Works Volume 1

Works, Volume 1
Studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released	March 17, 1977
Recorded	1976 at Mountain Recording Studios, Montreux, Switzerland and EMI Studios, Paris, France
Genre	Symphonic rock Progressive rock
Length	87:23
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer & Peter Sinfield
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen (1974) Works, Volume I (1977) Works, Volume II (1977)

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Works Volume 1 is a 1977 album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It is a double album (2 LP's, later on 2CD's) divided into four major sections, one each highlighting each band member, and one for combined works.

Overview

The album was highly anticipated, as it had been four years since the release of ELP's last studio album, Brain Salad Surgery. However, it was different from the synthesizer-driven music that most fans had expected and received a mixed reaction from fans and press.

Side 1 (disc 1), is the Keith Emerson side, a concerto for piano and orchestra.

Side 2 (disc 1), is the Greg Lake side, and consists of acoustic ballads, most of which were written by Lake and Peter Sinfield.

Side 3 (disc 2), the Carl Palmer side) includes a remake of "Tank" (from ELP's eponymous first album), with orchestral accompaniment and without the drum solo. Another track on Palmer's side is the rocker "L.A. Nights", featuring Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh on lead and slide guitar and scat vocal. Also, two arrangements of outside composers' pieces figure on the Palmer side: one of Bach's baroque D Minor Invention #4, BWV 775, and a piece titled 'The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits', an excerpt of the 2nd movement of "The Scythian Suite" by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), written in 1915.

Side 4 (disc 2), features the entire band together, and consists of a modern piece re-arranged for rock band, Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", and the long-form song "Pirates" which features lyrics added to music Emerson had written for the soundtrack of a canceled film version of Frederick Forsyth's book The Dogs of War. Aaron Copland found ELP's version of his piece appealing although he was puzzled at the inclusion of a modal solo between two fairly straight renditions of his piece.

Track listing

Disc one

Keith Emerson

1. "Piano Concerto No. 1" (Keith Emerson) - 18:19
   1. First Movement: "Allegro giocoso" – 9:21
   2. Second Movement: "Andante molto cantabile" – 2:09
   3. Third Movement: "Toccata con fuoco" – 6:48

Greg Lake

1. "Lend Your Love to Me Tonight" (Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield) – 4:01
2. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:16
3. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:35
4. "Nobody Loves You Like I Do" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:56
5. "Closer to Believing" (Lake, Sinfield) – 5:33

Disc two

Carl Palmer

1. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer) – 3:20
2. "L.A. Nights" (Palmer) (features Joe Walsh on guitars and scat vocal and Keith Emerson on keyboards). – 5:42
3. "New Orleans" (Palmer) – 2:45
4. "Two Part Invention in D Minor" (J. S. Bach, arr. Palmer) – 1:54
5. "Food for Your Soul" (Palmer) – 3:57
6. "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) – 5:09

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

1. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Aaron Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 9:40
2. "Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 13:19

Bonus Tracks (2004, Sanctuary release)

1. "Tank" (Live in Indiana, 24 January 1978) 9:49
2. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Live in Indiana, 24 January 1978) 3:13
3. "Nutrocker" (Live in Indiana, 24 January 1978) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Kim Fowley) 4:18

Singles

• Fanfare for the Common Man / Brain Salad Surgery
• C'est la Vie / Hallowed Be Thy Name