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  1. Justin Alias
    February 1, 2020 @ 10:01 pm

    I can’t stand “new and improved” anything, and that’s what this album reeks of. The eighties sound of excessive compression and that annoying stadium-reverb effect destroys most of what the reformation of the Mark II lineup hoped to accomplish IMO. Same great lineup, but unfortunately not the best decade.

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  2. The Deep Purple songs that kept me alive - markhodgetts.com
    May 22, 2020 @ 12:12 am

    […] deep cut from the “reformation album” Perfect Strangers, Wasted Sunsets is a beautiful piece of heavy blues featuring some outstanding slide work from […]

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  3. Thomas W Fry JR
    December 1, 2020 @ 6:21 am

    This album is a masterpiece in my opinion there best work I listen to this over and over and they are masters of their craft

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  4. Brendan Brady
    November 18, 2021 @ 6:45 am

    This us a must-have. The best of the post comeback albums. The band sound totally revitalised. Knocking at your back door and the title track are 24 carat purple.

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  5. Dave Gratton
    November 28, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

    I was there in Stowe Vermont one cold night . I had a heating service . A no heat call at the Log Wood chalets on the mountain rd . I went there and fixed the furnace . On the way down the stairs to the basement I noticed anvil cases with the names Deep Purple and Rainbow . All stacked up in the basement . I am a musician as well . I asked the man who let me in if this was where they Deep Purple were staying . It was! I got invited to a Christmas party at Ye Old English Inn with all of the band . true story as God is my witness It was during the recording of the album Perfect Strangers . My Name is Dave Gratton and I swear this is truth …

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