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EMERSON, LAKE PALMER THE SELF-TITLED FIRST ALBUM EMERSON, LAKE PALMER 1971 ATLANTIC RECORDS STEREO LP SD-19120
GENUINE U.S. PRESSING
STILL SEALED VERY EARLY SECOND PRESSING CIRCA 1976
BELIEVED TO BE A VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA 1976 ON RED ORANGE AND GREEN ATLANTIC RECORDS LABEL WITH WEA LOGO ALONG THE LABEL S EDGE
ONE BREATHE AIR HOLE NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP
THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER NO THICK CARDBOARD COVERS WERE EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE
FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 6.
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW
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Lively, ambitious, almost entirely successful debut album, made up of keyboard-dominated instrumentals The Barbarian, Three Fates and romantic ballads Lucky Man showcasing all three members very daunting talents. This album, which reached the Top 20 in America and got to number four in England, showcased the group at its least pretentious and most musicianly with the exception of a few moments on Three Fates and perhaps Take a Pebble, there isn t much excess, and there is a lot of impressive musicianship here. Take a Pebble might have passed for a Moody Blues track of the era but for the fact that none of the Moody Blues keyboard men could solo like Keith Emerson. Even here, in a relatively balanced collection of material, the album shows the beginnings of a dark, savage, imposingly gothic edge that had scarcely been seen before in so-called art rock, mostly courtesy of Emerson s larger-than-life organ and synthesizer attacks. Greg Lake s beautifully sung, deliberately archaic Lucky Man had a brush with success on FM radio, and Carl Palmer became the idol of many thousands of would-be drummers based on this one album especially for Three Fates and Tank , but Emerson emerged as the overpowering talent here for much of the public.
REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
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CONDITION:
THE RECORD
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a THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records click here PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID .
b The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve
c The record is apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy dynaflex type , vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.
d Stock commercially released mono copies of this album are NOT known to exist.
e Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has a small cutout hole in one of the corners
- Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
