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Poll Question: Choose best album
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66 [40.74%]
3 [1.85%]
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Why is "Love Beach" better than "In the hot seat"? The answer is simple: "In the hot seat" doesn't have an epic, "Love Beach" does. Unless, of course, you'd count the bonus track in the form of a studio recording of "Pictures at an exhibition".
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Maybe somebody would vote for Love Beach. That´s a pity for not including it here.Wink

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The first five ELP albums represent for me the band's fertile creative peak which culminated in the uber stupendous Brain Salad Surgery (which earned my vote, natch)

Thereafter the trio admittedly went steadily downhill but the descent had one or two refuelling stops in the shape of Emerson's excellent Piano Concerto #1, Side 4 of Works Vol 1, Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman from (whisper) Love Beach and Black Moon (which I liked hugely)
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The first five ELP albums represent for me the band's fertile creative peak which culminated in the uber stupendous Brain Salad Surgery (which earned my vote, natch)

Thereafter the trio admittedly went steadily downhill but the descent had one or two refuelling stops in the shape of Emerson's excellent Piano Concerto #1, Side 4 of Works Vol 1, Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman from (whisper) Love Beach and Black Moon (which I liked hugely)
 
 
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1. Works Vol. 1 I Love (Beach) the whole thing.
2. Brain Salad Surgery
3. Trilogy
 
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I'll come out and confess it boldly: I actually sort of enjoy Love Beach.  Not even remotely in the same way that I enjoy ELP in their prime, but that album does find itself listened to on occasion.  I certainly enjoy it more than the cesspool that is In The Hot Seat.

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What! No 'Love Beach' in this poll!LOL
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My favourite is Tarkus, then Trilogy, then the debut.
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Brain Salad Surgery = AMAZING
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Originally posted by Lozlan Lozlan wrote:

I'll come out and confess it boldly: I actually sort of enjoy Love Beach.  Not even remotely in the same way that I enjoy ELP in their prime, but that album does find itself listened to on occasion.  I certainly enjoy it more than the cesspool that is In The Hot Seat.


Love Beach does at least sound like ELP in places. In the Hot Seat was just plain dreadfull as you say and virtually unrecognisable from the band that in its heyday took prog rock by the scuff.Emerson was barely able to play properly having just undergone an operation while the record company (Victory Music) on the verge of bankrupty desperately needed a big commercial hit .Consequently classical adaptions and long tracks were banished in favour of supposed radio friendly stuff.
Gone Too Sone and Daddy are the only half decent moments and one of those had a session drummer and keyboard player backing Greg Lake.
Unsurpisingly the record company went over the edge of the cliff soon after.
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Brain Salad Surgery... I'll admit, Trilogy got me ready for BSS, so I would have voted for Trilogy... but the Karn Evil 9 suite is just too sweet!

Also the cover art for BSS is better than Trilogy LOL
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BSS wins this I believe - any more votes before closure?
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Trilogy for me.
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I wonder if there are any other bands who would have a such a heavy weighting of votes towards the first 4 albums as ELP.Confused

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Who voted for Black Moon ?!
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Trilogy by a small margin over BSS in my opinion.

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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2010 at 22:39
Originally posted by Anthony Anthony wrote:

Why is "Love Beach" better than "In the hot seat"? The answer is simple: "In the hot seat" doesn't have an epic, "Love Beach" does. Unless, of course, you'd count the bonus track in the form of a studio recording of "Pictures at an exhibition".

Well, there are excellent albums like Nursery Cryme or Trespass that don't have a single epic and they are great

The problem is that Memoirs, despite being an epic (due to the length), is IMO the weakest song of Love Beach.

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hey, where is Love Beach????? that's my favorit
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