Emerson Lake & Palmer

KABSA wrote: i always thought that the `live album` welcome back... was a poor stadium sound then i found the `hardback` edition  ....    wow digital mix [one of the first] the sound is terrific what was once a poor lp , now is something wicked ? what of the cd reissues , which mix is used   ?

Well, It looks like I'm in the minority here, but ELP never did it for me. My main problem is that their classical influence overshadows their rocking side. Case in point would be songs like "Toccata" and "Jerusalem," which I find incredibly boring, and if it's not the classical pieces, they seem to have too many joke pieces like "Are you Ready Eddy," Benny the Bouncer," and "The Sheriff"... I just don't see enough substance. 

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: My opinion Capable of releasing masterpieces: Trilogy and BSS Capable of releasing mediocre albums Works I and Black Moon Guilty of releasing terrible albums like Love Beach, Works II and In the Hot Seat Criminally responsible of releasing pure crap (one of the few times I use this term) like Re-Works (Brain Salad Perjury). They reached their peak too soon They lost it also too soon Genesis had an excuse for the 80's (no Hackett and Gabriel), ELP had no excuse. Iván

Ivan ,at least ELP had a peak! A couple of 'masterpeices' is not bad in my book.

I haven't heard If I would do it all over again...., don't know that I want to given I didn't like its more illustrious successor from 1971 so much.  I want to listen to that Egg album though, strikingly like ELP indeed.  I like Trespass and In the Wake of Poseidon but deliberately didn't bring them up because I don't consider them better than the ELP debut.  In the Wake..is too much in Court's shadow and Genesis are still finding their feet on Trespass and Hackett and Collins would give their music much needed propulsion.  Regardless, the year of ELP's debut remains the year for me when they came out strongest against other releases. With each passing year, there were more and more great albums but ELP didn't get all that better.  

I loved them at first - then went through a long period where they represented to me everything that was wrong with progressive music.  I've recently come back around however.  Currently I love listening to them, but I cant watch them or those old feelings start coming back.

Edited by Tychovski - November 28 2010 at 09:57

Well, I haven't mention all the albums

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - November 27 2010 at 09:00

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: My opinion Capable of releasing masterpieces: Trilogy and BSS Capable of releasing mediocre albums Works I and Black Moon Guilty of releasing terrible albums like Love Beach, Works II and In the Hot Seat Criminally responsible of releasing pure crap (one of the few times I use this term) like Re-Works (Brain Salad Perjury). They reached their peak too soon They lost it also too soon Genesis had an excuse for the 80's (no Hackett and Gabriel), ELP had no excuse. Iván

Cruel but true

I would also consider the debut album as a masterpiece. There is no weak track on it. The classical 'covers' like "The Barbarian" and "Knife Edge" are wonderful, "Take A Pebble" is ELP's first classic (more or less) epic track, "The Three Fates" showed Emerson's unique talent for composition and soloing, "Tank" was a unique track, because of the way it was put together and the texture (synth sounds) and "Lucky Man" showed Lake's sense for melody and Emerson's instinctive talents for his soloing - at - the - spot on the Moog.

My opinion

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - November 26 2010 at 21:37

About ELP, i'm in love with the two T, TARKUS and TRILOGY are my happiness, i just remenber when i discovered them, i was 17, i was waiting for APHRODITE'S CHILD 666 release (prohibed at the time ) and a school friend brought me TARKUS what a revelation!!!so great keyboard work and sounds, i think their live performances are sometimes a bit too much but i still love their records.I even like the ones nobody like ,like emerson lake and powel