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Emerson, Lake & Palmer's starting and selftitled record was very good with solid songwriting and good musicianship. Their musical interaction brought progressive music to a high level, which wasn't reacht by many colleques. Their second record Tarkus was a nice follow-up: keeping the same ingredients of succes. However, there were a few songs which were more pop/funny orientated what effected in a somewhat less strong effort.

Trilogy - referring to their third record and to their three-men set-up - just don't have those ingredients I liked in there previous works. What I miss the most is the solid songwriting. It seems as the riffs don't match to each other. It feels as E,L & P made a couple of tunes and then sticked them together. The product is a record that misses the most important thing in music: it should trigger our emotions and this record does not.

I could give this record three stars because of the musicianship E,L & P show, but I don't do that because this record irritates me. It is one of those records where great musicians make mediocre music. I gave this record to a friend and I felt enlighted. Two stars.

If this is your first record of E,L & P you have listened and you have those feelings I've tried to circumscribe than I recommend their first record before giving up on this band.

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