Title: Life's a beach when your career is on the rocks.
Product review: By 1978, these once-proud pioneering progressive rockers had sunk so low that they actually stood on the cover with their shirts open - trying to look studly, no doubt - and had the gall to title the album Love Beach. This would be hilarious, if not for the fact that these were the same guys who once created such progressive rock masterpieces as Tarkus and Trilogy. Side one is totally forgettable, and though side two's Memoirs Of An Officer And A Gentleman suite has its moments, the material is too weak overall to sustain any musical or emotional momentum. It ends with a whimper - a "march" that comes off as a lame echo of Abbadon's Bolero (from Trilogy). Emerson ditched the Hammond organ in favor of the thin-sounding polyphonic synthesizer - a terrible mistake. What a sad, pathetic way to end a great artistic career.
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