MTD give us a classic album by the 70s progressive rock act Emerson, Lake and Palmer. If your into progressive music of any kind (like myself) you should know this a must-have for your collection. The album has been re-mixed and re-mastered with a couple of bonus tracks, and well if you can find the DVD version it comes also with a 5.1 mix. I have always been a huge fan of Carl Palmer and this band in general for their innovative arrangements and eclectic playing. Check it out if you wondering where Dream Theater, Opeth and many of today’s progressive metal acts get their chops from.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s most successful and well-realized album (after their first), and their most ambitious as a group, as well as their loudest, Brain Salad Surgery is also their most electronic sounding one. The main focus, thanks to the three-part “Karn Evil 9,” is sci-fi rock, approached with a volume and vengeance that stretched the art rock audience’s tolerance to its outer limit, but also managed to appeal to the metal audience in ways that little of Trilogy did. Indeed, “Karn Evil 9″ is the piece and the place where Keith Emerson and his keyboards finally matched in both music and flamboyance the larger-than-life guitar sound of Jimi Hendrix. Pete Sinfield’s lyrics, while not up to his best King Crimson-era standard, were better than anything the group had to work with previously, and Greg Lake pulled out all the stops on his heaviest singing voice in handling them, coming off a bit like Peter Gabriel in the process. The songs (except for the throwaway “Benny the Bouncer”) are also among their best work — the group’s arrangement of Sir Charles Hubert Parry’s setting of William Blake’s “Jerusalem” manages to be reverent yet rocking, while Emerson’s adaptation of Alberto Ginastera’s music in “Tocatta” outstrips even “The Barbarian” and “Knife Edge” from the first album as a distinctive and rewarding reinterpretation of a piece of serious music. Lake’s “Still…You Turn Me On” is his last great ballad with the group, possessing a melody and arrangement sufficiently pretty to forgive the presence of the rhyming triplet “everyday a little sadder/a little madder/someone get me a ladder.”

Track Listing:
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cd1

01 - Jerusalem 02:46
02 - Toccata 07:23
03 - Still…You Turn Me On 02:53
04 - Benny The Bouncer 02:21
05 - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression (Part 1) 08:35
06 - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression (Part 2) 04:48
07 - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression 07:07
08 - Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression 09:05

cd2

01 - When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills 03:59
02 - Brain Salad Surgery 03:08
03 - Karn Evil 9- 3rd Impression 09:10
04 - Jerusalem (First Mix) 02:46
05 - Still … You Turn Me On (First Mix) 02:53
06 - Toccatta (First Mix) 07:23
07 - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression (Part 1) 08:35
08 - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression (Part 2) 04:48
09 - Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression 07:07
10 - Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression 09:05
11 - Excerpts From Brain Salad Surgery 03:08
12 - Hidden Track 02:52
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Artist: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Title: Brain Salad Surgery
Label: Universal Records

Store Date: Oct-07-2008
Genre: Progressive Rock

Encoder: Lame 3.97 / -V2 –vbr-new
Size: 163,3 MB

Dirname: Emerson Lake And Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery-2CD-(Deluxe Edition)-2008-MTD
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