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Now what?! track list and artwork
The track list for Now what?! has been released:
- A Simple Song
- Weirdistan
- Out Of Hand
- Hell To Pay
- Body Line
- Above And Beyond
- Blood From A Stone
- Uncommon Man
- Après Vous
- All The Time In The World
- Vincent Price
The above track list will be featured on regular CD. Additional editions include:
- Limited edition with a bonus track and a bonus DVD featuring Deep Purple in conversation plus additional audio material. This edition will be available in a Digipak with a cut out front cover.
- Double vinyl LP containing 11 tracks as above plus bonus track, as in the limited edition CD.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
just pre ordered Bronx U.S.A
March 15th, 2013 at 19:05I love the titles,I hope the songs are a great as the titles!
March 15th, 2013 at 19:55After the great and meaningful artwook of “Rapture of the Deep” I am a little bit disappointed. However, I am really hearing forwood to the sound of “Now what?!”.
March 15th, 2013 at 20:25I’m Sooooooooooooooooo excited!!! Love “All the time in the world” A little slow, but fantastic lyric’s… hit’s home for me. Nice job guy’s!!! Mile’s ahead of the last two album’s. Bob Ezrin, you da man!!
March 15th, 2013 at 21:16Vincent Price, weirdistan, apres vous, body line ?. Interesting song titles .
March 15th, 2013 at 21:47why not just release it already?!?!?!?!
March 15th, 2013 at 22:02What a great cover!!!!!! I guess I’m one of the few who thought the cover for Purpendicular, Abandon and Rapture Of The Deep was great!?! Now…. What’s left to hear is if the album is any good 😉 The production seems to be way better than that of ROTD (what the f..k was Bradford doing????), and if the songs are as good as on the Purp album of 1995… Hell yeah!!!
March 16th, 2013 at 00:02And for the record…. I love Deep Purple!!! I live, breathe and eat Purple on a daily basis, and I’m one of those weirdos that love every incarnation of the band! The current line up is IMO beyound fantastic considering age and so on…:-) Remember, Gillan and Glover are turning 68 this year! Who would’ve thought back in 1984, when they reunited, that they would be recording in 2013??? Back then, I thought “well, they’re old now (39 years of age), and will probably be together for a couple of years”! I was wrong, and now I’m glad I was 🙂 Deep Purple are still my musical life, Glover is still “the stinking hippie”, Gillan is still….Gillan, and Paice is the glue that still holds things together! Shoot, what a truly GREAT hard rock band they still are!!! Love ’em to death!!!
March 16th, 2013 at 00:14Looks great.
March 16th, 2013 at 00:15Superb ?!
March 16th, 2013 at 00:50-you call that artwork ?! wtf!
March 16th, 2013 at 06:16Can´t wait … come on guys, lets rock …. come on guys, send me a copy … N O W !!!!
LLRnR
kraatzy
March 16th, 2013 at 08:39There are 3 kinds of people, the ones who already have their mind made up about everything related to this album being bad (no matter how good it can be). The ones who already have their mind made up about everything related to this album being good (no matter how bad it is) and finally the minority, which are the people who will just listen to it for what it is and have an unbiased opinion about it.
I don’t expect Now What to be the best Purple album, or even the best Morse era album from what i heard i think they done far worse than this. I expect a solid album, no more no less … which by todays rock standards would be great news.
March 16th, 2013 at 10:47“Vincent Price” best title for a song…thanks to R.G. Butterfly Ball masterpiece album…
March 16th, 2013 at 14:12And I hope that would be not the album cover, just the box cover…
I bet it’s Gillan’s choice to make a rock’n’roll cover…but would it be the J.L.Lewis one or the Cliff Richard, Jhonny Cymbal, Les Carle, Bobby Vee, The Move, Jørgen Krabbenhøft & Rockband, Exile, Melissa Etheridge, Johnny Winter, Paul Rishell, The Detonators!, Big Town Playboys, Faith Hill, Tom Jones/ Jools Holland, Rock Nalle & The Yankees, Siggi Fassl, Janis Martin one?
Probably it will be the C.Richard’s version…1:51…
March 16th, 2013 at 14:44http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVbP5_4rgY
Lyrics not soon forgotten: “Sometimes on a good day I sit and think, sometimes I just sit” (All the Time in the World). “Sometimes I sit and wonder, sometimes I just sit” (Soon Forgotten).
March 16th, 2013 at 18:10Interesting artwork. I said before: I liked the font and the clever spelling of Deep ?urp!e. The theme is well-executed and the idea very simple. The all-white cover with the purple text is a juxtaposition of Purpendicular, which at the time was a deviation from most, much more detailed Deep Purple covers.
The packaging and availability of multiple discs seems to imply high expectations.
I was hoping for the same basic theme but with the smoky background used in the first teaser, but I think the official version works well.
Will Now What?! become known as “The White Album”?
March 16th, 2013 at 19:22Great ! But I am a bit disappointed with the artwork. And not for the first time. What will be next ? Was the artist paid for his work ?
March 16th, 2013 at 20:13Could ‘Apres Vous’ be a Vicky Leandros cover with more polite lyrics? 😉
March 17th, 2013 at 08:37Does anyone remember the last Canadian engineer/producer (Nick Blagona)…now another one…o.k, he’s living in Nashville…he’s from Toronto.
March 17th, 2013 at 09:11Interesting that the artwork is similar to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
March 17th, 2013 at 12:24AND the track Vincent Price who famously made HIS Rock ‘n’ Roll debut on Alice Cooper’s “Welcome To My Nightmare”
Connection?
Uh , WHO produced both of those Albums!
Coincidence?
Wonder if the “artwork” selection was influenced by the producer. Ezrin also produced Pink Floyd’s The Wall (or The Wa!! ?), which has somewhat similar, although perfectly fitting style. If at least they would use that promo photo of five of them standing on a street….
March 17th, 2013 at 12:59I’m very curious how Uncommon man sounds… the title is very much like the 9th track of Black Country Communions Afterglow; Common Man…
The limited edition is already ordered, all I need now is patience……
March 17th, 2013 at 13:57loving the art work loving the cuts loving the band
March 17th, 2013 at 15:41DrDP @21 – Gillan and Glover would surely be the Vincent Price connection as well, he was in the Butterfly Ball performance at the Albert Hall.
March 17th, 2013 at 17:11Why this low budget feel and appraoch to Deep Purple covers the last ten years?! Another wasted chance, very dissapointing. Abandon had the last good cover. I guess all bands want their own “white album”. The recent photo with the band standing in the street would have made a great cover. But alas…
March 17th, 2013 at 18:06*13 Joao
There are only two types of people in the world!
Those who say – there are only two types of people in the world & those who don’t!!
*8 HardrockPete
Suuperrrb comment sending good vibes down to us all!
It’s funny how each gig ig says we the audience are now members of the band & yet we never get a say on artistic content?
Confusticating!
March 17th, 2013 at 20:55OK, I’ve now listened to All the Time in the World and Hell to Pay through my very high-end headphones at high volume at least 20 times each. The sound is fantastic, the performances are excellent, and best of all is the smile on my face. Power to the Purple!
March 17th, 2013 at 22:20Abandon? Really that is the pick for a good cover? The minimalist feel of the cover is interesting and the ?! insert creates a certain level of curiosity. If DP management can propertly market this I think they might get a bit more attention with this effort….then recent recordings.
March 18th, 2013 at 00:36Esperando con ansías la salida del CD-DVD es el que quiero adquirir,con la esperanza de que sea un excelente albúm que por lo menos supere al anterior,la verdad no se cuando saldra a la venta aquí en México,y llegue aquí a la capital de nuestro Estado Mérida,Yucatán.
March 18th, 2013 at 01:59Talking about Vincent Price, reminded me of the other Hammer Horror legend, Christopher Lee & the heavy metal vocal album.
March 18th, 2013 at 05:01A heavy metal Christmas it is called, you have to laugh at it!
All the time in the world or second eye to Morocco?
March 18th, 2013 at 07:17..Kinda “posh” artwork. Who cares anymay.
March 18th, 2013 at 11:22Actually i’m kinda struck by “all the time in the world”. Such a great song with great lirycs.
After a couple of hearings also “hell to pay” isn’t bad, except of the chorus…
Bugger!
March 18th, 2013 at 11:47After I’ve rediscovered my record player I simply has to buy both the CD and the Vinyl versions. Expenses – expenses
And i don’t give a fcuk about the cover. It’s the music that matters to me!
Abandon did have a good cover, I felt. But it was because they differed with the formats, the cassette being my favorite design and layout. It was considerably different than the CD in terms of the photo shoot.
March 18th, 2013 at 21:03Couldnt agree more with comment #8. For me Deep Purple are the be all and end all as well.
Loving the new tracks and cant wait to buy the new album.
March 19th, 2013 at 07:12i love the artwork. very understated.
March 19th, 2013 at 11:26Think this sleeve is still a prototype. A mock-up, even.
March 19th, 2013 at 16:42Just pre-ordered from Middlle-of-Nowhere, Virginia!
March 19th, 2013 at 16:58João Fernandes says:
There are 3 kinds of people, the ones who already have their mind made up about everything related to this album being bad (no matter how good it can be).
No expectations here but good DP music. The only DP I did not care for was Mark III – love the rest since 1968.
March 19th, 2013 at 17:01This album is amazing. Pure hard rock with few new elements. Great solos. A lot of Hammond vibe and Gillan singing in his best way!
March 22nd, 2013 at 10:45Considering that slaves and masters doesn’t Count then Louis?
March 23rd, 2013 at 10:04Because if you consider Burn and Made in Europé as worthless, and the first mentioned album better than them it hurts my Purple heart.
Because i hold them just as high as In rock, Fireball, Machine head and Made in Japan. great compositions. The song Burn kinda has Everything a riff that are as instant as Smoke on the water, a bridge with arpeggios before the solos that outmatch the one on highway star etc etc. Mistreated omg what a blues.
Louis you must hate DC and GH.
From what I’ve have Heard from the new album Hell to pay has a very good solo part haven’t analyzed the text in the lyrics yet but from what i heard when i listen to it the first time the verses it felt like a transport to the solos the first time and the second third and so on.
A Kiss like Chorus (whommits are held back) a drum playing on that song that are nothing like it used to be.
Back in the days you could tell what song it was by just hearing the drums.
This is more straight rock´n roll beat with nothing much more added to it.
The song All the time in the world nothing much happens there Radio gaga at least the radio edit, the only one I’ve heard so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb78Ont8Ts now they starts talking to me if the rest of the song is anything like this great intro (just love phrygish stuff) it can be really great like perfect strangers why not even better.
I’ve heard a couple of other intro´s that are appealing to the ear as well. I want to listen to the whole thing before I judge some people says this album is great before they listen to more than just the 2 radio edited song. That’s kinda strange to me.
I do hope its a god record that’s gonna be released who could wish for anything else from our house goods.
Just don’t let it be anything that sounds like that Gillan Glover popsong project from the eighties.
and on vinyl yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 24th, 2013 at 01:52