Label: Sony Music (Europe), 88697830072
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 41:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 262 Mb
Charts: UK #4, AUS #9, CAN #17, GER #7, ITA #20, NED #4, NOR #18, JP #66, US #18. UK & US: Gold.
Lively,
ambitious, almost entirely successful debut album, made up of
keyboard-dominated instrumentals ("The Barbarian," "Three Fates") and
romantic ballads ("Lucky Man") showcasing all three members' very
daunting talents. This album, which reached the Top 20 in America and
got to number four in England, showcased the group at its least
pretentious and most musicianly -- with the exception of a few moments
on "Three Fates" and perhaps "Take a Pebble," there isn't much excess,
and there is a lot of impressive musicianship here. "Take a Pebble"
might have passed for a Moody Blues track of the era but for the fact
that none of the Moody Blues' keyboard men could solo like Keith
Emerson. Even here, in a relatively balanced collection of material, the
album shows the beginnings of a dark, savage, imposingly gothic edge
that had scarcely been seen before in so-called "art rock," mostly
courtesy of Emerson's larger-than-life organ and synthesizer attacks.
Greg Lake's beautifully sung, deliberately archaic "Lucky Man" had a
brush with success on FM radio, and Carl Palmer became the idol of many
thousands of would-be drummers based on this one album (especially for
"Three Fates" and "Tank"), but Emerson emerged as the overpowering
talent here for much of the public.
(allmusic.com/album/emerson-lake-palmer-mw0000650116)
01. The Barbarian (04:33)
02. Take A Pebble (12:33)
03. Knife-Edge (05:06)
04. The Three Fates (Clotho - Lachesis - Atropos) (07:44)
05. Tank (06:52)
06. Lucky Man (04:37)
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