Track Listing

1. Fireball
2. No No No
3. Demon's Eye
4. Anyone's Daughter
5. Mule
6. Fools
7. No One Came
8. Strange Kind Of Woman
9. I'm Alone
10. Freedom
11. Slow Train
12. Demon's Eye (2)
13. Midnight In Moscow
14. Robin Hood
15. William Tell
16. Fireball (1)
17. Piano Insert
18. No One Came (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6905 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-14
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
By the time of this 1971 release, Deep Purple was in the midst of making the transition from the hard-edged pop of the band's first line-up to a band that was battling Led Zeppelin for the hard rock crown.
Having already gotten off to agreat start with DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK, this Purple lineup ofIan Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover, and Ian Paice fit together like interlocking pieces. Blessed with such unerring chemistry, Purple raised the bar for hard rock with such nuggets as the hard-driving title track and thegrinding "Fools". Elsewhere, they show surprising range with the country-flavoured "Anyone's Daughter" (featuring some impressive finger picking by Blackmore) and the Jimi Hendrix-influenced "No One Came" (which includes a dollop of psychedelic backwards guitar). Also included is the Purple epic "The Mule", a sweeping tour de force dominated by Blackmore's Middle Eastern-tinged soloing and Lord's Pink Floyd-ian keyboard runs. The song became a highlight of Deep Purple's liveshows.

Customer Reviews

Progressive Hard Rock
If you like Deep Purple but don't own Fireball, you are in for a real treat. This album is a hard rock masterpiece and Ian Gillan would totally agree with me. It's a shame that Fireball has been kind of forgotten about, it clearly holds up against In Rock and Machine Head. One nice thing about this album is, besides the great material, you won't be sick of ANY of the songs, because "classic rock" radio ignores this great stuff, just blows me away.

Anyhow, if you're just starting to collect their albums, maybe you already have Machine Head, this one won't disappoint. One of the great hard rock albums of the seventies.

Highlights: Fireball, Strange Kind of Woman, Anyone's Daughter, Fools and No One Came.

hard rock, perfect!
I dont want to get into a debate about which album is the best , but to me hearing Fireball remastered this is their best, obviously following `In rock` was no mean feat! Fireball has it all , my favourites are No one came, The mule, Fools, Demons eye, and the extra`s, Slow train, and Freedom .There is a loose but tight jammy feel that makes me think certain songs kinda just happened and progressed in the studio. overall a job well done. No one came for miles around and said man `who`s he`!,now wheres my Robin Hood outfit?.

MUCH MALIGNED - BUT A CLASSIC
When this album was launched in '71, the band was accused by John Peel of playing formula rock. It's a shame if any rock fan's first exposure to this album was influenced by this opinion, as it's totally offside. Fireball was, and still is a CLASSIC. Okay, so there are no Speed King or Hard Lovin' Man type scores on the album: what IS on the album, however, is an excellent mixture of hard rock (Fireball, Strange Kinda Woman),bloody good songs (No No No, Demon's Eye).We've all been there at some point in our lives where our parents took exception to a partner we had on tow at the time (Anyone's Daughter). The (old) 2nd side of the album, however, in my mind, ranks the score at 5 stars. The Mule, Fools and No one Came take DP on to another plateau altogether. Close your eyes and you could be listening to Pink Floyd or Zeppelin. DP elevate themselves from being merely an excellent hard rock band to leading edge prog rock. May be John Peel really meant Formula 1 Rock! It's a must for any music lover's collection.