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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: Top 7 ELP AlbumsPosted: November 29 2020 at 13:48 |
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Welcome Back My Friends to the polls that never end. Come inside. Come inside. If you believe in The Power of Three, then you'll believe in the awesome Trilogy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. If you include ELP's full Works, there were two short-lived offshoots of the dynamic Tarkus trio too: Emerson, Lake & Powell and Emerson, Berry & Palmer, otherwise known as "3". I've been In the Hot Seat recently for showing some love towards the much-maligned Love Beach album - an album which was about as welcome amongst ELP fans as an ominous Black Moon on the horizon. The cheesy Beach Gees album cover and album title admittedly looks and sounds like a third-rate reality TV show, and it probably is. I'm thinking "Love Island", which is close enough. Anyway, here's an opportunity to list your Top 7 ELP albums. Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy, you may say. After all, it's not Brain Salad Surgery. It's just a bit of fun. You can also include the live album Pictures at an Exhibition in your Top 7 listings too if you so wish.
  Simply list your Top 7 ELP albums in order of preference and then I'll assign the usual system of points to your listings:- 1st album - 12 points 2nd album - 8 points 3rd album - 6 points 4th album - 4 points 5th album - 3 points 6th album - 2 points 7th album - 1 point Here's my ELP Top 7 to kick off with:- 1. Works Volume 1 (12 points) 2. Black Moon (8 points) 3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer (6 points) 4. Emerson, Lake & Powell (4 points) 5. Tarkus (3 points) 6. Pictures at an Exhibition (2 points) 7. Love Beach (1 point) ELP's Discography & Videography  1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f 1970: Live at the Lyceum Theatre - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsLAtaXzZYNdphJ2K31sGlg 1971: Pictures at an Exhibition - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_Bx3CuewS783jcXDvM9dpMU6s2ni3irM 1973: Brain Salad Surgery - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0hQMgNN7BQdyXhurRMojLEASGtZlbdGo 1974: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lv08PZL5CkZsjxcHJy6ILWj 1974: California Jam - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvlDSW-XWwVXoVF_-v5U5Nj 1977: Works Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp 1977: Works Volume 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtyTIWpaQ-4akV2z3B9c3RL 1977: Live in Montreal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt48UNkRvvhF-HpmWCpEM5U 1979: Works Live in Concert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LubGEipGTTCOJXyJnyDqiAw 1986: Emerson, Lake & Powell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0 1988: 3 (Emerson, Berry & Palmer) - To the Power of Three - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwwylCrJEuChC68BBpb9pt 1992: Black Moon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvKlKtnIef2L-sKwWozM6Dh 1993: Live at the Royal Albert Hall - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu1SH2fMU-LN405jSagHGzD 1994: In the Hot Seat - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsRElYTXER7YSEMhEIOmP3D 1997: Live at Montreux - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtwKNdYm3zjUe82cvjEujZ_ 2010: 40th Anniversary Reunion Concert - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lvg7UZ6rYE9plyqgOM1ocJCEdited by Psychedelic Paul - August 14 2023 at 04:10 |
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Posted: November 29 2020 at 14:22 |
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1. Brain Salad Surgery
2. Trilogy 3. Tarkus 4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer 5. Pictures at an Exhibition 6. Works Volume 1 7. Emerson, Lake & Powell
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Posted: November 29 2020 at 14:29 |
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Tarkus
Pictures Trilogy BSS ELPowell debut Works I Edited by Cristi - November 29 2020 at 14:30 |
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Posted: November 29 2020 at 15:56 |
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Well that's pretty much their whole collection now isn't it? Ok, being a fanboy, I'll play along. 1 Trilogy
2 Tarkus 3 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 4 Brain Salad Surgery 5 Welcome Back My Friends... 6 Pictures at an Exhibition 7 Works Volume 1
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Posted: November 29 2020 at 19:06 |
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1) Trilogy
2) Emerson Lake and Palmer 3) Tarkus 4) Brain Salad Surgery 5) Pictures at an Exhibition . . . . 6) Works Vol 1 7) Black Moon
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Posted: November 29 2020 at 19:47 |
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Brain Salad Surgery
Trilogy Emerson, Lake and Palmer Welcome Back My Friends.... Pictures at an Exhibition Works Vol. 1 Tarkus |
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You actually rate Love Bitch higher than Trilogy and BSS?
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wow, I've just seen that list. |
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Posted: November 30 2020 at 02:54 |
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1. Tarkus
2. Trilogy 3. Brain Salad Surgery 4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer 5. Works Volume 1 6. Pictures at an Exhibition 7. Black Moon
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted: November 30 2020 at 03:13 |
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I'm surprised nobody else had pointed it out!
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^ Yes, Love Beach is far more listenable and easy on my ears than Brain Salad Surgery and Trilogy, although I know many here will disagree with me, but that's okay. I'm accustomed to being ridiculed for my bizarre album rankings by now.
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Love Beach is ELP's answer to Yes' Heaven & Earth. |
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 it's awesome ELP answered in 1978 to Yes's album from 2014. They time travelled and thought to themselves - let's make a better album then H&E.
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That's a good analogy, because Heaven & Earth happens to be one of my favourite Yes albums.
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1. Brain Salad Surgery 2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer 3. Tarkus 4. Pictures At An Exhibition 5. Trilogy 6. Works, Volume 1 (very flawed but I have a soft spot for it nonetheless) 7. Works, Volume 2 (not a big fan of this one actually, but it's still miles better than anything they made afterwards) I can see why people would genuinely enjoy Love Beach and I think that's totally fine, but it doesn't have anything I like about the band and I personally don't see anything in it that hasn't been done much better by other artists.
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I know, that's why I said it. If anything, Love Beach is probably more derided than H&E, but that's as much for the cover as the content. At least Yes had a Roger Dean cover.
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Come on, did you think that giant machine Keith used to play was just a keyboard? It was actually a cleverly concealed time machine.
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obviously
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I had a feeling when I ran this ELP poll that I'd be the only one with Love Beach in my Top 7, and that's certainly proving to be the case so far.
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Trilogy
BSS ELP 1st Album Tarkus Works 1 Pictures Works 2 List is studio only. |
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