Purpendicular
by Deep Purple
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Deep Purple bestography
Purpendicular is ranked 19th best out of 72 albums by Deep Purple on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Deep Purple is Machine Head which is ranked number 251 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,270.
(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 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Purpendicular rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 68 Music Albums of the 1990s | 13/68 | 16 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 94 Music Albums of 1996 | 57/94 | 2 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 97 Music Albums of 1996 | 44/97 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1996 Pt 2 | 53/71 | - |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 59 Music Albums of 1996 | 59/59 | 0 |
| 2026 | ExTeaSea | F2LF: Deep Purple | 9/20 | - |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 16 Music Albums of 1996 | 16/16 | 0 |
| 2025 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1996 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2023 |  sssvnnn | guitarists | 70/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 30 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 71 | |||
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Purpendicular ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/13/2026 11:09 |  doombringer | 2,365 | 75/100 |
| ! | 02/07/2026 08:02 | PurplePiePete | 1,846 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 01:24 | mnmont | 247 | 89/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 69.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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doombringer 05/13/2026 11:26 | #314433
Compared to those great works from their earlier days , this album is average ...at best . (Edited)
ExTeaSea TOP 100 COMMENTER 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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