Burn [30th Anniversary Edition]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The 30th anniversary reissue of 1974 album is newly remastered and includes five bonus tracks, "Coronarias Redig" (single b-side 2004 remix), "Burn" (2004 remix), "Mistreated" (2004 remix), "You Fool No One" (2004 remix) and "Sail Away" (2004 remix). The departure of vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover seemed to rejuvenate Deep Purple, and 1974's Burn was a huge improvement over their previous effort, the lacklustre Who Do We Think We Are. In an interesting twist, new recruits David Coverdale and ex-Trapeze bassist Glenn Hughes share lead vocals on virtually every track--an enviable tag team, as both possessed exceptional pipes. The title track starts things off at full speed thanks to the phenomenal drumming of Ian Paice, and the intro to "Might Just Take Your Life" is one of organist Jon Lord's finest moments. Full of starts and stops, "Lay Down, Stay Down" features a fantastic solo "What's Going On Here" is about as good a single as Purple ever wrote; "You Fool No One" is compelling in its intensity; and the funky "Sail Away" is a sign of the band's future direction. "Mistreated," a fantastic slow blues, closes the album proper (let's ignore the boring instrumental "A 200," the record's only throwaway) and showcases Coverdale on his own for the first time. So impassioned is the singer's performance that the song would remain his concert trademark long into his post-Purple career with Whitesnake. --Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide

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Customer reviews

review by: Drawlbag date: 2008-11-19 rating:
There's Only One Deep Purple!
Actually, what's this? DP Mk III? I know there's metal dudes out there that only listen to the MK2 albums, some guys actually prefer the first 3 albums, I'm not fussy, I like songs from all the ages of Purple. But I've gotta tell you, this album beats them all. There's no squealing from Gillan, it's the souls of David Coverdale (I love Whitesnake) and Glenn Hughes (buy all his solo albums from 90's onwards), Jon Lord's got a green card to go nuts and Ian Paice rides his mule into hell on the title track. Unlike the previous albums, All these songs are killers. Deep Purple were always funky. Burn and Stormbringer underline this fact with the best two rock vocalists around! If you buy all the Deep Purple albums from Shades Of... to Rapture, you can't go wrong but where to spend yer first 20 quid?: 1. Burn, 2. Stormbringer, 3. Machine Head, 4. In Rock. Buy 'em all, they're all great. Actually, is there a better rock band than DP? I'm a huge Led Zep fan, but...

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review by: Musonda date: 2008-06-08 rating:
Burn
This,without a doubt, is one of DP's greatest album.It has a punch in sound,song writing and rhythm .It is hard to fault this album.If you are looking for good Hard Rock then this is ist.I play this album all the time...and that is a tall order.

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review by: davethorn13 date: 2007-11-27 rating:
Hot
With two changes to the classic DP line-up, 'Burn' marks a significant change in direction for the band. David Coverdale is different from Ian Gillan in being more intense and less inclined toward a sense of humour. The sound on this album is more belligerent and therefore displays a little less finesse. It's still a high quality album, though. The uptempo title track is as close to the Mk 2 sound as any other and Jon Lord produces one of his marvellous neo-classical organ solos. 'Might Just Take Your Life' and 'What's Goin' On Here' are fine regulation Purple tracks too.
The surprises are the infectiously rhythmic 'Sail Away,' the clattering 'You Fool No One' and the bizarre instrumental that closes the album. 'Mistreated' has me in two minds. It's a popular blues, popular enough that Ritchie Blackmore included it in his Rainbow repertoire. It starts out OK, but blues wasn't really DP's forte. Nevertheless, it reaches a brilliant climax.
'Burn' is a lively album, well worth including in a rock collection. Perhaps the only thing it misses is a genuine killer track.

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review by: deadmarlowe date: 2007-06-22 rating:
Hugely entertaining slice of Seventies rock-blues
What an under-valued band Purple are. I'm guilty of it myself - before picking up this remastered copy of "Burn" I can't say I'd listened to Deep Purple since my college days, though I'd stayed loyal to their contemporaries, Zeppelin and Sabbath. So why are Purple lost in '70s Hell while their stablemates have legend status? Hard to see why. Ritchie Blackmore is every bit as accomplished a guitarist as Jimmy Page and, though less given to pounding bass, Ian Paice is no less worthy than "Bonzo" Bonham - check out the drum fills on the opening track if you want proof. Plus, Purple have a secret weapon in John Lord's swirling keyboards - on this album lock-stepped with Blackmore's guitar to tremendous effect.

Nevertheless, Purple seem to be anchored to Smoke On The Water and associated primarily wih Ian Gillan's caterwauling vocals. A shame really: 'Smoke' has a strong riff but it's not the most exciting of rock numbers, while Gillan is very much the genre-voice: high pitched, androgynous and oddly dispassionate. For my money, Purple really became a distinctive band in their own right with Gillan's departure and this album, which introduced the world to the duelling styles of Glenn Hughes' choirboy tenor and the bourbon-soaked rasp of David Coverdale's bluesy growl.

Yes, Coverdale is a revelation here. Recruited from the club circuit in the north of England, he was overweight and spotty, a far cry from the snake-hipped rock god he would mutate into. Yet his voice, his voice is straight out of the Delta, all wounded masculine snarls, bruised moans and lascivious purring. He was to take this style further on the follow-up album, Stormbringer, but here he straddles every song, especially lifting the woman-done-me-wrong ballad 'Mistreated' to glorious heights. The closing number, an instrumental, seems strangely uninhabited after that, a throwback to Purple's more pretentious and juvenile past and a reminder of just how far they'd come. Definitely what the "skip" button on your CD player was invented for - though the bonus track 'Coronarias Redig' is more tongue in cheek and leaves a much better taste in the mouth for that reason.

Certainly, there's a turning away here from the conventions of "heavy metal" (a label Purple have always distanced themselves from) and "prog rock" - either of which catergory could have come to define them. This music's closer to the Rolling Stones, or US bands like Aerosmith that were taking off at the same time: good natured bluesy-rock with a swagger that never really dates, made distinctive by Purple's trademark intelligence and classical stylings.

Thinking about it, the great virtue of his album, and this Purple line-up - the down-home earthiness, the feel-good energy and simple play-the-blues ethos - is also its albatross and probably the reason why they're now an unexpected treasure rather than a record collection staple. There's no satanism here, no messages recorded backwards, no songs about suicide, dragons or Norse mythology, nothing that later generations of Goths, fantasy roleplayers or neo-pagans could adopt as an anthem. It's just great music, played by consummate musicians, having a great time! Blackmore, of course, would later recant, defecting to Rainbow to produce Tolkienesque pomp-rock with Ronnie James Dio; stuff I find almost unlistenable now. But this album and Stormbringer endure and I'm very glad to have found them again.

So, this isn't an album that's going to change your life, or give musical expression to some altered state of mind that doesn't have a name yet. But it rocks! And you'll play it lots and fall in love with every song. Just like me!


review by: brennans37 date: 2006-04-28 rating:
The Best Deep Purple album!
I have recently bought all of the Deep Purple albums from 'In Rock' to 'Stormbringer' (with the exception of the poor 'Who Do We Think We Are?'). I have read reviews of all of these albums from many different sources. Almost universally, 'In Rock', 'Fireball' and 'Machine Head' are considered DP's best albums. Yes, these are great albums, however, if like me you place a high emphasis on melody and catchiness of the songs then 'Burn' is DP's greatest album. David Coverdale is one of rocks greatest and most under-rated singers whose only crime is to have been born slightly after Robert Plant and Ian Gillan (also great!). Needless to say I also cannot understand why critics do not rate Stormbringer. Both 'Burn' and 'Stormbringer' add a new dimension to DP's sound with amazing dual vocals from both Coverdale and Glenn Hughes and some very memorable guitar solos from Blackmore. Buy it and play it loud!

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