Emerson Lake & Palmer Emerson Lake & Palmer ( HQ vinyl LP ) remaster

Release date: 29-07-2016 (originally released in 1970)

2016 remaster HQ 180g vinyl LP 

Includes the bands first single "Lucky Man". This classic debut album demonstrates the influences they brought with them, which is clear in the mix of instrumental and vocal pieces.  Ambitious, and technically astounding. 

Tracks
A1 Barbarian
A2 Take A Pebble
A3 Knife Edge

B1 The Three Fates Clotho/Lachesis/Atropus
B2 Tank
B3 Lucky Man

Lively, ambitious, almost entirely successful debut album, made up of keyboard-dominated instrumentals ("The Barbarian," "Three Fates") and romantic ballads ("Lucky Man") showcasing all three members' very daunting talents. This album, which reached the Top 20 in America and got to number four in England, showcased the group at its least pretentious and most musicianly -- with the exception of a few moments on "Three Fates" and perhaps "Take a Pebble," there isn't much excess, and there is a lot of impressive musicianship here. "Take a Pebble" might have passed for a Moody Blues track of the era but for the fact that none of the Moody Blues' keyboard men could solo like Keith Emerson. Even here, in a relatively balanced collection of material, the album shows the beginnings of a dark, savage, imposingly gothic edge that had scarcely been seen before in so-called "art rock," mostly courtesy of Emerson's larger-than-life organ and synthesizer attacks. Greg Lake's beautifully sung, deliberately archaic "Lucky Man" had a brush with success on FM radio, and Carl Palmer became the idol of many thousands of would-be drummers based on this one album (especially for "Three Fates" and "Tank"), but Emerson emerged as the overpowering talent here for much of the public.