Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

[xwinguk]

I have the original floppy plastic disc of this track that was given away in NME when the album was released... and it STILL plays!

[Slumpnasty]

Greg Lake is my Hero! I would let him babysit my kids, and then teach them awesome music.

[yoramayalon]

@Slumpnasty this is brain salad logic. Greg Lake would babysit your kids, and YOU will teach them awesome music? mmm.... maybe switch?

[Slumpnasty]

@yoramayalon Yes! Exactly! Better yet, I would rather put a saddle on a large dog, and ride him around the neighborhood.

[yoramayalon]

@Slumpnasty child services on its way to rescue dem kids, by next day hare

[Slumpnasty]

@yoramayalon Joy! These runts are expensive and disobedient.

[yoramayalon]

@Slumpnasty and that's why brain salad surgery was invented in the first place! good night to you my friend

[Slumpnasty]

@yoramayalon Nite nite homie.

[anthroscott]

greatest single song of all time

[CatapultYourMom]

This song sounds much more like The Nice than ELP.

[stumyu]

Bloody amazing track. Epic. A bit young to have been into ELP myself, but had the 'Fanfare...' single when I was a kid and this was the B side. Amazing. Used to drive my mum crazy with it

[rsp196607]

Every aspiring drummer should hear this song.

This song makes a real difference in your way of drumming; in your way of life. (Adaptation of a quote from "Miracle Ear" commercial.)

[artscoff]

back in the day, had a free floppy plastic record of this track given away with the new musical express , with exerpts from the album to promote it. we made it for our NME. don.'t think it was intended for release commercially at the time.

[TheBPSEnsemble]

@lucianodsb Fuck that nigger. 

[fooloof]

@TheBPSEnsemble: Fuck you, too. I guess you didn't know that Hendrix was supposed to join the band, but died before they could get together: HELP.

[lucianodsb]

this would be nice if hendrix joined this band

[GetFuckingAngry]

dream theaters biggest influenced band. now im crying :)....

[Interst890]

jeez, even the newest mastering (sony 2011) is super-bassy. makes the left side of my spectralyzer go crazy.

[Simona050]

It's great to hear this after what seems a lifetime ago for me. And good to see a few folks know this as a track that was recorded on a flexi-disc and was given away free with "New Musical Express" to promote the release of the Brain Salad Surgery album. I've never forgotten the copy I played to death on my mono record player in my bedroom as a 14 year old kid.

[grazer770]

i found the flexi disc, mentioned, in a dustbin when i was 14.(raking in the bins was a favourite hobby for the poor) and this track opened my ears up to a whole new world of music and must have played a million times over and over again.

[aquakarn]

The flexidisc had a superior mix. The Works Vol. 2 version rolled off the bass, unfortunately. The flexidisc version would literally shake my floor, back in the day.

[Gatdecor]

@aquakarn

as i already posted, this was the B side to Fanfare for the common man in UK, and I blew a few sets of speakers listening to this!

[aquakarn]

@Gatdecor Yes...I have that, and I also have the NME Flexidisc. What I was trying to point out was: this ain't it! :-)

[Gatdecor]

Benny the bouncer was awesome!

The bass on this track though is enough to blow your woofers!

B side of Fanfare for the common man btw..

[ITAMrPink]

Amazing track! I remember my father always insisted for me to search it on the internet many years ago, and I hated it everytime I was forced to listen to it, because it is very strange and I could not understand it! XD

Now I really love this piece.

[GetFuckingAngry]

@ITAMrPink that was me 7 years ago

[alexknight9645]

@ITAMrPink My dad is the exact same way!!! Every time he thinks of an old song, it's back to youtube!

[GoblinGirl]

Or they could have made Brain Salad Surgery a double album. A lot of the leftover tracks on Works Vol. 2 were from those sessions.

[GoblinGirl]

Great track, never understood why they didn't put it on the actual album that bore its name.

[BrainStillLife]

@GoblinGirl I agree, they should have replaced Benny the Bouncer or Jerusalem with this track.

[GoblinGirl]

@BrainStillLife I would have replaced Benny the Bouncer with this one. I like Jerusalem. 

[supercj8899]

@BrainStillLife Or they could've just added it in. It wouldn't make the sides length go over 20.

[lamecasuelas2]

@BrainStillLife i think thta, they recorded this, when the pacage and almots all the album was finished,but i don't know, the booklet has more details,i will have to check it out

[josearcanjof]

@BrainStillLife Or Still, you turn me on...what? It sucks too, I think they should've made the album entirely from impressions of the Karn Evil 9 + Toccata and this track

[TheFutureFossil]

@BrainStillLife Aye, you're right about that. Keep your aim on cheese...

[delwatts]

@GoblinGirl it was given away free as a promo on the cover of a music paper (not certain which one NME ?) the week before the album released it was pretty LoFi on a floppy vinyl 7" I had a copy I kept in the back of the gatefold. the disc had some extracts from the album included

[spicygaga]

@delwatts yh thats what my mum got i played it and became hooked

[SnowyCamel]

@GoblinGirl led zeppelin did the same with the song "Houses of the holy", they didn't put it on the album "houses of the holy"

[GoblinGirl]

@SnowyCamel Forgot about that one.