Gold Collection [Import]

Emerson Lake & Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 14, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Retro Music
• ASIN: B0000BV1TE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #681,699 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Toccata

2. Take A Pebble Still You Turn Me On

3. Karn Evil

4. A Time And A Place

5. Piano Concerto No 1

6. From The Beginning

7. Tiger In A Spotlight

8. Hoedown

9. Touch And Go

10. Knife Edge

11. Bitches Crystal

12. Honky Tonk Train Blues

13. Lucky Man

14. Fanfare For The Common Man / Blue Rondo A La Turk

15. 21st Century Schizoid Man / America

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Despite some issues with audio quality, an enjoyable album, May 15, 2004

By 

Danny T (Allendale, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

This live preformance has a pretty excellent scope of songs, unfortunately, the first CD in the selection has some poor quality. Too much emphasis is placed on Lake's voice and a lot is taken away form Emerson's magnificent keyboarding and Palmer's drums are a perpetual background murmur. I was very disappointed in it for the first forty-five minutes until it hit "Time and a Place." While an excellent song of their "Tarkus" album, it hits a new dimension here where Lake, rather than the frantic wailing of the original takes on a more solemn bellow--the range of his voice really blows you away. From that point on I was sold on the album.

It's real peak, however, comes on Disc II, when we have some pieces where the audio quality picks up some on songs like "Touch and Go." The last two pieces made the entire purchase worthwhile though--a huge medly of "Fanfare for the Common Man" "Blue Turk a la Rondo" "Flight of the Bumblebee" "America" (not the Paul Simon song, the Roger's and Hammerstein's, I think) "21st Century Schizoid Man" "Toccata and Fugue" and, if I'm not mistaken, even a little of "Carmina Burana." Despite the fact that about 10 minutes in the Moog seems to experience some of the power supply problems that caused it to hit wrong notes on "Pictures at an Exhibition" thirty years ago, it is still an excellent two songs. I sat there stunned after listening to them and knew the purchase was a good one. If you're a big fan of Emerson's grandiose, magnificent keyboarding and hearing Lake take his voice to range not heard on most of the old albums and even who wants to hear how amazing Palmer is a drumming live, then I'd recommend the CD.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, May 30, 2006

By 

Jennifer Waller - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

I picked up this album in a big box store. I had been looking for a good compilation album of some of ELP's hits, and this looked like it would do. Unfortunately, nowhere on the box does it say that it's a live album. I wouldn't have bought it if it had been labeled as such. Frankly I find some songs absulutely butchered by the long solo sequences, and the audience singing along in other songs just ruins the whole set for me.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, April 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Gold Collection (Audio CD)

I saw this at the local electronics store and couldn't resist. Reading the content, it looked like a good selection of ELP's works. Unfortunately, the sound quality of the live performances is so poor that it's painful to listen to these classics. It sounds as if someone took a cheap cassette recorder to a show and that tape was later laid on a CD. Don't waste your money if you searching for a compilation that delivers the true sound of ELP's music.