I agree with the first reviewer. There are no songs from Machine Head, Deep Purple In Rock, or my personal favorite Burn. How could you make a millennium collection without songs from these albums?

Made in USA in 2002, Serial# 440-063-067-2, Playing Time 61:14

At first glance, there's not much here for the DP afficionado... unless, of course, you've got every album they've put out. As if there weren't enough compilations of DP our there! Read on!

This compilation focuses on 3 albums: "Perfect Strangers", "The House Of Blue Light" and "Nobody's Perfect". But there are a few twists in this compilation!

Track 3, "Son Of Alerik", is rarely found on any compilation since it's a non-album track: it was the b-side of the track "Perfect Strangers". Clocking in at around 10 minutes, the slow-and-bluesy arrangements of this instrumental track features an incredible performance by Mr. Blackmore! A MUST for the completist!!!

Tracks 4,5 and 6 are lifted from the "The House Of Blue Light" album; but the versions included are from the "vinyl mix", which had shorter versions than the original CD pressing!!! If you have the remastered version of THOBL in the japanese mini-LP version, you're covered; but if you just have the "regular" jewel case version, the versions here are different...

The rest of the tracks (1,2,7,8,9) are lifted straight from their original albums (LP or CD).

Interesting for the completist, perhaps not as much to the occasional DP listener...

This an 80s compilation because apparantly these people don't have the rights to their 60s and 70s albums. As the picture on the cover indicates, this is MK2B. Features songs from the 1984 "Perfect Strangers" album ("Knocking at your back door", "Perfect Strangers"), plus an outtake from those sessions, called "Son of alerik". It's a ten minute instrumental. It's kind of a jam, but has a main chord progression. It's highly regarded, but I find it repetitive. From the 1987 album "House of blue light" there are "Bad attitude", "Dead or alive", and "Unwritten law". They're the shorter versions, from the vinyl mix, rather than the cd. And from the 1988 live album, recorded in 1987 there are "Child in time", "Black night", and "Smoke on the water". Very obvious choices there. Could've been more creative with the track selection, and certainly longer, as there are 80 minutes allowed on a cd. There's a better 80s compilation called "Knocking at your back door - The best of deep purple in the 1980s", and you're better off with that.

What is this???? I think that the main reason why this compilation bothers to the people is the title. THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION??? It means is should stand for the material that made Deep Purple what it is. And this is not it. This should of been called "DEEP PURPLE; BEST OF THE 80s" maybe.
If you wouldn't buy the albums DP recorded during the 80s, then this CD could be a cool choice. But please, millennuim collection? :-S It's a bad-intentionated cd made by the record company, so DON'T BUY IT. They are tricking you. Check Out for others compilations.

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Listen, this collection was taken from the 1980s when Deep Purple was signed to Polydor, so Universal wouldn't have access to Purple's earlier Warner Bros albums. Licensing them would be too expensive for a budget CD like this, so everyone here seems to be barking up a wrong tree with all the negative reviews and all.

That being said, there's nothing really wrong with this collection other than the fact that it's missing tunes like "The Spanish Archer" "Mitzi Dupree" and "Mean Streak". If I had one serious complaint it's that they could have put that on here and more.

Even with only the three Mercury albums to work with, they still could've fleshed out the playing time to 75 minutes by including the tracks above and more.

That's why I'm gonna rate it only 2 ½ stars. NOT because some Warner Bros tunes like "Smoke On The Water" weren't included...
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