A 10-yr old reviews ELP

I know at 10 (this would be 1982-83), I wasn't much in to music, more into video games at the time (I owned a TI-99/4a home computer where many of the games available were knockoffs of popular arcade classics like TI-Invaders a knockoff of Space Invaders, MunchMan, a knockoff of Pac-Man or Parsec, a knockoff of Defender, but actually they're all very good in their own right). I think if I heard ELP at the time I might have actually liked some of their songs, usually their more radio friendly stuff like "Lucky Man" or "From the Beginning" (although my 10 year old self would likely cringe at "Still... You Turn Me On"). I can say for sure that their debut would have been too much for my ten year old self, except for "Lucky Man" and perhaps "Knife Edge"). Tarkus probably even more so, as even to this day, I felt the title track was brilliant and side two was a bit hit and miss. I can guarantee that I would have thought King Crimson sucked to my 10 year old self, especially if I heard "Moonchild" then. My parents owned no ELP or Crimson albums so this was stuff I discovered in my later teens, by which I was much more ready for this stuff, having a much more understanding of this material than I ever had at 10. Given I was the right age to been exposed to WAY too much synth pop and hair metal in that decade (the 1980s), I couldn't stand that stuff, so it was nice whenever I heard some good, decent songs from the '60s and '70s being played on the FM rock radio dial at the time.

If Daddy had the unfortunate idea of playing a great ELP moment and Mr son was anti everything > 

This thread reminds me of the time a good friend and I, at a place of business, saw a kid playing 21st Century Schizoid Man on guitar hero or whatever. After the song was over, the kid exclaimed "That was the most out of tune song I've ever heard!".

I keep asking what I was doing when I was 10 years old, and the answer was playing with my mates on our Chopper bikes or messing around with nets in the local stream. Music was not even on my mind at that tender age. Music if I did hear it was often pieces caught on the radio or Top Of The Pops or introduced to us by our teachers.