Rezi
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The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
I just listened to ROTD after a week's (or so) break.
I think it is the best album DP have done since RB left the band!
Now that the bulk of posters have heard the album, I'll set up a poll of this in the Lists & Polls board.
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16/11/2005, 12:44
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KillerBananas
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
IMO Purpendicular (almost) blows away both Bananas and ROTD! IMO Purpendicular are up there with In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are and Perfect Strangers. 
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16/11/2005, 19:49
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Diostillrocks
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
ROTD. The most adventurous album so far followed by Purp.
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16/11/2005, 20:50
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Star City
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
Let me ponder....I say it's about tied as the best post 1976 recording.....
Perfect Strangers: I loved it in 84...and still do but memorable tracks for me are
PS (and live performances of this song blow this version away), KAYBD, WS, Not Responsible. A good deal of filler (Mean Streak is just unlistenable to these ears)
HOBL: I like this better now than most posters....Bad Attitude, Mitzi Dupree, Strangeways stand out....a lot of good but not great....some horrible moments...Spanish Archer yuck (Ritchie, a song cannot be structured around 16 guitar solos unless it's an instrumental)....Call of the Wild is abysmal...almost the low point in DP history...
SM: While I share an antipathy for the squeely one there are a few good tracks...Wicked Ways being the best....a couple of Ok Rainbow songs....a lot of filler with squeely lyrics and vocals....LCA is the second lowest point in DP history....ARRRGH
TBRO: A great title track, Solitaire and Anya....filler, filler, filler and Lick it Up...which is THE low point of the reunion.
Purpendicular: This is sooooo much better than the last 2 I think it gets slightly overated. Imaginative and progressive and some great songs SIFLS, LMS, Rosie's Cantina,
A lot of good songs...Aviator and Soon FOrgotten (outside of killer guitar work) are low points...but there are no bad songs here.
Abandon....Skip the first song which is OK at best....next few songs are good to great....the second half of the album is like a blurry bad dream where every song sounds exactly alike and is a snooze fest....7th Heaven and FIngers to the Bone are fantastic...Tried to sound hard...just sounded like they were trying mostly...and why a Boodsucker retread....:-(
Bananas: Much better...Bananas, IGYN, Sung Goes Down, Doing it Tonight are classics..a lot of good stuff...a few daft moments....Haunted's a guilty pleasure to me but its certainly not a highlight....Razzle Dazzle....uuughh
ROTD: Better still...Money Talks, ROTD, CQA, KTG, MTV, JB, BTB and the Things I Never Said are instant classics....rest is good to mediocre....only Back to Back and Girls Like That sound like filler to these ears....and they have some redeeming qualities...(good lyrics GLT....nice solo spots in Back to BAck)
It's on a par with Purpendicular as the best release of the reunion era....time will tell but I think ROTD is a more unified LP with stronger tracks. Purpendicular is all over the place, but that was the point of breaking the Blackmore addiction. Purpendicular has the best production values of any reunon era LP. I'm not crazy about the mix on ROTD. Overall both are great LPs...why quibble....:-)
The more I really listen to the 80s and 90s DP with Blackmore, the less I miss him. WHile there are highlights....boy there are a lot of clunkers. 3 of the 4 Morse Era ablums are really good.
Respectfully submitted by a Morsified Zombie
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19/11/2005, 12:37
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Fireball
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
Star City - good eval. I can't listen to Mean streaks beyond the first chorus - it has to be one of the crappiest Purple songs except for... Lick It Up (what were they thinking???)
My only quibbles with you are minor - I keep hitting the replay button on Back to Back - the solo by Morse bursts with energy and Aviator is one of my favorite Purple tunes.
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20/11/2005, 3:19
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Star City
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
Aviator isn't a bad song...just doesn't catch my ears...sort of like Never a Word from Bananas...I appreciate it but I find my fingers heading to the skip button if I'm driving...
Actually Morse's solo spot is really good too on Back to Back...beyond the solos...there's not a lot going on...
ROTD is brimming with energy all over...I have a hard time understanding the critics here who describe it as lifeless and boring...dont quite get that....
I wonder how much of Lick it Up was the squeely one and how much was Gillan....
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20/11/2005, 4:12
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Fireball
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
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Star City wrote:
I wonder how much of Lick it Up was the squeely one and how much was Gillan....
Ouch!! You'll get some flack for this. I'm still blasting ROTD myself - leant it to a couple of casual DP fans who really haven't followed them recently - they were amazed at how good it was and bought their own copies. To my ears it's one of their most complete albums and I compare it to Machine Head and Perpendicular in that sense.
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20/11/2005, 5:06
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Star City
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Re: The Best Post-Blackmore Album!
I agree...I'm at a loss at some of the criticism of the ROTD. Everyone has different opinions....yada yada yada...but this album just kicks...I have a younger friend who had never heard of DP borrow this and he was blown away.
I'm serious about Lick it Up though...JLT wrote a lot of the material on TBRO and when Gillan came back he "tweaked" things...I mean the song reeks of the song writing stylings of he who must not be named.
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20/11/2005, 12:45
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