Love Beach
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| Studio album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer | ||||
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Publication |
November 18, 1978 |
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Summer 1978 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic Records | |||
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LP |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
41:03 |
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Keith Emerson |
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Love Beach is the seventh studio album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer , released in 1978. It was, until the album Black Moon , which was released in 1992, the band's last album with original material, which was only produced to fulfill contractual obligations with the record company. It was received largely negatively by both critics and fans and was also unsuccessful commercially. With 55th place on the Billboard 200 charts, it just won a gold record .
History of origin
Emerson, Lake and Palmer were tired of their previous successes in 1978 and wanted to pause creative, but their record company Atlantic Records had different expectations. In addition, Keith Emerson's drug use in the late 1970s restricted his ability to work or collaborate with others. Atlantic Records hired the band to produce another album, and the three members were sent to Compass Point Studios in Nassau . Peter “Pete” Sinfield , who was also engaged by the record company, was supposed to write the lyrics there in a tight time frame. Upon arrival, he noticed that the three band members barely spoke to each other. He separated himself in order to be able to write the texts in the allotted time, only for Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman he needed a little longer. After Sinfield had delivered his texts, he was the first to leave. Greg Lake and Carl Palmer did the same after making their contributions.
The original Love Beach pressings carried no producer credit . Production and mixing of the album was largely done by Keith Emerson. According to Emerson, everyone but himself wanted to get out of Hell of Nassau as soon as possible, so in the end he finished (cobbled) the album on his own and sent it to Atlantic Records.
This album marks the end of the successful texte innovative collaboration between Lake and Sinfield, who in 1969 with the album In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson began.
reception
Critics and fans alike took the album Love Beach negatively, some rate it as the low point of Emerson Lake and Palmer's oeuvre, while others classify Black Moon and / or In the Hot Seat as such. Commenting on the album's release in Rolling Stone, critic Michael Bloom wrote : “ Love Beach is not just bad, it's downright pathetic. Stale and bored, this album makes doing the dishes a more creative act in comparison ”.
On the other hand, Michael M. Faber wrote in the audio at the time : “ The titles are versatile, in some cases also effectively staged, the arrangement ideas range from rocky blues ('The Gabler') to witty march satirises ('Honorable Company') the Emerson synthesizer. All of this is no longer overdone, but straightforward and well thought out. The fact that no concessions were made to commerce ultimately only speaks for the special class of the band. "
In retrospect, Rock Hard employee Michael Rensen sees the album as a "hangover".
The album was neither recorded nor advertised by the band, although they once appeared with Canario , the single release, on the TV show Old Gray Whistle Test .
Track list
page 1
- All I Want Is You (Lake, Sinfield) - 2:36
- Love Beach (Lake, Sinfield) - 2:46
- Taste of My Love (Lake, Sinfield) - 3:49
- The Gambler (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) - 3:23
- For You (Lake, Sinfield) - 4:28
- Canario ( Joaquín Rodrigo ) - 4:00
Page 2
- Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman : - 20:12
- a. Prologue / The Education of a Gentleman (Emerson, Sinfield)
- b. Love at First Sight (Emerson, Sinfield)
- c. Letters from the Front (Emerson, Sinfield)
- d. Honorable Company (A March ) (Emerson)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The album in the US charts on Allmusic (English)
- ^ Keith Emerson, quoted by Milano in: Contemporary Keyboard . September 1980, p. 17.
- ^ Edward Macan: Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Open Court, Chicago 2006, ISBN 0-8126-9596-8 , pp. 418-419 (English).
- ↑ Michael Bloom: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Love Beach ( en ) Rolling Stone . March 8, 1979. Archived from the original on March 16, 2007. Retrieved on November 24, 2018.
- ↑ Michael M. Faber: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Love Beach . In: Audio .
- ↑ Michael Rensen: Roots, rockin 'roots (part 2) . In: Rock Hard . No. 161 , Oct. 2000, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, pp. 70-71 .
Web links
- Reviews of Love Beach on the baby blue pages
- Love Beach at Allmusic (English)