Emerson Lake And Palmer [Album Covers]

1970 Emerson, Lake & Palmer SR	1971 Tarkus SR	1971 Pictures at an Exhibition SR	1972 Trilogy SR
1973 Brain Salad Surgery SR	1974 Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends⁓Ladies and Gentlemen SR	$[ 7 / 46 ] 1977 Works, Volume 1 Though no one talked about it at the time of its release, this album reflected a growing split within the group. Originally, the trios members, tired of sublimating their musical identities within the context of ELP, each intended to do a solo album of his own. Reason prevailed, however, probably aided by the groups awareness that the combined sales of the solo albums issued by the five members of Yes the previous year were a fraction of the sales of Yes most recent records. The result was this double LP; essentially three solo sides and one group side, it is the most complex and demanding of the groups albums. Keith Emersons "Piano Concerto" is on the level of a good music-student piece, without much original language. Where Emerson, in conjunction with his conductor and co-orchestrator, John Mayer, succeeds admirably is in writing beautiful virtuoso passages for the piano. Greg Lakes romantic songs mark the final flowering of his work in this vein -- and perhaps its going to seed, since "Cest la Vie," the featured single, says little that "Still...You Turn Me On," from their previous album, didnt say better and shorter. Carl Palmers side is the most accessible of the three solo sides for casual rock listeners, rocking hard on the classical adaptations and featuring Joe Walsh on lead guitar for one song. The groups two tracks, "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Pirates," cover a lot of old ground, albeit in ornate and stylish fashion. Having used Coplands "Hoedown" as a concert showstopper for four years, the trio takes "Fanfare" to new heights of indulgence, and it actually works, up to a point -- like CCRs extended version of "Heard It Through the Grapevine," this is just a little too much of a good thing.$ 1977 Works, Volume 1 SR	1977 Works, Volume 2 SR
1978 Love Beach SR	1979 In Concert R	1984 The Best Of S	1992 Black Moon SR
1992 The Atlantic Years R	1992 Live at the Royal Albert Hall R	1993 Works Live SR	1993 The Return of the Manticore R
1994 Classic Rock R	1994 The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer S	1994 In the Hot Seat SR	1997 Lucky Man and Other Hits
1997 Live in Poland R	1998 King Biscuit Flower Hour: Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1998 Then and Now	1999 Lucky Man: Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2000 Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 R	2001 The Show That Never Ends S	2001 Fanfare for the Common Man: Anthology	2001 The Very Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer R
2002 The 1997 World Tour: Fanfare	2002 Live S	2003 Gold	2003 Fanfare: The Best of Emerson Lake & Palmer Live
2003 Lucky Man	2004 An Introduction To… Emerson, Lake & Palmer	2004 The Ultimate Collection R	2006 The Original Bootleg Series From the Manticore Vaults, Volume Four
2006 Then & Now - Now & Then	2007 From the Beginning	2008 Come and See the Show	2010 A Time and a Place SR
2010 Live - High Voltage Festival 2010	2010 High Voltage	2011 From the Beginning - The Best of ELP	2011 The Essential Emerson, Lake & Palmer R
2011 Original Album Classics	2016 The Anthology S