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| 1. Black Moon |
| 2. Paper Blood |
| 3. Affairs Of The Heart |
| 4. Romeo And Juliet |
| 5. Farewell To Arms |
| 6. Changing States |
| 7. Burning Bridges |
| 8. Close To Home |
| 9. Better Days |
| 10. Footprints In The Snow |
| 11. Black Moon |
| 12. Affairs Of The Heart |
| 13. Paper Blood |
| 14. Romeo And Juliet |
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Having officially split in 1979, they worked alone until their re-union in 1991. The result was this album, originally released in 1992. Despite the fact the band were never one the critics warmed to, Black Moon was well-received and is still generally regarded as one of ELP’s best albums.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By P. A. Murphy
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When this album came out back in '92 I was disappointed by how far removed from the classic early 70s ELP sound it had gone. Likeable, but...safe, more AOR-based. Then they released In The Hot Seat two years later which made this album seem like crazy, off-the-wall jazz-metal-folk-trip-hop fusion by comparison. Nearly ten years on, Black Moon has aged very well indeed. In fact, compared to the albums released around the same time by their prog rock 1970s peers (ie Yes's Union, Genesis's We Can't Dance) this album is truer to the original 'classic' endearingly nutty ELP that you either love or enjoy hating than the anodyne, MOR AOR pap their contemporaries were producing. This was a surprisingly valid and vibrant album from three guys written off post-punk as 'dinosaurs' and it still is today. Crowd pleasing stadium stompers like Black Moon nestle in among grooves like Paper Blood and widdly prog keyboard workouts like Changing States and it all still manages to hang together. Producer Mark Mancina's Burning Bridges is ten times better than any of the outside contributors' nonsense recorded for In The Hot Seat and Greg Lake provides another decent addition to his ballad songbook. Enjoy this album, but if you haven't yet, check out the earlier, better known ones first.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Emerson, Lake and Palmer was the first Progressive Rock supergroup, but the glory days are over and the magic is gone when they released this 1992 album, their first studio effort in a dozen years. It is not a question of their technical proficiency, because Keith Emerson remains my favorite keyboard artist and is in fine form, as he shows on "Changing States" and the piano solo on "Close to Home" (this was a few years before hand surgery affected his playing ability). However, from the start of this album with the title song and "Paper Blood" it is clear that these are much simpler songs than we recall from the past, with few bursts of the wonderful complexity for which ELP was rightly known. For me there is also the concern over the aging of Greg Lake's voice, which is really unrecognizable. In the days of my youth that was the voice that I most wanted to have (e.g., the live version of "Lucky Man" on "Welcome Back My Friends"); but instead of my voice becoming more like his it is the other way around, which is not a good thing. That is an admittedly personal problem, but on the professional level Lake is doing less of the songwriting than before and the best track on the album is the adaptation of the classical piece "The Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. "Footprints in the Snow" is a minor Lake composition at best, which is another disappointment. ELP was one of my favorite all-time groups, and hearing them play lesser songs without the fire that made them famous, is just another sign that we are all growing old.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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As a long term ELP fan (I remember listeening to the vinyl of 'ELP') I can say that this entry into the canon is well worth it; Paper Blood is the best track on the album by far. Great album! Buy it!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Although this is by no means a bad album and it does have its good points to say it is one of their best is simply laughable. Even some of 'Love Beach' is better than this. The high points are the Greg lake slow numbers, the low points Carl Palmers drumming. Much of the drumming sounds synthetic, characterless and has that dreadful eighties 'loud' sound. By all means give it a go but 'Tarkus' it ain't.
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A Really Good Album from ELP "Affairs of the Heart" is a Brilliant Track and "Paper Blood" and "Footprints in the Snow" are also just as good.
Greg Lake performs some of his Best work Ever on this Album,
Where Keith Emerson had that raw 70's Hammond and Moog sound which gave ELP that hard egde on Albums such as Tarkus and Trilogy seems to have somewhat lost that edge through the Digital Sound of today rather than the Analogue Sound of the 70's and seems to have lost it's power.
Romeo and Juliet by Prokoviev sounded very Dated compared to the rest of this Album and Carl Palmer although still an excellent Drummer is not quite the force of old.
Nevertheless it is still a very good ELP album and maybe i am a bit picky but it is still well worth adding to the ELP Catalogue of Great Albums.
Greg Lake performs some of his Best work Ever on this Album,
Where Keith Emerson had that raw 70's Hammond and Moog sound which gave ELP that hard egde on Albums such as Tarkus and Trilogy seems to have somewhat lost that edge through the Digital Sound of today rather than the Analogue Sound of the 70's and seems to have lost it's power.
Romeo and Juliet by Prokoviev sounded very Dated compared to the rest of this Album and Carl Palmer although still an excellent Drummer is not quite the force of old.
Nevertheless it is still a very good ELP album and maybe i am a bit picky but it is still well worth adding to the ELP Catalogue of Great Albums.
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
after many years the lads return with a typically grandiose work.Gone are the speedy techno flash licks of yesteryear to be replaced by an arguably more mature approach.Greg Lake's rich Baritone dominates much of the proceedings with only a token 3 instrumentals to add variety.Emerson and Palmer are almost comatose on keyboards and drums when compared to the wild ramblings of Pictures at Exhibition.The strength of this album is that there are no bad tracks .Unfortunately nothing here touches early stuff like Tarkus and Karn evil 9 but that would be asking a lot.Good solid stuff nevertheless.
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
as a comeback album after a too long absence,fans of elp will find the guy's have lost none of their magic, emerson's keyboard's have so much power it will knock your socks off, and the wonderful romeo & juliet should be a single.
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