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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
May be Deep Purple's best,
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This review is from: Book of Taliesyn (Audio CD)
Before Deep Purple was a pioneering hard rock/heavy metal band, Deep Purple was a pioneering progressive/art rock band. The original Deep Purple line up included Jon Lord (organ), Ian Paice (Drums), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), with Rod Evans (vocals) and Nick Simper (bass and vocals). This group recorded three albums (Shades of Deep Purple, Book of Taiesyn and Deep Purple). This is their second album.This is probably the best of the first three albums and may be their best studio album. It is a nice mixture of progressive and psychodelic styles with a hard edge. Alot of the music is dominated by Lord's keyboards, but Blackmore comes through on a number of tracks. There are surprising hard rock versions of a Neil Diamond song (Kentucky Woman) and a Phil Spector/Berry Gordy tune (River Deep, Mountain High that was later popularized by Ike and Tina Turner). Then there is the expected Beatles cover (We Can Work It Out). (There must have been a law in England that any new band must cover a Beatles song on the first two albums). But the best things are two of the original tunes, the title track and The Shield. This CD reissue contains five extra tunes which total 21 minutes. They are all fairly good, and three of them are excellent. There is a psychodelic tune, an energetic live version of Wring That Neck, a blues tune and two hard driving songs. They make the CD worth buying even if you already have the LP. Make sure to get the Spitfire reiussue and not one of the earlier CD versions. The first releases on CD had bad sound quality and an unbelievably bad reproduction of the cover. The Spitfire reissue has great sound quality, the five extra songs, a nice booklet and an amazingly low price. It should be noted that this sixties version of Deep Purple sounds quite a different than the later versions. After these three albums, Simper and Evans were kicked out and replaced with Glover and Gillian (who were kicked out later). The group turned more to hard rock on the studio albums. If you think Machine Head was the greatest thing Deep Purple ever did, you probably won't like this CD. If you like the Deep Purple's live material, you may appreciate this.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
DP's Sophomore Set Never Sounded So Good,
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This review is from: Book of Taliesyn (Audio CD)
Thank heavens for the Mk. 1 Purple masters...for too long we fans have had to settle for cheaply produced and packaged Mk. 1 CDs which sounded like they were recorded off the original vinyl. (Not only that, my original Taliesyn CD had a cover so blurry, you couldn't read the band members' names). Well, suffer no more! The Book of Taliesyn, like the other 2 Mk. 1 CDs, has been remastered, packaged with a beautiful book containing a great essay by noted Purple historian Simon Robinson (my hero!), and peppered with several bonus tracks, the best of which is a tune called "Oh No No No." Although Taliesyn has never been my favorite Purple album (and in fact the album that followed it, titled simply Deep Purple, is better), it is still well worth having. The remastering job really does sound better, although remember the album was recorded in 1968, probably on 8 tracks at best, a rush job done to capitalize on the band's nascent buzz in America. "Kentucky Woman" features one of Blackmore's best solos ever; "Anthem" features Jon Lord in an early attempt to fuse rock and classical (and add to it to underrated vocals of Rod Evans: "If the day would only come/then you might just appear, if only you'd be gone/when I reached out my hand..."). "The Shield" is pure psychedelia, and I wonder if Tina Turner ever heard the Purple treatment of "River Deep, Mountain High"? Some of the material is dorky ("Listen Learn Read On" is highly dated, and "We Can Work It Out" a tedious Beatles cover), and "Playground" lacks the whimsical false start found on 1989's excellent Ritchie Blackmore Rock Profile Vol. 1 CD, but these are minor quibbles. I'm telling you, you gotta turn the page and read the Book of Taliesyn!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Book of Taliesyn,
By Hank Helpless (NO, Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Book of Taliesyn (Audio CD)
Band Personnell:
Rod Evans - Vocals Ritchie Blackmore - Guitars Nick Simper - Bass and Backing Vocals Ian Paice - Drums Jon Lord - Organs and Backing Vocals Not long after their first album was released, they produced their second album, this was a little heavier and had more highlights and less cover songs, the opening track "Listen, Learn, Read on" is a really cool song, the instrumental "Hard Road" has good riffs, but the best song in this album must be "River Deep, Mountain High", it begins instrumentally, but after a while Evans shows how gread voice he really had, this is the best of the three poineering albums, no doubt, buy it!
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