DEEP PURPLE
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DEEP PURPLE
Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, is the third studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded by the single "Emmaretta" and by a long tour in the UK, whose dates were interspersed between the album's recording sessions. -Wikipedia
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Deep Purple holds together astonishingly well as a great body of music. This is one of the most bracing progressive rock albums ever, and a successful vision of a musical path that the group might have taken but didn't
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Deep Purple’s first lineup (a.k.a. Mk. I) was seriously running out of steam on this eponymous third album.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
In a sharp turnaround, the band wrote nearly everything, and some of it's actually good.
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John McFerrin's Music Reviews
this is definitely Deep Purple's "art-rock" peak, often effectively combining a restrained-yet-mature rock attack with classical passages and interesting studio tricks. Sometimes it gets dull (in my opinion) but there's really not one bad track on here
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Only Solitaire
Still much too inexperienced - still much too 'compromising' - still much too derivative and shy - but showing signs of greatness.
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