Burn
by Deep Purple

Excellent from beginning to end, BURN brought a new life to Deep Purple, after entry of the new members David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes. Coverdale owns one of the most exciting voices of all time, and their participation is crucial in this album. Ritchie Blackmore is also quite inspired and the bass-drums never sounded so energetic. For me, this is the more purple sound from Deep Purple and the MkIII is the best line up (I really like Gillan but, sorry, the work of Coverdale here is impeccable and incomparable). Best songs: "Burn," "Might Just Take Your Life" and "Sail Away". The cover is also noteworthy, very cool.

From Jasonconfused TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/15/2012 23:14 | #55134 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ian Gillan is probably my favorite vocalist of all time so it's really difficult for me to say this but... I don't think he was missed thanks to this incredible Deep Purple album. David Coverdale provides a new feel that even though Blackmore wasn't a fan of it, it worked great with the band's sound. Also, Glenn Hughes has some of the most notable backing vocals ever.

This album is terrible. After some of the greatest albums of all time including Machine Head, In Rock and Fireball, this is a huge letdown. The band suffer without Ian Gillan and Coverdale is really poor on vocals. The album opener is fantastic and full of life thanks to Ian Paice and Jon Lord but the rest of the album the band sound half asleep except Glenn Hughes who does some noteworthy background vocals. Other than the title track 'Burn' the rest of the songs are poor and forgettable. This album was the beginning of a low period of 3 albums - Burn, Stormbringer and Come taste the band. Until the mark II band returned with Perfect Strangers.

I'll take Coverdale over Gillan every time. "Burn" may be the best Heavy Metal song ever. Perfect riff, perfect solo...and a one word chorus that never fails. I have played this song thousands of times and it never gets old. The rest of the album is great too. Particularly "Sail Away" and "You Fool No One." Martin Birch was one of the first producers who understood how to record this kind of music and get it right. Clear...but with lots of bite in the guitars. Purple's best record...and I love Machine Head as much as the next guy. This is better.

A great album by Deep Purple Mark 2. I see that opinions are mixed on who was the better vocalist. Personally I think it comes down to individual preference. I certainly think that this and 'Stormbringer' sound even better now than they did back when they were released, possibly part of that is my musical taste maturing. Without a doubt David Coverdale brought a new lease of life to Purple when Gillan left. Equally Gillan made 'In Rock' and 'Machine Head' albums that will hold legendary status. As far as this album goes, the title track is a personal favourite. (Edited)