Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming


"Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" is a song on Purpendicular, Deep Purple's first studio album featuring guitarist Steve Morse, which was released in February 1996. The song was released as a CD single with the song "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic".
Steve Morse remembered the creation process of the song: Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming' started as me noodling, playing quietly to myself. Roger and Jon heard what I was doing and said, 'What was that, again? Let's see if it'll work with this.' It became a song that day. Any idea could grow from a sprout into a tree".
"Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" was one of the first songs that was recorded with Steve Morse on guitar. It includes a boasting melodic style and vocal outbursts by Ian Gillan and closes with a repeated guitar solo by Morse.
It was part of the following live albums of Deep Purple: Live at [The Olympia '96], Total Abandon: Australia '99, In Concert with [The London Symphony Orchestra], The Soundboard Series, Live at the Rotterdam Ahoy, Live at Montreux 1996.

Single

All songs written by Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Steve Morse, Ian Paice.
  1. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" – 4:35
  2. "Vavoom: Ted the Mechanic" – 4:16
  3. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" – 7:29