Trilogy
by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer bestography
Trilogy is ranked 4th best out of 16 albums by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer is Brain Salad Surgery which is ranked number 1359 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,269.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Trilogy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Trilogy rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 51 Music Albums of 1972 | 22/51 | 3 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 90/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Pavloss | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 49 Music Albums of 1972 | 29/49 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 97 Music Albums of 1972 | 94/97 | 0 |
| 2026 | pinkfreud1981 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 96/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 18/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 156 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 402 | |||
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Trilogy ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/03/2026 08:00 | leniad | 1,172 | 90/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 11:52 | Adhura | 1,738 | 77/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2026 16:48 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
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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 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Trilogy forum mentions
Romanelli 08/16/2024 20:47 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Romanelli 02/14/2023 22:57 in What album are you listening to right now?
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Trilogy comments
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Great album showing the great musical ability of the trio...
Everybody must listening it...
Good progressive rock. My second ELP album I've listened to all the way through after the debut. I think I prefer the first a bit more just for the strength of the album's best cuts like Lucky Man and Take a Pebble, but I do think this is a little more consistently solid—no really standoutish weak points on this. And although it wanders occasionally too much for my liking, it stays pretty grounded, especially on the highlights, those being Hoedown, the title track, and especially From the Beginning, which may be their very best song. All in all, a good album. (Edited)
The music is varied and interesting with the high points being a romping version of Aaron Copeland’s Hoedown and Greg Lake’s deliciously simple From the Beginning
The Endless Enigma is a track which allows all of the band to demonstrate their incredible musical abilities and Greg Lake's vocal performance is perhaps his best. Trilogy is great as is Abadan’s Bolero.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/20/2019 14:29 | #230097 | TOP COMMENT
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Probably ELP's most diverse release, which mean best for some listeners and more uneven to others. Overall, I completely agree to with it's placement as fourth among the group's albums.
rockinsteve 04/15/2018 03:58 | #212892 | TOP COMMENT
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A very fine example of progressive rock. Not quite as good as Brain Salad Surgery, but close! It's just very fun and interesting music.
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