Best of: Knocking at Your Back Door [Import]

best of: knocking at your back door [import]

Track Listings
1. Knocking at Your Back Door
2. Bad Attitude
3. Child in Time
4. Nobody's Home
5. Black Night
6. Perfect Strangers
7. Unwritten Law
8. Call of the Wild
9. Hush
10. Smoke on the Water
11. Space Truckin'

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Best of: Knocking at Your Back Door [Import]
Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent Deep Purple
  • 4 stars
  • Good band, but was this compilation really necessary?
  • oh granddaddies of heavy rock I love ya!
  • Greatest Hits of the Eighties
 Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
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Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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ASIN: B000001DWZ
Release Date: 1992-06-09

Tracks:

  1. Knocking At Youre Back Door
  2. Bad Attritude
  3. Child In Time
  4. Nobody's Home
  5. Black Night
  6. Perfect Strangers
  7. The Unwritten Law
  8. Call Of The Wild
  9. Hush
  10. Smoke On The Water
  11. Space Trucking

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Deep Purple .......2006-08-01

This is a true greatest hits release. Perfect Strangers - Knockin at your back door are classics. Blackmore is one of the top 10 guitar players of all time.

4 out of 5 stars 4 stars.......2004-08-03

sweet lucy was a dancer but none of us a chancer because she was a samurai!!! from the first song you will remember one track form the album Perfect strangers 1984.
The band had disappeared from the international Rock-scene after their final album 1975 with the death of Tommy Bolin back in 1976. Led Zeppelin & Black Sabbath also experienced their final days, both were also coming to an end 4 years later. In 1984 the Reformation of Deep Purple Mark II (V) was a huge success in the US, Japan, Australia and Europe. This album is a compilation of Perfect strangers, house of blue light and nobodys perfect albums...you will not doubt them.

3 out of 5 stars Good band, but was this compilation really necessary?.......2004-03-27

Deep Purple is a rock band that never fails to please. After seeming to disappear off the face of the earth following the release of their 1975 album Come Taste the Band, the band made a huge comeback in 1984. In the eighties, the band released three albums, two studio ones and one live one. And now the band has released a compilation of their eighties material! How does it measure up? Read on and find out.

PROS:
-This album features all of the big hits that Deep Purple scored in the eighties.
-It's not just limited to hits. There are many underrated songs here as well.
-Some of the live tracks are "reworked" versions of older tracks, some of which didn't feature Gillan singing originally! It's good to finally hear him sing them!

CONS:
-A best of Deep Purple that doesn't cover their entire career!? Why would the record company even bother putting something like this out?
-It's hard to find. If you really want this (for some unknown reason), you'll have an easier time finding it used.
-The track selection could have been better.

OVERALL:
Overall this compilation just wasn't a very good idea. It's good music, but the compilation as a whole falls flat. New to Deep Purple? Start with Rhino's The Very Best of Deep Purple - It's their best hits compilation out there.

4 out of 5 stars oh granddaddies of heavy rock I love ya!.......2003-08-28

oh I love ya Grand daddy of heavy rock! I love ya! I really love ya! your music had grown up with my same roots during my childhood! I coud not ever forget the Deep purple style of classic hard rock. It doesn't matter whether they were Mark II, III, IV, V, VI, VII with past time members or current members of the band such as David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillan, Blackmore, Bolin, Lord, Paice, Morse, Glover, and teh current Keyboarder Don Airey....you set my heart on fire everytime I listen to you all!

3 out of 5 stars Greatest Hits of the Eighties.......2001-02-14

In 1984, the "MK II" version of Deep Purple reformed. This is the most famous line up of Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillian and Glover. They put out two studio albums (Perfect Strangers and House of Blue Light) and one live album (Nobody's Perfect). Then they broke up again (later to reform, with and without Blackmore).

The two studio albums had some very good songs, but alot of filler (that is the way most Deep Purple albums were). The live album was taken from a tour in 1988. It was poorly recorded and poorly edited. About 75% of the tracks were reworks of the seventies classics. Some were done well, others were not. The live album was released in two different versions, a single CD and a double CD.

This CD (Knocking At Your Door) is a "greatest hits" of the eighties CD, taken from the three albums released in the eighties. Obviously, any of the old classics will be the new live versions. This CD does succeed in picking off the better material of those three albums. But, it doesn't get all the best stuff. The nice thing is that it leaves off most of the junk.

If you want to get a good idea of what Deep Purple was like in the eighties without spending alot of money, this is a good CD to get. You get most of the good material without the clunkers, but you do miss out on a few things.
Knocking at Your Back Door-Best of
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    Release Date: 2007-01-23
    Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's
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      Deep Purple
      Manufacturer: Mercury
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0000264BB
      Release Date: 1992-09-07

      Tracks:

      1. Knocking at Your Back Door
      2. Bad Attitude
      3. Child in Time
      4. Nobody's Home
      5. Black Night
      6. Perfect Strangers
      7. Unwritten Law
      8. Call of the Wild
      9. Hush
      10. Smoke on the Water
      11. Space Truckin'

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