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Released
  
1994

The Best of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (1994)
  
In the Hot Seat (1994)

Release date
  
1980

Length
  
76:49

Artist
  
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Label
  
Ariola Records

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Producer
  
Keith Emerson Greg Lake Carl Palmer Mark Mancina Ian Morrow John Van Tongeren

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Symphonic rock

Similar
  
Emerson - Lake & Palmer albums, Progressive rock albums

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1994. This supersedes a 1980 compilation with a shorter, different track list and Japanese ukiyo-e cover.

Contents

Track listing

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer has a running time of 76 minutes and 49 seconds spread amongst fourteen tracks, one of which has multiple sections:

  1. "From the Beginning" (Greg Lake) (4:13)
  2. "Jerusalem" (William Blake, Hubert Parry, arr. by Keith Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer) (2:44)
  3. "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) (2:53)
  4. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Aaron Copland) (Single version) (2:57)
  5. "Knife-Edge" (Leoš Janáček, J. S. Bach, arr. by Emerson) (5:05)
  6. "Tarkus" (Emerson, Lake) (20:35)
    1. "Eruption" (2:43)
    2. "Stones of Years" (3:44)
    3. "Iconoclast" (1:15)
    4. "Mass" (3:11)
    5. "Manticore" (1:52)
    6. "Battlefield" (3:51)
    7. "Aquatarkus" (3:59)
  7. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake) (4:43)
  8. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Peter Sinfield) (4:16)
  9. "Hoedown" (Copland) (3:43)
  10. "Trilogy" (Emerson, Lake) (8:53)
  11. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis, arr. by Emerson) (3:09)
  12. "Black Moon" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (Single version) (4:46)
  13. "Lucky Man" (Lake) (4:37)
  14. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake) (Original single version) (3:30)

Original 1980 track listing

Original had only 9 tracks.

1984 German Track listing

The German version has different versions of tracks 1, 5, 6, and 8 and three additional tracks.

Songs

1Hoedown4:31
2Lucky Man4:40
3Karn Evil 9 First Impression - Part 24:47

References

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer Wikipedia