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Robert Daems
Electric
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Rich Franz
Fabricio Geo
Robert Gloria
Rasmus Heide
Tracy Heyder
Dave Hodgkinson
Paer Holmgren
Benny Holmström
Ted Hurst
Ed 'Janx' Jankauskas
Fredrik Jiglund
Dennis Karlsson
Martin Karski
Mark Dorson King
Stefan Krüger
Christer Lorichs
Don Love
Jeremy Marples
Melodic
Rock.com
René Mikkelsen
The
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Stathis Panagiotopoulos
Politiken
Rob Prior
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Julian Radbourne
La Repubblica
Dave Rudders
Attila Scholtz
Garry Smith
Jan Thielking
Catrin Wiegand
Interviews
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Attack
Metro
Scunthorpe
Telegraph
Sydsvenskan
Le Zine
New album stuff
Lyrics
Gatefold vinyl Bananas
Studio photos
2003 promo photo
Jon Lord's Bananas
Does
Jon Lord like Bananas?
Charting Bananas
Associated Press
Bananas in Berlin
The pros of Bananas
Related sites
Roger Glover's website
Ian Gillan's website
Michael Bradford's website
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Deep Purple's new album
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1. House Of Pain
2. Sun Goes Down
3. Haunted
4. Razzle Dazzle
5. Silver Tongue
6. Walk On
7. Picture Of Innocence
8. I've Got Your Number
9. Never A Word
10. Bananas
11. Doing It Tonight
12. Contact Lost
"The album is called Bananas, and it will be released
when it is ripe."
Ian Gillan, Dublin - June 24, 2003
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Buy it: Amazon:
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Bananas is Deep Purple's first studio since Abandon
in 1998. It features 12 tracks of immense variety and musical prowess. Don't
take our word for it. One of our reviewers thinks Bananas is "the most
playful Deep Purple album since the beginning."
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"What is most joyful on this
CD is the sound of the band. Wonderful. Notice how positive and loaded
with good energy this record is."
Martin Karski
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Our favourite Greek reporter, Stathis Panagiotopoulos,
was the first to jot down his Bananas impressions
for The Highway Star (and the world for that matter) and many more have followed
him - like Attila Scholtz who has provided us with an
elaborate and insightful musician's view of the album. Read with joy as
they all take us through Bananas - reviews on the left.
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"Gillan
is confident enough to deliver a succession of lyrical witticisms in the
manner of a veteran stand up comedian. You always know each and every
song is rooted in some mini cameo from his eventful day-to-day life. A
job well done."
Garry Sharpe-Young
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But what do you think? If you've gotten yourself
a case of Bananas and has a few words to say about it, please drop
us a line
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"I could get shot for saying
this, but I think that Bananas is better than Perfect Strangers and Machine
Head, almost as immortal as Purpendicular, but not quite."
Scott Bell
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Since Abandon, the band has performed three new songs onstage.
"Long Time Gone" from the summer of 2000 seems to have been put to
one side, while the excellent "Up The Wall" from 2002's UK tour has
been re-written and is now called "I've Got Your Number". The instrumental
"Well Dressed Guitar" was recorded for Bananas, but has been left
off and might surface as a single b-side somewhere. This appears to have been
EMI's decision.
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"This is the most Purple sounding
album in a long, long time. The production was done in a way to prevent
overproduction. In other words, the band wrote the songs, learned them
and went into the studio to make a Deep Purple album. What comes across
is a very DP sounding effort."
Classic Rock Revisited
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Two of the songs on Bananas were co-written with now ex-Hammond
Maestro Jon Lord, and we asked Roger Glover to explain.
We also asked Jon Lord what
he thinks about Bananas.
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"We were sensing that Jon was
leaving, his commitment was only half-hearted. That was a important reason
the new album was late. But you don't kick out Jon Lord from Deep Purple,
it had to be his call to leave."
Ian Gillan
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And have you seen the luxurious gatefold vinyl edition yet?
It does exist, you know!
If you spot any media reviews of Bananas (and they're
'forwardable'), do let us know.
Rasmus
Heide
This special last updated November 19, 2003
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