So good

[@arnaudb.7669]

Love this album. "This time around" is close to the best Stevie Wonder 70's output.

[@Kouros-t6d]

BY FAR the VERY BEST DP album !!! Lord and Paice were so happy to play such great Music that they followed Coverdale in Whitesnake after DP disbanded.

[@thecontrarians2438]

Now that's contrarian!

[@themuleify]

No no, you have all your facts backwards... First of all, it's your taste in music so can't argue there, but to say that this is the best DP album, it's really nonsense. Secondly, paice and lord, joined WS, simply for economic reasons. It was no surprise when the offer to reunite DP came about, lord and paice grabbed it with both hands. The album is good but it's not a purple album, it's more experimental with drugs alcohol and some music

[@nilshenrikteigen9215]

CTTB is my 2nd favorite Deep Purple album ever, and has been since I bought it on release day. It’s varied, funky and hard rocking. Coverdale is outstanding on this one. Only Burn beats it.

[@vhscampos1]

It's exhausting to hear the same old "This is not Deep Purple" for 50 years now. If you still think so, you're simply missing out on brilliant music.

[@billyshane3804]

Well said indeed.

[@nickmannion3879]

Absolutely brilliant album. When I bought it back in the day (I am old) I knew it wasnt Machine Head but loved it for the funkier bluesier feel....and if it had been a different band, it would have got far more kudos but was destined to be a 'comparison' album. Buy it and enjoy.

[@joshcreasey]

I love this album a lot. It’s not their best album but it’s a great listen from start to finish. This was even funkier than Stormbringer and that’s a great thing! Comin’ Home, Getting Tighter, Lady Luck, and You Keep On Moving are my favorite songs on this. I rate this album 9 out of 10.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Jon lord wasn’t that absent if you listen. Love child, This time… You keep on.. Drifter

[@LEEFORDJAGG]

I discovered this album in the 1980’s and came to it without the baggage. Tommy fitted in well and not only that contributed significantly in the songwriting quota. The highlight of the Kevin Shirley remix is ‘I Need Love’ where beyond the natural fade,Tommy is heard shredding away. The amount of Slide Guitar has never been an issue for me on this album. Regarding Spectrum,Jan Hammer’s fluid keyboard lines are mis-identified as guitar lines. Glenn Hughes’s lead vocal features on CTTB are career highlights. Glenn always sung with a discipline and focus in the studio with Deep Purple. Whereas on his debut solo album he has no one reining him in overall, and ‘Play Me Out’ certainly would have benefited from one standalone Funky Rock’n’Roll track. I recall John Sykes rating David Coverdale’s vocals highly on CTTB. Jon Lord had put his creative mojo into his Saraband album around this time. I did get to see Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes reunite briefly at the Indigo O2 in London in 2009. As Jon Lord has said before “Paicey ..at the Peak” around this time.

[@lance98541]

I didn't like the album at all when it was released, and it took me many years to appreciate it. However, I love the album now and still listen to it frequently.

[@thecontrarians2438]

yeah I have a few bands and albums like that, sounds like a show topic!

[@strikedn]

Ahead of the times, for sure and amazing. 9/10. Been listening to Purple since 72.

[@Matias-music-71]

looking forward to this one , to me along with Fireball the most interesting in their entire catalog ,

[@bmboldt]

Glad to see Pontus on again. CTTB is a very good album. I am a big Bolin band.

[@sifuanthonytarasca1686]

I love this album and Love Child also has a Jon Lord solo, not just You Keep On Moving.

[@galtsghost4454]

My brother-in-law gifted me a cut-out vinyl copy in 1981 or so. I’ve been a Tommy Bolin fan ever since, may he rest in peace. 10/10.

[@inmyhouse11]

Great album. Criminally underrated. 8/10

[@thomaswery3087]

I really like CTTB saw them on tour.Tommy was pretty much on that night

[@purpletemple1]

I would like to point out that what the host of this show (Reed I believe?) uses as one of his reasons for his dislike for the album, may not be entirely accurate…Yes, a bunch of riffs/ ideas were written by Bolin prior to his work with dp, Lady Luck being a good example. None of those were complete songs and CTTB is clearly a band effort, as recordings like the ones featuring on “Days may Come Days may Go” and “1420 Beachwood Drive” will attest. Extended jams showing the band working on the new tracks. You keep on Moving was even composed around the time of Burn by Hughes and Coverdale. So saying that those songs are basically leftovers from Bolin’s previous bands or solo work is quite a stretch. I guess it’s fine to read the Wikipedia page about an album, but that doesn’t mean it tells the whole story… And to say that Jon Lord can only be heard on the first 20 seconds at the beginning of the album, proves that he hasn’t properly listened to the record… Bolin's playing is below what he did with Billy Cobham? Well, yes, certainly...CTTB is not a Fusion album meant to display the talent of each musician but rather (again) a band effort that serves each song. Not something uncommon in dp's catalogue (the same could be said about Machine Head for example...) It’s fine not to like an album, but at least try to give some fair and credible facts. As you might have noticed I'm a big fan of CCTB...9.5/10

[@seabud6408]

I honestly think .. and it’s kind of hilarious .. that many people who love Tommy’s playing on Soectrum by Billy Cobham .. are mistaking Tommy’s parts for those by the stellar lead synth player Jan Hammer .. who was a match for two of the greatest players ever .. Beck and McLaughlin.

[@purpletemple1]

@@seabud6408 Jan Hammer is an incredible musician, but Tommy had a very distinctive sound (and so did Jan Hammer). Not sure how Hammer and Bolin could be mistaken....but it's an interesting view.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Lady Luck is basically an old song from Tommy’s early days in Energy

[@williamgainford9332]

Still my fave deep purple album 10/10💜

[@PittsburghRocks]

There was a ton of funk-inflected rock in the mid-70s. Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith... even Sabbath on "All Moving Parts Stand Still".

[@anthonytice3028]

The title comes from a drunken Tommy Bolin trying to say “Come taste the wine come hear the band”. The background vocals on “ Coming Home” sound odd because there is no Glenn Hughes. He had been sent home due to excessive drug use and didn’t sing or play bass on that track( Bolin on bass). The original lyric to “ Here I Go Again “ was “ like a hobo” because Coverdale realized he used the word “drifter” so much. Obviously he later changed it to drifter

[@markhuntington9149]

8 out of 10 for me - love Bolin's playing and the Whitesnakisms - probably my 5th favorite DP album, of the golden period

[@johnleitch9032]

I bought this on cassette the week it came out. Everyone on form. Great songs, for sure . DC clears his throat and gives a career highlight. Witnessed the tour in Glasgow it was great , everything is when you are 16 . Still stands up today a big 10 as with all the Mark 3 studio releases.😊

[@damiangrimm1430]

Bolin played bass on Coming Home because Hughes was in rehab

[@domielakrabi3276]

It's easily in my top 5 DP albums. I love it a lot - funk and even jazz influences can be heard on it. I give it a 9/10. I'm happy Glenn Hughes still plays some songs from it.

[@hellojimmypage]

I remember Ian Paice saying on an interview that despite Tommy being a brilliant guitarist, he felt that chemistry didn't happen. Have to disagree with him, specially listening to the Kevin Shirley remix from '10 which features some cool extended versions of the songs, and a bonus track 'Bolin/Paice Jam' which is outstanding, great interplay between him and Bolin. Some of the strongest Purple songs to be found on the album.

[@Drumdude74]

Great show guys, I enjoy the album, lots to like on it. 7/10 for me, I suppose!

[@johnspokus]

Come Taste The Band was the first DP album I ever bought, on 8 track tape, from a department store cut out bin. Personally, I love it and think it’s a better album than Stormbringer or anything which followed Perfect Strangers.

[@brandonbelt5055]

Pretty much everything Butch said. Top three Purple record for me. 9.0 rating.

[@brotherhoodoflightshowcurr3318]

I saw a Deep Purple Machine Head tour right before made in Japan Jun 8/72. Unbelievable change my life. I had Storm Bringer and had Spectrum couldn’t wait to hear Tommy Bolin with the Deep Purple remaining lineup. Almost1975 a month apart the album Tommy Bolin Teaser was released and Come Taste the Band. All the radio stations in Northern California and Northern Nevada would only play Teaser. I had to actually go out and buy the album. Come Taste the Band now I liked it. I thought it was good, but I didn’t think it was a Deep Purple album. I thought it was a separate band, just by the nature of the sound . listening to it now 50 years later I think it’s the long lost Tommy Bolin album. his guitar styles all over it and now I hear more Tommy Bolin than anything else on the record.

[@danielmacdonald8349]

The exact same thing with me. Saw Purple in 1972 before they recorded MIJ. To this VERY day - the best concert I had ever seen. I had every DP album before CTTB and when I bought it I was somewhat disappointed - it basically sat in my music rack for probably 10 years. However, since then I have warmed up to it BIG TIME. I’ll actually probably put it in my top 5 DP albums of all time.

[@brotherhoodoflightshowcurr3318]

@@danielmacdonald8349 used to go to Winterland and the Fillmore and San Francisco. I met a guy tipped me off to go to Deep Purple they were playing the following weekend. I was familiar with the song child in Time, but that was it. Black Oak Arkansas opened up and they sucked this was June 8, 1972 about six weeks before they recorded Made in Japan Anyway I was about 15 to 20 feet off the front of the stage right in front of Richie Blackmore. They came out with a similar intro on made in Japan. Gill spoke to the audience"We're gonna do our lightweight stuff" as they were doing that little intro and then he threw the microphone stand directly at the audience . Then he stepped on the three prong base of the stand, and it just flew back into his hand and they broke into that giant power cord to Highway star. I don’t know what the second song was. It could’ve been Maybe I’m a Leo or Smoke on the Water. The third song was child in Time and you can imagine what that would do to you. Then they did lazy and strange kind of woman with the incredible Gillen Blackmore vocal guitar trade-off and I don’t know if they did, any other songs, but they did the giant version of Space Truck, and almost identical to the one on Main in Japan no Blackmore the whole time was completely acrobatic with his guitar. It was amazing. He would be ripping on a lead and throw it up in the air and then catch it right on the note I mean it was it was unbelievable . Pace and Glover we’re like this gigantic freight train rhythm section where Lord and Blackmore could lay anything down over it and it would sound great . At this point, I was a senior in high school. I’d probably seen 50 different rock shows including Zepplin Sabbath, the stones The Who, Jethro Tull, but purple smoke them all.

[@billyshane3804]

Tommy Bolin - fusion pioneer and guitar genius. Favourite Purple album 9/10.

[@damiangrimm1430]

I really like this album. The band are cooking and sound like they are having fun playing it. One of the best produced Purple albums, Birch did a great job and still sounds great today. I think Bolin was an inspired choice, I think he has a free flowing style similar to Blackmore. It showed this line up had a lot of potential and all things being good could have done some amazing music in the future. I give it 7.5 out of 10

[@lstarrtna4288]

Last guy fantastic summation.

[@thecontrarians2438]

thanks for the comment!

[@chrismoyse3529]

Love child is the same riff as The Devil is Singing our Song by James Gang.

[@SWEETFA24]

You Keep On Moving was originally intended for Burn but Blackmore wasn't interested would have loved to have heard him play on it.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

It does sound a bit like it'd fit on there too, I think.

[@Snakehead1964]

Whitesnake butchered the CTTB songs on the Purple album

[@Baz63]

i remember being vilified for proclaiming that 'Come Taste The Band' was their finest up to that point. Many years later, when the 35th Anniversary edition was released, our premier rock writer Geoff Barton gave it 10 out of 10 stars. It is still my favourite but Purpendicular is, for me, their finest in pure musical terms.

[@unicyclepeon]

10/10 for me .... this is my second favorite album by Deep Purple, after In Rock.

[@raisedonrockradioshow]

Outstanding album

[@seabud6408]

Famously, Jan Hammer modelled his synth playing to be a match for John McLaughlin’s excoriating playing in The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Tommy can barely play fast (can’t play anything by Blackmore properly.. or even close.. ) but has a great tone and groove. Has everyone who heard Tommy on Spectrum by Billy Cobham, which featured Jan on blinding form .. mixed the two up? Seems so to me .. yes. Tommy doesn’t do any stellar virtuoso playing on that album .. but I love what he does .. it’s Jan who excels as a “guitarist” on that album. I love .. come taste the band .. but it’s wasn’t a purple album. Ian’s drumming is SO GOOD on it.

[@michaelsneade31]

Different but fantastic.

[@flyingburritobro68]

10 great album. My favorite Purple album

[@garym6688]

I happen to be a big fan of the post-Gillan/Glover era of Deep Purple myself, and I think this album has a lot of strong songs and some very strong individual performances. But I understand why it may not be appreciated as much by more hardcore Purple fans, because it doesn't sound much like Purple whatsoever. It's one thing to pit the vocals of Coverdale & Hughes against Ian Gillan, but when you basically remove Jon Lord from the equation altogether AND replace Blackmore with a guitarist whose style is totally different, it's easy to see why a dyed in the wool DP fan wouldn't like this. It may have received a much different reception upon released if it HAD come out under the Whitesnake banner, simply to avoid "misleading" the potential listeners. I think it was Tim who made mention of The Elder, and that reminded me of Paul Stanley's frequent assessment: "The Elder is a good album, it's just not a good KISS album." And as much as I like "Come Taste The Band" myself, I think that same logic can be applied here as well.

[@borisdisko4322]

Glenn Hughes can definitely overdo it with his singing, which is a shame because he does have quite a nice voice. I love him in Black Country Communion.

[@peterfredriksson1857]

I bought this album, with some hecitaion if I remember correctly, when it came out. Being a huge fan of Blackmore I didn't like it much and went to Rainbow and at the same time more to progressive rock like Genesis and Van the Graf Generator. But nowadays I rather listen to Come Taste The Band than Stormbringer and Who Do We Think We Are. I think It's an 8 and You Keep On Moving is my favourite. 🙂

[@frankies9465]

Ill give it a 7.5 .i like it. I disagree its a 10 but i also disagree that its awful. I usually disagree with the guy who said its awful, so nothing changes with this episode. Martin is right on , as usual !

[@treyrobinson1970]

I'd have to go Dealer for my favorite song, hands down. Tommy Bolin puts on a clinic with that track. Overall, I'd give it an 8.

[@keithleeuwen877]

good choice

[@damienfoyer]

I didn't hear this album until about 10 years ago. I come from it as someone who knew Blackmore era Deep Purple, Morse era Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Hughes solo career. Didn't hear Billy Cobham's Spectrum until after this album. At the time, I found it a disappointment. Now, I think it's an enjoyable release.

[@THOMASSBLAQUELOURDE]

Let's not forget Glenn Hughes destroyed Deep Purple twice.

[@roberteverett2819]

I think that it is a very good album but could have been much better if Glenn had been available for more vocals as his vocals are much more interesting than David Coverdale's. He had much more range and versatility and I think he could have done a better job on most of the songs but his bass playing and Paice's drums drive the album with loads of power. Unfortunately I think that Jon Lords keyboards were vastly under used as he was a vital part of the Deep Purple sound. It would have been very interesting to see what Glenn and Tommy could have come up with in the future if they could have sobered up but unfortunately it was not to be.

[@ffghfdsgfgdgsfhgsf]

I've never listened to this album up until now, and I have to say my first impression is rather negative. I agree with Reed, it sounds nothing like Purple we all know and love. The songs are quite good from a blues-rock perspective but it's not Purple at all. There's only one song that I actually liked here - the last track, I've heard it before on the "30: Very Best of Deep Purple" compilation from 1998. This one is really great classic Purple song that reminds me of the "Burn" era. But the rest of the album is boring. Even songs like "Coming Home" and "Gettin' Tighter" which were praised by the panelists several times don't impress me. They sound more like early Whitesnake and would have fit perfectly on "Trouble" for example. But coming from Deep Purple - no, thanks. Maybe this album will grow on me in a few years, but right now after the first listen I give it a 3/10.

[@Triton63]

I fast-forwarded though that guy that listened to Come Taste the Band for first time "yesterday". WTF? Why was he on the panel?

[@americathisweek.6077]

Agree with Reid it’s not a great purple album but it’s a good album

[@marktaylor3657]

A great album but a million miles away from DP Mk2 which not all can accept. Each to their own. An album tinged with sadness for me given Tommy’s untimely loss, and the end of DP prior to the various 1990’s reboots.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Not sure Cobham or Lee Sklar would call Bolin a generalist

[@sjwill1956]

I was a Purple and Bolin fan when this was released.. I liked Blackmore but was never a if he isn't there then I cannot listen .. also bought the first Rainbow LP that year as well .....Like this record better than Stormbringer, which was a disappointment .. so much so I got rid of it... but later bought another copy but cannot recall the last time I played it....and it is certainly much better than the other 1 off with Turner( Lp with only 1 appearance by a member) which is my least fav and is more aptly called a Deep Rainbow LP.... Saw an interview with Lord would said it was a very good Hughes/Bolin solo record but not so much a Purple record ... it certainly isn't overplayed so it sounds fresh to me almost 50 years later .. the record that was the bigger disappointment .. and shows Bolin's addiction impact .. is his second solo record Private Eyes....Teaser was killer ... even in it's cut down single album format.. Bolin wanted a double .. listen to the longer /jam versions incredible....waste of talent to the needle ... but Purple in the 70's never really sounded the same record to record IMO....they were not carbon copies always something different/fresh within teh general structure of "Deep Purple" .. I think their "sound became more standard in the Morse era ... and kicked up a couple of notches with McBride on the last one .. still Purple but fresher again....

[@Justin_Kipper]

I honestly have no interest in tasting any member of that band!

[@thecontrarians2438]

😂😂

[@sspbrazil]

Haha

[@paulcropper4717]

9/10 because is any album 10/10?

[@canaan_perry]

An excellent LP. One of my favourite Purple records. Probably number 2 for me after Burn. The Dealer song has its roots in the song Red Skies from Energy/James Gang period. Any repackaged riffs and ideas have very different feels and arrangments though. It's true he wasn't that interested in playing the DP back catlogue live. Stormbringer is something he played well and he funked it up. His version of Smoke on the Water was totally adequate most nights. This is about the best he played Burn: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4fWmmuEi96tsJI

[@chrismoyse3529]

Tommy Bolin only plays on four songs on Spectrum. On Red Baron you hear the same slide bits as this Lp.

[@roydemarais]

Yeah, the four BEST fucking songs...and it's what made Jeff Beck interested in it, and it renewed his interest in playing, again...what's your point?? It's not bad for a 25 year old kid.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Bolin was very restrained by hard rock. Listen to Teaser and associated outtakes like Crazed Fandango to see this line up had no future.

[@DBZ5371]

This was interesting as it shows how poorly some of these guys listen. Guess they can’t hear Jon Lords honky piano throughout Comin Home. Plus, these weren’t leftovers…there’s 2 discs of them rehearsing at Columbia Sound. Purple T-Shirt guy hating on Tommy is just stupid. Hates Bolin but loves Getting Tighter ? How does that work…it’s pure Bolin as he wrote it 🤨

[@ffghfdsgfgdgsfhgsf]

He doesn't hate Bolin, he hates this album as a Deep Purple record because it doesn't sound anything like them. But he also says the songs are not bad. It's just a different band.

[@DBZ5371]

@@ffghfdsgfgdgsfhgsf Keep defending him…it doesn’t cut it. The reason this album is now highly rated is because it still sounds amazing and modern. It was ahead of the curve in ‘75. Remember all those ‘rock’ bands who started making dance/funk/disco music in the late 70’s ? Yeah, me too.

[@ffghfdsgfgdgsfhgsf]

@@DBZ5371 No, the reason this album gets so much praise today is because people are tired of listening to "Smoke on the Water" for the thousandth time and finally start to revisit some oddball albums they never cared for in the first place. That's why it's suddenly cool now to appreciate albums like Never Say Die, Music from the Elder, Another Perfect Day, and many others that people used to avoid for decades.

[@carlosdanger6129]

It is a great album.. i never liked the album cover and title tho

[@infernicide666]

It’s by no means the best and it does still maintain some of that shitty funk garbage that Stormbringer suffered from. I hated it initially but after hearing how horrendous Stormbringer was I guess it is a big improvement over that album. Stormbringer might be the worst thing they ever did. I haven’t heard the 73’ album so I can’t speak to that album that seems like it would be uninspired but an uninspired heavy sounding Deep Purple album from the Gillan era is still better than Stormbringer lol.

[@MrPhantom1961]

A great album, which has held up extremely well to the passage of time. Is it a true Deep Purple album. No. Blackmore and Lord, and to a lesser extent Paice (sorry, Ian) were key to the sound of the band. Remove either one of these key elements and you still get great music, played by musicians at the top of their game, but it's not Purple.

[@rexpresto]

I really can’t believe that almost 50 years after CTTB came out, people are still trying to convince themselves there is something good here. Sixty percent of the “classic” lineup is gone. Glenn Hughes was so wasted he couldn’t be in the album photo shoots (Look at the cover. Hughes’ photo is completely different than the other guys, who were together in the photo session in the inside gatefold) and the songs are just not good. At all.

[@sspbrazil]

I don’t get the draw to Glenn Hughes in the first place.

[@rexpresto]

@@sspbrazilHonestly…That guy has spent half a century dining out on the three years he was in Deep Purple. Three studio albums, only one of which (“Burn”) is anywhere in the neighborhood of being good.

[@sspbrazil]

@@rexpresto true, he was in Trapeze before that and that band was pretty boring. The guy is lucky to be alive after all the crap he’s out up his nose and down is gullet. I just think his singing is pretty meh anyways, but yeah, he definitely milks those few years he was in Deep Purple and much of he time, he was so high off his tits, he didn’t even know where he was.

[@vhscampos1]

It's almost like people have different tastes. No pun intended.

[@alanlund8922]

This album is my least favorite Purple album. I was never a big fan of this incarnation of the band and why I have tremendous respect for Tommy Bolin as a guitarist, I never felt that Deep Purple was a good fit for him. Unfortunately, there's only this album he made with Purple and while there are a couple of good and interesting songs which had some very good soloing by him, but he was a way different guitar player than Blackmore and why he was a very good choice for this album because his style of playing was perfect for the funkier style of music that Purple was performing at the time which was great, but I have seen a few videos over the years of performing with the band live and when it came to playing the classic songs that made Deep Purple, he just didn't seem to have the ability to play them the same way as Blackmore, not that anybody could, but his overall approach to playing those songs just seemed to miss the mark, at least to me. I have no problem with a band wanting to expand from the basic sound that they are known for and made them famous, still you have to be able to do justice to those songs live and as talented as Bolin was, when it came to playing the older stuff live, he just seemed not able to pull it off. Another thing about "Taste" that to me was confusing to me was that while I got the basic premise that this album was a continuation of the style of music that Purple had begun to write for the previous album "Stormbringer" which ironically, I liked much better than "Taste" was the fact that Bolin literally either wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album and Jon Lord was almost M.I.A., it was almost not even a proper Deep Purple album. The album definitely was even more funkier than "Stormbringer" and in fact if the album had been released under any name other than Deep Purple, it probably would have been a pretty successful album. It was simply too much of a radical departure from Purple's basic sound than even "Stormbringer" was, and a lot of Deep Purple's fans of the older back catalog with Blackmore simply refused to accept this version of the band which is sad, because while it is my least favorite Purple album, neither is it a bad or awful album either. It is over-all a good album with some interesting songs on it that definitely took Purple in a different direction musically but unfortunately it simply was never embraced by Purple's older fans who didn't like the fact musically, it had nothing in common with the band's history with Blackmore.

[@Ron-wf5yw]

Could never stand Glenn Hughes, idk why just one of those things.

[@matthewashman1406]

The screaming 😮

[@sspbrazil]

I’ll never understand the love for Glenn Hughes, his vocals are just meh, anyone that says he can still hit the high notes now doesn’t realize his vocals were always bland and thin to begin with, so hitting the high notes isn’t much to write home about.

[@jimmyheathmusic3779]

Couldn’t disagree more. Music is subjective so cheers

[@sspbrazil]

@@jimmyheathmusic3779 music is indeed subjective, but that doesn’t make Glenn Hughes’ singing any better. Lol.

[@chrismoyse3529]

@@sspbrazilhave you heard Face The Truth by John Norum. Great vocals from Glenn on that album.

[@sspbrazil]

@@chrismoyse3529 I listened to it after reading your comment, same thin, generic rock vocals and the music is not my cup of tea, sounds like the Hughes and Thrall album which is meh too.

[@themuleify]

You guys are tiresome. Just accept things at face value and move on. It's not like you really know the why, and how.

[@SteveBello]

Horrible DP album. Period.

[@Matias-music-71]

no worries mate , it is ok to be wrong ;)

[@infernicide666]

This album probably gets a 6/10 for me. Stormbringer gets a 1!!!! lol