Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 (Part 1)

[OrmTostesson]

Such a shame that Hendrix died before they could form HELP. It would be the best band ever. Just imagine, Lake on bass, doing sickness best he can, Emerson stabbing his piano and jumping over it, playing psychedelic schisophrenic scales, Hendrix biting his guitar, licking acid off his face, combining notes you never thought imaginable and Palmer abusing his double pedal while taking his shirt off. Just the thought of it makes my eyes moist.

[bigrider2806]

i spent hours painting there album covers onto my school rucksack flap , great group

[Gr0mst3r]

I really imagined this some sort of a Black Metal... lol

[sulekc]

I saw ELP play in Chicago and they were one of the best groups to see live, next to Pink Floyd and Genisis...

[nch09snow]

i used to listen to this secretly and i would never tell anyone that i loved this - i have come out big time and i celebrate the genius of ELP - i am so happy now !!!

[MauricioAE1]

Yes im 28 and i buy records, not cd's, not mp3, only records. the best

[gmansoul]

great sound quality ty.

[silverbirdsong]

I still have my LP.



[clippy3]

Let me tell you as a teen i would take my boom box on hikeing trips with my friends , there's nothing like blasting this in the woods with beer and buds.

[allrightguy89]

I've read that the artist who designed the album cover is the same guy who designed the sets for the "Alien" movies. Totally looks it. Kind of a creepy combination of machinery and living organism done up in tones of gray.



[lee423hz]

right brain...left brain...alllll..brain...what is left...

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

the only face i trust anymore

watch?v­=oWpukzWpOy4&feature=­­­r­elated

[fabiocamarri]

***dnl.

[lismclis51]

One of my all time favorite bands. I was in High school when I first heard them. I was blown away. Went too see the 3 times. Incredible live band. It's very true, how do 3 musicians make such a fantastic sound? I'll never stop listening too this band. FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

[pinofender]

bellissimaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[mcleesdon]

saw them when they opened up for jethro tull in 96 what a show those were the

days...

[DaveM1260]

Saw this tour when it cam to LA in '73. I was in heaven. Had to see it again the the next night. ELP was and will always be the best thing that ever happened to music in my time.

[TheLarper123]

some people are christian,others are jewish,im ELPian

[rfrakctured]

I've tried to upload some ELP myself (among many other prog phenomena), to little avail. Damn the man! You can't copyright creative genius!

[MsCourtneybrown]

Boyfriend bought this home when it first came out, for the next months I heard this album FULL BLAST almost 24/7. This is the first time since I was wacked from it..woooo 1973, call this a flashback....the parties....we survived, LOL! you had to be there* Everything was legal....well, for us it was..OUR WORLD...Peace, Love and Freedom...then ELP, Alice Cooper...shattered...groovy~ Peace forward V

[supercj8899]

I'm listening to ELP at the age of 11 now because i'm worried if i begin listening to them while old Keith Emerson may give me a heart attack.

[Flyingbluefrogs]

Hard to believe three guys made this fantastic music. It boggles the mind. I think that's the point.

[Flyingbluefrogs]

Most people can not wrap their brain around this. It's that brilliant. I had the honor of shaking their hands. Wow!

[Flyingbluefrogs]

These guys are so ahead of their time. Today's music is crap. Pure genius! This album changed my life for the better. God bless them.

[ClassicRockMan95]

Greg Lake is such a sick bass player... Completely underrated IMO.

[Interst890]

@ClassicRockMan95 im a bass player and i agree too 100%

[CyclesOvHate]

Always loved the coldness of this song when I was little. Makes one a stronger man to grow up with this song ringing through your head every day for years. I relish to hate! Those who can't understand I fucking laugh at your simple mindedness.

[anitaforgeth]

old times!!!

[666aznpride666]

beiber is a talentless homo, he will fade but this kind of stuff will be around forever, its REAL music, that takes REAL instruments and REAL talent to write

[vegasshowgirlshoes]

When I saw the quad version of this in Anaheim they were hauling people out of the arena on stretchers , those sound tech started to freakin spin the sound and Emerson was hitting unreal notes , it was freakin people out like you wouldn't believe , You had to be there

[moviemaster8510]

Fuck American Idiot. This should have been made into a broadway musical years ago.

[purifyz]

bieber's cover is waaaay better

[rasputozen]

Holy fuck you beiber haters are fuckin fags... you're everywhere... go to his fuckin concert already and jerk off.

[xplay108]

The opening keyboard part mesmerizes me to no end.

[weibernipple]

Awesome fold-out, album cover art. Anyone else on the planet remember buying an f-ing record album?!

[AgurkTomatGulerod]

@weibernipple YES !!!!!!

[Polybun]

@weibernipple yea, I picked up 3 more last week, what?

[ClassicRockMan95]

@weibernipple still listen to records, and buy them :)

[mamaserene]

@weibernipple I bought this album in 1972, STILL have the original AND THIS was my first concert!!!!!!

My daughter is an AMAZING tattoo artist, she tattoo'd the album art on a friend's arm, TOTALLY radical and TOTALLY cool!!

[LavenderSalad]

@weibernipple I managed to find the LP, loved listening to it when I still had a record player. :)

[vujadae0001]

@weibernipple This one.......absolutely one of my favorites.

[SenorSpode]

@weibernipple I do! I do!!!

[sulekc]

@weibernipple one of the best 70's bands... and I bought this album, it was when you'd buy an album not only for the tunes but the artwork on the cover....

[poopr1221]

Just wondering, is the art Giger?

[pnikfoyld]

@poopr1221 yes

[ttcherrick]

@poopr1221 Yup, yup. H.R. Giger. Good eye! I have this album in a box in my garage. Too bad my (late) cat used the edges of all 40 albums in that box as a scratch-post. Now it's worthless to collector (sigh). But the cat was priceless! Amazing amount of artistic effort went into albums in those days!

[Polybun]

@poopr1221 sure is, was a fold out too, turns into a fallace going into this mechanized bitches skull.

[bwc3821]

I'd say Keith and Greg's vision for the future is has been pretty accurate.

[FredericoCoelhoNunes]

3:00 - 3:30 : best part imho

[Nastor1996]

7:31 EARGASM!!!!

[44thuserid]

I think todays drugs are more about dulling the pain, the drugs in the day were about opening the mind....wide open, like a watermelon off the back of a truck...

[sneakyuploader]

nice

[aardvark763]

no comment i could make on the music would do it justice.i hear it and bow.elp&crimson 4 ever.CAPTAIN BEEFHEART , SORRY I RANT

[MoJoRod30]

This is a one of kind masterpiece of all progressive rock genre. Now, thats what I call music today.

[30wonderwoman]

@MoJoRod30

An epic masterpiece of the 70's.

[Rajacshadow]

Saw ELP in Germany in 1974. The concert was one of the greatest I have ever attended. They had four speaker columns and were playing around with quadraphonic mixing. When they spun the music thru the speakers, those of us lucky enough to be near dead center were caught up in a vortex of energy like nothing else on earth.

[vegasshowgirlshoes]

@Rajacshadow I saw the quad deal in Calif

It was unlike anything anybody had seen or heard , its never been repeated since

[bwc3821]

The whole song is great, but the first impression is beyond brilliant.

[rdesgt90]

much acid  used while enjoying ELP over the years

[joemac356]

Carl Palmer: the fastest, most inventive right foot in music.

[bwc3821]

@joemac356 Totally agree. Moon will always be my favorite, but Palmer could get more sound from one bass than most drummers can from a Peart-sized set.

[badcoraphael]

when emerson lake and palmer walked the earth, the ground shook.

[Interst890]

whenever i hear that giant wall of sound at 0:15 my whole body just shivers for like a minute

[probrojeffro]

When I was young, I sat down to write songs. I thought of two albums to emulate, 2112 and Brain Salad Surgery. 20 years later, the album still stands as one of the top 50 all time. Saw ELP in concert as well. Great experience. Funny that today's music is more Brain Salad Surgery or that which puts us in a vegetation state. Just the opposite of what ELP has done and continues to do.

[Ejak2021]

The 70s had its Biebers, as well (mostly they made disco music). It's just that we've had 40 years to completely erase their existence from our minds. Not sure about the ratio of crap to good music compared to today, but I'd wager it's higher due to technology making music easier to put out. Someone else would probably rant about record companies being evil and greedy right about now.

[75edainsworth]

alright i got one for you, for the love of god i can't remember the band or the tittle of the song, but all i do remember is on the cassette it was red and had a black devil pointing to the left, and the first song started * let me get a nickel bag, man you don't get the dam choice back the fuck off "

hope you can find it,,,good luck

[POLSTEADPAUL]

Top marks for Hestejenta91 ,nothing today even compares to this . ELP ROCK!!!

[Lewis1key]

I am totally glad that they played on and on! It made a better fucking musician out of me... I had something to aim for. Most of modern music is made my producers and not musicians...most of the popular acts of today couldn't hold a candle to the chops of an Emerson, Lake and Palmer... improvisation in jazz can get boring at times... but in progressive rock or 'classical rock' as we called it back in the day...it motherfucking rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PaulThe123]

mindfucking!

[cattubesyou]

Brilliant.

[jimmychipper]

Yes, Jackhatesjack, like Mozart, Bach etc...ELP quite often nattered on & on w "60% improvisational jam"... Although I'm not sure this track has that much jamming on it. And while the last 20 yrs have been all about "dont bore us, get to the chorus"...there is a world outside a 3 minute pop song.

[JackHatesJack]

Holy fuck hating all of you shitheads makes liking this more difficult than it should be. Thank fucking god the 60's/70's tradition of making songs half an hour long has passed, this is 40% great music and 60% improvisational jam band bullshit. I've seen ELP live and they don't even play the whole stupid thing. Don't get me wrong, ELP is great but even they've learned to edit themselves. If you were alive in the 60s you should probably be doing something other than bitching about kids on youtube

[modrockersparks]

WOW!!! These Guys  Are Still Ahead Of Their Time!!!

[Metalmanc1]

Total agree with BENFICA60. Couldnt have put it better, well said. Its only what REAL people really think. Im not militant either or against anything or anyone except injustice ,capitalism and mediocratic crap and that includes music, Oh and ELP innovative magnificence so F**ck Off if you cant see it



[gambit8036]

thx for posting!.. the good old days! elp will allways be hot!

[BENFICA60]

All we see today is mediocrity and it's going to be the death of me! All facets of society whether it's cuisine, proper etiquette, good manners, bloodsucking politicians, Wall Street vampires, education... are completely bogus. And worst of all are these peckersnot teenagers who think they invented the technology age. They only care about how things affect them. At least in the 60's & 70's young people put their asses on the line, some in Vietnam and some protesting. We stood for something!

[gsherlock]

@BENFICA60 Here here.

[GreatGusher]

Too many music artists of today are really entertainers (singing and dancing). If you are not youthful, good looking, and have a choreographer to give you some dance moves you ain't sh**. Now, having said that, I'm talking about bands young teens like. There are some good rock bands out there, but they are harder to find than back in the 1970s.

[YerJob]

i hate that kind of relativism- hip hop is as good as bach, Bieber is as good as ELP, its all preference, no such thing as standards.

NO ITS FUCKING NOT

[vegasshowgirlshoes]

Outdated?

Maybe in about 250 years from now

This is the best there was kiddies , you won't see talent on this level again in our lifetime 

[Hestejenta91]

Guys, why do you listen to this music? It's old and outdated!

And to all you who says Justin Bieber is crap - if he had lived in the 70s I know that he would have been "classic" now and you gouys would have said: "I wish I grew up in the Bieber era, and not with this prog crap of today"

You like this music just because you are too afraid to admit that music made today is just as good

[brandondwright]

@Hestejenta91 Old and outdated? Music is like films and movies, it's enjoyable no matter what era that it comes from.

Oh, and the Bieber matter: Bieber would still be considered crap no matter what era it originates in. But that's beside the point, Bieber's success would be nonexistent outside of the 21st century: Bieber was "discovered" through the internet. He would have gone unnoticed if he was born earlier.

[vequense]

@brandondwright i bet the one dislike was from Hestejanta91

[iamastormtrooper]

@Hestejenta91

1. i listen to music of today too... if its good.

2. musicians today don't live up to there own potencial becouse of record companies just hire douchebags like Bieber to make money.

3. the difference is that the 70's did not only have ''prog crap'' onlike today you ether litsen to pop, gaymetal or techno.

4. im from today... i did not even like music before i discovered there was other alternatives to those above

[J0000OOOO]

@Hestejenta91

And you are dumb as a post. We don't like Bieber because he's uncreative, bland, derivative, is incapable of writing songs about more than one thing, and does nothing to set him apart from other artists. This music is innovative, creative, and oozes originality.

[BENFICA60]

@Hestejenta91 Really? And that three minute lollipop blowjob you got from a thirteen-year old on the school bus is better than three hours of making love to a thirty-five year old experienced and mature WOMAN! I bet your mommy still pays for your cell phone minutes.

[Lambs619]

@Hestejenta91 You're a fucking retard. If Bieber was living in the 70s, people would have laughed at him for thinking he had talent. NOTHING made today can touch this. Ever heard a modern song that sounded like this? Do you have any idea how much talent and creativity it took to make this amazing song? HAHA

[edctgbujm123]

@Hestejenta91 Inbound, enemy troll.

[lilgreenthumb1]

mind blowing awesomeness!

[fald33]

One of the best intros for a song EVER.

[Interst890]

words just can't comprehend the epicness of this track!!!

[dkm221186]

Easy to listen to, hard to fuck by...ELP RULES!

[sonofcy]

@dkm221186

I'll but that for a dollar!

[mikewarrior77]

Beiber! I DARE YOU to try to even come close to something so innovative!!!

[Interst890]

@mikewarrior77 WIN

[estyle40]

@mikewarrior77 Truer words have never been spoken ANYWHERE! EVER!!!

[1pa2ch]

@mikewarrior77: I'm sorry, but fuck you! Don't mention You-Know-Who! It spoils the music to even have his name on the same web page!

[MrMusicmanny]

@mikewarrior77 if i saw beiber come close ill beat him up with organ that emerson uses..

[AgurkTomatGulerod]

@mikewarrior77 Just shut up about him.. that

[sadsamisback]

@mikewarrior77 Give him a break, he's just a kid who wants to be rich and famous with little effort, what I cannot respect is the millions of Idiots who watch "American Idol" Making these talentless artists into HUGE stars. 50 years ago people needed to have talent in dancing, singing and acting to be given a shot in showbiz, now a pretty face is enough and NOT even a "REAL" pretty face but a "nose job/boob fix" kinda thing. "America doesn't need talent". Apparently.

[Artymetall]

man these nigas are my my fav band since ive been ive been 3/4 yrs old i love these nigas!!!!!!!!to bad they all split up to be honest that broke my balls down for reals the best band ever split up i think that this band will soon be a golden band.now life wont be the same with out someone going to see them live.life will nevr be that sae for me:(

[serpico89]

i think one person accidentally clicked the dislike button.

[dmny05077]

@serpico89

Chop that motherf***er's finger off!!

[ErieBoy62]

@dmny05077 I concur, use the old meat cleaver!

[serpico89]

@dmny05077 i know right!!? :D

[IAMJEWELMAN]

Um... personally I kind of have to disagree with the idea that "new music is fake and only real instruments should be used" but I'm totally digging this!

[Jazzmaster11]

How the hell human brain can imagine that!!

[RockCleric420]

Future Shocker!

[musthatedogs]

what a brilliant use of having to flip the record over.

[runingblackbear]

went to there concerts always a good time

[koocaracha]

i heard this the first time in aloha bobby and rose, and i've even downloaded it, but never heard this version

[caslox]

@koocaracha This is the original version mindblowing stuff.

[BKJJAMALEN]

I saw them play this album in 1973 in Norfolk.Carl Palmer completely blew our minds.Great memories

[Bix12]

@BKJJAMALEN --I saw them a few times back then, too--I remember one concert where Keith was playing when he & his piano lifted up in the air and started spinning...ass over elbows,and he kept playing the whole time! Pretty f'in' awesome.

[springsten]

i'm 12 and what is this?

[antarcticafreeze]

@springsten this is music the way god intended it.

[springsten]

@antarcticafreeze

you just got a thumbs up, sir

[annikee59]

@springsten Make that 2!

[Reimerink]

@springsten

This is real music. Played on real music instruments. Not like the computer crap there is now like hiphop and rap or techno junk

[musthatedogs]

@springsten it is the 9th symphony of rock, may it RIP..

[vequense]

@springsten this, this is a work of art. a master piece.

the era of music: 1960-1990

[DocMEDICK]

Any keyboard artist better than Keith Emerson not in this life time

[joerosson1]

im 15 now and i love this song

[PaulThe123]

@joerosson1 Me too i'm15 and in jizzing on it & on the progressive rock music in general! : )

[Quamieriver]

I remember this on 4 channel head phones.

[nighthawk006phoenix]

Shoot, this brings back memories ;)

[MrWholewheat]

Yep my head is caving in a little.

[Burt472]

Magnificent.........Another Masterpiece. ..The Studio version of Karn Evil 9 is still the best one .....jmho........

[aDarkRage27]

This isn't the original LP version is it?

[127quinn]

@aDarkRage27 yeah it is I have it back home it is right off the album just a digital recording thats all.

[tokaicarl]

@aDarkRage27 yea it is

[mancmuso1]

3 prodigiously skilled musicians who will never be equalled!!

[Getyourbodybeat242]

Oh my god... This song just fucked me up :D

[1warriorclass1]

@Getyourbodybeat242 you aint f****** kidden.

[albanymike]

@Getyourbodybeat242 just think what my brain was like after listening to this ten times a day when was i was15 in 1973. i was happy though

[antagonist42]

Upload the Third Impression, pl0x? :D

[TwilitAquaticMelody]

@antagonist42 Double that!

[cjgone2]

Ridiculous piano work.

[MultiHighMaintenance]

Emerson , Lake & Palmer at their very best !! Greatest work they ever releassed !!!!

[shmady1]

Nice Work