I think who do we think we are doesnt deserve 16th In fact I think its really underrated and one of my favourites albums.

Perfect Strangers is my favorite Deep Purple album, and one of my favorite albums in general.

'In rock' was a massive influence on iron maiden. A masterpiece every song on it is killer regarded has the first real metal album by many. 'Flight of the rat' brutal riff and excellent drumming , 'Into the fire' great riff Gillian screaming his lungs out 'hard loving man' Great hammond organ and solo from guitar God ritchie blackmore. Speed king , child in time, blood sucker and living wreck a stunning album.

My favourite Deep Purple era is the Coverdale era, but I also really like In Rock, Perfect Strangers, and most of their albums. Also there are some great songs on their new album, Whooosh. Truly iconic band.

I agree that MKIII is still fresh today and is some of Purple’s best albums. They aged well. The MKIV album Come Taste the Band is an excellent album. Not a bad track.

No need to apologize for time taken between videos. Your rankings are always very interesting and informative and obviously the result of that time/effort between videos. I always look forward to your lists, because your videos are of high quality and interest. My favorite Deep Purple album is Burn, but I have to admit that I've only owned a few of their albums. Still, I enjoyed this video anyway.

Come Taste the Band is a great album and one of my favourites, BUT, In Rock is head and shoulders above the rest.

I enjoyed this ranking. Thankyou. Come Taste the Band no.2! I am a huge fan of Mark 1 - love it. My selection- 1) In Rock 2) Machine Head 3) Deep Purple 4) Stormbringer 5) Burn 6) Shades of Deep Purple 7) Fireball 8) Who Do You Think We Are 9) Come Taste The Band 10) Book Of Taleysyn. Take care to you all. Greetings from the Inner West of Sydney

Agree, Come taste the band is in my top 3 Purple albums and is really underrated!

Both Fireball and Purpendicular were diverse albums (taking hard rock to different places). I caught them live in 1996 and the set list was really good. They played about half of Purpendicular but also oldies like Fireball, Maybe I'm a Leo, Pictures of Home, Bloodsucker and No One Came.

I love the Coverdale/Hughes era

Ones of favorites are Woman from Tokyo, Rat Bat Blue, Super Trouper and Smooth Dancer

Top 5 for me 1 Machine Head 2 Perfect Strangers 3 Purpendicular 4 Bananas 5 Now what.

Been a DP fan for 35 years. I agree with your rankings 100% ..Machine Head, Come taste the Band and Stormbringer are my favorites all time DP albums !

Awesome video. I love the detail in your videos. Also great choice for number 1.

CTTB -‘Gettin’ Tighter’ a Bolin/Hughes composition with that pure Funk middle section.. play that to unfamiliar ears and it usually gets a positive reaction. ‘This Time Around’ so unlike anything they had recorded previously. David Coverdale sings powerfully throughout the album with ‘Love Child’ being a case in point. Of course you only have to listen to Glenn’s previous band ‘Trapeze’ & you’ll start to join the dots.

13 House of Blue Light 12 Purpendicular 11 Perfect Strangers 10 Book of Taliesyn 9 Deep Purple 8 Stormbringer 7 Shades of Deep Purple 6 Come taste the Band 5 Who do We think we are? 4 Burn 3 Fireball 2 Machine Head 1 In Rock

Their brand new album Whoosh! is good. Not as instant as Infinite but a bit of a grower. The track Nothing At All is a particular highlight (Airey and Morse really shine).

3:30 Smooth Dancer is the best track on this album and one of my favourite DP songs.

My top 5: 1. In Rock 2. Fireball 3. Who Do We Think We Are 4. Machine Head ( sorry) 5. The Batlle Rages On

I would definitely rate Deep Purple in Rock as #1. It was an absolutely awesome album.

While I appreciate that we are all different & we'll always have a difference of opinion, I have to agree with most of your comments. Post Come taste the Band, I was seeking something else to satisfy by musical taste buds, so I bow to your knowledge... In the case of Who do We think We Are? I feel that you are overlooking the fact that DP were in absolute turmoil internally and I've always felt that this album is unfairly treated. You mentioned Woman from Tokyo, but Mary Long has a clever lyric, Smooth Dancer is a great little rocker, Rat Bat Blue has a memorable riff & is a very good track. Our Lady is excellent, a brilliant assault on the keys by the legend that is Jon Lord 🙏. This album has also been overshadowed by the sublime Made in Japan, so I urge you to revisit this little gem, it's a really misunderstood effort.....

first time I hear DP was during the 8 track cassette tapes so that makes me an old dinosaur, it was ''Made in Japan''

Top 10 Deep Purple Albums: 10. The Battle Rages On... 💿 9. DEEP PURPLE 💿 8. Perfect Strangers 💿 7. Fireball 💿 6. Purpendicular 💿 5. In Rock 💿 4. Burn 💿 3. Stormbringer 💿 2. Come Taste the Band 💿 1. Machine Head 💿

My ranking 21. Slaves And Masters (1990) 20. Shades Of Deep Purple (1968) 19. Bananas (2003) 18. Rapture Of The Deep (2005) 17. The Book Of Taliesyn (1968) 16. Deep Purple (1969) 15. Abandon (1998) 14. Who Do We Think We Are (1973) 13. The Battle Rages On (1993) 12. Infinite (2017) 11. Now What ?! (2013) 10. Purpendicular (1996) 9. Whoosh ! (2020) 8. The House Of The Blue Light (1987) 7. Come Taste The Band (1975) 6. Stormbringer (1974) 5. Perfect Strangers (1984) 4. Burn (1974) 3. Fireball (1971) 2. Deep Purple In Rock (1970) 1. Machine Head (1972)

Never heard of this band. I might give them a listen

Good job. I only know a fraction of Deep Purple's output, but my favourites of the ones I've heard are Stormbringer and Machinehead. A lot of the records in this video I've never seen before, let alone heard.

Child in Time is a song that my dad liked, and we would crank my 400 watt speakers and play that song. It felt like we were in front of the stage at a live show. I played that song through a PA speaker and blew that speaker at full volume. It was worth the $20 for that speaker.

Deep Purple with Ritchie Blackmore were great.

Weird choice mate, fair enough.... i think if you asked 1000 people their top 2 it would be Machine head and in rock.

I’m glad you hold Come Taste The Band so highly, it’s one of my favorites.

Interesting ranking. Im going to give Come Taste the Band another listen. Prairie Prince who played on Tommy Bolan's solo album played drums on my Cats of Sherman album so give it a spin.

Great hard rock band, and one of my favorites! My list is almost the same as Jason’s lol 😝 1. Machine Head (1972) 2. Come Taste the Band (1975) 3. Stormbringer (1974) 4. Fireball (1971) 5. Deep Purple in Rock (1970) 6. Burn (1974) 7. Perpendicular (1996) 8. Prefect Strangers (1984) 9. Who Do We Think We Are? (1973) 10. The Battles Rages On… (1993) 11. Deep Purple (1969) 12. Abandon (1998) 13. Infinite (2017) 14. The Book of Talisyn (1968) 15. Now What?! (2013) 16. Slaves and Masters (1990) 17. Shades of Deep Purple (1968) 18. The House of Blue Light (1987) 19. Rapture of the Deep (2005) 20. Whoosh! (2020) 21. Turning to Crime (2021) 22. Bananas (2003)

i like rod evans as a singer. the mark 1 era is probably my favourite. especially the second and third album. the organ, the guitar and the singing are great.

Fireball is a great album a personal fav and who do we think we are is very underrated

I like your videos. House Of Blue Light is underrated in my opinion, I’d have it a lot higher though I’m not a big fan of Deep Purple so I won’t rank them all

In rock is my number one

BIG 5 1. Fireball🔥 2. Deep Purple 3. Deep Purple in Rock 4. Machine Head 5. Burn And then.. 6. The Book of Taliesyn 7. Stormbringer 8. Who Do We Think We Are 9. Perpendicular 10. Come Taste the Band 11. Shades of 12. Perfect Strangers 13. Bananas 14. House of Blue Light 15. The Battle Ranges On 16. Infinite 17. Whoosh 18. Now What 19. Slaves and Masters

Decent list. You forgot concerto 1969. Personally I’d put in rock at one.

Top 10: 1. In rock 2. Machine head 3. Burn 4. Stormbringer 5. Fireball 6. Perfect strangers 7. Come taste the band 8. Perpendicular 9. Deep purple 10. Who do we think we are?

An interesting ranking . Clearly , I will have to pay more attention to Come Taste the Band and Stormbringer . My ranking is much different from yours , likely because I bought each album as it came out ( so I listened to them in the context of the times in which they were released ). In order of preference : Machine Head Fireball Shades of Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are ? Now What Slaves & Masters Purpendicular Book of Taliesyn Thanks !

I had heard some of the MKI songs that were played on the radio occasionally and I know I liked April but not enough to buy any of the early albums at that time. Child in Time was the song I that made me go out and get the album. That was in 1970. Of course I was a complete fan of the MKII output and I thought it was all over when that line up broke. I immediately changed my mind when I heard the Burn title song but it took some years during which I started to appreciate the whole album more and more each time I listened to it. Even the short lived Bolin version of the band was promising and their only album stands well in the catalogue. The later albums have good and better ones among them but not enough to make it into the top ranks. 1. Machine Head 2. Burn 3. Fireball (The deep cuts on this album have grown on me over time and they aged extremely well. They open up their style here.) 4. In Rock (Not my #1 for the same reasons you state in your video) 5. Stormbringer 6. Come Taste the Band (Tragedy that this is the only album of that line up and thus often is overlooked - maybe not exactly what people at the time expected from Deep Purple but a great record on its own. If any other band had released it they would have been catapulted to fame.) 7. Perfect Stranger 8. Who Do We Think We Are 9. Abandon 10. Deep Purple (In my assessment, they were about to become an early prog band if Richie had not got the upper hand over Jon Lord and led them into heavier stuff.)

1 Stormbringer 2 Shades 3 Burn 4 Machine Head 5 Deep Purple 6 In Rock 7 Who do we think we are 8 Fireball 9 Perfect Strangers 10 Slaves & Masters 11 Book of Talesman 12Come taste the band 13 the Battle Rages on 14 House of Blue light 15 Bannanas 16 Perpendicular 17 Now What 18 Abandon 19 Infinite 20 Rapture 21 Whoosh 22 Turning to crime

Not too easy, but this is my list: 20. Bananas 19. Rapture Of The Deep 18. Abandon 17. Now What?! 16. The House Of Blue Light 15. Infinite 14. Purpendicular 13. The Battle Rages On 12. Slaves And Masters 11. Deep Purple 10. Shades Of Deep Purple 9. The Book Of Taliesyn 8. Who Do We Think We Are 7. Come Taste The Band 6. Perfect Strangers 5. Fireball 4. Stormbringer 3. Deep Purple In Rock 2. Burn 1. Machine Head

Come Taste the Band, Stormbringer and Burn ahead of In Rock, Fireball and Who Do We Think We Are?!? Are you for real?!? I can see Burn landing ahead of Who Do We Think We Are, but that's about it. Top 10 Deep Purple albums, in order: 1. Machine Head 2. In Rock 3. Fireball (my favourite DP album, though I recognize the top 2 are more iconic) 4. Burn 5. Who Do We Think We Are 6. Deep Purple 7. Stormbringer 8. Shades of Deep Purple 9. Come Taste the Band 10. The Book of Taliesyn

I agree with you about Abandon. For me, it ranks near the bottom with Rapture of the Deep, The Battle Rages On, and Who Do We Think We Are. I would have House of Blue Light and Now What?! a little higher. I also like Bananas better than you do and the Coverdale albums never get old.

My top 5: 1. In Rock 2. Burn 3. Machine Head 4. Fireball 5. Stormbringer

I think if there wuold be a rank of dp albums it wuold smart and just faster to rank only the Mark 1 and 2

Great list! Where might their new album fit in amongst that list?

Who do we think we are at 16?? Anyway, all a matter of opinion and good to see the list

CTTB is an amazing record!!

Fireball that low???? come on..... it´s their most experimental and interesting album next to In Rock I think. When Machine Head came out I nearly stopped listen to them. It was just to easy and straightforward in my book! so my top 2 are In Rock and FIREBALL (and FOOLS is awesome).

My worst-best deep purple albums Of all time. 21. Rapture of the deep 20. Bananas 19. Purpendicular 18. Abandon 17. The battle rages on 16. Slaves and masters 15. Whoosh 14. Now what 13. Infinite 12. The book of Taliesyn 11. Deep purple 10. Shades of deep purple 9. Come taste the band 8. The house of blue light 7. Who do we think we are 6. Stormbringer 5. Burn 4. Fireball 3. Perfect strangers 2. Deep purple In rock 1. Machine head

The worst DP album Is the best album of any other rock band.

Fireball should be top 5

Your 5 last albums are my first. 😅

I’m don’t really agree with your ranking, my top 5 would be : 5-Fireball 4-Machine Head 3-Stormbringer 2-Made in Japan 1-In Rock

The Mark III era is my favorite, not a big Gillan fan.

My three favorites are Machine Head, In Rock and Fireball. I had Bananas when it first came out but traded it away. Definitely their worst…of what I have heard….I never bought Rapture Of The Deep, Whoosh! or Infinite. Not much of a Steve Morse fan. Great guitarist but not good at writing memorable songs or riffs. And I never plan on buying Turning To Crime. I hate it when bands do cover albums.

In Rock should be higher on your list.

Come taste the band?? Wow I am going to listen to that again a few times, I have most if not all their music and found CTTB boring and tedious, maybe I missed something.

The House of Blue Light was a bit of a disappointment after the excellent reunion Perfect Strangers. The songs aren't particularly bad , there just not very memorable. Bad Attitude's the only one I really go back to. Same with Who Do We Think We Are (with the exception of Woman From Tokyo and a couple of other tracks) doesn't sound like a band inspired.

Woman From Tokyo is my fav DP tune. It has far more tune complexity, and a great hard rockin climax, than almost anything DP has done. Mary Long is the only track from Who Do We Think We Are that I'd say is awful. The other tunes rock, more or less. What do you think of WHOOSH! ???

Don’t really like stormbringer or come taste the band, would have them fairly low on the rankings. In rock 1, machine head 2, fireball 3, burn 4, perfect strangers 5, others ?.

Not sure about ranking ‘Come taste the Band’ at number 2 on your choices. Whoosh does not get a mention, and therefore imo the grading falls slightly short. In rock is my favourite simply because the drumming is awesome on the first track of side 1 and side .

Who do you think you are? Did you smoke on the water!

I like Come taste the Band, but number 2? No way! Machine Head No. 1 In Rock No.2

They made one really bad live album "Last Concert In Japan" from 1975. That was the one where Bolin had taken some drugs on his day off and fell asleep on his arm and was bascially semi-paralyzed. They had to tune his guitar to play just one chord. Hughes said in an old interview that "We made that awful record, Last Concert In Japan, for any Purple fan who has it you know Tommy can't play".

I listened to Come Taste the Band a few times, but really nothing special about it for me, other than maybe "This Time Around." Fairly generic funk rock sound that's been done better by other groups. An album like "Fireball" is WAY, way better.

They've actually had 9 different lineups.............if you count the Rod Evans version in 1980, lol.

I thought Bananas was a great return to form, with a fine debut by Don Airey (after the Lord of The Hammond bowed out). I would say the production though wasn't the best. Funny album cover (with the two indian dudes and lots of nanas).

Seems like almost all the best are the early 70s. Oh yes macine head burn in rock stormbrnger fireball come taste the band. Of course the live ones made in Japan and made in Europe

Love this band but burn is my favourite album followed by stormbringer and machine head Amazing rock band Rapture of the deep is dreadful

You lost me when you said you didn´t like Woman from Tokyo. WHAAAATTTTTT??????????????????

I nearly switched off when the guy said Purple were less influential than Black Sabbath. That's just revisionism by stoners. Purple were second only to Zeppelin in terms of influence (and sales, if that counts as a sign of influence). Black Sabbath were garbage before they got a decent singer (Dio).

For me Purple only ever did one really bad album in their, long colourful career......and that's Slaves and Masters. I'd make the best a three way tie between In Rock, Machine Head and Burn.

No way would I have rated ' Come Taste The Band' so highly. In absolute terms its a good album. But Tommy Bolin was a different style guitar player to Ritchie Blackmore and the result was the centre of gravity had shifted to the point where what came out was no longer Deep Purple.

I not agrre your classification, Lp deep Purple, should be by the first 5

no no no

What an odd list 🤔

Ian Gillan has some terribley cheesy lyrics and sometimes wrote from a smutty brain similar to Plant.

I've been trying to like deep purple since childhood in the '80s. I don't like their singer I don't like their song writing. Blackmore can play but it's always a so what Burger.

what? bananas is one of their best albums… after that its very average

a strange list where albums that don't represent the sound pf the band are ranked higher than the ones that were considered big influences. BOLIN added nothing to the story of the band and HUGHES is the reason BLACKMORE left the band, he plays funky music and PÙRPLE is rock, he ruined everything.

Come taste the Band is near their best..totally agree .Joe Lyn album is exellent.Steve Morse era is pure boredom as is their new Whoosh just boring .

One of the worst and subjective reviews. Everyone can have a personal opinion, but when making a review, one should not forget about objectivity.

As far as I'm concerned, everything they did after 'Burn' is generic and completely disposable.

Stormbringer ahead of BURN?? NFW!! And I would put Now What MUCH higher. And as good as Machine Head is I seldom listen to it. A lot of the songs are on Made In Japan - and they’re far superior.