Top ELP track?
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Topic: Top ELP track?
Posted By: richardh
Subject: Top ELP track?
Date Posted: February 20 2025 at 22:04
| This is based on my personal top ten ELP tracks. I voted for Karn Evil 9 (all 3 Impressions). |
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 20 2025 at 22:11
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"Tarkus" by far. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 20 2025 at 22:12
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Hi, TARKUS for me, although that video of them in Montreal alone in the cold on the stadium is, by far one of the best things I have ever seen. You can't even argue that they were not about the MUSIC. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 20 2025 at 22:18
| I'm voting for "Trilogy" as the track I liked best by ELP when I listened to ELP the most. :) |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: February 20 2025 at 23:06
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Tarkus. Then, Toccata ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 00:10
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"KE9" ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 00:37
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Karn Evil 9 followed by Tarkus. ------------- 
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 01:15
Toccata 
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 05:40
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Other - The Three Fates ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 05:56
| Fanfare for the Common Man |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 07:43
| Getting more specific...Karn Evil 9 - 2nd Impression...like nothing else from the classic prog rock era IMO... |
Posted By: BasedProgger
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 08:34
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Karn Evil 9, then Tarkus. Excluding those two, either The Endless Enigma (both parts + fugue), Trilogy, or Abbadon's Bolero. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 08:41
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KE9 ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 08:59
| Tarkus |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 09:07
| Hallowed Be Thy Name |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 11:37
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I use to relate to tracks very much as parts of the whole albums, but I can tell that my favourite ELP album may very well be Tarkus, even I'm also very fond of the debut and Trilogy, and almost quite as much of BSS. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 12:54
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1. Take a Pebble 2. Trilogy 3. Karn Evil 9 4. Lucky Man 5. From the Beginning
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 13:24
| 'Karn Evil 9' and 'Tarkus' lead the way for me. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 13:40
| Karn Evil 9 edges Tarkus. The opening to Tarkus, however, is the best thing ELP ever did. Trilogy, Toccata and The Barbarian would round out my top 5. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 13:53
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Hard to pick only one voted Enigma to get the balance ... a wee bit more even :-) |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: February 21 2025 at 14:10
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------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 03:41
| I love them all! I also love Carl's contributions to the Works albums - Bullfrog and The Enemy God. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 08:26
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Karn Evil 9. This ham sandwich tastes more algebraic than I'm used to. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 10:41
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Tarkus ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 19:37
| I guess Tarkus, though I'm not so fond of the middle section, mass. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 20:14
I have always preferred Palmer's side vs Emerson and Lake's solo material on Works. The Enemy God and the remake of Tank I think are quite good. |
Rick1 wrote:Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 20:57
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Tarkus, Karn Evil 9 and The Endless Engima (the whole thing, not just part 1). That's the podium for me though I love Take A Pebble and Knife-Edge among others. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 21:46
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The Armadillo, I'm afraid. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 25 2025 at 22:31
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Definitely a gravitational pull towards those epics (if you take an epic as having to be at least 15 minutes) |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 02:24
| ^ Well, in that case 'Memoirs' would fit the bill! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 04:56
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KE9 ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 05:56
| I'm not sure but I do feel that Tarkus is way overrated. There's parts on there that just go on too long. Karn Evil 9 isn't much better in that respect. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 07:16
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A bad case of love at first sight for me: Tarkus Suite, KE9 and the whole Enigma are awesome too, of course. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 13:21
Whenever I listen to Karn Evil 9, I always skip over "Part One" of the First Impression and begin with "Part Two". The rest of this epic is perfect!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 26 2025 at 21:50
| ^ seems strange to miss out on some of the best interplay between Emerson and Palmer and also a great guitar solo from Lake. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 27 2025 at 01:13
Go on too long? The first side is one 20-minute seven-part cut, that's the point. But many felt that way. This is from Richard Green's inexplicable review for the album in '71 -- "There are some nice passages, but these are almost completely buried by the overall cacophonous ostentation." and David Levin's embarrassing, shortsighted write-up -- "Tarkus records the failure of three performers to become creators. Regardless of how fast and how many styles they can play. Emerson, Lake and Palmer will continue turning out mediocrity like Tarkus until they discover what, if anything, it is that they must say on their own and for themselves." If anything has not aged well it's these reviews. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |