IN THE HOT SEAT

In the Hot Seat is the last album by ELP, and that's probably for the best. This album consists entirely of uninspired contemporary adult radio rock. The only tracks here that I enjoyed at all were "Hand of Truth" and "One By One", which also seem like the most progressive, even if just a small amount so. I never considered ELP to be a great band, but this really takes the cake for their worst album. Not so pretentious as much as it is just unenjoyable and boring. I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone unless they happened to be a serious collector of ELP albums.