Deep Purple - Any Steve Morse era albums better than Ritchie Blackmore albums?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2024
- Rock Daydream Nation is joined by Peter Jones (The Contrarians) and Mike Ladano (Grab a stack of rock) to choose their desert island Deep Purple album featuring Steve Morse....Are any of these albums better than Deep Purple Ritchie Blackmore?
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Loved the episode.
Purpendicular and The Battle Rages On are two of my favorites.
Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it!
Great discussion, I do love the Steve Morse era. When I first saw the band in the early 2000s for the first time, it was really the Blackmore era albums I had at the time, but at the gig, it was Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, that completely blew me away, and set me on a path of diving into the whole catalogue, both the Blackmore and Morse eras.
My fav is Abandon. This album made me realise that they are just as good now as to what they were in the 70s and 80s. I was a bit disillusioned with them after Slaves and masters but after hearing this I quickly went back to other release they had like perpendicular and battle rages on. My Favs on Abandon are Don't Make Me Happy and the reworked Bludsucker. It was also special for me as they toured Australia then for the first time in 15 years and I got to meet Ian Paice as well
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There can only be one; Purpendicular. For me, anyway. It has everything and they knocked it our of the park here on the first try. Rapture of the Deep and Now What come close too.
Thanks for the comment Larry...lots for votes for Purpendicular!
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The first 3 studio albums with Morse are my favored from Morse era, and many live albums as well. - Perpendicular, Abandoned, Bananas. Steve added versatility to Purple sound that was fresh and exiting that was different from Rainbow Purple sound, which I liked as well but missed the real MK2 era sound of the 70s.
Purpendicular
Now What
Overall a great era of DP music
my favorite is Purpendicular but not by much over Infinite but they're all pretty damn good in my opionion
Agree 100% Thomas
“Now what” is my favorite of the 7, I like them all, but to me that one is a real masterpiece, excellent start to finish. I think comparisons with old albums are a little unfair because in the vinyl era they were much shorter with fewer tracks
You raise a valid point....I have always had a bug bear with the CD age and too many songs just to fill up the disc...
I would be hard-pressed to ONLY pick 1 from this era over the Blackmore albums. Purpendicular is my absolute favorite DP album. Period. So, obviously, that would make the cut. Also, I'm a huge fan of Bananas, Rapture of The Deep, and Whoosh! I could easily take any one of those to a desert island and be perfectly happy. (The only album that would NOT be in contention would be Infinite...just didn't have the same quality songs for me.) I LOVE the Steve Morse era of the band...it's just a whole new flavor, which suited Deep Purple awfully well.
Love the love for bananas!! Exactly, who cares about people’s rankings. I love that album!! All Morse albums for me top anything the band has done with any other lineups
At least your talking sense I to like every deep purple album but for me as a fan for fifty years Steve Morse is the best guitarist purple ever had. Forget the hype with the new album I love =1 one but after playing it I put whoosh on straight after and to me whoosh is better.
Way better. The songwriting on Whoosh is fabulous. Ezrin and Don Airey ( more power organ) could have done a better job.
There is no really bad album, although I don't like Abandon. Heaviness alone doesn't do it.
For me Purpendicular and Now What?! are at the top! One introduces Steve Morse the other Bob Ezrin the producer.
Whoosh! is great too. There are some very unusual songs on it.
My all time favourite song is Money Talks from Rapture Of The Deep. Punchy keyboard intro followed by a brutal guitar riff. There’s so much going on with it. 3-4 different changes throughout the song and a fantastic solo, ending the song with a classic Gillan scream…what more could you hope for with a album opener??
That is a great opener. I'm surprised they didn't talk about this album. The relatively quick follow-up to, Bananas.
Rapture of the Deep does not get enough love. Some absolutely stellar songs on that album not to mention the fantastic solos
My fav is Abandon by a mile.
My favourite is also bananas ..to me is a sunny album
..i feel the summer in this record
Spot on...it is a sunny side album
Loosen My Strings
Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
Rosa’s Cantina
Cascades
Aviator
A Touch Away
Somebody Stole My Guitar
Almost Human
Seventh Heaven
Sun Goes Down
Silver Tongue
Bananas
Clearly Quite Absurd
Back to Back
Rapture of the Deep
The Surprising
Birds of Prey
Weirdastan
Uncommon Man
Above and Beyond
…. Many more
I could go on forever and miss many. The Morse era compositions are absolutely amazing and in a vacuum blow away many of the Mach II particularly the reunion Mach II
Appreciate your feedback!
I think Deep Purple as band was quite stale between "Perfect Strangers" and "The Battles Rages On...". Not saying I dislike the material, because I don't, and Joe Lynn Turner certainly is a different singer than Ian Gillan. I still feel there isn't much progressive things in the writing at this point. Overall I prefer Steve Morse era of the band over the era mentioned above. I think it's more creative and more songs has a unique feeling.
My favorite album with Steve Morse is either "Purpendicular" or "Now What!?" which to me stands slighty higher than the rest of it all.
Since you talked about Purpendicular. I will mention my three "Now What!?" favorite tracks:
A Simple Song
Above and Beyond
Uncommon Man
Interesting question about what Steve Morse albums you'd rank above the Ritchie Blackmore albums. I certainly would with quite a few of them.
I also think it's important to mention that Steve Morse was a very productive musician before his time in Deep Purple, during it and seems to be even after it. He has done so many albums with different bands that I think very few people has heard them all. Much of it is very good. Whilst I do really like the era of Deep Purple with Steve Morse.. It wasn't until I did discover The Dixie Dregs and Steve Morse Band that I really started to rate him.. As a favorite guitarist.
Great show guys!
Nice post Johannes...the song writing in the Morse era was certainly very fertile to say the least!
A lot of great music from the Steve Morse era. I don’t really have a favorite but if I have to pick one it’s probably Now What?, and I love Bananas a lot of great songs on it, and I absolutely love House of Pain. Great show🤘
Thanks for the feedback! Agree so much great music in this era!
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Enjoy! Plenty of Purple content on this channel
Bananas is underrated.
Steve reinvented Deep Purple. Bolin did as well but that band self-destructed. Purple needed a break from Blackmore. Their heyday was with Blackmore, but they have spent a lot more time without him than with him. Steve and Ritchie are different players. Steve is more versatile and not an egomaniac.
Thanks for your take on Morse and Purple! Appreciate it!
I’ve tried to like the Steve Morse era; unfortunately it’s not Deep Purple to me. I like everything from first album through and including House of Blue Light.
I love this discussion Peter. As a huge Morse fan, I would say his style lends itself to solo playing more so than in a band context. He uses his guitar more in a vocal context than Blackmore. His weakness is in pentatonic playing or blues based playing. He’s not a blues player. To me Deep Purple’s music, calls for the guitar player to be a great pentatonic player. I think Bernie Torme would have been a good fit for the band. Morse’s genius lies in his compositional abilities. He’s a great overall player. He doesn’t excel at anyone particular style, but plays all styles well.
Bernie Torme...wow...I like your thinking!
What made this era of DP music phenomenal is exactly what you say Morse is not and what he is. An amazing era of DP. DP is very lucky to been graced with the artistry of Steve Morse
There are only two RB studio albums better than all of the Steve Morse era music - Machine Head and In Rock. RB DP benefit from its place in history and our hormones as teenagers. Otherwise you got Purpendicular/Now What/Bananas/ Infinite/Whoosh - all better than Fireball and WDWTWA.
Give all the Deep Purple albums to a young dude into rock but ignorant of Deep Purple and it’s history. You eill find quite a different reaction and opinion on the music. I suspect an album like ABandOn would fair well. That’s an album that is rising dramatically with me.
Morse era has tremendous musicality and tremendous ( better) musicianship. Morse stretched DP to its limits something which the old boys got tired of and would rather just play songs in the pocket so to speak so Ian can stand on stage at the age of 80
Appreciate reading your take on this. Thanks
Purpendicular and Bananas are better than some of DP albums with Ritchie Blackmore, The Battle Rages On is a mediocre album, Who Do We Think We Are is lousy, it has only one good song, Woman From Tokyo, no guitar player can save DP since the last great album of the band was Perfect Strangers from 1984, they will never do a better album than PS, most of the albums of DP after Perfect Strangers are generic, there is one good thing left with the band, they are still very good as a live act, the last time i saw them was last year at Sweden Rock Festival and they were awesome, thanks for the video, take care and all the best.
Thanks for the comment Robert! Appreciate it!
Ritchie Blackmore will eat Morse for breakfast 😅
Ritchie at his absolute peak can never ever compare to Morse. But let’s just enjoy both guitarists images of these ridiculous comments…
Ritchie Blackmore can’t come close to Steve Morse as a guitar player period. Blackmore all noise and no substance Morse can play Blackmore stuff in his sleep but no way could Ritchie play Steve Morse songs doesn’t have the skills to pull it off.
Love the love for bananas!! Exactly, who cares about people’s rankings. I love that album!! All Morse albums for me top anything the band has done with any other lineups