Now What?! Gold Edition (Audio CD)

Boomerocity readers may remember my review of the NOW What?!, the 19th studio album from Deep Purple that posted here last April. Since that time, the album has reached Gold Status in Germany, Russia, Czech Republic and Poland, not to mention the fact the band has made a very much deserved return to the British Top-20 for the first time in 20 years.To celebrate the success of the album and the support of one of the greatest fan bases known in rock history, NOW What?! has been released as a Golden Deluxe Edition and the boxed set will be available exclusively via Amazon.NOW What?! Gold Edition 2CD, packaged in a luxurious gold cover, also includes two bonus songs on disc 1 (a stunning cover of Jerry Lee Lewis’ It’ll Be Me, and the rare B-side First Sign Of Madness, previously only available digitally and on the CD single Vincent Price), and an extra live disc. The bonus disc consists of over 70 minutes of unreleased live music recorded during the...Read more

I have to rate this album of on of my favorites of 2013. that said, I was around when machine head came out and except for smoke, I was too young to really appreciate the rest of the album. it's an easy listen, start to finish. I suppose it's easier to be yourself when you helped define a genre as DP does here. I realize that some may say that there are missing key original members, but that only makes the story better as the core sound still exists and proves that this BAND is deserving of their roll in rock, and not a sole member dragging the rest of the band forward.a fresh representation of the great genre... ROCK