The Very Best of Deep Purple

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The Very Best of Deep Purple
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Greatest hits album by
Released9 May 2000 [1]
Recorded1968-1974, 1984
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length79:02
Label Rhino, Warner Bros.
Producer Deep Purple, Derek Lawrence, Martin Birch, Roger Glover
Deep Purple compilations chronology
Shades 1968–1998
(1998)
The Very Best of Deep Purple
(2000)
Days May Come and Days May Go
(2000)
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The Very Best of Deep Purple is a single disc compilation album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple. It was released in 2000 by Rhino Records/Warner Bros. Records. It features tracks by the Mk. I, Mk. II and Mk. III line-ups of Deep Purple.

Contents

Production

This compilation is supposed to be a single disc alternative to the more comprehensive Shades four-disc collection. All the tracks were remastered simultaneously for inclusion in both sets. The set is essentially a new version of previous compilation Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple , which was released in 1980, with three additional songs, two from Mk. I and one from the reunited Mk. II. The disc bypasses the material from the Mk. IV line-up, and features slightly different versions of a few of the tracks.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, except where noted

No.TitlePlace of OriginLength
1."Hush" (Joe South) Shades of Deep Purple – 19684:26
2."Kentucky Woman" (Edited mono single version; Neil Diamond) The Book of Taliesyn – 19684:14
3."Black Night"Non-album single – 19703:27
4."Speed King" (US album version) Deep Purple in Rock – 19704:21
5."Child in Time"Deep Purple in Rock10:19
6."Strange Kind of Woman" (US album version) Fireball (US version) – 19714:02
7."Fireball"Fireball3:24
8."Demon's Eye"Fireball5:20
9."Highway Star" Machine Head – 19726:09
10."Smoke on the Water"Machine Head5:41
11."Space Truckin'"Machine Head4:34
12."Woman from Tokyo" Who Do We Think We Are – 19735:49
13."Burn" (Blackmore, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Paice, Lord) Burn – 19746:01
14."Stormbringer" (Blackmore, Coverdale) Stormbringer – 19744:08
15."Knocking at Your Back Door" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover) Perfect Strangers – 19847:07

Personnel

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for The Very Best of Deep Purple
Chart (2002)Position
Canadian Metal Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) [4] 83

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References

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  2. AllMusic review
  3. Sputnikmusic review
  4. "Top 100 Metal Albums of 2002". Jam! . Archived from the original on 12 August 2004. Retrieved 23 March 2022.