EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

As far as I am concerned this one is the most honest and the least bombastic of their records and therefore my personal fave. Such a good album to start with that even ELP started with this one also .

Take A Pebble is fantastic and so are Tank And Barbarian . It is hard to fault those three guys for having left their respective groups - Lake's choice to leave Crimson was disputable but valid and The Nice was a spent force and Atomic Rooster would go on to better things.

Actually , if you can believe it my least fave is Lucky Man as it is relatively out of line with the rest of the album and that long Moog solo does not do much for me.

If you are discovering ELP , this would be the perfect album for an intro and work through their discography chronologically untill..... you feel like it!