Title: Stick with the first four releases
Product review: This is one of those necessary releases that record companies require to complete a band's obligations. Even at that, three or four of the individual tracks are good and sound like short prose of ELP's more majestic and grand themes but overall it is difficult to overcome the lack of cohesiveness in the format and the overbearing tribute to some great lost love. Everything after the vicious keyboard assault in "Canario", the "Memoirs..." suite, is totally dispensable. No one listens to ELP to endure sappy drawn out ballad-like tales which read like a third-rate romance novel.
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