The Atlantic Years (1992)

About this title: As Emerson, Lake & Palmer were making a comeback on-stage and on record (with Black Moon) in the early '90s, their former record label, Atlantic, launched a series of digitally remastered reissues of their catalog and packaged this two-CD collection. ELP best-of records abound, but this one remains the best. Anyone interested in the group but unwilling to buy each and every album gets all essential tracks on two 75-minute discs. Two-thirds of the trio's debut LP are included (yes, even an unedited "Take a Pebble"). The complete studio version of "Tarkus" represents the album by the same title ... read more

Tracks:

1. Knife Edge [Emerson/Frazer/Jana]
2. Take a Pebble [Lake]
3. Lucky Man [Lake]
4. Tank [Emerson/Palmer]
5. Tarkus [Emerson/Lake]
6. Excerpts from 'Pictures at an Exhibition' [Mussorgsky/Emerson/]
7. The Endless Enigma, Pt. 1 [Emerson/Lake]
8. Fugue [Emerson]
9. The Endless Enigma, Pt. 2 [Emerson/Lake]
10. From the Beginning [Lake]
11. Karn Evil 9 [Emerson/Lake]
12. Jerusalem [Blake/Parry]
13. Still...You Turn Me On [Lake]
14. Toccata [Ginastera]
15. Fanfare for the Common Man [Special Edit] [Copland]
16. Pirates [Emerson/Lake/Palmer]
17. I Believe in Father Christmas [Original Single Version] [Lake/Sinfield]
18. Honky-Tonk Train Blues [Lewis]
19. Canario [Rodrigo]

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