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Fireball: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Master Class in Rock

I am a huge Ritchie Blackmore fan. This Album is up there with the best of his work (In Rock, Machine Head, Burn and Raindow Rising). Master Class in music

perfect purple

When you listen to this album it just has that raw edge like "in rock" has that most bands dream of. Never has a groupe made such perfect rock music that fits a variety of moods. I love this album alot. It could be there best one but then there's machinehead, in rock, abandon, purpendicular, burn, stormbringer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh the 80ties stuff isnt that good its just ok, I'm a masive fan so it hurts to say that, but most music from the 80ties was pants so it gives it some perspective.

Fireball

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 between the classic In Rock and Machine Head albums.
For high quality, energetic and interesting rock music, Fireball is a shining example.

The album opening title track ‘Fireball,’ is a fast and frantic number with brilliant guitar and keyboard soloing from Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord, and a great drum performance from Ian Paice, overall one of the best songs in the band’s repertoire.

The album is more varied than its predecessor, investigating various territories, from proggier numbers like ‘Fools,’ to the almost country ‘No One’s Daughter,’ and the almost psychadelic drum showpiece ‘The Mule.’ Perhaps this variety is the reason the album wasn’t as well received as the focused and direct In Rock album, but it definitely adds to the overall experience in hindsight as the band couldn’t simply retread old ground anyway.

Stand Out tracks include the aforementioned title track and ‘Fools,’ as well as the rocking ‘No One Came,’ which ends the original album really well.

If you like Deep Purple you will definitely want to try out Fireball, a fine album indeed and more than worthy of a place in your collection.

The 25th anniversy edition expands on the original with a detailed set of linear notes about the making of the album, some remixes and alternative takes as well as the inclusion of single ‘Strange Kind Of Woman,’ and the very enjoyable album outtakes ‘I’m Alone,’ ‘Freedom,’ and ‘Slow Train,’ all of which expand on the album’s rock side.

Biography

Formed: 1968 in Hertford, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Deep Purple survived a seemingly endless series of lineup changes and a dramatic mid-career shift from grandiose progressive rock to ear-shattering heavy metal to emerge as a true institution of the British hard rock community; once credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the globe's loudest band, their revolving-door...
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