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    22 Essential Deep Purple Songs

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    Another list to start conversations! Pre-emptive strike: 2 minutes later, 2 days later would be entirely different lists! Quite a wealth of worthy material!
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    This was fun, but hard!

    22. Vincent Price
    21. Space Truckin'
    20. Burn
    19. Picture Of Innocence
    18. Rapture Of The Deep
    17. The Battle Rages On
    16. Mary Long
    15. Weirdistan
    14. Chasing Shadows
    13. Time For Bedlam
    12. Above And Beyond
    11. Speed King
    10. The Surprising
    9. Uncommon Man
    8. Perfect Strangers
    7. Birds Of Prey
    6. Highway Star
    5. Fireball
    4. Soldier Of Fortune
    3. April
    2. When A Blind Man Cries
    1. Child In Time
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    I'm only going to list my top 5:

    1) Lazy
    2) The Mule
    3) Hard Lovin' Man
    4) April
    5) Their cover of Hey Joe.
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    Only band with possibly a DEEPer catalog that I can think of is Strawbs. Here's my top 10 overlooked:

    Lalena
    THe Shield
    You Keep On Moving
    Emmaretta
    The Aviator
    Never A Word
    Clearly Quite Absurd
    Fingers to the Bone
    All The Time in The World
    Sail Away

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    Quote Originally Posted by spiderfeathers View Post
    All The Time in The World
    Beautiful song.
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    In chronological order:

    1. Hush
    2. Wring that Neck
    3. Kentucky Woman
    4. April
    5. Speed King
    6. Child in Time
    7. Black Night
    8. Strange Kind of Woman
    9. Highway Star
    10. Space Truckin'
    11. Lazy
    12. Smoke on the Water
    13. Maybe I'm a Leo
    14. Woman From Tokyo
    15. Mary Long
    16. Burn
    17. Mistreated
    18. Stormbringer
    19. The Gypsy
    20. Comin' Home
    21. Perfect Strangers
    22. Knockin' at Your Back Door
    "And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dark Elf View Post
    In chronological order:

    Yup, I can play it that way (no way I'm wasting time in setting a preferance order)

    And The Address
    Hush
    Mandrake Root
    Hey Joe
    Wring That Neck
    Exposition / We Can Work It Out
    Shield
    Anthem
    Chasing Shadows
    Fault Line/The Painter
    April
    Speed King
    Child In Time
    Flight Of The Rat
    Into The Fire
    Living Wreck
    Black Night
    I’m alone
    Highway Star
    Maybe I'm A Leo
    Lazy
    Space Truckin'
    Burn
    Sail Away
    You Fool No One
    Mistreated
    "A" 200
    Coronarias Redig
    The Gypsy
    Soldier Of Fortune
    Son Of Alerik




    That should be about 22 (weird place to stop, anyways)
    Last edited by Trane; 09-29-2019 at 05:39 AM.
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    I’d say top 25 in order of year:

    Listen learn
    Exposition, We can work it out
    Shield
    Chasing shadows
    Blind
    Living Wreck
    Into the fire
    Fireball
    No no no
    I’m alone
    Anyone’s daughter
    Fools
    Highway star
    Pictures of home
    Never before
    When a blind man cries
    Rat bat blue
    Woman from Tokyo
    Burn
    Stormbringer
    Gypsy
    Holy man
    Coming home
    This time around, owed to G
    Getting tighter

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    Thanks for posting your list Mr Wilcox. Here's my take on it at this particular time (in chronological order).

    Mandrake Root
    Wring That Neck
    April
    Speed King
    Child In Time
    The Mule
    Fools
    Lazy
    Woman From Tokyo
    Burn
    The Gypsy
    This time around, owed to G
    You Keep On Moving
    The Spanish Archer
    The Battle rages On
    Loosen My Strings
    Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
    Sun Goes Down
    Rapture Of The Deep
    Before Time Began
    Uncommon Man
    The Surprising

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    I'm loving seeing all these great lists! Awesome songs in each & every one!
    Sleeping at home is killing the hotel business!

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    Let's see...Deep Purple, huh? How about:

    ...And The Address
    Love Help Me
    One More Rainy Day
    Mandrake Root
    Wring That Neck
    Listen Learn Read On
    Child In Time
    Speed King
    Strange Kind Of Woman
    Highway Star
    Pictures Of Home
    Smoke On The Water
    Space Truckin'
    Lazy
    Mary Long
    Our Lady
    Burn
    You Fool No One
    Sail Away
    Perfect Strangers
    Mistreated
    Stormbringer


    And that's the bottom line because Silver Shoes said so!

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