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Smoke on the Water

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Made in CAN in 2001, Serial# 314-520-503-2, Playing Time 51:10

The tracks on this disc are lifted from 3 albums: 1984's "Perfect Strangers", 1987's "The House Of Blue Light", and the live album "Nobody's Perfect" from 1988.

The track selection is fair, but there's already a number of other compilations on the market focusing on those very same 3 albums (e.g. "Child In Time", "Knocking At Your Back Door", "Under The Gun", "Rock Giants" and "Progression")

And this one is the shortest! If you're interested in a "best of" for those albums, I suggest "Under The Gun" (79 minutes), and it also includes the track "Perfect Strangers"...

This appears to have been an attempt to pull together something that would look like a "Greatest Hits" package after the band's long dry spell was broken by the very minor hit song "Knockin' At Your Back Door", which had some mildly clever PG/R-rated lyrical twists and a bit of a melody.

But this album is more of a "bait and switch" than a "Greatest Hits" album.

If you're looking for the version of "Hush" that's usually played on
the radio, this isn't it. It's not even the same vocalist.

And if you're looking for the version of "Smoke On The Water" that's
usually played on the radio, this isn't it, either.

"Dead Or Alive" is energetic, and the lead guitar and keyboard hearken back to the best of the band's earlier work, but overall this song is more of an attempt to be loud than to be good. Similarly, "Wasted Sunsets" has some nice lead guitar work, but I never find myself bothering to pull it off the shelf and put it into the CD player.

"Mitzi Dupree" is annoying, and I just skip over "Strangeways".

The live version of "Woman From Tokyo" fizzles out, as though both the
band and the recording engineer lost interest in finishing the song.

If you've heard a few Deep Purple songs (e.g. "Smoke On The Water") on the radio, and you think you might get interested in the band, I'd start with the album "Machine Head" -- and I'd never get far enough down the list to reach this album.

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a good mix of live and studio recorded songs, worth the buy