Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple

by Deep Purple

Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: July 1980
  • Label: Harvest
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:24:21
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Petar Dundov

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Covering their dominant Mk II and Mk III lineups, this hit-packed compilation served to maintain the British heavy rock pioneers' profile during their extended early-80s hiatus. Packed with virtuosic organ and guitar interplay, it quickly became one of the defining hard rock compilations of the era.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, classic, riff-heavy, virtuosic, hard

Tracklist

  1. Black Night - Single Version (3:27)
  2. Speed King - 2010 Remix (5:00)
  3. Fireball - 1996 Remix (3:23)
  4. Hush - 1998 Remix (4:13)
  5. Strange Kind Of Woman - 2002 Remix (3:51)
  6. Child In Time - 2010 Remix (10:15)
  7. When A Blind Man Cries - 1997 Remix (3:30)
  8. Woman From Tokyo - 2000 Remix (5:49)
  9. Highway Star - 1997 Remix (6:07)
  10. Space Truckin' - 1997 Remix (4:33)
  11. Burn - 2004 Remix (6:02)
  12. Stormbringer - 2009 remix (4:06)
  13. Soldier Of Fortune - 2009 Remix (3:15)
  14. Demon's Eye - 2002 Remix (5:19)
  15. Smoke On The Water - 1997 Remix (5:40)
  16. You Keep On Moving - 2010 Remix (5:18)
  17. Gettin' Tighter - 2010 Remix (4:23)

Credits

  • Petar Dundov - primary artist, composed by
  • Substance & Vainqueur - remix

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