Deep Purple - Fireball
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Artist: Deep PurpleEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Fireball
- No No No
- Strange Kind of Woman
- Anyone's Daughter
- The Mule
- Fools
- No One Came
Music reviews of Fireball
Music Review: Deep Purple at its Mark II best
Rating: 5 Stars
F5 *
Although usually disregarded, Fireball was in fact one the Mark II lineup's best album. They showed more balance and cohesion than in their first album ("In Rock"), along with a lighter sense of humour. With only seven tracks, virtually all over 5 minutes long, this was album-oriented rock at its best. Gillan's vocals, Lord's keyboard's, Blackmore's guitar, and Glover/Paice's solid backing makes this one of the absolute best Deep Purple albums, if one of the lesser-known. Every track is strong. Of particular note, the lyrics here (probably written by Gillan and Glover), are more confident and substantially more interesting than the largely simplistic texts of "In Rock". The anniversary edition has several strong additional tracks. In short, a must for fans and casual listeners alike.
Key tracks:
"Fireball" - the opening track is, as was usual for Mark II, full of energy, with excellent solos.
"No, no, no" - of particular note for the lyrics and the terrific, slow guitar solos throughout.
"Demon's eye" - a solid rock song, of particular note for its keyboard solos.
"Anyone's daughter" - giving equal room to keyboard and guitar solos and humorous lyrics, this is one of Deep Purple's best songs of all time. While mostly ignored, it's an amazing showcase for the band's ability to put together catchy, fun music, and for Lord and Blackmore's terrific instrumental skills - not in playing faster and faster, but in playing good music. Sadly, this is one of the short tracks on the album - if only this had been giving an extended, 10 minute treatment!
"Fools" - a hard rock song with biting social commentary - something for which Deep Purple was not well known, but carried off well on this album. An appealing, calm, slightly classical, instrumental bridge forms the center of the song.
"No one came" - another example of the band's humor coming to the fore. "No one came for miles around, and said 'Man, your music is really hot'". The fun, clever lyrics are the centerpiece of this song; the music is good, but not outstanding, and the solos are flat. But the lyrics make up for it.
"Strange kind of woman" - a non-album track that's a great addition - excellent music, fun lyrics.
"I'm alone" - a throwback to the early Mark II, before they quite figured out what they wanted to be.
* Where F# is a rating of how much of a fan you need to be to appreciate the album. F1 is an indication that only diehard, compulsive collectors are likely to want the album. F5 indicates that a complete newcomer to the band would appreciate it.
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