Prog-rock was never an easy sell to mainstream audiences. Something about 23-minute songs that go on and on and on about celestial gods never quite caught on with Top 40 fans. Cod Black Ops 2 English Language Pack Download. But somehow managed to place a few songs on the Billboard charts in the '70s. The seven studio albums and two live records they released during their peak years all went gold.

But the trio never fit squarely into rock's confines anyway. Keyboardist filled his long, winding solos with classical references that went over the heads of many bong-toking listeners.

Indeed, the group's 1971 Top 10 album Pictures at an Exhibition was based on Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano piece. • 1 'Karn Evil 9' From: 'Brain Salad Surgery' (1973) Emerson, Lake & Palmer's best and most popular piece actually is made up of four parts spread over two LP sides that clock in at nearly half an hour. The most popular section is 'First Impression, Pt. 2,' which includes the famous intro -- ' Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends' -- that became the title of the group's highest-charting album, a live record from 1974. But try to take in the entire 30-minute piece. It's epic prog-rock at its best, without too much of the usual sour aftertaste.

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