ELP: 10 X 10
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Topic: ELP: 10 X 10
Posted By: richardh
Subject: ELP: 10 X 10
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 21:13
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There are only 10 albums ignoring live albums and counting ELPowell ( I am). Rank them and pick a track off each. Albums: 1. Brain Salad Surgery 2. Trilogy 3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer 4. Tarkus 5. Works Volume One 6. Works Volume Two 7. Black Moon 8. Emerson, Lake and Powell 9. Love Beach 10. In The Hot Seat Tracks: 1. Toccata 2. Trilogy 3. Take A Pebble 4. Tarkus 5. Pirates 6. When The Apple Blossom Blooms In The Windmills Of Your Mind.. 7. Romeo and Juliet 8. Mars The Bringer Of War 9. Memoirs Of An Officer and a Gentleman 10. Hand Of Truth |
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Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 21:54
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In the Hot Seat is so bad, so I'm including The Power of 3 just to kick it off the list. 1) Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9 2) Tarkus - Tarkus 3) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Take a Pebble 4) Trilogy - Trilogy 5) Black Moon - Black Moon 6) Works Vol 1 - Fanfare for the Common Man 7) Love Beach - Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentlemen 8) Works Vol 2 - Watching Over You 9) Emerson, Lake and Powell - Mars 10) To the Power of 3 - Desde La Vide ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 22:11
This is easily the toughest 10x10 so far!  Anyway, from favorite to least favorite album as usual: 1. Tarkus - Tarkus 2. ELP - Knife Edge 3. Trilogy - Trilogy 4. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9 5. Works Vol 1 - Fanfare for the Common Man 6. Works Vol 2 - I Believe in Father Christmas 7. Emerson Lake and Powell - Mars 8. Love Beach - Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman 9. Black Moon - Farewell to Arms 10. In the Hot Seat - uhhhhhhh... I mean, if I had to choose one, I guess Hand of Truth? Still doesn't make it a good song though ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: August 11 2023 at 22:53
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I guess I need to play along with this one. I've also left In The Hot Seat off in favour of 3 - to the power of three 1. Trilogy - Trilogy 2. Tarkus - Tarkus 3. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9 4. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Three Fates 5. Works Volume One - Fanfare For The Common Man 6. Emerson, Lake and Powell - Step Aside 7. Works Volume Two - Bullfrog 8. To The Power Of Three - Desde La Vida 9. Love Beach - Canario 10. Black Moon - Black Moon
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 00:31
I'll go along with that sentiment too. I was going to do an ELP 7 X 7 list instead, as I'd struggle to come up with ten albums I really like by ELP and I obviously didn't want to include In the Hot Seat in my list as a last resort, especially bearing in mind In the Hot Seat makes Love Beach look like a masterpiece by comparison.
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Necrotica wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 01:38
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Take a Pebble The Great Gate of Kiev (and not the ugly Kiyv) Tarkus Abaddon's Bolero Still, You Turn Me On Fanfare for the Common Man Tiger in a Spotlight C'est la vie or Peter Gunn (Live) Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman The Score (ELPowell) I didn't think I'd managed (OK cheated a bit, by including libve albums)  I'll have to relisten to ELPowell, though. It could still change my choice. BTW; am I the only one to have picked something from Pictures @ Exhibition??  Sure beats the 90's albums ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 02:14
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1. Trilogy - Trilogy 2. Tarkus - Tarkus 3. Brain Salad Surgery - Toccata 4. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian 5. Works Volume One - Fanfare For The Common Man 6. Emerson, Lake and Powell - Step Aside 7. Works Volume Two - Bullfrog 8. To The Power Of Three - Desde La Vida 9. Love Beach - Canario 10. Black Moon - Black Moon
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 05:32
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Not much love for "Lucky Man," a song that introduced the mini-Moog to much of the world!!!
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 06:35
| Impossible to do as for me ELP has 6 good albums only (and that including ELPowell). |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 06:36
But if you include them, then it would be Blues Variations. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 06:44
I'm guessing your list of six good ELP albums won't include Love Beach then.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 09:27
| Desde La Vida is great but the rest of 3 to the power of 3 is not good, mostly AOR and not good AOR. I know how bad ITHS is but and what was going on round that time but Hand Of Truth is decent and would have accepted the studio 'version of Pictures At An Exhibition as it was widely available as a bonus offering on the album. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 10:13
But if you include them, then it would be Blues Variations. [/QUOTE] Nah; but P@E is a classic album that should be considered equal to the studio albums, because all new material I understand the others should be excluded because it's all studio stuff played on stage ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 12 2023 at 22:32
| ^ Personally I might go for the Babba Yaga section but then I've heard them play that section better on other live recordings such as Lyceum 1970, Mar Y Sol 1972 and some of the bootlegs on the 74 American tour. By 1972 they had dropped Blues Variation altogether (from the live version of PAAE) although with Palmer's shuffle and Emerson's trademark organ playing it was something of a signature peice in the early days. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: August 13 2023 at 11:32
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1. Brain Salad Surgery: Karn Evil 9 2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: The Barbarian 3. Tarkus: Tarkus 4. Trilogy: Abaddon's Bolero 5. Pictures At An Exhibition: The Old Castle/Blues Variation (can't imagine one without the other, really) 6. Works, Volume 1: Fanfare For The Common Man 7. Works, Volume 2: Bullfrog 8. Emerson, Lake & Powell: The Score 9. Love Beach: Canario 10. In The Hot Seat: Hand Of Truth 11. Black Moon: Paper Blood (I guess...) 12. getting hit in the face with a shovel 13. To The Power Of Three: Desde La Vida ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 13 2023 at 13:57
10 loved ELP 's LP's euh !  For me, only 5 ELP : Take a pebble Tarkus : Tarkus Pictures : Great Gates of Kiev Trilogy : The endless enigma #1/Fugue/Endless enigma #2 BSS : Jerusalem From 'Works #1" everything became disappointing and uninteresting |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 04:01
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Top 10 ELP Albums  1977: Works Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp 02. 1992: Black Moon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvKlKtnIef2L-sKwWozM6Dh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvKlKtnIef2L-sKwWozM6Dh 03. 1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f 04.  1986: Emerson, Lake & Powell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0 05. 1971: Tarkus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuUWORoWOvppVVUM3zMjsQT" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuUWORoWOvppVVUM3zMjsQT 06. 1971: Pictures at an Exhibition - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_Bx3CuewS783jcXDvM9dpMU6s2ni3irM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_Bx3CuewS783jcXDvM9dpMU6s2ni3irM 07.  1977: Works Volume 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtyTIWpaQ-4akV2z3B9c3RL" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtyTIWpaQ-4akV2z3B9c3RL 08. 1973: Brain Salad Surgery - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0hQMgNN7BQdyXhurRMojLEASGtZlbdGo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0hQMgNN7BQdyXhurRMojLEASGtZlbdGo 09. 1972: Trilogy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nbuBqLng1HncYf0TOEPHlJni91H64hynA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nbuBqLng1HncYf0TOEPHlJni91H64hynA 10. 1978: Love Beach - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kumBk-OR6rpI8Zh9kO77yqYhDu4UnI8YE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kumBk-OR6rpI8Zh9kO77yqYhDu4UnI8YE Top 10 Songs from Those Albums 01. Fanfare for the Common Man 02. Romeo & Juliet 03. Lucky Man 04. The Score 05. The Only Way 06. The Great Gates of Kiev 07. I Believe in Father Christmas 08. Jerusalem 09. Abaddon's Bolero 10. All I Want is You
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 04:29
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1. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9 2. Trilogy - Abaddon's Bolero 3. Tarkus - Tarkus 4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian 5. Emerson, Lake & Powell - The Score 6. Works Volume 1 - The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits 7. Works Volume 2 - Bullfrog 8. Black Moon - Romeo and Juliet 9. Love Beach - Canario 10. In the Hot Seat - One by One --I would prefer to choose the bonus track - Pictures at an Exhibition (Studio Version) 11. To the Power of Three - Desde la Vida *I opted to do only studio albums. However, if I had decided otherwise, I could have easily dropped the last three above for tracks from their Pictures..., Welcome Back My Friends, and In Concert (1979) live albums.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 06:43
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I definitely don't have ten ELP albums that I like, much less ten songs from ten different ELP records (though I do like the first Emerson, Lake and Powell album--does that count?) If I must: 1. ELP - "Lucky Man" 2. Tarkus - "Tarkus" 3. Trilogy - "From the Beginning" 4. Brain Salad Surgery - "Still You Turn Me On" 5. Emerson, Lake and Powell - "The Miracle" 6. Works, Vol. 1 - "Fanfare for the Common Man" 7. Works, Vol. 2 - "I Believe in Father Christmas" ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 17:27
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If I can't include live albums, I only have 7: 1. Emerson, Lake, and Powell: The Score 2. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Take a Pebble 3. Black Moon: Footprints in the Snow 4. Trilogy: Trilogy 5. Brain Salad Surgery: Karn Evil 9, 2nd and 3rd Impressions 6. Works, Volume I: C'est La Vie 7. Works, Volume II: I believe in Father Christmas
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 17:30
You forgot Tarkus and Pictures...
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 17:39
My main problem with Tarkus is Side 2. I prefer the live version of the title track on Welcome Back My Friends... My issue with Pictures is the poor recording quality, and the fact that the band's (condensed) performances of the title track actually improved over time. My current favorite version appears on Works Live.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 14 2023 at 17:53
ok, thanks for explaining.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 16 2023 at 04:03
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01. 1977: Works Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 16 2023 at 07:23
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10. 1978: Love Beach - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kumBk-OR6rpI8Zh9kO77yqYhDu4UnI8YE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kumBk-OR6rpI8Zh9kO77yqYhDu4UnI8YE Does anyone really want to hear my favourite song from Love Beach? No, I guessed not. It'd be about as welcome as sand in your swimming trunks.  |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: August 16 2023 at 08:18
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1. Karn Evil 9 - Brain Salad Surgery (counting it as one track!) 2. From The Beginning - Trilogy 3. The Barbarian - Emerson, Lake and Palmer 4. A Time and a Place - Tarkus 5. Piano Concerto - Works Volume One 6. Brain Salad Surgery - Works Volume Two 7. Burning Bridges - Black Moon 8. Learning to Fly - Emerson, Lake and Powell 9. Canario - Love Beach 10. Street War - In The Hot Seat 11. Hut of Baba Yaga/Curse of Baba Yaga - Pictures at an Exhibition 12. Desde La Vida - Three (probably the best prog track that Emerson and Palmer had been involved with since Works 1 so worth a mention) ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 16 2023 at 21:32
Pictures is often hailed as one of the best recorded live rock performances ever so you might be in a minority on that. For me I go with Mar Y Sol over the Works Live Version but then the Nassau Coloseum and Wheeling performances from 1978 are also really sweet.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 19 2023 at 12:36
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02. 1992: Black Moon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvKlKtnIef2L-sKwWozM6Dh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvKlKtnIef2L-sKwWozM6Dh |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: August 19 2023 at 13:09
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I thought Black Moon was a brilliant pop album, especially for the 90's. Glad to see someone else here loves it ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 20 2023 at 03:16
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03. 1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5f |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 21 2023 at 12:58
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04. 1986: Emerson, Lake & Powell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 23 2023 at 01:43
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05. 1971: Tarkus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuUWORoWOvppVVUM3zMjsQT" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuUWORoWOvppVVUM3zMjsQT |