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Title: Sad come-back. Fans avoid!
Review: I am a huge ELP fan, but there's a limit, and this is past that limit. (In the Hot Seat, the follow-up, is even worse.) Greg Lake's once awesomely beautiful and powerful voice is a ruin. It's shot; it's gone. The amazing classically-inspired construction of their earlier songs is gone, too. Instead we get horrible, cheesy MOR ballads. They can still play, but music this ordinary isn't worth playing. This isn't ELP; this is a ghastly OAP stage band, three guys who happen to have the same names. The real ELP died no later than the much (and on the whole justly) maligned "Love Beach". And even "Love Beach" had a few sparks left (the Rodrigo cover, bits of "Officer and Gentleman") of a once huge talent. But here the fire is out. I love ELP, but I love truth more.Laon
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