Purpendicular (studio album)
by Deep Purple
Deep Purple bestography
Purpendicular is ranked 18th best out of 70 albums by Deep Purple on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Deep Purple is Machine Head which is ranked number 254 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,410.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Purpendicular track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/05/2025 01:24 | mnmont | 247 | 89/100 |
| ! | 07/29/2025 08:20 | steve397 | 462 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2025 02:44 | RainW | 173 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2024 20:01 | saltysurprise | 2,765 | 84/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2023 06:35 | iann97 | 1,866 | 74/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.7/100, a mean average of 69.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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ExTeaSea 10/15/2022 03:12 | #290488
I really liked this! More than I thought I would. Slightly different sound too for the times but it works.
For me maybe the most underrated Deep Purple album, all songs are atleast decent, Sometimes i feel like screaming sticks out, Hey Cisco and Ted the mechanic are the two other big gems in my opinion. Overall its a wide spanning album, the songs differ more than on a lot of the previous and following albums.
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