Welcome Back My Friends! Collage Appreciation.

great!!!!!! im anly sad for tarkus killing love beach, i like that album as well 

uduwudu wrote: LandofLein wrote: I haven't listened to ELP in over a year, and yet this just made me put on the Welcome Back My Friends live album. That's how you know it's great, it got me out of a musical rut.  Love the simplicity, less is more with this one Most amusing! A 3LP set full of long pieces (called pretentious once - who'd've thought!) is now regarded as "less is more." It's a great album and one I also like very much-  but I never thought I'd find (of all bands either ...) it described as less is more. Simplicity?? You mean like one can play along with it and pick up the tunes? This IS WBMFTTSTNE by ELP under discussion?

uduwudu wrote: I have a blind spot of certain albums... Open Your Eyes by Yes and ELP's Love Beach are two... reputation counts (your opinions!) and I don't need my collection to have notably awful albums hogging precious space no matter which mighty ones recorded it. I mean when an ELP collage is made and it's disparaging an ELP LP one really has to take notice. ELP do make pretty fine concert albums though. Something to do with being great performers...

The ELP collage is also reacting to popular opinion. Love Beach is one album deserved of destruction from the great Tarkus. Its common knowledge that Love Beach is to be avoided. But Open Your Eyes perhaps is not as low as that, in fact I like some of that album as do others here in general.

uduwudu wrote: Terrific collage. Y'know it's been many years since I wanted to buy Love Beach. Two thingas put me off. The cover and the reputation. I suppose if there's a remaster I'd buy that for a dollar. Still think Works would have been better off without CP's jams and Lakes awful ballads. Works 2 I always and still like better... The rest before them are great albums but they lost their momentum and never got it back. The endless compilations and dodgy live albums (disguised re-offerings of WElcome Back My Friends) are not good ideas. Yet when ELP are playing the on form stuff they are unbeatable. The first album is mindblowingly beautiful. All that piano.... I do lika Tarkus going over Love Beach... email it to ELP and see what they say. They should use it for some art work somewhere. Anyway another great collage. Thank you.

Its interesting about those poorer Elp albums. If you put them on after a long break they have an endearing quality. But In The Hot Seat is maddeningly dismal in any frame of mind! I put it on a few times hoping that something would jump out as a great song - EPIC FAIL!

LandofLein wrote: I haven't listened to ELP in over a year, and yet this just made me put on the Welcome Back My Friends live album. That's how you know it's great, it got me out of a musical rut.  Love the simplicity, less is more with this one

Most amusing! A 3LP set full of long pieces (called pretentious once - who'd've thought!) is now regarded as "less is more."

It's a great album and one I also like very much-  but I never thought I'd find (of all bands either ...) it described as less is more. Simplicity?? You mean like one can play along with it and pick up the tunes?

This IS WBMFTTSTNE by ELP under discussion?

Terrific collage. Y'know it's been many years since I wanted to buy Love Beach. Two thingas put me off. The cover and the reputation. I suppose if there's a remaster I'd buy that for a dollar. Still think Works would have been better off without CP's jams and Lakes awful ballads. Works 2 I always and still like better... The rest before them are great albums but they lost their momentum and never got it back. The endless compilations and dodgy live albums (disguised re-offerings of WElcome Back My Friends) are not good ideas.

Yet when ELP are playing the on form stuff they are unbeatable. The first album is mindblowingly beautiful. All that piano.... I do lika Tarkus going over Love Beach... email it to ELP and see what they say. They should use it for some art work somewhere.

Anyway another great collage. Thank you.

jean-marie wrote: GREAT!!! but you didn't tell what was the first E L P album you got, mine was TARKUS and blown me away, it's sill my favourite one

GREAT!!! but you didn't tell what was the first E L P album you got, mine was TARKUS and blown me away, it's sill my favourite one

Hawkwise wrote: Is now my Wallpaper on my desktop  thank you

Gerinski wrote: darksideof wrote: Gerinski wrote: Fantastic work! The detail of it all being framed in the opening BSS opening sleeve is also great. Just miss the spinning piano somewhere  thanks. You know I was looking for that image extremely hard, but I couldn't find it at all. but I had the intention to put there.   Too late but just FYI you have one here although not a great one   http://www.brain-salad-surgery.de/keith_emersons_gear.html   Or you can try to capture a still frame from the video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSm5IQFaTZA   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKG60PKSvY   Never mind it looks great as it is!