Tarkus? ELP? I thought Brain Salad Surgery was a great album.
Brain Salad Surgery was a great album. But as a whole it doesn’t hold together the way Tarkus does. Even the big hit “Karn Evil 9” is really 3 separate, unrelated pieces, not the suite that the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Impression track titles would suggest they are. In a way, Brain was the band’s swan song. Then they went full pretentious with Works 1 and 2 and ended on a wimp, I mean whimper with Love Beach - I mean what the hell?