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    Posted: August 11 2023 at 21:13
There are only 10 albums ignoring live albums and counting ELPowell ( I am). Rank them and pick a track off each.

Albums:
1. Brain Salad Surgery
2. Trilogy
3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer
4. Tarkus
5. Works Volume One
6. Works Volume Two
7. Black Moon
8. Emerson, Lake and Powell
9. Love Beach
10. In The Hot Seat

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1. Toccata
2. Trilogy
3. Take A Pebble
4. Tarkus
5. Pirates
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7. Romeo and Juliet
8. Mars The Bringer Of War
9. Memoirs Of An Officer and a Gentleman
10. Hand Of Truth
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In the Hot Seat is so bad, so I'm including The Power of 3 just to kick it off the list. 

1) Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9
2) Tarkus - Tarkus
3) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Take a Pebble
4) Trilogy - Trilogy
5) Black Moon - Black Moon
6) Works Vol 1 - Fanfare for the Common Man
7) Love Beach - Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentlemen
8) Works Vol 2 - Watching Over You
9) Emerson, Lake and Powell - Mars 
10) To the Power of 3 - Desde La Vide



Edited by Frets N Worries - August 11 2023 at 22:07
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This is easily the toughest 10x10 so far! LOL

Anyway, from favorite to least favorite album as usual:

1. Tarkus - Tarkus
2. ELP - Knife Edge
3. Trilogy - Trilogy
4. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9
5. Works Vol 1 - Fanfare for the Common Man
6. Works Vol 2 - I Believe in Father Christmas
7. Emerson Lake and Powell - Mars
8. Love Beach - Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman
9. Black Moon - Farewell to Arms
10. In the Hot Seat - uhhhhhhh... I mean, if I had to choose one, I guess Hand of Truth? Still doesn't make it a good song though LOL
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I guess I need to play along with this one. I've also left In The Hot Seat off in favour of 3 - to the power of three

1. Trilogy - Trilogy
2. Tarkus - Tarkus
3. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9
4. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Three Fates
5. Works Volume One - Fanfare For The Common Man
6. Emerson, Lake and Powell - Step Aside
7. Works Volume Two - Bullfrog
8. To The Power Of Three - Desde La Vida
9. Love Beach - Canario
10. Black Moon - Black Moon
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Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

This is easily the toughest 10x10 so far! LOL

10. In the Hot Seat - uhhhhhhh... I mean, if I had to choose one, I guess Hand of Truth? Still doesn't make it a good song though LOL
I'll go along with that sentiment too. I was going to do an ELP 7 X 7 list instead, as I'd struggle to come up with ten albums I really like by ELP and I obviously didn't want to include In the Hot Seat in my list as a last resort, especially bearing in mind In the Hot Seat makes Love Beach look like a masterpiece by comparison. Tongue
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Take a Pebble
The Great Gate of Kiev (and not the ugly Kiyv)
Tarkus
Abaddon's Bolero
Still, You Turn Me On
Fanfare for the Common Man
Tiger in a Spotlight
C'est la vie or Peter Gunn (Live)
Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman
The Score (ELPowell)


I didn't think I'd managed Tongue (OK cheated a bit, by including libve albums)ShockedEmbarrassedLOL

I'll have to relisten to ELPowell, though. It could still change my choice.

BTW; am I the only one to have picked something from Pictures @ Exhibition?? Confused

Sure beats the 90's albums





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1. Trilogy - Trilogy
2. Tarkus - Tarkus
3. Brain Salad Surgery - Toccata
4. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Barbarian
5. Works Volume One - Fanfare For The Common Man
6. Emerson, Lake and Powell - Step Aside
7. Works Volume Two - Bullfrog
8. To The Power Of Three - Desde La Vida
9. Love Beach - Canario
10. Black Moon - Black Moon
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Not much love for "Lucky Man," a song that introduced the mini-Moog to much of the world!!! 

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Impossible to do as for me ELP has 6 good albums only (and that including ELPowell). 
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Take a Pebble
The Great Gate of Kiev (and not the ugly Kiyv)
Tarkus
Abaddon's Bolero
Still, You Turn Me On
Fanfare for the Common Man
Tiger in a Spotlight
C'est la vie or Peter Gunn (Live)
Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman
The Score (ELPowell)

I didn't think I'd managed Tongue (OK cheated a bit, by including libve albums)ShockedEmbarrassedLOL

I'll have to relisten to ELPowell, though. It could still change my choice.

BTW; am I the only one to have picked something from Pictures @ Exhition?? Confused

Sure beats the 90's albums
The OP did say "ignoring live albums".
But if you include them, then it would be Blues Variations.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Impossible to do as for me ELP has 6 good albums only (and that including ELPowell). 

I'm guessing your list of six good ELP albums won't include Love Beach then. Tongue
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Desde La Vida is great but the rest of 3 to the power of 3 is not good, mostly AOR and not good AOR. I know how bad ITHS is but and what was going on round that time but Hand Of Truth is decent and would have accepted the studio 'version of Pictures At An Exhibition as it was widely available as a bonus offering on the album.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

BTW; am I the only one to have picked something from Pictures @ Exhibition?? Confused

Sure beats the 90's albums
The OP did say "ignoring live albums".
But if you include them, then it would be Blues Variations.
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Nah; but P@E is a classic album that should be considered equal to the studio albums, because all new material

I understand the others should be excluded because it's all studio stuff played on stage
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^ Personally I might go for the Babba Yaga section but then I've heard them play that section better on other live recordings such as Lyceum 1970, Mar Y Sol 1972 and some of the bootlegs on the 74 American tour. By 1972 they had dropped Blues Variation altogether (from the live version of PAAE) although with Palmer's shuffle and Emerson's trademark organ playing it was something of a signature peice in the early days.
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1. Brain Salad Surgery: Karn Evil 9
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: The Barbarian
3. Tarkus: Tarkus
4. Trilogy: Abaddon's Bolero
5. Pictures At An Exhibition: The Old Castle/Blues Variation (can't imagine one without the other, really)
6. Works, Volume 1: Fanfare For The Common Man
7. Works, Volume 2: Bullfrog
8. Emerson, Lake & Powell: The Score
9. Love Beach: Canario
10. In The Hot Seat: Hand Of Truth
11. Black Moon: Paper Blood (I guess...)
12. getting hit in the face with a shovel
13. To The Power Of Three: Desde La Vida
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10 loved ELP 's LP's euh !
For me, only 5
ELP : Take a pebble
Tarkus : Tarkus
Pictures : Great Gates of Kiev
Trilogy : The endless enigma #1/Fugue/Endless enigma #2
BSS : Jerusalem
From 'Works #1" everything became disappointing and uninteresting
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Top 10 ELP Albums

01. 5 stars 1977: Works Volume 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtbMMJU_ueOBFsKScckwbjp

Top 10 Songs from Those Albums

01. Fanfare for the Common Man
02. Romeo & Juliet
03. Lucky Man
04. The Score
05. The Only Way
06. The Great Gates of Kiev
07. I Believe in Father Christmas
08. Jerusalem
09. Abaddon's Bolero
10. All I Want is You


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1. Brain Salad Surgery - Karn Evil 9
2. Trilogy - Abaddon's Bolero
3. Tarkus - Tarkus
4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian
5. Emerson, Lake & Powell - The Score
6. Works Volume 1 - The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits
7. Works Volume 2 - Bullfrog
8. Black Moon - Romeo and Juliet
9. Love Beach - Canario
10. In the Hot Seat - One by One
--I would prefer to choose the bonus track - Pictures at an Exhibition (Studio Version)
11. To the Power of Three - Desde la Vida

*I opted to do only studio albums. However, if I had decided otherwise, I could have easily dropped the last three above for tracks from their Pictures..., Welcome Back My Friends, and In Concert (1979) live albums.


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I definitely don't have ten ELP albums that I like, much less ten songs from ten different ELP records (though I do like the first Emerson, Lake and Powell album--does that count?) If I must:

1. ELP - "Lucky Man"
2. Tarkus - "Tarkus"
3. Trilogy - "From the Beginning"
4. Brain Salad Surgery - "Still You Turn Me On"
5. Emerson, Lake and Powell - "The Miracle"
6. Works, Vol. 1 - "Fanfare for the Common Man"
7. Works, Vol. 2 - "I Believe in Father Christmas"
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If I can't include live albums, I only have 7:

1. Emerson, Lake, and Powell: The Score
2. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Take a Pebble
3. Black Moon: Footprints in the Snow
4. Trilogy: Trilogy
5. Brain Salad Surgery: Karn Evil 9, 2nd and 3rd Impressions
6. Works, Volume I: C'est La Vie
7. Works, Volume II: I believe in Father Christmas
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