Is ELP the Most Disliked Prog Band?

Jim good try I but I had to post this article link.  For those who think what ELP did was pretentious I would really like your feedback on what this band is doing.  

Okay good point but what I was going for is why do they need 100 trucks to tour with?  They did enough damage in two baseball stadiums to interrupt the teams schedule and they had to move dates to another site.  ELP was criticized as bloated and pretentious because they had 3 trucks. 

  

 

 

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Edited by Otto9999 - October 31 2015 at 11:15

Good god, another Night of the Living Thread

I'm going off places like RateYourMusic and last.fm, where the general consensus on ELP even among the prog rock fans is that the group were extremely inconsistent and with one or two exceptions never made an entire good album.

They were hugely influential, and that can never be taken away from them.  But they seem to have undergone a re-appraisal that has not been kind towards them.  That's sad in a way, but also good in a way that even many old fans are able to view them more critically with the passage of time.  Myself I have never been a fan, and, while I like a few of their songs, I don't really like any of their albums, but then I'm a dinosaur who still resents Lake for leaving King Crimson!

Toaster Mantis wrote: I'm going off places like RateYourMusic and last.fm, where the general consensus on ELP even among the prog rock fans is that the group were extremely inconsistent and with one or two exceptions never made an entire good album.

That "consensus" (lol) is evidently created by a few people there who don't really feel Prog in general but acting "connoisseurs" on the Internet and therefore it's a 100% nonsense because Emerson, Lake & Palmer s/t debut, Tarkus  and Trilogy  are really genuine and really great masterpieces which passed the time test.

Edited by Svetonio - October 26 2015 at 04:02

Toaster Mantis wrote: I think ELP are generally disliked because they're seen as the band that with a couple possible exceptions, they never made an entire good album and would usually often throw in some if not bad then very out-of-place sounding goofy joke songs in on otherwise quite serious LPs. This goes even for their classics. EDIT: Referring to them being considered a second-stringer group in prog rock circles, not how "normal people" think of the band.

Yep. This is about how I feel about the band. I think Greg Lake and Carl Palmer are overrated, but good nonetheless, and Keith Emerson is a great musician and composer. Aesthetically, though, the "joke" songs, cover art, etc. push me away. I think some of their stuff is pretty neat, but never an entire album, and I usually pull out of their albums with negative feelings towards them. I suppose the most upsetting albums are the ones that do have things going for them.

ELP's debut should definitely be up in the top thirty. Not a mediocre or bad track on that album.

  

 

 

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Edited by Otto9999 - October 31 2015 at 11:07