Emerson Lake & Palmer

Dellinger wrote: Heathcliffe wrote: Like most people I loved the early albums,with the odd wince at dud tracks eg The Sheriff.And kinda lost interest as they went along. What was interesting to me was Black Moon was a real return to form and a great album - somewhat overlooked though. Yeah, Black Moon is a rather cool album, but still I wouldn't call it a return to form. For me, it is mostly a rather good POP album, with some hints at prog (Specially the Romeo & Juliet thing, ofcourse).

I agree Black Moon is a great album and it has a real deep sounds. I don't think it is prog like their early stuff, but it is good. The Piano songs are real great.

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I'll admit, at first I thought ELP were a bit over rated. But to me, it took some time for me to grasp the full pretentious sound of ELP, and once you can acquire that sound, they are the best at what they do. 

Slartibartfast wrote: According to my college English professor, if you use an and or an & you still should use a comma.  As in Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

love this band as one my top 70's band of all time. 

Along with Rush, ELP were the first REAL prog band I got into.  I haven't listened to anything of theirs in a while, but whenever I do, I still enjoy it.  Starting with Works, they pretty much lost me (though there is some half decent stuff on there).  Interestingly enough, I heard the "An Officer and A Gentleman" suite on satellite radio this past weekend.  The thought that came to my mind was that this was what it would sound like if Barry Mannilow wrote a prog suite    Seriously.

But at their peak, they were fantastic.  My favorite is either Tarkus (whole album, love it all) or Brain Salad Surgery (total masterpiece).  But the first two and Welcome Back My Friends..... are also fantastic albums.

I imagine the sl*g.ing comes from the fact that they were overly bombastic, pretentious, egotistical, and represent all the excesses of prog.  Which is, incidentally, also what made them so great 

At the top of their game (1970-73) they were creative and hugely exciting. They did more to popularise prog and open up opportunities for similar bands than any other group IMO. They bridged the gap between heavy rock - Zep, Purple etc - and prog like no-one else, having the power and aggression of the former and the variety and complexity of the latter. Quite a few on here don't like them but their importance to the genre is not in doubt.

After their 70s peaks Genesis, Yes, Rush etc spent most of the 80s churning out dull, sub-standard quasi-prog. If you're going to go down the pan properly you need to release an album like Love Beach. Even ELP's implosion is a source of (comic) entertainment to me!

Simple: your subconscious inner self is subscribing my earlier stated hypothesis, that Love Beach is a very important album in prog

Best band for a long time and left an indelible mark on prog and music in general. Unforgettable compositions such as Karn Evil 9, Tarkus, Take a Pebble. I have all their CDs and some DVDs.

Slartibartfast wrote: Rush77 wrote: Hey everybody so i was lookin at the site and noticed that ELP is rated pretty low and i was wondering y so im gonna ask everyone who reads this their opinion on this band. Personally i find them to be utterly amazing and one of my fav bands of all time but thats just my opinion plz tell me wat u think about them  Eh I'm a long time fan, but I think it has to do with their inconsistency.  Because some people tend to get hung up about consistency.  Their first few albums were really good, but some people can't stand the funny songs.  Then they went all over the place with Works.  Then they caught the commercialitis disease.  But mostly because of this album cover: