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Machine Head
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List Price: $7.98
Special Price: $6.97
Your Savings: $ 1.01 ( 13% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992732420
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Editorial Reviews:
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Home of "Smoke on the Water" and "Highway Star," Machine Head blends proto-metal density with epic arrangements, resulting in a record that's far more grandiose than the sum of its parts. --Jon Wiederhorn
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Summary: The sure thing.
Comment: I can remember being a freshman in high-school and going to school dances in Bakersfield Ca, and occasionally going home to the OC and going to church dances with friends, and the pretty girls lining the walls or hiding in the Ladies room, but when "Smoke on the Water" would be played, they would all be desperately looking for someone to dance with as soon as the first bar of the song was played.
Adolescent boy's prayers were answered.
This is still the favorite Deep Purple album for most of my friends 36 years gone by now!
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Summary: A POWER HOUSE EFFORT! DEEP PURPLE'S BEST!
Comment: One of the greatest rock albums ever made 'Machine Head' combines rock, blues with progressive complexity and the result is nothing less than amazing! Blackmore and Co. rip through each song with dexterity and unrelenting drive! 'Smoke On The Water' has one of the most memorable and best guitar solos in the history of Rock N Roll. Stand out cuts like Lazy, Highway Star and Space Truckin' are pure bliss, but the entire album rocks like there's no tomorrow! The version I have of this is an anniversary edition with the original album remastered on one disc and a remixed version on the other disc, plus some quadraphonic mixes of some choice cuts! It's a smokin' release....if you can find it!
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Summary: purple's biggest effort
Comment: A classic album? Yeah, but again, the songwriting is weak in more areas than any Deep Purple album released before this one.
"Highway Star" is the ultimate speed metal song, as many people are aware by now. "Smoke on the Water" with its amazingly catchy riff is pure genius as well. "Pictures of Home" has the best vocal melody on the album.
"Space Truckin" is NOT very good though, because the vocals are poor. "Lazy" is good, but the live version on Made in Japan destroys it. "Never Before" has an alright guitar riff, but it's just filler anyway. In fact, this is not an album I recommend because Made in Japan drastically improves many of the songs from this album. Just buy Made in Japan instead.
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Summary: Phenomenal!
Comment: Many consider this to be Deep Purple's greatest effort.
They're right.
But it isn't because of "Smoke on the Water" that Machine Head is such an amazing album, despite the fact that the general public incessantly refuses to acknowledge that this band wrote any other songs. Rather, the entire album is fantastic, from the droning "Highway Star," to the groovy "Maybe I'm a Leo," all the way through closer "Space Truckin'." There really isn't a weak point on this album.
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Summary: A classic, essential album
Comment: You like rock music ? You don't have this cd, well, there is an important part of history missing in your collection. A true classic, a must have.
"Highway star, Smoke on the Water, Lazy, Never Before and Space Trucking"
Amazing, all these classic are on the same album. You must own this cd.
Maybe one of the top ten cd on the history of rock music !
PS I also have the DVD audio, the sound is just unbelievable, do yourself a favor, find a good sound system (a surround one of course) and listen to Machine Head in DVD audio, you won't believe it. It is loud, clear and you'll have the impression that it is a recent recording, you then must remember that it a 25 years old recording. Unbelievable.
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