This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. See if you agree with any of these!
“Karn Evil 9” is a multipart progressive rock suite by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, written by Keith Emerson and Greg Lake and released in 1973 on the album Brain Salad Surgery, conceived as a futuristic, dystopian epic that blended classical influences, synthesizer-driven experimentation, and social commentary into one of the band’s defining works.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite distorted vocals. See if you agree with any of these!
“A Song for Jeffrey” is a bluesy, psychedelic rock track by British band Jethro Tull, written by frontman Ian Anderson and released in September 1968 on their debut album This Was. The song—titled for Anderson’s friend and future Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond—blends blues-rock with jazz touches, featuring Mick Abrahams’ slide
Title songs, not on the album.
Most of the songs, that an album is named for, will be on that very album. What about album title songs that became , somehow, misplaced and appeared on another of that groups albums somewhere. I’ll try to locate a few here to talk about.
Sinfield’s career took off in the late 1960s when he co-founded King Crimson.
Peter Sinfield, a multifaceted artist, lyricist, and producer, is best known for his work with progressive rock bands like King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), and Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM). His contributions to the music world span lyrical poetry, pop hits, and experimental productions. Peter John Sinfield was born in Fulham, London on December 27, 1943.
Well, she was just seventeen, You know what I mean, And the way she looked was way beyond compare, So how could I dance with another, Oh when I saw her standing there
You went to your favorite record store and bought that debut album because maybe you’d heard a single by them, or someone had told you that they were good, or maybe you just liked the cover. You got it home, tore off the shrink, placed the needle down on the first track on side one, and what did you hear? Was it a defining moment in your appreciation for that group? Let’s check some out.
When it first appeared in record shop windows it created a storm of interest with many awed shoppers buying the album on the strength of the cover alone.
This is where I’ll be talking about the Album Art that I like. That is one of the benefits of 12″ vinyl albums, the cool packaging that surrounded the record. Here I’ll research the creations that we all loved as children, teenagers, and adults. I’ll try to find as much information on the artists as I can.
“Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end”
Discipline is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on September 22, 1981, by E.G. Records in the United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The band was founded by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, and lyricist Peter Sinfield in 1969.
Welcome back my friends…
My second inductee of 2022, and ninth so far, is the progressive rock supergroup, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP). I wrote about the member’s beginnings, back in the Circle Sky Record store days for our magazine Melody Hill and posted the story, From The Beginning, for you to read.
