Album
Tarkus
1971 · Rock
70 collectors on Gatefold own this
Tarkus is a Rock album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, originally released in 1971. On Gatefold: 264 pressings tracked, owned by 70 collectors.
About
Equal parts porcelain piano and volcanic riffage, “Bitches Crystal” is a prog rock pinnacle—the perfect portal to the unruly fusions of <i>Tarkus</i>. The 20-minute title song takes you from atonal funk to classical composition before blasting off into outer space psychedelia. ELP’s morphing song structures birth a number of delightful oddities, like the fractured Britpop of “Jeremy Bender” and “Are You Ready Eddy,” a sock-hop rave-up that reanimates Little Richard. ELP loves to balance its interstellar ambitions with passion for old-fashioned boogie-woogie.
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Tracklist
Side B
- B1Jeremy Bender
- B2Bitches Crystal
- B3The Only Way (Hymn)
- B4Infinite Space (Conclusion)
- B5A Time And A Place
- B6Are You Ready Eddy?
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Prog Rock
- heavy
- restless
- spacey
Tarkus was released in June 1971 in the UK on Island Records, appearing two months later in the US by Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cotillion Records.
Please note: USA pressing plant manufacturing variations are coded as abbreviations like: "PR", "MO", "RI", "SP" "CTH" to show in the MR as (LP, Album, MO) etc.
Later vinyl reissues were on the Manticore label.
Single from this release:
Stone Of Years (Part of "Tarkus")
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Carl PalmerDRUM, PERCUSSION DRUMS, PERCUSSION PERFORMER , DRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Greg LakeBASS, VOCALS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR DRUMS, PERCUSSION LEAD VOCALS, BASS, ELECTRIC GUITAR, ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- Keith EmersonELECTRIC ORGAN , ORGAN , PIANO, CELESTA, SYNTHESIZER ELECTRIC ORGAN , ORGAN , PIANO, CELESTA , SYNTHESIZER KEYBOARDS , PIANO
70 collectors on Gatefold own this · 264 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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