Abandon (album)

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Abandon
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Studio album by
Deep Purple
ReleasedMay 1998
RecordedSeptember 1997 – February 1998 [1]
StudioGreg Rike Studios, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length56:18
Label EMI Switzerland
Producer Deep Purple & Roger Glover
Deep Purple chronology
Purpendicular
(1996)		Abandon
(1998)		 Bananas
(2003)

Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in May 1998. [2] It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last album to feature founding member Jon Lord prior to his departure in 2002.

Contents

The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. In 1999 a live album and DVD Total Abandon: Australia '99 recorded in Melbourne on 20 April 1999 was released.

The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan  – "A Band On" – and the album was followed by the "A Band on Tour". It featured a reworking of a previously recorded song – "Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here spelled "Bludsucker"). "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono and not amended on the album, one of the two versions of the song released on a promotional single was mastered in stereo.

The album cover art was designed by acclaimed album art designer, Ioannis. [3]

Songs

"Any Fule Kno That" is the first song on Abandon. [4] Vocalist Ian Gillan takes a spoken word approach in the verses to the song, comparable to rapping. The title is a popular phrase from the Nigel Molesworth books. [5] "Any Fule Kno That" became the band's last charting single in the US, as it peaked at No. 25 on Billboard 's Heritage Rock Chart. [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Blogcritics (favourable) [8]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 10/10 [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Paice, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Any Fule Kno That"4:29
2."Almost Human"4:26
3."Don't Make Me Happy"4:56
4."Seventh Heaven"5:25
5."Watching the Sky"5:26
6."Fingers to the Bone"4:47
7."Jack Ruby"3:48
8."She Was"4:19
9."Whatsername"4:26
10."'69"4:59
11."Evil Louie"4:56
12."Bludsucker" (Ritchie Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice)4:27

Personnel

Deep Purple
Other
Production notes

Charts

Chart (1998)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] 25
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [11] 14
French Albums (SNEP) [12] 65
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 16
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [14] 22
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [15] 58
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [16] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC) [17] 87
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [18] 32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 46
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 76
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [21] 2

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  5. ↑ Dave Thompson, Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story (ECW Press, 2004), 299.
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