Emerson Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery (1973)


Artist: Emerson Lake & Palmer

Title: Brain Salad Surgery

Label: Manticore

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: TP-66669

Year of Release: 1973

Country and Year of Edition: US 1973

Sell Price: $3.54

Sell Date: 3/29/26

Condition: VG/VG+ tested

Discogs Last Sold: 10/30/25 VG+/no cover $3.98

Low: $2.00

Median: $3.17

Average: $3.54

High: $3.98

Current low price: $1.99 G+/no cover

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6

Have/Want: 53/70

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years 

Where and When Buught: Ebay lot

Gwiz-gau Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Prog laden with classical pomp is the best way to describe Brain Salad Surgery.  Karn Evil 9 is the centerpiece that implores you to "welcome back my friends to the show that never ends."  Well, that was taken to it's ultimate conclusion with the triple live record that followed with that name but here it is a tight and fairly concise album that produced rock radio hits including the first part of Karn and "Still....You Turn Me On."

The 8-track remains faithful to the track order except for one exception, the midpoint comic relief of "Benny The Bouncer" becomes the closer of the album.  "Toccata" was interpreted from  Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1 (4th movement) while he was still alive and able to approve it after his publisher rejected it.  Keith Emerson bypassed the publisher and played the arrangement at Ginastera's home in Switzerland.  Ginastera proclaimed it 'diabolical"--in a positive way.

The show was allowed to continue.


 

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