Title: Contractual Obligation
Product review: You can tell that this album was just to fulfil a contract as by now ELP were a spent force, the glory days had peaked in 1973. The first 5 albums are great but thereafter the two year break sapped the energy of the band as did the change in musical climate, after 1974 prog was totally out of fashion and never recovered. Canario is a nice classically inspired melody and Memoirs of .... etc is a stab at previous prog epics but falls way short, the rest is plain awful, sounds like it was made up on the spot, ELP had already scraped the barrel with Works Vol 2 this was far worse.ELP were great until 1974 then after a massive world tour, that was the time to split rather than persevere with dross like Works etc 1977-1979 was a waste of time apart from Fanfare...Buy the first 5 albums but avoid the later era like the plague
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