Here for me are two masterpieces: "Lazy" above all, where even just the electric shock in the intro of Lord's Hammond makes the whole album worth it, and it's generally a great display of the band's talent. Then there's "Space Truckin'," another of their impeccable and immensely fun hard rock tracks, spiced up by the vocal screams of the original Jesus Christ Superstar. As for the rest, I still like it less than various other albums of theirs; somehow, despite being beautiful, I find it flatter and less imaginative than their other records (from Mark II or I or III). Oh, don't get me wrong, it's their greatest collection of evergreens, right? (from Highway to Smoke, which may have become overexposed but was and remains a great rock song) and there are also some so-called minor songs that I appreciate quite a bit ("Pictures of Home"), but in my taste, it doesn't hold up to the two previous ones, sticking to the lineup with Gillan. Here they also focus on the classic ballad with "When a Blind Man Cries" (which was missing, for example, on "Fireball," which wasn't lacking in moments of splendid melodic lyricism), which is the best example of my overall consideration of the album: it's beautiful, seriously, a beautiful song, but it lacks that spark, that glimmer, that something, to make me truly love it, which it isn't.
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