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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you like Deep Purple but don't own Fireball, you are in for a real treat. This album is a hard rock masterpiece and Ian Gillan would totally agree with me. It's a shame that Fireball has been kind of forgotten about, it clearly holds up against In Rock and Machine Head. One nice thing about this album is, besides the great material, you won't be sick of ANY of the songs, because "classic rock" radio ignores this great stuff, just blows me away.
Anyhow, if you're just starting to collect their albums, maybe you already have Machine Head, this one won't disappoint. One of the great hard rock albums of the seventies.
Highlights: Fireball, Strange Kind of Woman, Anyone's Daughter, Fools and No One Came.
Anyhow, if you're just starting to collect their albums, maybe you already have Machine Head, this one won't disappoint. One of the great hard rock albums of the seventies.
Highlights: Fireball, Strange Kind of Woman, Anyone's Daughter, Fools and No One Came.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When this album was launched in '71, the band was accused by John Peel of playing formula rock. It's a shame if any rock fan's first exposure to this album was influenced by this opinion, as it's totally offside. Fireball was, and still is a CLASSIC. Okay, so there are no Speed King or Hard Lovin' Man type scores on the album: what IS on the album, however, is an excellent mixture of hard rock (Fireball, Strange Kinda Woman),bloody good songs (No No No, Demon's Eye).We've all been there at some point in our lives where our parents took exception to a partner we had on tow at the time (Anyone's Daughter). The (old) 2nd side of the album, however, in my mind, ranks the score at 5 stars. The Mule, Fools and No one Came take DP on to another plateau altogether. Close your eyes and you could be listening to Pink Floyd or Zeppelin. DP elevate themselves from being merely an excellent hard rock band to leading edge prog rock. May be John Peel really meant Formula 1 Rock! It's a must for any music lover's collection.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Fireball, on a first listen isn't really that impressive compared to other dp albums. Just listen to it again...and it hits you. Everything about this album just works and it sounds fantastic...covering hard rock to soft almost ballad like...to genius individual performances. Ian Gillan himself claimed this to be his favourite of all purple albums and based on his performance I can see why. It's a real shame there isn't more of this sort of stuff out these days.
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Fireball: Deep Purple - Proving that these guys were no fools
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Published 1 month ago by Victor
EXcellent album
I agree this one is a stonker and it seems to be ignored for some reason which is a shame it even has country style song on it
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Published 3 months ago by Cubby Kovu
pure nostalgia
Again ,got this on vinyl when Iwas 18 together with Steve Hillage Van der graff Genisis etc but this one has a special place in my heart. Read more
Published 6 months ago by S. C. W. Andrews
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Deep Purple's fifth studio album (and second under the now famous MKII line up) Fireball is an absolute stunner of an album, unfortunately underrated being sandwiched as it is... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Gentlegiantprog
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The second of the three classic DP cds. The debate about whether it's better than Machine Head or In Rock is irrelevent really. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Stalker
Classic 70s Rock from THE classic DP line-up.
The first rock album I ever bought was Disraeli Gears by Cream. The second was Fireball. I have never fallen out of love with it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Colin
Exactly what it says on the screen...
Good price, great service and delivered exactly as promised - what more can we ask for?
Published 21 months ago by DottyWoman
Fireball!!!
Great album, in fact I had forgotten how good this was when I first heard it. Even my old vinyl stills sounds great, but these remastered and enhanced versions are excellent.
Published on 2 Sep 2009 by D. Thompson
The best Deep Purple album ever
This is the greatest rock album ever made bar none. It is vastly overlooked due to being sandwiched in between 'In Rock' and 'Machine Head'. Read more
Published on 23 April 2009 by Mr. Steven Gall
what about the blues?
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Published on 23 Feb 2008 by Maudsy
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