EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

I have mixed feelings about this album. I want to like it because these guys are excellent musicians, but the music seems too serious and feels kind of cold to me. It's a good album, but not a lot of fun. The tracks I like the best are "The Barbarian", a good heavy instrumental piece, "Knife Edge" another good heavy piece which also has Greg singing, and "Lucky Man", a nice soft song with Greg and the band singing and a cool synthesizer sound at the end. I like parts of "Take A Pebble", the singing and the first piano section, but the middle segment is too long and meandering. The quiet parts really take it off course and feels lost. I don't care very much at all for "The Three Fates", or "Tank", mainly because I don't like drum solos. I hope the next Emerson, Lake and Palmer album I get a chance to hear will be better for me.