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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Coverdale/Hughes Purple worked well together!,
By Micaloneus (the Cosmos) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Burn (Aniv) (Audio CD)
It was recorded in late 1973, with Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Jon Lord (keyboards) and Ian Paice (drums) plus new members, David Coverdale (vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass guitar and vocals). The band were really on their best behavior here and resulted in a great album that is more blues and soul than their previous albums. Blackmore is pretty much the star on BURN, leading the band with some killer riffs and playing some terrific solos.
Jon Lord is more colorful than usual, using more than just the organ and piano. The bass and especially the drums do a great job that can impress anyone. Ian Paice never gets his due for being a top-notch drummer, and he shines on this disc. The vocals are not Ian Gillan, but are still very good. Actually, I see this album as the ultimate tribute to Gillan, by replacing him with not one, but two singers, trading off vocals on all the songs but Mistreated (Coverdale solo) and A200 (the closing instrumental). What is nice about this disc is that it's not a bunch of cheesy songs going for a hit single, but it plays from start to finish with a sense of intellectual capacity. It's heavy, it rocks, it's bluesy. What a GREAT rock album! Burn - The title track is a classic masterpiece. Might Just Take Your Life - Unadulterated Deep Purple excellence. Lay Down, Stay Down - Another good song with great Blackmore solos. Sail Away - A tour de force among masterpieces. This should be an FM staple. You Fool No One - Lots of percussion. One of my DP favorites. What's Going on Here - Some silly lyrics but another excellent rocker. Mistreated - Besides the title track, this is the other classic from Burn. A 200 - A cool way to end the album, a quirky instrumental. The rest of this CD features remixes, starting with a rare B-side (a better mix than the original) and four songs from the main album (Burn, Mistreated, You Fool No One and Sail Away.) These remixes work very well (more bottom/less cymbal brightness). With a few surprises for the long time fan, such as the extended ending to You Fool No One. The booklet is also up to the high standards of the previous anniversary collections. RATING: 4 3/4 stars
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 Stars - Underrated gem sadly 'mistreated' by critics,
This review is from: Burn (Aniv) (Audio CD)
Burn (1974.), Deep Purple's eighth studio album
'Burn' ushered a new period for the great Deep Purple. A year earlier, the band was going through an extremely low point. Tensions in the band during and around the time of the making of the previous album, 'Who Do We Think We Are' between Gillan and Blackmore in particular was undermining the groups real true potential. Subsequently, Ian Gillan, Purple's legendary frontman handed in his resignation from the group and bassist Roger Glover left shortly afterwards. The great Mark II line up was no more but more importantly Deep Purple itself, after 7 albums was very close to folding completely. However, Deep Purple was to rise again from the ashes of its previous line up with the recruitment of David Coverdale, a relatively unknown vocalist and Glenn Hughes, a bassist and more than capable singer..... The results were astounding. The new Mark III line-up produced this great album, one which has never been given enough credit. It is a great return to form and dispels any ideas that Deep Purple had lost its class with the loss of Gillan and Glover (note they were to return with the Mark II reunion in the 1980's). The sound of the new line up is a bit different. Coverdale, who was to become the lead singer for Whitesnake is very much a different vocalist to Gillan, in my opinion not quite as good but he is still excellent. Similarly, Glenn Hughes is a worthy successor to Glover - he also provides great support to Coverdale's vocals. 'Burn' itself has a slightly different style to previous efforts. I personally don't think it is quite as heavy as say 'In Rock' or 'Fireball' but it still has plenty of drive and passion in parts, some very racy sections and most importantly has no weak tracks. Some of Ritchie Blackmores finest guitar work is on this album and Jon Lord shows his brilliance many times over as his keyboard playing is ever present and he gives us some great improvisation. Currently, 'Burn' has two editions available. There is the standard 8 track issue which is more than good enough or there is the 'Burn 30th Anniversary Edition'. This version was released late last year and is excellent, coming with an extensive booklet, bonus funky b-side track Coronias Redig and remixes of 4 of the tracks. However, do consider availability and cost. I bought the new edition but it is much more readily available and cheaper in the UK - it may not be worth paying double the standard edition price in other countries, such as the US, unless you are a Deep Purple die hard. The whole album is a great and refreshing listen from start to finish. Burn, the title track is a great opening 6 minute rocker with the first introduction to Coverdale. Note he harmonises in parts with Hughes, something there is much of on this album. 'Might Just Take Your Life' is a great follow up. A slower pace with a bluesy funky feel - Jon Lord puts out a great solo at the end. 'Lay Down Stay Down' picks up the pace - powerful vocals, drumming with piano rather than Hammond Organ from Lord, which works well. 'Sail Away' is a brilliant track, with swop over vocals from Hughes/Coverdale and a good bit of guitar work from Blackmore in the middle. 'You Fool No One', perhaps the weakest track on the album is good nonetheless, loads of harmonisation, Blackmore rocks out this one. 'What's going on here' is quite catchy in parts, slower again with more piano presence. 'Mistreated' is perhaps the most telling track on the album, perhaps the best also. There's a real blues style to this and Coverdale gives the words to the song real emotion - this incidentally is the only track were he only sings. '*A* 200' is a clever, experimental instrumental track which provides a thoughtful finish. Futuristic keyboard styles fuse with some more great stuff on the guitar from Blackmore. Quite simply, the Mark III line up deserves much more respect than it is given. 'Burn' is testament to this and it stands as one of Deep Purple's finest efforts. The new members never cowered in the shadow of the great Mark II predecessor and 'Burn' deserves as much attention as the Mark II era work. NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED!
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Love Deep Purple- HATE the Copy Protection!,
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This review is from: Burn (Aniv) (Audio CD)
This is not LEGALLY even a Compact Disc! The BBC reports (Nov 4, 2005) that Philips, who defines standards for CDs, is very clear that copy protected "music delivery systems do not count as Compact Discs and cannot use the CD logo." In 2002, Klaus Petri (Philips rep) told Financial Times Deutschland that "those are silver discs with music data that resemble CDs, but aren't".
DO NOT ALLOW YOUR COMPUTER TO AUTORUN WHEN YOU PLAY THIS DISC. It will ask you to upgrade your software if you do. And if you let it the disc will probably not play correctly. I own nearly every song Purple have officially issued either on CD or vinyl (and a number of boots as well) but I have never illegally downloaded music to get them. It really offends me when publishers try to mess with my computer system in any way shape or form to combat something I am innocent of. At least this CD does not install the rootkit onto your computer that SONY's copy protection does (see my 'Howl' by Black Rebel Motorcycle review) which has really damaged some computers and makes every computer vulnerable to backdoor hacking while online! I ordered this not realizing it was copy protected and was angry when I found this out. (The label warns the disc may not play on "some equipment, for example car CD players" in print so small I can barely make it out.) Now what to do?!? 1. Immediately disable the 'autoplay' on your CD player to prevent the disc from 'upgrading' your software. 2. Download Exact Audio Copy (free) to individually copy the tracks to your computer. 3. Burn the tracks to your own CD THIS IS LEGAL AS COURTS ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONSUMERS RIGHT TO MAKE AT LEAST ONE BACKUP COPY OF MEDIA PURCHASES! SONY STATES THAT IT DESIGNED ITS SOFTWARE TO ALLOW A LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE MADE (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/faq.html). You now have a CD that can't screw with your software and will play on the same platforms as redbook CDs- i.e. XBox and more platforms than the original disc. Interestingly enough you WILL have anomalies (inaudible to the ear) on your disc because the ORIGINAL DISC has anomalies on tracks 6 - 13! CDs have backup code on them so if scratched the laser can determine music from the backup codes. Using Exact Audio Copy you almost never get 'read errors' unless you have a very badly scratched disc. On 'Burn' I got 35 'read errors' for 35 'suspicious positions' on one song alone! I don't know if the copy protection is messing up the data or if there is a quality control problem in manufacturing but a brand new disc should never have even ONE read error. I am betting the backup data disagrees with the primary digital stream to cause this problem. I checked a few times to make sure my software was not the problem. Nope - it's the disc. I've never had this happen on any other disc. I like CDs. I don't like whatever this is!
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