Re-Works

Emerson Lake & Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 14, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Pilot
• ASIN: B00006NSOF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,319 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2002 album featuring all three original members. 'Re-Works' includes three discs of reworked ELP classics given a 21st century flavor. The centerpiece of the album being the superb reworking of 'Fanfare For The Common Man'. Disc three is a 5 track remix a

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Plain Terrible, December 7, 2004

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Hoppy Doppelrocket (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Re-Works (Audio CD)

I wrote a previous review of this item but was told my description of how lousy this 3-cd set was just plain vulgar. And also incomprehensible (which it probably was--I was mostly drunk and completely angry at the time). So, I am trying again to help any potential buyers. Be warned: this cd is NOT an ELP cd in any sense of the word. Sure, it features recognizable snippets (mostly the same ones over and over and over again) and the occasional sampled Greg Lake vocal and some talking by Aaron Copland (I think), but in truth it's nothing more than a bunch of sampled clubtrippy mixes that lead nowhere and sent this listener to flinging the item in question out my car window as I crossed the Rio Grande River Gorge. The remixes are not overly annoying, but unless you like hipsterclub weirdness, don't bother with this. This cd sounds nothing like anything ELP has ever done and like nothing I ever want to hear again. Avoid this.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fab! - But Not For The Purists!, June 10, 2003

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Dickie Outrage (Headingly, Leeds, England, The Universe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Re-Works (Audio CD)

ELP was my 1st musical love, I still love ther stuff, but now would be more liable to listen to anything from the William Orbit to Miles davis. I bought this thinking that it would be mostly [bad] but was more than presently surprised! More deconstruction/ambient/wierd than the expected full on dance mix.CD 1 is the best, Fanfare mix great and other stuff v well done, CD2 not quite as good , fanfare remix better than the one on cd1 but not much better or longer, others more clubby than 1st Cd but don't work quite as well . Vocals sampled not from ELP for some strange reason. CD3 is all fanfare remixes, not bad , but none seem to use the potentially brilliantly remixable 2nd half of the album version of fanfare.

Will not appeal to ELP fans unless they like modern music with dance beats. ELP fans who do like this sort of stuff will hopefully be as pleasantly surprised as I was. Non ELP fans should find the sound palate interesting, and the remixing well done. Only 4 stars as usual ELP spin-the-music-over-too-many-cds nonsense, lack of better use of Greg's vocals in the mix and slightly repetative and tame fanfare remixes.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No, not that bad, November 25, 2003

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Alex Ulko (Samarkand, Uzbekistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Re-Works (Audio CD)

While I quite understand the opinions of those regarding the Re-Works as the bottom line of ELP, I can only say that I liked it much better when I had a few more go's at it - particularly if you apply different listening technique - similar to the one you use when listen to raga or psychedelic music rather than prog-rock.

Yet I was not particularly happy with the remixes not because they're jumbled pieces of the ELP material, but probably because there were not jumbled and twisted well enough and there's some monotomous similarity between them.

Given the opportunities electronica gives I would have expected something more innnovative in terms of sounds and arrangements. Ultimatley I think they shouldn't have used the original records but rather make something altogether new based on the ELP material.

Anyway, 'cause I bought the 2CD pirate set in Tashkent for $8, I have no regrets.