Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Return Of The Manticore (4CD) (1993) [FLAC]

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Return Of The Manticore (4CD) (1993) [FLAC]
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Technical Information
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Artist...............: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Album................: Return Of The Manticore
Year.................: 1993
Genre................: Progressive Rock
Type.................: Studio/Live
Duration.............: 4:56:09
Number of Songs......: 40
Artwork..............: Included

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: dBpowerAMP 15.1
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.3.0 (Level 5)
Hz...................: 44,100
Channels.............: Stereo
Reader...............: LiteOn iHAS524
Source...............: 1:1 Copy (Own rip)


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General Information (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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The Return of the Manticore is a 4-disc retrospective on the career of the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

It was released in 1993, and features several new recordings of previously released songs,
most notably a studio recording of "Pictures at an Exhibition," presented in Dolby Surround Sound.

Also, a live recording of Dave Brubeck's Rondo features on disc 2; the track, although performed
by ELP in concert from the band's inception (as it had been by Keith Emerson's previous band The
Nice), was previously unreleased on any live or studio album by ELP.

The box set is a fairly comprehensive cross-section of the band's history, offering tracks from all
of ELP's studio and live albums (at the time of release), as well as new ELP renditions of hits
previously recorded by bands they were members of prior to forming ELP.

The set's original release was part of a wave of remastered releases under the band's new label
Victory Music. After that label became defunct, the set was re-released on Rhino Records.

*NOTES*

A one-on-one copy of the original discs from a Scottsman -Michael McSomething- who lived in Antwerp
and who frequented the same pub as I did, back in 1995.

For some reason there were a few songs I had problems with ripping (Lucky Man on disc 1).
Last two songs on disc three even refused to get ripped in secure mode, so I ripped them in
burst-mode, had a good listen to them and concluded there's not the slightest thing wrong with
those tunes, nor with "Lucky Man".

Now that I've ripped the lot, I'm gonna burn them anew, to make sure, in case of the start of CD-rot.

But again, the rip is A-okay. Wouldn't upload these files if I knew something was wrong with them.

Enjoy!

JJ




Tracklists:

Disc One

01) "Touch and Go" (Emerson/Lake) (new recording, originally recorded by Emerson Lake and Powell) –

3:01
02) "Hang on to a Dream" (Tim Hardin) (new recording, originally recorded by The Nice) – 4:27
03) "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) (new recording, originally

recorded by King Crimson) – 3:07
04) "Fire" (Brown/Crane/Ker/Finesilver) (new recording, originally recorded by The Crazy World of

Arthur Brown (Carl Palmer briefly played with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown in 1969) – 3:24
05) "Pictures at an Exhibition" (new recording, originally from Pictures at an Exhibition) – 15:33

a) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky) – 1:46
b) "The Gnome" (Mussorgsky/Palmer) – 2:07
c) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky/Lake) – 1:44
d) "The Sage" (Lake) – 3:10
e) "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky) – 1:16
f) "The Great Gates of Kiev" (Mussorgsky/Lake) – 5:30

06) "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake/Sinfield) (new recording, from Works Volume 2) – 3:26
07) "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson/Palmer) / "Peter Gunn" (Mancini) (from ELP in Concert) – 4:27
08) "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield) (from Works Volume 2) – 4:32
09) "Toccata" (Ginastera, arr. by Emerson/Palmer) (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 7:20
10) "Trilogy" (Emerson/Lake) (from Trilogy) – 8:53
11) "Tank" (Emerson/Palmer) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 6:47
12) "Lucky Man" (Lake) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 4:42

Time: 1:10:22

Disc Two


01) "Tarkus" (from Tarkus) – 20:35

a) "Eruption" (Emerson) – 2:43
b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson/Lake) – 3:44
c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson) – 1:15
d) "Mass" (Emerson/Lake) – 3:11
e) "Manticore" (Emerson) – 1:52
f) "Battlefield" (Emerson/Lake) – 3:51
g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson) – 3:59

02) "From the Beginning" (Lake) (from Trilogy) – 4:14
03) "Take a Pebble [live version]" (from Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies

and Gentlemen) – 22:48

a) "Take a Pebble [beginning]" (Lake) – 4:58
b) "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:02
c) "Piano Improvisations" (Emerson) – 11:55
d) "Take a Pebble [conclusion]" (Lake) – 2:53

04) "Knife Edge" (music: Janácek arr. Emerson, lyrics: Lake/Fraser) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 5:05
05) "Paper Blood" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (from Black Moon) – 4:26
06) "Hoedown" (Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (from Trilogy) – 3:43
07) "Rondo [live version]" (Brubeck) (previously unreleased) – 14:28

Time: 1:15:48

Disc Three:

01) "The Barbarian" (Bartók, arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 4:28
02) "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 2:52
03) "The Endless Enigma" (from Trilogy) – 10:37

a) "The Endless Enigma Part 1" (Emerson/Lake) – 6:41
b) "Fugue (Emerson) – 1:56
c) "The Endless Enigma Part 2" (Emerson/Lake) – 2:00

04) "C'est La Vie" (Lake/Sinfield) (from Works Volume 1) – 4:16
05) "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev) (from Works Volume 1) – 3:21
06) "Bo Diddley" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) (previously unreleased) – 5:03
07) "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson/Lake) (from Tarkus) – 3:55
08) "A Time and a Place" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) (from Tarkus) – 2:57
09) "Living Sin" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) (from Trilogy) – 3:12
10) "Karn Evil 9" (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 29:35

a) "1st Impression" (Emerson/Lake) – 13:23
b) "2nd Impression" (Emerson) – 7:07
c) "3rd Impression" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) – 9:07

11) "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis) (from Works Volume 2) – 3:13

Time: 1:14:19

Disc Four

01) "Jerusalem" (Parry/Blake, arr. by Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 2:44
02) "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland, arr. by Emerson) (from Works Volume 1) – 9:40
03) "Black Moon" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) (from Black Moon) – 6:58
04) "Watching Over You" (Lake/Sinfield) (from Works Volume 2) – 3:54
05) "Piano Concerto No. 1 Third Movement: Toccata Con Fuoco" (Emerson) (from Works Volume 1) – 6:48
06) "For You" (Lake/Sinfield) (from Love Beach) – 4:27
07) "Prelude and Fugue" (Gulda) (previously unreleased) – 3:15
08) "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" (from Love Beach) – 20:12

a) "Prologue/The Education of a Gentleman" (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:34
b) "Love at First Sight" (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:36
c) "Letters from the Front" (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:18
d) "Honourable Company" (Emerson) – 3:46

09) "Pirates" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) (from Works Volume 1) – 13:18
10) "Affairs of the Heart" (Lake/Downes) (from Black Moon) – 3:46

Time: 1:15:40