30: Very Best of Deep Purple

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Very Best of Deep Purple
Very Best of Deep Purple cover
Compilation album by Deep Purple
Released November 3, 1998
Genre Hard rock
Heavy metal
Rock n roll
Length 74:15
Label EMI
Producer Deep Purple
Professional reviews
Deep Purple chronology
Abandon
(1998)		 Very Best of Deep Purple
(1998)		 In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra
(1999)

30: The Very Best of Deep Purple is a 1998 compilation album by English rock band Deep Purple, celebrating 30 years of the successful band. There are two versions of the album, a single CD and a double CD with lyrics inside of it. The single CD version concentrates on the greatest hits of Deep Purple through the years, and contains mostly edited single versions of the songs, for example "Child in Time" which was over ten minutes long in its original form on the album Deep Purple in Rock. The double CD "Special Collectors Edition" is more in-depth, containing full versions of all the songs.

In 2008, a remastered version of this compilation was realased. This remastered version charted #56 in UK.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing (single CD version)

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

  1. "Hush" (Joe South) - 4:28
  2. "Black Night" - 3:29
  3. "Speed King" - 4:27
  4. "Child in Time" - 4:15
  5. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 3:53
  6. "Fireball" - 3:26
  7. "Demon's Eye" - 5:19
    • Tracks 5-7 originally issued on 1971's Fireball
  8. "Smoke on the Water" - 5:43
  9. "Highway Star" - 6:32
  10. "When a Blind Man Cries" - 3:31
  11. "Never Before" - 3:30
  12. "Woman from Tokyo" - 2:47
  13. "Burn" (David Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) - 4:33
    • Originally issued on 1974's Burn
  14. "Stormbringer" (Coverdale, Blackmore) - 4:07
  15. "You Keep on Moving" (Coverdale, Glenn Hughes) - 4:30
  16. "Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 4:16
  17. "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" (Gillan, Steve Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:19
  18. "Any Fule Kno That" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:27
    • Originally issued on 1998's Abandon

[edit] Credits (single CD version)

[edit] Track Listing (double CD version)

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

[edit] Disc 1

  1. "Hush" (Joe South) - 4:28
  2. "Mandrake Root" (Rod Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 6:11
  3. "Kentucky Woman" (Neil Diamond) - 4:43
  4. "Wring That Neck" (Blackmore, Nick Simper, Lord, Paice) - 5:14
  5. "The Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 2:54
    • single b-side version
  6. "Emmaretta" (Evans, Blackmore, Lord) - 3:00
    • single
  7. "Hallelujah" (Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) - 3:43
    • single
  8. "Black Night" - 3:29
    • single
  9. "Speed King" - 5:53
  10. "Bloodsucker" - 4:13
  11. "Child in Time" - 10:17
  12. "Strange Kind of Woman" - 3:53
    • single (UK) and on 1971's Fireball (USA)
  13. "Fireball" - 3:26
  14. "Demon's Eye" - 5:19
    • Tracks 13-14 originally issued on 1971's Fireball
  15. "When a Blind Man Cries" - 3:31
    • single b-side

[edit] Disc 2

  1. "Highway Star" - 6:32
  2. "Smoke on the Water" - 5:43
  3. "Never Before" - 4:01
  4. "Woman from Tokyo" - 5:51
  5. "Burn" (David Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) - 6:03
  6. "Might Just Take Your Life" (Coverdale, Blackmore, Lord, Paice) - 4:39
    • Tracks 5-6 originally issued on 1974's Burn
  7. "Stormbringer" (Coverdale, Blackmore) - 4:07
  8. "You Keep on Moving" (Coverdale, Glenn Hughes) - 5:19
  9. "Perfect Strangers" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 5:21
  10. "Knocking at Your Back Door" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover) - 7:03
  11. "King of Dreams" (Joe Lynn Turner, Blackmore, Glover) - 5:29
  12. "Ted the Mechanic" (Gillan, Steve Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:19
  13. "Any Fule Kno That" (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:27
    • Originally issued on 1998's Abandon

[edit] Credits (double CD version)


v • d • e
Deep Purple
Ian Gillan · Steve Morse · Roger Glover · Ian Paice · Don Airey
Jon Lord · Ritchie Blackmore · David Coverdale · Glenn Hughes · Rod Evans · Nick Simper · Tommy Bolin · Joe Lynn Turner · Joe Satriani
Studio albums
Shades of Deep Purple (1968) · The Book of Taliesyn (1968) · Deep Purple (1969) Deep Purple in Rock (1970) · Fireball (1971) · Machine Head (1972) · Who Do We Think We Are (1973) · Burn (1974) · Stormbringer (1974) · Come Taste the Band (1975) · Perfect Strangers (1984) · The House of Blue Light (1987) · Slaves & Masters (1990) · The Battle Rages On (1993) · Purpendicular (1996) · Abandon (1998) · Bananas (2003) · Rapture of the Deep (2005)
Live albums
Concerto for Group and Orchestra · Made in Japan  · Made in Europe · Last Concert in Japan · Deep Purple in Concert · Live in London · Scandinavian Nights · Nobody's Perfect · In the Absence of Pink: Knebworth '85 · Live in Japan · Come Hell or High Water · King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Deep Purple in Concert · California Jamming · Mk III: The Final Concerts · Live at the Olympia '96 · Gemini Suite Live · Total Abandon: Australia '99 · Deep Purple: Extended Versions · Live at the Royal Albert Hall · Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy · This Time Around: Live in Tokyo · The Soundboard Series · Live in Paris 1975 · Inglewood - Live in California · Space Vol 1 & 2 · Perks and Tit / Live in San Diego 1974 · Live in Stockholm · Live in Europe 1993 · Live at Montreux 1996 · Live in Montreux 69 · Live in Denmark 1972 · They All Came Down to Montreux
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