Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Pictures At an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

It’s impossible to listen to this without imagining a group of long haired musos sitting down with a besuited record exec and saying “Listen man - we’re PROPER musicians - we play CLASSICAL music now”.  

It’s ok, I guess, with some interesting use of early synthesisers, but it’s not that much more sophisticated than those novelty records with classical pieces played on a Bontempi organ with a disco beat. On the positive side it made me want to go back to listen to Mussorgsky with more conventional arrangements. 

https://album.link/gb/i/1528524485




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