Machine Head (25th Anniversary Edition - Remastered, With Bonus Tracks) (1972)

"This remains the "ultimate" DP album; home to one of the greatest riffs in rock history, the majestic "Smoke on the Water." For this edition, bassist Roger Glover completely remastered the original tapes. Glover did not simply restore the music's inherent contrasts, he elaborated on them to create one of the best sounding CDs of the entire digital age. This edition was expanded across two discs. While one features the original album plus 3 bonus cuts -- the B-side "When a Blind Man Cries," and quadraphonic remixes of "Maybe I'm a Leo" and "Lazy" (both of which are more-or-less dispensable) - the second rounds up an album's worth of remixes that Glover undertook during the remastering stage. It's intriguing to hear how the album might have sounded, had Glover been in charge of production at the time. Fascinating, too, are the alternate guitar solos that he drops into "Maybe I'm a Leo" and "Smoke on the Water," both of which re-stage all-too-familiar numbers in a different light." (Dave Thompson, Allmusic)

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