Deep Purple - Very Best of Deep Purple
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Artist: Deep PurpleBrand: DEEP PURPLE
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Hush
- Kentucky Woman (Single Version)
- Black Night
- Speed King (U.S. Album Version)
- Child In Time
- Strange Kind Of Woman
- Fireball
- Demon's Eye
- Highway Star
- Smoke On The Water
- Space Truckin'
- Woman From Tokyo
- Burn
- Stormbringer
- Knocking At Your Back Door
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Music Review: There aren't any good Deep Purple greatest hits compilations
Rating: 3 Stars
There are three different "Greatest Hits" CDs for Deep Purple, all three of which suffer from inexplicably poor track selection. The question becomes whether it is appropriate to single out one of them and give it a positive rating because it includes a particular favorite track that the others omit. The problem with doing that is that, if by chance at some future date they issue a really good greatest hits collection that truly deserves four or five stars, it will not be distinguished in the ratings from these flawed compilations.
The grandaddy of the Deep Purple greatest hits collections is the CD titled "Deepest Purple - The Very Best of Deep Purple". It was originally released on vinyl in the early `80s, before the Mark II lineup reunited. Unfortunately, it suffered from the inclusion of at least three decidedly mediocre tracks from the years when Deep Purple had become a decidedly mediocre band. The compilation that you are looking at here is essentially a re-release of that earlier compilation, with three tracks added to take advantage of the additional space of the CD, and with a slight change in title to simply "The Very Best of ...". This re-release inherits the flaws of the ancestral release, but doesn't stop there. The re-release was done after the MKII lineup had reunited and had released "Perfect Strangers". The title track from "Perfect Strangers" is among Deep Purple's better tracks. But rather than include it on this re-release, someone decided to include "Knockin' at Your Back Door", which is not one of the MKII lineup's better tracks.
Then there is the import CD with the same title as this one, i.e., "The Very Best of ...". It adds a few more tracks, including "Perfect Strangers". In effect, "Perfect Strangers" is substituted for "Knockin` at Your Back Door". But with the exception of "Perfect Strangers", the tracks that are added are tracks from the mediocre years, and in order to make room for mediocre stuff, someone decided to omit "Space Truckin'". This is unfortunate, because any true DP fan will surely remember getting down with, "We had a lot of luck on Venus, we always had a ball on Mars ...".
Finally, I should mention the CD titled, "Knocking at Your Back Door" (subtitled, "The Best of Deep Purple in the `80s"). With this one you also get "Perfect Strangers", but unfortunately the versions of DP's earlier stuff, appearing on this CD, are either second-rate live cuts or else alternate, decidedly inferior mixes. I should probably also mention that a live version of "Perfect Strangers" is found on the live CD, "Nobody's Perfect", but unfortunately all of the live performances on this CD, including the performance of "Perfect Strangers", are second-rate.
Thus, you end up choosing between a compilation that omits "Perfect Strangers" and a compilation that omits "Space Truckin'". It is of course true that no compilation of a band with as many great tracks as DP is going to satisfy everyone. But these two tracks happen to be tracks than should not be omitted on any DP compilation, particularly when those compilations include as much mediocre stuff as these compilations include.
What we really need is a CD that would make a good collection when combined with "In Rock", "Fireball" and "Machine Head", because there is no way, no how that you can have a DP "greatest hits" without the entirety of those three. An "almost greatest hits" that included "Woman from Tokyo" the title track from "Perfect Strangers", and that filled out the remainder of the CD mostly with stuff from the years prior to MKII, e.g., "Hush", "Kentucky Woman", and "April", would make the perfect supplement to the three MKII releases from the early `70s. Then add "Made in Japan", and you've got a pretty darned good DP collection. The problem of course is that while you can buy those three original MKII releases individually and you can buy "Made in Japan", there is no good way to buy "Woman from Tokyo", "Perfect Strangers", "Hush", "Kentucky Woman" and "April" without buying a bunch of different albums. Oh well.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: DEEP PURPLE
Title: VERY BEST OF DEEP PURPLE
Street Release Date: 05/09/2000
Genre: ROCK/POP
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