Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Paul Mc
pfm Member
And my English teacher loved ELP - which is the correct position.
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
Just thought I'd give them another go off the back of this thread.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Funnily enough, so did I.
I got through one track from 'Brain Salad Surgery'; I'm now playing 'In the Land of Grey and Pink' which is more to my taste.
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
Quite. I don't know why. I should be old enough to know better.
Engels
pfm Member
The history behind the original Giger cover design and the title of BSS is interesting... was at one point going to be called "Whip Some Skull on Ya"
Once you know its there you wont unsee it, despite the final airbrushed cover painting
https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-hr-giger-and-elp-created-the-brain-salad-surgery-cover
Once you know its there you wont unsee it, despite the final airbrushed cover painting
https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-hr-giger-and-elp-created-the-brain-salad-surgery-cover
Marchbanks
Hat and Beard member
I see the inner picture now appears on a bottle of absinthe.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
My brother-in-law gave me a box of his records. He is about 5 yrs. older than I am.
Lurking amongst the Bob Dylan, I found Brain Salad Surgery (yet more life irony
)
I cleaned it up and I am playing it now. Never heard an ELP L.P.
It has the poster and original U.S. inner sleeve, record from the U.S. despite being the U.K. first issue.>
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Label:
Manticore – MC 66669, Manticore – K53501
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:
UK
Released:
Dec 1973
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde, Prog Rock, Classic Rock
it is a bit noodley, and I sense Capes or Robes. Then it goes mental for a bit, great! Then it goes back to Sixth Form Common Room, awful boy smells and absolutely no girls in the room.
I will stick with it, and will have at least one more full listen, but methinks this is not going to be living in my collection.
Lurking amongst the Bob Dylan, I found Brain Salad Surgery (yet more life irony
)I cleaned it up and I am playing it now. Never heard an ELP L.P.
It has the poster and original U.S. inner sleeve, record from the U.S. despite being the U.K. first issue.>
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Label:
Manticore – MC 66669, Manticore – K53501
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:
UK
Released:
Dec 1973
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde, Prog Rock, Classic Rock
it is a bit noodley, and I sense Capes or Robes. Then it goes mental for a bit, great! Then it goes back to Sixth Form Common Room, awful boy smells and absolutely no girls in the room.
I will stick with it, and will have at least one more full listen, but methinks this is not going to be living in my collection.
BertieWorcester
What-ho!!
Probably their most famous album, but IMHO not their best. In my mind, they'd achieved that the year before with 'Trilogy'.
I also think that the SQ is pizz-poor compared with all that went before it.
I also think that the SQ is pizz-poor compared with all that went before it.
Paul Mc
pfm Member
The flexidisc was a giveaway with the NME - who'd have thought?
There's a nice write-up here of BSS:https://www.loudersound.com/feature...rson-lake-and-palmer-made-brain-salad-surgery
There's a nice write-up here of BSS:https://www.loudersound.com/feature...rson-lake-and-palmer-made-brain-salad-surgery
suzywong
Wot, no electrons?
Couldn't remember which of the papers it was. I remember rushing down to the local news agent on the day of issue, to make sure of my copy.
Still have it
madscientist
pfm Member
This thread made me dust off all my old ELP albums last week. I have listened to all of them up to Ladies and Gentlemen and thoroughly enjoyed them all..who would have thought it? I was lucky enough to live Chiddingly in my younger days when Keith Emerson would occasionally pop into the local pub and tinkle the ivories for a few hours. Oh and i also played (briefly) in a band with his son Aaron..happy days. I still have the ELP insignia scrawled over my old school books..
Dozey
Air guitar member
They said the same about Mozart.
Big Tabs
looking backwards, going forwards
julifriend
pfm Member
Couldn't remember which of the papers it was. I remember rushing down to the local news agent on the day of issue, to make sure of my copy.
Still have it
My original copy was ‘lost’ at some point but I was lucky enough to find a copy in a second hand copy of BSS I looked at in The Sound Machine in Reading.
Paul Mc
pfm Member
It's also part of various reissues of BSS.