Deep Purple "Knocking At Your Back Door: The Best Of Deep Purple In The 80's (USA, Mercury Records, 314 513 430-2)"

Knocking at Your Back Door: The Best of Deep Purple in the 80's is a compilation album by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. The album was released in 1992.

It is a compilation of tracks from three albums, Perfect Strangers (1984), The House of Blue Light (1987), and the live album Nobody's Perfect (1988).

Track listing

All songs written by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice, except where noted. "Son of Alerik" is replaced by a live version of "Child in Time" on the PolyGram US edition.

1. "Knocking at Your Back Door" – 7:02
2. "Bad Attitude" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 5:07
3. "Son of Alerik" – 10:02
4. "Nobody's Home" – 4:00
5. "Black Night" (Live) – 6:07
6. "Perfect Strangers" – 5:19
7. "The Unwritten Law" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Paice) – 4:55
8. "Call of the Wild" (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord) – 4:51
9. "Hush" (Live) (Joe South) – 3:31
10. "Smoke on the Water" (Live) – 7:43
11. "Space Truckin'" (Live) – 5:39

Time:  01:04:15

Tracks 1, 3-4, 6 are taken from the album "Perfect Strangers"

Tracks 2, 7-8 are taken from the album "The House of Blue Light"

Tracks 5, 9-11 are taken from the album "Nobody's Perfect"

Track 5 recorded Live 6.08.1987 in Verona, Italy

Tracks 5, 10-11 recorded Live 22.08.1987 in Oslo, Norway

Track 9 recorded Live 26.02.1988 in Checkendon, The United Kingdom

Recording information:

Mastered at PolyGram Studios.