I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS EP

This five-track Christmas EP was released in 1995 and features the iconic photo of the band very warmly dressed during the Works era. The first track is the original 1975 solo single version of Greg Lake's classic Christmas song I Believe In Father Christmas. Humbug was the b-side of that single and one that I had never heard before, it appears here as track three. In between, we get Keith Emerson's Troika (From Prokofiev's lieutenant Kije Suite) which is dated 1995, and is the most interesting of the five tracks featured here. Personally, I hadn't heard this anywhere else, but apparently it appears also on some versions of Emerson's solo Christmas album. After that we get the Works Vol. 2 version of I Believe In Father Christmas, which differs slightly from the original Greg Lake solo version. Finally, we get Nutrocker, originally from the Pictures at an Exhibition album, which let's Carl shine with his short drum solo and screams of "yeah".

Like another reviewer has pointed out, even though this EP was issued under the Emerson, Lake & Palmer name, the bulk of the material is solo rather than band in nature. Still, the same could be said about the band's Works era, and Humbug would not have been much out of place on Works Vol. 2. So I guess you might think of this EP as being a "Christmas Works".

Since most of the music is available elsewhere, and already familiar to most fans, I cannot give a higher rating, but with the exception of Humbug the music is of course great.

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