Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery (1973) [Reissue 2008]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:57 minutess | Scans included | 2,81 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 915 MB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s most successful and well-realized album (after their first), and their most ambitious as a group, as well as their loudest, Brain Salad Surgery was also the most steeped in electronic sounds of any of their records. The main focus, thanks to the three-part “Karn Evil 9,” is sci-fi rock, approached with a volume and vengeance that stretched the art rock audience’s tolerance to its outer limit, but also managed to appeal to the metal audience in ways that little of Trilogy did. Indeed, “Karn Evil 9” is the piece and the place where Keith Emerson and his keyboards finally matched in both music and flamboyance the larger-than-life guitar sound of Jimi Hendrix. This also marked the point in the group’s history in which they brought in their first outside creative hand, in the guise of ex-King Crimson lyricist Pete Sinfield. He’d been shopping around his first solo album and was invited onto the trio’s new Manticore label, and also asked in to this project as Lake’s abilities as a lyricist didn’t seem quite up to the 20-minute “Karn Evil 9” epic that Emerson had created as an instrumental. Sinfield’s resulting lyrics for “Karn Evil 9: First Impression” and “Karn Evil 9: Third Impression,” while not up to the standard of his best Crimson work, were better than anything the group had to work with previously — he was also responsible for Emerson’s choice of title, persuading the keyboardist that the music he’d come up with was more evocative of a carnival and fantasy than the pure science fiction concept that Emerson had started with. And Greg Lake pulled out all the stops with his heaviest singing voice in handling them, coming off a bit like Peter Gabriel in the process. And amid Carl Palmer’s prodigious drumming, it was all a showcase for Emerson, who employed more keyboards and more sounds here — including electronic voices — than had previously been heard on one of their records. The songs (except for the light-hearted throwaway “Benny the Bouncer”) are also among their best work — the group’s arrangement of Sir Charles Hubert Parry’s setting of William Blake’s “Jerusalem” manages to be reverent yet rocking (a combination that got it banned by the BBC for potential “blasphemy”), while Emerson’s adaptation of Alberto Ginastera’s music in “Tocatta” outstrips even “The Barbarian” and “Knife Edge” from the first album as a distinctive and rewarding reinterpretation of a piece of serious music. Lake’s “Still…You Turn Me On,” the album’s obligatory acoustic number, was his last great ballad with the group, possessing a melody and arrangement sufficiently pretty to forgive the presence of the rhyming triplet “everyday a little sadder/a little madder/someone get me a ladder.” And the sound quality was stunning, and the whole album represented a high point that the trio would never again achieve, or even aspire to — after this, each member started to go his own way in terms of creativity and music.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Works: Volume 2 (Deluxe Edition 2017) (1977/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:55 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Formed in 1970, Emerson, Lake & Palmer were torchbearers of the progressive rock sound and one of rock’s first super-groups. The world-conquering, stadium-filling prog giants helped to broaden the audience for the genre from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions and were one the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1970s. Their first 7 album releases all made the U.K. albums chart top 10 and U.S. top 20. Works Volume 2 is ELP’s sixth studio album, originally released as a single LP in 1977, which seemingly was a compilation of leftover tracks from other album sessions that had not made those albums. Now this album was expertly remastered for the first time in 24 bit / High Definition formats from the original tapes. This Deluxe Edition expanded with the Live bonus tracks recorded on August 26, 1977 & previouly released in 1979 as “Works Live”.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen (Live) (1974/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:29 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
“Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen” is the second live album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a triple album in August 1974 on Manticore Records. It was recorded in February 1974 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California during the group’s 1973–74 world tour in support of their fourth studio album, Brain Salad Surgery.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:15 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Emerson Lake & Palmer‘s third album Trilogy is being reissued later this month (ELP) by Sony Music and the new deluxe edition will feature a brand new 5.1 mix, new stereo mixes and previously unheard version of From The Beginning.
The 1972 long-player is expanded two three discs – two CDs and a DVD-audio – for this new set, with CD 2 including brand new stereo mixes (and the unheard version of From The Beginning). The third disc (a DVD-audio) contains the surround sound mix put together by King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk.
The 5.1 mix is lossless hi-res if you have compatible equipment, if not the surround mix can be enjoyed in DTS or Dolby 5.1 via any standard DVD player (and a surround speaker set-up, of course!). The DVD also contains hi-res stereo versions of the new mixes, as well as hi-res stereo versions of the original mixes.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:40 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s 1970 eponymous LP was only a rehearsal. It hit hard because of the novelty of the act (allegedly the first supergroup in rock history), but felt more like a collection of individual efforts and ideas than a collective work. All doubts were dissipated by the release of Tarkus in 1971. Side one of the original LP is occupied by the 21-minute title epic track, beating both Genesis’ “Supper’s Ready” and Yes’ “Close to the Edge” by a year. Unlike the latter group’s cut-and-paste technique to obtain long suites, “Tarkus” is a thoroughly written, focused piece of music. It remains among the Top Ten classic tracks in progressive rock history. Because of the strength of side one, the material on the album’s second half has been quickly forgotten — with one good reason: it doesn’t match the strength of its counterpart — but “Bitches Crystal” and “A Time and a Place” make two good prog rock tracks, the latter being particularly rocking. “Jeremy Bender” is the first in a series of honky tonk-spiced, Far-West-related songs. This one and the rock & roll closer “Are You Ready Eddy?” are the only two tracks worth throwing away. Otherwise Tarkus makes a very solid album, especially to the ears of prog rock fans — no Greg Lake acoustic ballads, no lengthy jazz interludes. More accomplished than the trio’s first album, but not quite as polished as Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus is nevertheless a must-have.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures At An Exhibition (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:04 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Much was made of early prog-rock’s fusion of rock with classical music, but ELP was one of the only bands to take that task seriously, and never more so than on „Pictures At An Exhibition“. The well-known Mussorgsky piece is a staple of the classical music diet, and a prime example of “program music,” where related sections of a piece combine to tell a story. True to the spirit of the times, ELP attacked “Pictures” with both classically trained respect and rocker irreverence. The album, recorded live in 1971, finds the band turning Mussorgsky’s work inside out, not just restructuring it but reinventing it for their rock audience.
While sections like “Promenade” and The Hut of Baba Yaga” are essentially electrified, rocked-up versions of the original melodies, the band injects plenty of their own original (but not unrelated) motifs into the piece, including Greg Lake’s moody ballad “The Sage” and the self-explanatory “Blues Variation.” ELP is to be commended as much for its brash ambition as for its achievement in attempting a Moog-ified revamping of such a well established piece as „Pictures At An Exhibition“.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Love Beach (Remastered 2017) (1978/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:40 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Love Beach is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1978. It was the band’s final album of original material until Black Moon (1992) and was produced to satisfy contractual obligations with the group’s record company. It was a critical and commercial disappointment, charting at #55 on the Billboard 200, although it did eventually go gold. This new reissue has been expertly remastered for the first time in 24 bit High Definitely format from the original tapes, and expanded with bonus tracks and alternative mixes.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:14 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
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.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery (Deluxe Edition) (1973/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:57:21 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Razor & Tie
The 40th anniversary release ofthe definitive and indispensible album by Prog rock giants Emerson Lake & Palmer. Featuring the original HR Giger artwork, brand new mixes and previously unreleased material, Brain Salad Surgery receive an anniversary celebration worthy of its genre defining place in history. Brain Salad Surgery is an album that saw Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer displaying more creativity than most bands achieve in their whole lifetime.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Works, Volume 1 (2017 Remastered Version) (1977/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:57 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Formed in 1970, Emerson, Lake & Palmer were torchbearers of the progressive rock sound and one of rock’s first super-groups. The world-conquering, stadium-filling prog giants helped to broaden the audience for the genre from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions and were one the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1970s. Their first 7 album releases all made the U.K. albums chart top 10 and U.S. top 20. Works Volume 1 (originally released as ‘Works’) is ELP’s fifth studio album, released as a double LP in 1977, and now expertly remastered for the first time in 24 bit / High Definition formats from the original tapes.
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