Emerson, Lake & Palmer (studio album) by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer is ranked 2nd best out of 14 albums by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer is Brain Salad Surgery which is ranked number 1391 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,246.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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65/100  | 07/17/2025 19:04 |  DommeDamian | | 49/100 |
60/100 | 06/09/2025 18:13 | Invader666 | | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Good debut from one of the more polarizing prog groups. Though they've often been knocked for being unmelodic and over the top, which does poke in here in parts like in The Three Fates and Tank, this is a strong record with some of their best moments—the single Lucky Man is great, both The Barbarian and Knife-Edge deliver some satisfying heaviness, and Take a Pebble is simply beautiful. Uneven in spots, but a good starting point for ELP.
Jboy56 01/08/2022 13:52
A great debut from influential musicians.
StefanR10 06/13/2020 02:49
The album with Lucky Man really good nice to have. Best song: Take A Pebble, Lucky Man, Knife Edge.
Fischman 01/20/2019 14:22
Absolutely killer debut! Keith Emerson forever changed how we would look a the possibilities of keyboards of all types in popular music. This album is a true landmark in music and remains a standard bearer for progressive rock.
Keith Emerson assaults classical pieces with various electronic implements. Includes an early outing for the newly invented Moog synthesiser.
Jbalbinolr 11/22/2017 20:48
Great, but hasn´t aged well.
Solid debut from ELP. To be honest I can never settle on one album as my favourite ELP record. Occasionally it's this one. Is it their best? Some would say it was but although I probably don't think it's that (you never know) it's certainly one of five classic ELP albums. Good record.
nitomano 11/14/2016 05:37
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Probably the first of many "Supergroup" combinations of the 70's. Great album, but not the best by this band. In my opinion the least important of their best 70's efforts when we are talking Tarkus, Trilogy, and Brain Salad Surgery.
First ELP album, good work mixing classical music and prog rock not easy to listening... Contains the hit Lucky Man...
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