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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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Digitally Remastered. Includes unrelease material, studio outakes, extra tracks, bonus Glover remixes and beautiful booklet.
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24 of 26 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
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album has been described as seminal, groundbreaking, an all time-classic. It is Roger Glover's favourite Deep Purple album. From the striking Mount Rushmore cover to the first bars of Speed King to the end of the 8 tracks the album never lets up.
This is first album with the "classic" Deep Purple line up of Blackmore, Gillan, Lord, Paice and Glover and they all perform brilliantly on it.
It's hard to pick favourite songs. "Speed King" is a rip-roaring starting track. "Child in Time" is a ten minute plus epic with Lord's keyboards playing a blinder. "Black Night" is a great short sharp single. Gillan's vocals were never better than on "Into The Fire". But there really is no bad song on the record.
The CD I have features a lot of bonus material including studio chat and different versions of some songs. I can take or leave that stuff to be honest. However the revealing sleeve notes by Simon Robinson on how the band formed and how "In Rock" was made are well worth reading.
Quire simply anyone with any interest in rock music must have this album in their collection.
This is first album with the "classic" Deep Purple line up of Blackmore, Gillan, Lord, Paice and Glover and they all perform brilliantly on it.
It's hard to pick favourite songs. "Speed King" is a rip-roaring starting track. "Child in Time" is a ten minute plus epic with Lord's keyboards playing a blinder. "Black Night" is a great short sharp single. Gillan's vocals were never better than on "Into The Fire". But there really is no bad song on the record.
The CD I have features a lot of bonus material including studio chat and different versions of some songs. I can take or leave that stuff to be honest. However the revealing sleeve notes by Simon Robinson on how the band formed and how "In Rock" was made are well worth reading.
Quire simply anyone with any interest in rock music must have this album in their collection.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
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.
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Published 1 month ago by Victor
Youth relived!
I had this on vinyl when I was eighteen almost forty two years ago. It's great and the music is as enjoyable as it was then. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Shane Maxwell
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I grew up with this album so I grew up listening to this kind of music so I am probably slightly biased my mum used to playall her vinyls to me when I Was just a young. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Cubby Kovu
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Published 4 months ago by David Cook
1995 anniversary reissue
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Published 5 months ago by Mrs. J. L. O'neill
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Classic rock - still a gem
I bought this CD because iTunes doesn't have the full album available and for some reason I never bought the CD - I have the vinyl of course. Read more
Published 11 months ago by David Hoggard
An Absolute Classic
Another classic rock album,for me the best purple album the power throughout what with Gillans vocals to Blackmores guitar riffs.A must buy and the price is a real bargain.
Published 18 months ago by Ian C.
It's ok
The album is not bad, it not as good as machine head, but that album is good but not fantastic. You should buy Machine head instead of this if you haven't already got it. Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by Mr. W. A. Smith
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