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Review Summary: ELP's sophomore effort, and a solid step up from their debut. May not be their best, but certainly one of the better records they have to offer. Tarkus, Emerson Lake & Palmer's second album, is a classic of progressive rock. Though the lyrical content may be offensive to some, this album is a masterpiece nonetheless.
The album's centerpiece, Tarkus, is a twenty minute long epic divided into seven sections and the best song on the album. It tells the story of a half tank-half armadillo born from a volcano who defeats other machine-animal hybrids until falling to a Manticore, and is seen floating alive down a river as "Aquatarkus". Three of the sections of Tarkus feature lyrics, but the lack of lyrics doesn't take anything away from the music. This song also sees some guitar playing from Greg Lake, which is a nice touch. The songs Jeremy Bender and Are You Ready Eddy? are the two fun songs on the recording which take away from the seriousness of the rest of the album, and are relatively quick and are vocally driven. B*tches Crystal takes jabs at gypsies and fortune tellers, and is the second best song on the album. A faster song, with some of the vocal highlights and great (as always) keyboard playing from Emerson. The Only Way (Hymn) attacks monotheistic religion and the organ provides great backing to Lake's vocals. A Time and a Place is a fast song with strong vocals from Lake and excellent keyboarding.
From the Keith Emerson's frantic keyboarding, to Greg Lake's wonderful voice and skilled bass playing, and Carl Palmer's powerful drum performance, this album is nothing short of epic. The Tarkus medley alone is worth the price to me, and the other great songs are just an added bonus. I would strongly recommend this album to any fan of progressive rock without hesitation.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thought it was time to review the profile name. Left "discography" out of this one. I hope this was an improvement over my first review. Criticism and Compliments welcome.
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Nice write up, but a few things;
1. It's rather short. Not that long reviews are necessary, but an extra paragraph may have made this a bit better. Regardless, you get all the needed information summarized in one paragraph, so maybe these short reviews suit you.
2. Try to avoid describing every track, especially if you only have one sentence of things to say about them. Try to write about the album in general, but feel free to name drop the most important tracks (or the tracks that help illustrate a point)
3. Just so it reads easier, make a distinction between album titles/song titles and the rest of the words (or in other words, italicize album titles and put song titles in quotations, which seems to be the most popular way to do things)
Anyways, good review. I can never get into ELP though (those synth tones just turn me off). Though the "Tarkus" suite and "Karn Evil 9" from BSS are awesome songs.
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Thanks for the advice I'll remember it for my future reviews
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third best in their disconography
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Still need to listen to this album. I've only heard Brain Salad Surgery, which was excellent.
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The album art alone warrants hall of fame status
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rules
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This album's pretty good, but Brain Salad Surgery is tops.
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Right on. That would probably be my second fave.
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Title track is epic.
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Yeah nothing else on this album is that exciting. Bitches Crystal and A Time and a Palce are pretty good though.
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
no lie my friend johnny took a shit to tarkus
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THE WEAVER IN THE WEB THAT HE MADE!
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Jamming the title track hard right now.
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