Ranked! ALL the Deep Purple Studio Albums, with Ryan Gavalier

Whew!  That was a rock marathon, but Ryan and I crossed the finish line with a complete ranking of all the Deep Purple studio albums (excluding the covers album Turning to Crime).  This was not an easy task.  We both immersed ourselves fully in the music all week.  In the end, some albums struck us harder than others.  While our Top Fives were both very similar, but the rest of the lists were widely varied.

Thank you to Ryan Gavalier for this awesome jump through the Deep Purple catalogue.  Not only was it an electrfying week of music, but it was also a week for re-appraisal.  I always knew my first and last albums, but the middle was quite fluid.

While we did attempt to spend a good deal of time discussing each album, we really only scratched the surface.  The best thing to do would be for you to check out the music yourself.

Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you tomorrow for another episode of Grab A Stack of Rock (Special Editon).  Stay tuned!

My list can be seen at the bottom of this post by highlighting the hidden text.

 

22  The Book of Taleisyn (1968)

21 Shades Of (1968)

20 Abandon (1998)

19 The Battle Rages On (1993)

18 The House of Blue Light (1987)

17 Rapture of the Deep (2005)

16 Bananas (20030

15 Slaves and Masters (1990)

14 InFinite (2017)

13 =1

12 Who Do We Think We Are! (1973)

11 Deep Purple (1969)

10 NOW What?! (2013)

9 Burn (1974)

8 Come Taste the Band (1975)

7 Whoosh (2020)

6 Stormbringer (1974)

5 Machine Head (1972)

4 Perfect Strangers (1984)

3 Purpendicular (1996)

2 In Rock (1970)

1 Fireball (1971)

 

6 comments

    1. Purpendicular was my #3 for a good reason! Personally I don’t think Morse Purple ever topped that debut. As for Perfect Strangers, I think most people agree it’s better than some of the 60s and 70s music.

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  2. Interesting discussion, Mike (and Ryan). Always up for anything about DP. Especially anything with Ian G or David & Glen, my favorites. The show reminded me though of how little I’ve listened to some of the Steve Morse albums (same applies to the Rod Evans era). Time for a deep dive of my own! Otherwise, I was surprised by how high Ryan rated “House of Blue Light” and will definitely plan to give it a listen soon too. Henry.

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    1. I agree, House of Blue Light is not a high ranker for me. I think Martin ranked it 10/10, but not me. To me it just doesn’t like up to what they did on Perfect Strangers. Joe Lynn Turner once said that Blue Light yielded nothing they could bring to the stage. They only played some of those songs (three or four) on that tour.

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  3. Since Rapture of the Deep is getting Anniversary release I checked to see if there was a review of the original album here and found this episode of ranking all the Purple albums. Since watching it I’ve been listening to albums I haven’t heard in a long time like Abandon, Rapture of the Deep and now Woosh!.

    I really liked Bananas back when it was released..No one else seemed to like that one back then.

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    1. Thanks KK, that remix is on my list of things to get. It’s a dry album and could use a remix. We’ll see how they did.

      I like Bananas. It has a couple of my favourite tracks. Never A Word and Haunted are magnificent ballads.

      Thanks KK!

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