As promised last week, I’ll be posting tracks from albums with which I agree with Tom Moon and his book 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. I’ll probably alternate The Soundboard weeks between agreeing and disagreeing in the future to try and get a good spread and not be as negative about the book as I have in the past.
Especially since I took a look at the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums list for the first time in forever and have deemed it to be of even more crapfilled than I previously remembered. Here’s a hint for the RS staff: A Greatest Hits album does not go on any list.
Moving on….
This week’s tasteful selection agreement is his inclusion of Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s fourth album, from 1973, Brain Salad Surgury.
While I pretty sure that Surgury is their most popular album, it is not my personal favorite. I’m actually not totally sure which one is, but near or at the top of the list is 1972’s, theTrilogy album, from which we get today’s second bit of tunage, which I am dedicating to the former senior Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy.
The Endless Enigma: Part 1 – ELP
You’ll want to scan the lyrics to get the jist of my sentiment, and you can find them at one of these links.
Enjoy!
Whoa! Brain Salad Surgery was the awesomest sound I ever heard in 10th grade on my friend’s dad’s Bang and Oulfson turntable – plus the sexy dead chick cover, but “Lucky Man” from the first album, on the same buddy’s headphones, with the sound going back and forth… trippendicular. And then, “From the Beginning” from the first album – such as that (and a little extra) is what got me through High School.
Tarkus is my favorite.