| The Ultimate Collection | ||||
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| Released | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 2:21:47 | |||
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The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2004.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Fanfare for the Common Man" | 9:40 |
| 2. | "Still...You Turn Me On" | 3:43 |
| 3. | "Hoedown" | 5:03 |
| 4. | "Black Moon" | 6:53 |
| 5. | "Tarkus: Eruption/Stones of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/Battlefield/Aquatarkus" | 20:35 |
| 6. | "Jerusalem" | 2:41 |
| 7. | "Tiger in a Spotlight" | 4:31 |
| 8. | "Better Days" | 5:32 |
| 9. | "I Believe in Father Christmas" | 3:15 |
| 10. | "From the Beginning" | 4:11 |
| 11. | "Knife-Edge" | 5:03 |
| 12. | "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1" | 4:47 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" | 4:48 |
| 2. | "Nut Rocker" | 4:00 |
| 3. | "Peter Gunn Theme" | 3:33 |
| 4. | "All I Want Is You" | 2:31 |
| 5. | "Brain Salad Surgery" | 3:05 |
| 6. | "Take a Pebble" | 12:26 |
| 7. | "C'est la Vie" | 4:14 |
| 8. | "Lucky Man" | 4:35 |
| 9. | "Affairs of the Heart" | 3:43 |
| 10. | "Canario" | 3:56 |
| 11. | "Pirates" | 13:17 |
| 12. | "The Great Gates of Kiev" | 6:27 |
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Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era. Emerson wrote and arranged much of ELP's music on albums such as Tarkus (1971) and Brain Salad Surgery (1973), combining his own original compositions with classical or traditional pieces adapted into a rock format.
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