Emerson, Lake and Palmer Appreciation

The Wizard wrote: Here's some ELP appreciation for ya   http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=106096

    


Wizard, you are not a fan, so you don't know what you are talking about.

Pretty much how I'd do it, except I'd move Works I and Pictures both down to 3 stars. The best stuff on ELPowell is better than the best stuff on Black Moon, too. 3.5 to ELPowell.

andu wrote: Kill me. I enjoy Love Beach.

Nothing wrong with that I suppose...I think "Mermoirs" is actually pretty decent. People just love being able to say "Love Beach sucks" so they enjoy putting down a one star. Cmon, its not THAT bad.
In the hot seat has a good version of "Pictures" but Lakes voice has gone down the toilet. The rest of it just blows.

Love Beach has to be a 2 star album (for fans and collectors only).It could have been a decent pop/prog album if someone like Brian Lane had handled the production of it.I actually prefer it to the ELPowell album anyway

Love Beach is weak by any stretch, but I agree it's not 1 star material. I gave it 2 stars because I think Canario was excellent and just about salvaged the album.

I can remember playing "air keyboards" to the live version of Aquatarkus, and nearly all of BSS, Pictures and Trilogy. What incredible compositions and performances

Truly an innovative band. While Yes, Genesis, and others, sounded like rock bands experimenting with some classical aspirations, I always got the impression that Keith Emerson was already a master of the art form, like he finished his experiments long before publishing music, and only made us listen to the experiments that worked.

Im a fan of ELP, I really love this band and its one of my favourites.

my favourite cds from them are: Tarkus, Trilogy and Emerson Lake and Palmer.

richardh wrote: Love Beach has to be a 2 star album (for fans and collectors only).It could have been a decent pop/prog album if someone like Brian Lane had handled the production of it.I actually prefer it to the ELPowell album anyway The worst ELP is of course ITHS which is the only ELP album that deserves 1 star and is not really of interest even to ELP fans!

Hi Richard, How you doing? I see you are still defending ELP.  Am I the only one that actually liked those Works sessions or what? Even Palmer called them :"dodgy" at best.  He's always been a little miffed at all the money they lost.  But Emerson stands by all of his work with ELP; he doesn't have that Asia money to keep him going in his old age. Palmer recently said he think ELP had one great album still in them, if they can put their differences aside. Maybe after the Asia tour.

An important thing to remember is that Emerson, assisted by Lord and Edgar Winter, among other is respobnsible for bring the keyboard to the forefront of the modern rock movement. .  His influence really resonated in the Arena rock and hard rock bands that followed with their over the top production , and metal with its blaring 200+ sixteenth notes. Kids love that stuff. No matter what I do my students always are wowed by my speed.  You get that eye sticking out of the head phenomena not unlike Looney Tunes. If they knew how easy that was.

In the video Back to the Beginning one of their tour managers said that ELP actually were influential on Queen. When I told, not unlike ELP was the only band that could get away with doing a Dixieland or Dance Hall inspired tune and of course have a hit with it, he understood what this guy meant.  They are both operatic in their excess, and to me that what rock and roll is all about.  If it gets to serious, I'll just listen to Bartok.

I am doing well. thank you.

I hate to say this, but . . . I bought the first Nice album on CD.  It has the mono version of Azraela. First time I heard it with a guitar. I always liked that tune; but with the guitar I love it.  The guitar fills in the hole by playing the riff.  I think ELP could have benefitted from a guitar. . . not that they needed one, not that they did not have one .  It would have changed everything though, including history.  May and Emerson, though.  you are right, I think that would be Nice. Who would play the anthems?

Is in the Crap Seat really that bad?  I saw all of the 1990s tours but never bought any of the crappy albums.  You can "Love Beach" me but once.


Edited by ken4musiq - February 18 2007 at 23:55

I love ELP. They may be bombastic and show off way too much (well, mostly Emerson shows off too much), but the music is still great. There is better songwriting than what people give them credit for. I just have one huge gripe about them: all their albums have weak filler.