Toccata (track)
by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Year: 1973
From the album Brain Salad Surgery (track #2)
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Toccata appears on the following album(s) by Emerson, Lake & Palmer:
- Brain Salad Surgery (track #2) (this album) (1973)
- Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends... Ladies And Gentlemen (track #3) (1974)
- The Very Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (track #6) (compilation) (2001)
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This track is rated in the top 9% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.6.
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Far from the greatest piece on the album, but this is truly an incredibly fun listen. It progresses through too many stages, so many that I am literally unable to count them all!
discojets1 06/22/2016 23:24 | #169517
My only complaint for this song is so bombastic and over indulgent that it comes across as not very musical.
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