Deep Purple - Abandon (1998) {Japan 1st Press}

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Artist: Deep Purple
Title: Abandon
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Thames Records / Teichiku Records #TECW-25754
Genre: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> WavPack (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:56:26
Total Size: 400 / 141 Mb (Covers)
WebSite: Album Preview

Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple, released in the Spring of 1998. It was Deep Purple's second album with Steve Morse on guitar and the last album to feature founding member Jon Lord prior to his departure in 2002. The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years. The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan – "A Band On" – and the album was followed by the "A Band on Tour". Uniquely for a Deep Purple studio album, it features a reworking of a previously recorded song -"Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here re-titled "Bludsucker"). "Don't Make Me Happy" was mistakenly mastered in mono, and not amended on the final release. One of the two versions of the song released on promo single was, however, mastered in stereo.

Deep Purple continued cranking out new albums into the late '90s, despite diminished audiences and little attention from the media. But as long as they continued to satisfy their hardcore fans, those factors didn't matter; Abandon should satisfy those fans. Granted, the band isn't as young and energetic as they once were, but they are willing to try new material, which can't be said about other aging hard rockers from the '70s. The addition of guitarist Steve Morse has revitalized the band and he sounds more a part of the band here than he did on his debut, Purpendicular. Abandon is a harder-rocking album than its predecessor, but there's a number of layers to their rock, as they occasionally stretch into challenging neo-prog territory. But the main thing about the album is that it hits hard and heavy – harder than any Deep Purple album in recent memory and that makes a welcome revelation for hardcore followers.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. Any Fule Kno That [0:04:28.17]
02. Almost Human [0:04:26.13]
03. Don't Make Me Happy [0:04:55.45]
04. Seventh Heaven [0:05:24.52]
05. Watching The Sky [0:05:25.68]
06. Fingers To The Bone [0:04:47.07]
07. Jack Ruby [0:03:48.10]
08. She Was [0:04:19.55]
09. Whatsername [0:04:26.35]
10. '69 [0:04:59.10]
11. Evil Louie [0:04:55.60]
12. Bludsucker [0:04:28.15]

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