ELP Emerson Lake & Palmer Cataloge in 5.1 Surround

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What a complete and utter joke.

I was relatively unfamiliar with the entire ELP catalogue before these recent re-releases. I'd heard the greatest hits a few times, which was pretty much it. Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Tarkus were both fine re-releases that left me interested in hearing more. Then we had the Brain Salad Surgery debacle and this execrable months-long smoke and mirrors game with Trilogy.

Compare this to the re-release issues from Yes and King Crimson, which introduced me to both bands with thoughtful, well-presented releases that were well priced and stocked with great material. Pink Floyd has surprised us twice with unexpected and excellent releases. Even the other recent 5.1 re-releases have been miles better than ELP's half-hearted attempts, particularly Bob Marley, XTC, Gentle Giant and Jethro Tull. These bands respect their fans and understand how to get our interest. I've paid full price for almost all of these releases, and I'm happy to line the artists' (or their estates') pockets with my hard-earned money for the fine releases they've put out.

ELP, on the other hand doesn't care to get it together, which is a galling display of disrespect to their fans. Some of you are very happy with the BSS box, and will be looking forward to Trilogy. I think that's great and I'm glad you can enjoy them. I would like very much to count myself as an ELP fan, but I am not. I will not be buying Trilogy or anything else this band chooses to release.
 
The politics of music? Don't do yourself out of listening to great music because of outside interference, most of which we will never know anything about. I'd walk over hot coals to hear Trilogy in 5.1, assuming it will be done right. But I do hate the treatment that ELP and the fans get from the company accountants and such. "They make me sick and tired..." as the Endless Enigma sez.
 
Drphibes , I agree the delays, not including the 5.1 mix in a set that had previously had been included in the first 2 has decreased my enthusiasm in any further ELP issues. I was not happy with the remixes of Brain Salad Surgery also.
 
You know I fell for the BSS thing, but I don't think that ELP is to blame. It is the music that matters, right?
 
Whether it's ELP, Razor and Tie, or both that are causing the problem, the result is the same. Whenever I think about plunking my money down I think twice and spend it somewhere else.
 
I feel that any problems with the ELP reissues stem from the top down.
The band have definitely not been as hands on with these remixes as other artists have been, some even despising the concept of remixing their material (Carl Palmer).
I also feel that the record company is generally apathetic about these reissues as well and started doing them after seeing the success of WELL executed surround reissues from King Crimson (thanks to Panegyric/DGM). They are in it to make money, simple as that.

The first two ELP reissues I thought were fantastic mostly cause Steven's mixes were great and he helped to push a level of QC for these reissues with DVDA and good bonus tracks. "Brain Salad Surgery" with the Karn Evil 9 Bass Solo and lack of surround mixes in the 3-disc set was an epic failure on the record company's part. I was also frustrated in the lack of a lot of new bonus tracks and the exclusion of the new stereo mix on CD from the 3-disc set.

If they return to how things should be with "Trilogy" meaning a 3-disc set with original and new stereo mixes with bonus tracks on the CDs and high-res surround and stereo mixes with bonus tracks on a DVD-A, then we're in business.
If they do screw this up in any way, I'm not going to take it lying down like I did for BSS.
 
You have a position on this issue I can wholeheartedly agree with. If the worst comes to pass, I will be interested in ways to protest as well.
 
Got this from amazon.co.uk

Emerson Lake & Palmer "Trilogy"
Estimated arrival date: December 11 2014 - December 13 2014

After the 1st album its my favourite, so I'll just have to wait some more :(
 
My problem is that I combined this title with Warchild to get a better price for shipping to the US...at one time they both had the same release dates...I wonder how amazon uk will handle this situation...Trilogy was not a priority but I don't want it to push the delivery of Warchild back...this looks like another black eye for ELP's marketing team..
 
It does indeed suck if the release date is pushed back yet again, however I would much rather them delay the release and get it RIGHT rather than rush something out of inferior quality (like "Brain Salad Surgery")

Now if after all these delays they still manage to screw things up, then they will get a mouthful from me...
 
I just received "Welcome back my friends.." and "Trilogy".....they are both platinum shm-cds housed in 7" packaging...

Order was placed on amazon.ca...description went up after discs shipped...
 
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