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    Posted: October 01 2017 at 19:32
The cover art stinks. It's putrid. It shows nothing but three, overly bloated egos. I wish it had a neat cover artwork and a different title - maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't cop the flak that it does. There's some decent music and ideas contained within. I stand by that.

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^ Sadly it's the last time Palmer sounded like that . The next album he made was the short lived AOR band PM before totally reinventing his style for Asia. There is an expanded version of Love Beach with some interesting demos that still show the band has something. Unfortunately the production is just too watered down and the best not talk about the cover artwork. Embarrassed
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Listened to Love Beach last night, for the how ever many hundred times since 1988. Still enjoy it. Carl is definitely the star of the show.
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St Anger. 
Least there are some decent songs on it, and I always said "Ya know it aint so bad and there's some interesting stuff, if only they raised the guitar, lowered the drums, cut many of the songs down (oh and ya know axe "kill kill kill kill!") itd not be so bad. I was proven right with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCiNPgoGa6M where some people did pretty much just thatSmile
Actually went farther and re recorded the whole thing with instruments that sound like...instruments and not a music software program on a waterlogged computerLOL


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At least Palmer's drums didn't sound like tin cans.........
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Love Beach - it's an ok album

St Anger is rather awful if you ask me. 
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

Love Beach is my choice. Not much of a choice though with the 3 smiling Hawaii Five-O  beach boys on the cover. Some of it reminded me of Barry Manilow and company. Very cheesy. The destruction of prog in the late 70's. At least we had Pulsar and Ange because this was pathetic.



Every time I see Love Beach cover, I want to sing 'at the Copa, Copacabana'.  But it's not that bad. There are way more bad prog and non-prog albums.
That's true. Greg Lake had told me all about the egos in ELP. He told me once....."Egos!" "All Egos!" It's funny to me personally but, if I'm not mistaken, at least they had the balls to admit that Love Beach was a bit of a mistake for the band? Fans like us cut the album up for a mere joke and the fun between us is a like a bond of understanding. We still in the same sense find good things about it! It's all about having fun you know? Like making fun of yourself? ELP themselves have done the same thing.
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I always thought the uncyclopedia parody cover art for St w**ker was hilarious but WARNING! There's a reason I'm not posting directly here as it is very rude. NSFW so click at own risk:
 
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Love Beach. Yea, that album jacket is BS, lol, but i agree with people who are saying that LB is not so bad album as it is censured by many. LB is in the same level of Tormato, and miles above better album than  And Then There Were Three. Just my opinion, of course.



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Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

Love Beach is my choice. Not much of a choice though with the 3 smiling Hawaii Five-O  beach boys on the cover. Some of it reminded me of Barry Manilow and company. Very cheesy. The destruction of prog in the late 70's. At least we had Pulsar and Ange because this was pathetic.



Every time I see Love Beach cover, I want to sing 'at the Copa, Copacabana'.  But it's not that bad. There are way more bad prog and non-prog albums.
Percussion, sir!
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I don't even like good Metallica but as wretched as Love Beach is, it does have some decent tracks:
All I Want is You is a decent pop song with heinous lyrics, The Gambler is an enjoyable boogie, Canario is good fun albeit a tad cheesy and Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman is in places quite brilliant with the caveat of the odd pile of lurking poo to negotiate.
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Ok now
 
the following lyrics take the biscuit!!!!!
 
 
bad production too - absolutely shocking!
 
 
 
 
now the better choice
 
 
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heres something annoying
 
how dare they put down TARKUS!!!
 
 
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OK for those who are not initiated heres the @#$%$#$% album tracks
lets start with
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Actually can OP change the wording to 'which one do you detest least' - thats a better way to put it than which one do you love..........................


He was just being funny, obviously. Anyway, as I listen to Love Beach, once again I marvel at the flak the artwork can get for an album.  This is not a bad album by any means though it's not great of course nor true to their style.  Have you - as in a general 'you', not ACR - heard the album? Dead   St Anger on the other hand...Dead  

Tapfret:  The end of wanting to do something different does not justify the means, or, rather, the product.  So, yes, I do prefer the commercially oriented Love Beach to St Anger because regardless of motives, the former is at least somewhat well put together. There's nothing wrong with music made with the aim of commercial success when it's well executed. Now, if you like St Anger for what it is, you are naturally entitled to your preferences. 
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Actually can OP change the wording to 'which one do you detest least' - thats a better way to put it than which one do you love..........................
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No, this is rather the only time that Love Beach will win anything. Besides stinker of the century.
 
St Anger is appalling and not even one good track so it should lose this contest.
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I played St. Anger the first time and loved it since there was no sign of Fuel or Re-Fuel or Re-refuelier or The Oneforgivenable part 7 or whatever rehashed obnoxious radia oriented rock they were producing that 3 years it requires to take that kind of dump. I don't listen to SA anymore, but I respect the paradigm shift. It sounds like a tight garage band. The bottom line is, this is a band that is really not that musically talented trying to produce something different to an audience that hates change. "Just play Sandman and Whiskey jaro and get the funk out".

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i'll give you a clue, it's not Love Beach.
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Points: 18025 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 15:46
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

for some reason I want to buy Love Beach, just how bad can it be, im sure it is decent, not great but OK, to listen to on a vorspiel before a party (or on the beach)
 
I thought a vorspiel was suppose to be a happy time before you go to a party??
 
Better that you play before a funeral.....just sayin
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