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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: February 07 2015 at 06:31 | ||
To be honset I quite like the ELPowell album these days. If I wrote that review again it wouldn't be quite so scathing. There are some excellent tracks on that album. The Score and The Miracle are great tracks.. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Gerinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Online Points: 5093 |
Posted: February 07 2015 at 06:38 | ||
Without Tarkus Prog would not have been the same, it's the album which most impressed me in my childhood.
And I like side B too, it's different but good, no other band made this sort of stuff, they were being themselves. Emerson would not be Emerson if he didn't release songs like Jeremy Bender. Bitches Christal and A Time And A Place are terrific, and The Only Way is beautiful music, regardless of what you think about the lyrics. Only Are You Ready Eddy is a let down but it can be forgiven.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 07:19 | ||
It's the sound of the future circa 1971 foisted on to a receptive demographic by a pushy employer who had the nous to exploit the fleeting longevity of the viability of challenging music in the marketplace. Most people remember where they were when JFK was shot, but there are those us old enough to remember considerably more inexplicable instances when Lee Harvey Oswald's triple concept album about the gullibility of humankind would have attracted platinum sales.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:28 | ||
Horse_Mouth, a RateYourMusic reviewer who's quite the ELP fan, has made a humourous list of Albums That Are Inferior to Tarkus. His reviews are also a pretty good source for obscure progressive rock, as well as jazz and early electronic music for that matter.
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SteveG
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:34 | ||
^Hold on. I'm still trying to figure out what Ian said!
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SteveG
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:36 | ||
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Svetonio
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:51 | ||
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 16:00 | ||
You gotta admit that Lego Tarkus looks pretty damn rad.
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SteveG
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 16:08 | ||
True, but I'm still waiting on lego BSS!
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brainstormer
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 16:58 | ||
I think the title track is superior to anything Bob Fripp ever wrote. But I really don't pit them against each other. I just say it to throw a little thing to think about for all those who think KC is the BEST at technical
rock.
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micky
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 18:10 | ||
tsk tsk... that isn't fair to single Fripp out. The title track to Tarkus is superior to anything anyone has done with one exception.. the title track to Close to the Edge. Even ELP couldn't pull off a technically flawless, perfectly constructed 18 minute long pop song that prog fans have eaten alive for 40 plus years. |
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HolyMoly
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133 |
Posted: February 12 2015 at 18:24 | ||
One of the few ELP albums I still enjoy regularly. I can live without The Only Way, but otherwise I love it all, particularly the title suite. It's how I like to remember ELP.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 12 2015 at 22:01 | ||
OK, if Close to the Edge is a pop song, find me a pop lover who mostly dislikes, dismisses, and/or has no patience for prog, but who actually likes/loves CttE. |
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richardh
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26199 |
Posted: February 13 2015 at 02:54 | ||
ahem..exhibit A - Tarkus (the 29 minute Live Version from WBMFTTSTNE) is technically flawless ELP could pull anything off
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: February 13 2015 at 03:35 | ||
2 Pages, almost onto the 3rd...........
I love Tarkus, with all my heart.....esp. Side 1. I thought, when I first heard it (1989 or so......), the Tarkus suite knocked me out. Side 2 had very good, shorter things. Only Jeremy Bender and Ready Eddie kinda sucked. They are O.K. tunes, but dock a whole star off my rating for the album. .........I will never skip a second of the entire album, though. Ham or cheese ???? |
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Rick Robson
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Posted: February 13 2015 at 04:26 | ||
^^Yes, is there another live version as fantastic as WBMFTTSTNE?
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Rick Robson
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Posted: February 13 2015 at 04:44 | ||
It's interesting what you points out Micky, my wife can't get familiar with most of the prog I spin at home , even being a pop song fan (though latin much of it) she asks me to put down the volume when that groundbreaking organ takes the scene hahah, but she likes it . Anyway she surprises me every now and then stunned with some of the 'mostly softer' prog pieces, well she also knows and loves very much of classical music, tango, folk, even making me knowing some really amazing stuff that I'd never listened to, kind of an eclectic woman I dare say, well she's my wife
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: February 13 2015 at 05:18 | ||
Good album, heterogeneous but why not ? The first title is a little bit stifling and any music needs to breathe. With the first one, my second favorite album of the band.
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AZF
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Posted: February 13 2015 at 05:32 | ||
As a track (Ha! Tank tracks inadvertent reference!) "Tarkus" is more Prog than "Echoes" (Too slow) and "Supper's Ready" (Not batsh*t insane as Tarkus).
The second side has some good early 70's tracks. It ends badly with the jam dedicated to Eddie Kramer. And even on the other songs, it's only one or two lines that shatter the illusion of listening to a great album. The sound got more developed on BSS but Tarkus shouldn't be overshadowed or dismissed by people outside this forum.
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: February 13 2015 at 06:00 | ||
^ Eddie Kramer ???? Eddie Offord...........??
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