ELP ~ Brain Salad Surgery (1973) Deluxe Edition • 2CD • 2016 BMG UK •• NEW ••

Description: Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery Deluxe Edition 2CD SET BRAND NEW & FACTORY SEALED BMG Rights Management Manticore Records BMGCAT2CD6 UPC | 4050538180275 1973, 2016 ►2014 Remaster of the Original 1973 Album ►Plus Jakko M Jakszyk 2014 Stereo Mixes ►Includes 16-Page Booklet with 2016 Band Interviews ►Issued in a 6-panel Digipak, Clear Disc Trays ►Hype Sticker Over Shrink Wrap (see photo 1) ►Rare Band Photos TRACK LISTING DISC 1 - The Original 1973 Album (2014 Remaster) 01. Jerusalem 02. Toccata 03. Still... You Turn Me On 04. Benny The Bouncer 05. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 1 06. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 07. Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression 08. Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression DISC 2 - The Alternate Album (Jakko M Jakszyk 2014 Stereo Mixes) 01. Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression (Original Backing Track) 02. Jerusalem (First Mix) 03. Still... You Turn Me On (First Mix) 04. Toccata (Alternate Version) 05. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 1 (Alternate Version) 06. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 (Alternate Version) 07. Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression (Alternate Version) 08. Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression (Alternate Version) 09. Excerpts From Brain Salad Surgery (NME Flexi Disc Version) Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 1 Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression Still... You Turn Me On Toccata Jerusalem Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression Benny The Bouncer Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 Benny The Bouncer 10. When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills Of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine (B-Side Single K13503) 11. Brain Salad Surgery (B-Side Single K10946) 12. Brain Salad Surgery (Instrumental) 13. Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression (Different Version) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were progressive rock's first super group. Greeted by the rock press and the public as something akin to conquering heroes, they succeeded in broadening the audience for progressive rock from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions of listeners, creating a major radio phenomenon as well. Their flamboyance on record and in the studio echoed the best work of the heavy metal bands of the era, proving that classical rockers could compete for that arena-scale audience. Over and above their own commercial success, the trio also paved the way for the success of such bands as Yes, who would become their chief rivals for much of the 1970s. ♦ Keyboardist Keith Emerson planted the seeds of the group in late 1969 when his band the Nice shared a bill at the Fillmore West with King Crimson, and the two first spoke of the possibility of working together. After the Crimson lineup began disintegrating during their first U.S. tour, Lake opted to leave the group. Upon officially teaming in 1970, Emerson and Lake auditioned several drummers before they approached Carl Palmer, not yet 20 years old and already an overpowering talent, as well as a former member of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. ♦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. SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping $3.99 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.

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