Everything is said about this album... It is as powerful as all three previous efforts of the mark II era. All 7 songs are great whatever even members said. I want to mention only one less known thing - did you ever thought why this album is too short ? 34 minutes only ! It should have been one more track but remained unmixed due to internal conflict within the band. What a pity ! I mean PAINTED HORSE mixed only in 1977 and firstly appeared on POWERHOUSE release. CD version of POWERHOUSE released only in Japan. Also available on NEW, LIVE & RARE. WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE released in 1987 on CD and it still remains the only version despite EMI promised to re-release it as digitally remastered 25 Anniversary edition. It never has happened and PAINTED HORSE still never included to where it should be ! This album released digitally remastered in vynil-like case only in Japan so far. Why Japanese did it but their homeland did not ? What a significant oversight !

Gillan and Glover left the band after this album released in 1973, both of them were replaced by Coverdale and hughes in the same year.
My Woman from Tokyo is a timeless song, Rat Bat blue is a timeless powerfull song, our lady is a slow rock but effective, Smooth dancer is a quite
powerfull song with the guitar and organ sound. buy this one, a must for all DP fans.

The only reason I can think of, that led this album to be somewhat of a relative failure, both, in sales and artistically is the title. How can you expect success when you follow three "Bombers" like 'In Rock', 'Fireball' and 'Machine Head' with the self-doubting 'who do we think we are?'. In the world of heavy-metal, there's no room for these sort of confessions and self-mockery isn't received too well by fans, either. This is a title for wimps, for Singer/songwriters, pop bands perhaps. And indeed, this is in Purple terms, quite poppy, but as such, it holds, apart from the famous (and only 'hit' on this album)'Women From Tokyo', also a real pearl called 'Our Lady' - a reminder of some Beatles influences. Forget the title, this one is as good as the three classics mentioned above by this Line-up (Mark 2 with Gillan and Glover).

The last effort for Mark II, before 1984's "Perfect Strangers." It's a good effort, but not the best material they did. When people refer to this album, as the lost Deep Purple album. I say it's worthy to listen too. "Woman From Tokyo" the song most known on the album. To me is the worst song on it. Songs such as, "Rat Bat Blue", "Super Trooper", "Mary Long" and "Place In Line" show there was good material from the band. Even though they were at odds. Give it a try Deep Purple sure did worse albums then this one.

This album is often lightly regarded when compared with In Rock, Fireball, and Machine Head, and perhaps deservedly so. Yet it is still the classic lineup of Deep Purple and that means you can bet your life it is going to be a damn good album. "Woman From Tokyo", the opener and the highlight, is one of the best songs Purp ever did. And there's other songs here that will reward repeated listenings by the committed Deep Purple fan.