The Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1980)
The original version of this (released in 1980) is superior to the 1994 re-release because it ends sooner.
ELP was intricate, eclectic, and popular…like Yes. But they always struck me as excrutiatingly pretentious when they weren’t being very basically melodic. And unlike Yes, I never escaped the feeling that they were just bullsh1tting all along.
And, aside from a few basic melodic tunes, they weren’t very interesting. They should have just given “Still… You Turn Me On” to a band with a real singer and “Lucky Man” to one WITHOUT a synthesizer that threatened to make your eardrums bleed and/or explode when it REALLY kicked in.
Also, they didn’t have Steve Howe.
Grade: D+