Position: 99 of 100
Artist: Deep Purple
Song: The Spanish Archer
Album: The House Of Blue Light (1987)
Deezer link: http://www.deezer.com/track/2518252
Grooveshark link: http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/The+Spanish+Archer/2FVtCb?src=5
Disappointed of Deep Purple's effort on their latest album release of 2013 I found myself going back through the classics in searching for clues as to what went wrong.
The 1987 album The House Of Blue Light, along with the 1975 Come Taste The Band are probably two of the most overlooked Deep Purple albums released after the formation of MK2. I managed to do some cherry picking off those albums to satisfy my thirst of good (feel-new-to-me) Deep Purple songs. This particular gem off the 1987 album is a full on rocker. Ritchie Blackmore is just going on full throttle everywhere, Ian Paice is driving a bullet-train rhythm and Gillan is actually keeping a good vocal line throughout the entire song and, best of all, the lyrics actually seem to make sense. In the end it feels like a song about an unbalanced relationship where one side ends up profiting from the other and this mythical Spanish Archer is fate's great equalizer. It takes a song like this to put it into perspective for me, just how important Ritchie Blackmore was for Deep Purple. Basically every song from the House Of Blue Light is eons ahead of most songs off the newest Deep Purple release, save for only one.
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