Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers?? https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/t12217 Runboard| Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers?? en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:31:31 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:31:31 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p462527,from=rss#post462527https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p462527,from=rss#post462527I liked PS from day one, still do. Of course it doesn't sound like In Rock, Fireball, MH, MiJ or WDWTWA; they're 11 years older. They were called a progressive hard rock band for a reason...they progressed. I'm not knocking any of the 70s releases by any means; I love all of them but PS is the next logical step from WDWTWA.nondisclosed_email@example.com (RatBatBlu)Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:28:42 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p462512,from=rss#post462512https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p462512,from=rss#post462512I hadn't heard PS for a long time. It recently came on my IPOD during my morning run. I forgot just how good this album is!!nondisclosed_email@example.com (doggone)Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:46:32 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p435479,from=rss#post435479https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p435479,from=rss#post435479quote:Apostate wrote: quote:Rezi wrote: Cheers Andy, I have to give the album a spin again one of these days. So, Rami, you've spun it recently. What are your thoughts? Songs, guitar, drums, production... Sorry, I have missed this topic. Hard to say anything else but I like it! The production does sound mid-1980s but great!nondisclosed_email@example.com (Rezi)Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:53:44 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p434819,from=rss#post434819https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p434819,from=rss#post434819quote:Rezi wrote: Cheers Andy, I have to give the album a spin again one of these days. So, Rami, you've spun it recently. What are your thoughts? Songs, guitar, drums, production...nondisclosed_email@example.com (Apostate)Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:38 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p434818,from=rss#post434818https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p434818,from=rss#post434818It is a great album no doubt and Ritchie is shining all over it.nondisclosed_email@example.com (sail away)Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:33:09 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p433809,from=rss#post433809https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p433809,from=rss#post433809Cheers Andy, I have to give the album a spin again one of these days.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Rezi)Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:46:25 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p433806,from=rss#post433806https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p433806,from=rss#post433806For me, Perfect Strangers was like salvation. I had been horribly disappointed by the post 1980 Rainbow, and the Gillan-era Black Sabbath album was only good in places. It was just marvelous to throw on Perfect Strangers: the title song to me sounded a little like what Rainbow (or Deep Purple) would have been had Gillan joined in 1979. In other words, fantastic. I was awed by Knockin' At Your Back Door, and remain so to this day. Wasted Sunsets, Not Responsible, Hungry Daze...all amazing songs. Although it was apparently the start of Gillan's decline, his songwriting more than made up for the comparitive lack of power vocally. I don't quite put PS up there with In Rock, Burn, or Made in Japan. But I think it ranks with Machine Head, Live in Paris '75 and Fireball. I continue to be phenomenally inspired by it, and rarely skip any tracks off of it. Even the lesser tracks, like Nobody's Home, Mean Streak, Under the Gun; they all become likable after repeated listenings.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Apostate)Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:06:02 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p427507,from=rss#post427507https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p427507,from=rss#post427507quote:metaljim1 wrote: quote:KillerBananas wrote: Perfect Strangers is one of Purple's best records, ever!! For me it was a natural follow up to WDWTWA. VERY strong songs! I have never grown tired of it, and I still listen to it regurarly. Interesting perspective. I've never viewed PS as a "natural follow-up" to WDWTWA. To me, it has always sounded like the natural follow-up to Bent Out Of Shape. More Hammond and better vocals, but musically it follows the direction Rainbow was heading in. I don't think the band ever captured the musical vibe of WDWTWA again, which is sad. It's my favorite DP album and had RB given a damn about the fans it could have been even more spectacular. Perfect Strangers is solid, but only contains flashes of the DP magic. That should not have been a surprise, because all the classic DP albums were moments caught in time. You can't recapture or recreate that. That said, I still listen to PS every now and then. It's a good rock album and when they get it right, it's spectacular. I see it as a natural follow up to WDWTWA because some of the songs on PS could've been on the WDWTWA album. What makes the difference is the production and instrument sound (all very 80s sounding- not a good thing btw). I don't think the songs differs that much. Fx the riff to Nobodys Home could've easily fitted WDWTWA with a "70s production/ sound", and the same goes for Under The Gun, Perfect Strangers, A Gypsys Kiss, Hungry Daze and (maybe partly) Mean Streak. Try to picture those songs with Martin Birchs 70s production, Blackmore and Lord using their 70s gear and a more 70s sound for the drums. nondisclosed_email@example.com (KillerBananas)Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:16:33 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p426798,from=rss#post426798https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p426798,from=rss#post426798No, but I've felt unfulfilled by *a* perfect sranger a few times Seriously, though, if you compare PS to the band's heyday ('70-'73), yeah, it's a bit off. But I remember when it came out, it was on the heels of a pretty sucessful Raunbow lp, 2 ex-Mk@ members, 1 ex-Mk3 member and one well-respected ex-Rainbow drummer playing with an up-n-coming hard rock band called Whitesnake, and I think disenfranchised hard rock fans were gettin' sick & tired of the punk and new wave they were hearing on the radio. All things considered, PS was a fine effort by some fine musicians who wanted to get back on track. Slaves And Masters? Now *that's* unfulfilling.nondisclosed_email@example.com (wazzamadda4u)Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:08:20 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p426194,from=rss#post426194https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p426194,from=rss#post426194I feel fullfilled by Perfect Strangers. Perhaps not after the first couple listens (maybe that's my problem?), but just like the other reunion albums from MK2, the more I played them, the better they got. The bottom line, all three reunion albums rocked when compared to other "oldies" rock bands. I'm so glad they didn't go the Aerosmith route. Anyway, what's there not to like about the Perfect Strangers album, except perhaps, the dated production. I'd like to hear what Glover does with these tracks. A remix would be welcome...start by TURNING DOWN THE SNARE! nondisclosed_email@example.com (zen2)Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:49:12 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p422944,from=rss#post422944https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p422944,from=rss#post422944No I love PS......NS should have been on the original. really fills the LP out. nondisclosed_email@example.com (spotlight dad)Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:16:53 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p396245,from=rss#post396245https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p396245,from=rss#post396245quote:RickWells wrote: quote:MrEd45 wrote: Q: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers? A: No. I felt far less fulfilled by "Stormbringer". Ok, I hadn't wanted to go to far off course, but I agree that Stormbringer was WAY more disappointing than Perfect Strangers. I was crushed when Stormbringer came out. I like Perfect Strangers, just not nearly to the degree others seem to. Same here on all counts nondisclosed_email@example.com (Weegiebored)Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:39:58 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395898,from=rss#post395898https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395898,from=rss#post395898Yes.... and guilty to. I find it more enjoyable if I know the person.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morsecode)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:15:08 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395872,from=rss#post395872https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395872,from=rss#post395872Best Purple Studio Albums: 1)In Rock 2)Burn 3)Perfect Strangers 4)Machine Head or Stormbringer   nondisclosed_email@example.com (Apostate)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:21:14 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395829,from=rss#post395829https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395829,from=rss#post395829Yes I felt more than unfullfilled by Perfect Strangers last Saturday as I went to a concert. The support band called "No Way" did the terriblest cover version I ever heard. Have to listen to the wonderful original now.nondisclosed_email@example.com (MrsSnap)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:07:09 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395821,from=rss#post395821https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395821,from=rss#post395821PS was a great album even at the time. It had the trademarks that made DP. Now it serves to highlight that biggest musical strenghts the band used to have are gone and the latest version of Gillan (the band) can only occasionally come up with good material that is worthy of the DP trademark. But they acknowledge this and play AC/DC and Skynyrd riffs in concerts to pump up the audiences! nondisclosed_email@example.com (Rezi)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:06:48 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395819,from=rss#post395819https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395819,from=rss#post395819Hey! - Billion Dollar Babies is a great song and a pretty good album. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morsecode)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:46:06 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395818,from=rss#post395818https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395818,from=rss#post395818Poor man's Alice Cooper? Alice Cooper wishes he could be so good. drinking nondisclosed_email@example.com (Ormandy)Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:53:02 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395813,from=rss#post395813https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395813,from=rss#post395813I'm not necessarily talking about the production - I'm not sure what I'm trying to say actually (no big surprise). Maybe it's simply to do with the songs' structure. They're a bit mundane. I don't think the writing is very good. For instance, Mean Streak - a piece of crap chorus that sounds like a poor man's Alice Cooper. Very weak.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morsecode)Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:47:17 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395809,from=rss#post395809https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395809,from=rss#post395809quote:Morsecode wrote: The most overrated DP album. PS the song was good followed by KAYBD, but after that nothing too impressive. Wasted Sunsets had potential, but sounds unfinished and in the end lacking. I expected a bigger sound. Songwriting for the most part was mediocre. A bigger sound? I think this is maybe Roger's best production ever, it doesn't get bigger than this, it just rushes over you like a waterfall. Nothing he did for Rainbow did that to the same effect, nor has anything since alas, IMO. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Sandbagger1)Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:27:36 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395782,from=rss#post395782https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395782,from=rss#post395782quote:mattdif wrote: When I first heard of the reunion I was so excited. Almost like a kid finding out there really is a Santa. I was expecting a combination of songs where there would be lazy type keyboarding, Burn like drumming, Blackmore bursting away from the 80's sound and at least Glory Road type singing. Instead I got Perfect Strangers Guitar: 80's Rainbow. Boring. Drums: Drum Machine. Boring Organ: Conservative and Simple Vocals = No catchy songs. No Flow. Bass = The only bright spot I was so disappointed. I had to listen to it over and over to find some hooks but with great difficulties. Over time I came to appreciate KAYBD and PS but still a very average album to me. Not the same as any Mark 2 before that. Perpendicular is a far better Mark 2 type album than any Reunion Mark 2. Agreed. The most overrated DP album. PS the song was good followed by KAYBD, but after that nothing too impressive. Wasted Sunsets had potential, but sounds unfinished and in the end lacking. I expected a bigger sound. Songwriting for the most part was mediocre. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Morsecode)Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:24:17 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395701,from=rss#post395701https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395701,from=rss#post395701Hmm, how could PS be 'safe'? Yes, it's commercial but it has a much heavier sound and feel than the Rainbow albums before it, in fact, I think it's way heavier than THOBL which is quite thin sounding with a basic riff orientation. Some of the songs though, like the title track and KAYBD, are very Rainbowish (I hear JLT and GB singing, respectively). nondisclosed_email@example.com (Sandbagger1)Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:00:03 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395688,from=rss#post395688https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395688,from=rss#post395688Interesting question. Like, are one night stands ever enough? Well, I think Perfect Strangers was a 'safe' album, put it like that. I rather like HOBL, to be honest, and at this moment in time I'm not sure which I prefer.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Dartagnan)Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:03:46 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395682,from=rss#post395682https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395682,from=rss#post395682quote:mattdif wrote: When I first heard of the reunion I was so excited. Almost like a kid finding out there really is a Santa. I was expecting a combination of songs where there would be lazy type keyboarding, Burn like drumming, Blackmore bursting away from the 80's sound and at least Glory Road type singing. Instead I got Perfect Strangers Guitar: 80's Rainbow. Boring. Drums: Drum Machine. Boring Organ: Conservative and Simple Vocals = No catchy songs. No Flow. Bass = The only bright spot I was so disappointed. I had to listen to it over and over to find some hooks but with great difficulties. Over time I came to appreciate KAYBD and PS but still a very average album to me. Not the same as any Mark 2 before that. Perpendicular is a far better Mark 2 type album than any Reunion Mark 2. Exactly nondisclosed_email@example.com (Weegiebored)Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:17:43 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395669,from=rss#post395669https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395669,from=rss#post395669When I first heard of the reunion I was so excited. Almost like a kid finding out there really is a Santa. I was expecting a combination of songs where there would be lazy type keyboarding, Burn like drumming, Blackmore bursting away from the 80's sound and at least Glory Road type singing. Instead I got Perfect Strangers Guitar: 80's Rainbow. Boring. Drums: Drum Machine. Boring Organ: Conservative and Simple Vocals = No catchy songs. No Flow. Bass = The only bright spot I was so disappointed. I had to listen to it over and over to find some hooks but with great difficulties. Over time I came to appreciate KAYBD and PS but still a very average album to me. Not the same as any Mark 2 before that. Perpendicular is a far better Mark 2 type album than any Reunion Mark 2. nondisclosed_email@example.com (mattdif)Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:44:49 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395662,from=rss#post395662https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395662,from=rss#post395662quote:MAHO wrote: quote:Atle wrote: Nobody play guitar only for the money - or in that case they would play dance music for 50-year olds. Is there a lot of money in that? :-) --- jfm He he, not to become a millionaire. But it's a sure way, not to say the sure way to go to make a decent living from playing music. At least around here it is. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Atle)Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:40:43 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395588,from=rss#post395588https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395588,from=rss#post395588quote:lightintheblack0 wrote: Have to say that i found PS a bit of a dissapointment! Im not sure quite what i had expected from PS I suppose it was that the guys would follow on from WDWTWA and they most certainly did not. What I got was pretty much Rainbow with a better Keyboard player. Exactly As others have said, a badly mixed muddy sounding 80's rock album, with two outstanding tracks and the rest mediocre. Decent enough album but not up to the sublime standards of legendary Purple at their 70's heyday peak nondisclosed_email@example.com (Weegiebored)Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:26:32 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395580,from=rss#post395580https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395580,from=rss#post395580Like with "Machine Head", there should definitely be a 'Classic Album' DVD (from Eagle Rock Ent.) of this album, it's important rock history if only for the reunion aspect only. And then the management/Thames/Thompson can release their own 2-disc, with loads of rare footage. Get a move on, fellas.   nondisclosed_email@example.com (Sandbagger1)Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:10:52 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395577,from=rss#post395577https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395577,from=rss#post395577I would love to see/hear a proper remix and include extended versions of songs that go past the fade and demos, alternate takes, unreleased jams (Jon Lord mentioned one time that there are a ton of jams from PS). And round the whole thing out with a companion DVD in the package that contains studio footage of them recording PS including the entire film of Son of Alerik and one of the 3 filmed shows from Australia 84. That would do it for me.nondisclosed_email@example.com (rijir)Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:46:10 +0000 Re: Do You Ever Feel Unfullfilled By Perfect Strangers??https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395575,from=rss#post395575https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/p395575,from=rss#post395575 quote:How could anybody feel unfulfilled by "Under The Gun", maybe the best DP song written for the reunion?!? It blows me away everytime, a masterpiece of a production that song alone. Agreed. "Under The Gun" is one of the bright spots and pretty good just as it is. So if a remix was made, I'd still hold on to the old mixes for sure, but I bet a remix DONE RIGHT, could be breath taking. Has anyone heard the remixed "Who By Numbers?" Much better than the original. "Quadrophenia" on the other hand not as good. But I'm willing to take a chance with Purple. Matter of fact, if they want me to remix them, they know where to find me.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Ormandy)Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:01:53 +0000