ELP: Tarkus - Progressive Rock Music Forum

yeah... good old Trilogy.... I have such conflicted feelings about that album.

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I normally don't like showing off of skills, but never has this been done in a more archetypical and iconic way than on the title track and I can't not love it for that. I can well do without the rest of the album.

Edited by Lewian - September 26 2018 at 10:18

^ Interesting. I find flaws to be important too, imperfections add a humanity and realness, and is actually crucial in rock music. Zeppelin understood that, as did Hendrix.

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Is it in biographies of interviews about how Greg Lake came around to the magnificent title track?
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Edited by AZF - September 27 2018 at 02:18

SteveG wrote:

Lewian wrote:

Good music can have flaws but bad music is just bad.

Think I'll use that as my new signature!

Not until you pay up what you owe me for the previous one........!!!!!!!

^ I'm prepared to stick up for Works Vol One as Pirates is one of my favourite ELP tracks and most of the album is top notch apart from maybe one or two tracks. It doesn't gel for sure but really the quality was still very much apparent. Love Beach was the cliff Embarrassed

Edited by richardh - October 02 2018 at 00:46

Mortte wrote:

I don´t fully understand, why I didn´t get more into ELP in eighties, when I got into Floyd, Rush, Wigwam, Genesis, Yes & Jethro Tull. My brother got Pictures at cassette and I really liked it (until I released how much of the original great music they have left out). I remember to seen Tarkus in the same record shop where I bought my albums and I watched it. But I remeber also heard some of their studio song (maybe from first album or from Trilogy) from the radio and that didn´t sound me very great. So maybe I decided to put my very small money then into those other great bands, also I don´t remember anybody having ELP albums to borrow.

Anyway I have listened those first 5 ELP album quite recently, I like first and Trilogy the most, maybe I have to listen them more. And have to say EMERSON SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN HAMMOND.

The beauty of recorded music is that it can always be returned to at a later date, sort of like a time capsule that's been waiting years for you to find it again.

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I bought "Welcome Back My Friends..." about a year before Tarkus so it was a real shock to hear the title track played so slowly. The studio version always sounds so tame in comparison...because of that, Tarkus is probably my least listened to of all the pre-Works albums. That said, Bitches Crystal & A Time and a Place are a couple of my fave early ELP tracks and I think Jeremy Bender & Are You Ready Eddy are good fun Wink

Edited by The.Crimson.King - October 03 2018 at 16:55

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