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Essential Emerson Lake & Palmer |  | Artist: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Label: Shout Factory
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.49
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 48221
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 826663103731
EAN: 0826663103731
ASIN: B000LPR5AM
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Barbarian | | • | Take A Pebble | | • | Knife-Edge | | • | Tank | | • | Lucky Man | | • | Tarkusa) Eruptionb) Stones Of Yearsc) Iconoclastd) Masse) Manticoref) | | • | Bitches Crystal | | • | Nutrocker | | • | From The Beginning | | • | Hoedown | | • | Trilogy |
Disc 2
| • | The Endless Enigma, Part One | | • | Fugue | | • | The Endless Enigma, Part Two | | • | Jerusalem | | • | Toccata | | • | Still ... You Turn Me On | | • | Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 1 | | • | Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2 | | • | Jeremy Bender / The Sheriff (medley) | | • | I Believe In Father Christmas | | • | C'est La Vie | | • | Fanfare For The Common Man | | • | Honky Tonk Train Blues | | • | Canario | | • | Peter Gunn | | • | Black Moon | | • | Paper Blood |
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Album Description
A comprehensive, career-spanning collection from one of progressive rock's most popular groups.
On 2 CDs crammed with nearly 160 minutes of music!
The fully remastered 28-song set, compiled with ELP's participation, brings together their biggest hits, including "Lucky Man," "From The Beginning," "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2" and "I Believe In Father Christmas," as well as other must-have recordings drawn from all of the albums they released in their '70s heyday--their self-titled debut (1970), Tarkus (1971), Trilogy (1972), Pictures At An Exhibition (1972), Brain Salad Surgery (1973), Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends (1974), Works, Vol. 1 & Works, Vol. 2 (both 1977), Love Beach (1978) and Emerson Lake & Palmer In Concert (aka Works Live) (1979)--and the reunion album Black Moon (1992).
Comes with a fully-illustrated booklet containing color photos, detailed liner notes and complete track info.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Simply Put, Simply Great December 13, 2009
George Farris (Houston, Tx)
Despite the fact that some found the mixing on this double disc complilation to be horrible and all that, I found the music here fantastic. A terrific introduction to an amazing group. It is true perhaps, a song or two has been left off. That seems to be always the case. There's even the editted version of "Fanfare For The Common Man". But the two discs are full (79 & 78 min.) So if something else would have been added, something would have to come off. The bottom line: this is a awesome collection. If you are on the fence about purchasing it, by all means buy it. I'm sure you'll find it excellent, too.
All You Really Need October 30, 2009
Peter Baklava (Charles City, Iowa)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
From previous reviews, you can glean that remasters don't always satisfy the hardcore fan. Being a somewhat tepid fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, this collection gives me everything I need and more. It's been said that the recent Beatle remasters were favorable to Ringo Starr. I think that this particular ELP collection pushes Greg Lake to the forefront.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, as all the fan base knows, was born from the ashes of the Nice, King Crimson, and Atomic Rooster. The essential difference between the Nice and ELP can be stated like this: with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Keith Emerson began relying on synthesizer instead of organ or piano. ELP's albums were produced with a perfectionist's touch, and the group veered from the approach of the Nice into a much more Romanticized type of classical rock. Those qualities can be traced directly to Greg Lake.
ELP's best albums--that is to say, the least pompous--are well represented here. There are roughly five cuts apiece from "Emerson, Lake and Palmer", and "Trilogy". "Take a Pebble", "The Endless Enigma", and "Trilogy" are particularly well arranged, and the piano interludes are the source of many a "New Age" performance.
It doesn't bother me much that there's a "drop-out" at a point in "Karn-Evil 9", because I never cared that much for that business in the first place. It was when "Brain Salad Surgery" came out that ELP was increasingly labeled as "bombastic", and Greg Lake was tagged as a "megaphone voice."
In reality, Lake had one of the more pleasurable voices in Rock, and his ballads were a major reason that ELP gained Top Forty status. Virtually all of the hits are included here.
As a bonus, there is the full version of the "Tarkus Suite" and "Bitches' Crystal", so you can frisbee your old copy of the Tarkus album into the garbage can if you wish. There could have been more of "Pictures at an Exhibition", and much less of "Black Moon", but with "Still, You Turn Me On", "Jerusalem" and "Toccata", the best of "Brain Salad Surgery" is included.
I still find it ironic that this group was vilified so much when Punk music broke wide in the late Seventies. If you listen to "Endless Enigma", you'll find Keith Emerson quoting some vintage suspense television scoring in the intro, and with "Peter Gunn", ELP anticipated the reworked movie score music of the hyper-hip jazzman John Zorn and his group Naked City.
So there.
The best prog rock collection out there! February 7, 2009
Michael D. Williams (UT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love it. Tarkus full version and not edited. All my favorite ELP songs.
A great intro to ELP. Great price and the only one to buy if you cannot afford them all.
Uma grande coletânea September 17, 2008
Gilberto Steffens
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eis uma grade coletânea, de um grande grupo que marcou época.
Maravilhosos e sempre é ótimo ouví-los repetidas e repetidas vezes. A gente não se cansa mesmo.
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