 Emerson, Lake and Palmer
 Love Beach
 Review by Gary Hill
Years ago I remember owning this on vinyl. I bought it in a cut-out bin. For those too young to know what that means, when an album was not selling well the labels would either cut a notch or poke a hole into the cover and put the stock out there severely discounted to clear out their excess inventory. This landed their pretty quickly as I recall because people really did not like it. I remember not liking it in the day. The thing is, listening to it today, I'm not sure why it got that kind of response. It's actually a good album with some proggy stuff. It might not be ELP's finest moment, but there are some strong tunes here. It's arguably more consistent than at least one or two of their other releases. If you haven't listened to this in a while, you might want to give it a try. Perhaps you'll be as surprised as I was.
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