Brain Salad Surgery [Rhino Bonus Track] (1996)

About this title: Emerson, Lake & Palmer's most successful and well-realized album (after their first), and their most ambitious as a group, as well as their loudest, Brain Salad Surgery is also their most electronic sounding one. The main focus, thanks to the three-part "Karn Evil 9," is sci-fi rock, approached with a volume and vengeance that stretched the art rock audience's tolerance to its outer limit, but also managed to appeal to the metal audience in ways that little of Trilogy did. Indeed, "Karn Evil 9" is the piece and the place where Keith Emerson and his keyboards finally matched in both music and ... read more

Tracks:

1. Jerusalem [Blake/Parry]
2. Toccata [Ginastera]
3. Still...You Turn Me On [Lake]
4. Benny the Bouncer [Emerson/Lake/Sinfie]
5. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1 [Emerson/Lake]
6. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 [Emerson/Lake]
7. Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression [Emerson/Lake]
8. Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression [Emerson/Lake]
9. Making of Brain Salad Surgery

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.