Your favorite ELP album?

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[swag]

1. Wow, Love Beach.

Just wow.



Emo's packed pretty tight in that shot.

I voted for "Brain Salad Surgery."

[meegbear]

11. I voted for Love Beach because I've actually heard it ...

and you're not missing much.

[jpgray]

2. Cumbersome, Flake, and Embalmer to me

[Joe Fields]

5. True, they are not for everyone, but I can't think of a better keyboardist

or a better percussionist in the entire music business. Personally I love their music and greatly admire their talent.:toast:

[jpgray]

6. They were all talented musicians

I liked Palmer's work with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

[Joe Fields]

8. So did I. Have you seen this?

freakin' amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9fkAGwJcM

[ghostsofgiants]

3. "I'll Sleep When You're Dead"

Wait...wrong El-P.

[B3Nut]

4. Hard to pick, but Tarkus gets my vote

The title suite simply rocks, with some of Emo's best Hammond work. "The Only Way/Infinite Space" is a really cool ode to freethought. I do love the first album though, "The Barbarian" is just deliciously angry and a great purloining of Bartok. His piano work in "Take A Pebble" is stunning as well, and "The Three Fates" is an interesting piece as well.

I'm a fan of The Nice as well, far as that goes...

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[eyepaddle]

10. I went with Trilogy, but Infinite Space

almost made me go with Tarkus. Oooh, it was close.

[Ryano42]

12. Abaddon's Bolero is incredible...

Sounds like the beginning of an incredible, apocolyptic battle...

Certainly the opposite of Ravel's!

[B3Nut]

14. Yup, it just keeps building

Really neat track. Emerson has a flair for dramatic (some would argue bombastic) arrangements. He got a lot of flak for his rearrangements of various classical pieces, but I think he did a really neat job of it. Alberto Ginastera was impressed with Emo's arrangement of "Tocatta" off Brain Salad...it still ranks as one of the most gloriously dissonant and violent prog-rock pieces in the entire genre. I get a huge rush cranking that tune.

Some amazing music during that period...

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Joe Fields]

7. As much as I love Brain Salad, I have to go with Trilogy.

Sentimental reasons...:hippie:

[Alexander]

9. Pictures at an Exhibition.

An excellent live album. We get to hear them play both Mussorgsky's and their own music.

And Emerson finally stopped stealing classical and jazz tunes and passing them off as his own on this album. From the Nice's "Rondo" to ELP's "Knife Edge" and "The Barbarian", the blatant thievery was getting ridiculous and reaching Jimmy Page levels.

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13. Looks like their first 5 albums are the "winners"