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Track Listings
| 1. Speed King (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Bloodsucker (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Child In Time (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Flight Of The Rat (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Into The Fire (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Living Wreck (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. Hard Lovin' Man (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 8. Black Night (Single Version) (1995 Digital Remaster) |
| 9. Studio Chat 1 |
| 10. Speed King (Piano Version) |
| 11. Studio Chat 2 |
| 12. Cry Free (Roger Glover Remix) |
| 13. Studio Chat 3 |
| 14. Jam Stew (Unreleased Instrumental) |
| 15. Studio Chat 4 |
| 16. Flight Of The Rat (Roger Glover Remix) |
| 17. Studio Chat 5 |
| 18. Speed King (Roger Glover Remix) |
| 19. Studio Chat 6 |
| 20. Black Night (Roger Glover Remix) |
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Monolithic, immense and enduring--much like that cover image: the band-members' heads carved into the side of a mountain, a la Mt. Rushmore. Perhaps they felt they'd earned such veneration, having emerged relatively unscathed from the experience of Jon Lord's overblown Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Whatever the rationale, the band regrouped in early 1970--complete with new vocalist Ian Gillan--and set about making one of the decade's undisputed hard-rock classics. For all their undoubted power--and despite the jazzy inflections of Ian Paice's drumming--there's little in the way of groove to these tracks; rather, they're about volume and density, the simple piling-on of dynamics. Clocking in at over ten minutes, "Child In Time" ranks as a classic of its kind, while tracks like "Speed King" and "Into The Fire" see the band at its most unfettered--Richie Blackmore and Lord trading solos with a dazzling sort of ease, and Gillan loosing the full-throated roar for which he soon became renowned. --Andrew McGuire
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Having failed to make any significant commercial impact with three previous albums, Deep Purple finally turned some heads following the recruitment of vocalist Ian Gillian, bassist Roger Glover, and the premier of their atypical but ambitious crossover project, Concerto For Group & Orchestra, at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. Though this classical curiosity secured a Top 30 placing, there was a nagging sense that they had yet to fulfil their true potential.
Recorded in snatches between relentless gigging over a six month period, In Rock, released in June 1970, did just that. In some respects the material was a skilful synthesis of what was already in the air. “Into The Fire” simmers some of the juice left over from Hendrix (“Purple Haze”) and Cream (“Politician”), “Black Night” (not originally on the album but included on the anniversary edition) is a steroid-enhanced augmentation of the Blue Magoos’ “(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet.” Even the album’s rhapsodic stand-out centrepiece, “Child In Time” was itself adapted from “Bombay Calling” by US psychedelic folk rockers, It’s A Beautiful Day. In lesser hands a sculpting of such unlikely raw materials might not have worked.
That it did is evidence of their strident confidence that the new line-up had found. Deep Purple raised the bar thanks to the water-tight rhythm section of Glover and drummer Ian Paice, who together underpinned the diamond-hard riffing from which Ritchie Blackmore’s fast-moving excursions would go head to head with Jon Lord’s neo-classical noodlings, like a couple of cranked-up kamikaze. That we take the seam-splitting cod-operatics as the norm for today’s heavy metal tonsil-torturers is due in no small measure to lead singer Ian Gillan’s work here. Not even Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant had the range of shrill theatrics or glass-worrying octaves achieved by Gillan on this record.
Their collective chutzpah was captured via the album sleeve; rarely has a cover so presciently reflected the monumental influence its contents would have in the years that followed. Reaching number 2 in the UK charts in 1970, it made the band and pretty much carved out the template for heavy rock. --Sid Smith
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had this album bought for me for christmas when I was about 13/14. It was my request having heard it on radio luxembourg. In 1970 people didn't constant exposure to much apart from 'family favourites' or 'the clitheroe kid' so when I played this album on my dansette Christmas afternoon the whole family went into apoplexy. Their reaction just obviously increased my affection for this album which remains to this day. Speed king starts the album with a massive cacaphony of sound driven by RBs frenetic guitar and JLs massive organ sound. (oh, er. sorry) then moves into the driving blues rock that marked Deep Purple out from the chaff. 2nd is bloodsucker recently reintroduced to the live set. 3rd Child in time One of the first anthems of rock predating Stairway I believe. 4th Flight of the rat a hugely riff laden song often forgotten and underated by many 5th Into the fire a slower bluesy rocker 6th Living wreck which opened my eyes to a life I was still to taste the classic lines "You came along for the weekend, But you only stayed for one night, You took off your hair, you took out your teeth, I almost died of fright." 7th Hard lovin' man this is really beutifully heavy but descends back into the choas that Speed King was born from. Throughout the album you have the driving rhythm section of Ian Paice and Roger Glover which has rarely been bettered. The soaring vocals of Ian Gillan who must rate in anybodies top three vocalists. Jon Lord a better player than virtually all others although perhaps not the showman that a Keith Emerson or a Rick Wakeman was. And then finally Ritchie Blackmore, mean, moody, argumentative, probably the best guitarist of his age including EC and JP. Even the faces imposed on Mount Rushmore seemed to add to the anti-establishment feel.... Read more ›
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Deep purple's first album with their new line-up was a dramatic change to their earlier releases. Deep Purple, their last album was in comparison a very mellow record (even so another superb album), and does not really sound like the predecessor to In Rock. A truly explosive sound from start to finish, and definitely THE pivotal hard-rock album of the seventies. Perhaps a very under-rated track is Living Wreck as I have not seen anything written about it anywhere...those who haven't got this album are missing out purely on that song.
If it's riffs, solos, bass lines, lyrical genius you're looking for, it's written everywhere, all over this album. Not much more to say than a truely great sound.....one to have for sure.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album deserves recognition for the way its stunning power, volume and energy completely blew away practically anything people had heard at the time, and perhaps even moreso that you can play it to modern metal/hard rock fans and they will often be blown away by the same qualities. Superb, musical performances all round from perhaps the highest quality hard rock band ever. Combining monster riffs, insane solos, and musical passages, In Rock gets closer to Deep Purple's live, raw sound than any of their others. In my mind this makes it Deep Purple's best studio album.
Into the Fire and Bloodsucker are big as a house and showed many groups the way to Metal.
Speed King, Child in Time, Flight of the Rat and Hard Lovin' Man are superb adrenaline-fuelled bouts of hard rock/rock 'n' roll on speed.
Living Wreck is lighter than the others, but really grooves, and still hold power.
No weak tracks, plenty of variety within the album, and yet it seriously ROCKS throughout.
If you really like this, and want to hear more of Deep Purple from this era, look out for 'Live in Stockholm', for similar tunes, but further soloing and Deep Purple character
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is not just the best Deep Purple album, it is even after all these year the one that still sets the standard for heavy rock and IMO has never been bettered by anyone anywhere.
Now i'm not one of these "it can only be vinyl or nothing" wallahs as to my ears there is nowt wrong generally with CD sound now they've learned how to do it properly.
In this case however, get yourself a turntable and buy the LP cos the sound on this CD is mightily lacklustre
Now i'm not one of these "it can only be vinyl or nothing" wallahs as to my ears there is nowt wrong generally with CD sound now they've learned how to do it properly.
In this case however, get yourself a turntable and buy the LP cos the sound on this CD is mightily lacklustre
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was 16 when I picked this up in 1970. I had already dug the first incarnation of Purple's work on "Lalena" by Donovan,"Blind","Chasing Shadows", "Hard Road (Wring That Neck)", "The Shield", the stunning baroque rock "April", "Emmeretta", "Bird Has Flown"...but when Nic Simper & Rod Evans were replaced by Ian Gillian & Roger Glover, we had a *whole* different animal. This was the same year that "Led Zeppelin II" and "Black Sabbath" crossed my turntable....and this still gets played whenever I need a shot of adrenaline over the other two.This is truly the first major limb on the massive tree of metal rock.
Much as I have a fondness for the energy of punk music, I gotta tell the youngsters, "There was a reason these 'older', precursor, bands played in arenas: they were the only places big enough to contain the fans, the band and the sheer SOUND.
Without Jon Lord on keyboards, they MIGHT have been just another rock band. Jon was vying with Keith Emerson & Rick Wakeman for the title of King of Keys. He might not be as dextrous as speeder Emerson (possibly the fastest keyboard alive during the late 60s & 70s), or as whimsical and imaginative as Wakeman, but he laid down some soul, my oh my. " Child In Time" and " Lazy" (from 'Machine Head') show what the man could coax out. Whooo-hooo! Blackmore's hardly every been better than here.
They were kids! Early 20s, tops. Eat your heart out, Metallica. As for ACDC,Nirvana,Sonic Youth,Judas Priest,Van Halen--just remember whose lap you sat on before you diss the mother.
Much as I have a fondness for the energy of punk music, I gotta tell the youngsters, "There was a reason these 'older', precursor, bands played in arenas: they were the only places big enough to contain the fans, the band and the sheer SOUND.
Without Jon Lord on keyboards, they MIGHT have been just another rock band. Jon was vying with Keith Emerson & Rick Wakeman for the title of King of Keys. He might not be as dextrous as speeder Emerson (possibly the fastest keyboard alive during the late 60s & 70s), or as whimsical and imaginative as Wakeman, but he laid down some soul, my oh my. " Child In Time" and " Lazy" (from 'Machine Head') show what the man could coax out. Whooo-hooo! Blackmore's hardly every been better than here.
They were kids! Early 20s, tops. Eat your heart out, Metallica. As for ACDC,Nirvana,Sonic Youth,Judas Priest,Van Halen--just remember whose lap you sat on before you diss the mother.
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Rock as we know it
After 'Machine Head' this is probably the best Deep Purple album. From the manic "Speed King" to the legendary "Black Night" this album is just one rock rush after... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Joseph Keith Sycamore
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Four decades later it is still an exciting listen
I regard this album as a landmark. It was the first Deep Purple album with the classic 'Mk 2' line-up and it was their breakthrough album. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Stephen
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Classic Rock
I purchased this album in vinyl format when it first hit the streets and it remained with me for a number of years before I moved house - at which point it was stowed into 1 of... Read more
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Re-awakened zest for DP
I first experienced DP with 'Made in Japan' vinyl when I was 17 yrs old (a long time back)and have only just found them again after losing all my vinyl's to cheap s'heads, and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by dogsareus
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Deep Purple
This was not a favourite of mine but I do have this old album on cassette and it was pleasent hearing it again.
Published 4 months ago by MR R W HARRISON
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As Remembered
Great quality & just like I remember from the 70's when rock was rock. Good value, thanks a lot Amazon
Published 4 months ago by steveeie
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Amazing Record
Friday Music is one of best Vinyl Labels. The quality of this album (vinyl) is great!!! If you like Gillian's screams of child in time, you'll love this pressing...
Published 4 months ago by Roben Castagna Lunardi
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Grandpa's Generation Didn't Rock Hard ? Listen Again
Nothing much to add to what the others have already said. This is one of the most enduring and brilliant rock albums ever made. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kamil Othman
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My Youth Re-Visited
This Album takes me back so many years. I still had the Vinyl up to a couple of years ago when I turfed out my sound system and speakers. Read more
Published 5 months ago by clifford
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An All Time Classic
This is just one of the greatest rock albums ever made. I am a die hard Zeppelin fan but still could not contemplate not having this album in my collection.
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