ELP - Why?

plodder wrote: I like all the bands I like and don't like all the ones I don't. Simple really.

But surely it's not that simple, you must have a few bands that you don't like for reasons you are unsure of, that you are trying desparately to like, or a favorite band or two that just doesn't sound as good anymore no matter how hard you try to still like them, but you don't want to let them go...

I can get rather complicated, navigating our changing tastes...

 

plodder wrote: Not really. I think I've matured enough now to say if you want to sl*g a band off, go for it. Me, I don't want anything to do with it. I like various kinds of bands and spending my time trawling around a thread looking for people to wind-up isn't for me. But don't let me stop you.

What you wouldnt sl*g "Love Beach" off for being the most disgracefully cinical release ever by a Prog Rock band?

Nope.

If you don't like it fair enough.

For You is my favourite ELP song some days dependant on my mood.

Really, if you feel the need to pull apart any individual song/album/CD constructively then Ok, but some of these "ELP are better that YES are better than Genesis" threads are just so childish.

Celebrate the different moods, colours and textures contained in our progressive tastes. Don't spend your time hating someones personal tastes.

I also like "Circle of Heaven" I think it's a little gem of a track.

plodder wrote: Nope. If you don't like it fair enough. For You is my favourite ELP song some days dependant on my mood. Really, if you feel the need to pull apart any individual song/album/CD constructively then Ok, but some of these "ELP are better that YES are better than Genesis" threads are just so childish. Celebrate the different moods, colours and textures contained in our progressive tastes. Don't spend your time hating someones personal tastes. I also like "Circle of Heaven" I think it's a little gem of a track.

I agree and your from Wales too

Love Beach has at least 3 good tracks...honest.Works Vol 2 was actually more ''cynical''  as that included rejected tracks from the previous album and just about anything else that happened to be lying around at the time.Love Beach was at least 100% new material..so I don't see anything cynical there even if it was a 'contractural obligation album' ...it just wasn't very good ..mostly.That said I still like the first 2 parts of Memoirs Of An Officer And A Gentleman and Canario and the demo recordings show a reasonable amount of energy.However the band were on the verge of falling apart and so the album ended up disjointed (Lake/Sinfield songs on one side;Emerson/Sinfield songs on the other) and was poorly produced.It could have been as 'good' as Yes 90125 or Asia's first album with better production..even if that doesnt say a lot admittedly.