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    Posted: July 06 2022 at 16:49
ELP, Trilogy 50 years ago...
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Their absolute best IMHO.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Their absolute best IMHO.

...word....I was more interested in how they change a light bulb LOL
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Their absolute best IMHO.

I agree.


Edited by Hugh Manatee - July 11 2022 at 19:43
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One of my all time favorite albums.
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Still their most elegant, romantic and sophisticated album; in other words, their BEST! Smile
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Their best, most cohesive album as a whole, masterpiece.
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One of my favorites from them, along with Tarkus. 
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Not only the first ELP album I ever heard, but my first exposure to Progressive Rock...
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My first prog purchase and still one of my favorite listens.
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My first prog album
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My favourite will always be the Brain Salad Surgery album and interestingly that is the only ELP album in their top 50 list if you scroll down.
Trilogy has some great things
Vocal - Lake's perfect and easily at his peak. There are virtually no enhancements to his lovely English baritone.
Drums - Palmer is so accurate it's almost ridiculous. 
Keyboards - The first ELP  album with Mini Moog and this is one of the outstanding features of the album.
Lyrics - The only ELP album where Lake writes all the lyrics and they are actually quite special at times on Endless Enigma and From The Beginning. 
With all this going on it should be their best album however they hardly played any of it after the tour. Partly the technical level was so high even they couldn't recreate it but I would also postulate that it didn't capture their true character. Is there really enough bombast for it be ELP at their best? They were also encroaching on other bands territories a tiny bit where normally it would be completely impossible to mix them up with anyone else. It also lacks originality, kind of a taking stock exercise, and most importantly was not especially 'progressive' in outlook However its certainly a good album and does at least show their more arty philosophical side but ultimately for me it lacks the focus and flow of most other albums they produced at this time. IMO
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Their absolute best IMHO.
This! Will play it later today to celebrate it's 50th! Smile
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Vintage Vinyl Record Album by Emerson Lake & Palmer titled image 1
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Vintage Vinyl Record Album by Emerson Lake & Palmer titled image 1
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Good boy.....how this music should be listened to anyhow! Clap
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

My favourite will always be the Brain Salad Surgery album and interestingly that is the only ELP album in their top 50 list if you scroll down.
Trilogy has some great things
Vocal - Lake's perfect and easily at his peak. There are virtually no enhancements to his lovely English baritone.
Drums - Palmer is so accurate it's almost ridiculous. 
Keyboards - The first ELP  album with Mini Moog and this is one of the outstanding features of the album.
Lyrics - The only ELP album where Lake writes all the lyrics and they are actually quite special at times on Endless Enigma and From The Beginning. 
With all this going on it should be their best album however they hardly played any of it after the tour. Partly the technical level was so high even they couldn't recreate it but I would also postulate that it didn't capture their true character. Is there really enough bombast for it be ELP at their best? They were also encroaching on other bands territories a tiny bit where normally it would be completely impossible to mix them up with anyone else. It also lacks originality, kind of a taking stock exercise, and most importantly was not especially 'progressive' in outlook However its certainly a good album and does at least show their more arty philosophical side but ultimately for me it lacks the focus and flow of most other albums they produced at this time. IMO

BSS is mine, too. Whichever album "Karn Evil 9" appeared on would be my fave by ELP. Big smile

I think Trilogy does sound about as ELP as one can get, though. (When you say encroaching, do you mean "From the Beginning"?)'

"Abaddon's Bolero" is where I check out early, though. I think it was a waste of space and effort.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:


BSS is mine, too. Whichever album "Karn Evil 9" appeared on would be my fave by ELP. Big smile

I think Trilogy does sound about as ELP as one can get, though. (When you say encroaching, do you mean "From the Beginning"?)'

"Abaddon's Bolero" is where I check out early, though. I think it was a waste of space and effort.

Unfortunately ELP has a lot of this on their albums.....
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:


BSS is mine, too. Whichever album "Karn Evil 9" appeared on would be my fave by ELP. Big smile

I think Trilogy does sound about as ELP as one can get, though. (When you say encroaching, do you mean "From the Beginning"?)'

"Abaddon's Bolero" is where I check out early, though. I think it was a waste of space and effort.

Unfortunately ELP has a lot of this on their albums.....

I could have done without "The Sheriff", "Living Sin", and "Abaddon's Bolero". It's tracks like these that prevent the album from making it into the Top 50.

The rest is masterful!
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"Living Sin" is a fine song. It was cool that Keith dusted that one off for the Keith Emerson Band with Marc Bonilla.
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