Emerson Lake & Palmer-Trilogy (1972)
Artist: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Title: Trilogy
Sell Price: $2.57
Sell Date: 3/29/26
Condition: VG+/G+ untested
Discogs Last Sold: 5/12/25 VG/not graded $2.99
Low: $2.57
Median: $2.78
Average: $2.78
High: $2.99
Current low price: $3.00 G+/no cover
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2
Have/Want: 5/18
Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX
Time It Took To Sell: 2 years
Where and When Buught: Ebay Lot
Gwiz-gau Grade: B-
Sad To See It Go: No
By the mid-80's I had most of ELP's album on vinyl. Despite being one of their bigger albums, Trilogy was an exception. Oddly enough it contains the band's only top 40 hit in the US, "From The Beginning." This song is a bit of a poor mans "Green Eyed Lady." with an etherial acoustic soft rock drive. Even after listening to the album a few times this week, I don't feel a particular affinity to it the way I do with-say-Brain Salad Surgery. The best thing on here is probably "The Endless Enigma" a 2-parter with a Fugue in the middle that opens the album as well as the 8-track.
There is even a trick I find annoying: "The Sheriff." Comic relief and prog are a toxic mix. Keith Emerson may have merged gunshot sound effects with wild west paper roll piano for the first time in Rock music, if ever, but the song just seems tossed off filler all the same. The change in the track order for 8-track comes with Hoedown being moved to the end after Abaddon's Bolero is split between tracks 3 & 4.
Nobody ever messed with the sheriff.
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