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Topic: Pictures at and Exhibition (ELP) Rating Posted: December 10 2009 at 04:01 |
My ratings for the ELP classics are:
1/ Trilogy (by some distance)
2/ Pictures at an Exhibition
3/ ELP
4/ Tarkus
5/ Brain Salad Surgery
It surprises me that some people don't like Trilogy. IMO it is one of the greatest of prog albums.
I wish they had chosen something a bit more interesting than Nutrocker as the encore for Pictures but otherwise it is a totally magnificent work and one of the best live albums of all.
I agree with the earlier post which described BSS as cheesy. With the exception of Toccata, i felt they were working to a formula, albeit their own exceptional formula.
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mohaveman
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:41 |
I would rate it about 5-6 best
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SgtPepper67
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Posted: November 30 2009 at 18:50 |
None of those options! It's not as good as BSS, Trilogy or Tarkus, maybe in the same league as the debut. I can't compare it with Works, I like that album a lot but it's very different than the previous albums.
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mohaveman
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Posted: November 30 2009 at 14:58 |
Low vote. Never hit it with me.
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Roj
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Posted: November 30 2009 at 03:02 |
Ok, I'll play too .
1. BSS (by some distance)
2. ELP
3. Pics
4. Trilogy
5. Tarkus
So my vote is other - none of the options. All the top 5 have equally brilliant moments, it's just that Trilogy and Tarkus have real weak moments. For me, the top 3 are very consistent. Pics is a great album and I prefer the ELP version to Mussorgsky/Ravel.
Phillistine . Edited by Roj M30 - November 30 2009 at 03:03 |
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himtroy
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 14:07 |
Okay, my tastes in ELPness are clearly very different from a lot of you judging by the answers in the poll. I think Pictures is their best, along with their first album. I also don't like BSS very much at all, I think it's just cheesy as hell.
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crimhead
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 12:19 |
It's in the top 5 for ELP.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 11:35 |
I think Mussorgsky's original piano version reigns supreme. Ravel's orchestration of that is damn fine. I enjoy ELP's reinvention, too.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 10:56 |
I honestly think it's ELP's best work if you take it as a full album, BSS being a very close second.
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clarke2001
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 10:52 |
I don't know. I don't know how to rate it. I like it a lot, but I was never certain where to put it. That's the reason I never reviewed it. Now, my favourite ELP albums are: 1) Tarkus 2) Trilogy 3) ELP 4) Brain Salad Surgery I gave 5 stars to all of these; Pictures is certainly not better than Trilogy, perhaps it's better than the debut, and most likely it is better than BSS. But then again, I feel Pictures should get around 4 stars. Weird. Perhaps I should re-evaulate everything. But I'm driven with emotions and taste more than with common sense, I consider ELP (the band) a monstrosity of greatness. |
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JD
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 06:56 |
Now this is I could get on board with. Although I'd be hesitant to say it's their worst unless you stopped at the Works albums. |
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JD
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 06:54 |
Say WHAT ??? Put the crack pipe down and listen again. Trilogy, along with Tarkus and BSS is their best work. I will never understand how anyone doesn't get that. P@aX may be a nice live showcase of the band but it doesn't make it into the top three IMHO. I'd even put the studio version from the box set above the live version overall. My only disappointment with that version being that they left out the blues variation from the end of side one live album one the studio version (even though it was out of context it still rocked). |
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someone_else
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 04:52 |
None of the descriptions matches my opinion of P@aE., but "Better than Works" comes closest.
As most ELP-albums before Works, I would give this album a 4-star rating. Only BSS would get a 5 and Tarkus a 3 because most tracks on side 2 are just mediocre.
My ranking of these albums:
1. Brain Salad Surgery
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3. Pictures at an Exhibition
4. Trilogy
5. Tarkus
Edited by someone_else - November 29 2009 at 04:53 |
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questionsneverknown
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:38 |
I always want to like the album more than I do.
Personally I have to give some credit to Pictures since it introduced me as a teenager to Mussorgsky. (One of those interesting blessings of 1970s symphonic prog was its ability to give rock kids a classical education.) There are great moments on Pictures, The Sage being one of them, but of the early albums it's probably the one I listen to with the least regularity. So, far, far better than Works (and the unmentionable Lusty Sand album ), but probably not better than the four studio albums.
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snobb
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Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:29 |
Better than the Works - voted.
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 22:33 |
In the same league as Karn Evil 9 and Tarkus, which is to say... not that spectacular.
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 21:54 |
An odd collection of options indeed. While not as good as BSS, but better than the debut, I'd put it alongside Tarkus I suppose.
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J-Man
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 21:24 |
1. Tarkus
2. Brain Salad Surgery 3. Trilogy 4. Pictures At An Exposition 5. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Edited by J-Man - November 28 2009 at 21:25 |
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manofmystery
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 21:14 |
1. Tarkus
2. BSS
3. PaaE
4. ELP
5. Trilogy
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:32 |
It's fourth for me, behind BSS, Trilogy, and Tarkus, (but well ahead of the debut.)
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