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The one with Smoke On The Water
Speaking of the “best of 2024” lists, Machine Head made it to the Classic Rock magazine Best rock reissues of 2024:
Yup, the one with Smoke On The Water. That song, and this album, made Deep Purple legends all over the globe. This, essentially, is a three-CD version. The first disc pairs the Dweezil Zappa 2024 Remix with the 2024 Remaster; the second contains In Concert ’72; the third delivers the previously unreleased Montreux ’71.
Given that you already own at least one copy of Machine Head and possibly bought In Concert ’72 on CD in 2012, you’ll need to know that this £100 box also contains: a 60-page booklet, Dweezil’s remix on vinyl in gatefold sleeve, and a Blu-ray audio disc containing a Dolby Atmos version, the 1974 quadraphonic mix and some Dolby 5.1 surround versions.
If you’re curious, check out other entries on Louder Sound.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
It’s how all DP reissues should be properly done. In Rock could certainly do with a sonic revamp. The last remix was laughably long ago (in the mid 90s) and sounded harsh. The source masters have their limitations of course, but so much more could be done with it today.
December 27th, 2024 at 04:56Yeah…. $$$…. nope! Haven’t they heard about the cost of living crisis? Especially as I’ve got no money to burn…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aG0X81aCF0
We aren’t all as well off as Uwe, & you know money talks!…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqLfkw4Yh8
I guess love don’t mean a thing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eDJ9k6rIGY&list=PLuxv3hvEAhDd-wfAihOHraypNDm3ZMI9H&index=2
December 27th, 2024 at 06:17Interesting it’s DZ – but 100£!
Guess I prefer eating this month! And drinking some coffee 😉
Not that I wouldn’t like it in my collection, but again – 100£!
December 27th, 2024 at 06:56@2
December 27th, 2024 at 11:19😂 good one!
I would spend 100€ for an original vinyl copy of Perfect Strangers if I were a serious collector
December 27th, 2024 at 14:58You have to milk the baby boomers while they are still alive. They aren’t made anymore, you know. The market for analog music media is dying away.
The pricing is overdone, no doubt, and for that the boxed set is not really lavish at all, more perfunctory. But I’m pretty sure that 2025 will see a release of the Dweezil Remix as a standalone CD (or two with some of the live tracks added) and that is really all you need. The Dweezil remix will take its place in Purple history.
The only thing that reconciles me with the pricing is that Rhino will likely make a nice buck off it and that will induce them to repeat the exercise with other Purple goodies. That is how capitalism works, it gets product on the shelves.
December 27th, 2024 at 15:16Downloading the bits you don’t have saves a few quid. But I was disappointed that few of the Montreux tracks were comply – and not advertised as incomplete!
December 27th, 2024 at 17:26Did I really pay £100 for this? I think it was less.
I looked at Rhino and I’m right, about $80.
December 27th, 2024 at 17:26Deep Purple In Rock in Dolby Atmos, you have to be joking Uwe. Well maybe not in Atmos. Machine Head had the sonics available & that is a an incredible advantage, including over any of their other albums. Again it depends on who attempts any remix etc, some people stuff it up big time, others not so much. In Rock while rough in it’s original 1970 sound, in certain aspects it has it’s charm as we say. Perhaps some things should be left alone? Cheers.
December 27th, 2024 at 20:53Just don`t let Geezer Butler remix In Rock,like he did original mix with Born Again for Sabbath…LOL
December 27th, 2024 at 23:55