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Poll Question: Choose best album
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the debut

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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I've never heard the infamous Love Beach. My curiosity is almost getting the better of me. I'm going to have to buy that..I mean..how bad can it be?..


I wouldn't say it's genuinely awful (though plenty obviously would!)LOL It's probably the title and ridiculous cover photo that sealed it's reputation. I actually like the title track, Canario and a lot of the second side which has some great playing on it.

The real low point is probably Taste of My Love. If you can get through the lyrics of that without laughing incredulously you're a better man than I!

Oh, I vote BSS by the way.


Edited by Cactus Choir - August 20 2010 at 09:04
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I've never heard the infamous Love Beach. My curiosity is almost getting the better of me. I'm going to have to buy that..I mean..how bad can it be?..


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..I'm guessing ELP were being 'ironic' when they made that album, certainly when they posed for that cover... ?
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I'm not too sure about the irony - Greg Lake's big cheesy grin and chest hair doesn't seem overly ironic to me. I remember one review said it looked like they'd washed up on a desert island looking for a Bee Gees fancy dress party!
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2010 at 09:34
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

..I'm guessing ELP were being 'ironic' when they made that album, certainly when they posed for that cover... ?

Not ironic.

Keith Emerson fought Atlantic over that cover. They all hated it.
As for the music. A tired burnt out ELP on the tail of a huge tour which was financially a disaster forced to make an album by the record company. They hated where they were and Greg and Carl scarpered  leaving Keith to finish the album and promote it.

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Atlantic also wanted some hit singles, hence the "poppy" nature.




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Did it chart highly..anywhere?
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Did it chart highly..anywhere?

I wouldn't have thought so.LOL

But I did get to see ELP on TOTP because of it!Wink
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Keith Emerson fought Atlantic over that cover. They all hated it.



But why did they pose for it if they hated it - was the photographer holding them at gunpoint?Confused

Blacksword, I think the album scraped into the UK Top 40 for a week or two but way below where the previous original studio albums had charted.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Did it chart highly..anywhere?

I wouldn't have thought so.LOL
But I did get to see ELP on TOTP because of it!Wink


Oh well, every cloud, hey...

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Originally posted by Cactus Choir Cactus Choir wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Keith Emerson fought Atlantic over that cover. They all hated it.



But why did they pose for it if they hated it - was the photographer holding them at gunpoint?Confused

Blacksword, I think the album scraped into the UK Top 40 for a week or two but way below where the previous original studio albums had charted.

Who knows how a photo will turn out?Confused
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Did it chart highly..anywhere?

I wouldn't have thought so.LOL
But I did get to see ELP on TOTP because of it!Wink


Oh well, every cloud, hey...


Not really. Given time apart they could have made a very nice album ( there was talk of getting back to basics I believe,but I may be thinking of another time).as it was this album finished the band.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Cactus Choir Cactus Choir wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:


Keith Emerson fought Atlantic over that cover. They all hated it.



But why did they pose for it if they hated it - was the photographer holding them at gunpoint?Confused

Blacksword, I think the album scraped into the UK Top 40 for a week or two but way below where the previous original studio albums had charted.

Who knows how a photo will turn out?Confused


I suppose you have a point, though if you pose on a beach showing off your hairy chest and wearing a medallion it does seem quite obvious how the photo might turn out. LOL
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Maybe their images were super-imposed on that beach! Perhaps the original photo's were taken back stage after a triumphant gig..or agaist some proggy sci-fi landscape...

Second thoughts..probably not..
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Tarkkus: truly a masterpiece
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Although I really love the first 4 albums, and listen to them all the time, as well as bits and pieces of the others, I think Trilogy is my favourite.
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If you like the first four or five ELP albums, then Black Moon is THE other one you should add to your collection.
And after that - buy Keith's more recent album with Marc Bonilla.
 
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Originally posted by Cactus Choir Cactus Choir wrote:



The real low point is probably Taste of My Love. If you can get through the lyrics of that without laughing incredulously you're a better man than I!

An impossible task. LOL
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2010 at 16:08
The debut, closely followed by BSS.
 
But my overall favorite track is the Tarkus suite.
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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2010 at 16:20
What? Love Beach is my favorite! Tongue

Seriously, it's probably Trilogy for me. I don't really love it, but it's still better than their other albums IMO.

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