Steve Morse is an amazing guitar player. And Airey imitates Lord pretty well. Listening to this atm.

Solid stuff. Purpendicular is easily better imo, but this is good enough.

Album Rating: 4.0

Easily Purple's best album since 'Perfect strangers'. The sound on here generally resembles that of the band's 70's period when they would welcome Blues and Hard Rock influences onto almost every song. 'House of pain', 'Razzle dazzle', 'I got your number' to name but a few are some of the best songs Deep Purple have written in a decade or so, and although the record is without Blackmore or Lord's talent, Steve Morse and new member Don Airey more than make up for the loss. Gillan's vocals are still weak in comparison to his earlier years but he certainly does try and has a great range in style.

Album Rating: 2.5

easily?



Purpendicular is better than this

Album Rating: 3.0

Bananas is cool but I think the best modern Purple album is either Purpendicular or Now What?!. If I had to choose one I'd go with Now What?!.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ah not listened to "Now what!?" yet, will give it a go.

Album Rating: 3.0

Not a bad album, almost as good as Purpendicular.

Album Rating: 3.0

Pretty much yeah. I rarely listen to anything past Come Taste the Band anymore.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't blame you, in fact I think I'll do the same once I listen to their discography.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

It always pains me to pan a Deep Purple album, but BANANAS was something of a disappointment. I've listened to it many times through the years and it never really seems to grow on me as I'd hoped it might. It's pretty much the same formula as their prior work with Steve Morse and does possess that same charming delivery from Ian Gillan. This was the first album featuring Don Airey on keyboards, replacing founding member Jon Lord who'd decided to retire at this point. Airey does a good job at preserving the classic Purple sound, but there are noticeably less fireworks between he and Morse. There are some likeable enough songs, but I'd be hard pressed to cite any truly great ones here as most as fairly unremarkable. The single "Haunted" is a nice enough ballad and "Pictures Of Innocence" exudes more energy than the rest. "Silver Tongue" also features a nice guitar break from Steve Morse, but kind plods along a bit predictably otherwise. Not really a bad album, but rather bland and average by Purple's standards.

Album Rating: 3.5

album has some really good songs and some clunkers. overall I give it a little more credit.

Album Rating: 3.0

"Airey does a good job at preserving the classic Purple sound, but there are noticeably less fireworks between he and Morse."



Good point. Airey's best effort with Purple until this point, has to be on Now What!?. New album is probably going to be dominated by Airey too.

Album Rating: 4.0

Very diverse for a Deep Purple album and no filler, best Deep Purple album since Burn