Emerson, Lake & Palmer Album: “Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer [Atlantic]”

Emerson Lake & Palmer. These legendary prog rockers have tons of compilations on the market. This one is a nice, short, 9 song collection that's a bare bones hits collection.

Sure, it's missing a ton, but what's here is awesome. 'Karn Evil 9,' 'Trilogy,' 'Tiger In A Spotlight,' 'Lucky Man,' and 'Jerusalem' all appear here.

However, the fact there are 9 songs means that this is missing quite a bit. 'From The Beginning,' 'Toccata,' 'Knife Edge,' and 'Take A Pebble' all would fit nicely here. And they all would fit here, too, because this is a skimpy disc, clocking in at just 39:06.

But, it's worthy of five stars. It's a nice little retrospective of ELP.

Highly recommended.

I bought this CD for Carl Palmer to autograph when I see him with Asia again in April. Since I have grown to love prog over the past several years, I thought maybe I'll play this. You get "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Jerusalem", and "Lucky Man". Lacking are "From the Beginning", "Knife Edge", and "Pictures at an Exhibition" due to lack of space, though they appear on later, superior compilations anyway. I'm just starting to like ELP, and if you are as well, this is the way to go. This time, I will slowly add the studio and live albums, instead of just getting them all at once.

This particular release is long out-of-print, as they've changed labels a few times, recently to Shout! Factory in North America. My copy is an early West German import for US release.