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Posted: June 07 2012 at 20:40
Months ago...certainly within 2011.
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 09:08
It's been a couple years. I don't have any urge to listen to it any time soon, either. I may give it another listen a year or so from now if I feel like it.
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 10:32
Two years ago, I think. I've heard it twice if I recall correctly. Always been a bigger fan of Trilogy and Tarkus just doesn't get listened to when I'm in the mood for ELP which isn't often.
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 12:48
Sorry mate, but your first ever listen to Tarkus and the only thing that comes to your mind is asking when was the last time we heard it??! I don't know what to make of that
I hope you will tell us what did you think of it.
Tarkus was one of the very first prog songs / albums I got into as a child, my older family playing it a lot when I did not even know what masturbation was, and it has remained one of my favourite songs ever.
So after all these years (I'm 45 now) it's quite "hardwired" in my brain and I do not feel the need to play it much anymore even if I still love it as much as back then.
The studio version I didn't listen to for surely over a year, maybe even 2 years, the last time I listened to it was from the Live At Nassau Colisseum album, maybe around 3 months ago.
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 13:59
Since I joined PA I've been re-discovering all the old bands I listened to a lot to in the old days, except for Floyd who's always been with me. I've found that I still like a lot of them, and especially ELP, and Tarkus. I give it a spin every month or so.
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 16:09
A couple of months ago. It's probably the best piece the band ever wrote.
Hey, I just looked up "Tarkus" on Wikipedia and, after doing a verification, found out that it's the Estonian word for "Wisdom". Kind of makes sense, given the anti-war lyrics.
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Posted: June 09 2012 at 01:19
KingCrInuYasha wrote:
A couple of months ago. It's probably the best piece the band ever wrote.
Hey, I just looked up "Tarkus" on Wikipedia and, after doing a verification, found out that it's the Estonian word for "Wisdom". Kind of makes sense, given the anti-war lyrics.
A couple of months ago. It's probably the best piece the band ever wrote.
Hey, I just looked up "Tarkus" on Wikipedia and, after doing a verification, found out that it's the Estonian word for "Wisdom". Kind of makes sense, given the anti-war lyrics.
Interesting little nugget of info that.
If Emerson's autobiography is a reliable source (of which I'm frankly dubious) he claims the title was inspired by Henry Williamson's 1927 novel Tarka the Otter
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