Favorite ELP album?
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Topic: Favorite ELP album?
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: Favorite ELP album?
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 12:51
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If you like ELP, what is your favorite album by them? I am listenbing to trilogy right now, havnt heard it yet, but as for now id go with BSS. ANy opinions? -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 13:06
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For me, in this order:
I haven't heard the rest... and I'm in no hurry, due to the reviews here... ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: A'swepe
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 14:28
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1 - Brain Salad Surgery 2 - Tarkus 3 - Welcome Back 4 - Picture 5 - Trilogy ------------- David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light. http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 14:45
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Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 14:52
| For me ELPīs best and most progressive album is TRILOGY. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 14:56
Brain Salad Surgery #1  Trilogy #2 and then the others (ELP, Tarkus, Picture...) ------------- 
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Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 15:04
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Either BSS or their debut.
------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 15:31
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1. Brain Salad Surgery 2. Trilogy I don't like the other as much, though Pics at an Exhibition is pretty good. ------------- 
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Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 16:05
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Out of the ones I've heard so far. Definitely Tarkus.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Zenith
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 16:42
Tarkus followed by BSS. ------------- We're only in it for the music!!! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 16:44
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the debut... followed by Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy,
and Brain Salad Surgery. They are all great albums, but the debut
album above all.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 16:47
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Brain Salad Surgery Tarkus Trilogy -------------  |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 16:51
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This must be the 94887847th "Favorite ELP album" poll in this forum!!! Anyway, here's my top-3:
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:05
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I'm with you Mickey the eponymous 1st album is for me the best with Knife Edge and Take a Pebble amongst their finest moments.Up until the dire ' Love Beach' ELP were one mighty fine band.
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micky wrote:Posted By: Emiaj
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:26
| I've answered this one before..Tarkus |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:29
bravo! The Barbarian is one of those tracks that, no matter through how many untold listens, never fails to get my old engine reving and the 'air' piano fired up. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:36
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I've told the story on here before but I will do so again.The year 1970 on a schooltrip in Blankenburg in Belgium a gang of 16 year olds have had a great night in a Belgian pub listening to great music all night on a cracking juke box and yes ' Knife Edge ' was on the Jukie and we all pile out singing at the top of our voices with Emerson impersonations going on all over the place.Those were the very best of times.Prog was surfacing and rock ruled the planet oh for a time machine. Bravo to you too Mickey |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:37
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:38
great story... new around here, so I hadn't heard it.  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 19:58
Cool ------------- My recent purchases:
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Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: February 06 2006 at 20:28
That's all I've heard so far... they're all great. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 05:35
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Essential: Emerson,Lake and Palmer (1970) Tarkus (1971) Trilogy (1972) Brain Salad Surgery (1973) MY FAVOURITE Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends (Live 1974)
Best of The Rest: Works Volume One (1977) Pictures At An Exhibition (Live 1971) Emerson,Lake and Powell (1986) MANY ELP FANS LIKE THIS ONE (I don't)
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 05:53
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Why hasn't anyone voted for Love Beach? Only kidding... I think they're best live, so I'd vote for "Welcome Back My Friends...". Of their studio albums, I like their first, "Emerson Lake & Palmer", the best. Sounds fresher than a lot of what followed. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 07:44
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1. BSS 2. Trilogy 3. Welcome back my friends... 3. Tarkus 5. Emerson,Lake and Palmer 6. Pictures at an Exhibition ------------- 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 08:01
well I like Pictures at an Exhibition the most then BSS, I think Pictures at an Exhibition is over looked if I was you guys (which I`m not because if I was I`d be talking to myself and thats just crazy) I`d give pictures another spin 
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Posted By: Zarquino
Date Posted: February 07 2006 at 08:54
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I've only heard Brain Salad Surgery and the greatest hits (I'm very new in prog rock), and I love them.
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 10:50
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Welcome back is a great live album with practically all of BSS, the epic Tarkus and some more fine songs. but I usually do not concider live albums as a real LP but as another "best of" or collection. Therefore I would vote to Trilogy with Tarkus as a very close second (IMO Tarkus is the best epic I ever heard). Then comes Works I followed by ELP & BSS. Pictures is nice too. Works II is not a bad album IMO but not in the same league of the former mentioned. ------------- omri |
Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 11:53
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During the period 1973-74 I played BSS approximately 10,000 times. Wore
out 2 vinyls. Because of this, I can rarely listen to it anymore.
These days my faves are Pictures, ELP (debut), and the live albums from
the 90's (Royal Albert Hall and Fanfare). Note: I've seen ELP several times. But I also saw ELPowell on the tour for their album in 1989...and they smoked! Mars, the Bringer Of War was a mind-numbing closer to that excellent show. ------------- So much music. So little time. |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 12:09
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Welcome back is a great live album with practically all of BSS, the epic Tarkus and some more fine songs. but I usually do not concider live albums as a real LP but as another "best of" or collection.>>
I thought Kiss Alive was the first live album . . and then came Frampton? You mean Cream, Allman Brothers and ELP were doing live albums first? and they were better?
I love Welcome Back My Friends. Like you said, it's all there, except Pictures, which I do not listen to anymore, except for the original or actually Ravel version. I think the Tarkus is better than the album version mostly because of the extension of Aquatarkus, which was not even original. I hear a Moog album in the mid-seventies that Emo had lifted the solo from. It's still great though.
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Posted By: Rockin' Chair
Date Posted: February 08 2006 at 13:49
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1 - Tarkus 2 - Brain Salad Surgey 3 - ELP 4 - Trilogy |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 13:51
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To ken4nusiq. What's the problem ? I agree that "welcome back" is a very good live album. Yet I think it is wrong to compare live albums to studio albums (Pictures is recorded live but it is not a collection from other studio albums so I do'nt count it as a live album but as a stand alone album). You may not agree with me on that and that's your right. Still I do'nt get the comment about Kiss or Allman brothers. Trying to be sofisticated or something ? ------------- omri |
Posted By: prog4life
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:22
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I like all of their old stuff. But i have a little higher for Trilogy. |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:26
I don't have to try. |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:29
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What on Trilogy is more progressive than a 30 minute classical progressive hybrid dealing with a time where computers run peoples lives? Still a masterpiece mind you ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:33
That's my top three too Brain Salad Surgery is one of the best progressive records of all time, top 10 EASILY ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 14:46
I just read an article in Progressive Rock Reconsidered that analyzes Trilogy . The author talks about how Trilogy begans with a simple aaba, pop music form as hommage to Tin Pan Alley and then develops that idea through thematic transformation. According to the author, each section plays with the change in the perspective of time that a lost relationship brings, i.e. wanting to hold on, needing to move on. What Emerson does is play with the idea of time, the slow contemplative beginning as one decides where to go after a lost relationship develops into the schizoid middle section as the need to move on closes the piece. |
Posted By: kev2307
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 15:31
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This has got to one of those very difficult answers. Like asking a child to choose their favourite sweet in a sweet shop.
so my cop out is this: ELP the debut Trilogy Welcome back
All three I have never been able to live without when I have lived abroad.
Then its a combination of: Pictures Tarkus Works 1 Works live BSS
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Posted By: Ultaigh
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 15:32
| Tarkus followed by their debut album. |
Posted By: Karn Evil 9
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 20:30
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For me I think Pictures at an exhibition is the best album just to show the sheer talent my favorite is BSS, i listen to it at least twice a week can anyone explain to me what happened after the mid 70's with them that made them suck so bad? did they go through major psychological trauma or something? lol ------------- Watch out where the huskies go,dont you eat that yellow snow |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 06:14
| I like them all. |
Posted By: Flying Dutchman
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 06:20
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1. Pictures at an Exhibition 2. Brain Salad Surgery 3. ELP 4. Trilogy 5. Tarkus I like them all to some extent, but Bss and Pictures are the only really great ones to me. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 08:29
| Their debut album is my favourite album. There's a large variety of musical styles, superb compositions and great playing. |
Posted By: Duchess
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 17:18
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1 Brain Salad surgery 2 Trilogy 3 Tarkus 4 Emerson Lake and palmer 5 Works volume 1 The rest are not essential |
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 17:30
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Brain Salad Surgery The only other album I have by them is Trilogy, and I find that incredibly boring. I really like BSS though. |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 17:49
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I saw a CD in the shop today by ELP called Now and Then. Itīs a double CD, one CD is old live recordings and the other is recent live recordings. I am thinking of getting it as I donīt have any ELP, IS IT ANY GOOD?? |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 17:57
------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:03
for the completionist ELP fan... it's not bad... it's just not essential. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:06
No, get one of the early albums(ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy, Pictures, or BSS). Everything after Works is fairly mediocre. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:11
I wouldn't exactly call their performance at Cal Jam '74 mediocre hahahahhah. It's good album, just not essential but definitely agree.... get the early albums first.... and if you lie awake at night thinking of Emerson riding an organ and Palmer ripping his shirt off during his drum solo.. you should probably get Then and Now. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:54
my favorite is the first, self-titled album. |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 19:02
| Tarkus, without a doubt. |
Posted By: Wetton Downes
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 19:19
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My favorite... Emerson Lake and Powell (1986) ! Why ? I have too much listened the others albums. I like again the first album ''Emerson Lake & Palemer with the white bird on the cover.
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Posted By: TheBarbarian
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 20:08
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BSS is the ultimate in pretentious bombast, a project that essentially ended ELP because it was SO ambitious, it reached the limit that virtually any band could reach.
I love it, truly a masterpiece of progressive music. Following that, I'd go for welcome back then pictures, tarkus/trilogy then the debut. The rest doesnt really interest me. |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: March 01 2006 at 21:44
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'Welcome back my friends...' Just for the stripped versions of Karn evil 9, Tarkus and the silly speed Hoedown. |
Posted By: karakatoa
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 01:45
Tarkus for me
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 02:15
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Off topic a bit but just for people's info there is a cheapo ELP DVD called 'C'est La Vie' that is being distributed by a German company and its good quality.I got if for Ģ6 and also found via Google a German site that is selling it for 8 euros.It includes 90 minutes worth of concert footage from 1971,1977 and 1997 (all mixed up).All has been available before on other DVD's that have been released but at that price its excellent value anyway.Its Region 0 as well so should play on most DVD players.If anyone wants details of how to get it let me know via Personal Messenger.(its not available on Amazon or Play.com as far as I can see as its an 'unofficial release').I can vouch for its quality though.Details: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER: C'EST LA VIE |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 02:56
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1. Brain salad surgery 2. Tarkus 3. ELP 4. Trilogy 5. Pictures at an exhibition 6. Ladies and gentleman |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 14:56
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Brain Salad Surgery
Works Vol.1 1st Album ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: MorgothSunshine
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 15:19
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I love their debut most of all!!! ------------- For every truth even the contrary is true... 
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Posted By: Zepology101
Date Posted: March 28 2006 at 08:57
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Braiin salad surgery. my favorite hands down. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: March 28 2006 at 09:11
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Love Beach! =) ------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: prog4life
Date Posted: March 28 2006 at 09:18
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Of course, the old stuff is all amazing, but l always enjoy listen Trilogy. So, ELP, Tarkus, Pictures..., Brain Salad..., Welcome back... are still the masterpieces of entire prog rock planet!
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Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: March 28 2006 at 09:46
| Tarkus definitely. I used to admire Pictures but its probably 30 years since I last played it. I must admit though that these days I am seldom in the mood for this kind of stuff. |
Posted By: master_k
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 05:59
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer. A masterpiece! ------------- Situation that rules your world (despite all you've said) 
I would strike against it but the rule displaces... |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 06:15
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The first five are all excellent and I would argue a case for Works Vol 1 as this was the first prog album I got into and offers incredible variety. Depending on your tastes Brain Salad Surgery (epic and frenetic) or Trilogy (more relaxed and tuneful) are probably the best. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: Man_erg
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 08:03
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no one would agree with this order but 1. Pictures 2. Tarkus (the composition within pieces of these two rival nothing else they have done) 3. Trilogy 4. BSS 5. ELP 6. Works vol. 1 & 2 7. Black moon 8. ELPowell 8. and well love beach (tigers in the spotlight was emmm ok)
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Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 08:40
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Pictures... I can't believe how often this album gets overlooked. Not just here, but on other forums as well. ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 10:46
| I like everything by ELP. My favourite track by them is Pictures at an Exhibition live at the Royal Albert Hall, but I do not know if this is available. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 11:02
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Pictures at an Exhibition for me. -------------  
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Posted By: Fusioned
Date Posted: March 29 2006 at 21:49
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Brain Salad...though Trilogy I'm a fan of! ------------- +FUSIONED+ 
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Posted By: utas
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 00:20
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