The Anthology (Deep Purple album)

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Released 1985 Length 151:36 Release date 1985		Recorded 1968 - 1975 Artist Deep Purple Label Harvest Records

The Anthology(1985) Knocking at Your Back Door The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's(1992) Genres Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal Similar Deep Purple albums, Hard rock albums

The Anthology is a compilation album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple, containing material by Mks I (1968-1969), II (1970–73), III (1974–75) and IV (1975–76) line-ups. It's a double vinyl album with a few previously unreleased (at the time) tracks and mixes. This version of the album was never re-issued on CD. A new version on CD was released in 1991 by EMI, with different songs and only previously released material. The sleeve-note was written by Chris Charlesworth, author of Deep Purple - The Illustrated Biography. The album was also released on cassette.

1985 vinyl version

Side one

"Hush" (Joe South) - 4:24
"Emmaretta" (Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Rod Evans) - 4:28
"Hallelujah" (Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook) - 3:42
"Shadows" (Blackmore, Lord, Evans, Nick Simper, Ian Paice) - 3:29 (Previously unreleased track from the Shades of Deep Purple sessions in 1968)
"Love Help Me" (Blackmore, Evans) - 3:23 (Previously unreleased instrumental version)
"Wring That Neck" (Lord, Blackmore, Simper, Paice) - 4:12

Side two

"Speed King" (Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Lord, Paice) - 6:53
"Black Night" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 3:27
"Grabsplatter" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:34 (Instrumental jam from a BBC session in 1970)
"Child in Time" (Edited version) (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 9:16

Side three

"Strange Kind of Woman" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:50
"Freedom" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 3:31 (Previously unreleased track from the Fireball sessions in 1971)
"Fireball" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 3:24
"Highway Star" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 6:07
"Never Before" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:00 (A different (quadrophonic) mix, than the ordinary album version)
"When a Blind Man Cries" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 2:30

Side four

"Smoke on the Water" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 6:38 (A different (quadrophonic) mix, than the ordinary album version)
"Woman from Tokyo" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 5:49
"Might Just Take Your Life" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, David Coverdale) - 4.39
"Coronarias Redig" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice) - 4:51
"Soldier of Fortune" (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 3:15
"You Keep On Moving" (Coverdale, Glenn Hughes) - 4:17

1991 CD version

CD one

"Hush" - 4:25
"Mandrake Root" (Blackmore, Evans, Lord) - 6:08
"Shield" (Lord, Blackmore, Evans) - 6:03
"Wring That Neck" - 5:13
"The Bird Has Flown" (Evans, Backmore, Lord) - 5:36
"Bloodsucker" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:08
"Speed King" - 5:53
"Black Night" - 3:27
"Child in Time" - 10:16
"Fireball" - 3:23
"Strange Kind of Woman" - 8:35 (Live version taken from Deep Purple in Concert, 1980)
"No One Came" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 6:25
"Highway Star" - 6:06

CD two

"Smoke on the Water" - 7:01 (live version taken from Made in Japan, 1972)
"Pictures of Home" - 5:03
"Woman from Tokyo" - 5:50
"Smooth Dancer" (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) - 4:09
"Sail Away" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Coverdale) - 5:48
"Lay Down Stay Down" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Coverdale) - 4:15
"Burn" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Coverdale) - 6:50 (Live version taken from Live in London, 1982)
"Stormbringer" (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 4:05
"Hold On" (Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice) - 5:05
"Gypsy" (Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Coverdale, Hughes) - 4:13
"Mistreated" (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 11:40 (Live version taken from Made in Europe, 1976)
"Gettin' Tighter" (Tommy Bolin, Hughes) - 3:36
"Love Child" (Bolin, Coverdale) - 3:05
"You Keep On Moving" - 5:18