This album has some really good, heavy songs. I love Space Truckin and Highway Star but, let’s face it, this album is Smoke on the Water and for that I will always hold a slight grudge against Deep Purple.

If you’ve ever had a kid who plays guitar, you know what I mean. It’s the first rock song they learn. No, not even song. It’s the first riff they learn.

E-A-B-E-A-B-A-E-A-B-E-A.

Over. And over. And over.

And then your kid gets good and he learns to play other songs and he’s moved on to Pink Floyd and Pantera and you take him to Guitar Center every Saturday so he can sit around and try out all the guitars and amps you can’t afford to buy him and there are twenty other budding guitarists in the store, ranging in age from ten to 70, and they are all playing Smoke on the Water as if they invented it.

It echoes in your head. All day long. Every day. You tell your kid you’ll give him ten bucks for every time he doesn’t play it and then his friends come over and they start playing it and finally, your kid gives up the guitar for his Xbox and you think you never have to hear that song again and then one winter night, you hear a familiar sound coming from the neighbor’s garage and your hair stands on end and your heart sinks because the neighbor’s kid got himself a guitar and you know what the next couple of weeks are going to be like, so you announce on twitter:

Neighbor’s kid needs to knock it off with the E-A-B-E-A-B-A-E-A-B-E-A or I’ll beat him with his guitar til he’s a nice shade of Deep Purple.

And then you make a silent vow to yourself to never buy your nephew a guitar.

Favorite song: Space Truckin
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