Deep Purple - Machine Head
NME.COM feature on Deep Purple - Machine Head album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 03 November 2005
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- Highway Star (LP Version)
- Maybe I'm A Leo (LP Version)
- Pictures Of Home (LP Version)
- Never Before (LP Version)
- Smoke On The Water (LP Version)
- Lazy (LP Version)
- Space Truckin' (Album Version)
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Deep Purple - Machine Head: Wikipedia Album Entry
Machine Head is the sixth Deep Purple studio album. It was recorded at the Grand Hotel Montreux, Switzerland in December 1971 with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, and released in March 1972.
The album is often cited as being very influential in the development of the heavy metal music genre. It is Deep Purple's most successful recording, topping the charts in several countries following its release. In 2001 Q magazine named it as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.
Machine Head is the subject of one of the Classic Albums series of documentaries about the making of famous albums. Machine Head was released on the multichannel formats Super Audio CD (2003) and DVD-Audio (2001).
The conditions in which the original recordings were made are quite outstanding. Hiring the Rolling Stones Mobile One equipment and studios, the band recorded the entirety of the tracks in a Montreaux hotel facility, with no overdubs. The "Smoke on the Water" lyrics' citation "Frank Zappa and the Mothers" refers to Zappa's show at a nearby casino. The casino burned down a few days before the start of scheduled Machine Head recording sessions.
A song entitled "When a Blind Man Cries" was recorded during these sessions, but not included on the album. Instead, it was used as a the B-side on the "Never Before" single. The song appears as a bonus track on the album's 25th anniversary edition.
The supporting tour for Machine Head included a trip to Japan that would later become the classic double-live Made in Japan album.
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Deep Purple - Machine Head Lyrics
Deep Purple - Highway Star Lyrics
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Deep Purple - Maybe I'm A Leo Lyrics
Peeping 'round the door I got a big surprise
Couldn't see a thing but open skies
They've taken her away, where is she now?
Deep Purple - Pictures Of Home Lyrics
Somebody's shouting up at a mountain
Only my own words return
Nobody's up there, it's a deception
When will I ever learn?
Deep Purple - Never Before Lyrics
Somebody somebody come to my side
I'm tired I'm crying I'm sick inside
My woman that woman just wasn't right
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water Lyrics
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Deep Purple - Lazy Lyrics
You're lazy you just stay in bed
Oh you're lazy just stay in bed
Don't want no money you don't want no bread
