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Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Title: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released: 1970
Label: Leadclass Ltd. Records
Time: 41:14
Producer(s): Greg Lake
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.02.09
Price in €: 12,99
Web address: www.emersonlakepalmer.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Barbarian (K.Emerson/G.Lake/C.Palmer) - 4:27
[2] Take a Pebble (G.Lake) - 12:32
[3] Knife Edge (K.Emerson/Frazer/G.Lake) - 5:04
[4] The Three Fates: Clotho [Royal Festival Hall Organ] / Lachesis [Piano Solo] / Atropos [Piano Solo] (K.Emerson) - 7:46
[5] Tank (K.Emerson/C.Palmer) - 6:49
[6] Lucky Man (G.Lake) - 4:36

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Keith Emerson - Keyboards, Arranger, Director
Greg Lake - Bass, Guitar, Arranger, Director, Vocals, Producer, Adaptation
Carl Palmer - Arranger, Director, Drums, Adaptation

Eddie Offord - Engineer
Barry Diament - Mastering
Joseph M. Palmaccio - Remastering
Stephen Innocenzi - Mastering
Nic Dartnell - Cover Design, Paintings

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


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 Moodies' keyboardmen 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. The reissues of this album on either the Victory or Rhino labels are much superior in sound and graphics to the older Atlantic compact disc.

Bruce Eder - All-Music Guide



With former members of King Crimson, The Nice, and Atomic Rooster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer were a veritable supergroup, and the 1970 release of their debut album, ELP, was the first step for a band that went on to define progressive rock. With capable Keith Emerson at the controls of the Moog synthesizer and the Hammond B3 organ, Greg Lake on guitar and vocals, and talented Carl Palmer on drums, the debut release leaned heavily toward a new technical wizardry that became the band's halmark.

Paul Clark - Amazon.com



...This is such a good album, it is best heard as a whole...

Rolling Stone (4/15/71)
 

 L y r i c s


The Barbariian

(Instrumental)


Take A Pebble

Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea,
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me,
My face spill so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.

Shread of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.

Sadness on your shoulders like a wornout overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope.
The daybreak is your midnight; the colours have all died.
Disturbing the waters of our lives, of our lives, of our lives, lives,
lives, lives...
Of our lives.


Knife Edge

Just a step cried the sad man
Take a look down at the madman
Theatre kings on silver wings
Fly beyond reason
From the flight of the seagull
Come the spread claws of the eagle
Only fear breaks the silence
As we all kneel pray for guidance

Tread the road cross the abyss
Take a look down at the madness
On the streets of the city
Only spectres still have pity
Patient queues for the gallows
Sing the praises of the hallowed
Our machines feed the furnace
If they take us they will burn us

Will you still know who you are
When you come to who you are

When the flames have their season
Will you hold to your reason
Loaded down with your talents
Can you still keep your balance
Can you live on a knife-edge


The Three Fates

(Instrumental)


Tank

(Instrumental)


Lucky Man

He had white horses
And ladies by the score
All dressed in satin
And waiting by the door

Oooh, what a lucky man he was

White lace and feathers
They made up his bed
A gold covered mattress
On which he was laid

He went to fight wars
For his country and his king
Of his honor and his glory
The people would sing

A bullet had found him
His blood ran as he cried
No money could save him
So he laid down and he died

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