The ELP epics
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Topic: The ELP epics
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: The ELP epics
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 06:47
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Not so many epics but the ones that they did are really top notch! Which is your favorite? Mine has to be either 'Tarkus' or 'Karn Evil 9'. |
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 07:01
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"Tarkus," "Trilogy," and "Karn Evil 9" may be more polished and dynamic, but the startling and daring freshness of "Take a Pebble" when it came out still gets me (and my vote.) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 07:04
Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman from the Love Beach album, because no one else will vote for it. 
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Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 07:39
"Trology"  ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 07:40
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Take a Pebble. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 07:58
| the only studio version of Pictures at an Exhibition is on the In the Hot Seat album (1994) |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 08:05
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Cristi wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 09:47
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Karn Evil 9 > Tarkus > Take a Pebble ------------- 
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 09:53
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 09:54
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Karnevil over Tarkus ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:07
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I've never considered Take a Pebble to be an ELP epic. It's just a very pretty but rather inconsequential ballad from Lake inflated to encompass some brilliant but almost completely tangential piano improvisations from Keith. (this was especially true in the live realm where he incorporated quotations from both Friedrich Gulda and Joe Sullivan ) I learned to play the acoustic guitar 'solo' on the studio version when I was 14 years old. It's a 'beginner' level piece completely dwarfed by something like say,The Sage as far as musical substance goes. Although I adore Keith's Piano Concerto, Greg and Carl don't even play on it (I'm not entirely convinced Lake even plays on the Three Fates either?) Hey ho, all excellent pieces of music all told. Voted for Karn Evil 9 ------------- 
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:08
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Oh f', it's Tarkus! ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:25
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 10:50
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First vote for Fanfare. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 11:08
| I would have gone for the Endless Enigma had it been here, but I guess it's KE9. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 15:06
| ELP is certainly a band that I listen to quite often. No matter what people say, they are a great band and have a fantastic discography. All that said, Tarkus gets my vote, just an inch ahead of Pirates. |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 15:22
Same with me. If Pictures at an Exhibition (live) would've been here it would've been another close contender. So I voted for another epic of the same album as Enigma: Trilogy
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Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 15:46
| voted for The Three Fates |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 16:10
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Very tough. Sometimes Tarkus, sometimes Take a Pebble, occasionally Trilogy. Endless Enigma gets an honorable mention for nostalgic reasons, and for really opening me up to what rock music can be. I'll abstain. Best parts of an epic that I would vote for easily would be Karn Evil 2nd, and Fugue.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 16:27
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Tarkus a smidge over Karnevil....but still think overall the debut is the most listenable when it comes to a whole lp. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 19:01
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Karn Evil 9 over Tarkus. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: January 02 2021 at 20:17
| Tarkus or Trilogy. Both great. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 00:27
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Tarkus > > > ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 00:32
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Karn Evil 9 slightly over Tarkus, but I do prefer Tarkus slightly over Brain Salad Surgery. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 01:52
| On the basis that we are limiting the discussion to the studio versions , then I have to vote for Karn Evil 9. However the live triple album version from 1974 of Tarkus is probably my favourite piece of music of all time. The extended Aquatarkus section is pure genius from Emerson. All bow before their master. |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 13:40
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I go with the (almost entirely) acoustic epic 'Take a Pebble'. Unbeatable beauty; pictorial and evocative... beautiful raw piano, Lake's voice and Palmer's jazzy drumming of course. Then Trilogy... ...then Tarkus.
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Posted By: Theprogelitist
Date Posted: January 03 2021 at 13:47
| It’s either Tarkus or Karn Evil 9 because they are the most creative and well performed (genius!) out of these (in my mind). But I think it’s Tarkus for me because it just feels a bit more consistent and cohesive. But Keith’s playing in both epics is a genre in itself and something you use to describe other keyboard players! |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 00:17
| I guess it's got to be Tarkus, despite the Mass section. |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 00:30
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I haven't heard the studio version of Pictures At An Exhibition, but I might have just voted for the live version if it were an option. Since it's not, Tarkus takes it pretty handily over Karn. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 14:40
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Tarkus, one of the greatest prog epics. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: January 09 2021 at 00:36
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Tarkus ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |