Headliner 6@6 Poll #43: Post Your 6 Favorite Tracks By Deep Purple

[JohnBckWLD]

First: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s & Why’s of the Headliner 6@6 Poll

In an attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, The Tuesday 6 @ 6 Polls include a Headliner poll. This Deep Purple poll, like the featured Doors thread will be closed and tallied 7 days from today, Tuesday October 12, 2004 at or about 6PM EDT. Results from all the polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week #44’s Featured Bo Diddley 6 @ 6 Poll. Why you ask? After the ZZ Top poll, sometime this decade, the plan is to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them in a few threads. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & mail ‘em out to the voters who helped keep these threads going.

Second: The Poll & How it Works

All you have to do is list your six favorite tracks from this week’s featured artist. If you’d like to add your own liner notes or opinions, please go right ahead – I, for one, love reading them. If you specify a live version, it will be noted, but tallied with the studio version. Cover versions (performed by the artist we’re polling) are acceptable, as are duets and off-shoot projects. Please try to be as accurate as possible when naming your favorite tracks. No need to include Richie Blackmore / Rainbow tracks - We'll poll them in the R's.

Lastly: The Week #43 Headliner Poll Artist of the Week

Without further ado: The Deep Purple Headliner 6 @ 6 Poll…

[JohnBckWLD]

Here Are My 6 Favorite Deep Purple Tracks
6. Black Night
5. Knocking At Your Back Door
4. Burn
3. Smoke On The Water
2. Perfect Strangers
1. Space Truckin'

[kevja]

1. Smoke On the Water
2. Space Trucking
3. Highway Star
4. Woman From Tokyo
5. Hush
6. Speed King

[astorian]

At last, a band for which I don't have to struggle to find 6 great tracks, and which had loads of worthy near-misses!

#6- Space Truckin'
#5- Flight of the Rat
#4- Knocking At Your Back Door
#3- Hush
#2- Highway Star
#1- Child in Time

[The Asbestos Mango]

Black Knight

The Spanish Archer (tucked away on House of Blue Light- this was the song that made me realize that my inexplicable crotch-melting crush on Ritchie Blackmore was a direct result of his guitar work. Those lead lines that wrap themselves around your cerebral cortex, then slither down your spine and run a finger up the inside of your leg...)

Why Didn't Rosemary?

Demon's Eye

Child In Time

No One Came (Would somebody please call David Lee Roth and tell him he needs to cover this song?)

[todd33rpm]

6. Hush

5. Smoke On The Water (Made In Japan version - gives Ritchie Blackmore some much needed breathing room)

4. Highway Star

3. Space Truckin'

2. And The Address (I love that the shot which launched their whole career was an instrumental)

1. The Shield (especially the organ-as-percussion-instrument approach in the fade after the false ending)

As you can tell, I'm a fan of the Mark I lineup. Note for the curious: the band's first U.S. label, Tetragrammaton, was part-owned by Bill Cosby (I think he owned a third, to be specific). I always wondered if that relationship helped grease the wheels to get their contract with Warner Brothers.

[Labdad]

6. Space Truckin'
5. Lazy
4. Speed King
3. Hush
2. River Deep, Mountain High
1. Kentucky Woman

yes, #'s 1-3 are covers, but what incredible covers they are!

[Charlie Tan]

In no particular order:

Speed King
Woman from Tok-ay-o
Strange Kind of Woman
Rat Bat Blue
Highway star

and
Burn

Sometimes I think I'm the only one who liked the line up with Hughes and Coverdale. It doesn't match the classic Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice, but is sorely under appreciated. The title track is possibly the best on the album, but there are several more.
Let's face it, they only had 2-4 really good songs on any of the classic albums, but these were so great, that what came post 'Who do we think We Are' are diminished.

[42fish]

1) Smoke on the Water
2) Woman from Tokyo
3) Hush
4) Space Truckin
5) Kentucky Woman
6) Highway Star

And the mention of Kentucky Woman reminds me that it's time for
more lobbying for additions to the D's:

Neil Diamond
Dion (with and without the Belmonts)
De La Soul
Dr. Dre

[Evil Captor]

1. Hush
2. Highway Star
3. And the Address
4. Kentucky Woman
5. River Deep, Mountain High
6. Space Truckin'

Man, now you got me jonesing for some Deep Purple, which the local oldie stations never play for some reason.

[mrklutz]

No big departure from the above, but...

1) Smoke on the Water
2) Woman from Tokyo
3) Hush
4) Knockin' at Your Back Door
5) Highway Star
6) Space Truckin

[Mal Adroit]

1. "Speed King"
2. "Highway Star"
Smokers without parallel!

3. "Space Truckin"
What's not to love

4. Lady Double Dealer
Where did Blackmore come up with these riffs??

5. Stormbringer
Silly title- wicked tune

6. Love Child
Always thought the Tommy Bolin/David Coverdale stuff was very underrated; the riff in this song is worthy of Ritchie hisself

[vl_mungo]

1. Highway Star
2. Space Truckin'
3. Hush
4. My Woman From Tokyo
5. Lazy (live)

[VunderBob]

1. Hush
2. Smoke on the Water
3. Ted the Mechanic
4. My Woman from Tokyo
5. Kentucky Woman
6. Knockin' at Your Back Door

[5 time champ]

Originally Posted by mrklutz

No big departure from the above, but...

1) Smoke on the Water
2) Woman from Tokyo
3) Hush
4) Knockin' at Your Back Door
5) Highway Star
6) Space Truckin

No departure, but slightly different order:
1) Knockin' at Your Back Door
2) Smoke on the Water
3) Woman from Tokyo
4) Space Truckin
5) Highway Star
6) Hush

[LateComer]

This is harder than it sounds!

1. Smoke on the Water
2. Speed King
3. Knockin' at your back door
4. Hush
5. Space Truckin'
6. Highway Star

Honorable mention to Strange Kind of Woman and My Woman from Tokyo.

[hawthorne]

Mmmm... purple.

1. Highway Star
2. Black Night
3. Smoke on the Water

after that, I guess

Speed King
Hush
Space Truckin'