0430. Deep Purple
...In Rock

The fourth album by the band, but their first as Deep Purple Mk II (i.e. the second lineup) [fact check: okay, so it's the first studio album with the mk II lineup as they'd released a live album earlier, but anyway...] took the band into a heavier zone than the previous incarnation.

Unlike contemporary rockers Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple actually could make a consistent album. Without any of the silly (or just plain stupid) ideas that the Zep' crew got up to (okay, so their first's a shining exception), Deep Purple In Rock is a pretty solid piece of work.

Cause while both Speed King and Bloodsucker are fast paced rock tracks, the coup de grace of course is Child In Time, the ten minute epic featuring just one short verse and then a massive build up into a crescendo leaving the listener kind of shellshocked, until the organ starts over, the verse is repeated and fantastic musicianship ensues yet again.
Honorable mentions goes out to Into The Fire and Living Wreck too, but it's hard to find the words after Child In Time.