PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

As I type, I have this album playing right now. I bought it recently in a reputable record shop that also sells second hand used records. It wasn't too expensive. I've not heard it played before but I've always enjoyed TARKUS, since I was a young teenager in the early 1970's so I bought this and I've played it a couple of times now. What can I say? Well I suppose that the first thing that I can say is that as soon as I'm finished typing this review I'll be taking this record off the turntable for the last time. I can also say that when this was recorded in 1971 in Newcastle City Hall, I'm glad that I was elsewhere because Newcastle City Hall was obviously having a bad day at the office when ELP rocked up to perform this sewer material. This is greatest load of sh1te that ever was allowed to stray across the threshold of the City Hall in Newcastle (or any other performance venue, for that matter). Pure self indulgent unlistenable rubbish. I'll be moving this record on very soon, hoping that some stoner somewhere might find some kind of satisfaction or solace in its withering excuse for a musical performance. In fact you'd have to be half baked (or better still fully baked) to even begin to approach any kind of appreciation for this drivel but seeing as I've never been into that sh1t (see what i did there!), I've absolutely no desire to start now at my age. If it was at all possible to give no stars for this album, that would still be too much. So I'm constrained to allocate one star for as it states below, "Poor. Only for completionists". And I must say, I do have lots of sympathy for said "completionists".