Black Moon [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Emerson Lake & Palmer

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 1996)
• Original Release Date: June 27, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033PB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #305,028 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Terrific Return for ELP, November 20, 1999

By A Customer

Black Moon...ELP's comeback album in 1992 may not have been a complete return to the early albums such as Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery but netherless Black Moon is a ELP album for the 90's.

The title track and Paper Blood are among the best songs on the album. The lyrics are very much about today's world and are drivin home with the powerful sound ELP has long been known for.

While Greg Lake's voice has deepened a bit over the years, he still has a very powerful voice and can still sing with grace and force. The ballads Affairs Of The Heart and Footprints in The Snow are touching and beautiful to listen to.

The instrumentals Romeo and Juliet and Close To Home continue to show ELP's vast musical talents. Keith Emerson's amazingly diverse and and complex keyboard work is still a delight to listen to and Carl Palmer's drumming is rock solid and continues to show a nice touch with his percussion playing.

There aren't any epic sized songs here but this a great album netherless. A most welcomed return for...Emerson...Lake...& Palmer!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Strong Comeback Album, August 4, 2003

By	Jeffrey T. Munson (Dixon, IL) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

After taking a long hiatus after recording their previous album ("Love Beach"), ELP made a strong comeback with "Black Moon". This CD is packed with top-notch ELP songs that contain Keith Emerson's strong keyboards, Greg Lake's great bass and vocals, and, my favorite, Carl Palmer's unparalleled drums. Typical of previous ELP albums, this one has several insturmental tracks ("Romeo and Juliet", "Changing States", and "Close to Home"). Each band member shows their individual talents on these songs. Also, there are two excellent Greg Lake ballads, "Affairs of the Heart" and "Farewell to Arms". These songs showcase Greg's outstanding vocal talents and his extreme vocal range.

I've been an ELP fan for years, and I'd rate this CD as one of their best. Pick it up and enjoy some great prog-rock at its best.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ELP returns as a pale imitation of their former selves, May 22, 2003

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

Emerson, Lake and Palmer was the first Progressive Rock supergroup, but the glory days are over and the magic is gone when they released this 1992 album, their first studio effort in a dozen years. It is not a question of their technical proficiency, because Keith Emerson remains my favorite keyboard artist and is in fine form, as he shows on "Changing States" and the piano solo on "Close to Home" (this was a few years before hand surgery affected his playing ability). However, from the start of this album with the title song and "Paper Blood" it is clear that these are much simpler songs than we recall from the past, with few bursts of the wonderful complexity for which ELP was rightly known. For me there is also the concern over the aging of Greg Lake's voice, which is really unrecognizable. In the days of my youth that was the voice that I most wanted to have (e.g., the live version of "Lucky Man" on "Welcome Back My Friends"); but instead of my voice becoming more like his it is the other way around, which is not a good thing. That is an admittedly personal problem, but on the professional level Lake is doing less of the songwriting than before and the best track on the album is the adaptation of the classical piece "The Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. "Footprints in the Snow" is a minor Lake composition at best, which is another disappointment. ELP was one of my favorite all-time groups, and hearing them play lesser songs without the fire that made them famous, is just another sign that we are all growing old.