Bands on your Car's music library?

[Charger]

Adding stuff to my car's music library again...

Just finished off Doro's discography and now started with DEEP PURPLE!

A monumental task...but it's fun going through the albums one by one again... I did come to the conclusion not to include anything from the Evans era because those songs just don't click right with me so I went on with In Rock onwards...

Kinda had forgotten a bit about Who Do We Think We Are....as I discovered Rat Bat Blue and Painted Horse are actually pretty darn good tracks!

Also discovered Stormbringer actually had two (!!) good songs on it! Who knew!?

Still don't own Come Taste The Band so that's a skip...

No new discoveries on Perfect Strangers, House Of Blue Light nor The Battle Rages on...

Slaves And Masters was every bit as horrible as I remembered so no tracks from that...NEXT!

Moving on to the Morse era as I'm writing this....ooohh yeah.

[Zzzptm]

Evans-era material fits better in a 60s pop/psychedelia mix more than a 70s hard rock/metal mix. Put an Evans-era track in the middle of a string of Mk2 material and you're like, "Hello... one of these things is NOT like the others!"

WDWTWA is a strange beast of an album. I like the songs one at a time more than as a full album. "Smooth Dancer" is a good hard rocker and I keep coming back to the simplicity of the groove in "Our Lady".

Stormbringer is another strange beast - any time Blackmore is thinking about firing someone or leaving a band, you get a strange album. DP3, WDWTWA, Stormbringer, every Rainbow album, HOBL, Slaves and Masters, and TBRO... Not that strange is always bad, it's not. But Blackmore gets a wild hair, and stuff is gonna happen.

CTTB is one of my favorites, but if you're not ready to get into the funk thing, it's not gonna be a fun time.

Morse era I think has inconsistencies due to the band exploring with different producers and doesn't really come together until they latch on to Bob Ezrin.

[Charger]

I have to disagree with the Morse era...I think it's been the most consistant Purple era of them all...naturally it's been the longest as well lasting nearly 30 years!

The only dip in the quality was Rapture of the deep, I know Bananas makes you go bananas and not in a good way but I really like that album too...but I guess after Rapture it would still be my least favourite but that just shows how consistantly great the band has been...

The thing with Blackmore was that when he wasn't feeling it he half assed everything...that goes for both in the studio and especially live. The Battle Rages On is a great album but not because of Blackmore...more like despite Blackmore!

[Zzzptm]

I'll agree the Morse era is the most consistent, for sure. LOTS of good material to pull from his time in the band.

[Charger]

I decided to add some live tracks to the mix...

I took few from the Live at the BBC and couple from Made In Japan and a whole shitload from Live At The Olympia and some tracks from In Concert...including the tracks they did with Ronnie...Don't usually have a lot of live stuff in the car because they tend to be bit quiet at times but for Purple you gotta have the live stuff...I was thinking about putting some from Come Hell Or High Water but then I listened to it again and decided not to!

Back for studio stuff with Bananas ->

[Zzzptm]

Yeah, I used to think DP could do no wrong on a live album... and then I got CHOHW...

[Charger]

Indeed...

Well I'm up to Now What?! now.... and that also was a great tour...but they did the tour with the orchestra as well where they also played Hard Lovin' Man...I wonder should I use that version or the one on ...To The Rising Sun?

[Zzzptm]

Tough call.

Either way you choose, Charger, I'll still support you. I'm there for you.

[Charger]

Well it's time to add some stuff to the car's USB drive and I think it needs to be ALICE COOPER next!

I know I'm setting myself up for quite the task going through all of his discography! But it'll be a good excuse to do so again...there are albums that I've only listened once or twice and some I've actually never listened to. It'll be interesting but huuuuge task.

[Zzzptm]

Be sure to put on your back support belt before you heft up his musical catalogue!

[Charger]

Yeah...probably should also hire a masseuse cause I'll be sitting here quite a while...

[Charger]

I still haven't dared to start this project...

[Zzzptm]

Just play Thorns while you think it over.

[Charger]

Oh now there's another option I could go with! TONY MARTIN! He's got quite the discog to go through with tons of great songs!

I think I might go with him first now! It's not quite as daunting task although there's a good dozen albums plus 50 or so individual songs to go through!

[Zzzptm]

Glad I could be of some help!