Come Taste the Band Songs Ranked

Come Taste The Band is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, originally released in October 1975. It was co-produced and engineered by the band and longtime associate Martin Birch. It was the final Deep Purple studio record prior to the band’s initial disbandment in 1976, therefore making it the only album to feature Tommy Bolin (who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar), and the final of three albums to feature David Coverdale on lead vocals and Glenn Hughes on bass guitar/vocals: Bolin died shortly after the album’s release, while neither Coverdale nor Hughes would be involved with the reactivated Deep Purple in 1984. This is also the only studio album to involve neither Blackmore nor vocalist Ian Gillan, as every prior and subsequent album features at least one of the two. Here are all of Come Taste the Band songs ranked.

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9. Drifter

“The funk/soul influences that the MK3 band had started using are there in tracks, but there are also more rock orientated numbers, and a few musically exciting pieces like `The Drifter,’ which stray into altogether different territory. “

8. Love Child

“Love Child” is a solid rocker with a great synthesiser solo from Jon Lord and a crunching riff courtesy of new guitarist Tommy Bolin.”

7. I Need Love

“I Need Love is almost a precurser to Whitesnake and features yet more fantastic guitar work from Bolin. Drifter is as rocky as any Purple track ever was and the riff of Love Child is in some ways reminicent of Iron Man by Black Sabbath.”

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6. Dealer

“Replacing Blackmore in DP in 1975 was a thankless task and there are many who still haven’t given this album the proper listening it deserves but his work throughout is never less than superb. He even has a vocal part in Dealer (a song which he would have done well to heed the advice of in retrospect).”

5. Gettin Tighter

“From the off, bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Tommy Bolin struck a very close bond. Both musicians weren’t timid when it came to branching out musically. The pair penned “Gettin’ Tighter” for the Come Taste the Band LP, the lone D.P. studio album to feature Bolin.”

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4. Lady Luck

“To me, this is a perfect album from beginning to end. An album never given the respect it deserves among purist. Perhaps it is an prototype of what later became Whitesnake (who I love). This line up of Deep Purple was and is devastating in nature”

3. Comin Home

“No matter what anyone says, “Come Taste The Band” is an almost perfect rock album, with Purple at full power. The style is different, with elements of hard funk and blues integrating into the hard rock, and succeeding beautifully. It’s a shame this lineup didn’t record more, but we do have this gem to enjoy.”

2. This Time Around/Owed to G

“This Time Around/Owed To G(ershswin) sees Jon Lord performing as well as on any Purple track and is quite possibly Glenn Hughes best ever contribution to the band. Bolin again is perfection”