![]() ![]() ![]() The first side of Trilogy closes with the musical fireworks of Aaron Copland’s Hoedown, essentially a showpiece for Emerson. Absolutely perfect in every way, it could be heard as an improvement on “Jeremy Bender” from Tarkus. The next song, The Sheriff, is probably my favorite from ELP. As a songwriter, singer and musician, Lake was the whole package. Greg Lake follows with one of his best ballads, From the Beginning. The album opens with a playful bit of cat-and-mouse between Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer before revealing “The Endless Enigma (Part 1),” essentially a reconstruction of “The Great Gates of Kiev.” Emerson tosses off a smart, proggy Fugue and the Enigma returns. The album cover, well, that’s a hunk of cheese, isn’t it? But musically this is the very picture of prog perfection. The fourth album from Emerson, Lake & Palmer feels like a culmination of everything that came before: the regal rock & roll, classical pomp and youthful bravado now perfectly intertwined on songs like The Endless Enigma and Trilogy. Kronomoyth 4.0: Hooked up with coca-cola cunning. ELP gives the classic Yes trilogy a run for its money on this progressive masterpiece. ![]()
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