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Purple Hits - The Best Of Deep Purple

Finland, 2003, EMI Finland 7243 5846552 5 [2CD]

A career-spanning compilation for Finland only.

TRACK LIST

    Disc 1:

  1. Hush (South)
    Remastered version taken from the 30th anniversary edition of Shades of Deep Purple 1968.
  2. Kentucky woman (Diamond)
    Remastered version taken from the 30th anniversary edition of Book of Taliesyn 1968.
  3. Wring that neck (Blackmore/Evans/Lord/Simper)
    Remastered version taken from the 30th anniversary edition of Book of Taliesyn 1968.
  4. Black night (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered single edit taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock 1970.
  5. Speed king (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock 1970.
  6. Child in time (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Deep Purple in Rock 1970.
  7. Fireball (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Fireball 1971.
  8. No one came (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Fireball 1971.
  9. Strange kind of woman (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered single version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Fireball 1971.
  10. I'm Alone (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered single b-side taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Fireball 1971.
  11. Highway star (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head 1972.
  12. Pictures of home (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head 1972.
  13. Smoke on the water (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head 1972.
  14. Lazy (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head 1972.
  15. When a blind man cries (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered single b-side taken from the 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head 1972.

    Disc 2:

  16. Woman from Tokyo (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
    Remastered version taken from the anniversary edition of Who Do We Think We Are 1973.
  17. Burn (Blackmore/Lord/Paice/Coverdale)
    Taken from the album Burn 1974.
  18. Mistreated (Blackmore/Coverdale)
    Taken from the album Burn 1974.
  19. Stormbringer (Blackmore/Coverdale)
    Taken from the album Stormbringer 1974.
  20. Soldier of fortune (Blackmore/Coverdale)
    Taken from the album Stormbringer 1974.
  21. Comin' home (Bolin/Coverdale/Paice)
    Taken from the album Come Taste the Band 1975.
  22. You keep on moving (Coverdale/Hughes)
    Taken from the album Come Taste the Band 1975.
  23. Perfect strangers (Blackmore/Glover/Gillan)
    Taken from the album Perfect Strangers 1984.
  24. Knocking at your back door (Blackmore/Glover/Gillan)
    Taken from the album Perfect Strangers 1984.
  25. Fire in the basement (Blackmore/Glover/Turner/Lord/Paice)
    Taken from the album Slaves & Masters 1990.
  26. Ramshackle man (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
    Taken from the album The Battle Rages On... 1993.
  27. The battle rages on (Blackmore/Gillan/Lord/Paice)
    Taken from the album The Battle Rages On... 1993.
  28. Vavoom: Ted the mechanic (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice)
    Taken from the album Purpendicular 1996.
  29. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice)
    Single edit taken from the album Purpendicular 1996.
  30. Any fule kno that (Gillan/Glover/Lord/Morse/Paice)
    Taken from the album Abandon 1998.